Where all the obama lovers
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Things are going great, Ray. Sorry you're still struggling. But. . . a wise man once said, tough times don't last, tough people do.
Good luck!
Good luck!
I feel sorry for BobbyBlueChip, he's probably crying in his pillow at night, you keep that Brave Face going.
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Dow closing in on 16,000
Healthcare for everybody
Troops coming home
No more BCS
He's kept all of his promises. I didn't vote for him because he's a bit too conservative for my liking, but I'm certainly proud to have him as my President.
Healthcare for everybody
Troops coming home
No more BCS
He's kept all of his promises. I didn't vote for him because he's a bit too conservative for my liking, but I'm certainly proud to have him as my President.
General Motors beats the estimates by 2 cents. Government bailout is a huge success.
130,000 private sector jobs added this month.
If you're still cranky, it's because you didn't buy into this rally when you should have.
Sorry for your lost.
130,000 private sector jobs added this month.
If you're still cranky, it's because you didn't buy into this rally when you should have.
Sorry for your lost.
WASHINGTON (AP) ? For the first time in five years, the U.S. government has run a budget deficit below $1 trillion.
The government says the deficit for the 2013 budget year totaled $680.3 billion, down from $1.09 trillion in 2012. That's the smallest imbalance since 2008, when the government ran a $458.6 billion deficit.
The deficit is the gap between the government's tax revenue and its spending. It narrowed for the budget year that ended on Sept. 30 because revenue rose while spending fell.
Revenue jumped 13.3 percent to $2.77 trillion, reflecting a slightly better economy and higher tax rates. And government spending declined 2.4 percent to $3.45 trillion, in part because of across-the-board spending cuts that took effect in March.
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betcha Romney couldn't have done that
The government says the deficit for the 2013 budget year totaled $680.3 billion, down from $1.09 trillion in 2012. That's the smallest imbalance since 2008, when the government ran a $458.6 billion deficit.
The deficit is the gap between the government's tax revenue and its spending. It narrowed for the budget year that ended on Sept. 30 because revenue rose while spending fell.
Revenue jumped 13.3 percent to $2.77 trillion, reflecting a slightly better economy and higher tax rates. And government spending declined 2.4 percent to $3.45 trillion, in part because of across-the-board spending cuts that took effect in March.
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betcha Romney couldn't have done that
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Ann Coulter To Hannity: 'Our Blacks Are So Much Better Than Their Blacks'
In 2009, Ann Coulter said that conservatives blacks are so much better than liberal blacks. "Our blacks are so much better than their blacks," Coulter told Fox News. "To become a black Republican, you don't just roll into it. You're not going with the flow. You have fought against probably your family members, probably your neighbors, you have thought everything out and that's why we have very impressive blacks in our party."
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Ann Coulter has more maids than Rep blacks
way back when there was a term used for this.. house nnnnn,,,,,,,,,,,,,
In 2009, Ann Coulter said that conservatives blacks are so much better than liberal blacks. "Our blacks are so much better than their blacks," Coulter told Fox News. "To become a black Republican, you don't just roll into it. You're not going with the flow. You have fought against probably your family members, probably your neighbors, you have thought everything out and that's why we have very impressive blacks in our party."
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Ann Coulter has more maids than Rep blacks
way back when there was a term used for this.. house nnnnn,,,,,,,,,,,,,
this is a tea bagger
you know who you are
:facepalm: this cartoon is so wrong
TEA Party stands for
TAXED
ENOUGH
ALREADY
:0008
That phrase was NEVER part of the Ron Paul REVOLUTION
Some smarmy mini van driving house wife came up with
That shit after showing up late to the party
Hedge
Look at the hierarchy of these new age 'Tea Party???' Orgs
All of them are NEO ConMen
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yes and the real trouble for the GOP is America knows this.
Rafael Cruz, father of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), told a tea party group in 2012 he thinks President Barack Obama should go "back to Kenya."
Cruz can be seen making the comments in a video posted by YouTube user Michael Openshaw in Sept. 2012 and reported by Mother Jones Thursday. In the clip, Cruz calls America a "Christian Nation" and urges the tea party group to vote only for Republicans in the upcoming 2012 election.
Cruz has gotten more involved with conservative politics since his son was elected to the U.S. Senate. In April 2013, Cruz sat down with the Heritage Foundation to discuss Republican's Latino outreach.
