Fri Jul 3 16:31:43 2009 - [DFL lacks courage & common sense] By: It depends on the definition of IN |
The United States of America has moved from a celebration of what common sense, wisdom, truth, courage, and sacrifice brought on the first Independence Day too a not so celebratable, greed, spite, laziiness, and corruption created, In Dependence Day.
As our County and City continue to decay more rapidly than some others around us in our state, it would do us all some good here to recognize what fireworks time has brought those who liked politicians that called themselves community planners but in reality were found to be only commun "nity" planners.
That's right Roger, it costs us nothing, so get us more money from the State! That's right Steve O'Neil, cry a river over Pawlenty State cutbacks which might hinder your precious and ludiculous 62% County Social Service Budget! Go ahead and cut more City services Donny, the Fire Dept. remains at one of the highest costs per capita in the State and you met your low income housing initiatve 4 years early! The DFL saga continues and their lack of courage and common sense leaves little for celebration.
O'boy O'boy Bomb-a, look a new big firecracker------ Sizzzzzzzzziliszzzelfusssssiitttppuuuuff! Shoot, just another DFL Dud! Look out!!! It's starting the house on fire!!!!!!
RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT
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Fri Jul 3 11:48:01 2009 - [Oberstar is sticking it to YOU] By: LIB Reader Online |
This letter writer has it right. Jim Oberstar is so disconnected from the people of Northern MN.
In all reality the CongressCLOWN does very little but operate in a well run propaganda machine. Every two years you read Oberstar got us this grant and did this and did that but its nothing more than a repetitive public relations stunt.
You have to be stupid, on the take, or spent time in DFL indoctrination camps to think that Oberstar is doing more than any other CongressCLOWN who would represent you.
Oberstar brings home very little bacon but does use the union dues payers to stay in office for his big corporate specail interests, while at the same time stabs the same union workers in the back with the Stimulus and Crap & Trade legislation. You can only wonder if being unemployed for the next decade will wake up the indoctrinated?
Jim Oberstar has to go and is a major reason you need to go GREEN and read the LIB online for free saving money, energy and the trees.
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Duluth News Tribune
Published July 03 2009
Reader's view: Oberstar sticking it to the little guy
Jim Oberstar proved again he’s more interested in serving special interests than the welfare of his constituents. Oberstar voted for the so-called climate change bill without having even read it, just as was the case with the stimulus bill. This bill passes a massive tax on carbon emissions, notably in areas of energy and agriculture.
Jim claims he’s standing up to polluters who, in all honesty, are unaffected by the bill. When the electric company gets slapped with the tax they will simply pass it along to the consumers — i.e. the little guys. Jim says it’s only going to hit the average household for another $178 a year, but many estimates say it will be $1,000. Regardless, the big company doesn’t get shafted; the little guys must pay.
Furthermore, the increase cost of farming will be also passed along to the consumer as the farmer tries to recoup the extra costs Oberstar has thrown on top him. In addition to the increased electrical and food costs, the trucking industry will similarly be hammered by new regulations causing a rate hike. In layman’s terms you are looking at an across-the-board price hike that will hit the poor and working class families the hardest during a deep recession.
Finally since many nations are not bound by cap-and-trade law, many independent analysts predict a further outsourcing of as many as two million American jobs overseas. How Mr. Oberstar feels this serves the needs of Minnesotans is beyond rational explanation with the exception of senility.
Jim boasts of looking out for the little guy. This latest vote shows that he cares more for the welfare of a skunk than the men women and children he claims to represent.
Douglas Misson
Duluth
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Fri Jul 3 10:59:35 2009 - [Interesting connections?] By: Chester Park Watch |
| Ben Dover is "pudknocker" Congressman Oberstar's boy, Dave B? Interesting connections. |
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Fri Jul 3 10:54:46 2009 - [Same old stinky tea bag!] By: Chester Park Watch |
Claire is flapping her lips again at on Stahlainski's blog
http://www.areavoices.com/buzz
Claire, Suzanne, Tony or whatever other name your blogging by...we all know the name changes but it's the same old stinky tea bag!
