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- TheBlueOne0
So if say a Republican wins the election next year will popfodders keep coming here and posting shit about how ineffectual and corrupt government is, or will it suddenly become peach pie unicorns and rainbows in popfodders land and he fades into the sunset not to post again until 2016?
- Nope, I'll still post stuff, depends on the content.********
- Nope, I'll still post stuff, depends on the content.
- TheBlueOne0
Nice, now the banks are getting into sleazy "payday" loan arrangements with people who receive
http://www.clarionledger.com/art…
Essentially charging a " 261 percent annualized interest rate over the typical pay cycle." And that's Wells Fargo. You know the same bank that laundered billions for the Mexican drug cartels and underwrote millions of crap mortgages.
Until this rats nest is cleaned out the economy ain't getting any better folks no matter who is in the Oval Office. It's a bunch of crooks and corrupt fucktards who have hands in everyone's pockets. A pox on all the politicians of both houses who deregulated these fuckers and let the speculators play.
Meanwhile useless idiots like Popfodders plays the "partisan rivalry" card and keeps the distraction off the real issue.
- BLAH BLAH BLAH... you're so full of shit it must hurt you.********
- I'm really not surprised at that happening here.......kirshar12
- So real news is "blahblahblah". Go post a pic of a negro asshole and get it over with. FUcktard.TheBlueOne
- BLAH BLAH BLAH... you're so full of shit it must hurt you.
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Many in U.S. slip from middle class, study finds
http://www.washingtonpost.com/bu…“A middle-class upbringing does not guarantee the same status over the course of a lifetime,” the report says.
Education, particularly going to college, is another crucial factor in people’s economic stability, the report says.
Women who graduated from high school are more likely to be downwardly mobile than their counterparts who are college graduates. The same dynamic exists among men, the study found.
Overall, African American men have a particularly hard time clinging to middle-class status. Thirty-eight percent of black men who grew up middle-class are downwardly mobile, nearly double the rate of white men, the report says. Hispanic men are slightly more likely than white males to fall down the economic ladder, but the difference was not statistically significant.
Among African Americans and Hispanics, men are more likely to slip than women, although the reverse is true among whites.
The racial gap in mobility has perplexed researchers at Pew since a 2007 report that said nearly half of African Americans born to middle-income parents in the late 1960s plunged into poverty or near-poverty as adults. That report underscored the feeble grip many African Americans had on middle-class life, prompting researchers to probe deeper, said Erin Currier, project manager of Pew’s Economic Mobility Project.
The new report called the performance of blacks on a key standardized test a factor that accounts for virtually the entire mobility gap separating the races. Black males scored much lower than white males on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, which measures reading comprehension, vocabulary and math ability.
“Taking into account differences in AFQT scores between middle-class white and black men reduces the gap until it is statistically indistinguishable from zero,” the report said.
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GOP debate’s winners and losers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/bl…The Big Loser was Rick Perry. He appeared stolid and thick and as nimble as molasses. He called Social Security “a Ponzi scheme,” which it isn’t, when he should have said it needs to be fixed — raise the retirement age, etc. He once again belittled the scientific consensus on global warming, not supporting his argument, but just repeating it over and over again in a schoolyard manner — na-nanny-boo-boo. And, as if to clinch the argument that he does not belong in the White House, he virtually called President Obama “a liar,” which is not only over the top but shows a pattern of reckless speech: Obama’s a liar and Ben Bernanke is almost a traitor. Perry lost the debate big time, but if he didn’t then the real losers are the American people.
The winner was Mitt Romney. He looked and sounded presidential, and he showed once again that he will not, as have great statesmen before him, let fidelity to the truth stand between him and political opportunism. He mischaracterized Obama’s heath-care plan by wildly exaggerating its reach in an effort to show that the one he enacted in Massachusetts was the very soul of (conservative) moderation. But importantly, he stood his ground and remembered some punch lines I would guess were fed to him earlier by someone with a sense of humor. By likening Perry’s job claims for Texas to “Al Gore saying he invented the Internet” — Gore never said that — he showed a hitherto unknown taste for the cheap shot.
