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YOUR TAX DOLLARS HARD AT WORK: FIRST CARS, NOW FOREIGN OIL.
(Sarah Smacks Down Obama Again!)
http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin?v=app_2347471856&viewas=0 ^ | 8-19-09 | Sarah Palin
Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:29:47 AM by Sarah Barracuda
Today's Wall Street Journal contains some puzzling news for all Americans who are impacted by high energy prices and who share the goal of moving us toward energy independence.
For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.
So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources? That's all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects.
I'll speak for the talent I have personally witnessed on the oil fields in Alaska when I say no other country in the world has a stronger workforce than America, no other country in the world has better safety standards than America, and no other country in the world has stricter environmental standards than America. Come to Alaska to witness how oil and gas can be developed simultaneously with the preservation of our eco-system. America has the resources. We deserve the opportunity to develop our resources no less than the Brazilians. Millions of Americans know it is true: "Drill, baby, drill." Alaska is proof you can drill and develop, and preserve nature, with its magnificent caribou herds passing by the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), completely unaffected. One has to wonder if Obama is playing politics and perhaps refusing a "win" for some states just to play to the left with our money.
The new Gulf of Mexico lease sales tomorrow sound promising and perhaps will move some states in the right direction, but we all know that the extreme environmentalists who serve to block progress elsewhere, including in Alaska, continue to block opportunities. These environmentalists are putting our nation in peril and forcing us to rely on unstable and hostile foreign countries. Mr. Obama can stop the extreme tactics and exert proper government authority to encourage resource development and create jobs and health benefits in the U.S.; instead, he chooses to use American dollars in Brazil that will help to pay the salaries and benefits for Brazilians to drill for resources when the need and desire is great in America.
Buy American is a wonderful slogan, but you can't say in one breath that you want to strengthen our economy and stimulate it, and then in another ship our much-needed dollars to a nation desperate to drill while depriving us of the same opportunity.
- Sarah Palin
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Obama is owned again on this.
Go Sarah!
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Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling
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You read that headline correctly. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil.
The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil's planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank tells us it has issued a "preliminary commitment" letter to Petrobras in the amount of $2 billion and has discussed with Brazil the possibility of increasing that amount. Ex-Im Bank says it has not decided whether the money will come in the form of a direct loan or loan guarantees. Either way, this corporate foreign aid may strike some readers as odd, given that the U.S. Treasury seems desperate for cash and Petrobras is one of the largest corporations in the Americas.
But look on the bright side. If President Obama has embraced offshore drilling in Brazil, why not in the old U.S.A.? The land of the sorta free and the home of the heavily indebted has enormous offshore oil deposits, and last year ahead of the November elections, with gasoline at $4 a gallon, Congress let a ban on offshore drilling expire.
The Bush Administration's five-year plan (2007-2012) to open the outer continental shelf to oil exploration included new lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. But in 2007 environmentalists went to court to block drilling in Alaska and in April a federal court ruled in their favor. In May, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said his department was unsure whether that ruling applied only to Alaska or all offshore drilling. So it asked an appeals court for clarification. Late last month the court said the earlier decision applied only to Alaska, opening the way for the sale of leases in the Gulf. Mr. Salazar now says the sales will go forward on August 19.
This is progress, however slow. But it still doesn't allow the U.S. to explore in Alaska or along the East and West Coasts, which could be our equivalent of the Tupi oil fields, which are set to make Brazil a leading oil exporter. Americans are right to wonder why Mr. Obama is underwriting in Brazil what he won't allow at home.
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And you guys wonder why I despise this marxist communist radical goon in the WH?
Go Sarah Go!!!
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Sorry but is Palin even relevant to anyone anymore? Other than you 333 cause we all know you love her but seriously. She quit her term and basically gave up. She's a dead duck. Cooked goose. Whatever you want to say.
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Sorry but is Palin even relevant to anyone anymore? Other than you 333 cause we all know you love her but seriously. She quit her term and basically gave up. She's a dead duck. Cooked goose. Whatever you want to say.
