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sailwind
Actually Mitch Daniels has a had a pretty messy up and down marriage and his wife didn't want him or her to have to be put through the Main Stream Media grinder. Can't say I blame the man.
But the Huffington Post's Jon Ward reports the biggest factor holding him back from the race is actually Daniels' wife, Cheri Daniels, who does not want the media snooping into their marriage history.
A Daniels adviser told Ward that the Indiana governor "would like to do it" and would "have a decent chance of getting the nomination." But Cheri is the "last hurdle" to his decision, Ward write. That's because in 1993, Cheri left Mitch with their four young kids to marry another man in California. Four years later, she came back to Indiana, and the Daneils remarried.
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sailwind
You'll be here quite while if you go to the link for a detailed program it's called A Roadmap for America's Future.
http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/
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I can cheer for party that firmly believes that since Mr. Obama was elected President that he set the nation on the wrong track with his policies and has done what it can to reverse the track he started us on.
Direction of Country RCP Average Right Direction 28.3 Wrong Track 65.3
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sailwind
Actually I'll have a lot of company.
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Most voters like the concept behind a flat tax more than the complicated tax system the United States has today with numerous deductions and breaks for certain businesses.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 53% of Likely U.S. Voters think it’s more important for the government to treat all taxpayers equally than for the tax code to be used to encourage things like home ownership, charitable contributions and industries favored by government policy. Twenty-nine percent (29%) disagree and believe the government should use the tax code to advance its agenda in certain areas. Eighteen percent (18%) are not sure.
Posted in: Romney's mountain of wealth gives ammo to opponents
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sailwind
Governing more and more just by Executive Order is starting to sound pretty dictatorial and a step to really start down a path that should never really be tolerated or encouraged in a country that truly values it freedom
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sailwind
Buffet, kerry et al (Micheal Moore? perhaps) can give as much money as they want to the U.S treasury voluntarily at any amount they choose over their current tax rates if they so desired. So far they do not seem inclined to do so unless forced to.
Hermain Cain was on the right track with his 999 plan. Get rid of the entire bloated mess of the current tax code in first place so that all the tax dodges loop holes and shenigans are gone and replace it with a flat tax on all regardless of income. That would be some real change I could believe in.
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sailwind
Just in case anyone cares........
In 2003, a year before running for president, Kerry's tax rate was 13.1 percent, versus Romney's at 13.9 percent in 2010. As Brad Plumer, who culled together tax returns to make his chart, explains, "John Kerry’s overall rate is so low — lower than Romney’s, in fact — because his return is getting lumped together with that of his (wealthy) wife, Teresa Heinz, who had a lot of investment income."
The Nerve of him even lower than Romney's.
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sailwind
Interesting,
The Democrats are going to slam Romney for being rich and this is from the same party that nominated John Kerry and had no problem with his fortune at the time at all.
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sailwind
I'm glad that she and her husband took the time they needed to decide that despite the desire to continue in public service the stress and the strain would have hinder her time to work on her recovery and would more than likely hinder it.
I wish her and husband a heartfelt peace now away from the tempest that is called the political arena and hope that if she and her husband ever do wish to return to it that a seat there will always be reserved for her by the good voters of Arizona.
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sailwind
I do hope President Obama no matter who the Republicans nominate, does lower expectations a bit with his campaign promises about creating jobs. He's not doing very well delivering on the ones he has already made at all.
A $38.6 billion loan guarantee program that the Obama administration promised would create or save 65,000 jobs has created just a few thousand jobs two years after it began, government records show.
The program — designed to jump-start the nation’s clean technology industry by giving energy companies access to low-cost, government-backed loans — has directly created 3,545 new, permanent jobs after giving out almost half the allocated amount, according to Energy Department tallies.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-green-tech-program-that-backed-solyndra-struggles-to-create-jobs/2011/09/07/gIQA9Zs3SK_story.html
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sailwind
No, what you should be doing is giving the president kudos for:
1/ Actually acknowledging climate change is an issue and that investing in renewables is critical, and
2/ for actually having the guts to do something about it.
Some of the investments made by Obama's team didn't fly.
Nah, Kudos would be for actually creating the 5 million "green" jobs he promised he would. Actual job creation just doesn't seem to be the Presidents Forte.
5 million "green” jobs
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sailwind
When it comes to economic policy errors might as well make it a doozy.
Median income has fallen more since recession ended than it did during the recession
This is what it means to talk about the 99 percent—the middle class is being destroyed, and whether you're working or not, if there's no middle class and you're not wealthy, you're going to lose out.
The Daily Kos.........The ultra-liberal website
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/11/1025265/-Median-income-has-fallen-more-since-recession-ended-than-it-did-during-therecession
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sailwind
President Obama's going to win just by waking up on election day,
Again you might be correct and really no need to crow about his promise to:
Throughout his 2008 presidential campaign Barack Obama promised to create 5 million "green” jobs to both mitigate unemployment and boost the nascent clean energy sector. "We'll invest $15 billion a year over the next decade in renewable energy, creating five million new green jobs that pay well, can't be outsourced and help end our dependence on foreign oil,"
Might bring up some things that even he or the Democrats can't find a way to Blame Bush for.
(Reuters) - Beacon Power Corp filed for bankruptcy on Sunday, just a year after the energy storage company received a $43 million loan guarantee from a controversial Department of Energy program.
The bankruptcy comes about two months after Solyndra -- a solar panel maker with a $535 million loan guarantee -- also filed for Chapter 11, creating a political embarrassment for the administration of President Barack Obama, which has championed the loans as a way to create "green energy" jobs.
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Sailwind, having read your posts for years on JT, I am glad to know that you were only joking when you wrote those words.
Ummmm....Those aren't my words they are from the link I posted.
