“Drill Now, Pay Less” is a fiction after our last quarter of “Drive Less, Pay More.”

http://peureport.blogspot.com/2008/08/drive-less-pay-more.html

In my life I have observed that the people I don’t want to spend time with are always conservatives. Life is too short.

People, you are missing the point.
The ACT of governing, IS a liberal action. To provide for others IS a liberal concern. CONVSERVATIVE CANNOT govern, because they lack the very thought process of GOVERNANCE. They have no care or concern for others, ergo, they CANNOT even fathom governing.
This is a great discussion of the ills of the conservative mindset.
Homo economicus

It doesn’t take a math whiz to realize that one either has to raise the age for getting benefits (I’m not counting the disabled here), increase the SS tax, raise the SS tax cap, or lower benefits in order to keep the system going. All of these have pros and cons (mostly cons), and should get fair consideration.

I don’t fault McCain for saying that he would consider everything. What I do fault him for is his failure to articulate a position — SOME position — and stick with it. Right now, it’s so obvious that he will say anything anybody wants to hear that it’s impossible to take him seriously, let alone trust him.

Thank you.

“Linseed Grahamcracker is one of the dumbest, corrupt, RePugniScums to every travel north of the Mason-Jar line!”

And even when he did he took his own Mason Jar full of “shine.”

i know what you mean…

what if it’s your family… most of which are “nice”, for the most part…

And. Don’t forget “socialized farming”. Between subsidies, price supports, and the growing industrialization of the industry, food production is far removed from the “free market” model.

Although I DO find problems with his lack of support for Health and Education Benefits (voting against increased VA health car funding, opposing the Webb Bill etc) for OTHER VETS not lucky enough to have been able morally or physically able to dump an old wife that stood by and raised his family – to get a rich wealthy sugar momma . . .

This son of a military elite family has never had less than complete socialized lifetime medical care, and his family wealth (actually his sugar mamma’s ) has been protected and nurtured by “socialist” laws allowing a monopoly control of distribution of a controlled substance that has been shown to cause great social harm . . .

Bottom line: Does a multi-millionaire NEED to collect a tax free SS income payment? Seems it MIGHT be better spent donated to a welfare fund to help elderly/poor with heat this winter . . . (contrary to myth, most on “welfare” are white poor people and kids . . . .) – Jist a thought.

Funny how many anti-socialists work for socialized government that provides them socialized health care, social security, and socialized benefits. They get to work on socialized roadways and runways, use socialized mail, police, firefighters, education, etc. all while whining about socialism. About 90% of his life is socialized! He’s the poster boy for socialistic democracies!

I agree with your post, anyone who owns a yacht should be shown the door at the social security office as well as the disability office.

I know people who were genuinly hurt on the job and who actually cannot work because they were so badly injured who have had hell getting thier disablily started if they were ever able to get it started at all.

If the man can work, which he seems capable of doing obviously, why should he be drawing a check from a program that his ilk call socialism?

How can mccain be taken seriously?

My mother, who is 64, was saying that she remembers politicians doing just tha – donating their SS to some worthy cause because they didn’t need it. And few of them had or made as much as McCain.

Greedy pig.

Seems he could struggle along on his Senate Salary, Senate Retirement Payments (CURRENTLY collected for “over 20 years service”), his VA Disability, his wife’s $6 MILLION a year and the lifetime free Senate/VA Health Care . . . multi-millionaires SHOULD pay taxes on SS Benefits COLLECTED.

Now THAT is a “comprehensive approach” I might consider.

To all you self-deluding gullible Republicans who claim to believe that Obama interjected RACE into the presidential campaign by stating, “You know, he doesn’t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He’s risky.”, it must be humbling or even humiliating to realize how easily manipulated you’ve been. Your guy is a flat out lying SOB whose basic campaign strategy is to smear Obama and then claim to be the victim when Obama calls him out for what he’s done. MCCAIN IS A SHAMELESS LYING RACIST! And those who support him are no more honorable or worthy of trust or respect than he is.

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/08/setting-the-rec.html

Ad was released by McCain’s campaign on June 27th, 2008.

NOTE: The image doesn’t occur until about three-quarters of the way through the video. The way YouTube works, the default image occurs at the midpoint. In other words, McCain’s campaign purposefully choose this image.

Ok, and someone needs to point out that this is the same stance as Obama is taking on oil drilling. He’s willing to consider limited off-shore drilling as ‘part of a comprehensive approach.’

I think because the polls show that 72% of Americans want offshore drilling. Why isn’t even Obama saying “Look, I understand your pain, but we cannot be knee-jerk in our reactions. Ther fastest and probably best way to solve this problem isn’t by wasting our time with long-term oil solutions that will keep us addicted, but to spend our time on major alternative energy projects.

“The Oild Companies are not investing tehir profits – that they get from YOU – so we are going to use windfall taxation to start creating alternative fuel sources that will create jobs, protect the environment, stop sending billions of our $ overseas, and get us self-sufficient.”

Why isn’t anyone saying that?

Personally, I’d rather my taxes (because that is where the government gets the money to finance these things) went to take care of a few people who can’t take care of themselves than to a beat them up. Countries who take care of others have better statistics than those who do not.

WE just works a whole lot better than ME… :)