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GOP follows lead of Syrian leader's disregard for the lives of citizens.

1. Why are they at risk? It turns out that state [1]Republicans have blocked bills to deal with repair or maintenance on infrastructure throughout the state.

2. [1]state Republicans refuse to fund any repairs in their push for “small government.” This flies in the face of the reality of aging dam infrastructure across the United States, with 85% to be over a half-century old by 2020.

3. Roads and bridges are failing along with our dams but the GOP is un-moved by cries from citizens to make them safe. Obama is fighting for the very lives and safety of your loved ones but the heartless GOP votes against any provision to allow Obama the funds for what creates jobs and safe conditions for those very citizens.

4. [2]By 2020, 85% of the dams in the U.S.will be half a century old and in need of repairing. A report by the ASCE deemed 3,300 dams within the U.S. unsafe

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[1]http://www.addictinginfo.org/2...e-dams-are-breaking/

[2]http://web.mit.edu/12.000/www/...e/problem/dams.shtml

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Originally Posted by seeweed:

And I bet you didn't think it could get worse.
The GOP appointed dictator of Detroit , on his order, turned electrical power off in Detroit to "teach them a lesson " when his orders were not immediately followed.


http://www.addictinginfo.org/2...14/detroit-blackout/

 

This is what GOP led power looks like.

 

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No, this is what happens after an accumulation of over 50 years of Democrat misrule.  Detroit's power grid was ignored and mismanaged.  That resulted in a massive power failure.  To ensure the grid repair, shut down was required of parts of the system still working.  They were warned to shut down AC and other less essential power use.  Didn't and got cut.  This was necessary to restore power to the entire system.

As usual, when one goes back to the source of such claims, one finds an entirely different story.  Detroit, like so many cities ruled by the Democrats for decades, must be rescued by the adults, or collapse.

 

Dire seems to think dictatorship is fine, if the dictator is appointed by a Republican dictator .
I guess, to him, the concept of democracy is a failed type of government, and now is time for a strong arm dictator.

Myself, I'll still stand for democracy over some god-complexed dictator that is accountable to no one.

And, of you go to the source of QD's info, beyond the left wing blog. 

 

This is from 2008.

 

"The Republican Party is partially at fault for legislative failure to approve proposals to repair Colorado roads and bridges, Gov. Bill Ritter said at a May 7 news conference.

Ritter said that concern over Democratic lawmakers’ re-election chances played a factor in the lack of any action on transportation, even though Democrats hold a 40-15 majority in the House and a 20-15 majority in the Senate.

 

"There are a lot of Democrats, and they have every right to feel and think this way, who know that they're freshmen, they're incumbents, they're in districts that for a long time have been Republican districts," Ritter said. "And then they have to go and get beat over the head by a Republican opponent saying that they unilaterally increased fees for transportation funding without us having conducted the necessary education campaign."

 

Early in the session, Ritter proposed increasing vehicle registration fees by an average of $100 a car, a plan that would have raised about $500 million for road and bridge needs. A few weeks before the session ended, a group of almost all Democratic lawmakers offered a $300 million plan for roads and bridges that would have raised registration fees by as much as $97 a vehicle and increased fees on rental cars. Discussions on both plans were dropped.

 

"I feel like this conversation broke down around politics, that we tried to get the Republicans interested in looking at how we would put together different pots of money," Ritter said. "We began our conversation very early in the session and could not get the Republican leadership to act on it at all."

 

"We are now just crossing our fingers and hoping a bridge doesn't fall down between now" and January, when lawmakers can try again, said Senate President Peter Groff, D-Denver.

Democrats “outnumber us by 15 people in the House," said Rep. Cory Gardner, a Yuma Republican. "They have nearly enough to pass a constitutional amendment in their own caucus, and to try to say they can't pass their agenda because they lack Republican votes?

"That shows a complete lack of leadership and a vacuum within their own party.' "

 

https://www.roadsbridges.com/c...-legislative-failure

 

Got that, the Dems had a majority in both house and a Democrat governor, but its the Republicans fault.

 

Oh!  The vehicle registration fee increase passed in 2009.

http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2009a/csl.nsf/fsbillcont/636E40D6A83E4DE987257537001F8AD6?Open&file=108_enr.pdf

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This is another reason I regularly ignore QD, Mostly, he doesn't make sense. Or, in posts like this, he makes things up.

