VIDEO REPORT: Eric Cantor Hosts Another Job Fair That Promotes Jobs Fueled By The Stimulus
VIDEO REPORT: Eric Cantor Hosts Another Job Fair That Promotes Jobs Fueled By The Stimulus
On Monday, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) hosted a job fair in his district at Germanna Community College. Like his last job fair in August, Cantor used it as an opportunity to gain positive local press and launch attacks against President Obama.
At the fair, Cantor told reporters that the stimulus has been an “utter failure.” But as the Washington Post has noted, nearly half of the “30 organizations participating” in Cantor’s event “were recipients of the stimulus.”
ThinkProgress attended the event, which attracted more than 600 people. Victor Zapanta produced a video report on Cantor’s stimulus-fueled job fair. Watch it:
So far, the stimulus has injected over $5 billion into Virginia, creating or saving at least 5,900 jobs. The money has helped local governments avoid budget cuts and layoffs, while spurring private investment by funding infrastructure and other critical projects. Many of the employers at Cantor’s job fair were a clear demonstration of the success of the stimulus:
– The Culpeper County School system will have a total of $4.1 million in stimulus funding to work with for the fiscal year 2010. The school system is hiring 7 people and the stimulus is helping to retain the over 700 people employed by the system. In March the Culpeper School Board, which is not authorized to levy taxes, approved a $70.6 million budget. As the Culpeper Star-Exponent reported, “the school budget includes $2.2 million in recently approved stimulus money.”
– Higher education institutions at the fair were encouraging job-seekers to go back to school. Many of universities, like Grand Canyon University, touts federal TEACH and Pell grants as a way to attend. The stimulus provided $14 million in Pell Grants.
– The Orange County Public Schools received at least $340,000 from the stimulus and is hiring 7 people.
It’s worth noting that among the job fair participants, more than half were from the public sector, including the Department of Veterans Affairs, the CIA, FBI, Army and the FAA –- even though Cantor previously has criticized the stimulus plan for placing too great an emphasis on “preserving jobs in the public sector.” In Virginia alone, the Department of Defense has 83 projects totaling $75.7 million in stimulus money. It’s no wonder Cantor would feature the Culpeper Army recruiting center at his fair, especially since the Army in Virginia has received $61 million in stimulus money.
As the Washington Monthly’s Steve Benen observed, “the job fair at which Cantor trashed the stimulus wouldn’t have been possible were it not for the stimulus.”
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Is there one original thought between the entire lot of Republicans? Gee Whiz!
November 25th, 2009 at 1:13 pmKeep pointing out the truth, keep exposing the hypocrisy.
But it’s ultimately pointless. These Repubs will never admit that the stimulus works and that they’ve benefited from it. Yet again, our MSM fails us.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:15 pmOh Cantor in the words of your people; you’re a schmuck.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:15 pmEddie Cantor was the good cantor. This Repub. Rep. Eric Cantor (R – Can’t) is the bad cantor. Bad, bad, bad.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:21 pmAnother day… another bit of GOOPer hypocrisy…
In other news, water is still wet, and the sun came up today… in the east… again…
November 25th, 2009 at 1:25 pmI can’t get over how stupid the Repug sheeple are. Can’t they ASK where he got the money? Why are people so clueless? Can’t they read a newpaper? Watch something other than Faux News? I saw some of Saeah’s fans the other day, and they were IDIOTS! ‘I like Sarah because she is real.’ WTF does that even mean?
November 25th, 2009 at 1:35 pmYou can GO HERE and tell him…Thank You! And, how he should stand beside President Obama and thank government for helping the American people:
http://cantor.house.gov/contact.htm
or
Washington, DC
329 Cannon Building
Washington, DC 20515
P: 202.225-2815
F: 202.225-0011
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Culpeper
November 25th, 2009 at 1:37 pm763 Madison Rd #207
Culpeper, VA 22701
P: 540.825-8960
F: 540.825-8964
CD @ #3
I agree, in the words of my people…Eric Cantor, you’re a schmuck!
