Liberal free for all coming to an end

[TracyCoxx]

During the coming presidential campaign you will probably be asked: "Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?" You can bet it will not be Obama asking that question.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

During the coming presidential campaign you will probably be asked: "Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?" You can bet it will not be Obama asking that question.

Hey, anybody working for the arms industry should be very happy with Obama. He is the biggest Presidential arms dealer in recent memory. The Wikileaks documents spell it out in Fortune magazine. Two hundred and fifty thousand workers here in the US are working full time making weapons for international trade. Of course, Israel get top of the line.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by randolph

Hey, anybody working for the arms industry should be very happy with Obama. He is the biggest Presidential arms dealer in recent memory. The Wikileaks documents spell it out in Fortune magazine. Two hundred and fifty thousand workers here in the US are working full time making weapons for international trade. Of course, Israel get top of the line.

Always true to your talking points... Are YOU better off than you were 4 years ago?

[randolph]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Always true to your talking points... Are YOU better off than you were 4 years ago?

Yep, sitting on my nest egg (stayed on the sidelines during the boom).

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by randolph

Yep, sitting on my nest egg (stayed on the sidelines during the boom).

Oh ok, I thought you were saying that ...

Originally Posted by randolph

... the other problem is the price of gasoline. California is a commuter economy. The economy is extremely sensitive to the price of gasoline. A major escalation in price will severely and prevent any economic recovery in California.

[Buddy]

Obama should declare MARTIAL: LAW in Detroit and have a new MANHATTAN PROJECT invent a car that lasts 40 years and runs on french fry grease. Made by the army. Costing 10 grand each for the safest, most economical greenest reliable smartest vehicle ever made. Waiting for the World to fall out of love with oil takes too long.

[transjen]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

During the coming presidential campaign you will probably be asked: "Are you better off now than you were 4 years ago?" You can bet it will not be Obama asking that question.

I can honestly say i'm doing better as for the last two years i got a pay raise along with an cost of living increase thanks to our union

While back in the W years it was pay freezes and a pay cut, we accepted the pay cut to aviod layoffs

Jerseygirl Jen

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by transjen

I can honestly say i'm doing better as for the last two years i got a pay raise along with an cost of living increase thanks to our union

While back in the W years it was pay freezes and a pay cut, we accepted the pay cut to aviod layoffs

Jerseygirl Jen

That's great. Looks like all your hard work paid off. Or was it just an automatic raise that comes with being part of a union? In other words did the dems pay for your vote with my taxes?

[smc]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

That's great. Looks like all your hard work paid off. Or was it just an automatic raise that comes with being part of a union? In other words did the dems pay for your vote with my taxes?

Hey, Jen, when you file your income taxes this year perhaps you can stipulate that you don't want any of what you pay to help fund any of the myriad benefits from the government that Tracy Coxx surely receives. Keep Tracy off the highways, for instance. Don't allow Tracy to fly in any airplanes that use our federal air traffic control system. Etc. Etc. Etc.

[randolph]

In the good old days we had strong active unions that supported the Democratic Congressmen. Their influence helped moderate big business support of the Republican Congressmen. Decisions by Congress were usually a compromise between the two. This strengthen and maintained the well being of the working middle class.
Foreign competition along with persistent effort by the Republicans and big business, has essentially eliminated the union movement, except for some public employees. Consequently, both parties and all congressmen are now beholden to big business. The working middle class and especially the poor, have no influence in Congress. This does not bode well for the Nation.
Just look at the billions of taxpayer money poured into the financial institutions to bail them out, supposedly to get the economy going again. Well, much of it has gone into the stock market enriching the very people who created the crash. The market will crash again, the taxpayers will be stuck again. But will there be a next time?
Isn't time the American public stood up and said enough is enough?

[transjen]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

That's great. Looks like all your hard work paid off. Or was it just an automatic raise that comes with being part of a union? In other words did the dems pay for your vote with my taxes?

How does my pay raise increase your taxes? I'm not a state employee or goverment employee i'm a bank teller

And before you ask the bank i work for didn't not get part of the bail out
And fyi our raises are mostly based on merit and job preformance
Jerseygirl Jen

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by transjen

And fyi our raises are mostly based on merit and job preformance

Ok ok. Congrats then. I was thinking it was a cost of living increase.