Ha ha. She is directly responsible for Obama giving up the public plan with her one facebook posting and you call her irrelvent???
BTW - why dont you comment on the WSJ article I posted supporting her article?
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Ha ha. She is directly responsible for Obama giving up the public plan with her one facebook posting and you call her irrelvent???
BTW - why dont you comment on the WSJ article I posted supporting her article?
HAHA you really believe that? You watch too much fox news bro.
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It looks like dumbass/moron/hillbilly/ignorant Palin is about to put the brilliant/genius/smart/intelligent/transformational/ Obama into another box he cant get out of on this.
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HAHA you really believe that? You watch too much fox news bro.
Again - you attack her fine, but what about the WSJ article you still are silent on???
How can anyone justify this insanity?
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Sorry but is Palin even relevant to anyone anymore? Other than you 333 cause we all know you love her but seriously. She quit her term and basically gave up. She's a dead duck. Cooked goose. Whatever you want to say.
Is she relevant?Are you kidding me?MSNBC doesnt go ONE night without talking about her.The president of the United States used the term THAT SHE USED [death pannels]in trying to denounce the rights scare tactics.This is a women who holds no political office ,yet,other then Rush,is talked about more by left wing libs like Olberman and Olberman in drag[I think he calls hiumself Maddow]and Mathews then anyone else.For someone thats a dunce,a fool,an idiot,the left CANT stop talking about her.
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Is she relevant?Are you kidding me?MSNBC doesnt go ONE night without talking about her.The president of the United States used the term THAT SHE USED [death pannels]in trying to denounce the rights scare tactics.This is a women who holds no political office ,yet,other then Rush,is talked about more by left wing libs like Olberman and Olberman in drag[I think he calls hiumself Maddow]and Mathews then anyone else.For someone thats a dunce,a fool,an idiot,the left CANT stop talking about her.
Can we talk about the article?
Billy you, as usual, are 100% correct on this, but do you think even one lib is going to defend this?
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Ha ha. She is directly responsible for Obama giving up the public plan with her one facebook posting and you call her irrelvent???
33,
you been drinking? LMAO
her single facebook posting is 'directly responsible'?
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Actually, I just poppoed a corona.
However, you simply cannot deny that she alone is responsible for the "death panels" discuissions and people looking at the writings of Ezekial Emanuel.
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I don't think it's a bad idea making a loan to Petrobas in this way. It will help to bring more oil onto the markets. It's just printed money anyway.
It would be interesting to see what kind of return there in on the investment as well as whether the US can lay claim to any of the produce at preferential rates.
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palin jumped on the death panel facebook mess about a week after drudge headlined it.
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More obfuscation.
This thread is about the gift that Obama is giving another country to develop their own energy sector.
This isn't about Fox News, or Death Panels or someone indirectly attacking her to deflect away from what Obama is doing.
If you have nothing of merit to say or discuss concerning the the article or whatever that was posted, please shut the fuck up.
Thanks.
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Palin? ::) ::) Jesus, you're fucking kidding with this stupid bitch? 333, WTF ::) You might as well go get a trained sewer rat to get all up in our faces with ::) Ah haaa!!! My Sarah Palin says... just doesn't work for anyone with 3+ brain cells...
Sarah is your hero and you want people to be disapointed with Obama?... good god man.
Sarah Palin doesn't own anybody but herself.
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YOUR TAX DOLLARS HARD AT WORK: FIRST CARS, NOW FOREIGN OIL.
(Sarah Smacks Down Obama Again!)
http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin?v=app_2347471856&viewas=0 ^ | 8-19-09 | Sarah Palin
Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:29:47 AM by Sarah Barracuda
Today's Wall Street Journal contains some puzzling news for all Americans who are impacted by high energy prices and who share the goal of moving us toward energy independence.
For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.
So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources? That's all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects.
