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Let us all agree you just want to whine. Clearly. |
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Get rid of the money and call it what it is.. Bribes for votes and things will slowly turn around. |
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Nevertheless, I like the bill that passed the house, it's a far better solution than BO's. So it's not like it's pie in the sky nonsense. |
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Problem is there are no "real" wars to fight. It's all about small guerilla groups of so-called "terrorists" and "insurgents". You can't fight them with nuclear weapons and giant armadas of ships. And having military bases in other countries all over the world? Yeah...that's costing us a lot of money and gaining us a lot of hatred from people worldwide. |
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I could prolly dredge 1 or 2 of those up if anyone is interested. I think with what is going on with Russia now, it seems that militarily it would make sense to maintain a presence for a larger than gurilla team enemy. |
By the way...the media and Democrats have portrayed the Republicans as the "do nothing" Congress in the Republitard controlled House.
But I'm watching "State Of The Union" with Candy Crowley this morning on CNN. And she had a pretty good panel comprised of a couple of hardcore Democrats and a couple of Republicans. One of the Republicans on the panel was Newt Gingrich. He pointed out that Sen. Harry Reid has killed 290 bills sent from the House to the Senate without even allowing a vote on any of them. I thought that was kind of interesting since the media never talks about that. They always seem to just concentrate on the House (even though the House PASSED all those bills and it was the Senate leader Harry Reid who killed them). So apparently if the Republitards disagree with a bill and kill it...they are the "do nothing" Congress. But if the Demofucks don't agree with a bill and kill it...it was the rational thing to do because obviously the Republitards KNEW that their bill wouldn't make it. I can't believe anybody with any sanity is still voting for these two obsolete parties. |
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But I'm really wondering if ANYBODY in the whole world really believes that the U.S. would ever attack Russia in any kind of military engagement (or vice/versa) |
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http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/aug/20...l-immigration/ |
Hey Barry, my family was in the citrus and cattle industry down in Fla. from the 1950's up until my grandfather passed away a couple of years ago.
The thing I've wondered about with "immigration reform" is this: Since before I was born...Mexican farm workers have come here and worked. Down in Fla. in the 1960's and 1970's and 1980's the politically incorrect term was "Wetbacks" (like they had swam the Rio Grande lol) Anyway, my grandfather had a fleet of trucks owned thousands and thousands of acres of orange groves and employed over a thousand people for that part of his business. And the vast majority of the ones he employed were the Mexican people picking the oranges. They would come to Florida for picking season. Each Mexican worker would be in the grove with his wife and all their kids picking oranges. And they are the BEST at it. They could literally strip a tree in under a minute of all the oranges. So I'm a teenager in the 1970's and I see these guys picking up checks for a couple of thousand dollars a week (you get paid by the "tub" of oranges). And a thousand dollars in 1975 was worth a LOT more than it is now. Hell, you were rich if you had a thousand bucks back then. lol So I tell my grandfather I want to pick oranges too! I go out there and picked oranges all damn day. I ended up with 3 tubs full and made about $10, I was sunburnt from head to toe, and every muscle in my body hurt. lol My point is...without those workers...WHO is going to do that work? And at what price? I believe (and I think I have the real life experience to say this having grown up in the citrus industry), that without those hardworking people...we will be paying so much money for fruit and vegetables that it will hurt the middle class and especially the people struggling to get by as they watch their grocery bill go sky high. There was NO problem with "immigration" back then, and there still isn't. The only problem is the one the govt. created by fighting the "War on Drugs" and crippling the Colombian drug cartels. Now it's the MEXICAN drug cartels because they filled that vacuum. Once the U.S. govt. sent down our military to burn coca fields and help capture and kill the drug kingpins in Colombia...new ones sprang up in Mexico. And now we have all this violence on the border. THAT is the main thing that people are talking about...the violence on the other side of the border and it spilling into the U.S. Thus "immigration reform". Maybe if the federal govt. would drop Richard Nixon's "War On Drugs" and realize that you can't force people to obey you like a dog...then this "problem" that was caused by the U.S. govt. to begin with would be "solved" without us having to put the military on the border and build a fucking wall like we are the Soviet Union from the Cold War era. From my point of view...our govt. is so fucking ass-backwards. It's shameful. |
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The industry fired her after that and hired Burt Reynolds and his then-wife Loni Anderson to do the commercials after that. And it was awesome then! Burt was the number one box office star in the world at the time and of course Loni Anderson was the gorgeous big tit blonde from "WKRP Cincinnati" They did some great commercials that were pretty funny. But yeah...Anita Bryant was a religious nutjob and made some anti-gay remarks in an interview that started a firestorm. It got her fired, and pretty much screwed her career. |
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EDIT: I wish I could get that gig...and combine it with a vodka spokesman job too! Then I could make commercials pouring "Fresh Florida Orange Juice" over "Refreshing Grey Goose Vodka!" heh-heh |
Yes, Robbie you are dead on about those "wetback" workers. |
Barry, the workers that came in for picking season for the citrus industry didn't really bring any measurable social cost when I was young.
