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Obama State of the Union

Texas has the distinction of having the city with the highest health care costs in the country. Go texas.

McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care : The New Yorker

LOL, do you live in McAllen? How does McAllen affect the rest of the state? Do you realize that Medicare, a Govt. run program, is part of that cost?

I have been through this over and over on the Healthcare thread, suggest you go there and get the answers to the question.

Keep attacking TX while your state continues to decline.
 
LOL, do you live in McAllen? How does McAllen affect the rest of the state? Do you realize that Medicare, a Govt. run program, is part of that cost?

I have been through this over and over on the Healthcare thread, suggest you go there and get the answers to the question.

Keep attacking TX while your state continues to decline.

Why not? Texans keep on attacking the US.
 
Texas has the distinction of having the city with the highest health care costs in the country. Go texas.

McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care : The New Yorker

Liberal, tell me why you have such support for what Obama is doing and thus divert to an issue that doesn't affect you or most of the country at all?

Instead of addressing the failures of this Administration you and your ilk claim he inherited a mess when the reality is he helped create the mess while being a Senator in Congress. Since taking office he has made the mess worse by surrounding himself with leftwing socialist economists who want to convert this country to a European style socialist economy which abandons the basic foundation upon which our economy was built.

This country has a job crisis right now so what is "your" President doing? Trying to implement healthcare instead of pursuing a free enterprise, capalitistic solution to the problems of our economy.

Unbelievable!! Cult followers of Obama sure are passionate in the face of the empty rhetoric coming out of "their" President.
 
Why not? Texans keep on attacking the US.

What? TX isn't attacking the U.S. TX should be a model for the rest of the nation instead of people like you attacking it.

I am NOT from TX but moved here 18 years ago. I still travel back to the midwest to visit family. The morale and attitude in the Midwest is one of gloom and doom. You don't find that in TX.

TX isn't utopia but it sure is much, much better than the rest of the nation. Instead of demonizing TX it would be more positive to find out what TX is doing right and duplicate it. That isn't the liberal way, is it?
 
What? TX isn't attacking the U.S. TX should be a model for the rest of the nation instead of people like you attacking it.

I am NOT from TX but moved here 18 years ago. I still travel back to the midwest to visit family. The morale and attitude in the Midwest is one of gloom and doom. You don't find that in TX.

TX isn't utopia but it sure is much, much better than the rest of the nation. Instead of demonizing TX it would be more positive to find out what TX is doing right and duplicate it. That isn't the liberal way, is it?

That's because most texans stay stoned on beer most of the time.
 
Texas has the distinction of having the city with the highest health care costs in the country. Go texas.

McAllen, Texas and the high cost of health care : The New Yorker

I bet it has nothing to do with being a border town.
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I bet it has nothing to do with being a border town.
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That is not the point, although you only see what you want to see. It's called tunnel vision. Blame the poor for their poverty seems to be your way of looking at things.
 
That is not the point, although you only see what you want to see. It's called tunnel vision. Blame the poor for their poverty seems to be your way of looking at things.

So you think people in Mexico cannot figure out how to scam the system?
 
OC, stop acting like a child and grow up.

Stop being a liar. I proved you have indeed lied. Thus, I will refer to you as a liar from now on until you disprove me.

A gap if not closed becomes an official budget deficit which is in violation of the TX Constitution. You haven't a clue what you are talking about but it doesn't stop you from talking. You are indeed a legend in your own mind.

Come again? Since when was a deficit not a deficit because it's not official?

Watch:

You haven't a clue what you are talking about but it doesn't stop you from talking. You are indeed a legend in your own mind.

I didn't need to change a single word there to turn that around against you.

Right now Texas has a functional operating deficit. You keep pretending otherwise.

More talk from someone who can't do basic math isn't exactly convincing.

Now I don't have a job and have a poor financial understanding?

You do. After all, you claimed that prior year taxes unrelated to anything now is current revenue. You keep pretending you never made that argument, but too bad for you editing is not allowed after a short period of time. Anyone can go back and see your lengthy trail of posts of sheer unending fiscal ignorance.

Now that is funny but rather than give you my resume, I, like many others here who ignore you, will just continue to laugh at you.

I doubt you are even out of highschool. Certainly never went to college. Your complete lack of understanding of linear regression is a sign of that.

So you are a liar and you ignore reality. Go to the basement for what people actually think. :2wave:
 
Stop being a liar. I proved you have indeed lied. Thus, I will refer to you as a liar from now on until you disprove me.



Come again? Since when was a deficit not a deficit because it's not official?

Watch:

You haven't a clue what you are talking about but it doesn't stop you from talking. You are indeed a legend in your own mind.

I didn't need to change a single word there to turn that around against you.

Right now Texas has a functional operating deficit. You keep pretending otherwise.

More talk from someone who can't do basic math isn't exactly convincing.



You do. After all, you claimed that prior year taxes unrelated to anything now is current revenue. You keep pretending you never made that argument, but too bad for you editing is not allowed after a short period of time. Anyone can go back and see your lengthy trail of posts of sheer unending fiscal ignorance.



