Quote from: supsalemgr on December 19, 2014, 05:16:54 AM
This is getting old with this administration threatening the people. If the IRS delays refunds it will only piss off more people and this will only hurt democrats in 2016. Just another campaign theme for the GOP.

I absolutely agree. He exposed himself last time and the nation saw a spoiled kid acting out, and even though the media tried to make Cruz the scapegoat, the nation knew the truth regardless.
Now we have him actually warning of what he'll do?
These are the actions of a spoiled child, and everyone has seen enough spoiled children to recognize when they act out.

He really is going to have to change his tactics, even the idiots that voted for him are onto him.

Quote from: Solar on December 19, 2014, 06:01:55 AM
I absolutely agree. He exposed himself last time and the nation saw a spoiled kid acting out, and even though the media tried to make Cruz the scapegoat, the nation knew the truth regardless.
Now we have him actually warning of what he'll do?
These are the actions of a spoiled child, and everyone has seen enough spoiled children to recognize when they act out.

He really is going to have to change his tactics, even the idiots that voted for him are onto him.

Our assignment in matters like this should be to make sure to spread the message far and wide! Congress -- the legislative branch of the government -- may be split between Republicans and Democrats. But the Executive Branch -- meaning the IRS, CIA, FBI, DOJ, EPA, DHS, ICE, NPS, etc. etc. etc., is and has been for six long years 100% in the hands of Democrats. Our message should be: "Hey, you don't like it that you can't go see the WWII memorial? You don't like it that your tax refund is gonna take a few extra weeks? Go find yourself a Democrat to smack upside the head. THEY are the ones running the show."

With the dismal state of public education, especially when it pertains to studies of government (remember "Civics?"), most people don't understand that having a Republican Senator or Representative in office from your district, or even having Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, doesn't affect the performance of 98% of the federal government in the slightest. It's currently all being run by Democrats, and in fact, it has a tendency to be run by Democrats even when a Republican is in the White House.

Quote from: TboneAgain on December 19, 2014, 10:09:42 AM
Our assignment in matters like this should be to make sure to spread the message far and wide! Congress -- the legislative branch of the government -- may be split between Republicans and Democrats. But the Executive Branch -- meaning the IRS, CIA, FBI, DOJ, EPA, DHS, ICE, NPS, etc. etc. etc., is and has been for six long years 100% in the hands of Democrats. Our message should be: "Hey, you don't like it that you can't go see the WWII memorial? You don't like it that your tax refund is gonna take a few extra weeks? Go find yourself a Democrat to smack upside the head. THEY are the ones running the show."

With the dismal state of public education, especially when it pertains to studies of government (remember "Civics?"), most people don't understand that having a Republican Senator or Representative in office from your district, or even having Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, doesn't affect the performance of 98% of the federal government in the slightest. It's currently all being run by Democrats, and in fact, it has a tendency to be run by Democrats even when a Republican is in the White House.

You know things are out of whack when Government Workers Cost 45% More Than Private Sector, all the while the private sector employment shrinks, the sector that actually pays the wages of the pigs.
And this came from Mother Jones, a lib site.

Quote from: TboneAgain on December 19, 2014, 10:09:42 AM
Our assignment in matters like this should be to make sure to spread the message far and wide! Congress -- the legislative branch of the government -- may be split between Republicans and Democrats. But the Executive Branch -- meaning the IRS, CIA, FBI, DOJ, EPA, DHS, ICE, NPS, etc. etc. etc., is and has been for six long years 100% in the hands of Democrats. Our message should be: "Hey, you don't like it that you can't go see the WWII memorial? You don't like it that your tax refund is gonna take a few extra weeks? Go find yourself a Democrat to smack upside the head. THEY are the ones running the show."

With the dismal state of public education, especially when it pertains to studies of government (remember "Civics?"), most people don't understand that having a Republican Senator or Representative in office from your district, or even having Republican majorities in both houses of Congress, doesn't affect the performance of 98% of the federal government in the slightest. It's currently all being run by Democrats, and in fact, it has a tendency to be run by Democrats even when a Republican is in the White House.

Excellent point. We should note that when dem/libs get into a tight they always refer to unpopularity of congress as a diversion. The disaster you are all run by by Obama appointees and we should not let people forget that.

Quote from: Solar on December 19, 2014, 10:44:08 AM
You know things are out of whack when Government Workers Cost 45% More Than Private Sector, all the while the private sector employment shrinks, the sector that actually pays the wages of the pigs.
And this came from Mother Jones, a lib site.

Within my memory, a government job -- any government job -- was sorta okay, a way to keep bread on the table. It was not as good as a factory job. You could make that kind of money and more selling used cars or peddling vacuum cleaners or encyclopedias door-to-door, even if you didn't work very hard at it.

Twenty or so years ago, the ex and I used to play cards on Saturday nights with one of her co-workers and her husband, who was a postal worker. I remember sitting there getting almost literally sick listening to that asshole (her husband) brag about his overtime and his income, but most especially about how he was looking forward to his $60K+ retirement -- in 1995!

Does anyone agree with me that we have a real, present, clear problem with public sector unions?

Quote from: TboneAgain on December 19, 2014, 11:21:20 AM
Within my memory, a government job -- any government job -- was sorta okay, a way to keep bread on the table. It was not as good as a factory job. You could make that kind of money and more selling used cars or peddling vacuum cleaners or encyclopedias door-to-door, even if you didn't work very hard at it.

Twenty or so years ago, the ex and I used to play cards on Saturday nights with one of her co-workers and her husband, who was a postal worker. I remember sitting there getting almost literally sick listening to that asshole (her husband) brag about his overtime and his income, but most especially about how he was looking forward to his $60K+ retirement -- in 1995!

Does anyone agree with me that we have a real, present, clear problem with public sector unions?

Yes, I too remember how a civil service job was nothing more than a "safe" job while waiting for retirement.
The pay was just enough to get by on, maybe a weeks drive across the states for vacation, then back to the monotony.
I had a few neighbors in various positions with the state, being it was the Capitol, and one thing they all shared in common, was the dream of retirement.

What I found so funny, was they all claimed once they retired, that's when life would be good.
Now what does that tell you about the personality of someone that would endure a miserable life, for a few freeloading years in the end?
To me, its someone with absolutely no drive in life, someone that really doesn't want to work for a living, a typical lib.

Quote from: Solar on December 19, 2014, 11:31:03 AM
What I found so funny, was they all claimed once they retired, that's when life would be good.
Now what does that tell you about the personality of someone that would endure a miserable life, for a few freeloading years in the end?
To me, its someone with absolutely no drive in life, someone that really doesn't want to work for a living, a typical lib.

In 1966, the typical shop rat in a Ford plant near my home was earning $65K and teachers were earning about $15K, starting. The UAW slugs were miserable and looking forward to retirement, which many of them never took. They wound up in tax trouble or other financial issues, because they had more AVAILABLE cash to spend and didn't sock it away for retirement.

Union rat government sloths took care of that with obscenely high pensions. They're now so grossly overpaid they have no reason to be discontent in their laughably unproductive jobs.