Wow - Crazy Poll Questions

2012-11-11 Thread Gruss Gott
read these questions are get scared at the answers: Public Policy Polling, the firm that correctly predicted all 50 states in the presidential election, is known for asking some weird, quirky and, sometimes, controversial questions in its polls. Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/ppp-pol

Re: These maps put GOP/Dem into a different perspective

2012-11-11 Thread Sam
You miss the point, productive folk vote R. People on the dole vote for more free stuff. Only the D's will keep the free spigot open. Infrastructure won't help if people are trained to accept handouts instead of hard work. We're at 47 million people on food stamps. Welcome to the new America. .

Re: These maps put GOP/Dem into a different perspective

2012-11-11 Thread Gruss Gott
LRS Scout wrote: > > I don't disagree, and I'm coming to think we need to have another > constitutional convention. > > That's a pretty scary concept though. Yeah ... I'm completely a state's right (even city rights) guy, but you can't avoid the notion that that worked great when our economy was

Re: Was there some bad economic news this week?

2012-11-11 Thread Gruss Gott
Jerry Barnes wrote: > > > Wow. It's almost like our country has become a Corpocracy instead of a > democratic republic. > It's the deficit that's funding the corporations! Ain't something you heard about during the election! http://www.businessinsider.com/fiscal-cliff-connection-between-corpo

Re: These maps put GOP/Dem into a different perspective

2012-11-11 Thread LRS Scout
I don't disagree, and I'm coming to think we need to have another constitutional convention. That's a pretty scary concept though. On Nov 11, 2012 1:42 PM, "Gruss Gott" wrote: > > Sam wrote: > > > > It's more like they can't find a job so someone has to pay for them. > > I'd rather have the ou

Re: These maps put GOP/Dem into a different perspective

2012-11-11 Thread Gruss Gott
Sam wrote: > > It's more like they can't find a job so someone has to pay for them. > I'd rather have the out working. But that's me, evil white guy. > I we should want everybody to be productive - that's been America's secret for 200 years: we innovate and we employ (the assembly line, the comp

Re: Was there some bad economic news this week?

2012-11-11 Thread Jerry Barnes
"If you also list the job gains, and graph them against increases in Corporate Profits that would be very worthwhile! :-)" Great idea. I'll let you take that one. Make sure to compensate for the decreased size of the pool of laborers "Corporate profits are back up to almost the levels they w

Re: Was there some bad economic news this week?

2012-11-11 Thread Vivec
If you also list the job gains, and graph them against increases in Corporate Profits that would be very worthwhile! :-) Corporate profits are back up to almost the levels they were pre 2008. Yet hiring is still down, and wages are still down. On 10 November 2012 22:52, Jerry Barnes wrote: >

Re: These maps put GOP/Dem into a different perspective

2012-11-11 Thread J.J. Merrick
Sounds like you have a really bad plan or you got put on an HSA for which you should have an account that is a tax-free account that you pay everything from. We did that and it was awful with kids. Great for people who don't need a doctor. Now we pay $525 a month for my wife and kids and it is a