State of the Union address

[28Eliminator]

Can't take it anymore.. Turned the channel

 

[Zaairman]

I saw what was coming on, and immediately turned the channel to Shipping Wars on A&E. :thumbsup

 

[NdaWind]

I usually like these big speechs just for the speech itself not wether I like the guy or not but this one made me nauseous and the rebuttal ain't doing it either

 

[PokerRun388]

Oh, its on tonight?....

 

[hulihan]

All I heard, and we had to go out, but it was on when we returned and I remember Bla,bla,bla I pray that man is not re elected ! I am pretty sure the day he was elected, him and mrs obama were in the oval office and he was getting a bl&%$#@ and saying, wow, I can not believe we won !

 

[pumpndump]

Mitch daniels knocked it out of the park:thumbsup

 

[Stainless]

Painful it is, but you need to know what the opposition is up to.


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[ChumpChange]

I bought a 30 pack of beer and had to shotgun one everytime Obama said the word "I" and took credit for something. I ran out of beer.

 

[28Eliminator]

Mitch daniels knocked it out of the park:thumbsup

He did :thumbsup

 

[Fltplan]

Soon as it came on, went in the jacuzzi. :thumbsup

 

[kiethco]

I thought it was pretty good. One thing people need to remember, in my opinion, we need to be engadged and actively participate with whomever's in office. Government goes on regardless of party. Laws are passed, decisions made. If you wait for the stars to align, the perfect candidate (is there one?) nothing would ever get done. I agree sometimes our work is easier with a friendly, but we have to make strides every day.
Here's to hoping we can put the pettiness on the hill behind us continue to move ahead!:thumbsup

 

[mjc]

So working late today was a good thing then didn't have to see any of it

Sent from ????

 

[Nord]

I thought it was pretty good. One thing people need to remember, in my opinion, we need to be engadged and actively participate with whomever's in office. Government goes on regardless of party. Laws are passed, decisions made. If you wait for the stars to align, the perfect candidate (is there one?) nothing would ever get done. I agree sometimes our work is easier with a friendly, but we have to make strides every day.
Here's to hoping we can put the pettiness on the hill behind us continue to move ahead!:thumbsup

+1 :thumbsup

 

[Havasu Rehab]

I bought a 30 pack of beer and had to shotgun one everytime Obama said the word "I" and took credit for something. I ran out of beer.

If you would've drank every time he blamed the "previous administration" you would've needed about 3 kegs.

 

[The Doctor]

This State of the Union speech was, in effect, another campaign speech, Obama departs Wednesday morning on a three-day swing to five competitive states ? Iowa, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Michigan.

If he believed anything he said, he'd be in his office working to balance a budget and get our economy back on track but such activity is far beyond his pay grade.

 

[djunkie]

I thought it was pretty good. One thing people need to remember, in my opinion, we need to be engadged and actively participate with whomever's in office. Government goes on regardless of party. Laws are passed, decisions made. If you wait for the stars to align, the perfect candidate (is there one?) nothing would ever get done. I agree sometimes our work is easier with a friendly, but we have to make strides every day.
Here's to hoping we can put the pettiness on the hill behind us continue to move ahead!:thumbsup

That's all that matters right there.


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[Long Way Home]

I thought it was pretty good. One thing people need to remember, in my opinion, we need to be engadged and actively participate with whomever's in office. Government goes on regardless of party. Laws are passed, decisions made. If you wait for the stars to align, the perfect candidate (is there one?) nothing would ever get done. I agree sometimes our work is easier with a friendly, but we have to make strides every day.
Here's to hoping we can put the pettiness on the hill behind us continue to move ahead!:thumbsup

:thumbsup

 

[Outdrive1]

This State of the Union speech was, in effect, another campaign speech, Obama departs Wednesday morning on a three-day swing to five competitive states ? Iowa, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Michigan.

If he believed anything he said, he'd be in his office working to balance a budget and get our economy back on track but such activity is far beyond his pay grade.

I agree, especially since the President only submits a budget proposal to Congress and Congress actually "balances" (or doesn't balance) the Federal budget.

 

[The Doctor]

If anyone is honestly interested in the "ACTUAL" State of the Union, here it is as given tonight by Mitch Daniels:

http://www.speaker.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=276315

 

[sleekcraft80]

I opted out of watching it and watched something a lot more interesting, The Disney Channel!!

 

[atomickitn]

I was hungry for dinner.... but then I threw up my lunch.... then had to take a giant sh#t.... all I could do was think about O Bama while taking that giant crap....

got done and he was still talking.... and All I could think is ..dammm that monkey sure can talk alot...then I puked again..

