First off according to the constitution, it is congress that passes spending bills. The president ask, congress passes, and the president then signs... so yes Congress is as much or more to blame than the president.

and your right, we should put obama in there. yeah, sure, he'll cut down on the spending...please...the guy wants to create a whole new monstrous dept called nationlized medicine.

I hope that Simpson is judged according to the case at hand.
Whether I though he was guilty or innocent of murder is irrelevant
as this is a wholly seperate charge and if found guilty he needs to
pay his debt to society.

I think he'll get a fair trial. The jury selection process was probably
pretty stringent.

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Where does Nixon's 72 thrashing of McGovern rate? I was thinking it was until 84 the most one-sided landslide.

That experience just sent a chill down my spine, as it was the first time in my life that I'd actually experienced something like that personally. That's something that doesn't exist here, and never really has over the course of my lifetime.

I could go on all day but I can't imagine winning an argument with anybody who can remember how deep the shallow end of their town pool was at 4 years of age. you must have been a remarkably smart child.

well, I'm not going back thru all the stats that prove that false but while you were listening to Malcom at 8 years old, apparently you didnt see the "whites only" restaurants, drinking fountains, and bathrooms that existed in the South at the time.

to think that has no bearing now is just absurd

Stranger, unless you're lying about your age you're the same age as I am, 58, and I was under ten all through the fifties. You really expect me to believe you were listening to Malcolm at that age, and understood what he was talking about, and remember it? What's your real agenda?

There are crabs in the barrel in every group, whites too! Who made the barrel and put them in it?

If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that is not progress. You pull the knife all the way out, that is not progress. The progress is healing the wound that the blow made, and they haven't even begin to pull the knife out, much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife was there!

~El Hajj Malik Shabazz (Malcom X)

Minorities simply to not have the same opportunities as whites, in the grand scheme of things.

EarlzP you brought up such a good point, not really on topic...But borrowing money from China. When I first heard that I was like WTF? Isn't China one of the countries we don't actually agree on things with??? We treat them like enemies and question their government but will take a hand out from them???

We need to acknowledge the differences and focus on the similarities.

So when I say that blacks run a gauntlet of fire It doesn't encompass violence but rather pressure from all sides. In my HS you had more Crips and Bloods than bookish friends to hang with. At times I felt like more than my wallet was at stake. The very party I decided to skip was the one where a classmate was shot and killed. Trust, experiencing violence is nothing new to many of us.

I may be dead wrong, but if we want real change it is time for the people of this nation to stop being so damn partisan. Obama has consistantly voted with his party how is that change? Unless the only change some of these posters want is to change the name of the idiot in cheif.
To make real change in this nation we need, in MHO, the following:
1. A balenced budget ammendment. The congress can not pass any bills to spend what we have not got. A no raiding Social Security.

2. End Lobbists. It is time for the politicians to start working for the people of this nation, not the special intrest groups.

3. Term limits and the more efficient right to fire a politician.

4. End their ability to raise their own pay. I mean if you went to work for person X you dont get to vote yourself a pay raise for not working or even for working. Person X gets to descide your pay raise, based upon how well you have done and the available funds. In this case person X is the district that they come from.

5. End private campaign financing. Only public funding and public funds will be available for anyone who can get enough supporters. Not just the Republicans and the Democrats.

6. End foriegn Aid. No more money from the US to any other country other than for humanitarian emergencies.

7. I am not sure about this one, i mean if the others were in place this one may not be needed, but None of the Above is a viable option. We need to be able to say you all suck.

8. Have an independent auditor go over the books for all government and government mandated organizations. IF you get tax money your books will be reviewed for waste and efficency.

9. End All corporate welfare. Not just the billions we give the oil companies, which i want to point out the Dems support just as often as the repubs, BUT ALL corporate welfare.

10. Energy policy: Do it all. Drill, push alternatives, research, nuclear power, and put the "energy" of the people in this nation on finding viable alternatives and ways to power this nation. This will require the US govt to fund inproving the infrestructure of this nation. IT is subpar for what it will need to be, so that we can grow.

11. I honestly dont have an answer for health care, would be interesting to see what someone can come up with that could be acceptable to the majority of people not just the extreams.

Ok, now it is time for all you to bash my ideas.

Not a race problem.
Rotten kid problem.

I liken being black to running a gauntlet of fire. If you can survive the name calling, questions
about your intellect, being called ugly, and seeing people that look like you in the worst of condidtion
and still keep your head up you're doing well.

this is a news flash to all Americas, there is no such thing, as a war on terror. its your governments way of keep you Americans in line.

How to react to terror? my brothers in israel know this and so do I...

I hope that somewhere in the 5 pages of this thread someone has addressed that McCain himself has used "lipstick on a pig" several times over the years.

Liberals have no sense of history and will ignore facts/figures and I have been watching this for years.

Under Reagan the amount of money to US Treasury increased.

The same happened with the Bush tax cuts.

The so called Clinton economy did not take off until after the Conservatives came into power in 1994

and most of his 'surplus' was book keeping.

The problem is not the amount of money we take in but it is the out of control spending by Liberal and RHINO Pols.

Reduce taxes, cut Government useless Social Programs, allow oil drilling, refinery construction, coal and nuclear power plants construction, shale oil production and all the work that supports these very high paying jobs. Get Government out of the road. A bloated Federal Government is the problem not the solution.