My grandad basically had shacks in the middle of the orange groves. They would come in for a few weeks, straight in from Mexico with their families and live in these little shacks with dozen or more people crammed in each one.(because as I said...each worker had his entire family and they worked together as a unit). Some of them were "foremen" and they would bring their "crew" in with them. They would pick for the season. Make a freakin' fortune and then leave with all their money. The kids didn't go to school. They didn't go to the doctor while they were here (they seriously worked all day every day to maximize their money) And then when it was over...they went back to Mexico and lived like kings. lol Some people might argue that they didn't "contribute" because they took their money back with them to Mexico to spend it. And that's true. But the work they did keeps food costs down for all of us. I can tell you that riding around with my dad through my grandfathers citrus groves...I never saw even ONE "white" guy out there doing that work. It was too freakin' hard to work out in the hot Florida sun all day long picking oranges. And no single person could compete with a Mexican family when it comes to attacking an orange tree. They would have an entire row of trees picked before you could get half a tree done. lol And in the citrus industry that is vital. The sugar content of the orange dictates the price. And to have a high sugar content you have to be able to leave that orange on the vine right up to the last second. One day over and the fruit will be rotted. One day too soon and you lose money because it's not fully ripened to it's full sugar content potential. Those "illegal" immigrants were the ones who could hit a grove at it's peak and get the entire grove picked in a day and loaded on to trucks to head to the office for analysis and then off to the Tropicana plant. Lot of money at stake in that whole process from targeting which grove was "ready" to getting it to the plant in time. EDIT: My grandfather paid out by the "tub" of oranges picked...so it wasn't like the Mexicans were undercutting American workers price-wise. Anybody could have come there and worked that job. But nobody was as good at it as those Mexican workers were. They had the ability to bring their families in there and make a lot of money and get the job done better than anyone else could. If they didn't get the job done...they didn't last. |
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Now he just says fuck it, plays golf, & gets ready to hit the speaker circuit in 3 years & bank a hundred mil like the clintons. :2 cents: |
Josh...it's always been that way. As I've said before...in the 1990's the Republicans IMPEACHED Clinton and made him sit in front of Congress and commit perjury.
I thought that was all a bunch of bullshit. But through all of that...Clinton was a great leader and politician and was able to reach out to his enemies and get shit done. Pres. Obama seems to act aloof from Congress. I saw Newt Gingrich on CNN say that he and Pres. Clinton spoke on the phone every day and met in person at LEAST once a week. I have heard congressmen and senators on news shows say flat out that Pres. Obama rarely calls Republican leaders and almost never meets with them. Huge difference between what Pres. Clinton did and Pres. Obama. Also look at Bush...you can't say he wasn't HATED by Democrats. But yet...he talked to them all the time and worked shit out to get things done. That is the job of a President. It isn't supposed to be Pres. Obama putting forth ideas and before anybody can even start discussions...he announces that he will NOT compromise. :( That's just insuring that nothing will ever get done by pissing off the opposition party right off the bat. Bad leadership. And it's why that has been the main criticism of Pres. Obama from the beginning. He's not very good at being Pres. He has some good ideas. He gives great speeches. But the everyday function of working with Congress? He hasn't done it since day one in office. He couldn't even get shit done with the Democrats controlling both houses for the first two years...except the watered down/insurance company gift of "The Affordable Health Act" :( |
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In a perfect world both sides would work together, but it seems like these days they can't do anything without it being hyper politicized and turning into a major partisan event. |
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Doesn't matter much to me. I take care of my own lawn. |
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Since that's not what he asked for? Why didn't the president work with them on it? Why won't the president send troops to the border like the Governor of Texas asked for? Is it Obama's way or nothing at all, is that what you are trying to say? |
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