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    Quote Originally Posted by RickThai View Post
    Doesn't anyone have any common sense any more? The US government is borrowing one dollar for every three dollars it spends.

    How can any individual, business, or government continue to operate forever with such a negative cash flow?

    Answer: they can't!

    I've had conversations with "progressives" who try and argue that as long as the economy keep growing, the US can keep producing and keep up with "servicing" its increasing debt.

    My response is that the US can only sustain an economy of a limited size and any further attempts to increase the GDP will only hasten the demise of available resources. Growth simply to accommodate out-of-control spending is both wasteful and a fool's errand.

    Currently the interest on the US debt is about 8% of GDP, and is expected to grow to 40% of GDP by 2025.

    Without sound, conservative fiscal decisions, there will come a time, when no one will loan the US anymore money. Then things will really start to get interesting.

    RickThai
    It's alright, the Chinese will keep lending you money because they need you spending it on Chinese crap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by RickThai View Post
    Doesn't anyone have any common sense any more? The US government is borrowing one dollar for every three dollars it spends.

    How can any individual, business, or government continue to operate forever with such a negative cash flow?

    Answer: they can't!

    I've had conversations with "progressives" who try and argue that as long as the economy keep growing, the US can keep producing and keep up with "servicing" its increasing debt.

    My response is that the US can only sustain an economy of a limited size and any further attempts to increase the GDP will only hasten the demise of available resources. Growth simply to accommodate out-of-control spending is both wasteful and a fool's errand.

    Currently the interest on the US debt is about 8% of GDP, and is expected to grow to 40% of GDP by 2025.

    Without sound, conservative fiscal decisions, there will come a time, when no one will loan the US anymore money. Then things will really start to get interesting.

    RickThai
    It's alright, the Chinese will keep lending you money because they need you spending it on Chinese crap.
    It's actually not the progressives who say that. "Debt doesn't matter, Ronald Reagan proved that." Dick Cheney. Reagan and Bush 1 quadrupled the debt from 1 trillion to 4 trillion, Clinton added only 1.7 trillion, and Bush 2 doubled it to 11 trillion. And all the time, conservatives said 'debt doesn't matter if the economy grows.' Bush 2 cut the taxes for the rich of course, and that is the problem, subsidies for the rich, plus tax exemptions.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilbert View Post
    Obomba has enough cash to launch a war, after all, so surely enough money to help the poor. No? oh. dang!
    You seem confused. Our current POTUS is the fellow that ends wars. Care to let us know what war was launched by President Obama?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rainfall View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by RickThai View Post
    Doesn't anyone have any common sense any more? The US government is borrowing one dollar for every three dollars it spends.

    How can any individual, business, or government continue to operate forever with such a negative cash flow?

    Answer: they can't!

    I've had conversations with "progressives" who try and argue that as long as the economy keep growing, the US can keep producing and keep up with "servicing" its increasing debt.

    My response is that the US can only sustain an economy of a limited size and any further attempts to increase the GDP will only hasten the demise of available resources. Growth simply to accommodate out-of-control spending is both wasteful and a fool's errand.

    Currently the interest on the US debt is about 8% of GDP, and is expected to grow to 40% of GDP by 2025.

    Without sound, conservative fiscal decisions, there will come a time, when no one will loan the US anymore money. Then things will really start to get interesting.

    RickThai
    It's alright, the Chinese will keep lending you money because they need you spending it on Chinese crap.
    It's actually not the progressives who say that. "Debt doesn't matter, Ronald Reagan proved that." Dick Cheney. Reagan and Bush 1 quadrupled the debt from 1 trillion to 4 trillion, Clinton added only 1.7 trillion, and Bush 2 doubled it to 11 trillion. And all the time, conservatives said 'debt doesn't matter if the economy grows.' Bush 2 cut the taxes for the rich of course, and that is the problem, subsidies for the rich, plus tax exemptions.
    Wars are expensive. Would it have been better to do nothing about Iraq taking over Kuwait and letting the terrorists behind 9/11 walk?