I'll speak for the talent I have personally witnessed on the oil fields in Alaska when I say no other country in the world has a stronger workforce than America, no other country in the world has better safety standards than America, and no other country in the world has stricter environmental standards than America. Come to Alaska to witness how oil and gas can be developed simultaneously with the preservation of our eco-system. America has the resources. We deserve the opportunity to develop our resources no less than the Brazilians. Millions of Americans know it is true: "Drill, baby, drill." Alaska is proof you can drill and develop, and preserve nature, with its magnificent caribou herds passing by the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), completely unaffected. One has to wonder if Obama is playing politics and perhaps refusing a "win" for some states just to play to the left with our money.
The new Gulf of Mexico lease sales tomorrow sound promising and perhaps will move some states in the right direction, but we all know that the extreme environmentalists who serve to block progress elsewhere, including in Alaska, continue to block opportunities. These environmentalists are putting our nation in peril and forcing us to rely on unstable and hostile foreign countries. Mr. Obama can stop the extreme tactics and exert proper government authority to encourage resource development and create jobs and health benefits in the U.S.; instead, he chooses to use American dollars in Brazil that will help to pay the salaries and benefits for Brazilians to drill for resources when the need and desire is great in America.
Buy American is a wonderful slogan, but you can't say in one breath that you want to strengthen our economy and stimulate it, and then in another ship our much-needed dollars to a nation desperate to drill while depriving us of the same opportunity.
- Sarah Palin
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Obama is owned again on this.
Go Sarah!
the only part I can't figure out is that
sometimes you don't seem like a complete moron
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333386,
You are a sarah-bot.
You can respond by calling me anythign int he book, insulting Zero, etc.
But this will not change the fact you give her more credit than she deserves and you minimize her flaws.
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Sorry but is Palin even relevant to anyone anymore? Other than you 333 cause we all know you love her but seriously. She quit her term and basically gave up. She's a dead duck. Cooked goose. Whatever you want to say.
Actually some people think she's still relevant. She's on the cover of STAR magazine this week.
333386 ought to pick up a copy. It will make his heart swoon. There's a big article saying that her & Todd are finished. That he is tired of living a lie...she supposedly threw her wedding ring into a lake... and quite disturbing, it has a picture depicted as 15 yr old Willow swigging a bottle to her lips, and claims she is drinking & partying out of control. I don't know whether the picture was photoshopped and that it wasn't a pic of some other young teen drinking, ...but I'm surprised they would dare print that if it were untrue, ...especially considering the threats she made to get litigious with any publication that printed those very same allegations... all of which she denied.
Keep your fingers crossed 333386, ...she might become a single woman very soon. Would that just make your day? :D
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You whats hysterical - not one of you posters even commented on the substance of the article itself.
Attack me, fine I can take it.
But I want one poster to defend this insanity. Why would we ever give 2 billion to Brazil to develop more oil drilling when we shackle ourselves from doing the same?
And this fool of a president we have has the balls to talk about "energy independence"?
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Palin? ::) ::) Jesus, you're fucking kidding with this stupid bitch? 333, WTF ::) You might as well go get a trained sewer rat to get all up in our faces with ::) Ah haaa!!! My Sarah Palin says... just doesn't work for anyone with 3+ brain cells...
Sarah is your hero and you want people to be disapointed with Obama?... good god man.
Sarah Palin doesn't own anybody but herself.
Can we please keep this thread on track?
33386, it's time to stop posting Palin stuff. Obama could be selling of parts of the Mid-West to the Chinese to settle some debt but the moment Palin is mentioned, no one cares.
The substance of Obama giving Brazil 2 billion to finance their state owned offshore drilling is eye-opening.
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Can we please keep this thread on track?
33386, it's time to stop posting Palin stuff. Obama could be selling of parts of the Mid-West to the Chinese to settle some debt but the moment Palin is mentioned, no one cares.
The substance of Obama giving Brazil 2 billion to finance their state owned offshore drilling is eye-opening.
Why do you think I posted the WSJ article itself as my second post?
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Why do you think I posted the WSJ article itself as my second post?
I know. But now the thread is about Palin and not about Obama giving Brazil 2 billion dollars to help finance their state owned Petrobras off shore drilling.
That is what this thread should be about. But there are too many clowns.
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I know. But now the thread is about Palin and not about Obama giving Brazil 2 billion dollars to help finance their state owned Petrobras off shore drilling.