Have a great 4th everyone! |
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Thu Jul 2 23:59:47 2009 - [They should be held accountable ] By: jthyme |
545 PEOPLE
By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.
Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?
Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don't propose a federal budget.
The president does.
You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations.
The House of Representatives does.
You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president, and nine Supreme Court justices, 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority.
They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman,
or a president to do one cotton-picking thing.
I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash.
The politician has the power to accept or reject it.
No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.
The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land,
gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives
for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.
Who is the speaker of the House?
Nancy Pelosi.
She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want.
If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people.
When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.
If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.
If the Army & Marines are in IRAQ,
it's because they want them in IRAQ.
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite
retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats,
whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish;
to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject;
to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses. |
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Thu Jul 2 23:43:14 2009 - [Cry in your beer] By: DFL Rube |
| Welcome back, me! FRANKEN!!!! Told you losers so!! DFL wipeout of the GOP idiots almost complete in MN. Governor to go! Stauber WILL be gone soon as well! The voters have spoken. Cry in your beer, LOSERS. (Blatz) |
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Thu Jul 2 20:54:02 2009 - [Same old DFL hypocrisy] By: Ben Dover |
You gotta love this piece from the Pudknocker on Stahlalinski's site.
"Anyway, I think has nothing to do with who spent how much. The Bush Administration DID severely increase the federal defecit with the war, which, we found out (and I knew before hand) was not needed. So you can come to the conclusion that that spending was quite wasteful (not to mention the lives lost; more US combat deaths happened under Bush than Obama, if you really want to nitpick). But yes, the current Administration has shoveled out it's fair share of spending, and if people want to complain about it, that's fine. I'm right there with you if I feel there has been wasteful spending. I'm doing it now, and I did it during the Bush years. However, I argue that the vast majority of the folks who attend the Tea Party in Duluth never rasied their voices in protest over the costs of the war (let alone the cost in lives, which, you should agree, are more important than money)."
Ummmm, Puddy, Obama has been in office 6 months, not 8 years. Wanna take bets on how many more lives will be lost in the unwinable Afghan war? Where are all you anti war protesters now that the war in Afghanistan is escalating under Obama?
I love when you say that the current administration has shoveled out its own share of spending. Come on, fair share? How about trillions of new and unneeded spending, which will, in the fianl analysis, lead to the demise of the once almighty dollar and possibly the country as we know it.
How about it Puddy, get with the program. Spend a little less time with the "C"s of the world and take a look at what Obama is doing and ask yourself if this is really the change which will better the U.S. On second hand forget it. A government teet sucker like you will never see it through the eyes of an ordinary American. Ordinary Americans are suffering and all you Socialists want to do is tax them more and more. Your kind puts themselves above the rest of society. Enjoy the ride while it lasts.
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Thu Jul 2 11:25:32 2009 - [Local taxpayer trips missing] By: Spock |
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124650399438184235.html
Spending on Taxpayer-Funded Trips Rises Tenfold; From Italy to the Galápagos
It seems the article forgot to mention the trips to Ohara, Japan by Duluth City Councilors, too.
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Thu Jul 2 08:53:16 2009 - [DFL Duluth smoke and mirrors] By: LIB Reader Online |
The DFL Duluth Cuneo-Gardner and their ilk are why this area is suffering. These shameless DFL con artists and their socialist agenda are the many have lost their jobs at the LIB and beyond. Sadly, it is going to get worse because of DFL greed.
Drive around Duluth and look at the condition of this city. Words like depressing, deplorable and disgusting only begin to describe DFL Duluth. Where has the tax money gone? Obviously not where it should have.
DFL Duluth cronies like Tony Cuneo and Sharla Gardner are why you need to go GREEN and read the LIB online for free saving money, energy and the trees.
This letter is a ray of light that at least one person can see through the DFL Duluth smoke and mirrors.
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Duluth News Tribune
Published July 02 2009
Reader's view: Hold city personnel accountable for their actions
All elected or hired city government personnel should be held accountable for their actions when it regards the spending of public money collected through special taxes. They should be held accountable for their actions in regards to their conduct while on the job and how they wield whatever power has been relegated to them.
