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Not ugly - Revolting! America fights back against extremists and corporate tyranny. Also, some light hearted commentary from your basic average dude.
Not ugly - Revolting! America fights back against extremists and corporate tyranny. Also, some light hearted commentary from your basic average dude.
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Don't be late!
A new poll from The Hill found that 95 percent of likely voters believe that reducing the national debt is either very or somewhat important, with just 2 percent saying it’s not important.
I guess that you and Thohea are part of that two percent, huh?
Good luck with that.
Andre - for once you present a poll I can agree with (even though I believe all polls are biased by people willing to take polls). Nearly everyone agrees that the debt needs to be addressed urgently. However, in typical Republican style the Tea Party is taking a machete to needed social programs like the homeless, poor, and education rather than focusing on the big spenders like farm subsidies and other corporate welfare. It seems the GOP is just backwards on everything!
denbec
Nearly everyone agrees that the debt needs to be addressed urgently.
Andre
Nearly everyone that is, except the Democartic leadership:
http://www.nationalreview.com/exchequer/261428/democrats-we-are-not-going-cut-thing
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denbec
...the big spenders like farm subsidies...
Andre
I totally agree with you about farm subsidies...The irony of the situation is that what little pressure that exists to abolish them comes from a strange combination of (some)left-wing activists AND (some)Tea Party grass roots. Unfortunately, very few elected representatives in Washington, Democrat or Republican, seem to have much stomach to tackle that political hot-potato (yet).
It is particularly depressing from a conservative point of view, how many of the potential Republican Presidential hopefuls are wed to farm subsidies:
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/259294/republicans-are-weak-farm-subsidies-michael-tanner
In the words of one prominent conservative thinker,the Hoover Institute scholar Vicor Davis Hansen (himself a family farmer in Stienbeck's Salinas Valley): "In the next few years, conservatives are going to have to cut entitlements and social spending. To retain their credibility, they must apply the same standards of fiscal responsibility to agribusiness that they apply to other areas."
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/259916/pruning-farm-subsidies-victor-davis-hanson
Andre - you like to post links to other articles as backup to your claims. I'm very interested to hear your comments on the Daily Show clip I posted the other day. How does your party justify this type of blatant hypocrisy?
I try to link to articles by intelligent, educated, people who engage issues in a serious, thoughtful manner.
I don't get my news and/or political analysis from professional comedians.
Plus, I don't own a TV, so my only impression of John Stewart comes from the occasional YouTube clip. He seems like an amusing, occasionally hilarious, dime-a-dozen wise-ass punk, who isn't half as smart (or informed) as he thinks he is (my high school was full of guys like him...and they were very funny, but that didn't make them very deep thinkers).
So, the truth is, that I didn't even bother watching the clip you posted; I just assumed it would be pretty dumb (funny maybe, but still dumb).
Since you have asked my opinion on it, I will watch it ( and I'll do my best to put aside my preconceived low expectations and give it a fair viewing).
But not tonight. It's late and I've got to get up early in the morning.
Maybe tomorrow.
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