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Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:18:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jim Fernandes <amigo...@att.net>
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Subject: Re: [Goanet] Off topic: Republicans to discuss return to gold
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--- On Thu, 8/30/12, Mervyn Lobo <mervynal...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
Mervyn wrote:
As for your last sentence, the US has to spend a lot more to
get itself out of the problems it is in. No US politician
can come to power on the platform of raising taxes to
balance the budget.
My Response:
I already see a conflict in your arguments. Romney and Company have made
abundantly clear that they are going to balance the budge ONLY by cutting Fed
spending. Did Romney tell you otherwise?
The Democrats on the other had, have suggested to both raise taxes
(on the uber rich) and allow for spending cuts - implementing both of
these tools, in my opinion, is the ideal strategy.
Mervyn wrote:
I actually like Rmoney er, Romney.
...
As such, I have sent in my?donation to his
campaign and I would encourage anyone who?
wants medical reforms to do the same.?I also believe I will
be better of economically?under a Rmoney?
Presidency?than under?a Obama II presidency.
....
My Response:
Medical reforms have already been passed by the Democrats and upheld by
the US Supreme Court. As such, they can only improve upon it and move forward,
not go backwards.
.....
Mervyn wrote:
The taxes you are paying, ALL the taxes you are paying, are
to the US Govt (and not to the Queen of England). I would
expect a true patriot to be proud of paying taxes. The more
taxes I pay, the more patriotic I feel as I contribute more
to the kind of society that I want to live in.?
......
My Response:
That is exactly my point. I have absolutely no issues with paying taxes!
But taxes have to be fair. I don't want to pay a DIME more in percentage
terms, than what my president pays. Romney has been paying some 14%
for years, while I have have been paying much more than that - and I don't
make millions like he does. Now you know - why I call him greedy!
Not only that - he does not want to raise taxes on folks in his earning class
either. In fact, he wants to give them more breaks. Obviously, I have
issues with that.
......
Mervyn wrote:
Anyways, I am keeping my fingers crossed for a Rmoney
victory. That victory would guarantee that the price of gold
would go up, near term.
....
My Response:
I watched Romney's acceptance speech at the Republican convention
last night. It was dumb and boring. When you bring in a clown like Clint
Eastwood to talk to an empty chair (imagining with Obama sitting on it),
to kill precious peak hour TV time, you know, they have run out of ideas
to talk to the voters.
Romney is a terribly weak candidate against Obama.
See you in 2016!
Jim F
New York.
.................
Excuse me for adding my two bits:
Dirty Harry and the empty chair:
"When somebody doesn't do the job, you gotta let 'em go," Eastwood said.
The tough-guy actor of Dirty Harry fame then drew a finger across his throat.
(I feel this is a cheap gesture!) The Obama campaign shot back afterward by
tweeting a photo of the back of the president's chair, with Obama's head peeking
over it, along with the line: "This seat is taken".
Mitt Romney’s speech was the climax of a festival of lies. The
candidate this week
added Medicare to his litany of falsehoods—on Bain Capital, his taxes,
welfare, and
debt, among many others. It’s now clear Romney will say anything. So
why trust anything
he says? From the beginning, the entire campaign has been a calculated
exercise in deceit.
Its central rationale was conceived in a falsehood, that Romney the
financial manipulator at
Bain was a prolific job creator. The suspiciously round number was
100,000 jobs. The evidence? Romney never did disclose any records to
back up his boast, and he took credit for hiring at companies long
after Bain was gone from them—and he was gone from Bain.
Typical was the self-proclaimed Catholic true believer Paul Ryan. He
gloried in the blatant
falsehood that the president cut more than $700 billion from Medicare
for our “parents and grandparents.” He brazenly blamed the loss of a
GM plant in his hometown of Janesville, Wis.,
on Barack Obama; the plant was actually shuttered in December 2008,
when George W. Bush,
a pariah at his own party’s convention, was still in the White House.
We know Ryan has forgotten
the social-justice teachings of his church. Evidently he also believes
in the nine commandments, discarding the one that says “Thou shalt not
bear false witness.”
Romney and Ryan have no clue on foreign policy and they think running
the govt is like running a company. They want to tax the poor and
subsidize the rich and the super rich.
Obama achieved in Libya, Egypt without direct involvement of his
troops, so is in Syria. It costs
billions to deploy troops. He kept his word on troop withdrawal from
Iraq. Afghanistan is Bush
legacy, so these exps should be charged to Bush's account. Now Israel
is breathing on Iran’s
neck and could act before American elections..only Obama will be able
to handle the situation.
MD