That is what this thread should be about. But there are too many clowns.
They simply cant stand that she is correct on this and the insanity that their faux messiah is pursuing.
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Is it a surprise that Obama allows drilling AND PAYS FOR IT in Brazil but he lets enviro kooks dictate to him not to drill on our own off shore.Is that a surprise?Obama HATES America.By helping Brazil,he hopes to get them richer so we have less of an advantage over them.His goal is to make the rest of the world equal to us because America is so unfair.Thats why he applogises for America EVERYTIME he goes abroad.The guy hate EVERYTHING this country stands for.
As far as Palin goes.Everytime she posts ANYTHING says ANYTHING the left talks about her.THATS called getting owned.She says "jump" the left jumps,but thinks they are winning because as they are jumping they are saying "your stupid,your stupid".Its a joke.She owns them lock stock and barrel.
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Is it a surprise that Obama allows drilling AND PAYS FOR IT in Brazil but he lets enviro kooks dictate to him not to drill on our own off shore.Is that a surprise?Obama HATES America.By helping Brazil,he hopes to get them richer so we have less of an advantage over them.His goal is to make the rest of the world equal to us because America is so unfair.Thats why he applogises for America EVERYTIME he goes abroad.The guy hate EVERYTHING this country stands for.
As far as Palin goes.Everytime she posts ANYTHING says ANYTHING the left talks about her.THATS called getting owned.She says "jump" the left jumps,but thinks they are winning because as they are jumping they are saying "your stupid,your stupid".Its a joke.She owns them lock stock and barrel.
Why do republicans hate america?
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Why do republicans hate america?
Thats funny considering many of us want domestic drilling and production.
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Hating America means things like despising the free market and dictating what CEOs can make,firing CEOs,looking into what insurance companies pay their execs.THATS hating America.
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As far as Palin goes.Everytime she posts ANYTHING says ANYTHING the left talks about her.THATS called getting owned.She says "jump" the left jumps,but thinks they are winning because as they are jumping they are saying "your stupid,your stupid".Its a joke.She owns them lock stock and barrel.
Sarah Palin is a barometer for how 20% of the country thinks. Her lies and misinformation will spread like cancer from that 20% to those right wingers on the fringe of that 20% group.
This happened to the Clintons with whitewater, Vince Foster, Healthcare and to Gore - the 2000 election.
When rightwing propaganda and lies go unanswered, they get picked up by the corporate media.
The results were not good for either the Clintons (impeachment) or Gore (lost an election he won).
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YOUR TAX DOLLARS HARD AT WORK: FIRST CARS, NOW FOREIGN OIL.
(Sarah Smacks Down Obama Again!)
http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin?v=app_2347471856&viewas=0 ^ | 8-19-09 | Sarah Palin
Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:29:47 AM by Sarah Barracuda
Today's Wall Street Journal contains some puzzling news for all Americans who are impacted by high energy prices and who share the goal of moving us toward energy independence.
For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.
So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources? That's all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects.
I'll speak for the talent I have personally witnessed on the oil fields in Alaska when I say no other country in the world has a stronger workforce than America, no other country in the world has better safety standards than America, and no other country in the world has stricter environmental standards than America. Come to Alaska to witness how oil and gas can be developed simultaneously with the preservation of our eco-system. America has the resources. We deserve the opportunity to develop our resources no less than the Brazilians. Millions of Americans know it is true: "Drill, baby, drill." Alaska is proof you can drill and develop, and preserve nature, with its magnificent caribou herds passing by the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), completely unaffected. One has to wonder if Obama is playing politics and perhaps refusing a "win" for some states just to play to the left with our money.
The new Gulf of Mexico lease sales tomorrow sound promising and perhaps will move some states in the right direction, but we all know that the extreme environmentalists who serve to block progress elsewhere, including in Alaska, continue to block opportunities. These environmentalists are putting our nation in peril and forcing us to rely on unstable and hostile foreign countries. Mr. Obama can stop the extreme tactics and exert proper government authority to encourage resource development and create jobs and health benefits in the U.S.; instead, he chooses to use American dollars in Brazil that will help to pay the salaries and benefits for Brazilians to drill for resources when the need and desire is great in America.
