tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post3429895611366524462..comments2023-11-05T03:05:05.785-05:00Comments on MyRightWingDad.net: Fw: Dear Mr. PresidentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-75061472651539879052011-08-05T07:29:21.813-04:002011-08-05T07:29:21.813-04:00You wonder, at what point will all those angry Tea...You wonder, at what point will all those angry Tea Party seniors dependent on Medicare and SS realize that they've been had by the Tea Party who used their racism to manipulate them into voting for those whose fondest wish is to take away Not just food stamps, but THEIR 'entitlements'? What will it take for them to realize they've been 'Koched'?Thx 4 Fishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07626498268837878537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-60706647687323336542011-08-05T05:13:02.557-04:002011-08-05T05:13:02.557-04:00The Bipartisan Policy Center did a nice, understan...The Bipartisan Policy Center did a nice, understandable report on <a href="http://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Debt%20Ceiling%20Analysis%20FINAL%20(updated).pdf" rel="nofollow">what would happen</a> if the debt limit wasn't raised.<br /><br />In short, it might be illegal for Treasury to prioritize payments in any way other than "first come, first serve." So, sorry, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-43037074479140192522011-08-04T22:29:29.119-04:002011-08-04T22:29:29.119-04:00Note that the entire premise of the e-mail is fals...Note that the entire premise of the e-mail is false. If the debt ceiling had been hit, payments of Federal salaries would have *had* to stop, just like in a shutdown.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-8745107441917116302011-08-04T20:27:21.441-04:002011-08-04T20:27:21.441-04:00WHAT?? Teh poorz are getting cell phones? Commie...WHAT?? Teh poorz are getting cell phones? Commies! Slackers! I feel so ripped off!<br /><br />What about giant subsidies to Big Agriculture, to Big Oil, to Big Mining? To "small business" types like the insanely wealthy Koch brothers, who fund the Tea Party???<br /><br />I'd much rather get my panties in a bunch about some poor people (who, you know, probably have brown skins &blaneynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-90179422956250864572011-08-04T18:14:03.587-04:002011-08-04T18:14:03.587-04:00The OMG cell phones!!! trope comes up again?
Five...The OMG cell phones!!! trope comes up again?<br /><br />Five points, Captain Kindler-Gentler:<br /><br />1) Enacted by the Bush administration<br /><br />2) The cell phones are provided to people for emergency services, to make medical appointments and things like that<br /><br />3) you only qualify if you are at or below 135% of the federal poverty guidelines; and 135% of shit ain't gruaudnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-24149526480735304532011-08-04T17:30:06.769-04:002011-08-04T17:30:06.769-04:00billions off essential social programs for the dis...<i>billions off essential social programs for the disenfranchised</i><br /><br />Ah yes. Essential Social Programs like 'cellphones'.<br /><br />http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/capitol/free_cell_phones_are_civil_right_htTMcKQFrjdvyl9A6NHPdP<br /><br />Yeah, forget food for the poor. Give the "poor" cell phones Progressives!<br /><br />Thank God for 1913 The Universal Service Fund.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-72364276337507288052011-08-04T17:22:36.248-04:002011-08-04T17:22:36.248-04:00Well, jimminy jillikers, if we default on the debt...Well, jimminy jillikers, if we default on the debt ceiling, Medicare/Medicaid and SS payments go tits up because it's the LAW. <br /><br />And all of these groups....<br /><br />Red states requiring federal aid<br />retirees waiting on Social Security<br />the sickly needing Medicare/Medicaid<br />our armed forces<br />students getting by on PELL Grants<br />businesses getting an IRS refund<gruaudnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-87183839266809459402011-08-04T16:42:02.250-04:002011-08-04T16:42:02.250-04:00Since when did conservatives ever give a stuff abo...Since when did conservatives ever give a stuff about the "Needy"? I call b.s. on this one. Almost everything that comes from conservatives is bitching and moaning about the needy, as well as what they love to call "entitlement" programs. <br /><br />Well suck on this, ya bitches. Guess what? Both political parties (not that there is any difference between the "two"ferschitznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-30879254932650217892011-08-04T13:57:11.953-04:002011-08-04T13:57:11.953-04:00The vast majority of people who pass this stuff al...The vast majority of people who pass this stuff along are ignorant a small number know it’s wrong but pass it on believing some how there helping there cause. These people are stupid.<br /><br />Stupid is forever, ignorance can be fixed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-53292590136691951042011-08-04T13:11:31.151-04:002011-08-04T13:11:31.151-04:00Okay, so never mind that the politics of this is a...Okay, so never mind that the politics of this is all wrong. <br /><br />Can these people really not even do simple estimates? Do they really not realize that the number of "house and senate members" is less than a thousand people, and even throwing in their staff and the white house staff members, you're still talking next to nothing, in terms of number of people and amount of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3921098406878065065.post-61509599603758561782011-08-04T13:09:47.215-04:002011-08-04T13:09:47.215-04:00Why not stop your pay, your staff, or Congress and...<i>Why not stop your pay, your staff, or Congress and the Senate to save more money for our country?</i><br /><br />Those things would have also been cut. But that doesn't solve anything. You could cut them all and the government could save about .0000000001 percent of its annual operating budget. <br /><br /><i>Lets hold the paychecks of all house & senate members, then see how fast Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com