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GOP seizes Senate

I hate to clue you in on this, but the middle class was replaced by automation and the lack of its children's desire to actually study/learn in schools when it had the chance to do so...

Stop trying to blame individual failings on anyone other than the the person who failed...

well that changes the issue. if your labor is better than it commands a higher price

but that isn't the issue

IF your employer can replace your labor with a cheaper alternative why shouldn't it?

See there you go with that right wing mentality, get everything as cheap as possible, but in the long run it comes to bite you in the ass. It comes with a price.
 
See there you go with that right wing mentality, get everything as cheap as possible, but in the long run it comes to bite you in the ass. It comes with a price.

you are assuming facts not in evidence-that your labor is more valuable

ASSUME some robot or some guy in India can do your work as WELL as you do at a lower rate
why should your employer pay more for you when it can get the same QUALITY and QUANTITY of labor as what you provide for far less money
 
A lot of these "jobs" that you think were automated by "machines", I hate to tell you, are actually still being done by hand by Asian children in exchange for a bowl of rice and a dollar a day.

A lot of people knock Asians making stuff cheaply as a bad thing but that's only because you are trying to compare there world with ours. Yes, making 1 dollar and hour would really suck for someone here. But for there? It's more money then they'd make in a year's time working the fields! Trust me, if the "Asians" (there are more cheap labor markets besides just Asia btw) could get more money somewhere else, than they would.
 
Or they just got tired of the 6 years of liberal fail. :2wave:

TRANSLATION: they were duped into believing that GOPers in Congress would. . .

) Repeal of Obamacare
2) Deportation of ALL non-White undocumented immigrants
3) Fuel prices down to $1 w/the opening of the Keystone pipeline
4) More jobs for the uneducated (i. e. right wing-voting blue collar workers)

Right wing fail indeed--the funny kind :lamo
 
Everyone w/noodle knows that GOP voters are mentally challenged--the fact that all GOP-run states (AL, MS, AR, LA) are crumbling ****holes w/poverty and corruption all over the place while the top liberal states (MA, MN, VT, WA) are economic powerhouses itself tells the story, even if it's not large enough to hit the right wing nail on the head.

But the solution to this problem is obvious, and has been since the tea party successfully knocked Cantor out of VA. Just establish a symbiotic (financial) alliance between the Libertarians and liberals and the tea party--done.

With financial support from the likes of George Soros, Google, Elon Musk, etc., the tea party could completely wipe out pols like mcconnell, lindsay graham, etc., since the tea party's rhetoric more closely matches the childish bigotries of the electorates in the aforementioned conservative states (i. e. "deport all the spics and nuke the muslums") than does the rhetoric of the establishment (Neocon) Repubs currently in power, i. e. conservatives are always going to vote for someone in favor of killing/deporting all Mexicans rather than someone who favors amnesty for them.

As for differences between the ideologies of the tea party and liberal groups, that won't be an issue since the tea party is so desperate for funding that its candidates will likely concede completely on some issues as long as they can win on the issues that matter most to their voters: deporting all non-Whites, banning all religions except Xtianity, and letting everyone buy any kind of gun he/she wants.

And once the tea party candidates are in power, we can force them to vote in our favor on issues by threatening to yank their funding if they don't. The tea party backing voters won't know anything about those votes since, as everyone knows, conservative voters only listen to rhetoric and are too dumb/lazy to pay attention to actual bills and votes.
 
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Prepare for the invasion of the newbie Republicans on DP.
They've been denying their brand since 2006 but winning one term has changed their tune .

Great victory for Conservatives.:applaud
 
TRANSLATION: they were duped into believing that GOPers in Congress would. . .

