Who pays taxes?
Who pays for the budget?
Who pays for the stimulus?
Who is paying the salary of these 7,100 government employees?

We are. Let’s not make it sound nearly as Santa-Claus-y as you all are making it out to be.

Bush is thoroughly glad that slavery occurred.

On balance, George W. Bush hates black people (indicated at http://andrewyu-jenwang.blogspot.com/2008/12/andrew-yu-jen-wang-responds-to-stokely.html George W. Bush “doesn’t care about black people”).

“George Bush Used Hand Sanitizer Immediately After Shaking Barack Obama’s Hand: Is Bush Germophobic or Racist?” (Posted by Peter Griffin. (2008, November 11). George Bush Used Hand Sanitizer Immediately After Shaking Barack Obama’s Hand: Is Bush Germophobic or Racist? SodaHead. Retrieved November 11, 2008, from http://www.sodahead.com/question/188322/george-bush-used-hand-sanitizer-immediately-after-shaking-barack-obamas-hand-is-bush-germophobic-or-racist/?link=samf).

George W. Bush is racist.

Submitted by Andrew Yu-Jen Wang
B.S., Summa Cum Laude, 1996
Messiah College, Grantham, PA
Lower Merion High School, Ardmore, PA, 1993

Dear Robert Marshall (R),

There is a difference between being indebted to another nation and being an indentured SLAVE and outright owner/SLAVE…
… NO?

One says, “Give me the goods, I’ll pay you back later(IOU)”…
Another one says, “Please let me work five years for my ability to live a better life”…
And the last one said, “Please take me with you. You can chain me up, whip me bloody, rape my wife then sell/trade her and our children, refuse me an education and a paying job, why, you can even hang me if I drink from the wrong fountain. Oh, ps. please call me vile names”…
… YES?

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“If anybody wonders whether the stimulus package mattered, 7,100 people are going to have jobs with the state government,” Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA) noted Saturday.

If anyone needed an example of socialism, ask Gov. Tim Kaine whether the stimulus package mattered.

‘I wear the chain I forged in life’ replied the Ghost, ‘I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?”

Scrooge trembled more and more.

‘Or would you know,’ pursued the Ghost, ‘the weight and length of the strong coil you bear yourself? It was full as heavy and as long as this, seven Christmas Eves ago. You have laboured on it, since. It is a ponderous chain!’

— Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)

And lest we forget, and it definitely needs repeating, those 7,100 state employees will spend much of their paychecks at private sector businesses, which will help the bottom-line at one privately-owned company after another that they frequent, whether owned by a Republican, Democrat or Independent being irrelevant, but these privately-owned businesses might just keep or add employees which will help stop or stem the job loss bleeding, which is dragging down our nation’s economy like what happened between 1929 and 1933.

People seem to forget or fail to mention that public sector jobs always help private sector businesses. FDR hit on this simple idea after he entered office in 1933, facing a 25 percent plus unemployment disaster left to him by previous President Herbert Hoover. So, every federally-funded works program and project not only put people to work (and helped feed their family), but also stimulated the private sector as these “public sector” employees spent much of their government paycheck at privately-owned businesses. Very simple. Very effective. In four years, the unemployment rate fell from over 25 percent to about 10 percent, and if it had been sustained, the unemployment rate, especially in the private sector, would have continued to go down, making our economy even stronger heading into World War II.

However, in 1937 FDR listened to his conservative Treasury Secretary who was against the New Deal federal stimulus funding from the start, and the FDR administration, trying to balance the federal budget, decreased the deficit spending, cutting back on the works programs and projects, putting people out of work…which then had an equivalent negative impact on all the small privately-owned businesses frequented by these public workers, leading to the unemployment rates rising again as these privately-owned businesses, seeing their revenues shrink, started laying off workers, adding to the ranks of the unemployed. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.

Conservative Republicans of today are no different from their ideological ancestors who caused the Great Depression and did nothing to ameliorate the suffering of U.S. families, but actually tried to block sane, caring, patriotic policies of the FDR administration that improved the lives of so many U.S. citizens between 1933 and 1937, of Republicans, Democrats and Independents, both in the public sector and private sector.

But apparently there is no fool quite like an old conservative Republican fool, which we have plenty of today…with the same disastrous results.

“If anybody wonders whether the stimulus package mattered, 7,100 people are going to have jobs with the state government,” Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA) noted Saturday.

Whaaa? Government? SOCIALISM!!!

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Redbeans @ 5:00 pm. You are incorrect about Virgil Goode. He was defeated in the November election by Democrat Tom Perriello.

Jeff Frederick is not only state GOP chair, he represents the 52nd House District in the General Assembly.

Bob Marshall came within 65 votes of becoming the Republican nominee for the US Senate, in opposition to Mark Warner, so he’s more popular with the Republicans than one might be led to believe.

And then there’s the one about Bob Marshall and then-Gov. Jim Gilmore that seems to have been swept under the rug:

As Hugh Finn’s legal guardian, Michele Finn told his family last summer that she had decided to withhold nourishment from her husband and allow him to die. Initially, the family agreed, but in September, Del. Robert G. Marshall (R-Prince William), asked state health officials to investigate whether Hugh Finn was, as three physicians had found, in a vegetative state. Three more doctors named by the state confirmed the diagnosis, and a date was set for withdrawal of sustenance to Hugh Finn.
Then Gilmore jumped into the case, asking a Circuit Court judge to reconsider his ruling that the planned action satisfied provisions of Virginia’s Health Care Decisions Act. When he lost there, Gilmore appealed to the Virginia Supreme Court, which unanimously rejected the governor’s arguments.

But now when the realty base community says that these spending programs will boost wealth, resulting in the same thing, only this time it has a chance in hell of actually working, no one mentions it. No one covers it.

Your racism is showing like chimpy’s drunkenness.

Ha ha! what an idiot.
If he actually had on ankle chains he would realize the difference real fast.

Talk about socialism. Add that to their yearly checks per person thanks to oil company royalties, Alaska is pretty much a socialist state from the git go.