- I agree, Romney clearly won that and I think he knows he's going to get the nod. It's early, but Perry comes across as too********
- much of a yahoo. Too similar to Bush and no one wants that these days. Times change, even in conservative circles********
- i agreelocustsloth
- I think Perry will win the nomination.... Romney scares the Tea Party and the Religions Freaksvaxorcist
- you say that like there are 300M religious zealots, when the amount that are zealots is probably in the thousands********
- we finally agree on somethingutopian
- I agree, Romney clearly won that and I think he knows he's going to get the nod. It's early, but Perry comes across as too
- BonSeff0
^ I'm glad you agree with your post, I'd expect nothing less from you. Good luck with that field of candidates, moron.
- pf posts crap, you slag him
pf posts something relevent, you slag him.
At least you're consistentlocustsloth - thanks again for weighing in.BonSeff
- locustmoth, how one-sided is this place? wow, amazing... just proves my point********
- I posted a new article, goofball and then agreed with it. The entire loss by Perry.********
- pf posts crap, you slag him
- BonSeff0
This is hilarious
- you can be a R and be gay. LOL! Again, hypocrisy 101********
- it's not about being R & gay. It's about being gay & touting policies that are anti-gaylocustsloth
- THAT's the hypocrisy (or was that what you were referring to?)locustsloth
- Sure, I can see it. But at the same token, BonSeff posts this and acts like he's some liberal accepting person.********
- i don't think there's any disparagement of homosexuals in his post. What do you mean?locustsloth
- you can be a R and be gay. LOL! Again, hypocrisy 101
- BonSeff0
some popfodder for popfodders
- BonSeff0
it is generally assumed you agree with 100% of the bullshit you post, asshole. redundancy 101
- and it's generally assumed, you're a cocksucking, liberal faggot from Texas. Another hypocrisy********
- wow more gay slurs... i am soo offended!!BonSeff
- I suppose you should be. You know what they say about Texas.********
- that texas is the 2nd largest state in the union behind alaska? enlightmen me, you bitch-made punk.BonSeff
- i believe he's referring to the segmentation of the population into the groupings of "Steers" and "Queers"locustsloth
- indeed locust, the jokes on him. he mustn't heard of it.********
- but then again, I'm supposed to be the "uninformed one". LOL!********
- Dude - don't use the word 'faggot'.
K ?mikotondria3
- and it's generally assumed, you're a cocksucking, liberal faggot from Texas. Another hypocrisy
- BonSeff0
Wish they would have aired this.
Ron Paul Debate: Rick Perry Physically Grabs Him, Points at His Face
- Ooo i hope someone leaks the audio from this exchange.locustsloth
- Yeah, Ron Paul is awesome! Agreed, it got a little hasty, they know the nod means a crapload.********
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A White House 'Gunrunner'?
http://www.investors.com/NewsAnd…The Law: Operation Gunwalker, the rogue ATF operation to arm Mexico's cartels, extends now to three White House officials. A bell goes off with the one named Dan Restrepo.
Late last Friday, CBS News and the Los Angeles Times almost buried the news that Restrepo, the National Security Council's top man for Latin America, and two other officials, were in on ATF memos from the Gunwalker operation called "Fast and Furious."
That blows apart White House claims that it had no idea the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was encouraging frontmen for Mexico's cartels to buy weapons from U.S. gun dealers — to "trace" them afterward.
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FBI agents executing search warrant at Solyndra
http://www.mercurynews.com/break…Uhmmmmm....?
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/…
Last year, President Obama came to the Bay Area to tout "green jobs" at an event at solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra's Fremont plant. Quoth the president: "The true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra."On Wednesday, Solyndra announced it was shuttering its remaining Fremont factory, laying off 1,100 workers and filing for bankruptcy. It was a sorry day for the Bay Area.
