World Politics

[Anonymous]

Steve Wynn, a Democrat:

I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States. You watch television and see what's going on on this debt ceiling issue. And what I consider to be a total lack of leadership from the President and nothing's going to get fixed until the President himself steps up and wrangles both parties in Congress. But everybody is so political, so focused on holding their job for the next year that the discussion in Washington is nauseating.

And I'm saying it bluntly, that this administration is the greatest wet blanket to business, and progress and job creation in my lifetime. And I can prove it and I could spend the next 3 hours giving you examples of all of us in this market place that are frightened to death about all the new regulations, our healthcare costs escalate, regulations coming from left and right. A President that seems, that keeps using that word redistribution. Well, my customers and the companies that provide the vitality for the hospitality and restaurant industry, in the United States of America, they are frightened of this administration.And it makes you slow down and not invest your money. Everybody complains about how much money is on the side in America.

You bet and until we change the tempo and the conversation from Washington, it's not going to change. And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of the President. And a lot of people don't want to say that. They'll say, God, don't be attacking Obama. Well, this is Obama's deal and it's Obama that's responsible for this fear in America.

The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth. And that's true of Democratic businessman and Republican businessman, and I am a Democratic businessman and I support Harry Reid. I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this company is frightened to death of the weird political philosophy of the President of the United States. And until he's gone, everybody's going to be sitting on their thumbs.

http://www.businessinsider.com/wynn-ceo-steve-wynn-conference-call-transcript-obama-2011-7


Filthy, greedy, capitalist. He's even invested in a casino in CHINA. Un-American Scumbag probably fly's around on a Gulfstream. He should be forced to forfeit his wealth to Timmy because Timmy can spend his money more better.

 

[redtreviso]

Steve Wynn, a Democrat:




http://www.businessinsider.com/wynn-ceo-steve-wynn-conference-call-transcript-obama-2011-7


Filthy, greedy, capitalist. He's even invested in a casino in CHINA. Un-American Scumbag probably fly's around on a Gulfstream. He should be forced to forfeit his wealth to Timmy because Timmy can spend his money more better.

A democrat....bwahhaaaaaa...

 

[redtreviso]

and this is why scott gives &^%^ to John Chambers..

""The US Tax Burden Falls Disproportionately On Individuals and Small Business


Although the nominal US corporate tax rate of 35% seems high, and especially so given all the corporate funded propaganda promoting more tax cuts and givebacks, in fact the realized corporate rates are relatively low both in terms of historical experience and other countries. This is because of the many loopholes, subsidies, and accounting gimmicks available to its more influential corporate citizens from the corporate friendly government.

One could make the case that the tax burden is falling disproportionately on smaller businesses and individuals that do not have the infrastructure and latitude to take advantage of the loopholes available to the bigger business lobby companies.

State and local taxes appear to be regressive. The top echelons of corporations and private individuals seem to be doing rather well for themselves. When the fortunate complain that the bottom percentiles pay little Federal tax, they overlook how regressive the consumption taxes on gasoline, food, and consumer non-discretionary items fall on those with little income. Even with property taxes, the wealthy often use the guise of 'farms' to avoid a sizable share of their local taxes by raising a few cows or a token crop.""

http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/07/us-is-not-high-tax-corporate-country.html

 

[Anonymous]

and this is why scott gives &^%^ to John Chambers..

""The US Tax Burden Falls Disproportionately On Individuals and Small Business


Although the nominal US corporate tax rate of 35% seems high, and especially so given all the corporate funded propaganda promoting more tax cuts and givebacks, in fact the realized corporate rates are relatively low both in terms of historical experience and other countries. This is because of the many loopholes, subsidies, and accounting gimmicks available to its more influential corporate citizens from the corporate friendly government.

One could make the case that the tax burden is falling disproportionately on smaller businesses and individuals that do not have the infrastructure and latitude to take advantage of the loopholes available to the bigger business lobby companies.

