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- kirrim, on 10/11/2007, -9/+78Reasons for my anger:
1. allowing illegal immigrants to pour through the borders, then attempting to grant them amnesty, claiming that Americans won't do the work, to the cost of those same blue-collar American workers. (Americans would do the work if employers would hire them, but they cost more)
2. allowing American-based companies to prefer non-American workers for jobs here in the US through the H1B Visa program, claiming that there aren't enough Americans to do the work, to the cost of those same white-collar American workers. (Americans would do the work if employers would hire them, but they cost more)
3. The war in Iraq (note that this is not #1 or #2 on my list, but it's still on my list) is costing our country trillions of dollars and has (pick one)
a. hurt our economy
b. enriched a few companies, such as defense, petroleum, Haliburton/KBR
c. cost thousands of lives (American, Iraqi, Iranian too)
d. driven up the price of gas in the US, further hurting the same middle/lower-class American workers that were hurt in items #1 and #2 above
e. completely trashed any good will the US has ever had in dealings with the rest of the world, damage which will take years to undo
4. The White House and Justice Department has ignored the rule of law and the past Congress did nothing about it
5. The White House and Justice Department continue to ignore the rule of law and the current Congress does nothing about it (read: impeachment to put the Pres and VP on trial, enforcing subpoenas against the Justice Department)
These are just the top 5 for me at the moment. Note that #1 and #2 have to do with an ongoing war against the middle and lower class citizens of this country, supported and subsidized by our own government on behalf of corporations. I probably could have combined those two into a single rant, but decided to keep them separate, because they are truly separate issues both in their current form, and in their solution - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+38George Bush should go down in history as the most retarded president EVER. Lets just hope he doesn't go start something with Iran or we'll all screwed up the ying yang. Get that moron outta there (White House) man.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -4/+33WHAT AMAZES ME IS....
After Bush did all the following:
Asleep at the wheel before 9/11
Looking stupid during 9/11
Failing to get the man that attacked us on 9/11
Lying to start a war
Tax cuts for the rich
Record Deficits
30% higher Unemployment
A scandal every day
Treason
over 4000 of our own killed in Iraq over a lie
Terrorism out of control
Corruption at the highest levels of the republican government
Cutting funding to shore up NO levees
What it finally took to get cons to remove their heads from their asses is $3.50 a gallon gas!
This further confirms my theory that Republicans don't give a sh*t about anyone but themselves!
I've always said the quickest way to turn a Repuke into a liberal is have the policies they so blindly support affect them personally! - lopla, on 10/11/2007, -0/+22Bush is getting low ratings because he is a complete failure. Congress is getting low rating because the son of a bitches will not impeach the piece of *****. Hell, bush said it best when he claimed he does not care if his dog is the last thing supporting his presidency! Not impeaching this fool is one of the most intense American tragedies in history.
- KhanneaSuntzu, on 10/11/2007, -2/+22I urge you Americans to finish the job.
You ***** up royally, as a country, twice. You voted for the psychopath twice. But it didn't end there. You stood by and had a swill of collaborators put into place, maybe tens of thousands of career shills, politicians, airport security, cops, judges, lawyers, environmental de-inspectors. These, and the 20% lunatics that still support bush, I repeat it again, are collaborators. I call upon the american people to clean house. Put the worst cases in prison. Yes that may mean tens of thousands of tacit Bush supports - who broke the LAW .
Arrest them, hold them in a fenced compound until properly investigated, investigate, charge, prosecute and sentence. These people need to understand that they served the cause of objective evil, and still do so. They need to be made to repent publicly, in the same manner as the anti-communist rallies in the 1950s.
If you do not do this, the rest of the world will keep distrusting you. - scarfo1984, on 10/11/2007, -1/+15Instead of digging and commenting we should be forming up in our communities and take action...this is our government and we are letting it slip out of our hands...
- adinb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14whoever "clition" is, he's certainly not my boy, but he most certainly did better than the current pres, who has betrayed *all* that was in his camp, 'cept the ultra-right neocon uber-wannabes.
And you consider the AP ultra-liberal propaganda? I'd hate to hear what you think of rawstory, etc... - adinb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13wow. that's the first time *I've* ever been called a "liberal". Especially being a retired officer and all (who rather disagreed with how "cliton" [sic] used the military as the world's policeman and kept *my* butt deployed all the time) -- the military is not known for being a hotbed of radical left-wing-ism.
But as wrong as cliton[sic] was, he was most certainly much better than what we have now, which is a set of leaders that border on radical fascism. (before disputing this, please take the time to actually *read* the OED definition of fascism).
