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Name: LocalParent
Date: 8/13/2010 5:00:00 PM
Message:
I was hoping we were past all the school board posts....and then I read Mr Mittons letter to the editor. He was concerned with Mr Toney posing all of the questions. I attended one of these meetings and watched the last one on knowpickens.com. Mr Toney simply read the questions that the audience submitted in advance. Many questions intended to make Mr Mitton look good I might add. What DID bother me in the last debate was how Mr Trammell and Mr Easterwood acted. I felt as if these two were attacking Mr Fincher which I found extremely unproffessional.
As for asking the superintendant questions, some of the questions had information the superintendant should have been able to verify. So why not ask? This board was responsible for hiring Mr Ballew.
My favorite statement from Mr Mitton was his concern over how the system is "portrayed". Hiding the problems doesn't make them go away! The best was to be portrayed as a GOOD SCHOOL SYSTEM is to BE a good school system.
I do agree with Mr Mittons statement "Pickens County deserves better!"
Yes we do! That's why Pickens County voted in new board members!
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL 3 NEW BOARD MEMBERS!!!!!!
Name: jeep
Date: 8/19/2010 12:39:56 PM
Message:
BigEasy.....you do know the meetings are video taped. You don't actually have to attend the meetings to see how they voted. In fact I think it was Mr Chastain who said at one of the debates that we should just allow the High School Kids to smoke. With that logic maybe we should put cot's in a room with a bowl of condoms for the kids as well. After all kids will be kids.
Name: Big Easy
Date: 8/19/2010 2:02:58 PM
Message:
Jeep.......that wasn't Jerry the board member it was his brother John and he was trying to make a point that years ago when he was in school they had a smoking section and perhaps they might look at that if its such a problem at the high school. He wasn't advocating smoking just offering a possible solution.
C'ya
Name: Justice
Date: 8/19/2010 3:58:48 PM
Message:
Jeep,
Your mentally sick!!!! You have big problems.
Name: Sally
Date: 8/19/2010 6:00:50 PM
Message:
BigEasy my husbands a surgeon! Can I take out your appendix. Or better yet, I give Brazilian waxes for a living. Maybe my husband can give you a brazilian wax.
Name: jeep
Date: 8/20/2010 9:23:37 AM
Message:
Justice....I may be! After all I'm siding more with Pinto on this...and well that is disturbing.
Name: Big Easy
Date: 8/20/2010 1:00:53 PM
Message:
Ole Sally...obviously you didn't get the gist of the statements and that was that the current board members know more about the workings of the school system than Joe Blow off of the street.....I did stay at a Holiday Inn once and I'll pass on the waxing, I'll stick with a razor and some nair!!
C'ya
Name: pinto colvig
Date: 8/23/2010 11:05:17 AM
Message:
so was it Jerry or John who said the kids should be allowed to smoke at school??? If it was Jerry, then I'll admit that's pretty cool, and he has become a lot cooler in the last couple years. like he's mellowed out a little as he's gotten older. smoking in high school should absolutely be allowed as it was back in the good old days when teen pregnancy was almost zero, more kids went to college, and teachers cared...
COMMENT
Name: pinto colvig
Date: 8/11/2010 1:00:09 PM
Message:
While I think Nathan Deal is about as worthless a representative as Pickens County has had since lazy old [deleted]. (neither one EVER did anything positive for the county or the district, and both actually helped set us back about 120 years behind the rest of the modern world) I am glad he beat Karen Handel in the governor primary. Handle was endorsed by Sarah Palin, and her loss provides even more clear evidence that the support of this Alaskan weather-girl is a curse to GOPers and Tea Baggers everywhere...
Name: pinto colvig
Date: 8/13/2010 7:10:46 PM
Message:
sorry cletus. we can't all be long haired hippy flower children like yourself who just looooooove everybody...
Name: Cletus Tubbs
Date: 8/16/2010 10:42:29 AM
Message:
don't sell yourself short pinto, your an incredible hippy idiot.
Name: pinto colvig
Date: 8/16/2010 4:30:44 PM
Message:
cletus you will rot in hell for absolutely massacring a classic Ty Webb line that has no discernable application to the current situation...
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Name: jeep
Date: 8/10/2010 5:31:19 PM
Message:
Ellison....why I don't agree with everything you say, I do think our education system is going to be a huge contributing factor to the county's failure. We are not keeping up with other countries when it comes to education.
Name: jeep
Date: 8/11/2010 10:19:50 AM
Message:
I mis-typed, I meant to put "country's failure" not county.
