JoeUser ForumsI too like the Rightwinger idea. You should send it to Bush. He is the Commander-in-Chief.
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BakerStreet What would you like to do about the total lack of enforcement of our laws and protecting our border? You won't think impeachment is wrong if a terrorist creates another 9/11 or worse and has come across our unprotected border. I guess the Bush supporters will put George up for the Nobel peace prize should such an event occur. There is no more basic responsibility of the President then to do everything possible to protect our c
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How True. But not enforcing the laws may be another issue. That is what the President is charged to do. He does not pass the laws but is charged with making sure they are carried out. He is not doing that with immigration.
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I am not a lawyer, but failure of a President to keep the oath he took may be just be such a reason. I believe not enforcing the laws of the United States is also a reason for impeachment. If you are correct, then Congress needs to act and pass the funding and if Bush were to veto the money, they should override his veto. Who will be to blame if the next terrorist to attack us has come across our border or shipped the WMD in a shipping container t
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Lou Dobbs brings may people to his show that document the failure of the administration to act. The President first job is to try and protect our country. The facts are clear. Not only is this not taking place but the very reason President Bush himself has identified as a prime reason he ignores. Why check every person comming through our airports and skip 3 million comming across our borders. It is a lot easier for someone to bring WMD across the
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Today I said to my wife that we may be seeing the beginning of changes in America that if we do not find solutions may be the start of the end of our greatness. I believe most issues can either be resolved of made more acceptable. However, we are not taking steps to do that. The one issue I have tried to sterss with my children is the need for them to put some money into a retirement fund outside of Social Security. I too am glad for our di
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Nightly, Lou Dobbs documents the failure of President Bush to fulfill his most basic responsibility which is to safeguard the United States. 3 ½ years after 9/11, President Bush claims we are short 10,000 border guards and thousands more INS agents to deal with the illegal aliens within our country. At the very same time he is acknowledging the lack of res
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ParaTed2K I agree that data using tax info would help to give us a clearer picture of the earning condition of Americans. That information is in the hands of the IRS and could be extracted without disclosing the income of any person. There is data about average weekley wages but I do not recall seeing what % of the work force has income below the levels needed to live. We do know, the trend, especially for jobs created by small busines
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When the impact of the debt, the baby boomers, defense, education and the infastructure repairs hit this country, the wealthy as well as everyone else will suffer. A little more in taxes from those who can afford it will moderate the impact of these issues which will not go away. All your BS about deserving to keep your great wealth will not stop the impact of what is comming. We can not pile up debt, ship our jobs to other countries and meet the reti
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Draginol The proof that the old rates prior to the Bush cuts did not soak the rich is how well the top 5% did during the 1990's with the higher rates in place. The wealthy experienced a real boom and did far better then the middle class or poor during that 10 year period. To say the old rates had a negative impact of our economy or the wealthy as a group ignores the reality of the 1990's. There was no need or justification to cut the tax rat
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Both may be correct but the point is that the exemptions in the unemployment rate calculation does not give a true picture as to the extent of the working population that do not have jobs that pay a living wage. Every person that does not have such a job detracts from their ability to increase consumption (demand). They also increase the drain on things such as Medicade and other forms of welfare because they do not have employment that enable them
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My answer is that President Bush does not acknowledge when his policies are not working and seek more effective solutions. He just "stays the course" even though the course he is on is not solving the issue at hand.
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I sent my Blog,"Unemployment Rate does not give a clear job picture" to the Dept of Labor. Over the past week, I have exchanged three sets of E-mails with staffers at the Division of Labor Force Statistics about the unemployment rate. They agreed with the points in my Blog and told me, "the official Unemployment rate doesn't provide a full picture of labor market diff
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The major federal expenses are not state issues like defense, homeland defense, Social Sceurity, Medicare. If the fed does shift the cost to the states, such as the proposal to cut $40 Billion from Medicade, that just means an increase in state taxes. Bottom line, the states do not have any unused money and at the fed we are runnig a real federal deficit, withour reducing the deficit with the surplus in SS and Medicare, of $675 Billion this year. The
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First, is the issue of the money needed to pay the benefits to those that are too old or choose not to opt into the private accounts. Where is that money? Next, any money diverted from the Social Security taxes into individual accounts needs to be replaced since it is needed to pay the benefits of those not in the new system. Where is that comming from? Finally, for those who would choose the individual accounts, they have the risk of the market being down (like 2001-2003) when it is
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I did not realize that you were an ostrich with your head in the sand. I wanted to be polite and not tell you where I really think your hear is located.
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when it comes to ignorance, you have won the Academy Award many times over!!!!!!
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That shows the flaws in your character.
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All you know how to do is call people names. I would be glad to go toe to toe with you comparing education, experience and accomplishments.
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terpfan1980 First, Social Security benefits increase each by the CPI not what the bonds pay in the Trust fund. If the trust fund were increased by lifting the limit on Social Security income subject to the tax and invested in equities within the trust fund the picture would be very different. Every state pension plan has invested their trust funds in stocks and corporate bonds and produced very positive results. That is what Social Se
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Terpfan1980 Who appointed you dictator? George W. I showed that for all but workers under about 30, the Bush plan does nothing to help them. In addition, the issue of the individual accounts does not resolve the funding issues which Bush gives as the reason we need to act. It is a little like the reason we weant into Iraq. They were a so called danger to us. When it become clear that was not true , Bush changed the reasons about three times. The current version is the spreadin
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I have paid my way and then some both with my taxes and service in the military. The bottom line is this nation is going deeper and deeper into debt and the day is comming when we will be required to pay for our irresponsible fiscal behavior.
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Social Security Math Below are the results of President Bush’s Social Security plan as outlined one web site www.gop.com For a worker age of 53, their account value at age 68 would be $48,922 with a 8% compounded yield per year. Adjusted for inflation at 3% that is the equivalent of $30,980 today. For a worker age 43 their account value at age 68 would be $150,789 with a 8% compounded yield. Adjusted for inflation at
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The first thing we must do is agree on what we want the government to do for us. Not just the far Right or far Left but what the majority want. Second, we must pay for those services. Not pay part and charge the balance. It may be necessary to eliminate some programs but those the majority want must be properly funded and run well to be effective in delivering the desired service. Those who say stop increasing the budget in future yea
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Moderateman I understand that some of the addad money from tax cuts to the wealthy help create new jobs. I said that in my reply #5. The bottom line is that the growth from the Bush tax cuts have not produced the GDP growth to replace the lost revenue from the tax cuts and moved us toward a balanced budget. We are moving the opposit direction. It has not produced enough jos for the 5 million new workers that have come into the work force since 2001. I have been working with two staff me
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