Comments on: Early Voting Set to Break Records in Montana

By Carl on 10-13-08

Is “ACORN” under investigation here yet?  Wonder how many fraudulent ballots are floating around in Mt.?

By VOTE RON PAUL on 10-13-08

I voted already.  I voted for RON PAUL.
My friend J. Voted........for RON PAUL.
My wife voted...............for RON PAUL.
My friend AJ in Billings..for RON PAUL.
3 friends at work..........RON PAUL, RON PAUL, RON PAUL.

There is a poll for you.  I hope whoever loses blames RON PAUL!  VOTE 3rd PARTY AND VOTE RON PAUL PEOPLE!!!!

Lets not support the 2 party system and the 2 parties that have caused every problem we see.

By Carl on 10-14-08

Now that the “election” is over, and Obama has been selected as President [by whatever means], why bother voting for a presidential candidate?  Local may still be important, but the National “election” is already decided.

By Tired of the tirades on 10-14-08

Carl, what have you done to remedy the situation besides sit in front of your computer and spew?
How about contacting the local election board and volunteering to help? They are in dire need of volunteers who will monitor the election and verify results.
Someone once said that the best way to change the world was to begin in your own backyard.

By CArl on 10-14-08

Too late.  At least on the federal level it is already over.  I’m hopeful that Montana is not so infected at this point.  The future?  Don’t know.

By Citizen on 10-15-08

The republican party is in the throes of death.  Christopher Buckley, son of the late William F. Buckley, Jr., endorsed Barack Obama and then resigned from his position as columnist for his dad’s magazine, National Review.  His words echoe the feelings I and many like me have felt all year, “While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for. Eight years of “conservative” government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case.
So, to paraphrase a real conservative, Ronald Reagan: I haven’t left the Republican Party. It left me.”

So good bye and good riddance GOP.  You republican will never manage to salvage your soiled reputation.  You will always have your legacy shackled to the failed and evil war in Iraq, that has cost the lives of over one million civilians and 4300 soldiers (so far), not to mention an estimated 2 trillion dollar price tag.  You invaded an innocent nation under the premise that they, “might” do something.  You republicans also destroyed the US dollar, with the largest expansion of the money supply in history.  You encouraged the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates to 50 year lows, causing a boom in housing and the current blowback crisis that is rotting our corrupt financial system.  Republicans and the evangelical right (warvangelicals) are responsible for the destruction of America and the constitution.  Under YOUR president and YOUR 8 years of rule we have the suspension of habeas corpus, posse comitatus, and the issuance of the Patriot Act and now the Bailout Plan.  Two MASSIVE pieces of legislation which have stripped americans of rights and wealth.  You have sold your nation in a faustian deal. May the devil reap your souls and torture you “por aeternum”.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13592

By whitefishman on 10-17-08

Obama will be PILING ON YOUR TAXES. A bad move in any economic climate. Suicide in this one. Spread the wealth? Give me a break. We need an energetic economic climate where the productive citizenry can succeed and be an inspiration for others. Obama is not going to get us there.

By Carl on 10-17-08

Problem is Obama will let the Bush tax cuts expire.  Your taxes will go up.  His proposed programs cannot be supported without tax increases.  All the bs about ‘huge corporate tax breaks” etc. being stopped will only cause these “huge corporations” to move their operations overseas.  What we really need is a sane reform of the 66,000 pages of tax laws.  Make it fair and bearable for all, and we won’t need B.O. to “spread the wealth around”.

By rod on 10-17-08

Carl, you’re wrong again. We already went through a comprehensive tax reform under Reagan. He simplified it, reduced most tax rates, except for corporations who he felt were not paying their share. The complexities were reintroduced over the years under Bush ‘41, Clinton and especially Bush ‘43 by special interests lobbyist on behalf of their clients who wanted special treatment. People like Enron who made huge profits off a little known provision that allowed them to buy a local utility that collected taxes from it’s customers that was supposed to be used for infrastructure improvements, and Enron got the code changed so they could keep the taxes collected and then not be required to spend it! Talk about wealth creation. I wish I could legally steal money like they did.

Rather than just re-reform the tax code, I think a better idea is to find ways to end the influence of special interests. How that can be done, I havent’ a clue. But if it could be done, legislating changes to the code will be easy.

As far as the “huge corporations” moving overseas, most of them already have, to tax havens like the Bahamas, or Leichtenstien, or even Dubai, like Haliburton did.

But you are missing the big questiong: how in the world are we going to pay off this massive debt Bush has accrued? We have the largest debt in the history of the world. our economy is shrinking, the dollar is falling, and you want to continue with more of the same policies that got us into this mess?

