JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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yabits
He's either terribly out of touch or a delusional liar. He can't be about repairing the safety net and touting the Ryan Plan at the same time. The Ryan Plan promotes deep cuts in social spending.
Romney claims he doesn't care about the super-rich. His touted plans will cut taxes even further for them. Who is going to pick up the tab for those lost revenues? The same 90% he claims to care about? (Who else?)
We should recall the campaign of 2000, when the Republican candidate told the American people that he could do the following three things: 1) give a giant tax cut heavily skewed towards upper incomes; 2) maintain the projected surpluses while shoring up Social Security; and 3) fund a trillion-dollar special account for defense contingencies. The moderate/centrist New Republic immediately put out an issue with the following words emblazoned on the cover: He's LYING!!
That Republican's business "expertise" was held up as a great positive against his Democratic opponent, who predicted that Bush's plans would drive the U.S. back into deep deficit spending. (He was proven right.)
Anyone promoting the Ryan Plan and claiming he's going to "fix" the safety net is not telling the truth. These Republicans continually play the most gullible Americans for suckers.
Posted in: After Florida win, Romney makes gaffe on poor
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yabits
Romney today indicated "he's not very concerned about the poor." Wow. Romney claims the poor have all got a safety net and that if holes exist in it, he'll fix them.
Does anyone actually believe that? After all, Romney has said he supports the Ryan Plan, which makes deep cuts in the safety net.
Posted in: After Florida win, Romney makes gaffe on poor
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yabits
I can comprehend the act of striking a kid in a momentary fit of rage, even though I would never condone it. What I can't understand is this slow cruelty and callousness to a 4-year-old over time. The man has no conscience or sense of humanity whatsoever. How do such sick creatures come about?
Posted in: 5-yr-old boy may lose sight after man adds battery acid to eye drops
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yabits
The reason why regulations started coming about was, in fact, because people were being killed and injured. Conservatives wistfully talk about returning America to those "golden" times. Yes, there are some regulations that should be changed or abolished, but to decry proper regulations and inspections as a total loss of freedom is as immature as it is ludicrous.
And you know where you can stick it.
Posted in: Obama to protect U.S. goods globally
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yabits
Right. Builders should have the right to put up buildings the cheapest way possible. Can the inspections. Who needs structural engineers adding more time and cost to the project? When the things collapse -- like they just did in Rio -- the free market will take care of everyone -- except those under the rubble of course.
Posted in: Obama to protect U.S. goods globally
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yabits
Wow, if that's the "alinsky strategy," then the conservatives have been playing by that book heavily.
Posted in: Surging Gingrich blasts U.S. media, Republican rivals
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yabits
President Obama gave a superb address last night.
The highlight was watching Mitch McConnell stewing in his juices.
Posted in: Jobs, energy, values top issues in Obama's State of the Union address
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yabits
I am originally from Michigan growing up there in the 50s and 60s. I recall when Willard's father, George, was our governor. When he was CEO of American Motors, he refused to take high bonuses and capped his own salary at a fairly low multiple of what his average employee was making.
In reading the son's bio, I was surprised to learn that he wasn't given a silver spoon but had to work at all kinds of jobs -- including security guard -- to put himself through college. Did he have advantages? (Hell, yeah: Cranbrook, in Bloomfield Hills is a very elite and expensive prep school.) But still, there is a lot in his past which indicates he personally knows how it feels to struggle for success.
Posted in: Romney's mountain of wealth gives ammo to opponents
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yabits
I've been spending some time reading up on Willard Mitt Romney's bio-history and, I have to admit, he has a lot of qualities and accomplishments that I've got to admire.
He is incredibly disciplined and driven by the analysis of data, rather than by ideology. Those who have worked with and for him describe him as being a just and fair person. Basically, he is a good and decent man and -- being driven by data myself -- I no longer have any reservations if he should happen to become president after Barack Obama.
Romney has a will to win and will do just about anything it takes (within the bounds of his core beliefs) to attain success. That's why I think he has been acting more conservative than he really is. (We all know that's what it takes to win among idiots who think that people like Cain, Bachmann, and Palin are qualified for leadership of the American people.)
Posted in: Romney's mountain of wealth gives ammo to opponents
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yabits
Only if there's inter-league play and the Rangers come to Atlanta. (It's too bad places like Memphis and Raleigh don't have teams.)
Posted in: Darvish holds farewell news conference for 10,000 fans at Sapporo Dome
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yabits
C'mon President Obama, call it for what it is: The biggest scam ever foisted on the American people -- brought to us by the Republican Party. Why should millions in personal income through "money making money" be taxed at a far lower rate than money earned through labor?
It wasn't always that way. Back in the 1950s, for every dollar that Americans paid in taxes, corporations chipped in $1.50. In 2011, for every taxpayer dollar, corporations now chip in about 25 cents. Back in the 1950s, the highest marginal rate on capital gains was just above 90%. It is mainly because of this horribly skewed system in favor of the rich that the U.S. faces such serious budget deficits.