Buy American is a wonderful slogan, but you can't say in one breath that you want to strengthen our economy and stimulate it, and then in another ship our much-needed dollars to a nation desperate to drill while depriving us of the same opportunity.
- Sarah Palin
________________________ ________________________ ____________
Obama is owned again on this.
Go Sarah!
obama is the president...and she is an out of work quitter gov to a small ass state...
Obama Won
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obama is the president...and she is an out of work quitter gov to a small ass state...
Obama Won
Sigh.
This thread isn't about Palin quiting at being Gov. If you want to babble on about that, there are plenty of threads out there.
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Sigh.
This thread isn't about Palin quiting at being Gov. If you want to babble on about that, there are plenty of threads out there.
Whateverrrrrrrr
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Can we please keep this thread on track?
33386, it's time to stop posting Palin stuff. Obama could be selling of parts of the Mid-West to the Chinese to settle some debt but the moment Palin is mentioned, no one cares.
The substance of Obama giving Brazil 2 billion to finance their state owned offshore drilling is eye-opening.
lol, oops, I did totally forget about the topic. I got use to Palin being so brain dead full of shit, I didn't even care what she was saying.
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obama is the president...and she is an out of work quitter gov to a small ass state...
Obama Won
Obama won BUT the media has lost and they will continue to loose.They are mesmerised by her.I think its funny.They do the same thing to Rush.Everytime they rip,thats more listensers for him.He giggles behind his mic and goes home and counts his milliuons.Everytime Olbermann or Olberman in drag tries to rip him,he gets bigger ratings,more money and they continue to be laughing stocks in the ratings game which is all that counts in the media.
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Obama won BUT the media has lost and they will continue to loose.They are mesmerised by her.I think its funny.They do the same thing to Rush.Everytime they rip,thats more listensers for him.He giggles behind his mic and goes home and counts his milliuons.Everytime Olbermann or Olberman in drag tries to rip him,he gets bigger ratings,more money and they continue to be laughing stocks in the ratings game which is all that counts in the media.
so what are we talking about here...1mil people baught lil waynes album in 1 week...what does that have to do with the price of tea in china.
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so what are we talking about here...1mil people baught lil waynes album in 1 week...what does that have to do with the price of tea in china.
I hate lil wayne.
By his logic, BILLY is now a huge Lil Wayne fan and will be attending his concert next month.
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I hate lil wayne.
By his logic, BILLY is now a huge Lil Wayne fan and will be attending his concert next month.
240 - why dont you comment on the article itself?
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I hate lil wayne.
By his logic, BILLY is now a huge Lil Wayne fan and will be attending his concert next month.
RIGHT!!!! Someone gets me...BTW...i dont like wayne all that much....but i fucks with young jeezy
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lol, oops, I did totally forget about the topic. I got use to Palin being so brain dead full of shit, I didn't even care what she was saying.
Fair enough.
So I went ahead and posted the WSJ article on another thread and kept Palins name completely out of it.
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Fair enough.
So I went ahead and posted the WSJ article on another thread and kept Palins name completely out of it.
And guess what gigantor???? NONE OF THE USUAL GANG ON THIS THREAD WILL EVEN TOUCH THE TOPIC!
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so what are we talking about here...1mil people baught lil waynes album in 1 week...what does that have to do with the price of tea in china.
What does that mean?It means he is a success.Just like when MSNBC gets crappy ratings means they are a failure.Very simple.
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Is she relevant?Are you kidding me?MSNBC doesnt go ONE night without talking about her.The president of the United States used the term THAT SHE USED [death pannels]in trying to denounce the rights scare tactics.This is a women who holds no political office ,yet,other then Rush,is talked about more by left wing libs like Olberman and Olberman in drag[I think he calls hiumself Maddow]and Mathews then anyone else.For someone thats a dunce,a fool,an idiot,the left CANT stop talking about her.
