Tearloch7 Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 For every "poll" showing Michigan a tie, I can show you 2 with Obama up by 3-5% .. "polls", like statistics, are for "losers", as they say in "sporting events", as Mitt calls em .. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Ambien Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Early last week did my '12 FPCA and ballot, voted for Gary Johnson for Pres, Lightfoot for Senator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebreh Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 So turns out Obama supporters actually dont like Obama's policies. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägermeister Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 So turns out Obama supporters actually dont like Obama's policies. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armada Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 So turns out Obama supporters actually dont like Obama's policies. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebreh Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 But Romney's would still be a heck of a lot worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tearloch7 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 but but but Romney is worse! how do you know this? crystal ball or from the future? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaK Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 look at the Republican platform .. if you agree with their platform, then chances are you may be either a redneck, a rich man or a neanderthal .. or possibly even all three .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lillooet_Hillbilly Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 wanna know what i like about polls. people that answer thier land lines because its in a phone book. Think about how many people don't have landlines and they are usually the younger generation who are unable to praticipate in the polls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heretic Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 True? or False? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YaK Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 True? or False? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tearloch7 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 True? or False? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tearloch7 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägermeister Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 but but but Romney is worse! how do you know this? crystal ball or from the future? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuck_trevor16 Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 the real question who the better VP? Biden or Ryan..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nevlach Posted October 29, 2012 Share Posted October 29, 2012 the real question who the better VP? Biden or Ryan..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tearloch7 Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Romney and "team" .. can you say "lying bucket of puppy poo"?? .. "deceitful sack of canine fecal matter"? .. "endless excrement"? .. THIS is what I want leading the free world .. http://news.yahoo.com/romney-ad-misleads-auto-bailout-205738765--election.html "Cretinous ca ca"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaimito Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 http://www.nytimes.c...government.html October 29, 2012 A Big Storm Requires Big Government Most Americans have never heard of the National Response Coordination Center, but they’re lucky it exists on days of lethal winds and flood tides. The center is the war room of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where officials gather to decide where rescuers should go, where drinking water should be shipped, and how to assist hospitals that have to evacuate. Disaster coordination is one of the most vital functions of “big government,” which is why Mitt Romney wants to eliminate it. At a Republican primary debate last year, Mr. Romney was asked whether emergency management was a function that should be returned to the states. He not only agreed, he went further. “Absolutely,” he said. “Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government and send it back to the states, that’s the right direction. And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector, that’s even better.” Mr. Romney not only believes that states acting independently can handle the response to a vast East Coast storm better than Washington, but that profit-making companies can do an even better job. He said it was “immoral” for the federal government to do all these things if it means increasing the debt. It’s an absurd notion, but it’s fully in line with decades of Republican resistance to federal emergency planning. FEMA, created by President Jimmy Carter, was elevated to cabinet rank in the Bill Clinton administration, but was then demoted by President George W. Bush, who neglected it, subsumed it into the Department of Homeland Security, and placed it in the control of political hacks. The disaster of Hurricane Katrina was just waiting to happen. The agency was put back in working order by President Obama, but ideology still blinds Republicans to its value. Many don’t like the idea of free aid for poor people, or they think people should pay for their bad decisions, which this week includes living on the East Coast. Over the last two years, Congressional Republicans have forced a 43 percent reduction in the primary FEMA grants that pay for disaster preparedness. Representatives Paul Ryan, Eric Cantor and other House Republicans have repeatedly tried to refuse FEMA’s budget requests when disasters are more expensive than predicted, or have demanded that other valuable programs be cut to pay for them. The Ryan budget, which Mr. Romney praised as “an excellent piece of work,” would result in severe cutbacks to the agency, as would the Republican-instigated sequester, which would cut disaster relief by 8.2 percent on top of earlier reductions. Does Mr. Romney really believe that financially strapped states would do a better job than a properly functioning federal agency? Who would make decisions about where to send federal aid? Or perhaps there would be no federal aid, and every state would bear the burden of billions of dollars in damages. After Mr. Romney’s 2011 remarks recirculated on Monday, his nervous campaign announced that he does not want to abolish FEMA, though he still believes states should be in charge of emergency management. Those in Hurricane Sandy’s path are fortunate that, for now, that ideology has not replaced sound policy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancaster Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 ^ I don't think it's about size, as much as it should be based on efficiency and effectiveness. One just have to look at the job the Japanese doing and see that they're doing things right. Emergency preparedness should always start in the individual/community level, with the government as the last resort. Not the other way around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ossi Vaananen Posted October 31, 2012 Share Posted October 31, 2012 http://www.nytimes.c...government.html October 29, 2012 A Big Storm Requires Big Government Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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