Re: I want to start a new political Party

I certainly don't think I could take that pay cut.

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Then how come we are still importing oil ??

Just print more money!... Isn't what they have been doing for the last 4 years?

Young society thinks that is how it's done! A large percentage of them actually believe it! They also don't believe in working for their keep, that's too old fashion, out of date.

The free ride will soon be ending.

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So we can burn that witch Slowman at the stake ?:-) ...Jim Thompson

Jeorge would have multiple heart attacks for leaving that money on the table. :(

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Silvio Belusconi ( $5.9 billion)

He used his money, and his dominant position in Italy's media companies, to get - and hold onto - political power.

Putin's probably nowhere near being a billionaire. "Figures released during the legislative election of 2007 put Putin's wealth at approximately 3.7 million rubles ($150,000) in bank accounts, a private 77.4-square-meter (833 sq ft) apartment in Saint Petersburg,

He certainly lives like a billionaire, but so does Obama, and for pretty much the same reason.

Speculations about the wealth of top level of the Chinese administration are just that. If any of them were indiscreet enough to make their depredations so obvious that Western journalists could nail them, they'd probably be promptly shot for bringing the party into discredit.

When I said that the US was ruled by greedy men, I didn't intend to imply that your congress-men and administration were all that well off, but rather that they were particularly attentive to the needs and desires of the seriously wealthy, to pretty much everybody else's disadvantage. I'm not arguing that the US is worse run than any other effective oligarchy, merely that it is not - in fact - a democracy, and would be better run if the interests whole of the population were being taken into account.

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That was exactly what Silvio Belusconi did in Italy - he used his wealth to fund a (rather profitable) political career. Very American, right down to the mafia connections

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You are borrowing money from China, and paying it out to Saudi Arabia.

Jim-out-of-touch-with-reality-Thompson scores again. For a start, I'm not a witch nor even a warlock, and even Jim should have enough to know that I've never even pretended to magical powers.

And nobody seems to have needed oil to burn witches - the traditional approach relied on wood.

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There you go. Just because I'm to the left of James Arthur, Jim Thompson and John Larkin doesn't make me a commie pinko - there's a whole mass of left- wingers out there to whom I look as right-wing as Jim Yanick looks to you.

And we aren't even talking about left-wingers who'd buy your NationaI Entitlement Party - they'd correctly see it as a right-wingers idea of what a seriously left wing party would look like, while even the most egalitarian of left-winger isn't going to propose anything that doesn't make some kind of economic sense. Their kind of stupid has everybody working for food and housing - from each according to their capabilities, to each according to their needs, relying on idealism and indoctrination for motivation, rather than any tincture of greed or desire for social distinction.

Now that has the authentic far-left flavour ...

They are more likely to take the attitude that if you keep on getting your high blood pressure medicine you can keep on working for a living (and raising their profits) when without it you'd probably have a disabling stroke and become and expensive dependent on society, cutting into their profits.

They said on the news this morning that the US will be the largest producer of oil by the end of this decade.

No can do! The EPA prohibits burning toxic waste.

Hi Bill, You make make me feel wanted! :-)

I started Meds for high blood pressure about 6 weeks ago. The med I was given isn't working, I averaged 14 systolic measurements before meds and 14 systolic measurements and the difference was a lowering of 0.7% or in the noise. Need to go back with more graphs for the doc. Mikek

Just now, while slugging down coffee... 122/69

I think BPH medications cured my HBP ...Jim Thompson

On Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:49:01 -0600, amdx wrote: [snip]

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I kind of like the saying that goes something along the lines of "The USDA is actively encouraging people to sign up for food stamps and other handouts while the Parks Service warns people not to give food (handouts) to the animals because they will become dependent on the hand outs and not learn how to take care of themselves."

Progressives will complain about outsourcing jobs but will gladly outsource their day to day life decisions to a unknown bureaucrat.

That reminds me of when feeding dolphins was outlawed here in Florida. I was sure we would have a government program to feed the starving dolphins.

Mikek

I thought I was on to a cure for a day when I took some calcium and the next day my BP was 126/74, but then it went back up the next test to

I'm sure we'll find something to bring mine down, AVE about 137/77. That not extremely high, but I have heart disease in my family. My doc's philosophy seems to be, not to make you live long, but to keep you healthy as long as you live. Now about those new planks. Mikek

Fortunately I'm allergic to anything sulfonamide-based, thus I'm not subject to exposure to all those modern "miracle" drugs with their wild advertising claims and then 10 minutes of reciting the side effects ;-) ...Jim Thompson

That's going to take some work, unless that quote is by an individual country. The US is currently in 3rd place, behind Saudi Arabia and Russia. It wouldn't take much for the US to pump its way to the top. However, if you compare US production against that of the entire middle east or OPEC, it's not going to happen: OPEC 33.3 million barrels per day. US 9.6 million barrels per day.