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    i thought it was because saddam threatened to
    kill his daddy. no ?

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    A lot of death spirals in the news lately. Add this one to your list.

    More welfare recipients than workers in the U.S.

    Something that can't go on forever, won't...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    A lot of death spirals in the news lately. Add this one to your list.

    More welfare recipients than workers in the U.S.

    Something that can't go on forever, won't...
    Well, if you're going to count kids that receive Medicaid or benefit from food stamps, and anyone living in subsidized housing regardless of age, you're working with a much larger population base than those eligible for work.

    However, this does still indicate a serious problem. That problem is that the figures of those working full time and those receiving benefits are not mutually exclusive. You can work full time and still not have enough money to provide for your own basic needs, not to mention providing for any family members who can't work themselves.

    At minimum wage working full time, 40 hours per week, 52 weeks per year, someone earns a hair over $15,000 annually. That's not enough for one person to pay for housing, utilities, and food without even taking dependants into the picture.

    Really, these figures show the level of corporate malfeasance in the US where big businesses benefit from paying far too low wages and let the government, and therefore the American taxpayers, pick up the slack.

    The problem isn't the individuals in the system abusing it, it's the employers who don't pay enough for people to live on their wages without having to resort to government assistance.

    A two striper in the military with a wife and two kids and the family qualifies for foodstamps!

    That means:

    One person working.
    4 people on foodstamps.
    4 to one ratio of "moochers" to workers.

    The 100s of thousands working 32 hours at the big boxes don't count as full time employed, even though they are begging for more hours.

    That means:

    No person working full time.
    One or more on assistance.
    More than one "moocher" if they have a family.

    And so on...

    So, with record corporate profits and record gains by the wealthy resulting in more Americans on the dole, Republicans STILL think trickle-down economics benefits the 99%?

    And Americans fell for it.

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    Oh, and you have just made a very persuasive argument for an increase of the minimum wage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TonyBKK
    You seem confused. Our current POTUS is the fellow that ends wars. Care to let us know what war was launched by President Obama?
    Ahh he failed because the people of the world said no. Well most people. One an assume you were one of those "bomb for peace" merchants begging for genocide in Syria. Besides, his continues support for Islamic terrorists in Syria, which began with his administration, although not war, is certainly terrorism.

    Two broken promises from the start - will pull troops out of Iraq and Afghan. Why did he pull troops out of Iraq? Because the Iraq government refused to continue the immunity for US service soldiers for crimes they commit there (i.e., murder, rape, torture ... that type of thing) and that they would therefore face a trial in Iraq. So obomba pulled your troops out. Sure, not what you would see on CNN or what ever propaganda rubbish you watch, but its the truth of the matter. Also, they will never leave $1T of lithium in the ground in Afghan, so the death squads (aka, US army) will stay there for ever.

    All the while, your lovely president is personally signing off acts of war all over the world with their drone strikes (lets be honest, if Mexico launched a drone strike on some people in the US... it would be an act of war). Doing all of this, whilst stopping food stamps for the poorest people - just another typical scumbag just like shagger clinton and his lezza wife.

    Here - have another cup of cool-aid.

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    ^
    You forgot the other broken promise the Drone Ranger absolutely, positively made that he'd make certain was done - 1st thing. Close Gitmo.

    How anyone can still be a Fan Boy/Girl for this guy is pretty amazing...

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    ‘Death Spiral’ States?

    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee View Post
    A lot of death spirals in the news lately. Add this one to your list.

    More welfare recipients than workers in the U.S.

    Something that can't go on forever, won't...
    Another bullshit lie. Boontard you collect SS. According to the link you posted you are collecting welfare. Time to return your checks.

    Q: Do 11 states now have more people on welfare than they have employed?

    A: A viral email making this claim is off base. It distorts a Forbes article that compares private-sector workers with those “dependent on the government,” including government workers and pensioners, and Medicaid recipients — not just “people on welfare.”