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Name: Stop the madness
Date: 8/10/2010 1:20:56 PM
Message:
Not that it really matters but I won't be posting on this board anymore. It seems to me that you die hard republicans are all about slamming anything against your own point of view and I feel it would be a waste of time to expect anything different from you.
Your so set in your ways of I love my wallet screw everyone else that you are going to be the end of any kind of humanity and decency left in The united states. and I don't think it would be appropriate to even read the nonsense you spout because I don't want to lose the little human kindness left in this country so good luck with your Obama bashing and you racist views have nice life guys.
Name: Cletus Tubbs
Date: 8/11/2010 8:29:18 AM
Message:
good
Name: GoodBye!
Date: 8/11/2010 5:48:04 PM
Message:
So long, farewell, don't let the mouse byte ya on the way out! You are a very negative contributer anyhow.
Name: Ed Jones Jr.
Date: 8/12/2010 4:19:52 PM
Message:
Seeeee You.., wouldn't want to be you !
Name: Rob
Date: 8/14/2010 6:04:52 PM
Message:
My earlier response seems to have disappeared.
Boo hoo, bye bye Mr. no-name liberal. And just when I was starting to like you!
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Name: LocalParent
Date: 8/9/2010 12:44:48 PM
Message:
Let's see how we compare to surrounding counties.
2010 Graduation rates (This is the only statistic I remember Mitton mentioning)
Rabun 90.7% EconDisad 59%
Fannin 90.3% 47%
Gilmer 86.6% 49%
Dawson 84.8% 44%
Bartow 81.6% 37%
Pickens 80.9% 43%
The reason I showed the Economically Disadvantaged is this is one of the things that Mitton says they have to contend with. Looks to me like we are better off finacially than most of the surrounding counties of our size.
We CAN do better! Vote George Fincher!!!!
Name: LocalParent
Date: 8/9/2010 1:37:28 PM
Message:
Clarification of above post:
The economically disadvantaged number is the percent of all students that are classified as economically disadvantaged that graduated in 2010. To sum it up the poorer counties are actually doing BETTER than us!
Name: Rob
Date: 8/9/2010 8:18:58 PM
Message:
The graduation rate used to be in the 40's. Pickens is actually the 7th most prosperous county in GA, but ONLY due to the biosphere that is Big Canoe and Bent Tree. It is by God's grace and the dedication of our teaching staff that we are at 80%.
Name: LocalParent
Date: 8/10/2010 9:40:28 AM
Message:
Rob
The economically disadvantaged number only pertains to that graduating class. We really are in better shape finacially than many surrounding counties. I'm with you on the teachers or at least most of them. We need a board of education making sure that our teachers are given what they need to succeed. Furloughing teachers is BAD for education. Increasing class size is BAD for education.
Don't forget to vote!
VOTE DAN FINCHER!!!!
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Name: Rosie
Date: 8/7/2010 10:26:18 AM
Message:
It has been 2 wks since the FDIC closed Crescent Bank and Renasant took over. So far, I haven't received any communication from the new owners. A "Welcome to our bank" letter would be greatly appreciated. I would like to know about Renasant's services so I will know if I want to change banks. This non-communication is not helping Renansant's business! This is making me lean more toward changing banks.
Name: Bob Hayles
Date: 8/9/2010 2:25:07 PM
Message:
Be careful which other local bank you choose (for the purpose of this post, I'm considering local to include both Pickens and Gilmer counties).
The FDIC compiles a list, quarterly I believe, that shows tells how many banks nationally, and broken down by state, are in grave danger of failing. They do not name the banks to prevent depositors from making a "run" on the banks...but the method used to determine which banks should be on the list is known.
The method is the "Texas Ratio".
What does this have with choosing a bank in Pickens or Gilmer counties?
As of June 9, 2010, on the list of 377 banks most likely to fail in the US, 4 were in either Pickens or Gilmer county, and one of those was in the top ten most likely to fail nationwide (that one hasn't failed...yet...but I'll bet there is news soon that it does.
Crescent Bank was on the list...and remember, the list came out June 9, so they are correct on that one.
Be careful where you put your money. Of the other three on the likely to fail list from Pickens and Gilmer, one is in Jasper and the other two are in Gilmer. I think you'd be shocked at which Jasper bank is on the list. I know I was.