 

Originally Posted by seeweed:

Dire seems to think dictatorship is fine, if the dictator is appointed by a Republican dictator .
I guess, to him, the concept of democracy is a failed type of government, and now is time for a strong arm dictator.

Myself, I'll still stand for democracy over some god-complexed dictator that is accountable to no one.

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Detroit is under bankruptcy rules voted upon by the Congress of the US, approved by an elected president and  overseen by the US court system.  True, these are the implementations of a representative, constitutional republic and not a democrat city-state such as Athens/Attica circa 100 BC.  So technically, seeweed is correct.  However, being correct and being right are not always simultaneously true.

 

Detroit is being administered under court directives.   

Originally Posted by direstraits:

Democrats “outnumber us by 15 people in the House," said Rep. Cory Gardner, a Yuma Republican. "They have nearly enough to pass a constitutional amendment in their own caucus, and to try to say they can't pass their agenda because they lack Republican votes?  "That shows a complete lack of leadership and a vacuum within their own party.' "

 

https://www.roadsbridges.com/c...-legislative-failure

 

Got that, the Dems had a majority in both house and a Democrat governor, but its the Republicans fault.

 

ROFLMAO! 

I suspect that the problem with voters in heavily populated areas is how they listened to fairy tales when they were children. It seems that most blue-state children learn that no matter how stupid they behave a progressive fairy with a magic wand will appear and save their butts. I guess they zone out when the story has a deeper moral such as not killing the goose that lays golden eggs.

Originally Posted by Stanky:

I suspect that the problem with voters in heavily populated areas is how they listened to fairy tales when they were children. It seems that most blue-state children learn that no matter how stupid they behave a progressive fairy with a magic wand will appear and save their butts. I guess they zone out when the story has a deeper moral such as not killing the goose that lays golden eggs.

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The saddest part is that they do this again and again, never seeming to learn a lesson.  Its like living Kipling's Gods of the Copybook Headings, especially the lines:

"In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die.' "

and

"When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! "

It's called a rolling blackout and it was done so that the overloaded power grid would not become so overloaded that everyone would be without power indefinitely. 
At least this way it was controlled where they were able to turn it off for a little while in one spot and then turn it off in another for a while when they turned the previous areas back on.

Its sad to be a product of the present day public education (it used to be much better) -- half literate and lacking the tools to analyze and comprehend what one reads, even if poorly

 

Kipling was no lover of colonialism -- British, European or American.

 

White man's burden was a response to the American take over of the Phillipines after the Spanish-American War.  Its written in a sarcastic tone, using the words of politicians justifying colonialism.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/kipling.asp

 

In the old days, school copy books has small saying at their headings giving advice about thrift, hard work, the need to take responsibility for one's self -- in short, all the things leftists hate.

 

Kipling was particularly scathing of those who went east to make their fortunes in the colonies. 

 

"And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.' "

 

Its sad to be one such as QD. 

Well, this is pathetic!  The thread starts off declaring Republicans are planning the deaths of thousands by QD.  Then, seeweed chimes in as Greek chorus claiming Republicans are to blame for failing bridges in a state government which they had neither majority in either house, nor controlled the governor's office. All of which was based upon  tax, which passed a few months later.

 

Now, its devolved into a poor understanding of satire and sarcasm by a Victorian poet.  Pathetic! 

I am not sure if this thread is the place for a rational discussion or not. However, I did hear an interesting solution to our Infrastructure issues from someone on CNBC one day(can't remember who it was).

 

We could give corporations a 1 year incentive to bring their offs**** cash back to the US at a much lower tax rate. Let's call it 12% for the sake of discussion. The proceeds from this would then be deposited into an "infrastructure bank" which would be chaired by a commitee of people from the poltical and business community. The trick would be making sure the dollars are allocated effeciently, which is why you need private sector involvement in the decision making process. Otherwise you end up with a "bridge to nowhere" and what not.

 

I am not sure if it would work but I thought it was interesting none the less.

Kenny we cannot reward these evil doers. We levy a 95% tax on their overseas accounts starting tomorrow then tax them 33% on stateside accounts thereafter. Put that on dire’s balance sheet.

