Richard94611 Loc: Oakland, CA

It is clear that you do not understand what the writer is saying. Your assumptions are wrong. That isn't what any writer here has been saying.

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

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Oh really?...



Besides the lies and distortions of a California recovery that will somehow see the state overcome its insurmountable debt, it is disingenuous to deny the role played by the democrats in the housing crisis... They were not only equal partners in creating the mess but it can easily be argued that they were the impetus behind our current financial woes...

docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado

In case you do not read the papers or get any news down there in Florida = the Middle east has been burning since - well since we invaded 15 yrs ago?

In case you haven't understood the world does not bow down to the US and do everything we want.

In case you need help remembering Mitt is the guy who without much thought is willing to liquify Iran if only to make a point and perhaps a side play on oil futures.......

Richard94611 Loc: Oakland, CA

I have confidence that the State of California will work through these financial difficulties and prosper. I am very happy to live in California. If I had my choices of where to live, I would pick the San Francisco Bay Area (where I live) as my first choice. Otherwise I would choose Bali, Fiji, or Paris. Worry about your own state, and its affairs.

bvm Loc: Glendale, Arizona

AARP is an Commission paid insurance agency. That's all they are. They like Obame-O and are exempt from Obama care. WHY?

Isn't strange, every one who PUSHES ObamaCare is EXEMPT from it? WHY?

So more than likely if you push for it, YOU'RE exempt from it. WHY?

If it's so good WHY are there over 12000 organizations exempt from it.

Why are all government agencies, congress, senate, the POTUS exempt.

If it's good for everybody than why isn't everybody on it?

Richard94611 Loc: Oakland, CA

Correction: The Middle East has been burning for many decades -- like most of my life, and I am 74. Its a war here and a war there, and a bombing here and a bombing there.

Richard94611 Loc: Oakland, CA

What are you talking about ? What do you mean by "exempt from it" ? Please explain to the rest of us what you are saying.

I like Obamacare very much. I have senior advantage at Kaiser, and it is wonderful !

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

Maybe you suffer from short term memory loss, over the last year the press has been reporting and the president has been glowing about the decimation of Al Queda and how much safer we have become... The president has used his Cairo speech as his foreign policy and outreach to that part of the world and has done much like everything else has not displayed much interest or effort in foreign policy.... Just a few short weeks ago the president was using the slogan "Bin Laden is Dead" as an exclamation point as to his foreign policy success... Now we see a different picture quickly developing. We see the Muslim world erupting in a manner that we have never seen before, we see them sending the direct message to this president that there are 1.5 billion Bin Laden's all sharing the same goal of death to America.... Do you not think that this president spiking the football as he has, using the Bin Laden murder as a campaign slogan has not added fuel to the fire... He has accomplished nothing and his naivete and lack of engagement has set us back years in our intelligence gathering capabilities and our ability to effectively engage... His foreign policies to this part of the world were simply based on three simple things.... His speech, his constant use of drones in several different countries, and US foreign aid, as if he could actually purchase friends and allegiance in that part of the world... He has burned intelligence partners for his own standing and prestige in the eyes of his followers and the press in this country again setting our country and our national security back...

Maybe it is you who is not paying attention...

docrob Loc: Durango, Colorado

dude thoughtful people the world over have been telling us for years that the way to win friends and influence people is not to bomb them or bribe them which has been our primary foriegn policy since Truman.

Richard94611 Loc: Oakland, CA

You have a better solution to the problems in the Middle East ? Tell us what this would be ? The problems in the Middle East are really insoluble until the countries in the Middle East realize (which they will not) that their two biggest enemies are poverty and lack of education, not people burning copies of the Koran. When 56% of the women in one of the countries (I think it is Egypt) are kept ignorant by the system AND CANNOT EVEN READ, what hope do these people have ?

Blurryeyed Loc: NC Mountains.

That would be nice but we all know that California is banking on a federal bailout, so no your problems are not as local as you would like us to believe, just what do you think the president means when he says that the federal government needs to hire more teachers, firemen, and police? He is saying that because of the local and state government's irresponsible budgeting and fiscal performance and the fact that their operating budgets are more and more consumed by their union contracts and pension funds that it is now up to the federal government to subsidize local and state governments, no matter that places like California went bat s**t crazy and without any fiscal restraint spent way beyond their means... Most of the rest of America does not feel an obligation to the flower child state... Hopefully your problems will remain your problems and not forced upon the rest of us..

Richard94611 Loc: Oakland, CA

And what state do you live in ?

jvance Loc: Granbury, Texas

Why don't you get off your crap Kit,it make's you look rather fanaticly stupid. of course it might not be look don't cha think.

DougW Loc: SoCal

Business regulated and taxed till they leave the state. Joblessness at 16% +. Gov Moonbeam back, limousine liberals representing us in congress,
School system at the bottom of the pile etc. etc. etc. I'm so happy with California I could just sh*t.

AUminer Loc: Brandon, Ms

H.Car insurance is a state mandated item and the states are given the power to decide those issues for tghemselves. You don't have to any home insurance unless you are financing a home and if you think that the AHA provdes free insurance, you are greatly mistaken. YOU will only get it free if you are under some arbetrary financial line the HHR set and guess what. The rest of us are paying for it just like we are now in higher Dr. and hospital cost. If you do not think the insurance companies are going to raise rates to cover the increased scope of the coverage which the gov,t is putting on them, then you have no more business sense than Harry Reid and Nancy Peloise or, for that matter, Pres. Obama.