[WEEKLYSTANDARD] Mark Pryor, the incumbent Democratic senator from Arkansas up for reelection next year, is releasing a new TV ad Wednesday in which he invokes his belief in God. The ad first aired on the news broadcast on ABC affiliate KATV in Little Rock Tuesday evening.
"I'm not ashamed to say that I believe in God and I believe in His word," says a bespectacled Pryor, who is holding an open Bible. "The Bible teaches us no one has all the answers--only God does. And neither political party's always right." Watch the ad and news report on it below:
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Well, the "answers" certainly tend to elude the political party you want to be elect under. Under.
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RNC today presented a quote a year ago from the suddenly righteous dude that the Bible is not a rule book that can be used in the Senate which of course contradicts his comments now that it is his guiding North Star in his decisions.
You voted for Obamacare and your ship is now taking on water, desperado.
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Lots of salt. Of course this is the party of prevarication and atheism so one cannot take anything said as true (during election season and other times as well. These folks invoke religion when its convenient. I smell desperation.
[NY Times] In a ruling that could reverberate far beyond bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... , a federal judge held on Tuesday that this battered city could formally enter bankruptcy and asserted that Detroit's obligation to pay pensions in full was not untouchable. They'll probably spend as much in court now as they're in debt. The unions won't let that go unchallenged, no matter how reasonable.
The judge, Steven W. Rhodes, dealt a major blow to the widely held belief that state laws preserve public pensions, and his ruling is likely to resonate in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
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"No bankruptcy court had ruled that before. It will be instructive."
Perhaps not in municipal cases, but plenty of people have lost pensions through the bankruptcy of private entities. I suspect the unions and pensioners are out of luck.
When one of the big automakers who took the Gov't bailout a few years ago, some rather interesting pension deals were struck between the company, union, and gov't. One of the outcomes was the so-called, 'corporate pension and Social Security benefits offset'. The offset came as quite a surprise to those who thought they might receive both payments [SSI and full corporate pension]. The corporate medical coverage evaporated as well.
I suspect we'll see some rather innovative methods used by the gov't to avoid pension and insurance payments in the future. They're broke, flat broke, and the only way to survive is to take it from someone else, someone outside the beltway. Obamacare and Obamacare penalty taxes, new gasoline taxes, Medicare reductions, troop cuts, pension reductions, whatever it takes.
Judge Roberts of the Supreme Court ruled this year that the Obamacare enrollment penalty was actually a tax. I await the repealing of this "tax" by the only body authorized to "tax", that being the US Congress.
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at my local gubbamint employer, most employees eligible for pensions are not eligible for SSI, or if they are, will get severely diminished payments due to their concurrently receiving a pension (as it should be) here is the FAQ
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will be interesting to see how this plays out. We have already locked in a 5 year freeze on pensionable pay and increased employee contributions. New employees get 401K only and SSI (since 2 yrs ago)
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Borrowing [at a modest rate of interest] against your SSI account for medical purposes, college, new home, should be allowed. Be a good way for the gov't to earn some money from interest. They'd probably just fritter it away like every other dime they take in.
Raising the SSI early retirement age from 62 to 63 would be relatively painless, and save some bucks also.
Lifting the $15k max you can earn and still draw early SSI would also bring in some bucks. Folks would still have to pay income tax. I've never been able to figure that one out. If it were designed to discourage people from retiring at age 62, it damn sure isn't working.
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Has the meaning of SSI changed? 40 yrs ago when I worked for Social Security SSI was Supplemental Security Income, aka federal welfare for blind, disabled & elderly (we won't talk about the scams that went on).
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I was referring to Social Security payments. My bad, I guess
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The mantra "it doesn't apply here" is already making its rounds in California. The the way things have been rigged set up here, the decision sort of doesn't apply . But it also doesn't mean the storm isn't coming either.
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but at least your 401Ks will be safe, right? Think again
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Meanwhile the Federal Reserve's policies of Zero Interest Rate and Quantitative Easing are stealing the value of anything denominated in dollars. No need to touch 401K's, by the time they are redeemed, they will be more like 55Z's.
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Making the rounds today in the internet news is an article on the Volstead Act of 1919 - it is good reading; carries advise on the practical effect for all.
An important statement in the article revolves around the advice of the Father of the Constitution, James Madison. In Federalist No. 46 he advised a refusal to cooperate with officers of the Union in response to what he called unwarrantable or unpopular federal acts.
Harry is an "officer of the Union" and represents Nevada, the Democrat Party and Labor Unions.
Frankly, the more this man does, the deeper he digs the hole. Let him continue to dig the grave of the Democrat Party, at some point they will not be able to remove themselves from the abyss.
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Harryis an "officer of the Union" and represents Labor Unions, the Democrat Party and occasionally, but often by mistake, Nevada.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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