Bob Hayles
Name: pinto colvig
Date: 8/9/2010 4:47:53 PM
Message:
Bob! Why don't you tell us who it is for crying out loud! If you're so concerned about public service and all... you remind me of the elitist politicians you complain about all the time. and by the way you said we will be "shocked" at which jasper bank is on the list - I know I won't be, because I have been paying attention to the news, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if every bank in Jasper crumbled...
Name: jeep
Date: 8/10/2010 12:03:52 PM
Message:
here's a link for the Banks in trouble
http://www.amateur-investor.net/TexasRatio.htm
Name: Bob Hayles
Date: 8/10/2010 12:10:41 PM
Message:
In the interest of not getting my ass sued off, I'll just provide the link...dig it out...it's an easy list to scroll and see for yourself.
http://www.investinganswers.com/next-banks-that-could-fail
I wish this would show as a clickable link, but you can cut/paste (editor...you listenin'?)
Bob Hayles
Name: pinto colvig
Date: 8/10/2010 3:36:45 PM
Message:
good grief Bob. A)you're not that important and B) you don't know anything about the law because saying that Jasper Banking Company is going to fail is not enough to get sued. that's right, Jasper Banking Company is going to fail, fall, die, etc. Bob you would make a good Republican or Democratic Senator - afraid to tell it like it is...
Name: Banking
Date: 8/11/2010 5:40:10 PM
Message:
Not to mention all the bitties working in the banks here in town talk about who bounced what, and how much is in their neighbors account, or that they were denied a mortgage or other kinds of loans. It seems that the 20 minute ride into Canton to use a NATIONALLY known bank is worth it. We left a local bank when we over heard the woman making fun of a man who had an overdrawn bank account calling him a lousy poor man who cannot manage his money. Or the other bank on the corner by the courthouse that point blank told a woman her money was not enough for them to open an account for her daughter look elsewhere. This county is rediculous! Wake up people and get with the times. With any luck, WalMart will bring in some REAL businesses we can use, and have a NATIONAL bank inside of it!
Name: Love Shopping locally
Date: 8/12/2010 9:33:19 AM
Message:
Banking
GET A GRIP. Even if a mega bank comes in they are going to hire the same people as our local banks do. Go in Ingles. Not locally owned but local people work there. Local businesses keep MORE of the money local than mega companies. The best thing we can do to help Pickens County is to shop Pickens County whenever possible.
Name: Big Easy
Date: 8/12/2010 1:30:39 PM
Message:
I haven't been in the Jasper Ingles in quite a few months but I thought JBC was in there, are they not anymore?
As for the local banks being in trouble I wouldn't worry about your accounts I'd be worrying about your stock because that's where a takeover is going to hurt you. The FDIC insures your deposits and I don't see that as an issue unless the good ole USA is collapsing...possible but very doubtful. The Texas Ratio BB is talking about is a good tool to look at and you could almost "Bank on It" as it being soon to be closed list.
C'ya
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Name: Ed Jones Jr.
Date: 8/6/2010 4:00:31 PM
Message:
TO: FYI...You know folks , you just can't make this stuff up....I was channel surfing last week when I saw on CNN one of Obama's goons spouting off about the deal our " great leader " had pulled off at BP's expense . It seems a miracle that our " beloved leader " was able to convince BP to establish a $ 20 Billion slush ( oops,escrow ) fund to compensate those hurt by the oil plume in the Gulf of Mexico .
Really ? To bad this " Lefty " didn't read what was printed a couple of weeks ago in the Savannah Morning News , so lets take a close look at BP's finances . For those that know accounting , you will understand . For those that don't , do a little research . For those like Pinto , feel free to skip this post .
1) BP will establish a $20 bilion fund , but will pay only $7 billion into it during
2010.
2) By generally accepted accounting principles , BP must book the entire $20 billion
expense in the year accrued . Therefore , they will book a $20 billion expense in
2010 , reducing their U.S. tax liability by $7 billion.
3) Our " dear leader " also convinced BP to show their concern for the " small
people " by withholding dividends to their shareholders for the last three
quarters of 2010 . This reduces their outward cash flow by about $7.5 billion
, including approximately 40% of that amount to U.S. citizens . Assuming the
Bush tax cuts survive through 2010 , the U.S. Treasury will lose another
$450 million in taxes on that amount . We won't even discuss the effect on the
U.S. economy .