 

I hit a raw nerve I suppose with dire about his Kipling Kaper. The old basturd was certainly a colonialist and thought he was ever so much better than the “Brown People”. Just like you do. Your positions on every issue make it obvious. You should lie awake at night over the misery whitey has caused the black race. They are just as good as you.

Originally Posted by Quaildog:

Kenny we cannot reward these evil doers. We levy a 95% tax on their overseas accounts starting tomorrow then tax them 33% on stateside accounts thereafter. Put that on dire’s balance sheet.

 

I hit a raw nerve I suppose with dire about his Kipling Kaper. The old basturd was certainly a colonialist and thought he was ever so much better than the “Brown People”. Just like you do. Your positions on every issue make it obvious. You should lie awake at night over the misery whitey has caused the black race. They are just as good as you.

95%? You clearly are not interested in having a rational conversation. Noted.

Originally Posted by Kenny Powers:

I am not sure if this thread is the place for a rational discussion or not. However, I did hear an interesting solution to our Infrastructure issues from someone on CNBC one day(can't remember who it was).

 

We could give corporations a 1 year incentive to bring their offs**** cash back to the US at a much lower tax rate. Let's call it 12% for the sake of discussion. The proceeds from this would then be deposited into an "infrastructure bank" which would be chaired by a commitee of people from the poltical and business community. The trick would be making sure the dollars are allocated effeciently, which is why you need private sector involvement in the decision making process. Otherwise you end up with a "bridge to nowhere" and what not.

 

I am not sure if it would work but I thought it was interesting none the less.

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There are merits to this.  Allowing corporations to bring overseas profits to the US to such a fund would profit investors, provide funds for the corporations to expand and rebuild their own facilities and provide for improving infrastructure.  If congress hadn't misused the fuel tax revenue for non-infrastructure purposes, the infrastructure would be in much better shape.  Both parties are to blame for this.

Originally Posted by Quaildog:

OH Kenny m'boy do  you think your %12 is rational?

It could be 15%, 20%, or even 10%. The exact number really isn't the point. I was speaking more in conceptual terms. 

 

However, the number has to be low enough to incentivize companies to repatriate the earnings. Plus, the one time windfall of cash would be great to fund the Infrastructure projects that we need. Also, not raiding the federal gas tax coffers to fund other ventutes would be a good start as well.

Originally Posted by Kenny Powers:
Originally Posted by Quaildog:

Kenny we cannot reward these evil doers. We levy a 95% tax on their overseas accounts starting tomorrow then tax them 33% on stateside accounts thereafter. Put that on dire’s balance sheet.

 

I hit a raw nerve I suppose with dire about his Kipling Kaper. The old basturd was certainly a colonialist and thought he was ever so much better than the “Brown People”. Just like you do. Your positions on every issue make it obvious. You should lie awake at night over the misery whitey has caused the black race. They are just as good as you.

95%? You clearly are not interested in having a rational conversation. Noted.

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Old QD has no idea how business works, nor why the US prospers when so many nations remain in second and third work status.  Such a high tax would ensure US companies left the US.  Australia, India and several old havens would be more than proud to have them.  Obama already ran a couple off.

 

American poet and UK liberal said of  Kipling:

 

“The poet T. S. Eliot edited A Choice of Kipling's Verse (1941) with an introductory essay.[93] Eliot is aware of the complaints that had been levelled against Kipling: and he dismissed them one by one: that Kipling is 'a Tory' using his verse to transmit right wing political views, or 'a journalist' pandering to popular taste; while Eliot writes "I cannot find any justification for the charge that he held a doctrine of race superiority."

 

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

 

 

GOP continues with plan to kill off citizens in Tennessee by starvation.

 

Tennessee officials punishing citizens http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2...-punishing-citizens/

If these three elected officials would consider the people of Tennessee rather than trying to satisfy the right-wing zealots of this state, I think we would all be better off.

The brainwashing of the GOP would have one think that the poor receiving food stamps are the cause of the economic crash rather than the wealthy enjoying the lowest taxes in 50 years, the big banks that were too big to fail or the two wars that we have fought for the past 10 years.

 

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Job title: Director of international finance and macroeconomics program 

Claim to fame: Headed the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton 

Recovery plan in brief: Bring back the ‘90s 

In his words: Passing the right fiscal policy, if it were politically possible, would be the biggest step to recovery. We need two things simultaneously: enact short-term fiscal stimulus and lock in a long-run return to the fiscal responsibility of the 1990s. 

