According to the snoops article maybe I was too quick to buy in to the reports of unions turning help away.... But, why would that be? Why is it so easy for people like me to expect such stories to be true?

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/nasty-union-violence-legal/story?id=14572790#.UJVOycW5N2A

http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/08/16/developing-ohio-business-owner-shot-for-being-non-union-police-investigating/

http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2011/08/23/Reward-is-offered-in-shooting-of-businessman.html

http://www.redstate.com/laborunionreport/2011/09/22/the-afl-cio-defends-union-violence-as-a-legitimate-union-activity-will-the-dept-of-labor-do-it-too/

Click here http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/sandyunion.asp to become a live, on the spot, witness to SNOPES descent deeper into the pockets of the Dem/Union alliance. Do not listen to "on the scene" recordings of the incident, but rather the carefully calculated and prepared responses of higher echelon leadership. The "political two-step" is an intricate choreography that is truly a thing of beauty to witness.

I never said that I am an intellectual nor do I feel that way, I too only express my thoughts but also know that for them to carry any weight that they should be supported by facts.... they are out there you know and the most damning facts are contained on dot gov websites.... Even just a few minutes spent looking at federal budgets or reading the CBO reports on entitlement programs kinda cuts through the politics and opens one's eyes to what the real problems are that we face as a country..

You say that you are not a liberal probably because you don't like the label, but I have read your comments and your politics are what they are.... You can call them whatever you care to...

And you're the kind that never has anything of merit to say, the thing that pisses libs off about me is that I generally bring facts and figures as well as supporting articles to the debate that you simply can't brush off.... If you don't like my posts it is probably because they don't fit with your view of the political and economic landscape... Hey, here's a thought, just don't read them and if you do read them and they piss you off then bring something back other than just emotion to dispute them.

Whatever, I suppose that you somehow think that Dems don't get bought and sold each session of congress... Maybe my comment was course so you can call me an ass if you want to, I will call you a dreamer for supporting the reelection of this president, Hope and Change is little more than a giant step towards socialism.

LOL... Matthews is bouncing off the rubber walls that they have erected around him over at NBC.

The point in the debate was that federal permits are down, and that is a fact about which the president lied about... to be a little more specific, during the president's term in office offshore permits are down 62% in federal waters and on federal lands they are down over 30%. These numbers are for new permits being granted by Washington and not about the retraction of permits that were not being used, a different set of numbers.... The president deceptively takes credit for the advances of an industry that he continually disparages, that is kinda ironic, he needs them to do well and supply our country with the fuel and energy we need, but he harbors a deep seated hatred for those on whom he must rely... The president was dishonest last night on several levels.

The real question, in my view, is why does the government, or anybody else for that matter, think they have the right to literally take money away from those who earned it just because they have more than somebody else?

Whether somebody is worth $250,000 or $250 million, they earned it, saved it, invested it to earn more, and it's theirs to do with as they please. Their money is their money. Why do Liberals always think that there is some fictional level they can randomly choose at which someone has too much money and it needs to be removed from them?

It is stirring up class warfare to pit the poor against the middle class and the rich, and the middle class against the rich for political benefit and I'm sick of it. I don't expect special special favors in the middle class where I have always lived but I also don't feel the rich should be denied the same favors I get. Yet Liberals always want to cut tax rates for the middle class and raise tax rates for the rich. To level the playing field as they call it.

What happens when teachers level the playing field by creating a sliding grading scale? The losers who didn't learn end up passing the class anyway and the really smart ones who did learn have their 4.5 GPA reduced to 4.0 to help the loafers out. Is it fair to make the kids who put out effort put out even more effort so they can survive the slide to let the dummies pass the class? No.

Removing the A through E grading scale and changing it to Satisfactory and Unsatisfactory does the same thing. There is no incentive to become smart because the D level kid and the A level kid are getting the same resulting grade anyway. Incentive to learn is gone.

Same with over taxing the rich. Incentive to earn more is removed. Don't be fooled for a moment that the number-crunching brains of the rich don't know that too. There are levels of taxation rates where you profit more by taking in less than you profit by working harder to take in more. Taking in less under the burden of more taxation slows growth. It's just pure calculated logic that Liberals don't have.

I support what Romney and Ryan are preaching, which is eliminating loopholes that allow the rich to not pay as much tax as the middle class - but I don't support raising their tax RATE to screw them just because they have more than I do. No corporate loopholes for a yacht, private jet, helicopter, or limo - but not higher tax rates either. Fairness is offering everybody in the U.S. the same thing with the same deductions and the same rates. I don't begrudge the rich what they have earned nor think we need to get it away from them somehow to squander with excess government spending.

As I've said before that's government acting as Robin Hood to steal from the rich and give to the poor. It's not right. Robin Hood was a good intentioned individual (which is what Liberals consider themselves to be) but the fact is that he was also a wanted grand theft criminal for detrimentally stealing from the rich. Our government should not be Robin Hood.

The fascinating thing about any business opened with this available capital is that it has side benefits. A restaurant has to buy food. Well, somebody has to raise the food. Jobs. Somebody has to process the food. Jobs. Wholesale the food. Jobs. Finally, once the sale is made, taxes go to the city, most of which go to payroll, jobs. However, some goes to materials, which means jobs for vendors and jobs for materal producers. Potholes don't fill themselves. So, if this money were to be reinvested in America, it would be a win-win situation.

Thats a myth...that giving the rich 8% more money will mean more jobs. The fact is, there is no historical proof of that. Thats a balloon thats been floated by the right for a long time, and there is no economic backing for that. The republican party is, at it's core, the wealthy and big business. They need a large number of common folk in order to win an election, so they brought in a list of issues to attract enough people to get to 51%. Abortion, gay rights, military spending, smaller government are all issues specifically chosen to help attract enough people to win an election. It's a scam.
The most healthy economy we have had came during the Clinton era, but I would not give hime all the credit. The economy has a life of it's own, with complex world issues impacting it's direction.

LOL California has made its own bed... There is no real need for summer and winter blends and yes they do add to the cost of gasoline, it is mandated by the EPA and makes the Greenies happy.. The other big problem that they are facing in California is that our government will not allow the building of additional refineries, no matter that our consumption has grown over many years, the greenies just hate gas and the dems have conceded to them and have done everything that they can to block oil industry efforts to meet the needs of our nation... As far as I am concerned is that this big blue state deserves the results of their big blue policies and the representation that they keep sending to DC year in and year out.