Questions for republicans

[statnerds]

Here's your SBR Trivia question for 1000 pts: What party would say these kinds of things?

Favorite quote in a very long time...

Herman Cain:

"Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks, if you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself! It is not a person's fault because they succeeded, it is a person's fault if they failed."

Fukkin love it. Finally, someone with enough balls to speak the truth.

[jarvol]

He was being sarcastic you nimrod.

No shit meathead. Everybody knows he is a whiny liberal with his hand out who want a socialistic America where anybody with drive, ingenuity, or work ethic will be responsible for taking care of fukks like you and him.

Just keep repeating how the US was a creditor nation until Reagan over and over and maybe it will be true someday.

[JC02]

Politics r just the way it was back in grade school and high school the best dressed and best looking canidate will win it's not about policies it's about the way u present it obama can speak n dress well while Ron Paul has some of the best policies people choose Obama cause the way he presents it

[8ArIvd5]

the sad thing is everyone bickers back and forth about who's right when it's all a matter of opinion.

[guitarjosh]

the sad thing is everyone bickers back and forth about who's right when it's all a matter of opinion.

Some opinions are formed by historical evidence, others are formed by their view of fair is. The ones formed by empirical evidence are better.

[FuzzyDunlop]

The playing field has always been even!! The United States of America is the country that has been infiltrated with many races and religion, it's a melting pot.

Really? Pretty sure there was one race and religion here before those that felt religiously persecuted decided to slaughter those that weren't like them.

i hear a bunch of kids getting out of college these days talking like they already have jobs making 60 grand a year walking in the door. Its like they life in an alternate reality. these are not guys with advanced degrees. they have degrees in marketing and communications and such. no law degrees, not a cpa. nothing special. they are in for a rude awakening.

They feel this because they are sold this by colleges. Higher education as been ****** since the government got involved in the funding of it. I have aunts and uncles and my mother that grew up in the 70s and went to some really good schools in New England that they could afford by work study, summer job, payment plan and possibly a loan no greater than 15% of total tuition. Then the government got involved, prices went up, then the government got lazy about running the program and privatized Sallie Mae, then Sallie Mae lobbied the **** out of the government and now issues kids private loans that are backed by the government. If you don't pay, they took care of that too by lobbying for laws that make student loan debt the only debt that can not be forgiven. Ever.

The government created a company that just needs SS#'s and pulses to cut a check to and they can socialize losses while privatizing profits.

You mean that Patriot Act that the Democratic Congress and President Obama extended? That Patriot Act?

The Patriot Act has only been extended due to what it's being used for. Since it's inception it's been used in under 3 cases of terrorism and over 1,400 cases in the War on Drugs.

come on folks, if it was 90 percent in pauls favor he wouldnt get the nomination

You do know ron paul hasn't offered 1 single solution to any of the problems. He only states what's wrong. He's like we need to do this and need to do that and then people clap but he won't say how he would do it and in fact has no answers on it

Ron Paul scares me for two reasons, one is that he's a creationist. I have a real problem with the leader of the free world believing that life was started by two people who ****** and ate some bad fruit and two, that in all the years he's been around, I have never met someone over the age of 35 that supports him. Ever.

Both parties are bullshit and so are the sheep that blindly follow "their party" no matter what at all costs......Our country will continue to get worse as long as this retarded 2 party system continues......Everyone is all about putting down and making up lies about the rival party and going back and forth about dumb and fukkin meaningless shit and no one is actually in this thing for the best interest of the country.

Fukk em both.....I'll actually listen when a politician and his party are in this thing 100% to better our country and not for personal gains and/or to stick it to the other party.

You will never see a third party in the United States because of the structure of our elections. A winner take all system is not conducive to anything but a two party system. If you want to see multiple parties that actually matter and succeed, then you need a system where there is proportional representation, like what you see in Germany. For better or for worse, you will likely not see a change in our election structures.

This isn't directed at anyone in this thread, however, it is quite disturbing to me the lack of political interest in the U.S. outside of Presidential election cycles. Also, I think the influence of individual political parties, particularly outside of Presidential elections, is quite overstated.