State and local taxes appear to be regressive. The top echelons of corporations and private individuals seem to be doing rather well for themselves. When the fortunate complain that the bottom percentiles pay little Federal tax, they overlook how regressive the consumption taxes on gasoline, food, and consumer non-discretionary items fall on those with little income. Even with property taxes, the wealthy often use the guise of 'farms' to avoid a sizable share of their local taxes by raising a few cows or a token crop.""

http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/2011/07/us-is-not-high-tax-corporate-country.html

Don't hate me cause I'm beautiful....

 

[Anonymous]

A democrat....bwahhaaaaaa...

He's just like you. He voted for Obama.

Except he employs tens of thousands of ordinary people. Other than that, he's exactly like you. Well, he pays a lot of money in tax, but except for that, he's just like you. He probably does not mow his own lawn, but except for those things you guys are just alike.

 

[redtreviso]

He's just like you. He voted for Obama.

Except he employs tens of thousands of ordinary people. Other than that, he's exactly like you. Well, he pays a lot of money in tax, but except for that, he's just like you. He probably does not mow his own lawn, but except for those things you guys are just alike.

""their holding too much money""

Nah....he's a republican all right..

 

[Anonymous]

""their holding too much money""

Nah....he's a republican all right..

Not too many repubs supporting Reid and voting the hope & change ticket.

Face it. You and Wynn are in lockstep.

 

[rhubroma]

The journalistic scandal that's upsetting Rupert Murdock's empire makes an impression in terms of a rather straight forward question: what happens if the mass media produces an illegal power?

The British, for now, have evaded - by blocking the total acquisition of Sky by the tycoon - what has already taken place in the United States: the phenomenon of Fox News, which has radically altered the nature of news in America. Many of the republican presidential candidates have contracts with Fox News, thereby earning bucks while receiving national exposure and a public voice.

Paradoxically, till now, Murdoch has paid a price in England for having published true things, but by illegal means. By contrast in the States the exact opposite happens: Murdoch's Fox News legally says a bunch of falsities in continuation.

The moral of the story has global implications. Capitalism and the consumerism of the masses has created a strong connection between mean quality and commercial success. This has also taken place with food, with journalism, with politics, with tourism, with everything.

It's as if high quality was always going to be reserved for certain niche public, and this "people" by definition is of good taste and refinement. That democracy could only have inevitably produced a mass culture of baseness, for which the mass drivel of a Murdoch is merely the most characteristic trait of the phenomenon. I don't know how well founded such a (classist) idea is, however, while waiting to find out how solid and enduring this empire of mediocrity will be, I'm reminded that just 40 years ago journalism in America had the likes of a Woodward and Bernstein.

In any case, what is an absolute certainty is that when a mass media tycoon is giving out contracts to potential White House candidates from the republican party and having those who are opposed to his conservative ideology tapped against all democratic legality, with the cover of law enforcement and political aid, then there has been a short circuit in the hardware of modernity.

 

[Anonymous]

Well Red, you voted for Obama... I guess you get to live with this too;

Border: A 2-year-old video shows a high Justice official saying "the president has directed us," including the attorney general, to speed up Project Gunrunner and the offshoot that got a border agent killed.

This tape has no 18-minute gap, and while it does not feature the president himself, the March 24, 2009, video may rival the tape that turned a "third-rate burglary" into a presidential resignation. No one died at Watergate. Agent Brian Terry lost his life in the administration's obsessive pursuit of gun control.

In addition to Agent Terry, Immigration Customs Enforcement Agent Jaime Zapata was also killed in a separate incident by a weapon allowed to "walk" into Mexico from the U.S. as part of the administration's third-rate alleged attempt to track and catch gun traffickers.

At the president's direction, Ogden said, the administration's plan included DOJ's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives "increasing its efforts by adding 37 new employees in three new offices, using $10 million in Recovery Act funds and redeploying 100 personnel to the Southwest border in the next 45 days to fortify its Project Gunrunner," of which Operation Fast and Furious would be a part.

$10 Million in stimulus... I'd LOL if this were not so fvkng stupid.

