Who do you support for Governor in Tennessee in 2010?

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Timbuk2 wrote:

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One of your family members called me and said that you are a really a conservative.
Now. Prove you aren't.

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Timbuk2 wrote:

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One of your family members called me and said that you are a really a conservative.
Now. Prove you aren't.

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Really Sassy wrote:

Does this mean that out of 369 million People in this Country, we're letting 47 buy our Government?

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Dunlapian wrote:

<quoted text>Dang Timbuck, can I answer this one?
This last election as I was checking into vote(I only had to show my drivers license, since I don't have a gun permit) and since this election was a primary they asked me what party I belonged to, so I told them I was a Democrat, and that is what they wrote down, after that they lead me to my voting booth. Now if you would like I will give your lawyer the right to check the books. The election office is located right behind the courthouse(the same courthouse where back in 2004 the K.K.K. protested from, I guess you could say they are very conservative). Anyway send your lawyer down to the election office and I will meet him.
BTW, on that other issue about Willard and his taxes, Harry Reid made a statement, now it's Willard's turn to call Reids bluff.....just like in a poker game, it's time for Willard to show his hand.

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Timbuk2 wrote:

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It's not a poker game. It's up to Reid to prove his point.
If I accuse you of being a thief, the police are going to ask for evidence before you even get charged.
Now, let me ask this. Reid has been in government for his entire career. At present his salary is around $200K.
How did he become a millionaire?
Sounds dirty to me.

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Really Sassy wrote:

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it's HIS responsibility to prove to the People that he's qualified & worthy of having the job & he's failing to do that, miserably!

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Overtaxed wrote:

<quoted text>Mitt says he is a professional "job creator" and that the President is a novice at job creation and deserves failing grades as a result.
I am reminded of an older gentleman who offered me a job when I first went into business for myself. I explained in painful detail that I had little experience at what he wanted done, and that I was a novice at best. I did make clear that I WANTED the job but...I was unsure that I could complete it on time, on budget, and to his satisfaction.
That old man told me something I have never forgotten and I have given him credit for the saying MANY times over the years, although I have no idea if he was the originator of it or not. He said son,"The man who built the Ark was a novice....the men who built the Titanic were professionals."
He gave me the job, we finished on time and UNDER budget and I did work for him MANY times until he retired. He has since passed away.
Mitt isn't going to do any better than Obama did on job creation. The good industrial manufacturing jobs that provided enough money to raise a family, own a home, send your kids to college and save for retirement are gone from the USA, sent to cheap foreign labor countries to enrich the shareholders of the multi nationals. With the advent of the computer age, even technology jobs have been leaving this country. All we have left are service sector jobs that can't be outsourced and for which wages are LOW and benefits non-existant. Unions are held in such disdain that those jobs will NEVER pay enough to live a middle class life, this is what the next generation has to look forward to, and there will be less and less help from government since jobs such as those we still have pay so little in wages that the treasury will remain drained for the forseeable future.
Do you think any businessman would give a kid the chance that I outlined above today ? NOT LIKELY ! Instead the conversation would go something like this " Do you want fries with that ??"

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You're right, again, OT. It's a bleak future indeed & all the signs are that it is going to get even bleaker. I don't think this Country will survive it, frankly.

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Overtaxed wrote:

<quoted text> Good morning "Sassy" !
Our generation has been allowing.....even aiding the sale of our government at least since the era when "greed" became good. The "rich" have always held sway with some of our elected officials, but they did their best to keep it under the radar of the general public. Now the politicians that sell out to the wealthy wear the fact on their sleeve like a badge of honor. There is NO SHAME anymore.("I am the Koch brothers brother from another mother")
The elite club that can buy their own group of politicians has been distilled to a smaller and more powerful group and since "corporations are people my friend".....well the handwriting is on the wall. Our generation, yours and mine, allowed....even encouraged what has happened to "government" and we are leaving the next generation a hollowed out shell of a former great nation.
Who would have believed that in the lives of ONE generation, we would become a nation that claims to be so broke that we cant afford to,
fix our crumbling roads and bridges.
provide our old folks who can no longer work a retirement with dignity.
give health coverage to Americans who can't afford it.
pay for the healthcare of those who were injured in service to this country.
provide food for the least among us.
give the best public school education money can buy to our kids.
help promising young people get a college education.
I could list a few dozen more but none of the above would make ANYONE envision the greatest country the world has ever known. In fact, most of those bring to mind a third world nation so poor that it can't govern itself.
This has happened to our country......one on the upswing for 200 years.......in our generation, "Sassy". I am ashamed to admit this is what we are leaving the next generation.

Dunlapian wrote:

<quoted text>Sassy, I know things look bleak right now but this is America, we have been thru things much worst, and we have always come back. What's that old saying......."it's always darkest before the sunrises".

pdmerrittgfy wrote:

No..you're not better than that..

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Really Sassy wrote:

<quoted text> No, It is not! You Conservtives have been falsely accusing Obama of everything under the sun ever since he took office & you've never proven any of it! Obama has proven that the accusation about his place of birth is a Lie...why doesn't Romney prove that Reid's accusation is a Lie by releasing his Tax Statements, if Reid's accusation is false? That's all he has to do, so why doesn't he? What's he so afraid of? It's been customary for quite a few years for Presidential Candidates to do that, anyway!

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<quoted text> That is a ridiculous statement for you to make & you've done it twice. It makes me wonder who you really are because, there's only one other Person on this forum , who is constantly harping about "proving" ridiculous things, even opinions & he has known Mental Problems. So, if you're not him, I would advice you to stop acting like him unless you want People to think you're as crazy as he is known to be & acts! And any normal Person would have to be insane to want that!