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2010-12-01 Home Front: Politix

Madam Speaker: "This is why the American People have Thrown You Out of Power!"

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2010-12-01 00:32|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 yeah, makes me wanta run for friken office. RIGHT!!

Posted by Mr. Bill 2010-12-01 02:15|| 2010-12-01 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 Who was that standing in for the Speaker. She didn't know what to do did she? Who was it pulling her strings and telling her what to say?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-12-01 11:45|| 2010-12-01 11:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Who was it pulling her strings and telling her what to say?

Now you know why Congress controls the cameras instead of letting C-Span show what's really going on.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2010-12-01 11:49|| 2010-12-01 11:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Did they turn of the mics as well? It sounded like some of the mics went dead during some of the comments.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-12-01 14:18|| 2010-12-01 14:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Sat across from an owner of a $40,000,000.00 ($40 Million) company today. She is a very smart business woman in a man's business, the construction industry.

She told me that earlier this year she called all her employees into a "State of the Union" meeting where she told them there would be real losses for the industry and some major surprises. She did not know what those surprises would be but she knew they would not be good. As this year progressed she say some very so-called strong companies collapse like a house of cards. Then she asked me what they could do to keep them out of trouble. Of course she is about to purchase some software development support that will give her a lot of analysis. But I turned the question around to her...

...And she replied, "We are TOAST. If we can get the right people in to DC, they can tax me, tax me, tax me because that is the only way our future generations can survive and get those generations out of serious financial trouble now. But at the same time they better actually hang the politicians that are there now for what they are doing to our children. And I am DEAD SERIOUS ABOUT THE HANGINGS!"

She started out 25 years ago as a receptionist there. She nows owns the company and was the one who built it.

But to get back to my response to her it was "Build the best possible fire wall around you and your company that you hope can handle the next great depression. In other words, fill the barns with corn." And she replied, "Yes, for the seven years of famine."

Indeed.

Posted by Huperert Sproing7345 2010-12-01 15:19|| 2010-12-01 15:19|| Front Page Top

#6 I don't know who she was, but she'd probably make a helluva mediocre cashier at Walmart...

Posted by tu3031 2010-12-01 19:45|| 2010-12-01 19:45|| Front Page Top

#7 As near as I can tell, any attempt to make the situation better by raising taxes will only make the situation worse.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-12-01 20:45|| 2010-12-01 20:45|| Front Page Top

#8 everybody knows turnips are a source of an endless supply of blood - if you squeeze hard enough

Posted by Frank G 2010-12-01 21:51|| 2010-12-01 21:51|| Front Page Top

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