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But do you think voters concerned about unemployment are going to turn out in droves for a man who made his fortune shipping American jobs overseas? A member of the McCain campaign said after the 2008 Republican primaries said that the reason Romney didn't win then was because he reminded voters of the guy that laid them off. And that was before the big crash that happened a few months later (about a week before the election as I recall).

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Obama actually confronts this head on in his latest campaign video. Do not watch without a sick bag and some blood pressure medication handy:

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Ohhhhhbama's jobs advisor Immelt, the head of GE, shipped a ton of jobs to China, so the little O's ad is pure BS and bottom line Kris, NOBODY IS BELIEVING WHAT HE IS SHOVELING ANYMORE. FACT :!: He's toast.
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bjmdds wrote:Ohhhhhbama's jobs advisor Immelt, the head of GE, shipped a ton of jobs to China, so the little O's ad is pure BS and bottom line Kris, NOBODY IS BELIEVING WHAT HE IS SHOVELING ANYMORE. FACT :!: He's toast.
I'm not so sure. You may believe that everybody hates Obama, because you get all your information from Republican sources (Fox News etc), but Intrade odds at the time of writing this give Obama a 59.4% chance of winning the election and Romney only a 36.5% chance. Obama's approval ratings may be below the magic 50% mark that would virtually guarantee his reelection, but not by that much. He has a narrow lead over Romney in the polls, though this is closing. Of course, it's early days yet. In particular, we've yet to see the effect that all those billions that Wall Street is pouring into the Romney campaign will have.
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I get my news sources watching EVERYTHING on tv Kris, except that trash Colbert and Stewart. I know more about MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, and their commentators, talk radio, all the major polling sites, than probably 90% of people who discuss politics, as well as the newspapers and magazines with their spins both ways. AP is your source. Ever watch all of these other outlets, read these periodicals, or listen to the news radio stations? OH-bama will NEVER win because every election since 1964 when the incumbent is neck and neck with the opponent, the undecided voters always break the last minute for the new choice and once people realize what Ohbamacare is really all about, he will be sent home packing. You would probably vote for the little O if you were here any way. "THE CARE BILL HB 3200

JUDGE KITHIL IS THE 2ND OFFICIAL WHO HAS OUTLINED THESE PARTS OF THE CARE BILL.

Judge Kithil of Marble Falls, TX - highlighted the most egregious
pages of HB3200



Please read this........ especially the reference to pages 58 & 59

JUDGE KITHIL wrote:

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Page 50/section 152: The bill will provide insurance to
all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally.

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Page 58 and 59: The government will have real-time access to an
individual's bank account and will have the authority to make
electronic fund transfers from those accounts.

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Page 65/section 164: The plan will be subsidized for
all union members,
union retirees and for community organizations

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Page 203/line 14-15: The tax imposed under this section
will not be treated as a tax.

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Page 241 and 253: Doctors will all be paid the same
regardless of specialty, and the government will set all
doctors' fees.

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Page 272. section 1145: Cancer hospital will ration care
according to the patient's age.

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Page 317 and 321: The government will impose a prohibition on
hospital expansion; however, communities may petition for an
exception.

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Page 425, line 4-12: The government mandates advance-care
planning consultations. Those on Social Security will be
required to attend an "end-of-life planning" seminar every five
years.

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Page 429, line 13-25: The government will specify
which doctors can write an end-of-life order.





HAD ENOUGH???? Judge Kithil then goes on to identify:

"Finally, it is specifically stated that this bill will not apply to
members of Congress. Members of Congress are already exempt from the
Social Security system, and have a well-funded private plan that
covers their retirement needs. If they were on our Social Security
plan, I believe they would find a very quick 'fix' to make the plan
financially sound for their future."