Cruz has also become more public about his thoughts on Obama. In a YouTube video posted in July 2013, Cruz can be seen repeatedly comparing Obama to Fidel Castro
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Guess we know where Teddy got his ideas from.
Rotten apples stay close to the trunk and sour until they stink
Cruz can be seen making the comments in a video posted by YouTube user Michael Openshaw in Sept. 2012 and reported by Mother Jones Thursday. In the clip, Cruz calls America a "Christian Nation" and urges the tea party group to vote only for Republicans in the upcoming 2012 election.
Cruz has gotten more involved with conservative politics since his son was elected to the U.S. Senate. In April 2013, Cruz sat down with the Heritage Foundation to discuss Republican's Latino outreach.
Cruz has also become more public about his thoughts on Obama. In a YouTube video posted in July 2013, Cruz can be seen repeatedly comparing Obama to Fidel Castro
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Guess we know where Teddy got his ideas from.
Rotten apples stay close to the trunk and sour until they stink
well runt tomatoes think alike then.
figures you would applaud this guy, what a moran
It's a Halloween miracle: A member of the 1 percent is fighting for the rest of us, and probably spooking the hell out of his own kind.
Wealthy people need to stop whining about the taxes they pay, realize their success is mostly dumb luck and pay even higher taxes to help the less fortunate, Bill Gross, the billionaire founder and chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., wrote to his wealthy investors on Thursday.
"Having gotten rich at the expense of labor, the guilt sets in and I begin to feel sorry for the less well-off," Gross writes in his latest monthly missive, entitled "Scrooge McDucks," posted on the website of PIMCO, the world's biggest bond fund. His letters are usually colorful and sometimes self-critical. But this one is notable for its direct mockery of his own wealthy peers and clients:
Admit that you, and I and others in the magnificent '1%' grew up in a gilded age of credit, where those who borrowed money or charged fees on expanding financial assets had a much better chance of making it to the big tent than those who used their hands for a living.
But Gross is not just assuaging his personal guilt by penning a cri de wallet: He suggests the soaring income inequality of the past few decades is a serious problem for the entire U.S. economy:
Developed economies work best when inequality of incomes are at a minimum. Right now, the U.S. ranks 16th on a Gini coefficient for developed countries, barely ahead of Spain and Greece. By reducing the 20% of national income that ?golden scrooges? now earn, by implementing more equitable tax reform that equalizes capital gains, carried interest and nominal income tax rates, we might move up the list to challenge more productive economies such as Germany and Canada.
He joins another billionaire, America's grandfatherly mascot of capitalism, Warren Buffett, in calling for higher taxes on the wealthy:
I would ask the Scrooge McDucks of the world who so vehemently criticize what they consider to be counterproductive, even crippling taxation of the wealthy in the midst of historically high corporate profits and personal income, to consider this: Instead of approaching the tax reform argument from the standpoint of what an enormous percentage of the overall income taxes the top 1% pay, consider how much of the national income you?ve been privileged to make.
Reading like a white paper from a lefty think tank, Gross notes that the 1 percent now take up 20 percent of U.S. income, up from 10 percent in the 1970s -- a fact he attributes at least partly to the massive tax cuts for the wealthy enacted by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
Gross also points out that the wealthy have gotten all of the benefit of the explosive rise of the financial sector over the past several decades, along with a 30-year decline in interest rates. Together, these two factors lined the pockets of the wealthy, but left everybody else behind (emphasis added):
Yes I know many of you money people worked hard as did I, and you survived and prospered where others did not. A fair economic system should always allow for an opportunity to succeed. Congratulations. Smoke that cigar, enjoy that Chateau Lafite 1989. But (mostly you guys) acknowledge your good fortune at having been born in the ?40s, ?50s or ?60s, entering the male-dominated workforce 25 years later, and having had the privilege of riding a credit wave and a credit boom for the past three decades. You did not, as President Obama averred, ?build that,? you did not create that wave. You rode it. And now it?s time to kick out and share some of your good fortune by paying higher taxes or reforming them to favor economic growth and labor, as opposed to corporate profits and individual gazillions.
Did you catch that poke at Republicans, who essentially themed their entire 2012 convention around mocking Obama for saying "you didn't build that"? Obama and Gross probably meant slightly different things, but both caused monocles to pop from wealthy eye sockets all around the country.