The effort included releasing a report claiming that 90% of the weapons used by the Mexican drug cartels were purchased from or originated from the U.S. The actual number was found to be closer to 8%. But it perpetuated the myth that "easy access" to guns cause crime.

Last Thursday, some six months after the Tucson shootings that killed six and wounded 13, including Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, the White House announced it was working on "common-sense measures" to improve public safety.

"The process is well under way at the Department of Justice," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney announced.

Of course, this is the same DOJ that pushed Gunrunner and Fast and Furious. Common sense has nothing to do with it. It is part of the administration's agenda to push gun control and chip away at our Second Amendment rights.

After funneling some 2,500 guns to criminals and drug lords, the DOJ announced it is requiring gun stores in Arizona, California, Texas and New Mexico to report individual purchases of multiple rifles of greater than .22 caliber by law-abiding American citizens to the ATF because — get this — such guns are "frequently recovered at violent crime scenes near the Southwest border."

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=578184&p=2


You voted for Obama. This is your fault.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

What's that have to do with anything? I voted for Bush (once) voted for Bush Sr. Voted for Reagan. I used to vote about 60/40 Republican in my state. Hatfield, Paulus, Froenmeyer, Berkman, Smith. I voted for all of them. I still voted for the Republican candidate for governor in my state last year (Dudley). I do not regret my vote, and wish he were my governor now.

But to me the GOP changed. Republicans like Dudley are rare. His party changed from a party of reason, to a party supporting the greatest split in our classes in history, under the guise of growth I never saw. Under the guise of responsibility I never saw. A party that thinks it's good for someone to own 4, 5, 10 mansions and exotic sports cars while the schools and infrastructure in our country crumbles. A party who thinks workers wages and benefits have been suppressed, and that's what they deserve for not being ruthless. A party that doesn't care about the environment. A party who thinks absorbing other nations and controlling their resources with our military is necessary, no matter what the cost. And ugliest of all, a party a who thinks elderly people should negotiate for their own health care. Having taken care of my parents when they got sick until they passed away - something I would never wish upon my worst enemy - to force these people to somehow get a check in the mail and negotiate their own health care insurance, and magically think that will somehow be better for everyone, is a bald faced lie, or just downright cruel.

Yet, despite what some would like us to believe. This IS the GOP of today. This is what their leaders believe in through their actions. They care nothing about workers. They care nothing about the environment. They care nothing about the cost of nation building through war. And they care nothing about the elderly.

 

[Anonymous]

Wow. This is just huge:

Reid announced Monday that the Senate would meet each day until the issue was resolved, including weekends.

Democratic leadership right there...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Obama-praises-Gang-of-Six-apf-120819518.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=2&asset=&ccode=

 

[Anonymous]

What's that have to do with anything? I voted for Bush (once) voted for Bush Sr. Voted for Reagan. I used to vote about 60/40 Republican in my state. Hatfield, Paulus, Froenmeyer, Berkman, Smith. I voted for all of them. I still voted for the Republican candidate for governor in my state last year (Dudley). I do not regret my vote, and wish he were my governor now.

But to me the GOP changed. Republicans like Dudley are rare. His party changed from a party of reason, to a party supporting the greatest split in our classes in history, under the guise of growth I never saw. Under the guise of responsibility I never saw. A party that thinks it's good for someone to own 4, 5, 10 mansions and exotic sports cars while the schools and infrastructure in our country crumbles. A party who thinks workers wages and benefits have been suppressed, and that's what they deserve for not being ruthless. A party that doesn't care about the environment. A party who thinks absorbing other nations and controlling their resources with our military is necessary, no matter what the cost. And ugliest of all, a party a who thinks elderly people should negotiate for their own health care. Having taken care of my parents when they got sick until they passed away - something I would never wish upon my worst enemy - to force these people to somehow get a check in the mail and negotiate their own health care insurance, and magically think that will somehow be better for everyone, is a bald faced lie, or just downright cruel.

