Are You Ready For A Repub Presidential Debate?

[privateinvestor]

It is on tonight on CNN so don't miss it....However I plan to be glued to my HDTV watching the Boston Bruins vs the Vancouver Canucks rather than watch the republican candidates i.e. Gingrich, Pawlenty, Romney, Bachmann, Santorum, Paul, Cain........I'll pass and wait for Sarah ..

I prefer Thomas, Thornton, Lucic, Chara, Kelley, Seinderberg, Bergeron, to those repubs lambasting Obama ad nauseum


Repub Debate in New Hampshire will have more cheap shots than any Stanley Cup playoff game..

[marshabar1]

Listened to Tim Pawlenty yesterday interviewed by Chris Wallace. I like his ideas.

In his speech, Pawlenty called for applying a “Google” test to federal services, meaning that if private businesses can be found on the Internet to perform the same function, “then the federal government probably doesn’t need to be doing it.”

“The Post Office, the Government Printing Office, Amtrak, Fannie and Freddie were all built for a time in our country when the private sector did not adequately provide those products,” he said. “That’s no longer the case.”

Pawlenty proposed slashing the corporate income tax from 35 percent to 15 percent and establishing just two individual tax rates: 10 percent for the first $50,000 of income ($100,000 for married couples) and 25 percent for all income above that. The result would be a one-third cut in the bottom rate and a 28 percent cut in the top rate.

Pawlenty also wants to eliminate the capital gains tax, interest income tax, dividends tax and estate tax. And he wants to cut 1 percent of federal spending each year for the next six years, a plan that would balance the national budget by 2017, he said.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pawlenty-to-propose-tax-cuts-smaller-government-role-in-economic-address/2011/06/06/AGQzqkKH_story.html

Of course Pawlenty's ideas are under attack. I guess they don't like "fundamental transformation" when it doesn't involve spreading the wealth around and burying the U.S. in debt for generations to come.


I wonder why the Present of the United States is not putting forth any ideas. ;D

[dancinmama]

Jun 13, 2011 11:11:26 GMT -5 @marshabar1 said:

I wonder why the Present of the United States is not putting forth any ideas. ;D

I think I'd change that to:

I wonder why the President of the United States is not putting forth any ideas.

[marshabar1]

Jun 13, 2011 11:23:38 GMT -5 dancinmama said:

Jun 13, 2011 11:11:26 GMT -5 @marshabar1 said:

I wonder why the Present of the United States is not putting forth any ideas. ;D

I think I'd change that to:

I wonder why the President of the United States is not putting forth any ideas.

Heat comes with the territory. Pawlenty seems ready to stay in the kitchen.

[Mkitty is pro kitty]

The Post Office

"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 of the United States Constitution, known as the Postal Clause or the Postal Power, empowers Congress "To establish Post Offices and post Roads."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Clause

For a bunch of people who supposedly worship the Founding Fathers, conservatives sure don't like (or don't know much about) the Constitution. But to fool their flock, they just have to repeatedly tell them how much they do.

I wonder why the Present of the United States is not putting forth any ideas. ;D

I wonder why the President of the United States is not putting forth any ideas.

He's not going to come to knocking at your door. The internet is your friend.

Pawlenty seems ready to stay in the kitchen.

Too bad whatever he's cooking up is turning out bland and unappetizing.

"The many flaws of Tim Pawlenty’s tax cut plan"
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-many-flaws-of-tim-pawlentys-tax-cut-plan/2011/06/10/AGTjPCSH_story.html

burying the U.S. in debt for generations to come.

Yeah, the best way to eliminate debt is to have a lot less revenue come in. Well if we're going to go down the yellow brick road to the magical kingdom, why don't we just set the tax rate as negative, and the government will somehow collect eleventy zillion dollars that way. Why not, we're in fantasy land.

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Yeah, I'll watch it. Maybe see Herman Cain clean up again like he did the last time he was in a group...

[privateinvestor]

I think it Will be boring tonight with the Republicans just blaming Obama for the economic slowdown due to the lack of jobs, taxes, regulations, congress inaction, lack of Presidential leadership...

And then the Liberal Media will lambast all the republicans tomorrow with Bachmann and Gingrich getting the most negative comments..IMHO.

[NoMoreLunacy]

Jun 13, 2011 11:11:26 GMT -5 @marshabar1 said:

Listened to Tim Pawlenty yesterday interviewed by Chris Wallace. I like his ideas.

In his speech, Pawlenty called for applying a “Google” test to federal services, meaning that if private businesses can be found on the Internet to perform the same function, “then the federal government probably doesn’t need to be doing it.”

“The Post Office, the Government Printing Office, Amtrak, Fannie and Freddie were all built for a time in our country when the private sector did not adequately provide those products,” he said. “That’s no longer the case.”

Pawlenty proposed slashing the corporate income tax from 35 percent to 15 percent and establishing just two individual tax rates: 10 percent for the first $50,000 of income ($100,000 for married couples) and 25 percent for all income above that. The result would be a one-third cut in the bottom rate and a 28 percent cut in the top rate.

Pawlenty also wants to eliminate the capital gains tax, interest income tax, dividends tax and estate tax. And he wants to cut 1 percent of federal spending each year for the next six years, a plan that would balance the national budget by 2017, he said.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pawlenty-to-propose-tax-cuts-smaller-government-role-in-economic-address/2011/06/06/AGQzqkKH_story.html

Of course Pawlenty's ideas are under attack. I guess they don't like "fundamental transformation" when it doesn't involve spreading the wealth around and burying the U.S. in debt for generations to come.


I wonder why the Present of the United States is not putting forth any ideas. ;D

Yet, when I was jokingly going around asking for massive tax cuts for the rich on the backs of the middle class and the poor, people all all over me. Turns out the Republican politicians just want to do what I claimed they do.

[privateinvestor]

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[privateinvestor]

CBS News Radio said they thought that Romney was the clear winner last night with Michelle Bachmann doing very well. I didn't watch this debate last night but watched the Bruins kick butt in the TD Gardens which was a real "Garden Party" but I would assume the republican candidates just beat up on Obama and claimed his leadership has been a farce...

[Politically_Incorrect12]

Jun 13, 2011 12:52:00 GMT -5 Mkitty is pro kitty said:

The Post Office

Yeah, the best way to eliminate debt is to have a lot less revenue come in. Well if we're going to go down the yellow brick road to the magical kingdom, why don't we just set the tax rate as negative, and the government will somehow collect eleventy zillion dollars that way. Why not, we're in fantasy land.

For somebody that likes to complain that others are using strawman arguments, you sure seem to do it an awful lot. I know, all democrats are good no matter what they do or don't do and all republicans are bad in your opinion.

[privateinvestor]

For somebody that likes to complain that others are using strawman arguments, you sure seem to do it an awful lot. I know, all democrats are good no matter what they do or don't do and all republicans are bad in your opinion.