Billy, for a while there, we saw non stop coverage in the media of Paris Hilton & Anna Nicole Smith too.
Didn't make them any more relevant than it does Palin. The media has always loved a good train wreck.
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333386,
You are a sarah-bot.
You can respond by calling me anythign int he book, insulting Zero, etc.
But this will not change the fact you give her more credit than she deserves and you minimize her flaws.
Chicks with guns and lots of facial hair make him all hot & bothered. :D
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What does that mean?It means he is a success.Just like when MSNBC gets crappy ratings means they are a failure.Very simple.
Hitler was successful too... to a degree. What's your point?
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YOUR TAX DOLLARS HARD AT WORK: FIRST CARS, NOW FOREIGN OIL.
(Sarah Smacks Down Obama Again!)
http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin?v=app_2347471856&viewas=0 ^ | 8-19-09 | Sarah Palin
Posted on Wednesday, August 19, 2009 3:29:47 AM by Sarah Barracuda
Today's Wall Street Journal contains some puzzling news for all Americans who are impacted by high energy prices and who share the goal of moving us toward energy independence.
For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce the federal debt and deficits, or even help fund a trillion dollar health care plan if one were so inclined to support such a plan.
So why is it that during these tough times, when we have great needs at home, the Obama White House is prepared to send more than two billion of your hard-earned tax dollars to Brazil so that the nation's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, can drill off shore and create jobs developing its own resources? That's all Americans want; but such rational energy development has been continually thwarted by rabid environmentalists, faceless bureaucrats and a seemingly endless parade of lawsuits aimed at shutting down new energy projects.
I'll speak for the talent I have personally witnessed on the oil fields in Alaska when I say no other country in the world has a stronger workforce than America, no other country in the world has better safety standards than America, and no other country in the world has stricter environmental standards than America. Come to Alaska to witness how oil and gas can be developed simultaneously with the preservation of our eco-system. America has the resources. We deserve the opportunity to develop our resources no less than the Brazilians. Millions of Americans know it is true: "Drill, baby, drill." Alaska is proof you can drill and develop, and preserve nature, with its magnificent caribou herds passing by the Trans Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS), completely unaffected. One has to wonder if Obama is playing politics and perhaps refusing a "win" for some states just to play to the left with our money.
The new Gulf of Mexico lease sales tomorrow sound promising and perhaps will move some states in the right direction, but we all know that the extreme environmentalists who serve to block progress elsewhere, including in Alaska, continue to block opportunities. These environmentalists are putting our nation in peril and forcing us to rely on unstable and hostile foreign countries. Mr. Obama can stop the extreme tactics and exert proper government authority to encourage resource development and create jobs and health benefits in the U.S.; instead, he chooses to use American dollars in Brazil that will help to pay the salaries and benefits for Brazilians to drill for resources when the need and desire is great in America.
Buy American is a wonderful slogan, but you can't say in one breath that you want to strengthen our economy and stimulate it, and then in another ship our much-needed dollars to a nation desperate to drill while depriving us of the same opportunity.
- Sarah Palin
________________________ ________________________ ____________
Obama is owned again on this.
Go Sarah!
333386, Don't you ever get tired of worshipping at the alter of utter stupidity & ignorance.
There are no US tax dollars going to Brazil. As usual, Palin's information is completely inaccurate.
GAWD! Republicans are such mushrooms!... their idols keep them in the dark and feed them nothing but bvllshit! >:(
Hey 240... there's good news for you though, ...if Palin the Pied Piper keeps at it long enough, ...she may just lead all the ignorant nutjobs out of town... off a cliff... and out of the Republican party. You may just get your party back afterall. lol. :P
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/32501461#32501461
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Once again Jag - you are dead wrong. Dont take my word for it, how about Bernie Sanders:
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The Export-Import Bank: Corporate Welfare At Its Worst
by Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
This country has a $6 trillion national debt, a growing deficit and is borrowing money from the Social Security Trust Fund in order to fund government services. We can no longer afford to provide over $125 billion every year in corporate welfare - tax breaks, subsidies and other wasteful spending - that goes to some of the largest, most profitable corporations in America.
