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I am not gonna take points from Romney over the poor comment when taken in its entire concept he said there is a social safety net for the very poor. I may not think he's right in its adequacy but I won't see it as anti poor. Just my opinion, others may and I could see their point.

 

The Ohio poll is cruical for Obama. I don't think he'll win Florida. He has a fighting chance but I'm not so sure. Same with Pennsylvania. He'll lose Michigan, a swing state because Romney's dad was governor there. I've repeated this in a previous post but thought I'd share it again.

 

Obama v. Romney – Florida. Dead heat from an average of different polls. However, the poll with the 2nd widest sample has Obama winning and the biggest has a dead heat. I thought Romney would take Florida. Obama has a chance though. So, can’t write off Florida yet. If Obama takes Florida, its over ossibly.

 

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/fl/florida_romney_vs_obama-1883.html

 

Obama v. Romney – Pennsylvania. Obama with a slight lead, about 3% points and that’s not enough to say he’ll take the state. Penna. Is a weird state. Some pollster described it as Phila and Pittsburgh democratic and Alabama in the middle. Close call.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/pa/pennsylvania_romney_vs_obama-1891.html

 

 

Romney should know something about poverty.

His father was born in Mexico when his family was living there in a permanent colony.

When the Mexican Revolutionist kicked them out, they left with the shirt on their backs.

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http://silverunderground.com/2012/02/fed-news-friday-father-son-duo-ron-and-rand-paul-take-on-the-fed-in-the-house-and-senate-with-twin-federal-reserve-transparency-acts-of-2011/

 

Thanks to the one-time only, and limited Dodd-Frank audit of the Federal Reserve, we already know that some pretty glaring conflicts of interest exist at the Fed and that it loaned $16 trillion at low no interest to big banks at the height of the financial crisis, a lot more than the comparatively paltry $700 billion bailout publicly authorized by Congress. But U.S. Congressman Ron Paul, and now his son, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-TX and R-KY, respectively) are at it again, working hard to make sure the American people get to know the Fed’s deeper and darker secrets, the ones that didn’t even make it into the limited Dodd-Frank audit, the ones that I can only imagine must be worse than the $16 trillion robbery that you and I will be paying for until our dying day with dollars that are going to lose their value and purchasing power at an accelerating rate because of all this.

 

With the Federal Reserve Transparency Acts of 2011, (H.R. 459 in the House, and S.202 in the Senate) Ron and Rand Paul are sponsoring bills that will require the Federal Reserve to open the windows and let in the bright, sterilizing sunlight of public scrutiny. The big news is: Ron Paul’s bill has 199 co-sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives; that’s just 19 away from a majority of representatives! In the U.S. Senate, Rand Paul’s bill has 19 co-sponsors. Interestingly, they’re all Republicans. This isn’t a partisan rant, but it does seem odd that Senate Democrats would pass up on the opportunity to create more transparency and do some deeper investigation into the largest private corporation in the world. Don’t Democrats like being tough on corporate corruption, greed, and secrecy?

 

To show I am not biased, shame on the Democrats. Audiing the Fed is a no brainer. I want to know one reason why ANY one in Washington is againt it. 16 friggin trillion dollars. Why isn't someone in jail or hauled in front of the Congress for this? Why isn't the Fed chief hauled in or out of a job. Its a theft. Pure and simple. Congress authorized a certain amount and they gave away 16 trillion knowing it can't be paid back. Call it loan all you want but you and I know it won't be paid back. Not even a cent of it.

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So true...

 

I remember the day I found out I got into West Point.

 

My mom actually showed up in the hallway of my high school and waited for me to get out of class. She was bawling her eyes out and apologizing that she had opened up my admission letter. She wasn't crying because it had been her dream for me to go there. She was crying because she knew how hard I'd worked to get in, how much I wanted to attend, and how much I wanted to be an infantry officer. I was going to get that opportunity.

 

That same day two of my teachers took me aside and essentially told me the following: Nick, you're a smart guy. You don't have to join the military. You should go to college, instead.