November 25th, 2009 at 1:37 pmI have no problem with Republican lawmakers touting opportunities that can be traced to the stimulus. That’s a proper activity for legislators — look after the needs of their constituents.
What i have a problem with is hypocritical, disingenuous lawmakers who badmouth things like the stimulus and then turn around and pretend that they had something to do with the opportunities it provides.
THAT’S what I have a problem with.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:39 pmhello Americans, can you sort out something this simple?
November 25th, 2009 at 1:42 pmIt’s not like someone, anyone from the so-called mainstream media is going to call him or any of the Republicans out on any of their lies. Hell, even my President is allowing scum like Joe Lieberman (the man who’s chairmanship he saved) to do and say whatever he wants with not one word of defense.
All of this “LYING” coming from the non-supporters of decency, dignity, and respect, are being allowed to spew BS without any resistance from anyone. I for one am TIRED of defending those who cant or wont defend themselves. And I am damn TIRED of FEAR, IGNORANCE and STUPIDITY driving the debate on everything. People are dying due to lack of basic services, and I’m supposed to give a ish about where some civilian who quit her job as Governor is selling her book, and you wonder why people think our coountry is so damn dumb, because it is.
RIP
November 25th, 2009 at 1:42 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
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Mosul, Iraq
When Victor asked Cantor’s staffers about stimulus providing half of the jobs at the job fair, their silence spoke volumes. Whoever runs against him next year needs to use this in a commercial.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:43 pmAnd, of course, the Dems are going to let this opportunity to embarrass Cantor go by. If I were a VA Dem I would be out raking Cantor over the coals so that he would be afraid to make any public statements, lest he get caught in more of his own hypocrisy. The Dems do not need to be running for office to tear down some of these vocal Republicans. It is a wise strategy to keep them off balance as much as possible. This would pave the way for the elections in 2010. Campaigns do not start with the primaries; the seeds of doubt need to be planted early.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:46 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
It just doesn’t stop does it — hypocrisy reigns.
They are such fools, but their lemmings don’t ever see the inconsistency, the lies, and the hypocrisy.
November 25th, 2009 at 1:50 pmFVNY says:
Why are you so desperate to distract us from Cantor’s hypocrisy?
November 25th, 2009 at 1:51 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
And, in the immortal words of some random ancestors of mine…he’s not just a schmuck, he’s a putz, to boot!
November 25th, 2009 at 1:52 pmWhen did a Republican ever ask where the money came from? ;)
November 25th, 2009 at 1:54 pmFVNY,
What an excellent point. There’s no question that the stimulus has brought a great deal of opportunity to small businesses, which was one of the bill’s intended effects. Of course, since Cantor voted against it, he’s intent on sinking small business owners under a mountain of debt incurred by the banking industry. Which Cantor receives quite a bit of campaign cash from…
November 25th, 2009 at 1:54 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
fvny(aaronk)
because there were only a few there and they represented only a handful of jobs dumbass……
because of the economy that you and your’s created there are many people looking to fill a few jobs.
any more stupid questions?
November 25th, 2009 at 1:58 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
aaronk, you think that money spent in an area doesn’t help business? Really? How do you rationalize that bit of nonesense?
You think that if one of these governmental agencies needs a building or a road that they will do in with dept. people.
Keep trying troll. You make this easy.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:02 pmaaronk, why is it that you don’t want to talk about cantor?
do you have an agenda?
November 25th, 2009 at 2:04 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
How about cantor aaronk? Don’t you think it’s dishonest to behave the way he is?
November 25th, 2009 at 2:06 pmThe Boars head Inn and Bankers Life and Casualty make Roads and buildings?
I am so confused….
November 25th, 2009 at 2:07 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
look aaronk, I run a small business. I borrowed money from the nsba and the funds came directly from the stimulus.
I was told that without it the money would not have been available.
next.