 

[BeerMaker]

I thought it was pretty good. One thing people need to remember, in my opinion, we need to be engadged and actively participate with whomever's in office. Government goes on regardless of party. Laws are passed, decisions made. If you wait for the stars to align, the perfect candidate (is there one?) nothing would ever get done. I agree sometimes our work is easier with a friendly, but we have to make strides every day.
Here's to hoping we can put the pettiness on the hill behind us continue to move ahead!:thumbsup

Intelligence is not welcome here:thumbsup

 

[djunkie]

Intelligence is not welcome here:thumbsup

LOL.


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[POWERCATDON]

He is so full of Shit, Changed Channel to the Aztec Basketball Game, Go Aztec's

 

[RitcheyRch]

We watched that stupid show "Family Feud" just to keep from listening to him.

Can't take it anymore.. Turned the channel

Exactly.

This State of the Union speech was, in effect, another campaign speech, Obama departs Wednesday morning on a three-day swing to five competitive states ? Iowa, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and Michigan.

If he believed anything he said, he'd be in his office working to balance a budget and get our economy back on track but such activity is far beyond his pay grade.

 

[WTRR]

Lets take more money from people that earn it...and use it to enable my spending spree.

Everybody needs a fair chance...

Blah blah blah blah blah...we're fucked.

 

[Outdrive1]

.dammm that monkey sure can talk alot...then I puked again..

Nice.

 

[lawbreaker2]

I watched it, even had my boots on and the shit still overflowed into the tops of them, He puts out more BS than my X-wife.:blah:

 

[Old Texan]

I thought it was pretty good. One thing people need to remember, in my opinion, we need to be engadged and actively participate with whomever's in office. Government goes on regardless of party. Laws are passed, decisions made. If you wait for the stars to align, the perfect candidate (is there one?) nothing would ever get done. I agree sometimes our work is easier with a friendly, but we have to make strides every day.
Here's to hoping we can put the pettiness on the hill behind us continue to move ahead!:thumbsup

Don't know exactly what is considered "petty".

Common sense dictates there is never going to be a perfect candidate, but how much does one need to compromise? How much does one need to be submissive and just go along for the sake of getting along?

If money is being spent that isn't available and must be borrowed, is that something which should just be accepted without complaint? Because a person is chosen by open election, should that person be given carte blanc acceptance and prior actions overlooked and blindly accepted inspite of questionable facts that are sealed from public view?

How many folks really stop and think about the fact, government does not generate any income by performing an actual service or product? Every penny governmet spends is the result of taxation and fees paid by the populace. Money the government is entrusted with and allowed to increase the percentage "taken" amongst themselves. Government pensions, healthcare, travel, meals, and ceremonies among many other things are where "your" tax dollars are spent. How many private businesses could last using the same principles these folks use to run "our" govenment? Would shareholders allow members to sit on a board or be their CEO if they used the same principles our Admin and Congress rely on?

Government is getting to be like many charitable organizations with burgeoning administrative costs. Money is channeled far away from it's intended use. There seems to be less and less checks and balances allowing runaway spending on unnecessary things. Things that have no benefit to the taxpayer who is the one working for the country to survive. Working and sacreficing in order to pay growing taxes and fees. Working for wages that are effected negatively every day by rising cost associated with poor decisons by those elected to and appointed to offices. A SS system going broke while Congressional pensions grow unchecked. Is that fair? Is it right? Is it being petty to question why?

So is it really being petty to complain and demand the madness stop? Is it petty to ask for a candidate that actually goes to DC with plans to cut spendng, decrease the debt by eliminating waste and favors for "going along" with bad legisaltion? Is it to much to demand that a person lives up to his promises that gained your vote? Do we really compromise and work with a plan that will do nothing but increase taxpayer costs and lower taxpayer life standards?

Because special interest groups are louder and contribute funds which are "written off" to campaign coffers, should they be given an advantage over the independent majority who are too busy paying the bills to organize and fight back?

Just because things have always "worked out" and the dominant parties habitually rotate being in power, doesn't mean we will continue to live our lives and retire blissfully. The passive approach and "going with the flow attitude" may just one day grow a head with sharp teeth and bite us all in the asse.

Going along to get along ain't the answer. But it is the plan of many to entrench themselves and gain self serving "change" from the original framework. The same folks that keep things stirred up so the majority who do the work and pay the bills don't have time and are made to feel guilty if they stop and speak up against the "machine of change".......

So again, what is the definituion of "petty"???????