 

I could easily write a tome defending West Point and the military as I did that day, explaining that USMA is an elite institution, and that separate from that it is actually statistically much harder to enlist in the military than it is to get admitted to college; that serving the nation is a challenge that all able-bodied men should at least consider for a host of reasons, but I won't.

 

What I will say is that when a 16 year-old kid is being told that attending West Point is going to be bad for his future then there is a dangerous disconnect in America, and entirely too many Americans have no idea what kind of burdens our military is bearing.

 

In World War II, 11.2% of the nation served in four years.

 

In Vietnam, 4.3% served in 12 years.

 

Since 2001, only 0.45% of our population has served in the Global War on Terror.

 

These are unbelievable statistics.

 

Over time, fewer and fewer people have shouldered more and more of the burden and it is only getting worse. Our troops were sent to war in Iraq by a Congress consisting of 10% veterans with only one person having a child in the military. Taxes did not increase to pay for the war. War bonds were not sold. Gas was not regulated. In fact, the average citizen was asked to sacrifice nothing, and has sacrificed nothing unless they have chosen to out of the goodness of their hearts.

 

The only people who have sacrificed are the veterans and their families. The volunteers. The people who swore an oath to defend this nation. You!

 

You stand there, deployment after deployment, and fight on. You've lost relationships, spent years of your lives in extreme conditions, years apart from kids you'll never get back, and beaten your body in a way that even professional athletes don't understand.

 

Then you come home to a nation that doesn't understand.

 

They don't understand suffering.

 

They don't understand sacrifice.

 

They don't understand that bad people exist.

 

They look at you like you're a machine - like something is wrong with you. You are the misguided one - not them. When you get out, you sit in the college classrooms with political science teachers that discount your opinions on Iraq and Afghanistan because YOU WERE THERE and can't understand the macro issues they gathered from books, with your bias.

 

You watch TV shows where every vet has PTSD and the violent strain at that.

 

Your Congress is debating your benefits, your retirement, and your pay, while they ask you to do more.

 

But the amazing thing about you is that you all know this. You know your country will never pay back what you've given up. You know that the populace at large will never truly understand or appreciate what you have done for them.

 

Hell, you know that in some circles, you will be thought as less than normal for having worn the uniform. But you do it anyway. You do what the greatest men and women of this country have done since 1775 - YOU SERVED.

 

Just that decision alone makes you part of an elite group.

 

Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.

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The Friday suit positions Schneiderman to go after another piece of the mortgage securitization system that's been blamed for foreclosure fraud: the system that banks use to facilitate the creation of mortgage backed securities. Banks use the Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, or MERS, to register mortgage loan ownership. Before the creation of the system in 1995, registration took place at local courthouses, slowing down the process of bundling individual mortgages into securities. More than 70 million mortgages have been registered with MERS, according to a press release from Schneiderman's office.

The Friday lawsuit claims that the system led to fraudulent foreclosures, undermined the state's process for reviewing foreclosure cases and made it difficult for homeowners to access mortgage-related documents, said Schneiderman in the press statement

About a year ago, Schneiderman was selected to join the small group of state attorneys general partnering with the Obama administration to negotiate a deal for desperate borrowers struggling to keep their homes. Under the proposed settlement, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Citi and GMAC would provide $25 billion in homeowner assistance as retribution for their mortgage-related wrongdoings, which include wrongful foreclosures and forged documents. Schneiderman eventually left the negotiations over fears that the settlement would release the banks from future lawsuits.

“It’s sort of like being in criminal case and having someone say, ‘OK, you've got me on this gun charge. I'll plead guilty, but I need you to give me a release from anything else I might have done, before you look into anything else I might have done," Schneiderman said on WNYC last month. "You don't do that."

 

I have no problem with captalism. I love it. Capitalism is darwinian but fair. What many corporations do are not fair. Many say corporations are over regulated. There is some truth in that but by and large they need to be.

People are under the erroneous notion that since American corporations are headed by Americans they work in America's best interest. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Some do, some are patriotic but far too many work for their own company's self interest. Not saying they shouldn't. They should. They have a fiduciary duty to. But that is why they need to be regulated in part. Another reason is that they are so pressured for profits and so greedy that they will lie, cheat, steal or at best enter that murky gray area of the law.