Thanks tundra for showing your ignorance.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:09 pmWell, as we Virginians know, there’s only two things that come from Orange and Culpeper counties, and that’s steers and … Ah, never mind…
But it is very amusing to see stimulus money being used for so much good in the heart of wingnut country here in our Commonwealth. These are the same people who, after they take on a government-stimuluated new job arising from this job fair, will no doubt be at the next teabagger rally waving a “Don’t Tread on Me” flag and screaming about how they want the gummint out of their lives…
November 25th, 2009 at 2:10 pmwhy don’t you trolls tell us again how trickle down works….
that seems to be where you are going with this.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:11 pmHow exactly did the stimulus help those businesses you just cited?
Here’s how:
November 25th, 2009 at 2:11 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/11/21/business/21stimulus_graphic.html
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Wrong, the money wasn’t available until recently. Bush did the bank bailout with no strings attached, remember.
President Obmama did the stimulus for Americans.
When you get your head out of your ass, come back and see us.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:16 pmcantor’s hypocricy. Do you have a problem with it or do you admire liers? question is mute for aaronk and tundra.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:17 pmtundra and fvny(aaronk) show thier colors.
Talk about anything but a crooked, lying republican.
Yet they always claim not to be republicans…..oiy.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:20 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
The bottom line for cantor and the trolls is that the stimulus is working and it will be evident looking back.
How will you guys rationalize that? What lies will you tell?
How will you give credit for it to a republican.
So many lies to compose and spew and so little time. You better get busy.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:22 pmheh, no, it was intended to imply truth deafness on your part.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:23 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Tundra says:
“… I am so confused….”
November 25th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
November 25th, 2009 at 2:25 pm~~~~~~~~
No truer words were ever spoken!
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You ignore all the real evidence that it is working and you’re convinced it’s not….
Wonder where we would be right now without it…..
You just keep posting aaronk. You do my work for me.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:29 pmRep. Cantor, just another hypocritical Repubican’t.
O/T:
November 25th, 2009 at 2:29 pmI just started reading Joan Walsh’s comments on Salon and learned that President Obama will be speaking at West Point next Tuesday on his criminal escalation of the imperial occupation of Afghanistan. Just like god-damned Bush, hiding behind the troops: how cowardly… President Obama, why don’t you speak before the public in any non-military setting in Anytown or Anycity, USA? Afraid of the public? Afraid of some anti-war hecklers? Afraid? Just another gutless war-monger…
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Anyone else notice how the trolls demanded to be told how the stimulus helps private businesses, then when Fred explains, this one immediately shifts his focus, without acknowledging that his previous challenge had been met and bested?
November 25th, 2009 at 2:30 pmt and a,
just for you trolls:
Jobless claims dip, spending up in sign of rebound
In the face of reality it seems to be you two trolls who tow the party line. You guys must like cantor.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:31 pmFVNY says:
Let me help…
http://www.ihsglobalinsight.com/EconomicFinancialData
November 25th, 2009 at 2:31 pmFVNY?
Some more…
http://www.economy.com/default.asp
http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~nroubini/WEBLINKS.HTM
Go ahead and look at the data yourself… you may have to register for a ‘free trial’ at some of the sites but go-ahead… and then get back to us with your analysis… okay?
November 25th, 2009 at 2:31 pmTundra, You’re an idiot. I’ve been reading your posts, and you are all over the damn place.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:32 pmEverything seems to be mythological to you unless rush tells you different.
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belaccifer lacca, tundra will say they are “mythological”
rush didn’t acknowledge their existance…..
November 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pmJust like his Reichwing brethren and sistern, Cantor has no sense of irony or hypocrisy. Most of them are, I suspect, just so stupid and self-absorbed that they truly don’t realize they are doing it.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:35 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
just another convenient lie. If everone who said that here were telling the truth we would never have had a second bush term.
aaronk, you are a known, proven liar.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:36 pmA graph that goes well into 2010 “assuming” what the job market would be like. Also “Assuming” what it would have been like without the stimulus.
Ahh, so your argument is that economic projections have no value… got it.
