quote:Originally posted by smitty195: I have asked myself a million questions today. Where did I go wrong? *HOW* did I go wrong? How did I mis-read things so horribly?
smitty - I once asked myself these very same questions. It was in 1991 when I returned to the United States from a deployment in Saudi Arabia and picked up the phone to call a girl that I thought was interested in me. I intended to ask her out. Instead I wound up getting invited to her wedding.
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It's now been established that the election was rigged by a little boy in Colorado who stole ballots in all the swing states so that Obama would win. He did this to keep the integrity of the "Star Wars" movies from being sullied by the Chinese or Disney!
Hey, it makes as much sense as what the Smith Brothers are saying!
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Three million votes, or enough votes to switch 60 electoral votes, would be a lot of votes for the democrats to steal and get away with it.
Five trillion in tax cuts plus 2 trillion in increased military spending could not be paid for by eliminating some (even all) tax deductions.
Nate Silver looked at real poll data without a bias. Actually it turned out the small variance between the real results and the 538 predictions were due to his not counting enough democrats.
One answer to the question "Where did I go wrong?"
Arithmetic. It is hard to spin arithmetic.
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Yep... 3 million voters that voted for McCain did not show up at the polls, according to the vote count. And there was a number of socialists that stated it doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts those votes.
I am curious. Can you furnish proof of the $5 trillion in tax cuts and the $2 trillion in military spending? Or is that just another liberal myth?
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Excerpt from Washington Post.... "It’s right there on his Web site. He wants, he says, to give defense spending “a floor of 4 percent of GDP.” Compared to Obama’s proposals, and the military’s current requests, that’s an increase of $2 trillion over the next decade. That’s a huge amount of money."
Excerpt from Bloomberg Business Week... "Romney issued a more aggressive tax-cutting plan in March that would cut individual income tax rates an additional 20 percent. It involved, as Obama correctly said, approximately $5 trillion in reduced tax receipts over 10 years."
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quote:Originally posted by notelvis: smitty - I once asked myself these very same questions. It was in 1991 when I returned to the United States from a deployment in Saudi Arabia and picked up the phone to call a girl that I thought was interested in me. I intended to ask her out. Instead I wound up getting invited to her wedding.
Whoa! Now that's a story! I'd imagine you were pretty shocked? I would have hung up the phone after that conversation and thought to myself, "What the heck just happened??".
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Seriously, TSR? You are taking the befuddled words of Bloomberg and obama? Did you miss that reduction in deductions that would cancel out the $500 billion a year mythical "tax cut"?
4% of GDP for military spending is what we are spending RIGHT NOW!!!!
Research is an enlightening and educational endeavor. You should try it some time, instead of believing obama's re-election committee.
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quote:Originally posted by notelvis: smitty - I once asked myself these very same questions. It was in 1991 when I returned to the United States from a deployment in Saudi Arabia and picked up the phone to call a girl that I thought was interested in me. I intended to ask her out. Instead I wound up getting invited to her wedding.
Whoa! Now that's a story! I'd imagine you were pretty shocked? I would have hung up the phone after that conversation and thought to myself, "What the heck just happened??".
Well - I didn't accept the invitation to the wedding, that's for sure!
There is more to the story, of course. The girl and I had known each other for four or five years and had been exchanging letters during my time in Desert Storm. Nothing had been said in these letters about having a new boyfriend or getting married...... though she had made certain that I knew her new address when she moved from California to Texas during my deployment.
All I can say is that I was horribly embarrassed to have misread the intent and doubted my ability to correctly interpret anything for at least a couple of years afterward.
-------------------- David Pressley
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