So lets review :
BP cash flow :
Escrow funding -$7.00 billion
Dividend saving+$7.50 billion
Tax saving +$7.00 billion
Net cash flow +$7.50 billion
US Treasury Tax Receipts
BP corporate income tax -$7.50 billion
BP shareholders -$0.45 billion
Net unfavorable tax receipts for US Treasury = -$7.95 billion
Thats why I call those on the left " lemmings " , rushing headlong towards the
cliff , still soaking up the propaganda spewing forth from Obama's white house.
Name: pinto colvig
Date: 8/9/2010 1:48:16 PM
Message:
no one should be surprised. i've been saying all this time how the federal govt and big buziness continually find ways to collude with each other to pat each other's azzes. you really think Obama and his negotiators didn't know what Ed just posted before they made the deal with BP? they knew exactly what they were doing and this is not news to anyone who pays attention. Hey Ed, I just got some breaking news! Human beings landed on the Moon! And Tiger Woods cheated on his wife!
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Name: Rob
Date: 8/6/2010 2:38:19 PM
Message:
Did someone mention ABC news as a reference? See what Joe Bite-me told ABC below (brace yourself, Ellison):
Last night, the Senate voted 61-39 in favor of a $26 billion bailout for states and government unions financed in part by an $11 billion tax hike that will kill American jobs at U.S. companies that compete overseas.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703748904575411384086577058.html?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell
Worse, before that final vote was taken, the Senate also defeated two amendments by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), both by 58-42 votes, that would have prevented the largest tax hike in American history. And earlier this month, Vice President Joe Biden told ABC News that the only thing wrong with President Barack Obama's first $862 billion economic stimulus was that it didn't borrow and spend enough.
Speaking of the liar-in chief: He acutally celebrated the unemployment rate of 9.5% this morning, saying everything is great, moving in the right direction, etc. What he didn't tell you was: All told the U.S. economy has now lost 2.4 million jobs since President Barack Obama signed his stimulus bill, and his administration is 7.6 million jobs short of what he promised the American economy would support by 2010.
And just wait for 2011! The $3.2 trillion Obama Tax Hike in January will hit small businesses the hardest, you know the ones who create 2 out of every 3 jobs! On what planet does this make sense?
Name: Stop the madness
Date: 8/6/2010 6:22:09 PM
Message:
Rob,
I think your forgetting the person who used to be president caused this fiasco in the first place.
Name: jeep
Date: 8/9/2010 10:00:06 AM
Message:
Madness....Good liberal respponse! It's all Bush's fault! OBAMA is putting this country in a bigger debt than any other president in history! Obama's promises have NOT panned out. It may be time to start reassessing who to blame. Better yet just vote in someone who actually knows how to fix things.
Name: Stop the madness
Date: 8/9/2010 5:06:31 PM
Message:
Jeep,
I didn't blame Bush, once again another republican trying to twist words what I said is don't forget Bush started this mess.
Name: Rob
Date: 8/9/2010 5:07:45 PM
Message:
To support Jeep's response, Madness please understand the facts- Bush left office with a $440 billion deficit, even with a DEMOCRAT congress. Obama is now running a $1.5 TRILLION deficit, and growing. Still blaming Bush? You have to be smarter than that.
Please entertain this one truth, if nothing else:
Blaming Bush Doesn't Create Jobs!!!!
(Get your search engine revved up, Ellison!)
In January 2009 after it became clear that the leftist majority in Congress would pass President Barack Obama's $862 billion economic stimulus bill without a single vote from a Republican, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) defended her partisan approach, telling Politico:
"Yes, we wrote the bill. Yes, we won the election."
Last Friday, some 19 months after the stimulus bill became law, the Labor Department issued its monthly jobs report showing the U.S. economy shed 131,000 jobs and unemployment tread water at 9.5% as 181,000 workers left the workforce entirely. These numbers are so terrible that the Federal Reserve is expected to downgrade its assessment of the U.S. economic outlook when it meets tomorrow.
Name: Stop the madness
Date: 8/10/2010 8:58:51 AM
Message:
I'm sorry I am mistaken Jeep I did make it seem like it was all bush's fault but it isn't it is more along the lines that bush made most of the debt Obama is just contributing.
Name: jeep
Date: 8/10/2010 12:16:17 PM
Message:
Madness....Bush made MOST of the debt and Obama is just "contributing". Really? Obama has done a little more than contribute! OBAMA has put the country further in debt than any other president in history! Just think of how high he'll have it before he leaves office! Bush might not have been perfect but he was BETTER than Obama!
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Name: FincherSupporter
Date: 8/6/2010 8:19:10 AM
Message:
I just finished reading my progress and noticed Mr Mitton's ads. This is why HE thinks he's the right choice.