So in your opinion the whole field of economics is just so much ‘assuming’
Awesome… not sure I disagree with you but I struggle to see why you think this means that Republican ‘projections’ and ‘theories’ are more reasonable, especially since we’ve seen them in action and they FAILED.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:36 pmTundra, you stuck your nose in and got it chopped off.
What happened to your ethics? Oh yeah, they are republican ethics. Say things but not really mean them and then ignore it when called on your lies…….pattern?
November 25th, 2009 at 2:38 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Show me that same graph in 2010 with real data in it and it will be PROOF.
Ahh, so your real argument is that there is no way to appease you now.
Got it.
So why did he ask? (I think we both know why, don’t we?)
November 25th, 2009 at 2:41 pmTundra says:
Oh, wow. The idea that people could project future activity based on current data is completely alien to you, isn’t it? Do you think it’s a form of witchcraft? Is that why you’re so upset?
November 25th, 2009 at 2:43 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Chy@63, LOL! I think tundra is pulling an Ann Coulter moment. When she doesn’t like what she hears, she sticks her fingers in her ears and refuses to listen.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:45 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
troll, where we are today is not a projection. Where we would have been today without the stimulus was not a projection.
You live in la la land.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:47 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
tundra, so many Americans believed that we were headed for a depression that they turned their backs on you.
We saw a little taste of what was in store for us if you and cantor had your way and it isn’t funny or cute and neither are you.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:49 pmJobless claims dip, spending up in sign of rebound
How do you rationalize this bit of reality fool? How is this projection?
Finish your dinner and go do your homework.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:50 pmBullshit. You simply like to deny that government programs can have beneficial impacts on the people they’re meant to serve, and you cloak your cynicism in some half-hearted pretense at “even-handedness”.
November 25th, 2009 at 2:51 pmI’m a little taken aback by the utter incomprehensibility that stimulus spending seems to hold for our trolls.
I mean, do they think that once spent by the government, a dollar of stimulus money simply evaporates, like cell phone minutes that expire?
Do they imagine that the weekly paycheck of a worker on a road construction project is not returned to the local economy in the form of rent, or groceries or school clothes for the kids?
Is this money trail too complex for them to understand?
Or is it rather, that as conservatives, they simply recoil from any suggestions to follow a money trail?
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hey dumbass, yeah you, arronk, these companies recieved stimulus money and they were there and they are not government:
Comcast and Terremark
November 25th, 2009 at 3:06 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Where would we be without the stimulus? Be honest….oh yeah. You will disiminate and regurgitate and avoid the issue because you are a party liner….
November 25th, 2009 at 3:07 pmtundra and aaronk, you guys have a balls, I’ll give you that.
You’re suggestions for solutions are what got us into this mess and still you have the gall to suggest that you have answers to the problems we face.
I would rather follow a little common sense than be like you two d ick lappers.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:09 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Keep posting fool. You make my case for me.
Progressives predicted and economic collapse because of gop financial policies.
It happened.
You on the other hand promised a new era of prosperity in exchange for tax cuts for the rich and deregulation…..
Who was wrong.
See why you look so ignorant every time you post?
November 25th, 2009 at 3:15 pmcoward. You know this is a lie.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:16 pmralph–it’s obvious that they recoil from any suggestions to follow a money trail because they have no clue that Palin is milking them for all they’re worth with her “book tour,” so it takes no great leap of the imagination to believe that they don’t believe the stimulus data. It’s just their nature.
If McCain had won and republicans in Congress (assuming they had a majority) had decided to stop all government spending, unemployment would have been at 30%, or higher. It’s difficult for them to understand that bringing spending to a complete standstill causes the economy to come to a standstill and begins a steady decline into a deep depression. It’s also more difficult to bring an economy out of a deep depression than it is to bring it out of a deep recession.
Although I’m glad it didn’t happen, it would make for an interesting study if an economist were to develop a model to see whether McCain would have been Hoover II.
We definitely dodged a bullet in the last election.
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trishaking78, what do you think of Cantor’s hypocricy?