I was in OKC for the bombing of the federal building -- it almost blew out the windows of my house. So if you'd like to play trivial pursuit about events of the 80s-90s, I'll play *all* day long.
I am rather independent and proud of it--I don't need some talking head to tell me what to believe; Franken can be as wrong as Limbaugh.
Anyways, I'll stop indulging your trolling--you're not that great of a troll. Though if you're not a troll and you really believe what you're (badly) typing, then I feel sorry for your experience with the educational system. - THX1979, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11Come home, Mike. You've been away a long time and true conservatives miss you..
- Hillsfar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10Are you saying we aren't already being screwed?
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+16this is good, this means people are realizing both parties are two sides of the same coin. vote ron paul 08
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9It isn't a waste of money. Creating a precedent now will disuade possibly worse abuses of power in the future. Fix it before we're really in a mess. But nothing will happen, because it's probably already gone too far.
- Hillsfar, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11As much as I deplore Congress and the President, can we leave Jacques Cousteau out of this?
Cousteau was a great man who opened our eyes to the mysteries of the ocean: dolphins, coral reefs, fascinating marine life! Bush and Congress are not worthy of comparison to this great man. - DaWolfman, on 10/11/2007, -9/+18Okay, I KNOW I'm gonna take flak for this, but I have to give my two cents regarding the whole immigration issue:
Honestly, I don't care much about our current illegal immigrant situation. I know having insecure borders is a national security threat, but I just see this as a lame attempt from the administration to take our focus away from one thing: the Iraq War. The blood of thousands of people are on our hands, and we're supposed to worry about the fate of a bunch of poor people who are just trying to make a living for themselves? Please...
Some things in life don't seem fair. It doesn't seem fair that a bunch of people can come into our country illegally and offer to work for significantly less than we're used to. It doesn't seem fair that black people used to be shipped over from Africa and forced into slavery. But you know what? How many times do you see rallies of black people asking for compensation for all of their ancestors' hard labor? They totally got the shaft, yet they brushed it off and kept on working. Even Al Sharpton, who probably takes his job a little TOO seriously, fights for one thing: equality. And honestly, that's all the immigrants want, is the same opportunity to live the way that the average westerner does.
I feel the pain of everyone's complaints loud and clear: I got laid off one month ago and am still looking for a replacement job in my industry. Regardless, I still believe that if someone is qualified enough and works hard enough, he/she can make it in this country. You just have to work for it.
I'm not trying to mock you kirrim, just that ideology in general. On the whole, I agree with you, especially the corporations' war on lower- and middle-classes. I'd like to write more, but I've ranted enough already, and if the average digger is anything like me, they tend to skip long, tedious posts. If anyone has something to add about this, please do so, as I'd love to hear it. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11Can I vote for you?
And touche on nmber 1! - Onyxblaze, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9yea... He is stupid. Clinton was the last president and you can't even spell his name right?
- plachenko, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8So what would that make us? The generation that allowed a retarded president to go two terms practically untouched?
- AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -0/+6Lower still?
Why don't we just say:
Bush's rating hits rock bottom, and it continues to fall.
I mean.. it's easier than reporting this same old story every single day. - kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Just think back. If that Pretzel had tried just a little harder and taken him out. The world today would be such a better place. Dam you Pretzel.
- Dundasbro, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I believe you mean "Bush's rating hits rock bottom, and has begun to dig"
- bebop717, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6***** it let's just stone them to death the last day of office…the religious right would love this kind of action.
- whatthefu, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7It's not just Bush anymore. The whole government at this point is in the *****. It desperately needs the people to repair it.
- gary210, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Finally! Republicans have a "Carter" to call their own.
That said, Carter totally did not deserve the bad rap. Bush deserves a rap sheet. - inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Then let the distrust continue - nothing will be done.
- anarchytv, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4nice...
- MeanGeno, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Hey MikeCampbell,
At least when Clinton was getting a blowjob, 3,500+ of our American soilders, brothers, mothers, fathers, cousins, sisters, best friends, did not die because an incompetent idiot like Bush just wants to get his hands of oil.
Idiot!
/Conservative mad as hell at Bush and Cheney. Biggest Mistake Ever! - AndrewDB, on 01/10/2008, -0/+4No because if it'd begin to Dig around here.. it'd be a good thing.
- kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Yes
- plachenko, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Don't forget that time he choked on a pretzel!
- kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Yea let me know how that goes. Running around the world telling everyone to behave like America is nothing but bully tactics. I see nothing different between you and the Terrorists. You try to force another group to behave the way you want through violence. So do they.
Lets go further. You kill thousands of innocents, so do they.
You Torture, so do they.
Your ruled by a Fundamentalist, so are they.