By Carl on 10-17-08

No, I don’t.  Absolutely not!  and here you and I agree.  In this regard, McCain is the only candidate who has been consistant in beating the drum to control spending.  [and let’s just get off the McCain/Bush thing for once].  What I would really like to see is all levels of gov’t wake up and realize the checkbook is empty!  Don’t tell me we can have “free” stuff!  We cannot go on spending, spending, spending and as noted - McCain is the only one talking about cutting spending.  Obama has some good ideas, but I resent the glib promises we all know cannot be honored.

By Check the numbers on 10-17-08

Sure, McCain will control spending, just like the last three Republican presidents, all of whom racked up huge debt.

The notion that Democrats are profligate spenders while Republicans are thrifty is absolutely without base. The numbers actually demonstrate the opposite. Check out these figures on deficit spending and budget proposals from the OMB and the Congressional Budget Office:

OMB and the Congressional Budget Office:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-paul/some-facts-about-spending_b_132135.html

By Carl on 10-17-08

Congress controls the “purse strings”, not the President.  Future actions by McCain cannot be judged by past actions of Bush.  And just who is it in congress who shovelling on the pork?

By whitefishman on 10-17-08

For all of you planning to vote for Obama:  What has he really done? Very little.  What’s he want to do? Take money from the productive citizens of this country and give it to the unproductive.  “Spread the wealth”, his words.  Sounds like Marxism.  If he gets elected we’ll end up with nationalized health care.  Okay by me.  I have no children.  Go ahead and pay my health care and your children will end up financing my bill.  Do I think this is best for the longevity of this country?  No.  But if that’s the way the vote goes I am willing to live out my lifetime letting the rest of you pay my healthcare. You will have done it to yourselves.

By Check the numbers on 10-17-08

A lovely little bit of hypocrisy from you, Carl. We can sling broad generalizations about the left. Call someone a ‘liberal’ and we know exactly how despicably they will behave. Group every Obama voter into an unthinking mass of ‘Obamatons.’ But we can’t judge McCain, who was a good little soldier and marched in lock-step with his party for the last 8 years, based upon the actions of that party for the last 8 years. I see.

Also, yours is the classic conservative retort when faced with the actual data on spending and deficits. “It’s the fault of congress.” But the data does not support this notion, either. While congress “controls the purse strings” it is the presidential budget recommendation that starts the game with Congress that determines the final budget. Historically, the percentage of the budget deficit contributed by congressional over-spending of the initial presidential recommendation is very small (an average of 8% per year). The influence of the fiscal policies of the executive administration dominate the budgetary process. And the data show that Republican-controlled congresses actually add more pork than Democratic (4.6% to 2.3%).

I agree that our government needs to get its spending under control (soon, it will have no choice!) But laying the blame solely at the feet of Congress and ‘tax and spend liberals’ is right-wing talking point hogwash.

By Carl on 10-17-08

Check the records of the individuals adding the pork.  McCain wasn’t one of them.  Also - better look at obama’s tax plans carefully.  Particularly in the realm of business taxes.  And - “spreading the wealth” from the bottom-up does not create jobs.  Eventually the taking of money from the drivers of the economy will dampen business and jobs.  Get your head out of the past and be concerned for the future.

By Rod on 10-17-08

Carl, you didn’t answer my original question: how are we as a nation going to pay off this huge debt?

By Carl on 10-18-08

For one thing, the feds should be repaid by these companies that needed the “bail-outs”.  Another would be for the federal gov’t to get out of the business of sending our tax dollars overseas for corrupt gov’t to skim.  Palestine is merely one example.  Return to the mandates of the constitution rather than playing Santa Claus for any/every perceived “need” that pops up anywhere in the country/world.  For example we don’t really need to spend millions counting bears.  Maybe if our tax dollars weren’t wasted, we could actually pay down the debt.

By Carl on 10-18-08

Actually, just read another example - National flood insurance program - pays for people to rebuild [again and again] in flood prone areas to the tune of 17 billion dollars wasted.  My bet would be the feds [and to lesser degrees state/local] waste enough of our tax dollars in less than a minute than I would need to retire on.  So which of our fed/state/local candidates are ready to CUT SPENDING?

By Rod on 10-18-08

I like the idea of the companies being bailed out repaying that money, and I would add that the capital investment company’s and hedge funds who profited from selling the securities be forced to pay back some of the billions they “earned”. It’s hard to fathom but there were individuals who made over a billion dollars in one year off mortgage backed securities! One billion is just too big a number for most of us to even comprehend, but in working people’s terms, that’s $19,230,769.00 a week, or $480.770.00 an hour for a 40 hour week. How many people do you know who make that kind of money? 19 million every week of the year!

By Carl on 10-18-08

Exactly - I agree!  That should be part of the deal.  Pay back the bail-out before anything is paid out as dividends or “profit”, or for that matter CEO “compensation”.

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