) Repeal of Obamacare
2) Deportation of ALL non-White undocumented immigrants
3) Fuel prices down to $1 w/the opening of the Keystone pipeline
4) More jobs for the uneducated (i. e. right wing-voting blue collar workers)

Right wing fail indeed--the funny kind :lamo

To assess who failed one only need look at who's running off...
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1.)Name ONE president who called the entire Republican caucus "enemies" BEFORE even having introduced a bill.
2.)The hostility of this administration toward the opposition, expressed through the insane Bill Reid has been palpable...and let no one ever forget how a lame, slithering Obama tried to lay the fault of his disaster health care bill at the feet of Mitt Romney with his pathetic lie "I never said that..."
3.)No administration has slithered as low and with more feral hate than Obama's

1.) dont know and dont think it matters either, especially in todays world of media. Is there another president that had secret meetings of opposition against him BEFORE hand either?

you cant look at ONE side of the coin thats silly
2.) again where you see some manufactured "extra" hostility i simply see politics today and what it has been for a while. Not defending its just the reality.

3.) I dont see that either there are many that would say the prior absolutely did, even some of thier own members. :shrug:

sorry i just dont buy into the manufactured and dramatic one sided views. I dont see anything unique from this admin in terms of the things you speak. Looks like business as usual and business in a minimum, equally hostile environment. Two sides of the coin, not one.
 
You know, I was thinking about it. What have we REALLY accomplished? The republicans now have both the house and the senate. They can throw a stack of bills on the president's desk until his face turns blue and he can still veto them. It takes a 2/3 majority in the house and senate to override his veto.

We know that ain't gonna happen. And in 2016, the democrats will get off their lazy asses and go vote, as they do during presidential elections. There are more voters who identify themselves as democrats than republicans.

Rinse and repeat. Business as usual in Washington.

that's if you expect actual laws and such as a result of this election. What the Republicans know is that really nothing can be accomplished because Obama will use his little pen, now that the phone is useless...he has no one to call.

What they can accomplish is defining the issues for 2016. Obama is not the main attraction anymore, Clinton is. Cruz has already said this congress is about Clinton and holding her feet to the fire.

The goal is the White House, not solutions to problems or anything idealistic...
 
The Democrats have held the Presidency and the Senate for the past 6 years and the House, too, for 2 of those 6. Guess what? Wages went down. They had SIX ****ING YEARS to implement their ideas and look where it got us. So spare me the hysterical nonsense. You are essentially blaming the right for WANTING to do what the left has actually accomplished.

You do realize the economy went into a tailspin at the end of the Bush administration, and there were more pressing things to deal with than wages like unemployment, loss of health insurance, unemployment, people losing their homes, and a congress that refused to work with the president right?

Your accusation is like complaining about no pay raise when your place of employment is in danger of bankruptcy.
 
that's if you expect actual laws and such as a result of this election. What the Republicans know is that really nothing can be accomplished because Obama will use his little pen, now that the phone is useless...he has no one to call.
...

You've summed up the problem.

The GOP won't get anything done because they will refuse to pass laws in a bipartisan manner.

You probably didn't mean to actually say this, and will backtrack now and claim it's Obamas fault, but you let the real deal slip...the GOP has little interest in running the country if they can't do it their way.
 
You do realize the economy went into a tailspin at the end of the Bush administration, and there were more pressing things to deal with than wages like unemployment, loss of health insurance, unemployment, people losing their homes, and a congress that refused to work with the president right?

Your accusation is like complaining about no pay raise when your place of employment is in danger of bankruptcy.
Yep, the economy was in a tailspin, that is predominantly why such an open socialist like Obama was elected. The problem though is that his lofty rhetoric, and greek pillars were just show.

He quickly projected that he had NO interest in actually making anything better for struggling Americans. This was clear when his first order of business was to bring in a former jailbird communist to construct a laundry list of progressive wants and ram it through against the wishes of the people and call it a healthcare bill.

He also projects this lie of his when he counts making America better, and increasing opportunity not by actually creating good jobs, but rather simply not counting those long term unemployed who hav exhausted benefits and putting them on welfare.

He has destroyed the moral of the country with his 'America is not exceptional' rhetoric, and his seemingly endless world apology tour making America no longer a player on the world stage that need not be listened to or taken seriously.

So, could you say that Bush and repubs screwed the pooch when they failed to reign in crooks like Frank, and Dodd who ran cover for criminals like Franklin Raines who presided over the corruption of Fannie, and that this was a cause of the financial collapse? Then yes, agreed. But to elect the very incompetent, corrupt, lying machine that were actually responsible for the collapse in the first place is just plan retarded.