    FULL QUESTION
    Please let me know if this is accurate or not. I am just concerned if the comparison between the number of people who are employed vs the number of people who are on welfare is accurate.



    These eleven states now have more people on welfare than they have employed.

    All eleven of them have one thing very much in common. All of them have Democrat Governors and Democrat controlled legislatures, and; surprise surprise, seven of these eleven states all voted for Obama. DUH!

    This just goes to prove that the majority of Americans have no intention of ever attempting to put together an independent life for themselves and their families, but rather, that they are quite content to just live on the tax payers dime for eternity.

    Unfortunately, I see no clear cut scenario in which any of these states, or possibly even the whole United States for that matter, will ever manage to recover.


    FULL ANSWER
    On Nov. 25, 2012, Forbes.com published an article by William Baldwin, an investment strategies contributing writer, that asked, “Do You Live In A Death Spiral State?” Baldwin’s advice to readers was to avoid putting capital in financially troubled states where people “dependent on government” outnumber those working in the private sector.
    “If your career takes you to Los Angeles or Chicago, don’t buy a house. Rent,” he wrote. “If you have money in municipal bonds, clean up the portfolio. Sell holdings from the sick states and reinvest where you’re less likely to get clipped.”
    That list of “fiscal hellholes,” as Baldwin labeled them, included Ohio, Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, South Carolina, New York, Maine, Alabama, California, Mississippi and New Mexico. And they are all highlighted in the graphic above, which was taken from segments of the Fox Business television program Varney & Co., where Baldwin’s reporting was later discussed.
    But Baldwin’s definition of individuals “dependent on government” is stated incorrectly in the viral email as simply those on “welfare.” Baldwin wrote that, among the dependents, he included current state and local government employees, as well as former workers receiving government pensions. And he only counted Medicaid recipients as those on “welfare.”
    And none of the 11 states on his list has more Medicaid recipients than workers. Also, none of the states has more recipients of other kinds of “welfare,” such as TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) or food stamps (officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program).
    Baldwin told us in an interview that what he reported and what the email says “are not the same thing at all.”
    ‘Dependent on Government’
    In determining the states on the “death spiral” list, Baldwin took two things into consideration: a state’s credit-worthiness ranking according to an analysis done by money management firm Conning & Co., and a state’s “taker/maker ratio,” which Baldwin himself calculated using figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and other sources. That ratio has been misrepresented in the viral message above.
    Baldwin’s article explains that “a maker is someone gainfully employed in the private sector,” while “a taker is someone who draws money from the government, as an employee, pensioner or welfare recipient.” And Baldwin’s article further explains that the formula that he used only counted state and local government workers, not federal ones, and that he only counted people receiving Medicaid as those on welfare. On top of that, he added one person for every $100,000 of unfunded pension liabilities to the “takers” side. But those specifics were all left out of the message that simply claims that “eleven states now have more people on welfare than they have employed.”