 

[HotRod82]

I really do not understand the "everyone deserves a fair chance" bullshit. Everyone HAS a fair chance today. I started with nothing, as did my wife. I worked 7 days a week (literally) to save up enough $$$ to start my own business. I then started working 14 days a week trying to survive. I made it on my own. My wife worked FULL TIME while going to night school, it took her 7 years to get her degree from SDSU. She now makes big $$$$ as director of finance for a Pharma co. She mad it on her own without a single student loan. I think you are born with "it" ....if you have "it" you will succeed, if you don't have it a government program will not help you.

 

[Old Texan]

I really do not understand the "everyone deserves a fair chance" bullshit. Everyone HAS a fair chance today. I started with nothing, as did my wife. I worked 7 days a week (literally) to save up enough $$$ to start my own business. I then started working 14 days a week trying to survive. I made it on my own. My wife worked FULL TIME while going to night school, it took her 7 years to get her degree from SDSU. She now makes big $$$$ as director of finance for a Pharma co. She mad it on her own without a single student loan. I think you are born with "it" ....if you have "it" you will succeed, if you don't have it a government program will not help you.

Great post.:thumbsup

And those who demand govenment intervention to provide the "fair chance" will sadly learn, the government will enter in and add bureaucracy making it less likely anyone can start a small growing business on their own.

A wake up call is long overdue for far too many who don't realize their own hard work and dedication to success is what is needed to "make" the "fair chance" happen, not government help.

 

[RitcheyRch]

:thumbsup:thumbsup

I really do not understand the "everyone deserves a fair chance" bullshit. Everyone HAS a fair chance today. I started with nothing, as did my wife. I worked 7 days a week (literally) to save up enough $$$ to start my own business. I then started working 14 days a week trying to survive. I made it on my own. My wife worked FULL TIME while going to night school, it took her 7 years to get her degree from SDSU. She now makes big $$$$ as director of finance for a Pharma co. She mad it on her own without a single student loan. I think you are born with "it" ....if you have "it" you will succeed, if you don't have it a government program will not help you.

 

[OCMerrill]

Everyone deserves a fair chance by unfair means. That's the only answer to fair.


The ONLY way to get what you want is to help others get what they want. This is society, thats the way its been and the way it will be.

Life isn't fair, never will be.

 

[WTRR]

Life isn't fair, never will be.

Now there you go...pissin in the Obama KoolAid.

 

[OCMerrill]

Now there you go...pissin in the Obama KoolAid.

There is a lack of fairness in your tone.



Some people wash cars and some people drive them. Some even drive Cobras and dont like Jeeps.

 

[Deleted Account]

There is a lack of fairness in your tone.



Some people wash cars and some people drive them. Some even drive Cobras and dont like Jeeps.

Gay!!!

 

[ridebig]

Don't know exactly what is considered "petty".

Common sense dictates there is never going to be a perfect candidate, but how much does one need to compromise? How much does one need to be submissive and just go along for the sake of getting along?

If money is being spent that isn't available and must be borrowed, is that something which should just be accepted without complaint? Because a person is chosen by open election, should that person be given carte blanc acceptance and prior actions overlooked and blindly accepted inspite of questionable facts that are sealed from public view?

How many folks really stop and think about the fact, government does not generate any income by performing an actual service or product? Every penny governmet spends is the result of taxation and fees paid by the populace. Money the government is entrusted with and allowed to increase the percentage "taken" amongst themselves. Government pensions, healthcare, travel, meals, and ceremonies among many other things are where "your" tax dollars are spent. How many private businesses could last using the same principles these folks use to run "our" govenment? Would shareholders allow members to sit on a board or be their CEO if they used the same principles our Admin and Congress rely on?

Government is getting to be like many charitable organizations with burgeoning administrative costs. Money is channeled far away from it's intended use. There seems to be less and less checks and balances allowing runaway spending on unnecessary things. Things that have no benefit to the taxpayer who is the one working for the country to survive. Working and sacreficing in order to pay growing taxes and fees. Working for wages that are effected negatively every day by rising cost associated with poor decisons by those elected to and appointed to offices. A SS system going broke while Congressional pensions grow unchecked. Is that fair? Is it right? Is it being petty to question why?

So is it really being petty to complain and demand the madness stop? Is it petty to ask for a candidate that actually goes to DC with plans to cut spendng, decrease the debt by eliminating waste and favors for "going along" with bad legisaltion? Is it to much to demand that a person lives up to his promises that gained your vote? Do we really compromise and work with a plan that will do nothing but increase taxpayer costs and lower taxpayer life standards?