But Gross has not yet begun to poke! He also jabs at financial muckraker Carl Icahn, who lately has been agitating for Apple to pay its shareholders a bigger dividend. Gross recently got into a Twitter war with Icahn over this, suggesting Icahn's time might be better spent in philanthropy than corporate shakedowns. Gross takes the fight several steps further in his letter, suggesting the Icahns of the world are part of our economy's bigger problem:
If X can?t grow revenues any more, if X company?s stock has only gone up because of expense cutting and stock buybacks, what does that say about the U.S. or many other global economies? Has our prosperity been based on money printing, credit expansion and cost cutting, instead of honest-to-goodness investment in the real economy?
Wealthy people need to stop whining about the taxes they pay, realize their success is mostly dumb luck and pay even higher taxes to help the less fortunate, Bill Gross, the billionaire founder and chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co., wrote to his wealthy investors on Thursday.
"Having gotten rich at the expense of labor, the guilt sets in and I begin to feel sorry for the less well-off," Gross writes in his latest monthly missive, entitled "Scrooge McDucks," posted on the website of PIMCO, the world's biggest bond fund. His letters are usually colorful and sometimes self-critical. But this one is notable for its direct mockery of his own wealthy peers and clients:
Admit that you, and I and others in the magnificent '1%' grew up in a gilded age of credit, where those who borrowed money or charged fees on expanding financial assets had a much better chance of making it to the big tent than those who used their hands for a living.
But Gross is not just assuaging his personal guilt by penning a cri de wallet: He suggests the soaring income inequality of the past few decades is a serious problem for the entire U.S. economy:
Developed economies work best when inequality of incomes are at a minimum. Right now, the U.S. ranks 16th on a Gini coefficient for developed countries, barely ahead of Spain and Greece. By reducing the 20% of national income that ?golden scrooges? now earn, by implementing more equitable tax reform that equalizes capital gains, carried interest and nominal income tax rates, we might move up the list to challenge more productive economies such as Germany and Canada.
He joins another billionaire, America's grandfatherly mascot of capitalism, Warren Buffett, in calling for higher taxes on the wealthy:
I would ask the Scrooge McDucks of the world who so vehemently criticize what they consider to be counterproductive, even crippling taxation of the wealthy in the midst of historically high corporate profits and personal income, to consider this: Instead of approaching the tax reform argument from the standpoint of what an enormous percentage of the overall income taxes the top 1% pay, consider how much of the national income you?ve been privileged to make.
Reading like a white paper from a lefty think tank, Gross notes that the 1 percent now take up 20 percent of U.S. income, up from 10 percent in the 1970s -- a fact he attributes at least partly to the massive tax cuts for the wealthy enacted by Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.
Gross also points out that the wealthy have gotten all of the benefit of the explosive rise of the financial sector over the past several decades, along with a 30-year decline in interest rates. Together, these two factors lined the pockets of the wealthy, but left everybody else behind (emphasis added):
Yes I know many of you money people worked hard as did I, and you survived and prospered where others did not. A fair economic system should always allow for an opportunity to succeed. Congratulations. Smoke that cigar, enjoy that Chateau Lafite 1989. But (mostly you guys) acknowledge your good fortune at having been born in the ?40s, ?50s or ?60s, entering the male-dominated workforce 25 years later, and having had the privilege of riding a credit wave and a credit boom for the past three decades. You did not, as President Obama averred, ?build that,? you did not create that wave. You rode it. And now it?s time to kick out and share some of your good fortune by paying higher taxes or reforming them to favor economic growth and labor, as opposed to corporate profits and individual gazillions.
Did you catch that poke at Republicans, who essentially themed their entire 2012 convention around mocking Obama for saying "you didn't build that"? Obama and Gross probably meant slightly different things, but both caused monocles to pop from wealthy eye sockets all around the country.
But Gross has not yet begun to poke! He also jabs at financial muckraker Carl Icahn, who lately has been agitating for Apple to pay its shareholders a bigger dividend. Gross recently got into a Twitter war with Icahn over this, suggesting Icahn's time might be better spent in philanthropy than corporate shakedowns. Gross takes the fight several steps further in his letter, suggesting the Icahns of the world are part of our economy's bigger problem:
If X can?t grow revenues any more, if X company?s stock has only gone up because of expense cutting and stock buybacks, what does that say about the U.S. or many other global economies? Has our prosperity been based on money printing, credit expansion and cost cutting, instead of honest-to-goodness investment in the real economy?
