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Stop With the Pessimism, Please!
3/19/11 | Repulican Donkey

Posted on 03/19/2011 1:58:00 PM PDT by Repulican Donkey

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To: upsdriver
he immediately claims it won’t work.

I know *exactly* what you mean. lol!

61 posted on 03/19/2011 3:24:15 PM PDT by paulycy (Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: Huskrrrr
As long as we have the right to own gold and guns, there’s hope.

Except Big Brother is now taking down names of everyone who buys both of those.

62 posted on 03/19/2011 3:31:53 PM PDT by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: Allegra
Or as hats either.


63 posted on 03/19/2011 3:36:30 PM PDT by bgill (Kenyan Parliament - how could a man born in Kenya who is not even a native American become the POTUS)
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To: Repulican Donkey

The King is Naked, and if that upsets you to say so you are not grounded in reality. Happy-Happy-Joy-Joy like an airhead is no way to go through life.


64 posted on 03/19/2011 3:37:45 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Repulican Donkey

>http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9015/pub_detail.asp<

Here, try some of this...
That ought’a dampen your enthusiasm....

Have you heard any of the new House Speaker’s tough budget cutting agenda?

ya..me neither!


65 posted on 03/19/2011 4:02:44 PM PDT by G Larry
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To: Admin Moderator; Repulican Donkey
...I’ll post where I want to post...No you won't. This thread has been moved...


66 posted on 03/19/2011 4:03:28 PM PDT by FReepaholic (Pray for Japan.)
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To: Repulican Donkey

We had a good run, but it’s over. There is no way the changes that need to be made will ever be made. We are bankrupt, and most people don’t care.


67 posted on 03/19/2011 4:14:16 PM PDT by andyk (Wealth != Income)
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To: Repulican Donkey
I still remember what happened in 1979-1980 during the darkest days of the Carter years, when it appears that anything President Carter did didn't work and we were staring at an economy failing due to stagflation. But yet, we quickly snapped out of it during the Reagan years and the USA economically boomed again.

There are changes we can implement right now to bring the USA back. I suggest we do four things right now:

1. Start by cutting back the size of government by 30% now, and eventually somewhere between 50-60% in 7-10 years.
2. Simplify government regulations.
3. Aggressively clean up the excesses of Wall Street, starting with re-imposing the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act and banning high-risk investments like many hedge funds, derivatives, credit default swaps, etc.
4. Massively overhaul our national taxation system to reduce compliance costs and make it vastly more business friendly.

68 posted on 03/19/2011 4:20:34 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Gadsden1st

Perfect. :) So much there to work with......

1. There is nothing in life that is so serious you can’t find the humor in the situation.

2. When the duck forgets who feeds him, give his tail feathers a good shake.

3. Once everyone knows whose who in this arrangement, we can all be friends.

4. Always remember to sit on your porch with a good friend. It makes life easier.

I liked your story very much.


69 posted on 03/19/2011 4:28:05 PM PDT by daisy mae for the usa
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To: RayChuang88

We all know what needs to be done ,, some of us realize that it just won’t ever be implemented.


70 posted on 03/19/2011 4:57:14 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: Neidermeyer
We all know what needs to be done ,, some of us realize that it just won’t ever be implemented.

Exactly. My pessimism is based on some cold hard realities:

1) We're a welfare state. 60% of the federal budget is spent on social entitlement programs. Coincidentally, only 60% of the budget is paid for by revenues - we have to borrow the other 40%. This means that social entitlements eat up every penny of revenue the government takes in that isn't borrowed. This leads to...

2) It's now impossible to stop being the welfare state described above because we've crossed the threshold where there are more people riding in the wagon than there are pulling it. People won't vote to get rid of their free stuff, period.

3) The republicans have the power right now to put a stop to all of this simply by refusing to raise the debt ceiling again, but they won't do it because of #2 above.

So yeah, I see no solution. We will not and can not change it by voting. We're already bankrupt, and we're going to continue on this path until we completely collapse.

71 posted on 03/19/2011 6:28:15 PM PDT by Zeddicus
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To: Repulican Donkey; Yehuda; The Ignorant Fisherman; tet68; blue-duncan; kristinn; Doctor Raoul; ...

But, i DO believe we are doomed.

I am 52 this year and I have seen no worse state of our nation economically, morally, or internationally.

And, there is zero happening to make it better, either morally, economically, or internationally.

in fact, all three rulers I mentioned are all going downward.

What I am sick of hearing is people claming that CONSEERVATISM IS WINNING! CHRISTIANITY IS SPREADING!

It isn’t, neither of them is, in fact, that is why the international is failing, too.

Conservatism may be more popular in it’s economic sense, but not in the moral conservative sense.

Knowing that Ann Coulter came out in defense of gays recently, can anyone honestly say that Conservatives are moral anymore?

Honestly?


72 posted on 03/19/2011 6:28:40 PM PDT by RaceBannon (RON PAUL: THE PARTY OF TRUTHERS, TRAITORS AND UFO CHASERS!!!)
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To: Repulican Donkey

Considering you can’t spell....why should we listen to you?


73 posted on 03/19/2011 6:32:47 PM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: Allegra

there is something wrong with you if you dont like pineapple with pepperoni pizza...


74 posted on 03/19/2011 6:33:11 PM PDT by RaceBannon (RON PAUL: THE PARTY OF TRUTHERS, TRAITORS AND UFO CHASERS!!!)
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To: NWFLConservative
I'm not dead!

I'm NOT dead!!

75 posted on 03/19/2011 6:33:29 PM PDT by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: RaceBannon

Fruit on pizza is just wrong... so wrong in fact that not even bacon , banana peppers and sausage can atone for it.


76 posted on 03/19/2011 6:41:06 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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To: RaceBannon
Jim I fully agree..we are doomed here in America and in CT. The reality is too much for people. Check out this post we did. It talks to the heart of the matter for believers!

God Bless!

DP

http://www.theignorantfishermen.com/2009/10/servant-of-christ-first-conservative.html

77 posted on 03/19/2011 6:49:47 PM PDT by The Ignorant Fisherman
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To: Billthedrill
Did you know the Japanese like corn on pizza?

And Iraqis like eggplant or hot dog slices on theirs.

Oh, the desecrations that are done to pizza!

78 posted on 03/20/2011 1:52:31 AM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: bgill
Or as hats either.

Actually, I sorta like the hat...LOL

79 posted on 03/20/2011 1:53:59 AM PDT by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: Allegra
Oh, and while we're at it, pineapple doesn't belong on pizza, either.

You're whack.

Pineapple & Canuckian Bacon pizza is teh awesome.

80 posted on 03/20/2011 2:37:53 AM PDT by humblegunner (Blogger Overlord)
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