Honorable David Kithil of Marble Falls, Texas" Yes Kris, Americans want this :shock:
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bjmdds wrote:You would probably vote for the little O if you were here any way.
If the choice is between Obama and Romney, I'd stay at home.
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I am by no means thrilled with Romney but Oh-bama must go. “I think there is, probably a liberal bias that exists within the media because of the medium in which it exists,” Stewart said. “I think that the majority of people working in it probably hold liberal viewpoints, but I don’t think they are as relentlessly activist as the conservative movement that has risen up over the last 40 years and that movement has decided that they have been victims of a witch hunt. And to some extent they’re right. People on the right are called racists and they’re called things with an ease that I am uncomfortable with and homophobic and all those other things. I think that that is absolutely something that they have a real right to be angry about and to feel that they have been vilified for those things. And I’ve been guilty of some of those things myself.” Younger people watch this guy Stewart because they feel he's cooooooooool. They got cool Kris, for the past 3 1/2 years. Ask the graduates of ridiculously overpriced colleges from 2009, 2010, 2011, and ask the current grads this year where the jobs are waiting for them? The above unconstitutional healthcare mandate is 50% of the reason more hirings are not occurring. I am in business for myself Kris and I can PERSONALLY tell you that local and federal mandates have screwed me over with my colleagues and multiply that by millions of small businesses and you will know why Oh-bama MUST go in November. The younger people got cool. They voted for cool. They now are burning in debt and despair in this job market. Republicans ALSO are to blame with allowing outsourcing to go unchecked. If Romney cannot succeed in 4 years, out he goes too :!:
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GALLUP DAILY
May 4-6, 2012 – Updates daily at 1 p.m. ET; reflects one-day change
Obama Approval47%+1
Obama Disapproval47%-1
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Romney46%+1
Obama45%-1 Gallup is by no means a Republican leaning poll. It has them back and forth daily. Unless a war starts, the economy is heading further south over the next 6 months and there is NO way Oh-bama can win. Ever listen to Paul Krugman's assessment on the economy? He wants a much LARGER stimulus even NOW, if you can believe this garbage. HE is the liberal's savior to restoring fiscal sanity. :shock: The reason Oh-bama is even close is because half of the USA is looking for monthly checks now, so they could care less about a $16 trillion national debt and 4 straight Oh-bama years of over $1 trillion deficits. I have to pay more taxes so freeloaders get checks and go buy lottery tickets with them while faking disabilities and having 13 babies when they cannot afford a single one :!: Sorry Kris, this liberalism here is bankrupting this country, morally and financially and it must end now :!: Listen, AS I DO, to Rachel Maddow, Ed Schultz, Chris Matthews, Joan Walsh(of salon.com), Maria Bartaromo, Bloomberg Financial news, David Gregory, Matt Lauer,Brian Williams, Leslie Stahl(60 Minutes) Diane Sawyer,Scott Pelley(not as obvious though), Georgie Stephanopoulus, Wolf Blitzer, Tavis Smiley, Charlie Rose(twice now daily), the moron Piers Morgan, Keith Olbermann, etc., and tell me these people are not ALL 100% in the tank with Oh-bama. I get daily doses of these losers and THAT forms my opinions. Fox news vs. all mentioned.
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"because you get all your information from Republican sources (Fox News etc)".........I hope I have straightened you out on this statement Kris, as you can now see from all of the above proof. I have a voracious appetite for news sources on ALL sides and all it does is reinforce my anti-liberal philosophy and embolden my common sense approach to life's challenges.
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A new POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll finds Romney edged out Obama 48-47 percent among likely voters as Republicans rapidly consolidate behind the likely GOP nominee. He’s up by 10, 48-38, among independents and up six among those who describe themselves as “extremely likely” to vote. The president’s job approval rating is 48 percent, down 5 points from our February poll.
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bjmdds wrote:"because you get all your information from Republican sources (Fox News etc)".........I hope I have straightened you out on this statement Kris, as you can now see from all of the above proof. I have a voracious appetite for news sources on ALL sides and all it does is reinforce my anti-liberal philosophy and embolden my common sense approach to life's challenges.
Indeed you have. And in response, I would say that I have no particular preference for AP as a source, it's just that they and Reuters are so ubiquitous that if you see a news story on something like Yahoo (my home page, as I have a Yahoo email address) and click on the link, the chances are that the story will come from one of those two sources. Small town newspapers in America use them a lot too. When I lived on Hilton Head Island, SC, the local newspaper, the Island Packet, was a small-time affair. They had a couple of reporters for the very local "cat stuck up tree" type stories and everything else came from, I think, Reuters.
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Again, just to be clear, when I say "polls", I specifically mean the poll averages on Real Clear Politics (which, at the time of writing, place Obama ahead by 1 percentage point). I find them more reliable than a single source, plus it's more consistent. If (for example) a Gallup poll had Romney ahead by one point and then 2 days later, a CNN poll has Obama one point ahead, chances are, Obama hasn't jumped 2 points in those two days, the difference just reflects different methodologies and samples. Whereas looking at the RCP averages over a period of time better illustrates polling trends.
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The only polls that count are on election day November 6, 2012 and November 9 for Bond 23, in the USA. The people of the USA will either expel or re-elect Oh-bama. The fact that Romney is now deadlocked with Oh-bama after the vicious primary does not bode well for the current carnival barker in chief. His most recent campaign stop drew sparser crowds as well over the weekend. He STILL talks about the future yet his past is nothing to shout out about. People have seen him in action and are not pleased, except if they are receiving some form of government assistance. Let's see how the people of France do now with a socialist leader who wants to tax the wealthy at 75%. Good luck to stimulating that economy.
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bjmdds wrote:Let's see how the people of France do now with a socialist leader who wants to tax the wealthy at 75%. Good luck to stimulating that economy.
Yes, because the previous model of tax cuts/bailouts for the 1%, austerity for the rest of us, has worked sooooo well.
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The joke here is that mega rich Senators like John Kerry boast raising taxes, as well as Sharpton, who now works for MSNBC hosting a poorly rated daily talk show, as well as the clown in chief, who touts taxing the rich to pay their fair share. So what does Kerry do? He docks his Massachusetts owned boat in a neighboring state to save the docking tax on his massive yacht with his ketchup wife so Massachusetts gets cheated out of their due tax. Sharpton makes plenty of money, doing absolutely nothing, is himself in the 1% bracket, yet he owes the IRS $1.7 million in back taxes and NY State $900,000 in back taxes. The people Oh-bama has hired in his governmental positions owe the IRS $880,000 in back taxes combined and Timmy Geitner, the US Treasury Secretary failed to file tax returns 2 years :!: You cannot make this stuff up. The Kennedys avoided massive generational tax liabilities by setting up trusts/accounts in offshore accounts. These are all Democratics who praise the notion of taxing the rich more yet they themselves do just the opposite. This is why revolutions occur from time to time. Governments cannot keep adding on goodies when things are good and then not plan for downturns in their economies. Expansion of government services only succeeds when those working greatly exceed the freeloaders. If the balance approaches 50/50, chaos results, from Italy to France to Greece to the USA and the entire world. Bottom line is goodies must be personally achieved unless a TRUE disability exists. Fraud and corruption are rampant worldwide and this must stop but the human condition is such that everyone wants things, but many have lost the will and the drive to earn them. The ONLY thing governments should do with ANY tax increases is to pay down their respective debts towards solvency and stop expanding any new programs whatsoever.
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bjmdds wrote:The joke here is that mega rich Senators like John Kerry boast raising taxes,(snip)
Well, that's obviously a bad thing, but ultimately not terribly relevant. Ad hominem attacks serve only to divert attention away from the real issue, which is that austerity measures (which don't, of course, apply to the bandits who caused the financial crisis in the first place) have sent Britain into a double-dip recession and crippled economic recovery elsewhere. The sudden concern for the deficit is merely the pretext by which politicians of all stripes justify their real aim - the massive redistribution of wealth from the 99% to the 1%.
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This latest attempt by the Washington Post, in cahoots with Oh-bama, to bring up Romey's high school escapades from 1965 is such a joke and they should be out of the news business and it will backfire on them. Oh-bama is in free fall now, with nothing to run on but nonsense. If the Republicans stick to the economy, Romney wins and his backing gay marriage just lost him several swing states as well. 32 states so far have rejected same sex marriage to date, 32 out of 32, when on a ballot, not liberally placed state congresses like my NY where the votes were rigged via Bloomberg's payouts and Cuomo's receiving money.
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Not really freefall. If you look at the trendlines over the past year, it's kind of up and down for Obama (the blue line), though Romney (the red line) has received an obvious boost from being the presumptive nominee.