There's been a lot of talk lately about people getting letters from their health insurance carriers canceling their policies because of Obamacare. What's really going on here?
Wait, Obama killed my health insurance? Oh %$@*, I'm uninsured now!
Not quite. First off, this affects a pretty small sliver of the U.S. population: the people who buy health insurance directly, rather than the 80 percent who get it from their jobs or a government program like Medicare or Medicaid, or the 15 percent who have no health insurance at all.
Estimates vary, but the Census Bureau says this figure is about 4 percent of Americans, which comes to about 11 million people. A lot of those folks are finding out that the health insurance plans they have this year aren't going to be sold anymore. How many? Hard to say, with reports ranging from a few hundred thousand to millions. (And their coverage isn't changing today; it's changing next year.)
I'm one of those people! Why would Obama make health insurance companies cancel my plan? Seems mean.
The fact is, some health insurance on the market today is just lousy. That's a big reason why even people who have insurance can go bankrupt when their medical bills start piling up.
Health insurance you bought for yourself before might have been (or seemed) perfectly okay, but there's a good chance it had big holes in it -- the kind people tend to only find out about when they incur expensive doctor and hospital bills. And if you have a pre-existing condition, or you're older, or you're a woman, you have been paying more for that insurance.
But not all the insurance plans being canceled are lousy. Some people really do like their plans, and they're losing them because of relatively small differences in new Affordable Care Act rules.
The law standardizes health insurance plans by mandating that they cover a basic set of benefits, including hospitalizations, prescription drugs and maternity care, that many insurance products on today's market don't. Obamacare also limits total annual out-of-pocket expenses to $6,350 for a single person, in order to protect people against going broke when they get sick.
This disruption is happening despite President Obama saying over and over and over again, "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan." That's obviously not true for everybody, and could never have been true under a law that shakes up the insurance market by getting rid of insurance with lesser benefits and weaker financial protections.
Does that mean you should be jumping for joy if you got one of those letters from your health insurance company? No. But these changes were made for a reason. And conservative health care reform proposals would also lead to lots and lots of people losing the plans they have now.
So why would Obamacare create this crazy law that forces health insurance companies to cancel policies for the first time ever?
This is small consolation if you've gotten one of those nasty letters from your insurance company, but plans getting dropped is nothing new. Neither are big rate hikes.
For one thing, health insurance companies never before needed a reason to discontinue unprofitable plans, kick people off, change benefits or raise prices -- those things happen every year, even to people with really good job-based health benefits.
On the individual health insurance market, plans typically are sold with one-year contracts. After that, the insurance companies could practically do whatever they wanted (though they had to offer you an alternative, like they're doing now). According to a 2004 study, only 17 percent of consumers in this market kept the same plan for two years or more (h/t the Washington Post). This is going to happen next year, and the year after that, ad infinitum.
On the bright side, Obamacare regulations guarantee that even if one particular health plan disappears, there will be others -- and probably more than were sold in your local market before. And the standardized benefit packages mean you'll have a good idea of what you're buying.
Whatever. My insurance company says my premiums are going up like 10,000 percent! What the heck?
There are a whole bunch of reasons why a health plan might cost more under Obamacare than before, starting with the more generous benefits and stronger financial protections. But there's more to it than just that.
A big part of what's going on here is that people on the individual market before Obamacare were benefitting from the fact that health insurers could exclude sick people (or charge them sky-high rates) and even dump them when they became ill or injured. This kept companies' medical expenses low, which meant their healthy customers could pay less. That's a sweetheart deal -- until the inevitable day when you, the healthy person, become a sick person.
Plus, women could be charged more than men, and older people could be charged five times (or even more) the prices quoted for younger people.
Under the new system, these costs get spread around more. This is basically how employer-sponsored health benefits have always worked.
I've still got this letter on my kitchen table and I need health insurance next year. Just what am I supposed to do now?
Usually, these health insurance letters also tell customers which of the company's new products they can buy instead. These plans often come with higher prices -- sometimes a lot higher. But you don't have to buy these plans.
The most important thing to do is shop around. Your current health insurance company isn't necessarily offering you the best deal. And some of the horror stories we've been seeing in the news turn out not to be quite true. The bottom line is that some people will pay more and some will pay less.