Because special interest groups are louder and contribute funds which are "written off" to campaign coffers, should they be given an advantage over the independent majority who are too busy paying the bills to organize and fight back?

Just because things have always "worked out" and the dominant parties habitually rotate being in power, doesn't mean we will continue to live our lives and retire blissfully. The passive approach and "going with the flow attitude" may just one day grow a head with sharp teeth and bite us all in the asse.

Going along to get along ain't the answer. But it is the plan of many to entrench themselves and gain self serving "change" from the original framework. The same folks that keep things stirred up so the majority who do the work and pay the bills don't have time and are made to feel guilty if they stop and speak up against the "machine of change".......

So again, what is the definituion of "petty"???????

Great post:thumbsup

 

[OCMerrill]

Gay!!!

I have NO thoughts towards this reply. NONE. My mind is a blank slate. Infraction free in this thread, its a wonderful day. :thumbsup:thumbsup

 

[Classic Daycruiser]

Is this a political thread? Sure smells like one Dave.

I thought the president's speech was very up lifting.

I see a brite future for the United States, and its financial structure.

Smart people make money, stupid people blame everybody but themselves.

I agree the tax structure is stack in the wealthy guys favor.

:thumbsup

By the way, Go Ron Paul!!!

 

[The Doctor]

Don't know exactly what is considered "petty".

Common sense dictates there is never going to be a perfect candidate, but how much does one need to compromise? How much does one need to be submissive and just go along for the sake of getting along?

If money is being spent that isn't available and must be borrowed, is that something which should just be accepted without complaint? Because a person is chosen by open election, should that person be given carte blanc acceptance and prior actions overlooked and blindly accepted inspite of questionable facts that are sealed from public view?

How many folks really stop and think about the fact, government does not generate any income by performing an actual service or product? Every penny governmet spends is the result of taxation and fees paid by the populace. Money the government is entrusted with and allowed to increase the percentage "taken" amongst themselves. Government pensions, healthcare, travel, meals, and ceremonies among many other things are where "your" tax dollars are spent. How many private businesses could last using the same principles these folks use to run "our" govenment? Would shareholders allow members to sit on a board or be their CEO if they used the same principles our Admin and Congress rely on?

Government is getting to be like many charitable organizations with burgeoning administrative costs. Money is channeled far away from it's intended use. There seems to be less and less checks and balances allowing runaway spending on unnecessary things. Things that have no benefit to the taxpayer who is the one working for the country to survive. Working and sacreficing in order to pay growing taxes and fees. Working for wages that are effected negatively every day by rising cost associated with poor decisons by those elected to and appointed to offices. A SS system going broke while Congressional pensions grow unchecked. Is that fair? Is it right? Is it being petty to question why?

So is it really being petty to complain and demand the madness stop? Is it petty to ask for a candidate that actually goes to DC with plans to cut spendng, decrease the debt by eliminating waste and favors for "going along" with bad legisaltion? Is it to much to demand that a person lives up to his promises that gained your vote? Do we really compromise and work with a plan that will do nothing but increase taxpayer costs and lower taxpayer life standards?

Because special interest groups are louder and contribute funds which are "written off" to campaign coffers, should they be given an advantage over the independent majority who are too busy paying the bills to organize and fight back?

Just because things have always "worked out" and the dominant parties habitually rotate being in power, doesn't mean we will continue to live our lives and retire blissfully. The passive approach and "going with the flow attitude" may just one day grow a head with sharp teeth and bite us all in the asse.

Going along to get along ain't the answer. But it is the plan of many to entrench themselves and gain self serving "change" from the original framework. The same folks that keep things stirred up so the majority who do the work and pay the bills don't have time and are made to feel guilty if they stop and speak up against the "machine of change".......

So again, what is the definituion of "petty"???????

There you go again Tex. Using common sense, logic, facts and truth. That crap doesn't work for the blind sheep. They find his empty rhetoric speech to be uplifting (a single word.) They can't possibly comprehend that you can neither make poor people rich by taxing rich people until they're poor or that you can't spend your way to prosperity yet, this is the clarion call of this buffoon's entire presidency and it's what he promoted in last evening's tele-prompted spewing.

 

[Faceaz]

Don't know exactly what is considered "petty".

Common sense dictates there is never going to be a perfect candidate, but how much does one need to compromise? How much does one need to be submissive and just go along for the sake of getting along?

If money is being spent that isn't available and must be borrowed, is that something which should just be accepted without complaint? Because a person is chosen by open election, should that person be given carte blanc acceptance and prior actions overlooked and blindly accepted inspite of questionable facts that are sealed from public view?