Councilor Sharla Gardner, while trying to figure out who paid for her trip, told several scenarios of how much of her Sister Cities trip was paid for. But the real issue and conflict is that after her trip she used her vote to get Duluth Sister Cities International more money. As a past recipient — and possible future recipient — she should have abstained when the vote came to give them more money.
We find out through Councilor Tony Cuneo’s tax debacle that he is a landlord, which throws questions upon his actions. How would the 300-foot rule have affected his rental property? Could it have benefitted him financially? He, too, should have abstained from any vote to avoid conflict.
These are elected officials. Their actions and any other’s actions should be brought to our attention as the tax payers who foot their pay.
Paul Conley
Duluth
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Thu Jul 2 08:24:18 2009 - [Infamous fems missing in hot video] By: youtube dude |
Tony you hit a homerun on your facebook page with this one! Obviously Claire and Deb T aren't featured in this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQGhq0IlVok |
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Thu Jul 2 02:22:52 2009 - [DFL and DFD are both Socialist ] By: Brenda |
| I'm told several of those at 21st and London Rd waiving their Franken signs were Duluth Firefighters. Go figure. DFL and DFD are both Socialist thinkers. Their time is running out though, and the people are waking up. |
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Thu Jul 2 02:19:23 2009 - [Do you still want "change"?] By: Labor worker |
I'm sorry to hear about Monson Trucking closing it's doors. Those people who are losing good paying Jobs must feel like shit. Monson Trucks were all over this nation. A neighbor of mine is a trucker there and said that the two major corporations which shut down were anticipating the social change and many in the company knew if Obama was elected there was a great chance he and many others would be looking for work. This wasn't that much of a surprise to them as the paper made it out to be. Best of luck employees and God be with you while looking for other good paying jobs. You still want "change"?
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Wed Jul 1 23:37:36 2009 - [Where will you be this election season?] By: Erik H |
Let's get local... this year we will elect a new team of city councilors. Where will you be? Will you sign up to help a good candidate like Jim Stauber or Heath Hickok or just sit in front of your computer?
Heath is the executive director of the Lincoln Park Business Group. He'd be a great addition to the city council. We need to find another candidate for at large council as well. Becky Hall anyone? |
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Wed Jul 1 22:46:09 2009 - [Obama change you can believe in] By: This is DFL Country |
Duluth News Tribune
Published July 01 2009
Monson Trucking to close at summer's end
The economic downturn, decline of the paper industry and the bankruptcy of two major customers prompted the decision to close the 94-year-old trucking business.
Monson Trucking of Duluth will cease operations after Aug. 31, company officials said. Monson Trucking, headquartered in Duluth, is closing its operations on Aug. 31, putting 200 people out of work.
Its 100 employees in Duluth were told today in multiple meetings, said Michael Monson, one of the owners. About 100 additional employees at its terminals in Virginia, Red Wing and Mauston, Wis., were told via video conferencing.
The Duluth employees will continue working until Aug. 31, while those at other terminals were terminated this morning, Monson said.
Monson said the economic downturn, decline of the paper industry and the bankruptcy of two major customers prompted the decision to close the 94-year-old trucking business.
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Wed Jul 1 22:37:05 2009 - [Dumb and dumber hillbilly alert] By: Muffin Top |
Dumb and dumber hillbilly alert.
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/image/id/36477/
Check out the AFSCME thug's left arm. |
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Wed Jul 1 21:00:28 2009 - [The DFL fix was in] By: Slammer |
| I agree, who cares which crooked county up here the fix came from. I can promise you both DFL controlled counties were in on the fix. |
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Wed Jul 1 17:32:21 2009 - [More reason to read the DNT online ] By: paper boy |
| DNT raced out and got a picture right away on their website for Franken, another slow news day. All the more reason to read it online and maybe they will let another union pressman go so he to can be out on the street corner. I'm out of a job, they should be next... |
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Wed Jul 1 15:19:17 2009 - [DFL "wolf pack" sighting] By: Escape from Duluth |
DFL "wolf pack" sighting (Saul Alinsky would be proud)
At 1215 I spotted a large pack of DFL'ers at the corner of 21st avenue east and London Road. They had multiple Franken for senate signs and were waving at cars driving by. Some of the signs said "Honk for Franken". They were also hooting an hollering, apperently in celebration because of the successful manipulation and theft of votes to ensure Frankens victory. They apparently crawled out of the Reef and or "Labor Temple" under the direction of some labor pimp (union leader) to show support for Frankens so called victory. One thought came to mind. Where the hell do these people work? Who the hell has time to stand on some street corner to hype and pimp a political candidate in the middle of a work day? Most normal productive people in our society have jobs to do. Well whatever, what else can one expect in Duluth. |
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Wed Jul 1 14:57:42 2009 - [DFL Duluth global influence] By: Dennis Miller |
It looks like the Iranian politics is starting look like DFL Duluth politics with its 102% voter turnout. What's next, a $5 fee on our Comfort Systems bill for burkas for each Duluth woman?