One of the most egregious forms of corporate welfare can be found at a little known federal agency called the Export-Import Bank, an institution that has a budget of about $1 billion a year and the capability of putting at risk some $15.5 billion in loan guarantees annually. At a time when the government is under-funding veterans' needs, education, health care, housing and many other vital services, over 80% of the subsidies distributed by the Export-Import Bank goes to Fortune 500 corporations. Among the companies that receive taxpayer support from the Ex-Im are Enron, Boeing, Halliburton, Mobil Oil, IBM, General Electric, AT&T, Motorola, Lucent Technologies, FedEx, General Motors, Raytheon, and United Technologies.
You name the large multinational corporation, many of which make substantial campaign contributions to both political parties, and they're on the Ex-Im welfare line. Needless to say, many of these same companies receiving taxpayer support pay exorbitant salaries and benefits to their CEOs. IBM, for example, gave their former CEO Lou Gerstner over $260 million in stock options while they were lining up for their Ex-Im handouts.
The great irony of Ex-Im policy is not just that taxpayer support goes to wealthy and profitable corporations that don't need it, but that in the name of "job creation" a substantial amount of federal funding goes to precisely those corporations that are eliminating hundreds of thousands of American jobs. In other words, American workers are providing funding to companies that are shutting down the plants in which they work, and are moving them to China, Mexico, Vietnam and wherever else they can find cheap labor. What a deal!
For example, General Electric has received over $2.5 billion in direct loans and loan guarantees from the Ex-Im Bank. And what was the result? From 1975-1995 GE reduced its workforce from 667,000 to 398,000, a decline of 269,000 jobs. In fact, while taking the Ex-Im Bank subsidies, GE was extremely public about it's "globalization" plans to lay off American workers and move jobs to Third World countries. Jack Welch, the longtime CEO of GE stated, "Ideally, you'd have every plant you own on a barge."
General Motors has received over $500 million in direct loans and loan guarantees from the Export-Import Bank. The result? GM has shrunk its U.S. workforce from 559,000 to 314,000.
Motorola has received almost $500 million in direct loans and loan subsidies from the Ex-Im Bank. The result? A mere 56 percent of its workforce is now located in the United States.
In fact, according to Time Magazine, the top five recipients of Ex-Im subsidies over the past decade have reduced their workforce by 38% - more than a third of a million jobs down the drain. These same five companies have received more than 60 percent of all Export-Import Bank subsidies. Boeing, the leading Ex-Im recipient, has reduced its workforce by more than 100,000 employees over the past ten years.
Here are a few examples of your Ex-Im taxpayer dollars at work:
The Export-Import Bank has provided an $18 million loan to help a Chinese steel mill purchase equipment to modernize their plant. This Chinese company has been accused of illegally dumping steel into the U.S. - exacerbating the crisis in our steel industry.
Since 1994, the Export-Import Bank has provided $673 million in loans and loan guarantees for projects related to the Enron Corporation, leaving taxpayers exposed to $514 million. The Ex-Im Bank approved a $300 million loan for an Enron-related project in India even though the World Bank repeatedly refused to finance this project because it was "not economically viable."
The Export-Import Bank is subsidizing Boeing aircraft sales to the Chinese military. According to the President of Machinists' Local 751: "Boeing used to make tail sections for the 737 in Wichita, but they moved the work to a military factory in Xian, China. Is this Boeing's definition of free trade, to have American workers compete with Chinese labor making $50 a month under military discipline?"
The Ex-Im Bank insured a $3-million loan to aid General Electric build a factory where Mexican workers will make parts for appliances to export back to the United States. This project is responsible for the loss of 1,500 American jobs in Bloomington, Indiana.
And on and on it goes. The bottom line is that if the Export-Import Bank cannot be reformed so as to become a vehicle for real job creation in the United States, it should be eliminated. American citizens have better things to do with their money than support an agency that provides welfare for corporations that could care less about American workers.
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Bernard Sanders is a member of the U.S. Congress. For additional information, visit BuzzFlash
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