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Old 01-29-2014, 05:06 AM
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Default O's State of the Union speech.

I didn't listen. But I was force fed numerous clips on Fox news.

I won't bash. Even I really don't care for it. But I will repeat what I heard on the news.

First though let me say that what I did hear held a certain amount of credibility, *( Surprise !!! ). For example global warming, climate change *( It's real ). Second, yes we do need more clean energy. Several other subjects. At first blush I was a little bit put off by some of the Republican negative skepticism. I thought it was a little bit of spin and some typical skewing. *( They all do it ). But upon reflection I have to reveal that there is so little credibility left from that fellow that his comments almost always conceal some dire, oblique, "double entendre". I've come to the conclusion now that we are dealing with someone who is a little bit off the rails. Someone with a real problem really and truly and I know what that problem is and it isn't nice. It is very disconcerting. *( When the Washington Post ascribes 3 Pinocchio's that's a powerful hint about a congenital prevaricator that lives in a world of secrecy and deception ).

Brit Hume, if you heard him, was incredulous that O would essentially admit that the middle class is in trouble and worse off.

The Obama care numbers were all skewed and just simply fictitious.

Justification for raising minimum wage to $10.10 was quite a bit hypocritical and sanctimonious. Senior citizens went a year or two with NO cost of living adjustment and now received a paltry 1.9% increase along with BILLIONS of dollars cut from Medicare. In the meantime my health insurance premiums skyrocketed over 80%, my co-pay up over 50% and my deductibles shot up significantly. My property taxes jumped 33%. And food prices are raging up and up. In the long range it portends a widening gap between income and expenses that will lead to financial serious complications for those on fixed income.

A lot of the other mumbo jumbo was just more of the same that I have heard from every President for the last 60 years.

Two subjects that I am NOT hearing about are:

#1. Immigration reform.

#2. Gun control.

The media doesn't seem to want to talk about those issues ????

The fact checkers went to work and set the record back on track. Frank Luntz interviewed his audience and presented his graphs and I would say that O did not fare well at all.

Now how can we reconcile the apparent numbers that O's popularity/approval rating has fallen from 56% to 46% while Congress's *( House and Senate ) is stated as 13% ?? If I ever figure that one out I'll let you know !!! But at first blush it looks like the American people are not at all happy with the state of the union, nor the President nor Congress. All good signs for 2016 "hope and change" that you can believe in.

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Old 01-29-2014, 09:36 AM
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Did you listen to the Republican response? She specifically stated they are going to pass legislation on immigration aka amnesty!!! These dirt bags think everyone is so wrapped up in trying to make ends meet that they will ignore the side burner of immigration and the Republicans can polish up their image of doing nothing by signing something and getting their fingers dirty.

I don't care if they do nothing, it's better than doing the wrong thing! They say the public complains that nothing is getting done, but when you're up against the agenda that this administration is trying to push, doing nothing is the best thing.
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Old 01-29-2014, 08:19 PM
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If Boehner and Co. come back from the retreat and push amnesty, I truly believe the entire political system is going to self destruct. I don't believe there is any way the Republican party is going to survive this.

Collapse is going to be the operative word for the Republican party afterwards.

If the amnesty passes, this will mark a new chapter in American history.

I'm not sure that I really want to be around to see the change.
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Old 01-30-2014, 03:52 AM
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Default No predictions.

I don't know what the outcome of the retreat meeting will be. Predicting is fraught with hazards. I have been very confident in the past only to be WRONG and abysmally disappointed.

http://news.msn.com/us/house-leaders...ion-principles

What I do know is that our immigration laws are NOT broken. They are just fine. Where the broken part emerges is that a segment of our POLITICAL system IS broken i.e., the liberal, progressive, scofflaw, Democrat, socialist communist, anarchists, subversives that are swamping our nation.

We do not need any comprehensive immigration reform. We need LAW ENFORCEMENT of the present requirements AND an immediate moratorium on ALL immigration, both legal and illegal.

I have some analogies that are rather controversial and thus I won't post them as they are a bit dicey. However, what we are actually faced with here, upon analysis, is the VERY dangerous influence of the illegal immigrants and more specifically those from the Spanish Speaking countries in North, Central and South America. *( Yes Mexico is in North America geographically ). Their influence in our political scene is powerful, very dangerous and WINNING ! Yes prevailing. The weak character politicians, whose political career is /are more important to them than the proper, right and moral rights of the American people is leading to sell out. Those characters will roll over.

I hasten to point out that the condemnation of Congress, as a whole, with a 13% approval rating has to be carefully analyzed and understood. There are numerous just fine decent and astute Congressmen and some Senators who are absolutely intelligent, well balanced and who fully understand the problems of our nation. What is troubling is that our political system has been contaminated with immoral, slovenly, dufus, low IQ politicians.

We have too many undesirable, low life's, here, now in our country. I'm not referring to Hitler's super-race. I'm referring only to good, decent, intelligent citizens with good moral character, adequate intelligence and the faculties to distinguish right from wrong.

Admitting millions more of the low life human detritus from other countries will further degrade the quality of our life. *( Note: When I was covering Mexico as a product manager, my Mexican representative said the difference between US America and Mexico is the quality of the people !!! ).

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