Beware that it may be a conflict if the city pays for Barney Frank Jr.’s burka.
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Wed Jul 1 13:09:01 2009 - [Sick of the DFL corruption] By: Adam R |
The ballots from the trunk were from a Lake County, not St. Louis County says Mr. Wrestling. Big deal, they still came from the land of DFL corruption. Thanks for confirming that. And they were confirmed as legit by whom, Mark Ritchie, another DFL bought and paid for puke trained by and paid for by Soros and Moveon.org? Is that what a DFLer considers legit???
You should be sick of the DFL corruption, not about which part of Northeasten Minnesota DFL corruption this particular fraud occurred in. DFL fraud occurs daily in this part of the Minnesota. The sad thing is that most of it is covered up by the DFL mafia.
What makes me laugh is people like you who are too damn dumb to see the real crimes being committed. Why is Franken heading to DFL controlled Northeasten Minnesota, because he prefers a parade on those good roads? No, he has to thank those who brought him to power, plain and simple.
Isn't it interesting that the ballots found in the trunk were not from any other part of the state other than the part that is 100% DFL controlled? And the votes that were supposedly forgotten to be called in? Again, from the land of the one party DFL corruption in Northeasten Minnesota.
The DFL has made this area the laughingstock of the state and is trying to make it the laughingstock of the country too.
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Wed Jul 1 10:55:47 2009 - [START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK] By: Dennis Miller |
HOW TO START EACH DAY WITH A POSITIVE OUTLOOK
1. Open a new file in your computer.
2. Name it 'Barack Obama'.
3. Send it to the Recycle Bin.
4. Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Your PC will ask you: 'Do you really want to get rid of 'Barack Obama?'
6. Firmly Click 'Yes.'
7. Feel better?
GOOD! - Tomorrow we'll do Nancy Pelosi.
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Wed Jul 1 08:48:51 2009 - [Wasn't the DFL was it?] By: Mr. Wrestling II |
Ben Dover:
First, the ballots from the trunk happened in LAKE County for your information.
Second, the City Clerk from Mr. Iron forgot to call in his totals. They were verified as legit.
The only reason I bring this up is that so much misinformation is recited here it makes me sick. Opinions are one thing, but selling opinions as fact is a whole differnt matter. Remember, it was LAKE County not St. Louis County, Mr Dover. |
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Wed Jul 1 07:13:22 2009 - [How the liberal spells "success"] By: EMU |
Five Years of Fleecing Taxpayers
Last week marked the five year anniversary of the Hiawatha light rail system. Liberals heralded the anniversary as a great accomplishment, saying ridership levels are above what was expected and therefore touting the line a success.
The Hiawatha line will never be a success because it costs taxpayers over $15 million a year in operating subsidies. State taxpayers foot the bill for two thirds of the cost to operate the line and that doesn't include the $775 million taxpayers paid to build the line in the first place.
If this is how the liberal spells "success," don't build anymore.
Even Metro Transit spokesperson Bob Gibbons said that the more ridership increases, the more it costs to operate, because more ridership mean more wear and tear on the system. Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin also pointed out that if the light rail system is going to expand they are "going to have to identify additional funding." Both of those facts mean more of your money going into the funding hole that is light rail transit.
