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  • Oct 18, 2009, 07:26 PM
    paraclete
    Taxation is theft
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Catsmine View Post
    Watch the news, they're already happening. Nowdays, TEA stands for Taxed Enough Already. Lots of elitists try dismissing them with scorn and ridicule, but the people are still gathering.

    Well I certainly agree with that idea, I have bought enough FA-18's and tactical weapons and I don't need a government contrived ETS bought with the tax I no longer pay:)
  • Oct 30, 2009, 05:01 AM
    tomder55

    It cost us all $24,000 PER CAR for the Cash for Clunkers program. Forget Corollas .We could've given a Camry away with every trade in.

    Cash for Clunkers costs taxpayers $24,000 per car - Oct. 28, 2009
    Quote:

    Cash for Clunkers works, so Republicans say Nooooo
    Tell me again how Cash for Clunkers works??
  • Oct 30, 2009, 05:16 AM
    speechlesstx
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    It cost us all $24,000 PER CAR for the Cash for Clunkers program. Forget Corollas .We could've given a Camry away with every trade in.

    Cash for Clunkers costs taxpayers $24,000 per car - Oct. 28, 2009

    Tell me again how Cash for Clunkers works ??????????????????????

    I'm not sure how it works, the Dems are obviously not very good at math or economics.

    I would have loved a new Camry, but my 27 year old truck is an "antique," not a clunker. I'll just keep clunking down the highway expanding my carbon footprint :D
  • Oct 30, 2009, 06:45 AM
    speechlesstx

    Porkulus works, too. Obama plans to announce today that it has "created and saved at least 1 million jobs."

    I'm starting to see a pattern here, with Obama someone declares it to be so and it's so. That would explain the Nobel, the success of CFC, ending the rise of the oceans, restoring America's standing in the world, a million jobs "created and saved" and his having already had "one of the most productive first years of any administration in decades."
  • Oct 30, 2009, 12:20 PM
    Catsmine
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by tomder55 View Post
    It cost us all $24,000 PER CAR for the Cash for Clunkers program. Forget Corollas .We could've given a Camry away with every trade in.

    Cash for Clunkers costs taxpayers $24,000 per car - Oct. 28, 2009

    Tell me again how Cash for Clunkers works ??????????????????????

    And I just shelled out eighteen grand for a work truck. Can I get a "upgrade," exalted one?
  • Nov 4, 2009, 05:18 PM
    paraclete
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by excon View Post
    Hello:

    I dunno. Here's a plan from Washington that's working.... So, the Republicans want to end it. It's kinda simple, really. You turn in an old car that get's BAD gas mileage, and you get around a $4,000 check towards the purchase of a new car....

    Since the program has been going, car dealerships have been busy for the first time in months, the average milage increase between the cars turned in, and the ones going out is 9 miles per gallon.... NINE MILES PER GALLON!! And, the checks offer immediate stimulus.

    Yet, the Republicans want to kill it....

    excon

    Hey ex I know this is onl news but latest reports say this scheme replaced old gas guzzling SVU with new gas guzzling SVU how is this a success
  • Nov 9, 2009, 09:56 AM
    speechlesstx
    Another example of an Obama program that 'works.'

    Painting a street green hasn't stimulated one new job

    Quote:

    In Baltimore, the 300 block of East 23 1/2 Street is getting patched up in time for winter. One economic stimulus program is paying to insulate 11 rental rowhouses, another is paying for furnaces and a third is covering the cost for reflective roofs to be installed by prison inmates in a job-training program.

    The block is part of one of the biggest initiatives ever undertaken by the federal government, a nationwide push to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. But as the national unemployment rate crosses into the double digits and Republicans question the stimulus program's impact, the work on East 23 1/2 -- even with all of its activity -- has so far not produced a single job.

    Nine months after Congress passed the $787 billion stimulus package, there is little tangible to show for one of its biggest single areas of investment, the $25 billion energy-efficiency effort. That points to one of the central tensions of President Obama's landmark stimulus package: His goal was to inject money quickly into the economy while at the same time laying the groundwork for his broader, transformational agenda on energy, education and health care.
    $25 billion and it hasn't produced a single job. I'm sure Obama and the Dems are fine with that as long their "transformational agenda" pushes forward.

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