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entitlement culture
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| ichbinsisyphos wrote: | | entitlement culture |
lol, ++
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| ichbinsisyphos wrote: | | entitlement culture |
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the only reason he won't get his ass handed to him is because when romney wins, obama will be running against his white mormon twin from another dimension. |
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energyman76b
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I wonder what happens when someone else is elected and all those Obama haters here have to realize: no matter who, they are fucked.
Will we see BK trolling against the new guy?
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As a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oblabla deserves a third term. And the USA deserves him. Just wondering who of the Bush clan might be ready to take over the madhouse.  |
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You got Jeb Bush waiting in the wings. 
Got to wait a few more years for Chelsea Clinton.
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| energyman76b wrote: | I wonder what happens when someone else is elected and all those Obama haters here have to realize: no matter who, they are fucked.
Will we see BK trolling against the new guy? |
The point of me trolling "this guy" was to help you see what was like listening to you troll the last guy, you goose-stepping teabagger. 
Oh, and it's not over yet, because you need to go through eight years of that shit to really understand. Obama is going to be re-elected, and you have four more years of lesson-learning to go.
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| wildhorse wrote: | | As a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oblabla deserves a third term. And the USA deserves him. Just wondering who of the Bush clan might be ready to take over the madhouse. |
I heard Jeb's son Harry is running for Congress.
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energyman76b
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | energyman76b wrote: | I wonder what happens when someone else is elected and all those Obama haters here have to realize: no matter who, they are fucked.
Will we see BK trolling against the new guy? |
The point of me trolling "this guy" was to help you see what was like listening to you troll the last guy, you goose-stepping teabagger.
Oh, and it's not over yet, because you need to go through eight years of that shit to really understand. Obama is going to be re-elected, and you have four more years of lesson-learning to go. |
in the last 30 years there was one decent president. Clinton. The rest were just the usual bunch of corrupt, amorale assholes. Bush was a bit worse, being a puppet for his masters at Halliburton, but hey... looking at all your presidents up to now, Obama is not worse than many and probably better than most.
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Obama has been a miserable failure. He has failed to reinvigorate the economy, lost a war, done nothing that he said he was going to do, committed all the sins of his predecessor (but worse), run a corrupt bribe-taking White House, and turned the U.S. into a citizen-groping, citizen-assassinating police state.
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Wow. That's pretty shocking.
Somebody should make posters of that and put them everywhere.
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| energyman76b wrote: | | in the last 30 years there was one decent president. Clinton. |
:rotflmao:
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| energyman76b wrote: | | in the last 30 years there was one decent president. Clinton. |
You mean to say that you liked Clinton. He was no more decent then any other if you look at it objectively. Nor the next one will be decent.
He is decent if you profit from his presidency, but on a global scale he will be a scumbag.
I mean I really like JFK, or the mythology of JFK. Speeches and all, he was awesome, in a rock star kind of way. Very good for making quasi-intellectual youtube clips about FDR and Illuminati and stuff. Did he do some bad stuff, and was bad stuff happening while he was in office? Sure. |
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energyman76b
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'global competiveness' or whatever that one is written is measured how? and by whom?
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'global competiveness' or whatever that one is written is measured how? and by whom? |
The World Economic Forum’s Centre for Global Competitiveness and Performance through its Global Competitiveness Report and report series, aims to mirror the business operating environment and competitiveness of over 140 economies worldwide. The report series identify advantages as well as impediments to national growth thereby offering a unique benchmarking tool to the public and private sectors as well as academia and civil society.The Centre works with a network of Partner Institutes as well as leading academics worldwide to ensure the latest thinking and research on global competitiveness are incorporated into its reports.
Now, back to Obama.
Dependency Index Surges 23% Under President Obama
| Quote: | The American public's dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation.
The conservative think tank's annual Index of Dependence on Government tracks money spent on housing, health, welfare, education subsidies and other federal programs that were "traditionally provided to needy people by local organizations and families."
The increase under Obama is the biggest two-year jump since Jimmy Carter was president, the data show.
The rise was driven mainly by increases in housing subsidies, an expansion in Medicaid and changes to the welfare system, along with a sharp rise in food stamps, the study found.
"You can't get around the fact that policy decisions made over the past two years, on top of those made over the past several decades, are having a large effect on the pace of growth of the index," said William Beach, who authored the Heritage study.
Dependence on the government has climbed steadily since 1962, when the index stood at 19. By 1980, the index had risen to 100. It stood at 294 in 2010, the last year for which the data are available. The D.C.-based Heritage Foundation has produced the index for nine years.
The report also found that spending on "dependence programs" accounts for more than 70% of the federal budget. That, too, is up dramatically. In 1990, for example, the figure stood at 48.5%, and in 1962 just over a quarter of federal spending went to dependence programs.
At the same time, fewer Americans pay income taxes, the report notes. Almost half (49.5%) didn't pay income taxes in 2009, the latest year for which the researchers have data. Back in the late 1960s, only 12% of Americans escaped the income tax burden.
Other findings:
The number of people dependent on the federal government shot up 7.5% over the past two years.
In 2010, for the first time ever, average spending on dependence programs per recipient exceeded the country's per-capita disposable income.
The dependency index has dipped only seven times in the past 49 years, three of which were under President Reagan and two under President Clinton.
Some observers say the rise in dependence under Obama is merely a reflection of the deep and long recession.
But Beach says his team's research shows that economic effects account for only one-fifth of the change in the index. |
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| zixnub wrote: | | Obama will be re elected. Not because people think he's a good president, but because the competition will be a joke. |
Wouldn't be surprised. Just look at what dickheads the media is pushing as alternative.
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energyman76b
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is that of the same kind of indexes that rank countries in their awesomeness based on how 'scandinavian' they are?
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wildhorse
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| energyman76b wrote: |
'global competiveness' or whatever that one is written is measured how? and by whom? |
By a bunch of morons who compare individual EU states like Luxembourg with the USA. These guys are retarded. |
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