On-Topic Mondays Final Debate

[HenryReardon]

The rich are and the republican tax plan I mentioned would make the gap between the rich and most of society even wider. Pay attention.

I ask for specifics and you answer in sweeping generalities that make no sense. Nice.

So I'll ask again, and do pay attention and focus on the question. What profits? What makes them obscene? Retained by whom?

Try to control your wealth envy as you answer.

 

[Benvolio]

WTF? If Mitt thought that Obama's foreign policy was weak, why would he agree with it? How does that 'neutralize' it? If anything, Mitt ended up emphazing how successful Obama has been with Bin Laden, Mubarak, and pulling out our troops.

I swear Benny, you must have eaten paint chips like they were Pringles when you were a kid.

The point is, foreign policy is not what the election is about. It is not an issue.

 

[Kulindahr]

Agreed. Guys, you have a lot to say in always criticizing Obama, but what are your criticisms towards Romney constantly flipping his positions that just baffle the audience and Obama? Clearly you notice it. His waffling on abortion alone is a mindfuck.

I think he's held five different positions on the issue -- crazy.

 

[Kulindahr]

The vocabulary the GOP endorses...

She's not mature enough to be out of diapers. That she flings poo shouldn't surprise anyone.

 

[Kulindahr]

Good for Ann. Tell it like it is!

You've just explained why so many of your posts are nothing but poo.

 

[HenryReardon]

You've just explained why so many of your posts are nothing but poo.

Ann is a pretty sharp lady. A lot sharper than bedwetting liberals give her credit for.

 

[Kulindahr]

I ask for specifics and you answer in sweeping generalities that make no sense. Nice.

So I'll ask again, and do pay attention and focus on the question. What profits? What makes them obscene? Retained by whom?

Try to control your wealth envy as you answer.

You should be quite content with that approach to answering you -- it's what Romney has done all along. It you like it from Mitt, why not from GC?

 

[Kulindahr]

Ann is a pretty sharp lady. A lot sharper than bedwetting liberals give her credit for.

Sharp enough to fill her books with points that contradict the endnotes she uses to document them.

 

[HenryReardon]

You should be quite content with that approach to answering you -- it's what Romney has done all along. It you like it from Mitt, why not from GC?

Huh? It's obvious that the guy doesn't have a clue as to what profit is, along with zero understanding of basic economics. And it has nothing to do with Romney.

 

[Rolyo85]

It does. You get non answers and flip-flopping from Romney and call it being presidential and see no problem with it. So on what grounds would you ask specifics of someone else?

 

[HenryReardon]

It does. You get non answers and flip-flopping from Romney and call it being presidential and see no problem with it. So on what grounds would you ask specifics of someone else?

Speak for yourself. I've never called Romeny presidential. I don't even like the guy, and all he has going for him is that he is NOT Obama.

Now answer my questions, if you can. Or are you just parroting liberal talking points?

 

[rareboy]

Ann is a pretty sharp lady. A lot sharper than bedwetting liberals give her credit for.

It doesn't surprise me at all that Ann Coulter would be your centrefold fantasy....Like your alter ego Benvolio, you don't not only not get it...you don't want to get it. Or are incapable of getting it, I suspect. Just like not getting 'Rearden' right, but trying to bluff it out.

That is why Andy Coulter seems smart to you.

But to anyone with an ounce of critical judgement or even modest post secondary education, her logic is sloppy, her prose appalling and her 'sharpness' the equivalent of a five dollar crack whore looking to scam the next fix; in her case, for another 2.5 minutes of 'fame'.

 

[HenryReardon]

I'm not voting FOR anybody. I'm voting AGAINST Obama.

There are no good choices in this election.

 

[Rolyo85]

I'm not voting FOR anybody. I'm voting AGAINST Obama.

There are no good choices in this election.

Yes we figured. Hate voting is classy.

 

[HenryReardon]

People have explained specifics. I have provided links, including one on his completely impossible tax plan that raises taxes on the middle class. It's not my fault some won't read.

Nobody, including the guy to posted the question about "obscene" profits (whatever they are), has answered my question.
Here goes one final time: What obscene profits? Why are they obscene? Retained by whom?

 

[HenryReardon]

Yes we figured. Hate voting is classy.

Oh, that's too funny. Most people would prefer to sit this one out, but the country cannot afford four more years of Obama's continued destruction of this country.

 

[rareboy]

^ That doesn't fly.

Are you the least bit disappointed, Chance, that it hasn't been possible to peel any homo votes away from the scary man in the White House?

You have been exposed as a false flag carrying 'Libertarian' when it has been shown repeatedly that you cannot or do not understand those Randian policies and sterile philosophies that would give you even a modicum of cred on this forum.

You are voting for Mitt. You know it. We know it. Just do it.

 

[JayHawk]

I'm not voting FOR anybody. I'm voting AGAINST Obama.

There are no good choices in this election.

Yes we figured. Hate voting is classy.

That is why most republicans are going to the polls is to throw out the black guy. As demonstrated multiple times over the last several years the posters here against Obama aren't wanting to call him on policy and discuss it they simply dislike him as a person. To the end that they can try and parse his words into an insult and then feign indignant anger over the insult they concocted. Where as their boy Romney flips and flops and takes up positions that has nothing to do with the Republican platform and you hear not a peep. When you ask why they are voting for Romney typically they wont answer and simply say they are democratic normally or just not answer the question. It really is kind of comical.

What i found amusing today was various conservatives digging at every angle they could to try and come up with a reason it wasnt Romney who took an ass whooping because he knows little to nothing about foreign policy. Ryan was at least able to recite facts about countries but as second man on the ticket he could not actually state or form positions on issues.

As moody's has reported we WILL get 12 million jobs over the next four years regardless of who takes office in Jan 13. So really as we continue the typical slog after a banking recession the only question is will we find ourselves embroiled in a fruitless conflict someone we would rather not be or will we use Diplomacy to it final breath before resorting to the military diplomatic option. I would say a vast ignorance of the shape of the middle east and how the policy would differ means he doesn't have enough knowledge to form an opinion so Romney simply agrees with Obama. That sort of ignorance will land us in serious shit if Romney is elected.

 

[HenryReardon]

Obscene profits.

http://www.verisi.com/resources/us-ceo-compensation.htm

It's been getting worse for that last 30 years since the Reagan era.

CEOs in 1980 made 44 to 1 compared to the average worker. In 2010, they make 325 to 1.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/02/ceo-pay-worker-pay_n_1471685.html

CEO pay grew by 127% faster then the average worker pay in the last 30 years.

Yes grossly obscene profits.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...-obama-says-tax-rates-are-lowest-1950s-ceos-/

Obama made a factual claim about the upper 1% paying the lowest tax rates since the 1950s. Mitt Romney would know it.

Time to raise the taxes on the rich.

None of your links have anything to do with the question at hand. All they do is reveal both ignorance and wealth envy.

 

[rareboy]

Well I certainly don't have wealth envy and I'm appalled at the dead money accruing in the vaults of the corporations and the !% of the wealth hoarders in the US and elswhere.

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