    Baldwin said that there may be states with more “welfare” recipients than private-sector workers, but he didn’t know if that was the case. That would depend on what one counts as “welfare.” But it is certainly not the case when comparing workers to recipients of cash assistance through TANF — which is what many people think of as “welfare” — or even participants in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, once known as food stamps.
    The total employment in California, for example, was about 14.4 million in November, according to preliminary estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And more than 12 million of those employees worked in the private sector. California had slightly more than 1.4 million TANF recipients as of December 2011, according to the most recent figures from the Department of Health and Human Services, and the state had a little more than 4.1 million SNAP participants as of October 2012, according to initial estimates from the Department of Agriculture. None of the other states on Baldwin’s list has more recipients of TANF or participants in SNAP than the number of private or total workers, either.
    Even when using Baldwin’s definition of “welfare” — those enrolled in Medicaid — none of the states on the list has more enrollees than workers, whether in the private sector or overall.
    California had about 7.4 million people receiving Medicaid as of June 2011, according to the most recent figures from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. That figure is about 39 percent less than the number of private workers and 49 percent less than the total number of workers.
    (A word of caution: You cannot add the number of recipients for all three programs in California or any other state and compare that with the number of total employees, because of overlap that would result in double-counting.)
    Baldwin said that his article doesn’t support the claim made in the email, because he wasn’t comparing workers to welfare recipients. “I was comparing employment to government dependency,” he said.
    Democrats Not All in Control, Either
    It’s true that seven of the 11 states went for President Barack Obama in the 2012 election, as the email says. Obama won Ohio, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Maine, California and New Mexico. And Mitt Romney was victorious in Kentucky, South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi.
    But some versions of the email — including the one above — take it a step further, claiming that Democrats are at the helm of government in all of the states on Baldwin’s list. That’s just not so.
    Ohio, Maine and New Mexico — which were all won by Obama in the election — have Republican governors. Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Maine Gov. Paul LePage and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez all took office in January 2011. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Halley, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley are Republicans, too.
    And Republicans currently have majorities in both the state House and state Senate in Ohio, Alabama, South Carolina and Mississippi, while Kentucky’s Legislature is partly controlled by Republicans who have a majority in the Senate.
    The so-called “death spiral” states may indeed have something in common, but it isn’t that “all of them have Democrat Governors and Democrat controlled legislatures.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    How anyone can still be a Fan Boy/Girl for this guy is pretty amazing.
    Scary actually. Mind you, Cruz is no different.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilbert View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    How anyone can still be a Fan Boy/Girl for this guy is pretty amazing.
    Scary actually. Mind you, Cruz is no different.
    Well, different in the manner in which he looks at government IMO.

    Less is More.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    Well, different in the manner in which he looks at government IMO.

    Less is More.
    Not wishing to rub another poster up the wrong way, but you'll be wrong about that. The only role of government is to expand it's powers.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gilbert View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    Well, different in the manner in which he looks at government IMO.

    Less is More.
    Not wishing to rub another poster up the wrong way, but you'll be wrong about that. The only role of government is to expand it's powers.
    No rub inferred although the subject of government is viewed differently (IMO) depending on the prism of ideology e.g. Democrat/Republican or Libertarian one views it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RickThai View Post
    [Would it have been better to do nothing about Iraq taking over Kuwait and letting the terrorists behind 9/11 walk?

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    Iraq taking over Kuwait would only really have impacted Kuwaitis.

    As for letting the terrorists behind 9/11 walk, I look forward to the US attack on Saudi Arabia.


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    DHS Prepares for Rioting as Food Stamp Cuts Take Place Today



    Yeah, right, just another excuse to run rough-shod over the folks because the cuts are like $10.00 per month...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee View Post
    ^
    You forgot the other broken promise the Drone Ranger absolutely, positively made that he'd make certain was done - 1st thing. Close Gitmo.
    Not that Gitmo has anything to do with food stamps, but our POTUS is still working on it-



