he is from the planet Ork so he has to resign.
won't matter then....Example : Pres__ent OBozo...
I'm being kind, I actually call "it" something far worse, so report me.
Posted on 10/30/2011 4:43:41 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
October 30th, 2011
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): 2012 GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): White House adviser David Plouffe.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): 2012 GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain.
THIS WEEK (ABC): 2012 GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann; Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): 2012 GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul; David Axelrod, adviser to President Obama's re-election campaign.
Very well put. If the subject was laid out as you just did (155), then it would be far easier for our politicians to talk about. Very articulate...bravo to you!
True, but with only three people watching.....who cares.He’s toast and waaay overdone.
This smoking thing is weird. My husband smokes and every time someone asks me for money, I say, “I gave at 7-11.”
Supposedly all these cigarette taxes go to health benefits for needy childen. Do I believe that? Well, no. But assuming that they do, I support many needy children monthly.
The husband is always saying that he wishes they’d make cigarettes illegal. That way he could get them cheaper from pushers.
I don’t know who or how they managed to make smoking a sin. There are many worse things one can do to one’s body and nobody makes a sin out of them. Except maybe Michelle who’s trying to get us not to eat tasty stuff.
It may be a bad habit but the attitude that has arisen about it is really odd. I don’t care if Cain or Obama smokes, but he lies about it. I do care if my husband smokes because it’s so expensive.
Exactly, anyone who can think will vote elsewhere.
Looks like I guessed this one wrong. they,CBS, do have an audience.Amazing people will watch this old fool.
Thanks, merry, I needed that ! :)
Why do all these “conservatives” have a “tax plan” and only screwball Ron Paul actually proposes massive SPENDING CUTS?
Perry’s plan addresses spending and revenue. It is called a “Cut, Balance and Grow” Plan.
His “plan” raises my taxes!
The talking heads still firmly believe it is they who determine the winner.
And old Bob essentially demanded that Cain say to the audience, especially children, that smoking was injurious to one’s health.
By the way this had to be one of the best stories of the week.
The MTP panel just concluded a worship session of Steve Jobs, including David Gregory reading a quote of how Steve jobs distorted reality by being arguments to meet his plans, along with a mention that “this made schedules hard to meet” or something along those lines. Then Davey made a comment that we need a leader like that in DC to get things done.
I believe you are correct on this. Just wait until we have our candidate.
Hush and eat your peas, Paleo.
Seriously, though, I think we should beware of so much trashing of our conservative candidates.
Cain is the ‘vote cute’ guy right now, and I don’t say that to diminish him, but he’s got the thing Obama had going last time. And I’ll be fine if he wins.
However, he has the biggest chance of cratering for a couple of reasons and it would be best not to crucify the other conservatives in your zeal for Cain.
I base this on the fact that, admirable though we may think it not to be a politician, there is still something to be said for having been there, done that. He’s done some things that one could call either daring or disastrous and who knows what will be next.
Another thing about Cain is his age and his health. I wish him well. But undertaking something like this at his age and with stage 4 cancer in total remission, I just wonder about it. Of course, anything can happen to anyone healthwise, but he seems a little more likely than most to have something happen.
Please don’t think I am hoping for this. I am not. I’m just saying that we should not put all our hopes and dreams into one person ... I kinda did that with Sarah and learned my lesson.
Just support Cain or Perry or Newt without dissing the rest of our conservative candidates.
20% of the population still smokes. I am one of them.
Yes, I know that it’s bad for my health. I accept that.
When I was a child, smokers were everywhere. People smoked on airplanes, in college lecture halls, in grocery stores as they shopped, in offices, in government buildings. Despite the smoking, there was a more civilized tone to American life in the 50’s.
What I HAVE noticed (and is under reported) is that people who smoke are often self-medicating for anxiety, depression, etc. And assuming that is true, perhaps someone should start correlating the number of nut cases on airplanes, road rage, and other random acts of unreasonable public anger to the decline in smoking. Things seem a lot more unpleasant in public now than 60 years ago.
Also, nicotine users have a lower incidence of Alzheimer’s. Now maybe it’s because we leave this mortal coil before we can show symptoms, but someone should also think about that when they are totaling up the total cost of health care.
Please don’t start on the smoking thing. I will not respond and do not care about others’ opinions on this subject. I just wanted to point out a few things to think about.
won't matter then....Example : Pres__ent OBozo...
I'm being kind, I actually call "it" something far worse, so report me.
excellant review.
Seal the border, have an effective Work Visa program , deport illegal criminals and the rest will be solvable.