 

Let me ask you all this. If we removed all environmental laws, how many companies do you think would not dump chemicals and waste into the rivers and streams if there were no legal consequences? If there were no legal consequences would any company refuse to hire children for all manner of work? You say a small number? I am not so sure.

 

The same banks we are bailing out have screwed us over twice. They get bailed out with our own money and then foreclose on the very same people. Neither Obama or Romney have the will or desire to do what is right.

 

I have to assume a good number of American's are 'Stckholmed'. There must be many registered republicans amongst the ones forced out of their homes. There must be many registered republicans that have filed bankruptcy due to medical bills from a failed system. Yet, you'd still have these very same people calling the Occupy Wall St. people and those who want to reform and make health care fairer, socialists! I can't understand it.

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<< In World War II, 11.2% of the nation served in four years. >>

 

Is this based on the entire population of the US, all ages and both genders? I'd say a lot more men served in WWII than just 11.2%. You were considered a shirker if you didn't go, and even the politicians' kids went into combat. Selective service towards the end of the war was drafting married men in their 30s with children to support.

 

 

 

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Controversial Artist Depicts Obama Trampling The Constitution

 

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McNaughton explained his position behind the painting. “I don’t place all the blame on Obama. On my website I try to explain what each president has done,†he said. “The thing I like about the painting is that it does get people talking.â€

 

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Controversial Artist Depicts Obama Trampling The Constitution

 

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McNaughton explained his position behind the painting. “I don’t place all the blame on Obama. On my website I try to explain what each president has done,†he said. “The thing I like about the painting is that it does get people talking.â€

 

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Do I think Obama has done some things or let some things go on that are unconstitutional. Definitely. What I don't like about the picture is the lack of balance. Maybe its beacuse he's the current President and if so, I can see that point but won't agree. Bush has done far more to walk over the Constitution. Far, far more in comparison that its very unfair to depict Obama alone. Balance. We don't have a lot of it. Especially from the right. So many things they say about Obama acting wrong (and rightfully so) but neglecting that their man would do the same or worse. Its very hyprocritical.

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<< In World War II, 11.2% of the nation served in four years. >>

 

Is this based on the entire population of the US, all ages and both genders? I'd say a lot more men served in WWII than just 11.2%. You were considered a shirker if you didn't go, and even the politicians' kids went into combat. Selective service towards the end of the war was drafting married men in their 30s with children to support.

 

Agreed. That number seems very low. It has to be everyone including women and children and all ages. I recall a documentary about WWII where there were cases of men committing suicide because they are 4F and couldn't serve and couldn't live with themselves having to stay home during the war with their neighbors knowing. Wow, that's deep. These were small communities usually. It was a time from what I heard that both parties and everyone was on the same page pretty much.

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Human nature to blame the incumbent, and this is an election year. As to trampling on the Constitution, I remember reading that FDR got pulled up short when he tried to increase the number of Supreme Court justices so that he could do anything he wanted. This was after the Supremes had shot down a couple of his programs as unconstitutional. FDR's solution was to try to pack the court with his people. So much for the balance of powers and what a great precedent it would have been. :p

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Procedures_Reform_Bill_of_1937

 

 

 

 

 

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In grade school we had to ask the oldest members or our family or save that visit a nursing home and ask someone about a period in history. One classmate spoke to someone who was old enough to remember FDR and hated him. Called him King Roosevelt and she said many referred to him such.

 

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Quote Of The Day: Justice O’Connor Cracks On Nasty Newt Gingrich And Moneymaking Mitt “One Is A Practicing Polygamist — And He’s Not Even The Mormon!â€

 

I got accepted into Annapolis but didn't go. I was a horny 17yo. I wanted to experience regular college life with lots of girls and frats and such...boy did I! ;) One of my older brothers was in the Navy and was the only one in my family that thought it was a bad idea to go...he said he'd never salute me (you're an office once you leave). I actually gave serious consideration to going into the military because I wanted to go to Europe and thought the army was my best way of going. I spoke to a recruiter as well.

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