What A Difference A Month Makes
While many of us were busy earning a living today, and catching bits and pieces of the latest wrinkles in Herman Cain's candidacy, there was one minor story to which the media neglected to devote much ink. Here's the headline:
"Debt Increased $203 Billion in Oct.--$650 for Every Man, Woman and Child in America"
The story, from CNS news, citing Dept of Treasury data, confirms that the nation's debt increased by $203,368,715,583.63 for October alone. While many Americans were spinning around on their eyebrows with their knickers in a furious twist over a $5 monthly banking fee, the federal government increased the debt of every man, woman and child in the country by a whopping $650 per person. While popular sentiment convinced Bank of America to rescind its proposed fee, I'm not sure what popular sentiment will do for a family of four which now owes a collective $2,600 for just one stinking month of Hope and Change. By way of contrast, in October of 2010, the debt increased by $107,202,466, 449.57. They nearly doubled it this year.
So remember, while the media focuses on the settlements and unspecified allegations on the right, encouraging us to shred our own side to ribbons, your country is spending itself into oblivion. We now return you to "As The GOP Turns."
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Oct '10
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In light of this latest round of smears and innuendo directed against a principled conservative, I'm just about done with the Republican Party. After 18 years as a card-carrying member, this relationship just isn't working out. It's not me, it's them.
Edited on November 3, 2011 at 1:58amRe: What A Difference A Month Makes
Understand your frustration, Mike. I'm not registered as a Republican myself, having registered Libertarian around the time of the prescription drug bill. My affiliation with the party has been about as perfunctory as its affiliation with the Constitution. That having been said, I've not thrown my vote to third party candidates on the national level because every vote in that direction actually helps Democrats. If Romney is the nominee, I'll vote for him simply because four more years of Obama may take us beyond the point of no return, if we're not there already.
As I wrote a few days ago, almost without exception, any one of the Republican candidates would represent a quantum improvement over the little statist we have now.
May '11
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Would somebody PLEASE print up the bills, take them down to your nearest Occupy location, present them to the faux-homeless idiots there, and beat their share out of them? Strictly pro rata please. No victim's discounts.
Dec '10
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Several times each month I take my debit card, slide it into a convenient little machine, punch in a few numbers, and out comes the cash I need. Now that's about the greatest invention since sliced bread. It was a free service until Messrs Dodd and Frank stepped in. But even so, it's a service worth five bucks to me.
$4.00 for a gallon of gas, by comparrison, is a real rippoff and I don't hear much complaining about that anymore. That costs me a couple of hundred extra each and every month. Now that's an outrage.
Imagine what the price of fuel paid by truckers who buy thousands of gallons every month does to the price of the goods they bring to market. Even worse is the daily addition of unsustainable debt. That sucking sound you don't clearly hear is the vitality being sucked out of the economy.
Oct '10
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Dave Carter: Understand your frustration, Mike. I'm not registered as a Republican myself, having registered Libertarian around the time of the prescription drug bill. My affiliation with the party has been about as perfunctory as its affiliation with the Constitution. That having been said, I've not thrown my vote to third party candidates on the national level because every vote in that direction actually helps Democrats. If Romney is the nominee, I'll vote for him simply because four more years of Obama may take us beyond the point of no return, if we're not there already.
As I wrote a few days ago, almost without exception, any one of the Republican candidates would represent a quantum improvement over the little statist we have now. ยท Nov 2 at 6:12pm
In the end, I'll probably vote Republican even if Romney ends up being the nominee. But I'm not happy about this, not one bit. The two-bit smear-merchant establishmentarian hacks have destroyed what was once a great political party.
Oct '10
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Considering the overall state of affairs, one has to take stock of the folks in competition for the big chair, and ask. Why would anyone want the job ?
Fame ? Fortunes and security, surely. Appears the best and possibly the brightest are on the sidelines and for prudent reasons.
If there were a new face with the spirit and will to alter the current state of play. This would be a soul unafraid to wield a very big hammer. That itself would be a battle epic in the political theatre. Alas whom ?
And, yes one tends to be blunt and less than optomistic. Wish one thought better of things.
Aug '10
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The White House has the greatest factory in the world and a killer sales organization . Too bad they're making red herrings for the MSM to sell us .
Apr '11
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Thanks Dave. This is the stuff that's really important! Too bad #ows isn't intelligent enough to understand where the real threat is from.
Dec '10
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Slammin Dave! Bring us back on target. The whole gang of greedy shallow little left wing bastards who would bankrupt Western Civilization without a second thought. They've turned irresponsibilty into a science. We need to turn them out of office ASAP!
Dec '10
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Mike, the beatings shall continue until morale improves. Still, look at the gains in the past few years, within the GOP. The establishment in Florida wanted Bill McCollum for Governor and Charlie Crist for Senator. The Tea Party served them Rick Scott and Marco Rubio. Scott has been attacked from all directions, but his approval numbers are slowly climbing, in spite of the attacks. You know about Rubio's popularity.
Baby steps, but in the right direction.