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this is just more stupidity, with people buying into it.....
Yep a white man in a red tie is a KKK member sounds pretty stupid.
this is just more stupidity, with people buying into it.....
Yep a white man in a red tie is a KKK member sounds pretty stupid.
Is the Republican party in danger of disappearing? Of course not. The reason we have two parties is so that there can be an alternative to the party in power. They take turns messing things up. The party in power messes things up. People switch to the other party. Then they mess things up. Back and forth. Nobody ever fixes the politicians. It is like perpetual motion machine.
I found this gem and it does not look as rosy as you think it is:Actually, Mitt, even a lot of white voters didn't want you - CNN.comSure, google-fu the term "Romney won the white vote" and that will start you off. I believe I read somewhere that Romney won a greater share of the white vote than did Reagan, but I haven't verified that.
I found this gem and it does not look as rosy as you think it is:Actually, Mitt, even a lot of white voters didn't want you - CNN.com
I keep hearing various conservative pundits, talking heads, etc.
Say that if the republican party would just follow conservative guidelines on fiscal policy and social policy, they'd be elected easily.
Just once I'd like to see them try, to prove whether that's true or not.
We're too lazy.Wisconsin has a $1 billion surplus this year.
Frankly, I think the US is beyond salvage and is going to break up.
Wisconsin has a $1 billion surplus this year.
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Wisconsin is projected to have a $1 billion surplus at the end of the two-year budget period covering July 2013 to July 2015 -- almost all of it because tax collections are rising faster than expected, the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau said in January.
We asked Democratic Party spokesperson Melissa Baldauff to back up the claim of "higher than expected tax revenues and projected budget surpluses in nearly every state."
She cited an Associated Press story from January 2014 that said that "almost all states will see fairly decent surpluses" in their 2014 budgets. That story quoted the National Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO).
We followed up with Scott Pattison, executive director of the budget officer’s group. He confirmed the projection. The 2013 stock market surge will goose income tax collections, Pattison said, and many states budgeted conservatively for 2014, not foreseeing the market’s runup.
That, he said, means surpluses are in store for fiscal year 2014, which for most states ends by mid-year.
And that comes on the heels of the 2013 budget year in which "37 states exceeded original (revenue) forecasts, six states were on target and seven states ended fiscal 2013 below the original revenue estimate," according to the nonpartisan budget association’s December 2013 report, "The Fiscal Survey of States." Baldauff also cited that report.
The revenue windfalls meant surpluses were common, the report said.
Burke said the state is going from a $700 million surplus "to getting into the next biennium with almost a $750 million deficit."
Her numbers check out, and she properly identifies a big swing in Walker’s budgeting, but -- like Walker’s similar claim -- there’s a problem because the two numbers aren’t easily compared.
We rate her claim Half True.
I have provided some sources in this thread that are good reading. Perhaps you should look into them.
I keep hearing various conservative pundits, talking heads, etc.
Say that if the republican party would just follow conservative guidelines on fiscal policy and social policy, they'd be elected easily.
Just once I'd like to see them try, to prove whether that's true or not.
Interesting take, I agree on fiscal policy, and even defense-but on social policy Id like to see a more libertarian lean-at least thats the type of conservative I am.
It's almost impossible to keep a coherent society together under a conservative fiscal policy, strong defense policy and a libertine social policy for the incohesiveness which arises from the social realm works to fragment society and thus undermines the coherence which disciplines fiscal and defense policy.
It's like saying someone wants uniformity and variety at the same time.
The better policy is to take the good with the bad instead of trying to lump together fragmented good pieces into some Frankensteinian creation.
the special election Fl. race doesn't mean repubs are roaring back. The repub won with a very narrow margin, narrower than in past years.
The fact is that it is well documented. And anyone that has taken the time to look in the matter would agree. I have given sources to back this claim up. You don't find it comfortable to believe the truth here. There is an old saying in this regard, you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink.
Hence why, IMO, we need a Centrist Party. The GOP has gone insane, which now leaves us no real alternative but to elect corrupt Democrats--like Terry McCaulif in Virginia.Is the Republican party in danger of disappearing? Of course not. The reason we have two parties is so that there can be an alternative to the party in power. They take turns messing things up. The party in power messes things up. People switch to the other party. Then they mess things up. Back and forth. Nobody ever fixes the politicians. It is like perpetual motion machine.
Hence why, IMO, we need a Centrist Party. The GOP has gone insane, which now leaves us no real alternative but to elect corrupt Democrats--like Terry McCaulif in Virginia.
If the electorate want to evict a democrat, more often than not they are stuck with a Tea Nut, if not another crazy, backwards thinking Republican, who believes rape can't result in pregnancy or wants to impose Putin-like sanctions on gays, as the alternative. That, my friends, sucks.
There is almost no one in the Repub party who "believes rape can't result in pregnancy or wants to impose Putin-like sanctions on gays," so you should really drop the baseless hyperbole.
You have provided lefty sources who have an interest in broadcasting the claim. For most people that's just advocacy noise.eace
And you have an interest in making the unsubstantiated claim that it's false. For most people your claim is nonsense.