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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #25 on: January 19, 2009, 06:14:35 AM »
Coach, I guess it's a good thing we didn't invest people's social security in the stock market like Bush wanted too right?  ;)

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #26 on: January 19, 2009, 06:17:53 AM »
In the DC area. Did you forget about the rest of the economy?

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the inauguration cost is being SPENT in the DC area. if it's made back threefold, what are you bitching about?

and you're still wrong about his spending plan. you need to stop getting all of your talking points from rush and start reading things like studies done by the tax policy center. that "$7 billion" number is not only exaggerated but seems to forget about government income by way of taxes and such. it's been fact for months now that McCain's plan would have lost a shitload more money than Obama's, not to mention the hilarious fact that our "tax and spend" Clinton left Bush with a giant surplus that the "fiscal conservative" turned into a terrifying deficit.

i don't care what your political views are, i care that you're an ignorant parrot who listens to rush or hannity and then just vomits up the same talking points without actually reading anything. be a conservative, that's fine, but for the love of whatever god you feel like praying to, don't insult our intelligence by thinking you can't parrot some radio loudmouth and people will think you know what you're talking about.

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #27 on: January 19, 2009, 06:18:29 AM »
How bad would McCain/Palin have lost if the banking/housing/auto crisis hadn't been magically delayed until after the election? The same people who cried Marxism just threw blank checks at millionaires.

We just gave automakers a loan for their market share, LOL!

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #28 on: January 19, 2009, 06:19:08 AM »
Cheers...let's all have a drink & enjoy the celebration!


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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #29 on: January 19, 2009, 06:22:15 AM »
Cheers...let's all have a drink & enjoy the celebration!



Huh, no thanks, it's just another day at the office for me. I hope Obama does well, but considering the cards he has been dealt are not in his favor, I don't expect him to do much.. Saber rattling and stump speeches.

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #30 on: January 19, 2009, 06:22:44 AM »
How bad would McCain/Palin have lost if the banking/housing/auto crisis hadn't been magically delayed until after the election? The same people who cried Marxism just threw blank checks at millionaires.

We just gave automakers a loan for their market share, LOL!

liberals give handouts to people, conservatives give them to corporations. and then the latter has the audacity to call the former a socialist.

of course, that's partly because conservatives have NO FARKING CLUE what the word "socialist" actually means, but i digress.

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #31 on: January 19, 2009, 06:23:23 AM »
Huh, no thanks, it's just another day at the office for me. I hope Obama does well, but considering the cards he has been dealt are not in his favor, I don't expect him to do much.. Saber rattling and stump speeches.

...well have a drink when you get home then.  ;D

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #32 on: January 19, 2009, 06:24:27 AM »
liberals give handouts to people, conservatives give them to corporations. and then the latter has the audacity to call the former a socialist.

of course, that's partly because conservatives have NO FARKING CLUE what the word "socialist" actually means, but i digress.

Conservatives give tax breaks to corporations to make more jobs to employ those without a job. It is up to the person to actually work, instead of getting a liberal handout.

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #33 on: January 19, 2009, 06:25:45 AM »
...well have a drink when you get home then.  ;D

Yeah, I can toast the second coming of Christ. haha!

I have some glenlevit scotch. I will drink to good health, since no one seems to have money. :)

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #34 on: January 19, 2009, 06:26:28 AM »
Yeah, I can toast the second coming of Christ. haha!

I have some glenlevit scotch. I will drink to good health, since no one seems to have money. :)

Come to Michigan...I've got some 18 year old Glenlivet sitting in the cabinet.  ;D

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #35 on: January 19, 2009, 06:28:34 AM »
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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #36 on: January 19, 2009, 06:30:43 AM »
Come to Michigan...I've got some 18 year old Glenlivet sitting in the cabinet.  ;D

Maybe one day I will take you up on that. I used to work for an airline, tickets were cheap, then the airline industry took a dump.

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #37 on: January 19, 2009, 06:31:36 AM »
Maybe one day I will take you up on that. I used to work for an airline, tickets were cheap, then the airline industry took a dump.

I always keep good Scotch/Whiskey on hand...Johnny Walker Blue, Green, Glenlivet...

