Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Chocolate rations have been increased from 100 grams to 80 grams.

Rant Cornucopia follows

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So now revenue neutral means raising revenue?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/us/politics/04budget.html

I've got an idea for helping to strengthen social security; collect taxes to fund the program instead of legislating a 2% tax cut?  McCain, I thought you were better than this.


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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/business/03pay.html

Seems like the CEO's have wised up and realized that deferred compensation is a bad idea.  Maybe they know the stock ship lollipop is about to hit the iceberg..  Too bad state workers didn't figure it out.

Funny, I missed my 23% raise.  According to the NY times the average American worker got a 0.5% raise.  I've had a 5% pay cut since 2009.  This year brought news that I could be in the unemployment like in two years.  More than likely the job I do will be outsourced out of state or country.


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“I have little question that as long as this president is in the Oval Office, a real solution is unattainable,” Mitch McConnell, 2011

“the single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president.”  Mitch McConnell, 2010

Sounds bipartisan to me.

"President Obama needs to decide between his goal of higher taxes or a bipartisan plan to address our deficit. He can't have both.". 

Well, so much for bipartisian.

“Why are we continuing down the same path when it is not working?” asked Mr. Scott, the freshman class leader, who said that freshman Republicans have the long-term fiscal health of the nation in mind.

Dear Mr Scott.  $4 trillion cut over 10 years is not serious?  Sorry that only 3 Trillion came from cuts and 1 Trillion came from revenue increases.  If you could do math, you'd still see it was a net gain for the GOP of 2 Trillion.

Boehner doesn't "hope" they can work their way through this.  The way -they- see it, the worse shape this country is in, the better their chances in 2012. 

It appears the GOP couldn't care less about the consequences of widespread unemployment, depression, chaos or even militias groups forming in the U.S.  Otherwise they'd just up the limit like they did from 2000 to 2008.

If the GOP wants a US-wide Christian theocracy, single party dictatorship, or whatever, they could wait until 2012 and give it a shot. 


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This is what happens when an extreme third party decides to run in a two party system as one of the existing parties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Minnesota_state_government_shutdown

In Minnesota, the GOP controls 56% of the Senate, 54% of the House, and wants 100% of the control.  Wisconsin GOP is furious about our recalls, running fake democrat in primarie to buy time to install voter ID and gerrymander the poll maps, yet of the 53% of the people that voted in Walker in Wisconsin [before any of the far right nonsense started], I refuse to believe that 100% of them thinks that my rep should have ZERO voice.  I have to believe it's the same in Minnesota. 

WI has a GOP Governor, House, and Senate, so the Democrats in our state basically might as well not show up.  That's about how much input the other 47% of the state has right now.

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