What ever happened to the National Guard as response teams? They have vehicles that go thru bad stuff, people already being paid. Its also good training for them,

WebsterMark wrote on 11/01/12 at 05:08:54:



Sorry, wrong again -

This is a transcript - not a 2 word sound byte.

KING: What else, Governor Romney? You’ve been a chief executive of a state. I was just in Joplin, Missouri. I’ve been in Mississippi and Louisiana and Tennessee and other communities dealing with whether it’s the tornadoes, the flooding, and worse. FEMA is about to run out of money, and there are some people who say do it on a case-by-case basis and some people who say, you know, maybe we’re learning a lesson here that the states should take on more of this role. How do you deal with something like that?

ROMNEY: Absolutely. Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better.

Instead of thinking in the federal budget, what we should cut — we should ask ourselves the opposite question. What should we keep? We should take all of what we’re doing at the federal level and say, what are the things we’re doing that we don’t have to do? And those things we’ve got to stop doing, because we’re borrowing $1.6 trillion more this year than we’re taking in. We cannot…

KING: Including disaster relief, though?

ROMNEY: We cannot — we cannot afford to do those things without jeopardizing the future for our kids. It is simply immoral, in my view, for us to continue to rack up larger and larger debts and pass them on to our kids, knowing full well that we’ll all be dead and gone before it’s paid off. It makes no sense at all.

This was @ one of the primary debates. Look it up yourself, just in case you call me for posting out of liberal sources.

Sorry once again it is not us - the liberals in this site that are lying.

Ooooo that was @ repug debate and now "Etch-a-sketch Romney has Romnesia and its all been erased. I guess when the next hurricane hits we will have a Katrina repeat.

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Srinath.

Easy Eichenberger -
Short answer -

Who is racist ?
People are.

Long answer.

Predictions are predictions - there also have been predictions that that 94% of 08 is going to drop to 85% (what I heard I think) ...
There are also predictions that 70% of white males vote for Romney and 60% of white females (not accurate numbers).

I dont count any of those as racist when I hear it.
Someone else may when they hear it
Some one else may intend it when they say it.

People are anything and everything you can think of.
You can start a group called "Crackheads for Obama/Romney" and you will find a few followers ... what else can I say.

All I can say is what I've been telling my wife to cheer for @ the polling place. "Democracy yeaaaaaaa"

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Srinath.

"Lifter will probably go nuts with this question:

Is it blatant racism when it's predicted that 94% of all blacks will vote for Obama?  I know, I know, he has the best interests of the downtrodden at heart.  But are 94% of all blacks, in this day and age, poor, downtrodden, and poverty stricken?  Surely Colin Powell isn't.  I know that blacks may be disproportionately of lower economic position, but I'm convinced that it isn't anywhere close to 94% of all blacks who are in poverty.

But if it were predicted that 94% of all whites would be voting for Romney, we'd hear a cry and howl from the left so loud that you would not need an electronic transmission of the sound; you could hear it if you stuck your head out of the window.

So, in the end, who are the racists?  Obviously, a significant percentage of whites voted for him in 2008, and I predict a significant portion will again this year, and that he'll get re-elected because of support from whites.

Again I ask, who are the racists?"


Ah, so it's the black people's fault for not supporting a racist party. Instead of looking at the Republican ideology and realizing that it is hostile to blacks, you call blacks racist for their supposedly thoughtless skin-color-based support of Obama.

Are you saying that black people are just too stupid to understand which candidate will serve the citizens of our country, and which one will serve his own?

Jerry, black voters have overwhelmingly voted Democratic for 50+ years. Black people voting Demacratic it is a rational expression of self-interest, which is a lot more than you can say for middle- and lower-class white people voting Republican....Are these white voters racist for supporting Romney over Obama?

Clearly blacks are not as racist as the whites who are trying to find any excuse (he's not American, he was born in Kenya, he's a muslim) to vote against Obama.

There are more whites who won't vote for Obama simply because he's black than there are African Americans who will vote for Obama because he's black.

The Republicantealibertarianparty offers all Minorities, Blacks, Women, Gays, Jews, (and the 99% of workong class white people) NOTHING.

Black voters are not racist...they just have more common sense.

BTW Bet most black folks wouldn't have voted for Herman Cain.

JOG ... that whole debt is a myth. It is debt OK however its what we mainly owe to ourselves. And to citizens of a few other foreign countries.

Lets try this one more time.

16 trillion total.
11 trillion we owe to US citizens. As in we the people have given it to we the gubbamint. If we the gubbamint think that debt is being passed onto our kids, well so is the notes when the parents die.

2 trillion to China and russia. We can pay these people the same -ve interest we have been paying the last 3-4 years and they will be happy - afterall that is the agreement ... or we can print this in fresh bills and send it off to them.

The rest of the 3 trillion is owed to countries like england, switzerland etc where honestly we own some of their debt as well, its likely to be a wash, however I should say, we pay negative interest, and we make a small positive interest that I'd say we're comming out ahead. China as well we own plenty of chinese assets.

We dont have to worry about our kids inheriting the debt, we are also having the kids inherit the notes ... obviously.

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Srinath.

I know JOG. You have said it before ... however we are not printing dollar bills. The usual method of late in the US has been to print and sell bonds. It creates a ton of worthless garbage for a measly 100 bucks ... 100 bucks at a time we will be putting in a lot of effort and wasting a lot of people's time to ge t100 bucks.

I am pretty much saying what you are ... but the system needs to change, and it will when interest rates go to say 10%.

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Srinath.