He's visited all the schools! Well let's hope so if his children went to them.
He's supported all the spending on buildings. Maybe someone should tell him this is part of the problem.
He keeps jobs in Pickens County. True, however those Pickens County jobs often go to out of county and out of state employees.
8 Yrs experience. Kind of obvious.
Attended 200 BOE Metting. I hope so he was PAID to attend them.
Served in different Chairman positions for the board. Well I hope so after 8 years.
Balanced 8 school budgets. Again, that's what the job is.
Parent of 3 Pickens county educated children. How does this make you a GOOD board member?
Is this the BEST he can come up with after 8 years?
High school Rankings by GA Dept of Education
GILMER 70 PICKENS 107
Gilmer 2010 Graduation Rate 86.6%
Pickens 2010 Graduation Rate 80.9%
Gilmer- Made AYP
Pickens- Did NOT make AYP
WE CAN DO BETTER! VOTE FOR DAN FINCHER!
Name: NO to Fincher
Date: 8/6/2010 12:22:07 PM
Message:
Fincher doesn't even know where to get the paperwork to file his disclosures so HELL no I don't want him on the board.
Name: Rob
Date: 8/6/2010 2:42:34 PM
Message:
Mitton also had an opportunity to do something about the the school admin who keeps getting edited out of my posts but kept silent. (Those weren't expletives I was writing!)
Name: Dragon
Date: 8/6/2010 3:24:03 PM
Message:
Heck NO on Fincher!!!!!!!! The man doesn't even know when, where and how to file his disclosure's....which he's required to do.
Anyone that watches the knowpickens.com videos can see that he's a puppet for someone. He might be a great guy and I'm sure he is but he doesn't offer any responses to the questions more than a few words.
Vote MITTON!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name: jeep
Date: 8/6/2010 4:18:53 PM
Message:
The next board member to go needs to be Easterwood. When does he come up for election? I watched the video. I thought he came off as a complete @ss!
Name: Rob
Date: 8/6/2010 4:26:56 PM
Message:
No to Fincher: If that is your only argument against Fincher, please don't vote. You are just too damned stupid.
Name: NO to Fincher
Date: 8/9/2010 9:15:30 AM
Message:
Rob.....you must be one of Fincher's puppet masters......ha ha ha Fincher doesn't have a clue about anything and he mentions nothing but "cutting from the top and move it to the bottom".....boy that's someone with a plan!! Rob please move back to wherever it is you came from and fix their school system before you try and fix ours.
Name: LocalParent
Date: 8/9/2010 10:18:34 AM
Message:
I watched the video! I thought Easterwood and Trammell were completely un-proffessional! The best they have is Fincher has not filed a disclosure. He said he had no problem with it and would. That was the best they had. It seemed to me that Trammell and Easterwood are pretty scared about Mitton losing! THIS ALONE SHOULD WORRY YOU!
Mitton supporters,
do you really want people to watch the video? They'll hear or should I say not hear Mitton speak up when it comes up he didn't answer e-mails. Remember the last debate when he said he rarely receives them but welcomes them. Or Maybe the numbers with a 30 point drop that he was UN-AWARE of. He DID -finally- admit there are problems in the system.
Remember to get out tommorrow and VOTE FINCHER!
Name: Rob
Date: 8/9/2010 5:15:57 PM
Message:
NO to Fincher
Sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm my own man and live where the hell I choose. I'm nobody's puppet, idiot, but perhaps in some regard Mrs. Rob's. What will eat you alive is that I'm heavily involved in trying to fix this school system, and will remain so. It is simply time for a change of command. These guys have served, and served long and it's time to relieve them of their coziness in office with their empires they have built. The founders saw this as potentially oppressive almost 300 years ago. Time for new blood on our board! The empire is striking back! (Forgive me, that was a bit corny but it works)
Name: NO to Fincher and his boy Rob
Date: 8/10/2010 11:03:16 AM
Message:
Rob, you pompass ass, exactly what empire have the school board members built? They receive very little pay for serving so where's the Empire? I guess their empire is having to hear whiners like you complain all the time because you didn't get your little precious way. Come on, you like to spew the rhetoric so let's hear it. It's quacks like you that move here because you didn't like the area you were in and think you're God's gift to society and want to "change" everything because you see some big injustice. Please load your little red wagon and hit the road and don't let the door hit ya where the big lord split ya!!