How many folks really stop and think about the fact, government does not generate any income by performing an actual service or product? Every penny governmet spends is the result of taxation and fees paid by the populace. Money the government is entrusted with and allowed to increase the percentage "taken" amongst themselves. Government pensions, healthcare, travel, meals, and ceremonies among many other things are where "your" tax dollars are spent. How many private businesses could last using the same principles these folks use to run "our" govenment? Would shareholders allow members to sit on a board or be their CEO if they used the same principles our Admin and Congress rely on?

Government is getting to be like many charitable organizations with burgeoning administrative costs. Money is channeled far away from it's intended use. There seems to be less and less checks and balances allowing runaway spending on unnecessary things. Things that have no benefit to the taxpayer who is the one working for the country to survive. Working and sacreficing in order to pay growing taxes and fees. Working for wages that are effected negatively every day by rising cost associated with poor decisons by those elected to and appointed to offices. A SS system going broke while Congressional pensions grow unchecked. Is that fair? Is it right? Is it being petty to question why?

So is it really being petty to complain and demand the madness stop? Is it petty to ask for a candidate that actually goes to DC with plans to cut spendng, decrease the debt by eliminating waste and favors for "going along" with bad legisaltion? Is it to much to demand that a person lives up to his promises that gained your vote? Do we really compromise and work with a plan that will do nothing but increase taxpayer costs and lower taxpayer life standards?

Because special interest groups are louder and contribute funds which are "written off" to campaign coffers, should they be given an advantage over the independent majority who are too busy paying the bills to organize and fight back?

Just because things have always "worked out" and the dominant parties habitually rotate being in power, doesn't mean we will continue to live our lives and retire blissfully. The passive approach and "going with the flow attitude" may just one day grow a head with sharp teeth and bite us all in the asse.

Going along to get along ain't the answer. But it is the plan of many to entrench themselves and gain self serving "change" from the original framework. The same folks that keep things stirred up so the majority who do the work and pay the bills don't have time and are made to feel guilty if they stop and speak up against the "machine of change".......

So again, what is the definituion of "petty"???????

I haven't seen one President in the past 35 years that's come close accomplishing any of that. We're Fucked :thumbsdown.

 

[Racey]

Last nights speech was just another act typical of the politcal dog and pony show.... no substance, just bullshit.

EXCELLENT POST btw Old Tex :thumbsup

 

[2Driver]

He can sure take credit and use numbers and statemnts to BS the average Voter.

FACT CHECK: http://news.yahoo.com/state-union-fact-checking-president-022136336--abc-news.html

 

[AuggieBenDoggie]

This pretty much sums it up

 

[Classic Daycruiser]

This pretty much sums it up

:thumbsup

Bush did sux pretty bad.

 

[djunkie]

:thumbsup

Bush did sux pretty bad.

Oh boy. I can hear The Doctor pacing now. I sense a heated reply very shortly.


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[AuggieBenDoggie]

:thumbsup

Bush did sux pretty bad.

I'm kinda of at a point that they all have been pretty poor. So political happiness for me is when no one party controls the White House and Congress. Because it seems to me that is when they really fuck it up. <<----Both Parties.

To be fair to Bush, 9/11, Katrina, etc etc that's is a lot to deal with. I was a registered democrat at the time and the thought of Gore during that really scares me.

 

[460]

My guy!

Thumbs up.


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[JMC]

In a nation of consumers that literally make nothing, what did everyone expect for the future? Hell, in the 50's and 60's we led in technology and electronic manufacturing. Companies farm out manufacturing to save money and have higher profits yet they hold less employees than ever on record. No real jobs for the masses anymore. Everything has gone up in price while wages and salaries have not. Govt should place a much higher tax on companies that outsource.

Im pretty much anti politician period. I dont want someone that made 20 MM last year to run our country. I want a hard working decent man with a 9th grade education and that grew up in the south to run things. Our problems have obvious answers, but its the crooked agendas fleecing their pockets while causing turmoil in a different direction. We need basic changes no matter how it rubs the senate focks hidden agenda....or other country leaders for that matter.

 

[The Doctor]

:thumbsup

Bush did sux pretty bad.

Oh boy. I can hear The Doctor pacing now. I sense a heated reply very shortly.

Really? I can always count on CD to provide the liberal point of view. He voted this clown in office, you know. It's just rationalization and justification he posts with an occasional "Go Ron Paul" thrown in to dilute his liberalism. He expects the opposite from me and I'm pleased to provide it.

Honest question: Why promote all these ideas like he did last evening if he has done nothing about them in the first three years? Oh yeah, I forgot. He's campaigning, not presiding.