Posted in: Stung Romney discloses taxes as he launches fierce attack on Gingrich
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yabits
Oil, being the non-renewable resource that it is, means that production will ultimately have to decline everywhere. Economies that are currently based heavily on oil will need to start shifting away from it -- to cleaner, renewable energy technologies -- NOW.
Posted in: Obama rejects contested Canada pipeline
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yabits
Both of them work for the richest 1% -- not for ordinary Americans.
In so doing, they've got their base of supporters completely conned.
As we all know, Willard was out there alerting the country about the housing bubble. That is, when he wasn't overloading companies with debt and putting them under.
Posted in: Stung Romney discloses taxes as he launches fierce attack on Gingrich
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yabits
The old joke has it that the definition of ambivalence is when a fist fight breaks out between a politician and a lawyer.
You can add "lobbyist" and "financial executive" to that group. Willard and Newton can keep punching each other until they both drop.
Posted in: Stung Romney discloses taxes as he launches fierce attack on Gingrich
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yabits
It really does amaze me -- (not really) -- how some people lack so much basic common sense. Go back and re-read the article and the thread. Supply of Alberta crude to the northern part of PADD II will decrease, not increase. That's why the extension to the Gulf of Mexico is being built. Because now the crude is stopping in the Mid-West where there's too much supply to meet demand. TransCanada admits that the price per barrel of its product is at least 4-5 dollars under the world price under the current scheme.
Once that over-supply situation is corrected, and the crude is diverted to Texas -- mainly for export -- prices in the upper Mid-West will rise. Your obviously another one who believes that a company would undertake a pipeline project so that people will pay less for its product. (Obviously a Republican voter.)
Posted in: Obama rejects contested Canada pipeline
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yabits
I think it would only right to be honest with readers by saying your post is a cut-and-paste from an industry lobbyist, Michael Whatley, of the Consumer Energy Alliance, an astrotuf organization paid by the oil industry to push B.S. onto as many media outlets as possible.
You can try selling that crap somewhere else. TransCanada already acknowledges the pipeline will raise gas prices in much of the area covered by PADD II.
Posted in: Obama rejects contested Canada pipeline
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yabits
Read it more carefully: Gingrich abandoned two of his wives. That might be the ultimate humiliation.
No, he didn't; Clinton's conservative opponents humiliated her. Her name was wrung through the mud with right-wing nuts calling her "Shrillary," "Hitlery," and claiming she was a lesbian, that she had an affair with Vince Foster before having him killed off. And on and on...
See? You've just made a statement about their marriage that could be considered humiliating to her.
You mean because they refused to go no farther than strongly criticizing his behavior and didn't grab a torch and pitchfork with the right-wing rabble, they were "supporting" him. Right. There used to be a time when Americans cared enough about the presidency that they would not want a personal, private failing by its current holder to become common knowledge. Not those idiot, scandal-mongering, hypocritical Republicans in the 1990s.
No. You would think that. Nobody who understands what the meaning of the word think is would reason that way.
Posted in: Surging Gingrich blasts U.S. media, Republican rivals
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yabits
Yes, that's what I've been saying all along. The Macleans article further reinforces it.
Building new refineries in the Mid-West would make no economic sense at all, since there's already an over-supply of refined fuel in that region. The correction of the over-supply situation (via Keystone XL) would raise fuel prices for a large part of the U.S. agriculture enterprises located in the region and would, in turn, lead to higher food costs for most Americans.
Posted in: Obama rejects contested Canada pipeline
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yabits
Gingrich claims, "I articulate the deepest values of the American people."
Just words, Newton. Just words. As if talking about values means you actually possessed them.
Posted in: Gingrich attacks Obama in South Carolina victory speech
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yabits
No, it is you who are wrong. Perhaps you are among those who foolishly believe that TransCanada is building the pipeline in order to receive less per barrel for its product.
Read your own post/info and start to get wise: The first phase of Keystone terminates at two locations in Illinois. All of the crude is therefore destined for refineries in that area. TransCanada can supply more than those area refineries can handle, creating an over-supply situation. Simple as night and day.
Phase 2 diverted some of the supply to its termination point in Oklahoma, but overall the over-supply situation remains in PADD II.
In order to correct the over-supply situation and allow prices to rise in PADD II, TransCanada needs another outlet for its product: Which is the purpose of Phase III and XL. Anyone who reads English can grasp the meaning of what TransCanada intended in its permit request for XL.
Let's face it, anyone who claims that the crude from TransCanada -- largely intended for export from XL's termination point in Texas -- is going to lower gas prices in the U.S. Midwest, is kidding themselves. (Cutting and pasting from TransCanada's home page is laughably naive.)
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