I doubt you are even out of highschool. Certainly never went to college. Your complete lack of understanding of linear regression is a sign of that.

So you are a liar and you ignore reality. Go to the basement for what people actually think. :2wave:

Love the personal attacks which are the sign of a true loser in any debate. So let me get this straight, TX had a budget deficit for the biennium 2008-2009 which ended on August 31, 2009 thus violating its own Constitution?

Grow up, the name calling shows which one of us is the kid.
 
Did you even read what you claim is a victory for liberalism? As you stated FOREIGN workers now got a large settlement of 1250/person before legal fees. Symbolism over substance is what you and your cause is all about.

That is a fortune to the poor. My cause is about american justice across these fruited plains.
 
That is a fortune to the poor. My cause is about american justice across these fruited plains.

Your cause is about getting attention and building strawmen that collapse under their own weight. The fact is you don't know how much these poor foreign workers got because there were legal fees involved but that doesn't stop you from touting this as if it were a boost to the poor. After legal fees and taxes even a poor person could buy a Starbuck's!
 
Your cause is about getting attention and building strawmen that collapse under their own weight. The fact is you don't know how much these poor foreign workers got because there were legal fees involved but that doesn't stop you from touting this as if it were a boost to the poor. After legal fees and taxes even a poor person could buy a Starbuck's!

You know nothing. Nothing.
 
From the buffered environment of the oval office, how in the world does he know anything about, "the state of the union". Does he look out the window occasionally? :shock:
 
Here is an interesting map showing the affects of the Obama stimulus plan on the American economy. Maybe these people should lawyer up to get a job.

Click on play

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Speaking of the stimulus plan, i heard some talking heads on CNBC this morning say that they thought that the stimulus had something to do with this jump in the economy.

<U.S. Economy Grew at 5.9% Annual Pace Last Quarter>

<Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy expanded at a 5.9 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, more than the government reported last month, reflecting stronger business investment and a greater contribution from inventories.>

<The rise in gross domestic product, which exceeded the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, marked the best performance in more than six years, the Commerce Department said today in Washington.>

U.S. Economy Grew at 5.9% Annual Pace Last Quarter (Update2) - Bloomberg.com
 
Speaking of the stimulus plan, i heard some talking heads on CNBC this morning say that they thought that the stimulus had something to do with this jump in the economy.

<U.S. Economy Grew at 5.9% Annual Pace Last Quarter>

<Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy expanded at a 5.9 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter, more than the government reported last month, reflecting stronger business investment and a greater contribution from inventories.>

<The rise in gross domestic product, which exceeded the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg News, marked the best performance in more than six years, the Commerce Department said today in Washington.>

U.S. Economy Grew at 5.9% Annual Pace Last Quarter (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

Isn't that wonderful? Where is that growth? Can you name for me any other time in U.S. history where we had that kind of economic growth and yet NOT one dime of increase in tax revenue to the U.S. Govt?

Think Donc, what did the stock market tell you about that economic growth? What is the unemployment number with that economic growth? What is the deficit with that economic growth? You have to do better than that.

Doesn't seem that you have a clue and simply are looking for a win for "your" President. Sorry, but you don't understand the numbers but buy the rhetoric that this is good. Please learn the components of GDP and then find out where this increase occurred. then you will realize what the market realized, this is smoke and mirrors, unsustainable, and hardly real economic growth.

Wish it weren't so but your empty suit President doesn't have a clue how to manage the U.S. Economy. Reagan knew how to do it, through the private sector, obama is doing it through the public sector. one of these days you will understand the difference.
 
Isn't that wonderful? Where is that growth? Can you name for me any other time in U.S. history where we had that kind of economic growth and yet NOT one dime of increase in tax revenue to the U.S. Govt?

Think Donc, what did the stock market tell you about that economic growth? What is the unemployment number with that economic growth? What is the deficit with that economic growth? You have to do better than that.

Doesn't seem that you have a clue and simply are looking for a win for "your" President. Sorry, but you don't understand the numbers but buy the rhetoric that this is good. Please learn the components of GDP and then find out where this increase occurred. then you will realize what the market realized, this is smoke and mirrors, unsustainable, and hardly real economic growth.

Wish it weren't so but your empty suit President doesn't have a clue how to manage the U.S. Economy. Reagan knew how to do it, through the private sector, obama is doing it through the public sector. one of these days you will understand the difference.

The only thing i can come up with is that a good part of it is stimulus.Do you think that Cramer got it right for once? :shock:
 
The only thing i can come up with is that a good part of it is stimulus.Do you think that Cramer got it right for once? :shock:

Actually most of it is replenishment of inventory and the growth in govt. spending on things such as first time home buyer credits. There was no net gain in revenue to the govt. because there was no real job creation or private sector economic growth. I did not see Cramer so not sure what he said.

Go to bea.gov, Gross Domestic Product, interactive tables, Frequently Requested tables, GDP. See where the growth occurred.

This economic growth was a mirage and unsustainable. If he doesn't do something to get the private sector moving all that gain will sink in a hurry. Obama economic plan is focused on growth of govt. not growth of the private sector where the real jobs are created.
 
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