November 25th, 2009 at 3:21 pmYou can make a guess on where we would be, you can use all sorts of data, but tiny variations of things you can’t be sure of have drastic differences.
Ahh, so economic projections are stupid ‘crystal ball gazing’ because you read a best-seller on Chaos theory ten years ago?
Let’s just stop making projections because we will never really ‘know’ the ‘truth.’
Sounds like you have a strange understanding of how science works…
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Belac, I think you encapsulated our friend’s view of Democratic-backed economic proposals quite well.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:26 pmName-jacking ain’t cool…
November 25th, 2009 at 3:27 pmtundra, I think we did show that you are a republican who follows the party line against all evidence to the contrary.
You can run from your lies but you can’t hide.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:28 pmtrishaking78, does your link really teach people how to steal games? Is that ethical?
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Tundra seems confused.
Bush passed the wall street bailout package.
Obama passed the stimulus package.
Repulsive as it is, we’d be in Depression now if it had not passed.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:38 pmAs for the stimulus – there have already been several hundred thousand jobs created or saved in the first 6 months, and the rest is to occur over the next 18 months, as planned from the start.
New unemployment numbers are down for the first time since September 08. Employment is slowly improving, but there will be dips along the way. By 2011-12, the unemployed are expected to be around 7%, which is still not great, but better than today.
Stimulus funds are in use around here, lots of construction jobs in Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania. New housing starts are being seen here and there.
Heck you want to hang the mission accomplished banner up.
Nope.
But since you admit that there is no ‘Proof’ (BTW- I find it interesting that you capitalized ‘Proof’ as if it were a proper noun… what can that mean?) that you or FVNY would accept at this point in time, I wonder what is the point of asking for it?
Can you tell me?
November 25th, 2009 at 3:38 pmThis is as big a straw man as the one you’re complaining about. Actually bigger.
Credibility: shot.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:38 pmYou will never call it a success. Fact it that it has prevented us from falling into a serious depression. Even conservative economists agree.
That is a success. Maybe not to you and your loser buddies because any success for dems is bad for you.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:41 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Trolls and repugs do not understand stimulus funding, nor are they capable of admitting that republicants are the primary reason we are where we are today (deregulation, tax cuts, two unfunded wars, squandered surplus) and that the repairs will take YEARS to effect.
November 25th, 2009 at 3:43 pmWell Tundra… from what we are able to see it looks like having a stimulus was better than NOT having a stimulus.
That’s what our current data shows… that’s why I provided ‘what it looks like’ now.
And while you are correct to say that this is not ‘TRUTH’ it IS the best we have available… and that’s why I wonder what you think it is that science provides exactly?
November 25th, 2009 at 3:53 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Tundra, bush still ran fiscal policy. He decided when and where the money was spent.
You conveniently want to blame Obama for everything but give bush a pass.
Your slip is showing.
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post #103
You can’t blame any of the economic collapse on democrats. They had a slim majority for 2 years and bush vetoes the majority of what they did try to pass.
You can pretend or admit that you are ignorant. Either way, I don’t care.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:07 pmt, here’s the veto’s. Be sure to look at them and point out where they caused or assisted in the runaway spending of the bush admin……be sure to note the dates….they are relevant to sane people.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
I personally “Believe” we are in a better place because of it, however I can’t prove it.
Well, I personally believe that it did as well and so do the groups that did the projections that showed how… and FVNY asked how exactly it did, which is exactly why I posted the chart with the projections… to show HOW it helped.
Your insistence that this is not ‘ABSOLUTE PROOF’ or ‘ABSOLUTE TRUTH’ seems odd since I never really represented them as such
and even odder since you seem to recognize that such a thing is impossible…
Which makes me wonder why you and FVNY would ask for the impossible unless your real goal was to disparage, detract and distract from the apparent success of the stimulus so far?
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see dumbass, no huge deregulation or military spending bills.
I am honestly disgusted by your bush apology attitude.
Yet, you blame Obama and Obama alone for things not being repaired in 10 months.