VOTE MITTON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name: jeep
Date: 8/10/2010 1:22:26 PM
Message:
Mitton Man....here's the thing. Lot's of LOCALS want Mitton and the rest of the board GONE! We've seen all the statistics as to why we need a new board. To be fair, please list all the GOOD things these board members have done! hint....all the new buildings are not considered good.
Fincher got my vote!
Name: Rob
Date: 8/10/2010 8:06:59 PM
Message:
NO NAME:
You are a complete moron. In light of that, I will happily share with you that not only am I free to live wherever the hell I choose, I also love my country enough to have placed my life in her hands in service for many years. It will please you no more to know that I own a home here, am married to a teacher here, pay taxes here and am as entitled to my opinions as you are. Only difference is that you seem to be extremely militant in your views, as you strenuously demand that opposing views get stifled, and the holders of those opinions move away. You sound like a closet liberal, which is funny because your candidate is a republican. You would serve the liberals better with how you express yourself. If you were on our side, you wouldn't be so angry. Remember, if I left Pickens, 2 conservative votes go with me-not to mention our money and my employer's money that we spend in YOUR county.
Hell of a mindset you have there. I recommend you get your head out of your rear end, get over your personal "clinging" issue with your incumbent who sat there for years and allowed this school system to stagnate and join the rest of us who are sick and tired of the status quo.
And regarding the empire: these folks make six figures a year without any mandate to produce results for their money, all we can do is fire them. Experience alone doesn't get you re-hired. Has that ever worked for you in the private sector? Or are you a mooch.
Name: jeep
Date: 8/11/2010 8:32:07 AM
Message:
MittonMen.......Do you get it yet? The results are in.
Name: Ed Jones Jr.
Date: 8/12/2010 4:34:18 PM
Message:
TO: No To Fincher.....How's that " vote for Mitton " working out for you fella. Good grief , they just never learn . I'm with Jeep , we need a whole NEW school board . If nothing else , Easterwood ( and a couple of his pals ) needs to go .
COMMENT
Name: pinto colvig
Date: 8/5/2010 3:27:02 PM
Message:
here's a question that you non-hypocritical, honest, trustworthy conservatives might be able to help me with: why do conservatives say the deficit is too large, but at the same time say the bush tax cuts for the rich should be extended? seems like two contradictory concepts, considering that almost all of the current deficit consists of the bush tax cuts...
Name: Cletus Tubbs
Date: 8/6/2010 3:36:07 PM
Message:
pinto were you always this stupid or do you work at it everyday? i've seen more talent in the north end of a south bound mule. you make some of the most profound idiotic statements i have ever heard except for being at a democratic convention.
Name: Rob
Date: 8/6/2010 4:25:05 PM
Message:
The Bush tax cuts benefitted EVERYBODY. Capital gains, marriage penalty- gone. Death tax-gone. Top rates lowered. When Bush left office the deficit was $400 Billion after 8 years. Obama has tripled that in less than 2, with wreckless spending. Now we wait for the Obama tax increases, which historically pave the way for more spending programs (the European model). Whereas Bush (back in 2002-2003) ensured more money was left in the private economy we had a very good recovery from 9/11/01 into 2006 (curiously when the dems took over congress).
Unemployment was 4.5% to 5% until around 2007, give or take. Liberals lie about these numbers a LOT, but thankfully intelligent folks know enough to call you on it. This may not be the answer you expected, but it is truth.
Name: pinto colvig
Date: 8/9/2010 11:45:59 AM
Message:
Um...Robot? Have you read the newspapers in the last year or two? do you know what the unemployment rate is today? do you still think those bush tax cuts benefited ANYONE!?!? the bush tax cuts were obviously the single most devastating transaction made by the federal government in the last 50 years, and anyone who is awake right now can see the obvious. besides, I was calling on honest, non-hypocritical conservatives - surely even you Rob, don't think you fit that bill at this point? I mean we all know how honest, consistent, and hypocritical you are here, you demonstrate it repeatedly every day...
Name: pinto colvig
Date: 8/9/2010 12:20:30 PM
Message:
in fact Robot, you essentially admit that virtually NO ONE benefited from the bush tax cuts: marriage penalty (only affects those that get married, and it was only about $5 anyway), capital gains (only the top 7 percent of taxpayers reported capital gains in 2005), the death tax (paid by an imperceptibly small percentage of people - less than 1 percent), and the top rates (those paid by the top 5 percent). So YOUR OWN list of EVERYONE truthfully includes almost NO ONE. What a dolt. You continue to argue for giving the ruling class more power, and you don't even know it...
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