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Originally Posted by Robbie
Then Rochard, I guess you've already set your mind to things.
I told you in my answer that the "plan" Romney has is to unleash the Energy industry. I'm not here to argue his plan for him..but a lot of it is pretty obvious. Build the Keystone Pipeline is one of those "shovel ready" jobs that Obama promised and failed to deliver (remember him laughing and saying that it turned out that jobs weren't "as shovel ready as I thought"?)
And just that one project will stimulate the economy as the workers will need food, clothes, buy stuff at the stores, go to the movies, go to bars, etc.
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Seems to me Obama has opened up more land to drilling than ever before.
The pipeline... You need to open up your eyes here and apply common sense. If were building a pipeline directly to the heart of America, this would be a great idea. But why do we need to build a pipeline all the way to the Gulf of Mexico? Take a look at where our oil comes from and then a map. Canada is the biggest supplier of oil to the US, and we are going to build them a way to bypass us so they can ship it elsewhere?
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Originally Posted by Robbie
Then he pointed out that Obama has cut in HALF the amount of permits for drilling oil on public land. He said he will DOUBLE those.
Whether we believe them or not...the oil companies have said that they have found massive new oil reserves in Alaska, the Gulf, etc. in the last couple of years.
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But this is double talk. We've increased drilling in these areas over all. We've cut back on drilling on public land, and increased drilling on privately owned land. Overall we've increased. So Romney is going to do what - increase drilling? Gee, that's what Obama boy did.
What your saying is Romney was to open up all of this public land - owned by us, the people - and turn it over to big business so they can continue to bend us over at the pumps?
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Originally Posted by Robbie
That's just ONE of his ideas to get our economy going.
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So his "one idea" to get our economy going is to turn over public land - land owned by our government - over to the oil companies so they can take the oil and sell it as a massive profit while shipping Canadian oil to Asia.
Holy crap, that's brilliant. Business as usual for the big oil companies, and now the largest oil exporter to the US is going to increase their oil exports to Asia. That will fix everything.
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As for Obama giving stimulus money to his friends...did you not watch the debate? Romney told Obama to his FACE that he gave the stimulus money to his campaign contributors. He named the companies off in a list. The most famous of which is Solyndra.
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If I recall correctly, Telsa was named on that list. Are they Obama supporters? Romney mentioned that they failed to produce what they promised. Telsa built over one thousand roadsters and is working on their next generation of cars. Tesla employs 900 people. They are building electric cars that are faster than Ferraris. I've seen them on the road down in LA, at The Grove.
Romney named all of what, four companies that "Obama gave stimulus money to"... Fucking half of the country voted for him, so that number seems mighty small. Some of that stimulus money went build a new freeway two miles from my home (thanks for that btw) - Is that because Obama has friends in Sacramento? You can take any government list of businesses and half of them are owned by someone who supports one party or the other.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
Romney even pointed out that the feds give the oil companies 2.5 billion a year. But Obama gave 90 billion a year to "Green" energy companies. That's like 40 years worth of oil subsidies! And guess what..all the companies are campaign contributors and cronies of Obama.
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And this is bullshit childish politics. Again, nearly half of the nation voted for him. It's entirely possible that half of the companies that got the 90 billion dollars might have contriubted to Obama - but half send money to the Republican party.
Unless you have a master list of everyone who received money and how much they contributed to Obama, your pointing imaginary fingers at imaginary crimes.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
As for the military....we are spending 10.6 BILLION dollars a day. We are STILL in Germany and Japan 70 years after WW2 (My brother-in-law is stationed in Germany right now and we the taxpayers are paying for him, his wife, and his little girl to all live in Germany and stimulate THEIR economy)
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But... Romney wants to increase the money we spend to on our military.
And either way, I'm okay with us being in Japan and Germany. It sends a message to the rest of the world saying "Fuck with us, and we will occupy your country until the end of time". We should still be in Iraq and we should remain in Afghanistan. We need to send the message saying "fuck with us and we'll piss on your country for the next one hundred years".
With Germany, great, it gives us a military base directly in the heart of Europe. Might come in handy with what's going on in Turkey this week. With Japan, great, it gives us a base in Asia - where China is whipping out it's dick. We need bases in places like Germany, Japan, Korea...