I remember that day, May 26, 2010, vividly. Then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came to greet the president and wave to the hard hats. Venture capitalists preened. Just to show how brainy and farsighted the solar crowd is, Obama reminded the audience that his energy secretary, Steven Chu, is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
Rube that I am, I didn't understand what Obamaland was thinking. Solyndra had not turned a profit since it was founded in 2005. The plant in which Obama stood was bankrolled with a $535 million federal loan guarantee. Two months before, PricewaterhouseCoopers questioned Solyndra's "ability to continue as a going concern."
If the president wants to send a positive message on the U.S. economy, I wondered, then couldn't his people have found a California company that didn't rely on a federal loan and actually made money?
Bad advance work, I figured.
- mikotondria30
I'm sorry, PF - you called someone - in anger, a "faggot".
Anything you post is now null and void -
we won't have that, d'you hear ? We won't tolerate that, nor the N word.
Fight and argue us on our merit and the content and value of our arguments, don't hate on the fact that some of us are gay - fundamentally important thing to grasp here, son.
I would propose that if you do that again - drop the F word, or any such facist epithet, that we'll strike on this thread and it'll fall out of use. Seriously - we're not going to debate you if you call someone that word again. Read about the N word and why it's not acceptable, and then apply that to the F word. Absorb that information, and please come back and repost and rehash any ludicrously conservative, tea-party, Republican talking point all you like, and we'll argue for another 20 thousand posts or until we all die, but be a decent human being while you do it, eh ?- take it easy, it was in gest********
- uh no, no ! - I was joking too..
Sure. I'm middle aged now and touchy about such things :)
All good.mikotondria3 - :-), I just got a little pissed. I don't condone that either, bad word choice on my part.********
- take it easy, it was in gest
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African women say rebels raped them in Libyan camp
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/…
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Obama's Recovery A Flop Of Historical Proportions
http://www.investors.com/NewsAnd…As President Obama prepares to deliver yet another speech about stimulating the economy — this one to a joint-session of Congress (with or without the NFL game on the monitors) — it's worth reviewing the results of his efforts to date.
It has now been a little over two years — and eight full economic quarters — since the end of the recession Obama inherited. It's time to ask: How does his record of economic growth in the wake of a recession stack up against the records of other presidents?
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) defines a recession as "a period between a peak and a trough" during which "a significant decline in economic activity spreads across the economy and can last from a few months to more than a year."
By consensus, the most recent recession ended in June 2009, less than six months after Obama took office.
According to the NBER, in the 60 years prior to Obama's tenure, we had 10 recessions. In the two years following those respective recessions, average real (inflation-adjusted) quarterly GDP growth was 5%, according to federal government figures. In the two years of Obama's "recovery," average real quarterly GDP growth has been just 2.4%, less than half of the historical norm coming out of a recession.
What's the difference (in more practical terms) between 2.4% and 5% growth over two years? According to Obama's own budget, this year's GDP will be about $15 trillion. (It's running neck and neck with the national debt.) A 2.6% shortfall, therefore, equals about $780 billion over two years.
If you divide that evenly among the U.S. population of 312 million people, that works out to a shortfall of $2,500 per person — or $10,000 for the average family of four. Call it the Obama penalty.
- I'll suffer the 10 grand again to not have Rick Perry or Romney in charge. I'll pay yours, too.mikotondria3
- OK, please do bro!********
- aldebaran0
Yo popfodders, what do invest in? Are you a gold bug?
- *what do you invest in?aldebaran
- Heavy metals, no pun intended, IMO, are more stable than frill. That's rather generic of me, but, Gold, sure.********
- I've been looking at natural gas, well energy stocks in general, tbh. Both domestically (US) and in Brazil.********
- Do you own physical?aldebaran
- can you elaborate a little more?********
- Physical gold. Most libertarians are big fans of owning physical gold.aldebaran
- Ahhh.. good call on the partial Libertarianism. First to notice I think...********
- I don't own gold, in fact. Some silver, a lot of energy********
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- drivelutopian
- kick his ass out.... what are rules for then. can't be hypocrites about it right? what because of being BO's uncle********