Obamacare's health insurance exchanges include every qualified health plan sold in your local area and the prices vary a lot, so before signing off on that big rate increase or deciding to go uninsured, find out what you can get instead.
Another thing your health insurance company probably isn't telling you is that you may be able to get help paying for your insurance through Obamacare's tax credits, which are available to anyone who earns up to four times the federal poverty level, or about $46,000 for a single person this year.
Okay, but the Obamacare website is broken and I can't use it. Now what?
This is where it gets even more frustrating. HealthCare.gov, the federal portal for the health insurance exchanges in more than 30 states, doesn't work right a full month into the six-month enrollment period, and just six weeks before the deadline to buy insurance that will be in place on New Year's Day. The Obama administration now promises the website will be working smoothly by the end of the month. Keep your fingers crossed.
You're in better shape if you live in the District of Columbia or one of the 14 states that built their own health insurance exchanges. They've had technical problems of their own but are generally working better than the federal website.
If the websites are making it impossible for you to shop around, there are some alternatives, though they're not great. If you want to apply for tax credits, you can do that over the phone, on paper, or in person with local workers who are trained to help.
That's not a great way to actually shop for insurance, though. Outside the official health insurance exchanges, you can still go directly from insurance company to insurance company, call up a local insurance agent, or use an online broker like eHealthInsurance. Just know that none of these methods will present you with the full array of options in your state, and that if you want tax credits, you still have to go through the federal system.
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Hannity and Rush are still making this sound like doomsday in health insurance.
neo cons
what a joke
Wait, Obama killed my health insurance? Oh %$@*, I'm uninsured now!
Not quite. First off, this affects a pretty small sliver of the U.S. population: the people who buy health insurance directly, rather than the 80 percent who get it from their jobs or a government program like Medicare or Medicaid, or the 15 percent who have no health insurance at all.
Estimates vary, but the Census Bureau says this figure is about 4 percent of Americans, which comes to about 11 million people. A lot of those folks are finding out that the health insurance plans they have this year aren't going to be sold anymore. How many? Hard to say, with reports ranging from a few hundred thousand to millions. (And their coverage isn't changing today; it's changing next year.)
I'm one of those people! Why would Obama make health insurance companies cancel my plan? Seems mean.
The fact is, some health insurance on the market today is just lousy. That's a big reason why even people who have insurance can go bankrupt when their medical bills start piling up.
Health insurance you bought for yourself before might have been (or seemed) perfectly okay, but there's a good chance it had big holes in it -- the kind people tend to only find out about when they incur expensive doctor and hospital bills. And if you have a pre-existing condition, or you're older, or you're a woman, you have been paying more for that insurance.
But not all the insurance plans being canceled are lousy. Some people really do like their plans, and they're losing them because of relatively small differences in new Affordable Care Act rules.
The law standardizes health insurance plans by mandating that they cover a basic set of benefits, including hospitalizations, prescription drugs and maternity care, that many insurance products on today's market don't. Obamacare also limits total annual out-of-pocket expenses to $6,350 for a single person, in order to protect people against going broke when they get sick.
This disruption is happening despite President Obama saying over and over and over again, "If you like your plan, you can keep your plan." That's obviously not true for everybody, and could never have been true under a law that shakes up the insurance market by getting rid of insurance with lesser benefits and weaker financial protections.
Does that mean you should be jumping for joy if you got one of those letters from your health insurance company? No. But these changes were made for a reason. And conservative health care reform proposals would also lead to lots and lots of people losing the plans they have now.
So why would Obamacare create this crazy law that forces health insurance companies to cancel policies for the first time ever?
This is small consolation if you've gotten one of those nasty letters from your insurance company, but plans getting dropped is nothing new. Neither are big rate hikes.
For one thing, health insurance companies never before needed a reason to discontinue unprofitable plans, kick people off, change benefits or raise prices -- those things happen every year, even to people with really good job-based health benefits.
On the individual health insurance market, plans typically are sold with one-year contracts. After that, the insurance companies could practically do whatever they wanted (though they had to offer you an alternative, like they're doing now). According to a 2004 study, only 17 percent of consumers in this market kept the same plan for two years or more (h/t the Washington Post). This is going to happen next year, and the year after that, ad infinitum.