Yet, despite what some would like us to believe. This IS the GOP of today. This is what their leaders believe in through their actions. They care nothing about workers. They care nothing about the environment. They care nothing about the cost of nation building through war. And they care nothing about the elderly.

What's that have to do with anything?

You must have missed the Redtreviso posts directed at me... ( I voted for Bush therefore I'm to blame BS).

This IS the GOP of today. This is what their leaders believe in through their actions. They care nothing about workers. They care nothing about the environment. They care nothing about the cost of nation building through war. And they care nothing about the elderly.

Wow.. GOP 'leaders' care NOTHING of workers, environment, war and the elderly. Nothing, zip, zilch, nada.

Alrighty then.

EDIT: I guess we could say dem leadership cares nothing for workers, particularly the unemployed, the economy, the healthcare system (why 2014?), war and nation building, gitmo, corruption, the border violence, illegal immigration, the rule of law, american energy, et., etc., etc.... Just because I write this does not make it so even if it may be my perception.

 

[Hugh Januss]

EDIT: I guess we could say dem leadership cares nothing for workers, particularly the unemployed, the economy, the healthcare system (why 2014?), war and nation building, gitmo, corruption, the border violence, illegal immigration, the rule of law, american energy, et., etc., etc.... Just because I write this does not make it so even if it may be my perception.

You can say what ever you want (and often do) but Alpe is correct and you are not.

 

[Anonymous]

You can say what ever you want (and often do) but Alpe is correct and you are not.

Must be easy enough for you to prove that Republican leaders care NOTHING for (fill in the blank). Knock yourself out.

By this logic then the following MUST be true;

Obama cares NOTHING for the elderly (cuts 500 Billion form Medicare).

http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/04/hhs-secretary-sebelius-admits-to-double-counting-in-obamacare-budget/

Obama cares NOTHING for physicians.

http://nevadanewsandviews.com/2010/12/03/obamacare-responsible-for-doctors-leaving-medicare/

Obama cares NOTHING of the National Debt. (Compare what he said in 2006 as a Senator to today's blather).

Obama cares NOTHING of Global Warming (according to AL Gore).

http://nhregister.com/articles/2011/06/22/news/doc4e029d0f7080b366156534.txt

Obama cares NOTHING for job creators (unemployment STILL over 9%).
Obama cares NOTHING for home owners.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/JubalTHarshaw/obama-failed-foreclosure-relief-plan-jobs-crisis_n_870928_91089035.html

Man, by your standard that democrat leader is a real POS.

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Of course exceptions can be found, and I for one don't think Obama is the bees knees. But I stand by what I posted about the stances and proposals of the GOP.

 

[Anonymous]

Of course exceptions can be found, and I for one don't think Obama is the bees knees. But I stand by what I posted about the stances and proposals of the GOP.

You said "cares nothing for"... not "takes a different approach" or "has different ideas".

It's the whole demagoguery thing... Repubs want seniors to Die Quickly, etc. It's total BS but we all sure hear it a lot.

Obama wants to cut defense spending so therefore cares nothing of national defense. Now, does anyone really believe that?

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Let's put it another way. The Republican House fully supported the Ryan plan that would give vouchers to seniors to have them negotiate for and pay for their own health care instead of receiving Medicare. This was a large component of their budget, and it wasn't just one fringe member's odd plan, they all supported it.

Do you honestly think people like this would be not only capable, but better off negotiating for their own health care? Is that really the world you want to live in?

I challenge you to walk through a nursing home - just about any one of them would do - spend some time there and speak to the people in there, then come back and say you think the Republicans are right.

 

[redtreviso]

Let's put it another way. The Republican House fully supported the Ryan plan that would give vouchers to seniors to have them negotiate for and pay for their own health care instead of receiving Medicare. This was a large component of their budget, and it wasn't just one fringe member's odd plan, they all supported it.

Do you honestly think people like this would be not only capable, but better off negotiating for their own health care? Is that really the world you want to live in?

I challenge you to walk through a nursing home - just about any one of them would do - spend some time there and speak to the people in there, then come back and say you think the Republicans are right.

