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Here's hoping we can discuss the Obama budget

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by printdust, Feb 15, 2011.

  1. NoOneLikesUs

    NoOneLikesUs Active Member

    The proposed complete defunding of NPR and PBS by the right is sickening.
     
  2. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    They just *love* their boogeymen.
     
  3. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    You can keep raising and raising bag fees, though. That's just good smart business. :D
     
  4. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Bush's phoney-baloney budgets didn't even include the costs of the wars.
     
  5. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Here was an SportsJournalists.com discussion of Bush's last budget.

    It didn't go well.

    http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/52505/
     
  6. bydesign77

    bydesign77 Active Member

    LTL,

    Didn't ever say I agree with it, but if you understand the whole picture of it, it does make sense.
     
  7. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Prescient, though.
     
  8. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Exactly. It's as regressive as you can get. I think Forbes was the last guy to run a national campaign advocating the unfair tax.
     
  9. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    It's not like all GOP voters are idiots -- not even close -- but this kind of slashing of legitimate public-education outlets of proven worth tells you what the party leaders are thinking behind closed doors:

    "Shit . .. we don't want an educated electorate -- hell, they'll vote AGAINST US!"

    No shit, Pancho.
     
  10. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    To me, it's going to take an independent politician not in either party to reach the White House in order for something to be done.

    Someone like Ross Perot, or Jesse Ventura, or Michael Bloomberg. Someone who will essentially say, "I don't care if I'm re-elected, but here's what I'm going to do for the next four years. Suck it up and deal."
     
  11. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member


    The Flat Tax is horrendously regressive. Of course, the Club For Greed asshats like Grover Norquest spurt at the thought of it.
     
  12. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    And includes one of the funniest one-liners I've read on SportsJournalists.com

     
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