Not until the border is secure and we have a decent Work Visas program will this be resolved.
BTW, the influx of illegals has dropped recently—economy.
There are closer to 20 million if the truth be known. Attrition thru enforcement works. We have more choices than mass deportation or a blanket amnesty.
Now, what to do about illegals receiving benefits? I read a study on it and they DO receive benefits in most states. Mostly, they receive food stamps and medicaid.,
They are not entitled to federal benefits except thru their anchor babies. 300,000 to 400,000 anchor babies are born each year in this country. They are entitled to Medicaid, food stamps, etc. just like any other American citizen. The biggest costs to the taxpayers for illegals are education (K-12) and health care. Incarceration costs are the third highest not to mention the tens of thousands of Americans who have been killed or injured by illegals. There are 26,000 illegal aliens in federal prisons being held for murder.
But, interestingly enough, they do not receive benefits because they are not working. Virtually all of the Mexican families had at least one family member working, many had two. The problem is that they work at menial, low-paying jobs and have incomes low enough to qualify for those benefits.
Here is a recent study: Welfare Use by Immigrant Households with Children A Look at Cash, Medicaid, Housing, and Food Programs It provides good data on welfare use. Some highlights:
•We estimate that 52 percent of households with children headed by legal immigrants used at least one welfare program in 2009, compared to 71 percent for illegal immigrant households with children. Illegal immigrants generally receive benefits on behalf of their U.S.-born children.
• In 2009 (based on data collected in 2010), 57 percent of households headed by an immigrant (legal and illegal) with children (under 18) used at least one welfare program, compared to 39 percent for native households with children.
• Immigrant households’ use of welfare tends to be much higher than natives for food assistance programs and Medicaid. Their use of cash and housing programs tends to be similar to native households.
• Households with children with the highest welfare use rates are those headed by immigrants from the Dominican Republic (82 percent), Mexico and Guatemala (75 percent), and Ecuador (70 percent). Those with the lowest use rates are from the United Kingdom (7 percent), India (19 percent), Canada (23 percent), and Korea (25 percent).
• The states where immigrant households with children have the highest welfare use rates are Arizona (62 percent); Texas, California, and New York (61 percent); Pennsylvania (59 percent); Minnesota and Oregon (56 percent); and Colorado (55 percent).
• Illegal immigrant households with children primarily use food assistance and Medicaid, making almost no use of cash or housing assistance. In contrast, legal immigrant households tend to have relatively high use rates for every type of program.
• Although most new legal immigrants are barred from using some welfare for the first five years, this provision has only a modest impact on household use rates because most immigrants have been in the United States for longer than five years; the ban only applies to some programs; some states provide welfare to new immigrants with their own money; by becoming citizens immigrants become eligible for all welfare programs; and perhaps most importantly, the U.S.-born children of immigrants (including those born to illegal immigrants) are automatically awarded American citizenship and are therefore eligible for all welfare programs at birth.
• An unwillingness to work is not the reason immigrant welfare use is high. The vast majority (95 percent) of immigrant households with children had at least one worker in 2009. But their low education levels mean that more than half of these working immigrant households with children still accessed the welfare system during 2009.
• Welfare use tends to be high for both new arrivals and established residents. In 2009, 60 percent of households with children headed by an immigrant who arrived in 2000 or later used at least one welfare program; for households headed by immigrants who arrived before 2000 it was 55 percent.
I think if we could actually close the border, and we could if we wanted to bad enough, this problem would fade away and we could decide what we want to do with the illegals here now without hysteria.
Securing the border only solves part of the problem. 40% of the illegal aliens came here legally and overstayed their visas. We need to track and deport visa overstays and shut off the job magnet.
Hah! Miss Marple, you sound like my husband. He is much older than you and seems to be one of those people that smoking doesn’t bother much. Everytime he takes those lung capacity tests, he does better than me. Also he doesn’t cough or hack.
He thinks people wouldn’t be so cranky if they would just smoke !!
I tell him that if smokers would stop sitting around enjoying a cigarette and drinking martinis, they could do something.
20% of people smoke. What percent of people are gay and look what they’re able to do for their cause.
12% are black and they have clout.
13% are Mexican or hispanic and they’re out marching and stuff.
But you smokers just sit around enjoying yourselves and therefore you are consigned to either hell or having to stand pathetically outside buildings trying to light your smokes in the wind.
Form groups, march, do something, you people.
Maybe if you threatened to quit smoking the feds would panic at the loss of income and cut you a break.
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