We are idiocracy.
 
You do realize the economy went into a tailspin at the end of the Bush administration, and there were more pressing things to deal with than wages like unemployment, loss of health insurance, unemployment, people losing their homes, and a congress that refused to work with the president right?

Your accusation is like complaining about no pay raise when your place of employment is in danger of bankruptcy.
At the time the economy went into this tailspin you do realize that the Democrats controlled both houses right? Are you trying to say that the Democratic controlled House AND Senate refused to work with the Democratic President?
 
At the time the economy went into this tailspin you do realize that the Democrats controlled both houses right? Are you trying to say that the Democratic controlled House AND Senate refused to work with the Democratic President?

Ha! You beat me to it.
 
Everyone w/noodle knows that GOP voters are mentally challenged--the fact that all GOP-run states (AL, MS, AR, LA) are crumbling ****holes w/poverty and corruption all over the place while the top liberal states (MA, MN, VT, WA) are economic powerhouses itself tells the story, even if it's not large enough to hit the right wing nail on the head.

But the solution to this problem is obvious, and has been since the tea party successfully knocked Cantor out of VA. Just establish a symbiotic (financial) alliance between the Libertarians and liberals and the tea party--done.

With financial support from the likes of George Soros, Google, Elon Musk, etc., the tea party could completely wipe out pols like mcconnell, lindsay graham, etc., since the tea party's rhetoric more closely matches the childish bigotries of the electorates in the aforementioned conservative states (i. e. "deport all the spics and nuke the muslums") than does the rhetoric of the establishment (Neocon) Repubs currently in power, i. e. conservatives are always going to vote for someone in favor of killing/deporting all Mexicans rather than someone who favors amnesty for them.

As for differences between the ideologies of the tea party and liberal groups, that won't be an issue since the tea party is so desperate for funding that its candidates will likely concede completely on some issues as long as they can win on the issues that matter most to their voters: deporting all non-Whites, banning all religions except Xtianity, and letting everyone buy any kind of gun he/she wants.

And once the tea party candidates are in power, we can force them to vote in our favor on issues by threatening to yank their funding if they don't. The tea party backing voters won't know anything about those votes since, as everyone knows, conservative voters only listen to rhetoric and are too dumb/lazy to pay attention to actual bills and votes.

Vermont is an "economic powerhouse"? Since when?
 
All 620,000 of them (0.2% of the us population), or about 270,000 households. Not to mention it ranks 50 in GDP in the US.

ECONOMIC POWERHOUSE!!!

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Classic. Ignore every single word in the post except for a silly detail.

And then pretend you win the exchange.

Win the exchange? What on Earth are you babbling about?

Go ahead and cheer on the post. I am reading the posts in this thread and that was the only thing that interested me in all the "tea partiers are bigots", "deport the Mexicans", "ban religions except Christianity", "gun grabbers" nonsense in that post was the mention of Vermont being an "economic powerhouse" (because it's a Liberal state).

So I'm interested in knowing when Vermont became an "economic powerhouse".

Does it upset you that I asked a question?
 
Great victory for Conservatives.

Um hold the :applaud

What "victory" would that be--which policies favored by the right wing would be implemented by the Senate GOPers? Explain.

We're waiting. . .
 
These righties keep posting about how things are gonna get better for them yet whenever anyone asks them for specifics, they clam up.

Now why is that? ?
 
Win the exchange? What on Earth are you babbling about?

Go ahead and cheer on the post. I am reading the posts in this thread and that was the only thing that interested me in all the "tea partiers are bigots", "deport the Mexicans", "ban religions except Christianity", "gun grabbers" nonsense in that post was the mention of Vermont being an "economic powerhouse" (because it's a Liberal state).

So I'm interested in knowing when Vermont became an "economic powerhouse".

Does it upset you that I asked a question?

Upset?

I'm amused.
 
These righties keep posting about how things are gonna get better for them yet whenever anyone asks them for specifics, they clam up.

Now why is that? ?

Maybe it's because you are not familiar with the over 300 bills sitting on Reid's desk that have never seen the light of day.
 
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