To build Hiawatha, Northstar, and the Central Corridor, the liberals will spend more than $2 billion of taxpayer money with annual operating subsidies approaching $50 million a year. |
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Tue Jun 30 22:56:40 2009 - [Franken thanking DFL vote getters first] By: Truthism |
Your right Ben. Franken's first order of business is to head up to St. Louis County and thank the DFL for "handing" him the election. There will be parades and all that fun stuff. Anyone heard if Ritchie or Soros will be master of ceremonies?
You can't make this DELETED DELETED up. |
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Tue Jun 30 19:53:10 2009 - [The DFL Tax and Take Platform] By: Truthism |
What do they all have in common?
Geithner, Dashle, Franken, Cuneo.
They have all either increased your taxes already or want you to pay more tax yet so that they don't have to. Isn't this part of, Do as I say, not as I do?
Come on Tony, which DFL elitist millionaire paid the back taxes and penalties for you? Which trust funding transient? DFD PAC? Come on, come clean. |
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Tue Jun 30 19:35:59 2009 - [The Joke Is On You Minnesota] By: Ben Dover |
If it wasn't embarrassing enough to have Senator Welfare representing Minnesota, now we have shown the world what we get with a "World Class Education". Watching the news this evening I couldn't help but feel embarrassed once again when Franken was said to have "won" the Minnesota Senate race. In describing him, they said that he had "no" previous experience in politics and never held elected office in his life. He now holds one of the most powerful offices in the country, if not the world. Instead he has spent his life as a "comedian". Well, the joke is on Minnesota as this loser now heads West to D.C. That's right, I said West. He is a New York fella, not a Minnesotan as most Minnesotans with a world class education were told. He was in Minnesota the last 30 years about as much as Congressclown Oberstar, which is not too often as we all know.
Thanks Tom Dooher and "Education Minnesota" for "educating" the voters so well that they actually put this clown into office. What an embarrassment! And thank you Saint Louis County DFLers for pulling the needed extra ballots from the trunk of the car to be included in the "recount" by the Soros boy, Mark Ritchie. You done good Mark, just like we trained ya! See how we can not only play a good joke on the Minnesotans by stuffing the ballot box in St. Louis County to reverse a 700+ vote election night victory for Coleman, but we actually put a real clown into that office.
People get the government they deserve!
"World Class Education" LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL! Compared to what, Kenya?
What a farce. Wake up people!
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Tue Jun 30 19:22:40 2009 - [Not a racist comment] By: Mr. Wrestling II |
can't you see the light:
Even if Obama was born in Kenya, was not his mom an American citizen? If so that makes him an American. Look it up in the ol' Constitution. |
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Tue Jun 30 14:46:05 2009 - [Surprise - Not] By: Cynic |
| DFL09, WOW that's a surprise. LOL |
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Tue Jun 30 14:39:36 2009 - [Al Franken be certified winner] By: DFL09 |
Two words for you DCB losers! Total dominance!!!!
Victory is sooooooooooo sweet losers!
The Minnesota Supreme Court has ordered that Democrat Al Franken be certified as the winner of the state's long-running Senate race. The high court rejected a legal challenge from Republican Norm Coleman, whose options for regaining the Senate seat are dwindling.
If Franken takes the seat, Democrats in the Senate will likely have a big enough majority to overcome Republican filibusters.
http://online.wsj.com#mod=djemalertNEWS
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Tue Jun 30 14:31:24 2009 - [***Stop Oberstar!***] By: John B |
***Stop Oberstar!***
I heard about this yesterday...thought I would share
http://www.americanpropertycoalition.org/
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Tue Jun 30 12:25:41 2009 - [The TRUTH is NOT RACISIM] By: can't you see the light |
Saying Obama was born in Kenya is NOT racisim, IT IS THE TRUTH, WHICH YOU CAN'T HANDLE. Your main man bill clinton raised taxes so much that companies had no choice but to move manufacturing out of this country. The same thing will happen when your party passes all this "cap and tax" will make it even harder for manufacturing to take place in this country. There is a reason so much is made in china. I don't like that, but with all the tree huggers and democrats I can see why it is happening.
I will remind you that from 2002 until congress went to the democrats in 2006 we were much better off than we are now. Also, the mid 1990's were good times because congress was NOT controlled be democrats. |
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