Puterbac News Network and Political Discussion Thread

[Hizzy III]

It's clear that you shouldn't allow Colored guys with Muslim backgrounds access to the White House. They get in the way of patriotic capitalists who'll otherwise, as a patriotic gesture of the purest form of capitalism, have to shift (more) jobs from Detroit to Shanghai.

(But of course fuck Detroit)

Goddamnit.

[puterbac]

The problem, as puter has been saying (and many others here) for years, that spending increased even more than revenues. Many of us here criticized Bush and the GOP (at the time and since) for that.

But that doesn't change the fact that revenues increased after rates were lowered.

Exactly. Revenues went up not down. Cap gains cuts went in place and over three years the revenue from that tax almost tripled.

To look at tax cuts only as a cost without looking at the increased economic activity including more jobs and the revenue from those taxes will always favor never cutting taxes.

[Jungle Rat]

Why would anyone cut funding to Planned Parenthood?

[TheBigMook]

Why would anyone cut funding to Planned Parenthood?

The world needs ditch diggers too, you know.

[Hizzy III]

Keep my taxes low!

[Jungle Rat]

I would think Repubs would be all about Planned Parenthood. Isn't control their main issue?

[Owlman]

But that doesn't change the fact that revenues increased after rates were lowered.

So revenues increased after taxes were raised, and they increased after taxes were cut. Revenues go up no matter what????

[Hizzy III]

Yes.

Keep my taxes low. In fact, if you can, erase my taxes altogether. People will just chip in and keep America's interests strong across the shiny seas. Yay Betsy Ross!

[Big Orange Junky]

Ok, all you liberals that want the gubment to steal more peoples money I have a deal for you. If you are so convinced that the gubment needs more tax money then just go ahead and give it to them. There's nothing that says you can't. The IRS will take the money. If you think that we need more tax money just give them yours.

[TheBigMook]

But you Republicans has all our moneys!

[Professor Tiger]

Invest a trillion dollars into alternative energy research including developing a way to get oil safely from irradiated lands. Will exponentially be able to decrease the defense budget thereafter.

Or better yet, drill like crazy in Alaska and the US continental shelf, and become independent from Middle Eastern oil.
Then we can let the Arabs/Persians can live in their own little 7th century barbaric theocracy like they have always dreamed of. It won't be our problem any more. Then we can REALLY cut the defense budget.

[bluetick]

[Hacksaw]

Seems like you can make a chart that supports almost any silly notion. Yeah, let's take more money out of peoples' pockets right now. In this economy? Yeah...pure genius.

That particular chart could also be interpreted as suggesting that we need to have another world war. What a boom that was for the economy!

[Professor Tiger]

Tick has embraced puter's fondness for graphs.

[bluetick]

Heh. I kinda miss all of puter's charts trying to debunk those historic high temperature readings. Somebody's gauge was always 10 feet too close to an exhaust fan or a strip of metal or something.

People in Arkansas could take heart that those 103 deg readings today are FOS.

[aTm]

Didnt Arkansas have record cold or record snowfall or something this year?

[Professor Tiger]

I doubt that 103 in Arkansas in August is very unusual. However, the snowfalls that have slammed the northeast the last two winters were record shattering. Advantage: MMGW is BS.

[bluetick]

If memory serves..they had a bunch of birds fall out of the sky. And a few days later they had a big fish kill.

gettin' Biblical on their ass

[bluetick]

uh oh

• On Wednesday (8/3/2011), the mercury hit 115 deg F in Fort Smith, Arkansas, which shattered the all-time record of 107 degrees set back in 1896. Fayetteville, Ark. hit 110 deg on Wednesday, which broke the 47-year-old record of 102 deg F. Little Rock also set a new all-time record high temperature, at 114 deg.
  
  July 2011 was the warmest month on record in Lubbock, TX. This year, the city has already had at least 34 days with temperatures at or exceeding 100 deg F, which breaks the previous record of 29 days set during the "Dust Bowl" era.
  Dallas-Ft. Worth and Tyler are closing in on breaking similar records.
  
  It was also the hottest July on record in Oklahoma, where the state's average temperature was 89.1deg F. That's more than seven degrees above average for July, and 1 deg warmer than the previous record set in 1954.
  
  Tying or breaking daytime high and overnight low low temperatures isn't that unusual. What's incredible is that there were 443 places in the U.S. where the overnight temperature was warmer than it had ever been, on any day in recorded history. And there were 763 places where the all-time daytime temperature was broken.

[aTm]

So what?