Representatives and Senators often differ greatly from the agendas of their parties on a national level. This is because members of Congress are single minded seekers of reelection. They're answerable only to their constituents, not the a party label. That's why a "blue dog democrat" in the South can often times differ greatly, particularly on social issues, than the same democrats from the northeastern part of the U.S. I don't think people give enough thought and respect to these voting decisions at the Federal level. Never mind the fact they have a complete lack of interest at state and local levels of government, where adhering the broad party ideology matters even less.

I think the major issue we face in this country is that on the whole, we don't demand enough from our politicians, or our media. Very few constituents ever bother following up with the officials they've voted for after they've been elected. Whether it be letters, phone calls, or simply keeping up with local/state news, there is very little interest in what these people do until roughly 8-12 months before they're up for reelection.

Elections at all levels function just like a market place. The politician, who are the suppliers, are only going to respond to the demand of the voters, who are the consumers. If people continue to take only a cursory interest in their government every four years, then they're going to continue to get the product they've been receiving. If all that we demand of our candidates is strict adherence to empty rhetoric, and crucify them publicly for telling the truth, or painting any sort of a picture other than a positive future when we're heading straight toward collapse, then you'll continue to get the same results.

People love responding to social issues, like gay marriage and abortion, because they take little to no intellectual capital to have an opinion about. They're easy issues to reflect upon. Why do you think these things litter the political discourse in this country? Then ask yourself how much these actually impact us on a daily basis.

However, take something like health care, free trade, the deregulation of the banking industry, our trade deficit with Southeast Asia, currency devaluation, or any other economic issue, and you'll find things require a far greater level of intellectual capital, critical thinking, and time to formulate an intelligent and well-thought out opinion. How much do these set of issues impact us on a daily basis? Contrast that with the quality of political discourse that surrounds those issues. If you do your math right, you'll discover there is an inverse relationship between the two.

We're entering the age of the idiocracy. Look at the garbage that inspires and grabs the average American's attention. Look at what you see on your 24 hour news channels. Major media outlets stopped reporting in this country 10 years ago. We now live in the era of the editorial cycle.

Even review some of the lines of reasoning people in this country had for reelecting George Bush, or electing Barack Obama for that matter, and it's frightening. How many people in this country blithely voted for Barack Obama, without little to no consideration for his politics or what he could realistically accomplish, simply because branded himself as the candidate of "change". I know this will irritate some democrats, but, that makes you no better than most republicans who voted for George Bush because he was anti-gay and believed that some how, Saddam Hussein was tied to 9/11.

Ultimately, we're getting out of government exactly what we've asked of it for the past 25 years. If that paradigm is going to change, then we have to change.

[andywend]

would give u ten k pts for that post muldoon if i had it

This is a PERFECT example of how liberals think and talk. TTWarrior, you would give muldoon 10,000 SBR points (IF YOU HAD THEM)? I see you didn't give him even one of the 62 SBR points you do have.

Instead you simply nominated his post (which costs you nothing) and didn't give him even 1 of your 62 SBR points.

You hear liberals spout all the time that if they were millionaires and billionaires, they would share their money with the world. On the rare occassion where a liberal succeeds and makes a windfall of money (i.e. Hollywood actors/actresses, athletes, etc) and has the opportunity to "share their money with the world", they go on a crusade spouting off on how the government needs to tax the rich instead of following through on sharing themselves.

TTWarrior, like all liberal democrats, you are a HYPOCRITE and if you had 10,000 SBR points, you still would not give a single one of them to Muldoon.

[rkelly110]

Yep, 14 million unemployed whiny liberals with their hands out. Gimmie gimmie gimmie.

Funny how the haves, could careless about the have nots.

I can tell a repuke by the 1st word he types. In the real world, these guys are the
1st ones under the desk of their boss, polishing his little knob.

Dem's let our work ethic and performance speak for it's self, no knob polishing required.

[rsnnh12]

What?? You showed a graph that clearly shows the 80's we spent like crazy.

I found that graph here and look what it says next to that graph:
http://whpsocal.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_archive.html

Oh cool, a blog. Surely that line next to the graph must be completely accurate and not complete BS

The graph clearly shows we've been in debt since before the 40s, so how is it that Reagan started our debt? By the way, almost all of the debt he added was for a little thing called the Cold War... maybe you've heard of it? If the Dems before him hadn't stripped down our military, he wouldn't have needed the massive spending. I believe he actually cut non defense spending during his time in office.

[pronk]

Well you need to check that, we were a creditors nation until Reagan.

You're not particularly bright, aren't you?