Those are just people scott high fives himself about when he reads their obits in the newspaper.. GO SCOTTY YAY!!! ME WINNER ME!!!!!!!

 

[Alpe d'Huez]

Actually, I would challenge anyone to spend a day in a nursing home before they start thinking about any cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security.

Cowboy up and do that, then come back here and I'll listen to what you have to say.

 

[redtreviso]

Actually, I would challenge anyone to spend a day in a nursing home before they start thinking about any cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security.

Cowboy up and do that, then come back here and I'll listen to what you have to say.

Scotty has never had a cowboy up moment in his whole life..

 

[redtreviso]

"""My ability to function effectively will not affect my ability to serve as commander in chief."

--Michele Bachmann.""

 

[Anonymous]

Actually, I would challenge anyone to spend a day in a nursing home before they start thinking about any cuts to Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security.

Cowboy up and do that, then come back here and I'll listen to what you have to say.

Well, sir, my father came from a broken family. His mother, step mother, and my mother's mother were in skilled nursing facilities all at the same time. I am very familiar with time spent in a SN facility. For you to sit and type on your computer assuming I know nothing of this just goes to show how accurate your assumptions are.

The typical (not all, but most) Medi-Cal skilled nursing facility in this State is a ****-hole and absolutely not worthy of caring for my dog. THIS is what you get when you depend on government. End of.

If you think for one second that this will be any different once the gov is in control of your health care you are crazier than batman.

BTW, do you have your Long Term Care policy purchased yet? If not, why not? There are solutions to some of this stuff that have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with a govt program. And before you go on and on about those that can't afford a LTC policy I'll tell you that with a little better information and a lot better planning many of those now depending on this State for their skilled nursing care would not be in the position they now find themselves in. But by all means spin this to be everyone else's fault. There are programs for the truly indigent... but resources are stripped by those that should have and could have done things to avoid skewering the govt welfare program.

That is cowboy'd up my friend and I don't expect you to listen to one single word. You already know everything.

EDIT: I'm already on the record not supporting the Ryan plan. But the idea that seniors aren't capable and somehow need some bureaucrat to make decisions for them en masse is just more liberal BS. Oh, and another thing, Medicare only covers 100 days of Skilled Nursing... For your lifetime. Do yourself a favor and look into Long Term Care insurance.

 

[Anonymous]

Scotty has never had a cowboy up moment in his whole life..

Gramps, I cowboy up every time I respond to your idiotic bull****.

 

[redtreviso]

Progressive radio talk show host Thom Hartmann speaks with a first time caller (Cathleen from El Dorado, Ark.) who adamantly disagrees with his view on the national debt. At 5:00 Cathleen suffers a brain fart, and Thom brings up Jude Wanniski's "Santa Claus theory" about political parties and the debt.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCEtMQ5wE78

Scott's "maw maw" back in AWRKanasAWWW

 

[patricknd]

Must be easy enough for you to prove that Republican leaders care NOTHING for (fill in the blank). Knock yourself out.

By this logic then the following MUST be true;

Obama cares NOTHING for the elderly (cuts 500 Billion form Medicare).

http://dailycaller.com/2011/03/04/hhs-secretary-sebelius-admits-to-double-counting-in-obamacare-budget/

Obama cares NOTHING for physicians.

http://nevadanewsandviews.com/2010/12/03/obamacare-responsible-for-doctors-leaving-medicare/

Obama cares NOTHING of the National Debt. (Compare what he said in 2006 as a Senator to today's blather).

Obama cares NOTHING of Global Warming (according to AL Gore).

http://nhregister.com/articles/2011/06/22/news/doc4e029d0f7080b366156534.txt

Obama cares NOTHING for job creators (unemployment STILL over 9%).
Obama cares NOTHING for home owners.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/JubalTHarshaw/obama-failed-foreclosure-relief-plan-jobs-crisis_n_870928_91089035.html

Man, by your standard that democrat leader is a real POS.

haven't you been reading? he inherited all that, and he's still inheriting all that, and he'll still be inheriting all that in 2014