Short-term stimulus could include extensions of the 2009 stimulus and payroll tax holiday, plus some additional stimulus, such as Obama’s jobs bill. As for a return to fiscal responsibility, we need to pass legislation that would reduce the rate of growth in discretionary spending and entitlements, as well as increase tax revenues through the removal of loopholes, deductions and "tax expenditures." 

I favor eliminating subsidies to agriculture and the fossil fuel industry, cutting expensive weapons systems when the Pentagon does not want them, raising the retirement age for Social Security, discouraging unnecessary hospital infections, and curtailing or eliminating tax distortions. Those who say we can eliminate the deficit primarily by cutting domestic discretionary spending are either lying or arithmetically illiterate. It is literally impossible.


Read more athttp://www.kiplinger.com/slide...#ELxCcLLZ4diXhuxQ.99 

QD's post is a letter citing Republican politicians, then blaming them with cutting off food stamps.  In none of their statements did the Republicans make any reference to cutting food stamps.  That was the letter writer's opinion.

 

My first thought was that no one could be as utter ignorance as QD to post this.  Finally, it dawned upon me.  QD has to be a Republican plant -- not even the worse Democrats could make as ignorant posts as he purports to believe.  He completely destroys any semblance the Dems have as persons of intelligence. 

 

Keep up the good work QD.  You've successfully destroyed Democrat credibility. 

Originally Posted by Red Baron:

 

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Job title: Director of international finance and macroeconomics program 

Claim to fame: Headed the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton 

Recovery plan in brief: Bring back the ‘90s 

In his words: Passing the right fiscal policy, if it were politically possible, would be the biggest step to recovery. We need two things simultaneously: enact short-term fiscal stimulus and lock in a long-run return to the fiscal responsibility of the 1990s. 

Short-term stimulus could include extensions of the 2009 stimulus and payroll tax holiday, plus some additional stimulus, such as Obama’s jobs bill. As for a return to fiscal responsibility, we need to pass legislation that would reduce the rate of growth in discretionary spending and entitlements, as well as increase tax revenues through the removal of loopholes, deductions and "tax expenditures." 

I favor eliminating subsidies to agriculture and the fossil fuel industry, cutting expensive weapons systems when the Pentagon does not want them, raising the retirement age for Social Security, discouraging unnecessary hospital infections, and curtailing or eliminating tax distortions. Those who say we can eliminate the deficit primarily by cutting domestic discretionary spending are either lying or arithmetically illiterate. It is literally impossible.


Read more athttp://www.kiplinger.com/slide...#ELxCcLLZ4diXhuxQ.99 

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Overall, good ideas, Clinton's ability to work with Republicans was a major factor in the economic success of the 1990s.  Always thought impeaching him was a dumb idea.  And, that he set a bear trap that caught himself.  When asked if he had sex with an intern, he should have simply answered, yes.  If, the interrogation continued, he should have simply said asked and answered.  Then, refused to give any prurient details. 

Well dire when he said he “never had sex with that woman” keep in mind the repubs were asking. Anything other than the missionary position would not qualify as sex to them so he answered qualitatively as not to lie. Can you imagine the trauma associated with someone like McConnell had Clinton blurted out “BJ”

 

I take it you will be voting for the Clintons next election.

Originally Posted by seeweed:
Originally Posted by Quaildog:

Well dire when he said he “never had sex with that woman” keep in mind the repubs were asking. Anything other than the missionary position would not qualify as sex to them so he answered qualitatively as not to lie. Can you imagine the trauma associated with someone like McConnell had Clinton blurted out “BJ”

 

I take it you will be voting for the Clintons next election.

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McConnell probably didn't know what a BJ was. Looks like he probably hasen't gotten lucky in years and years.

 

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Silly seeweed,

Its the quiet ones that always give the ladies the most fun.  One can do wonders when one doesn't advertise in such matters. 

"GOP CONTINUES WITH PLAN TO KILL OFF CITIZENS"\

 

What are you talking about?  The GOP needs all the voters they can get.  They're not interested on killing anybody--unless they're democrats.

 

The democrats have already killed many of their voters--in spite of them still finding a way to vote.  You can see this every time they vote in Chicago.

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