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View Poll Results: Who are you going to vote for?

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  • Mitt Romney

    53 54.08%
  • Barrack Obama

    29 29.59%
  • not voting

    6 6.12%
  • some other idiot

    10 10.20%
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    Quote Originally Posted by DEVOREFLYER View Post
    I would not count out the "Tea Party" yet. Pretty amazing stats for a group to start from nothing with no real leader and I predict it will only grow and could well become a viable third party at some time in the future. Only 57% of ALL ELGIBLE VOTERS voted in the 2012 election. The question is who are the 43% that did not vote and more importantly WHY did they not vote. I would guess that a large number did not like either party or candidate.

    http://www.statisticbrain.com/tea-pa...by-state-2010/
    You know what, I do hope the Tea party does becomes a third party. I would like to see the Republican party go back to the days of the Wallstreet Republicans, that's a group I would even vote for.
    Last edited by etucker1959; 12-14-2012 at 08:39 AM.

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    Taxed-enough-already ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and if you dont get that then you probably dont pay much in taxes if any ,,,obama wants to bleed every one but his pals ,,,,like g/e who have everything off shore or other countrys so they [dont pay there fare share],,,,,,,,or the clown that runs google because he doesnt want to pay [his fare share],,,and the lists go on and on,,,,,,i just hope the congress stands up to obama-the-clown,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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    Quote Originally Posted by etucker1959 View Post
    Once again let's go over this, the feds have three big expenses, Medicare, Social Security and the defense budget. You can always tell who wrote the article about deficit spending because they never mention the defense budget. S.S. is easy to fix, increase the contributions and make workers stay in the work force longer. Medicare is the *****, I agree with the article we do need to find a way to bring the numbers way down or we really are in deep do do.
    You touch on some "truths" and some false perceptions. Let's start with Social Security and Medicare. Social Security is solvent for awhile yet even as is. Medicare, not so much. The fix is to raise the cutoff of FICA contributions from the current level of $113,700 to say $250,000. This means that we ask the same of all earned dollars up to $250,000 that most people never see. Put another way, the vast majority of taxpayers pay FICA on every dollar they ever earn. When the small percentage of higher income people exceed $113,700, they stop paying what everyone else pays. Having them pay what everyone else pays up to $250,000 would make Social Security and Medicare solvent indefinitely. The dirty little secret that makes Medicare appear insolvent involves "welfare" for large wealthy corporations. We are the only industrialized country to disallow negotiating prices for drugs and medical procedures. We, in effect subsidize vastly cheaper prices for all the countries that do negotiate better prices. The drug companies are some of the most profitable businesses ever seen in history. It isn't exactly the same for medical procedures. However, the same idea applies. We are giving them excess profits, otherwise known as welfare.

    The issue of military spending is a little different. Until recently, we spent more than the combined spending of all other countries in the world. Even now we spend more than the next highest 13 countries combined. This when even the military says we are buying systems they don't need or want. We are also in the midst of an unprecedented privatizing of services the military has always done in house at far less cost with much more over site and effectiveness. We should be spending more to help soldiers damaged by their service. We should also provide them with education to reintegrate them back into society. We did this following WWII with great results. Simply stopping the expense of privatizing services would save vast sums of money. We need to rethink how wars will be fought in the future and prepare for them instead of trying to perfect the military to fight the last war.

    The forgoing would have many benefits as these three expenditures are among the leading drivers of deficit spending and debt we have seen much discussed on this forum across many threads.

  4. #924

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    Quote Originally Posted by TroutOnly View Post
    Taxed-enough-already ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and if you dont get that then you probably dont pay much in taxes if any ,,,obama wants to bleed every one but his pals ,,,,like g/e who have everything off shore or other countrys so they [dont pay there fare share],,,,,,,,or the clown that runs google because he doesnt want to pay [his fare share],,,and the lists go on and on,,,,,,i just hope the congress stands up to obama-the-clown,,,,,,,,,,,,,
    That doesn't sound like a "socialist", does it? A "socialist' wouldn't allow businesses to run roughshod as you seem to imply...

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    Quote Originally Posted by pcuser View Post
    You touch on some "truths" and some false perceptions. Let's start with Social Security and Medicare. Social Security is solvent for awhile yet even as is. Medicare, not so much. The fix is to raise the cutoff of FICA contributions from the current level of $113,700 to say $250,000. This means that we ask the same of all earned dollars up to $250,000 that most people never see. Put another way, the vast majority of taxpayers pay FICA on every dollar they ever earn. When the small percentage of higher income people exceed $113,700, they stop paying what everyone else pays. Having them pay what everyone else pays up to $250,000 would make Social Security and Medicare solvent indefinitely. The dirty little secret that makes Medicare appear insolvent involves "welfare" for large wealthy corporations. We are the only industrialized country to disallow negotiating prices for drugs and medical procedures. We, in effect subsidize vastly cheaper prices for all the countries that do negotiate better prices. The drug companies are some of the most profitable businesses ever seen in history. It isn't exactly the same for medical procedures. However, the same idea applies. We are giving them excess profits, otherwise known as welfare.

    The issue of military spending is a little different. Until recently, we spent more than the combined spending of all other countries in the world. Even now we spend more than the next highest 13 countries combined. This when even the military says we are buying systems they don't need or want. We are also in the midst of an unprecedented privatizing of services the military has always done in house at far less cost with much more over site and effectiveness. We should be spending more to help soldiers damaged by their service. We should also provide them with education to reintegrate them back into society. We did this following WWII with great results. Simply stopping the expense of privatizing services would save vast sums of money. We need to rethink how wars will be fought in the future and prepare for them instead of trying to perfect the military to fight the last war.

    The forgoing would have many benefits as these three expenditures are among the leading drivers of deficit spending and debt we have seen much discussed on this forum across many threads.
    As usual good stuff!!!!

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    Oh! Look what I found!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lady Quagga View Post
    Oh! Look what I found!!!
    When I view this post there is a Bad Idea t-shirts add on the right. Kinda funny.

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    S O F, read this thread and give us your input.
    Thnx, DR

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    My thread lives

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    Quote Originally Posted by fishfinder View Post
    My thread lives

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