How fair minded you are…….not.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:13 pmNow you’re just lying. You said they were complicit. You even give bush a free ride for those two years. The two years when all of bush’s veto’s happened. Sounds like they were doing something bush didn’t like….
Yes, you are the ignorant one.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:15 pmthere you are associating me with him asking again. i didn’t ask you for anything. I simply remarked on your attempt to provide something he asked for.
And if you look you will see that he neither asked for ABSOLUTE PROOF and I never said I had provided it… the only one who mentioned PROOF of any kind was you.
So tell me again how you aren’t involved in this ridiculous attempt to derail us from the success of the stimulus and Cantor’s hypocrisy about it?
November 25th, 2009 at 4:16 pmHypcrisy, thy name is REPUBLICAN.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:27 pmAll but one of them in the last two years of that presidency… and all four of the vetoes that were overridden came in those final two years.
Just thought that might have been relevant, considering you were talking about the impact of the “Democrat controlled Congress” on Bush policy, but chose to attribute his small number of vetoes to his entire eight years in office.
Seemed a little disingenuous to me.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:31 pmReally, seeing as he had 8 successful vetoes his entire presidency.
And a republican senate, that threatened the “nuclear option” over threatened democratic filibusters. Remember the prescription drug legislation, passed in the dead of night? Or all those off budget war appropriations? He didn’t have to use his vetoes becuse the rubberstamps gave him all he wanted, and more.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:39 pmIf the voters can’t see Britney Cantor for who he really is well it’s truly sad. A smart person would hold a job fair but not use the word Stimulus which Cantor strongly objected to and voted NO.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:46 pmBush had 8 vetoes — they all occurred when the Dems had the slimmest of margins in congress — so Bush vetoed anything they tried to push through with their one-vote majority.
It’s hard to reconcile the disaster that was George Bush and still be a republican – I understand.
It’s very sad that a democrat is expected to repair all that damage in a very short period of time.
November 25th, 2009 at 4:51 pmWhen one thinks of the surplus Bush inherited and the cost of the two wars he did not fund, it is apparent we would have the funding for the health care crisis as well as putting Social Security on a sure footing for the future.
The Republicans and the teabaggers insist that the proper action to take during this economic recession is to cut government spending. That would require the government to cut public aid, unemployment assistance and a host of other social services programs. It is agreed by economists that further tax cuts will not help the jobless situation. So using the conservatives logic, we would have to assume that the poor and unemployed are going to disappear (I don’t where) when the benefits disappear. Right?
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TRIATHLON, Will Rogers was a democrat who made fun of republicans like you.
His story is as true today as it was in 31 and for exactly the same reason.
Republicans have been in power the last decade and our country is facing a financial emergency because of it, again.
put that in your teabag and smoke it bub.
Oh, and independent doesn’t fool anyone. You are a republican.
November 25th, 2009 at 7:54 pmHow much does Cantor’s haircut cost and who pays for it?
November 25th, 2009 at 8:31 pmWhat an excellent point. There’s no question that the stimulus has brought a great deal of opportunity to small businesses, which was one of the bill’s intended effects. Of course, since Cantor voted against it, he’s intent on sinking small business owners under a mountain of debt incurred by the banking industry. Which Cantor receives quite a bit of campaign cash from…
November 26th, 2009 at 12:33 pmAnd in other news… Fog is cold and the sun rose this morning!
November 26th, 2009 at 6:20 pmSeriously, how dumb can these people get?
Contrarian, points of view, can be thought through, toward more stable foundations, consequently, others will more fully appreciate the other side. At the end of every day, redacted policies are ethically judged: either ’socially positive’, or ’socially negative’. For example, the policy of ’stimulus monies’ is socially positive, as it may accrue social alterations equalling, less than the aggregate of social structures within the social system; what works, is left unchanged. Inversely, ’stimulus monies’ would have negative social impact, because slowing down the normal operating of the social system, must eventually have none, or zero lasting effect upon the wokings of all, concurrent societal (and individual) processes.
November 27th, 2009 at 10:09 am