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #38 on: January 19, 2009, 06:31:57 AM »
Conservatives give tax breaks to corporations to make more jobs to employ those without a job. It is up to the person to actually work, instead of getting a liberal handout.

yeah, except it doesn't work like that. conservatives for decades have bleated that when you give oodles of money to the top, it'll "trickle down" to those at the bottom. unfortunately, every time corporations get tax breaks, they use them to generate extra profit.

ever noticed that every year it seems like giant companies, even the ones going bankrupt (especially in the last few months) still seem to find enough money to give their CEO's multi-million dollar bonuses or enormous severance packages? it's a law of the jungle, if you give these guys billions of dollars, why would they spend it on anyone but themselves?

there's a good reason conservatives pushed a "stimulus package" that gave money back to everyone. it is an irrefutable fact that giving $100 to a million middle-class people will help the economy more than a million dollars to a hundred wealthy people. when you read news stories about AIG giving its executives $15 million or whatever else, that's the result of your "trickle down" theory.

honestly, how long does this have to keep going before you guys pick up that free money for the wealthy but social darwinism for everyone else just plain doesn't work? ???

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #39 on: January 19, 2009, 06:33:44 AM »
liberals give handouts to people, conservatives give them to corporations. and then the latter has the audacity to call the former a socialist.

of course, that's partly because conservatives have NO FARKING CLUE what the word "socialist" actually means, but i digress.

Those corporations just reparations, LOL!

Bush was an all around disappointment. Someone claiming to be fiscally conservative has grown the Govt, given everything away, spent us into a deficit and started a useless war.

All politicians suck and none of them can be trusted. The only advantage to the new presidency is we might be out of Iraq 1 year sooner and the clean-up in Iran will end up being humanitarian and probably not infrastructure.

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #40 on: January 19, 2009, 06:36:52 AM »
Those corporations just reparations, LOL!

Bush was an all around disappointment. Someone claiming to be fiscally conservative has grown the Govt, given everything away, spent us into a deficit and started a useless war.

All politicians suck and none of them can be trusted. The only advantage to the new presidency is we might be out of Iraq 1 year sooner and the clean-up in Iran will end up being humanitarian and probably not infrastructure.

anyone expecting miracles out of obama is going to be massively disappointed, mostly because he's in a horribly tight spot right now. not a lot of wiggle room. most of his first term will be damage control, repairing america's standing worldwide (for the past three years i've heard the term "the end of pax americana"), getting out of iraq, rebuilding the economy, etc.

that said, even if all he can do is bring everything to a halt and ever so slowly turn things around, that's way better than a McCain administration that would have just happily dumped gas onto the inferno.

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #41 on: January 19, 2009, 06:43:24 AM »
I hope that Obama is not just another "american rockstar"...
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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #42 on: January 19, 2009, 07:07:47 AM »
agreed on both points.  I think hotel rooms were 500-600 per night on average, and you had to book for 3 nights?  The US economy will end up ahead after this week's events, the world will see the USA as clearly sending Bushco packing.

And there are 2 to 3 million people who are going to come out and show their support for our leadership.  Does anyone really think Bush could get 3 million people in one place for anything? 

if obama sacrificed a virgin to osirus on the whitehouse lawn and you would find some way of putting a positive spin on it.  ::)

obama is going waaay over the score - taking lincons train ride, hiring every famous pop star to perform,  etc.

he is truly pathetic. He has already been turned by the celebrity and fame  ::)

when will he actually do 'something' when is this 'change' expected to take place  ::)
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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #43 on: January 19, 2009, 07:08:16 AM »
America never seizes to amaze me.

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #44 on: January 19, 2009, 07:10:06 AM »
America never seizes ceases to amaze me.

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #45 on: January 19, 2009, 07:11:34 AM »

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #46 on: January 19, 2009, 07:12:13 AM »
America never seizes to amaze me.


me neither, that is why it is the greatest country in the world. That is why everyone wants to come and live here and that is why every other country wants us to topple and fall. Because they can't be any where as successful as the "citizens" of the USA...


I know it sounds arrogant but the United States was made a great country by not bending over and taking it from other countries.

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #47 on: January 19, 2009, 07:15:46 AM »

me neither, that is why it is the greatest country in the world. That is why everyone wants to come and live here and that is why every other country wants us to topple and fall. Because they can't be any where as successful as the "citizens" of the USA...


I know it sounds arrogant but the United States was made a great country by not bending over and taking it from other countries.

break a leg in tha states and you're in dept your entire life lol.

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #48 on: January 19, 2009, 07:47:22 AM »
break a leg in tha states and you're in dept your entire life lol.


maybe so but I would be alive.

Break a leg some where else, and have your leg rot off from gangrene... and then die.. That would suck more I think..

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Re: Obama Inauguration Cost 150 Million.
« Reply #49 on: January 19, 2009, 07:50:34 AM »