You repress your own country in the name of protection, so do they
You lock people up without trial, so do they.
You break international law, so do they.
The more you look at the current American regime, the more its hard to tell which ones are the terrorists. - cjhowe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Then how exactly are they able to survive while sending a portion of their income back to their families? Aren't they somehow surviving on less than the wage the American wouldn't take?
- kirrim, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4At the risk of running afoul of Godwin's Law...
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html - swiftekho, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Sadly you can't lump all republicans as neocons.
Republicans support smaller government, are against foreign intervention, and are against massive spending. George W. Bush looks less and less like a Republican everyday.
I'm a republican myself and saying I don't care for anyone but myself is in fact wrong. I just don't believe it's the governments duty to help those who can help themselves. - phaed, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3"allowing illegal immigrants to pour through the borders, then attempting to grant them amnesty, claiming that Americans won't do the work, to the cost of those same blue-collar American workers. (Americans would do the work if employers would hire them, but they cost more)"
These Mexicans aren't taking all the low-paying jobs. Trust me theres enough to go around, if a person really needs the money so bad that they will trade their dignity for scraps they can go ahead and find them. But I doubt that anyone is going to get payed anything over the bare minimum wage for cleaning bathrooms or picking oranges. In the end the people hiring these poor souls are the only ones getting rich out of the deal. - SouthsideIrish, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Send all the illegals back to Mexico! Please do it, and watch this country go into a massive depression. I would just love it. The illegals are keeping social security solvent by paying there money on fake social security numbers, renting apartments that will go empty, buying food, and other basic necessities , creating jobs at all of the stores they shop at and at businesses where they buy services.
Any country that closes it's borders will die. And when did we forget these words, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door". Don't give me the crap that immigrants don't become Americans because it is just the words of racists. - adinb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3the problem is that anyone that wants the job is automatically unqualified for the job since they're power-hungry enough to want it.
Getting the politicians out of perma-campaign mode would probably go a long way towards getting the government to stop kowtowing to anyone with a pile of cash to donate.
Of course, I think membership as a representative should be done by lottery -- you just have to be able bodied and be a citizen of the US (with no felonies). The job will pay 50k/yr, and will adjust for inflation. If your name is drawn, service is mandatory, unless you're a military member. Make the job as unsavory as possible, a paycut for the higher-end, a payraise for the lower-end, and much like jury duty. Staff would consist of civil servants and would be "issued" in the same manner to every district. - kazamx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Its just sad to see it get lower and lower, yet no one does anything.
- azzageddi, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6Very much agreed, Wolfman. I think this huge upsurge in anti-immigration is just a minor issue blown out of proportion. It'll be a huge wedge issue in the election, just like gay marriage was last time. Sure, we need to tweak our immigration laws. But it's not some huge crisis like so many are making it out to be.
- gojeda, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Except dildo can't even qualify as a fanboy, because fanboys still have a brain.
Dildo is just ignorant. - adinb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2examples, please?
not trolling, just interested in your specific targets. Russia? Germany? Japan? India? - instruisto, on 10/11/2007, -11/+13How about Ron Paul as an alternative to the current regime? [Do I get on the list now? I want to be 31st!]
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Riiight...it always Bush's fault.
Congress suck as much as Bush. This is why we need term limits.
Being a congressman should not be a lifelong job (Mr. Kennedy). - chopenik, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Neither bush nor congress cares about your opinion of them. Only opinion that matters to them are the ones coming the from the lobbyists and corporate America.
- xShad0w, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I'm just surprised why its not 0, i mean comon republican rednecks, even you know hes a retard, dont be so proud that you actually approve him
- gojeda, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Do you just pull words out of your ass because you don't have anything of value to say or is it because you are actually that dim?
There is nothing particularly wrong with being partisan. But being partisan on the basis of half-assed accusations just makes you look dumb. - drgmdp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2uhmm... maybe the artificially sustained value of dollar has some of the responsability for #1 and #2. Just SOME. As you said, corporate greed and shameless benefits for the richest also counts.
- abdrahman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2not really, we would have "the Dick" as president instead....
- londubh, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Congress can dramatically improve their ratings by impeaching Cheney and Bush. Bush can dramatically improve his ratings by withdrawing us from Iraq and shutting down Gitmo.
- drgmdp, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3it's obvious that he had reasons for that...
(i'm talking about cousteau) - abdrahman, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I may disagree with some of your views, but I can respect them; however, most Republican representatives today do not represent the values you espouse. It is a shame that the Republican party has gone from the party that freed the slaves and got the Voter's Rights Act through congress(with the help of LBJ) to the party that conspires to make us all slaves to the ultra-wealthy corporations.
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