    So why, if Obama is so passionate about closing Guantanamo, hasn't he? The question is a tricky one: There are very real political and legal hurdles, not to mention ever-present national security concerns. To the extent that we can name a single obstacle that's keeping bulldozers from razing the infamous detention center, it might be the inability of the White House, Congress and foreign governments to come to an agreement about where to put the detainees.
    The challenge in closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay is not actually the detention facility itself. The problem is the 166 detainees, each of whom has to be moved somewhere else. A basic premise of Gitmo, after all, was that these are people would be kept in perpetual limbo. Each detainee can leave that limbo through one of four different routes: a civilian trial, a military tribunal, a foreign country's prison system or freedom.
    Sounds simple enough, right? Except that the first two routes – civilian trial or military tribunal – were blocked by Congress, which passed legislation barring the federal government from funding trials for Guantanamo detainees or buying a prison in the U.S. to house them.
    The third route, to send the detainees to a foreign country's prison system, is only legal if the U.S. can be sure that the detainees will not be tortured there. Given some of the countries from which the detainees originate, this is not always an easy guarantee to make. And there have been doubts about foreign governments' ability to appropriately safeguard the detainees. A 2008 Washington Post article portrayed Yemeni officials struggling to convince their U.S. counterparts that they could safely accommodate prisoners from Guantanamo, while U.S. officials worried that they might be released.
    The fourth route, freedom, actually already applies to 86 of the 166 detainees. The U.S. government believes they can be safely released back into the world, but it has nowhere to send them. For many of these individuals, their home country will not take them or might torture them, meaning the U.S. has to find an entirely different country to release them to.
    There's been a great deal of political attention to this last category. Recent congressional legislation allows the Pentagon to get a special "waiver" allowing it to ship detainees to third countries, but only if a senior administration official pledges that the receiving country can guarantee that the detainee will never take up (or, in some cases, return to) terrorism against the U.S. Given that a recent study estimated that between 16 and 27 percent of released Gitmo detainees have participated in terrorism since leaving the facility, it's hard to imagine any top political officials betting their careers on newly released detainees never returning to extremism. Whether the significant political risk of using these waivers is a bug of the program or a feature, the effect is the same, and in January the Obama administration effectively shut down the State Department office dedicated to closing Guantanamo.
    So what can Obama do? He can lobby Congress, as he hinted he would do at Tuesday's news conference, perhaps to change the legislation blocking the U.S. from trying Guantanamo detainees or keeping them on U.S. soil. He can work with Yemen; a majority of the detainees are Yemeni, and their home country, which has been beset by political turmoil for the past two years, says it's working on a $11 million facility to house and rehabilitate former Gitmo detainees. Perhaps Yemen could be better prepared to accept former detainees and to give them enough good options that they won't want to turn to extremism. Obama could also work with Congress to loosen the politically unpalatable process for releasing detainees, or he could go ahead and release them anyway, although that would require finding countries to accept them.
    No single step is likely to find a home for each and every one of the 166 remaining detainees. But hoping for the problem to just go away doesn't work, either. "I think for a lot of Americans, the notion is out of sight, out of mind," Obama said Tuesday. "I'm going to go back at it because I think it's important."


    Why hasn’t Obama closed Guantanamo Bay?

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    What would Jesus say about Republican attack on food stamps?


    By David Horsey



    Most Republican members of Congress claim to believe in Jesus Christ, but their votes against the food stamp program suggest they do not share their lord and savior’s love for the poor.


    In September, House Republicans sent a bill to the Senate that would cut $40 billion from funding for the food stamp program over the next decade. The tea party caucus, a group that is quite evangelical about its economic theories and its religion, justified the spending reduction in terms that echoed Ayn Rand more than the Gospels.


    “In the real world, we measure success by results,” said Rep. Marlin Stutzman, an Indiana Republican, speaking in favor of the cuts. “It’s time for Washington to measure success by how many families are lifted out of poverty and helped back on their feet, not by how much Washington bureaucrats spend year after year.”
    That sounds like good old common sense, but, of course, it is actually just more tea party nonsense. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that the food stamp program has kept about 4 million above the poverty line and has been a lifeline to millions of others already in poverty. If the Republican cuts were to go into effect, 4 million people would be kicked off the food stamp program next year, according to the Congressional Budget Office, and another 3 million would be dropped annually in subsequent years.


    In other words, instead of achieving Stutzman’s goal of lifting families out of poverty, the reductions would drive millions more into poverty.


    As usual, the problem is that tea party conservatives are setting fire to a straw man. The “real world” they think they know so much about is a fact-free bubble floating above reality. The imagined problem is that there are millions of freeloading bums living large with the daily $4.50 they get for food, but here is the truth about who receives food stamps:


    • Almost half of them are children.
    • The elderly make up 8%, and about 20% are disabled.
    • The 24% who are able-bodied adults without children cannot receive more than three months of benefits in a three-year period unless they work at least 20 hours per week.
    • Immigrants in the country illegally – a.k.a. illegal aliens – cannot receive food stamps.
    • Contrary to a common perception, about 50% of recipients are white.