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Movie Quiz:

1. Pick a number from 1-9.

2. Multiply by 3.

3. Add 3.

4. Multiply by 3 again.

5. Now add the two digits of your answer together to find your predicted favorite movie in the list of 17 movies



Movie List:

1. Gone With the Wind
2. E.T.
3. Blazing Saddles
4. Star Wars
5. Forrest Gump
6. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
7. Jaws
8. Grease
9. The Obama Farewell Speech of 2013
10. Casablanca
11. Jurassic Park
12. Shrek
13. Pirates of the Caribbean
14. Titanic
15. Raiders of the Lost Ark
16. Home Alone
17. Mrs. Doubtfire
Not his polling, his campaign is in free fall. He meets with multi 1% tonight at Clooney's house raising $6 million from 150 of the wealthiest Hollywood 1%ers.
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http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/r ... IbXnFAQMhK Gallup has Romney up by 3 points and Politico has Romney up by 10 points amongst independents. Dr.No, get out the Romney vote! http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/b ... pr5I39IKrN “The economy’s a mess, it’s dead flat. America has lost its Triple-A rating . . . You know better than Obama does,” Bill said.
Bill Clinton insisted he had “no relationship” with Obama and had been consulted more frequently by his presidential successor, George W. Bush.
Obama, Bill Clinton said, “doesn’t know how to be president” and is “incompetent.”
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