Anyway you might be correct Obama could coast in on the strength of the youth vote again. He's done a great job there also the past three years.
(Reuters) - The cost of college in the United States rose sharply for the 2011-2012 school year, continuing a multiyear pattern in which public school increases outpaced private school hikes and both eclipsed the average rate of inflation by significant amounts, the College Board reported on Wednesday.
At public 4-year schools, average tuition and fees rose 8.3 percent to $8,244 for in-state students and 5.7 percent to $20,770 for out-of-state students, not including room, board, or extra expenses like travel, laptops and midnight pizzas.
Private nonprofit four-year schools raised their tuition and fees by 4.5 percent, to an average of $28,500, according to the study, Trends in College Pricing 2011, released by the College Board Advocacy & Policy Center. The Consumer Price Index increased 3.6 percent between July 2010 and July 2011, the study noted.
In-state tuition and fees for public two-year colleges averaged $2,963, an 8.7 percent increase from the previous year.
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sailwind
Based upon this, your insinuation that this administration is responsible for health costs that have been rising faster than inflation for fifty years are unfounded.
Not only that: does the Republican Party have any realistic suggestion of how to rein in health costs? (Romney once did, but that is now the proposal that shall not be named.)
Based on the CBO and a comparing the plan the Republicans offered and were completely shut out and ignored by the Obama and the Democrats. The CBO was dead on in the increase in individual costs by Obama and the Democrats that was going to occur (yet he still persisted on telling the American people it would lower their premiums after it passed and would lower costs).
In the wake of President Barack Obama's bipartisan summit on health care reform at Blair House on Feb. 25, 2010, we thought it would be a good time to review the Republican Party's health care proposals.
Because the Democrats control the White House and both chambers of Congress, their proposals have dominated the discussion over the past year. (And we've summarized the Democrats' plans in a separate report.) Indeed, Republicans have at times expressed consternation that no one is paying attention to their ideas.
"Republicans have been offering all sorts of solutions," said Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., in a Republican conference call with reporters during the summit.
House Republicans offered an amendment in November 2009 that -- if it had passed, which it didn't -- would have replaced the House Democratic health care bill. It was much smaller (219 pages, compared to roughly 2,000 for the Democratic bill) and had a more limited scope. It relies on bedrock GOP principles: consumer choice, no tax hikes, limited government involvement and caps on lawsuits.
The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan group that estimates the cost of legislation, has confirmed that the House Republican bill is quite inexpensive in comparison to the Democratic one.
The CBO also confirmed that the cost of health insurance premiums would fall under the Republican plan, partly because of the medical malpractice reforms. In the market for individually purchased insurance policies, premiums would fall by 5 percent to 8 percent by 2016. For smaller businesses, premiums would fall by 7 percent to 10 percent. And in the large group market, for larger employers, they would fall by up to 3 percent. Under the Democratic bill, the CBO estimated that premiums would rise by 10 to 13 percent in the individual market, would be largely unchanged in the small-group market and would fall up to 3 percent in the large group market.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2010/feb/26/gop-health-care-reform-simple-explanation-updated/
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President Obama in 2009,
After meeting with Senate Democrats on Dec. 15, President Barack Obama made a number of claims about what the health care bill would achieve if passed.
"We agree on reforms that will finally reduce the costs of health care," Obama said. "Families will save on their premiums; businesses that will see their costs rise if we do nothing will save money now and in the future. This plan will strengthen Medicare and extend the life of that program. And because it gets rid of the waste and inefficiencies in our health care system, this will be the largest deficit reduction plan in over a decade.
"Now, I just want to repeat this because there's so much misinformation about the cost issue here. You talk to every health care economist out there and they will tell you that whatever ideas are -- whatever ideas exist in terms of bending the cost curve and starting to reduce costs for families, businesses, and government, those elements are in this bill."
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sailwind
One can only hope it is a lot more successful then the foundation he laid in to reform health care costs.
Health Insurance Costs Rising Sharply This Year, Study Shows
A new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit research group that tracks employer-sponsored health insurance on a yearly basis, shows that the average annual premium for family coverage through an employer reached $15,073 in 2011, an increase of 9 percent over the previous year. The steep increase in rates is particularly unwelcome at a time when the economy is still sputtering and unemployment continues to hover at about 9 percent.
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sailwind
Anyone who reads English can grasp the meaning of what TransCanada intended in its permit request for XL.
Yes, the commercial case for the Keystone XL project was entirely based on this Midwestern buildup and future production growth in the Bakken and Canadian oilsands. If you look at the Keystone project map, you will see that the pipeline will pick up production from those two regions, largely bypass the Midwestern region, and deliver oil to the Gulf Coast. Currently, the Gulf region imports over 5.5 million barrels per day of crude oil and related products at world prices. In other words, without the Keystone XL system, shippers are selling into depressed Midwestern markets or paying extra costs for transport by rail. Thus, the Keystone XL pipeline offered a win-win for producers and refiners, notwithstanding the environmental issues along its route.
http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/11/21/explaining-canadas-hurry-to-build-pipelines-in-the-u-s/
It's called supply and demand for those of us that errrr.....grasp English. Or we can build new refineries in the Mid-west.......but since we haven't built or permitted one to be built since 1976 I think we are pretty safe ground to say that is a non-starter right of the bat.
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Headline
Median income has fallen more since recession ended than it did during the recession
This is what it means to talk about the 99 percent—the middle class is being destroyed, and whether you're working or not, if there's no middle class and you're not wealthy, you're going to lose out.
The Daily Kos.........The ultra-liberal website
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/10/11/1025265/-Median-income-has-fallen-more-since-recession-ended-than-it-did-during-therecession
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sailwind
with this:
seems impossible. The internal logic of these people is astounding.
"It's the economy, Stupid"..........As Bill Clinton like to tell his staff.
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