    A key fact: The cost of the food stamp program has ballooned over the last five years because of the sharp jump in unemployment due to the Great Recession. Many of those people are still living on food stamps, not because they have been made lazy by feasting on the meager meals the program allows them to buy, but because people on the low end of the economic ladder are always the last to be rehired. Making it even harder for them to put food on the table is not going to miraculously open up the job market. Only Jesus could perform that kind of miracle.
    Nevertheless, many Republicans believe they are following a virtuous path. During the debate over the food stamp cuts, Rep. Stephen Fincher, a Tennessee Republican, said the Bible had guided his vote to slash spending on food for the poor. He quoted 2 Thessalonians: “Anyone unwilling to work should not eat.”
    Fincher clearly believes he is more deserving of federal largesse than those shiftless poor people. Fincher, a farmer, just happens to have pulled in $3.5 million in federal subsidies since 1995.


    Some people would call that hypocrisy. What would Jesus say?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TonyBKK View Post
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    ^
    You forgot the other broken promise the Drone Ranger absolutely, positively made that he'd make certain was done - 1st thing. Close Gitmo.
    Not that Gitmo has anything to do with food stamps, but our POTUS is still working on it-
    Right!

    Like OJ is still working on finding the Real Killers too!

    ...btw, have those evil-doers that took out the Benghazi Consulate and killed the Ambassador & his men been brought to justice yet or is Obama still 'working on that' too?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee View Post
    ^
    You forgot the other broken promise the Drone Ranger absolutely, positively made that he'd make certain was done - 1st thing. Close Gitmo.
    Not that Gitmo has anything to do with food stamps, but our POTUS is still working on it-
    Right!

    Like OJ is still working on finding the Real Killers too!

    .
    Already answered in great detail in post 293

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    Who knew it? Pigs Do Fly:

    CNN Blames Obama For Food Stamp Cuts

    CNN Blames Obama For Food Stamp Cuts

    Really surprised the blame wasn't placed squarely on Dubya's shoulders once again...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    CNN Blames Obama For Food Stamp Cuts
    Damn those liars. Liberalss..


    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    Really surprised the blame wasn't placed squarely on Dubya's shoulders once again.
    Well it is all his fault. Bush tax cuts for the wealthy have ballooned the federal debt and ruined the economy.



    This is not to mention his disastrous wars. Bush is the worst president in American history.
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    Top Five Myths About Food Stamps

    1. The food stamp “cut” that took place on November 1, 2013 was put in place by Democrats and President Obama.

    Yes, this is true.

    The increased funding to SNAP was part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as “The Stimulus.” This part of the bill had a sunset provision that the increased funding ended on October 31, 2013. As a reminder, the stimulus was passed by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives in 2009 (without a single Republican vote) and was passed by the Senate (with two GOP votes, both Senators from Maine, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins). Though the bill would have passed the Senate without Snowe and Collins, since the GOP did not have the forty votes needed to block cloture."

    See the other four here

    Doesn't that just break your heart that it wasn't those evil 'ol Republicans after all!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    Doesn't that just break your heart that it wasn't those evil 'ol Republicans after all!
    Republicans think veterans and active military service members are lazy bums who don't want to work - at least if you follow their logic about food stamp cuts.

    Veterans Nationwide Hit By Food Stamp Cuts, 5,000 Active Military Families Also Hurt By Benefit Rollback

    One Republican congressmember, Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, recently responded to a constituent’s question about the food stamp cuts by saying, "If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat."

    "Our veterans should be above political games," said Texas Senator Ted Cruz, at a rally in support of the veterans who wanted to visit memorial sites during the shutdown.

    Dear Ted,

    Meet the quote that is going to bite you in the ass.

    Sincerely,
    Everybody with a memory better than a goldfish.

    Oh yeah, also:

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