On the bright side, Obamacare regulations guarantee that even if one particular health plan disappears, there will be others -- and probably more than were sold in your local market before. And the standardized benefit packages mean you'll have a good idea of what you're buying.
Whatever. My insurance company says my premiums are going up like 10,000 percent! What the heck?
There are a whole bunch of reasons why a health plan might cost more under Obamacare than before, starting with the more generous benefits and stronger financial protections. But there's more to it than just that.
A big part of what's going on here is that people on the individual market before Obamacare were benefitting from the fact that health insurers could exclude sick people (or charge them sky-high rates) and even dump them when they became ill or injured. This kept companies' medical expenses low, which meant their healthy customers could pay less. That's a sweetheart deal -- until the inevitable day when you, the healthy person, become a sick person.
Plus, women could be charged more than men, and older people could be charged five times (or even more) the prices quoted for younger people.
Under the new system, these costs get spread around more. This is basically how employer-sponsored health benefits have always worked.
I've still got this letter on my kitchen table and I need health insurance next year. Just what am I supposed to do now?
Usually, these health insurance letters also tell customers which of the company's new products they can buy instead. These plans often come with higher prices -- sometimes a lot higher. But you don't have to buy these plans.
The most important thing to do is shop around. Your current health insurance company isn't necessarily offering you the best deal. And some of the horror stories we've been seeing in the news turn out not to be quite true. The bottom line is that some people will pay more and some will pay less.
Obamacare's health insurance exchanges include every qualified health plan sold in your local area and the prices vary a lot, so before signing off on that big rate increase or deciding to go uninsured, find out what you can get instead.
Another thing your health insurance company probably isn't telling you is that you may be able to get help paying for your insurance through Obamacare's tax credits, which are available to anyone who earns up to four times the federal poverty level, or about $46,000 for a single person this year.
Okay, but the Obamacare website is broken and I can't use it. Now what?
This is where it gets even more frustrating. HealthCare.gov, the federal portal for the health insurance exchanges in more than 30 states, doesn't work right a full month into the six-month enrollment period, and just six weeks before the deadline to buy insurance that will be in place on New Year's Day. The Obama administration now promises the website will be working smoothly by the end of the month. Keep your fingers crossed.
You're in better shape if you live in the District of Columbia or one of the 14 states that built their own health insurance exchanges. They've had technical problems of their own but are generally working better than the federal website.
If the websites are making it impossible for you to shop around, there are some alternatives, though they're not great. If you want to apply for tax credits, you can do that over the phone, on paper, or in person with local workers who are trained to help.
That's not a great way to actually shop for insurance, though. Outside the official health insurance exchanges, you can still go directly from insurance company to insurance company, call up a local insurance agent, or use an online broker like eHealthInsurance. Just know that none of these methods will present you with the full array of options in your state, and that if you want tax credits, you still have to go through the federal system.
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Hannity and Rush are still making this sound like doomsday in health insurance.
neo cons
what a joke
Panetta reemphasized the American line that the US has "no friend, no better ally in the world than Israel," but he expressed concern over the "growing sense of isolationism in this country [the US]" over the last ten years of fighting two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the shifting power dynamics among world leaders. "The fact remains that we live in a very dangerous world," he said. "We continue to have threats from North Korea as they test nuclear weapons. We have instability and fragility in the Middle East. All of this happens at a time when we are imperiled by gridlock in Washington."
Panetta devoted part of his speech to tearing down DC's leaders over the recent government shutdown and the budget sequester. "If you ask me what biggest threat to national security is today," he continued, "it is fact that our political leaders cannot come together to deal with this nation's problems. This is time when must maintain military strength and our role in the world as a world leader. We cannot retreat from the responsibilities that US has in the world today."
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why is that Isreal is our best friend and ally yet the US is always sending them cash and protecting their country and I have never heard shit about them helping us.
:shrug:
Panetta devoted part of his speech to tearing down DC's leaders over the recent government shutdown and the budget sequester. "If you ask me what biggest threat to national security is today," he continued, "it is fact that our political leaders cannot come together to deal with this nation's problems. This is time when must maintain military strength and our role in the world as a world leader. We cannot retreat from the responsibilities that US has in the world today."
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why is that Isreal is our best friend and ally yet the US is always sending them cash and protecting their country and I have never heard shit about them helping us.
:shrug:
