This week, the Secret Service became a little less secret, getting a ton of ink for paying visits to prostitutes and to Ted Nugent. The hooker scandal broke when an agent who'd agreed to pay $800 for sex, offered just $30 after services had been rendered. It's good to see government workers trying to save money (take note, GSA!), but that really isn't the way to do it. On the campaign trail, Mitt Romney once again failed to defuse the dog-on-car-roof controversy, conceding that if given the chance he'd do things differently -- not because it was cruel but because of the flak he's received in the ensuing years. In an effort to even the playing field, Republicans trotted out a quote from Dreams From My Father in which the president remembered, as a child in Indonesia, eating dog meat. Great, now that that's a wash, can we talk about something that really matters... like Hillary guzzling beer? Or, I don't know, Afghanistan.
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If they start talking about Afghanistan I think I'll cry. Both Obama and Romney think thing are going great, and we just have to listen to our brilliant Generals and in 25 or thirty years we will win the hearts and minds of the Afghan People and then er do what ever one does when one wins hearts and minds.
I'm a disabled Vietnam Veteran, and when I go to the V A Hospital and see those broken kids from Iraq and Afghanistan I really do cry.
As for GSA once again Amnesia reigns in our country, coupled with a lack of imagination about what it takes to turn ships & corporate cultures around. Doesn't anyone remember the utter destruction Republicans, who hate it, brought upon Our Government?
They Turned agencies into GOP Central headquarters by
A) Installing large Republican donors to Head up personnel
B) Karl Rove would show up for fundraisers at lunch (a kind of Job bribery)
C) Destroyed, demoted, defunded some agencies (Like FEMA, CPSD etc.
D) Got regulatory ones to work for their PREDATORY Corporate Benefactors!
(MMMSetc)
In key testimony former GSA employees, who returned, testified at how suprised they were
at the decline of GSA since the 1990s Including the former head who recently resiged.
As for the political process it is a candidate eat candiate world, the dog hardly need to worry.
So she'd wake him up at 4AM (when she was working on her PHD) to make him read.
And when he objected (in her tough love sort of way while encouraging him to do it)
Said: "This is no fun me either buster!"
This has little to do with The Judgement displayed by former one Term Governor Romney as an adult. Not to mention stuff like:
A) In bussiness he bought 22 companies that declaired bankruptcy while he still pocketter $550Million off of them.
B) Under him MA was 47th in the nation in employment
C) Began running for President then (been 11 years now) was shown rashing "his" state at Southern Republicans fundraisers. etc. etc. etc.
Hmm.
A lot of us are only comfortable with foods we grow up with. We just need to remember not all cultures have foods like us.
Repubs actually made it worse for Romney by pointing out that Obama once ate dog meat when he was a nine year old boy living in Indonesia.
Middle class voters can now compare Obama's childhood and how he was so poor he sometimes had to eat dog meat while Romney most likely ate steak, lobster and caviar from a silver spoon when he was nine.
Obama better understands life's hardships and the American dream of equal opportunity through equal access to higher education.
Obama's policies are much more likely to promote the general welfare pursuant to the U.S. Constitution.
Romney's policies will favor the one percent in support of a plutocracy where harsh dog-eat-dog realities turn the American dream into a nightmare for the average American.
Notice that the tax cuts NEVER stimulated the economy or created jobs.This is what they promised every time over and over again.The wealthy and corporations just extract the money out of the economy. That is why economic growth shrinks after each tax cut. This is recent history. You can look the numbers up yourselves. The numbers are in and accurate.
Annualized Growth Rates, Before and After TAX CUTS
Clinton
1993 to 1996 Real GDP = 3.44%
1993 to 1996 Real GDP per capita = 2.22%
1997 to 2000 Real GDP = 4.44%
1997 to 2000 Real GDP per capita = 3.26%
1993 to 2000 Real GDP = 4.01%
1993 to 2000 Real GDP per capita = 2.81%
Bush
2001 to 2004 Real GDP = 2.62%
2001 to 2004 Real GDP per capita = 1.68%
2005 to 2008 Real GDP = 1.75%
2005 to 2008 Real GDP per capita = 0.79%
2001 to 2008 Real GDP = 2.31%
2001 to 2008 Real GDP per capita = 1.36%”