What happens when you turn 999 upsidedown?
Sex, Sex, Sex.
Vote Cain!
/silliness
[quote]Christine wrote:
Once upon a time, it was easy for politicians to blatantly lie and not get caught.
No wonder they want to regulate the internet.[/quote]
No shit. Since the dawn of time! “We gotta control the message”
Information is hated by both parties, and I trust neither to tell me the truth. Crazy that so many people still think the gov gives a shit about them. Ugh.
Blacks think alike. At least, they’re supposed to. -Liberals, 2012 presidential race-
Cain is intriguing, for sure.
However; I’d like to hear more of his ideas beyond the purely economic ones, especially as it relates to International Relationships and the challenges before us.
Mufasa
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2011/10/cain-leads-nationally.html
Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a new frontrunner.
Again; Cain is becoming interesting, but there are some problems for him:
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His popularity seems to not be translating into people a) giving him money and b) forming a strong, nationwide/state-to-state network of campaign offices, workers and volunteers.
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His “support” has yet to be turned into votes. People say a lot of things in Polls (especially depending on how the questions are worded). In about 3-4 months, we’ll see how it translates into Votes.
Cain’s only hope at this point is the mistrust and luke-warm enthusiasm of the Tea Party, Evangelicals and the Far Right for Romney.
January and February should turn out to be very interesting!
Mufasa
I am curious if his 9-9-9 plan was really crafted by a simple financial advisor…
Also, he has engaged in doublespeak on the federal reserve as was pointed out. His business resume is impressive, and he is an eloquent speaker no doubt.
[quote]Mufasa wrote:
Again; Cain is becoming interesting…
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I am waiting for the interesting part.
Is it because he’s black? because if you put everything on Cain’s resume on to a white dudes you just have an other white, establishment candidate.
Racist.
Lift:
He is “interesting” because at the very beginning; when people declared that they were going to run; he was predicted to be one that was going to be an “early exit”, perhaps even earlier than the debates.
Now he is considered a frontrunner for the nomination (with the problems that I listed).
(Where the heck is Zeb???)
Mufasa
This might come as a shock…but the majority of Mormon businessmen I work with are really getting behind Cain.
I am starting to like him more and more as well…not afraid to hit back at the DNC on every conceivable issue…and they have noting to say but the usual “racist” and “sell-out” in return.
Plus he is an eloquent speaker, and a Baptist minister to boot (he has my mother’s vote for sure as a result).
I think I might donate to his campaign today.
A great quote from the article by the liberal author that Push posted…
“But how do you think older black people will vote if they are asked to pick between Cain and Obama. One is a black businessman, preacher and a Southerner and the other is a bi-racial, Ivy League graduate who rarely goes to church, has fewer blacks in his cabinet than George W. Bush and who supports gay rights.”
If I was Cain; I would get on TV and “Jerry McGuire” all these “supporters”:
“…SHOW ME THE MONEYYYYYY…!!!”
Mufasa
[quote]Mufasa wrote:
If I was Cain; I would get on TV and “Jerry McGuire” all these “supporters”:
“…SHOW ME THE MONEYYYYYY…!!!”
Mufasa
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If he gets the GOP nom…it will come, in droves.
Art Laffer (probably the smartest economics guy alive) is strongly behind hte 9/9/9 plan.
Basically, the progressive income tax structure is unstable as it gets too top heavy.
The loopholes and whatnot create market inefficiences.
It creates bizarre disincentives to earn income (as opposed to appreciation).
Similarly, if the goal is a progressive tax system, the failure to tax consumption is stupid.
It’s fair, rich people will still pay the lion’s share, but it will also be spread around a bit.
That’s a fair and stable combination.
You couple 9/9/9 with some serious spending cuts and regulation cuts, and the economy is on FIRE.
Now, whether any Congress, Republican or Democrat, would actually have the balls to do the right thing is 100% doubtful, as 9/9/9 would guy them all of power, because they wouldn’t be able to trade loopholes for favors and bribes, so they wouldn’t get whores bought for them by lobbyists, and go back to being citizen legislators like they are supposed to be.
The argument against 9-9-9 in the debate was that it opens a new conduit for taxation, and congress could just make it the 20-20-20 or whatever else they felt like. The problem with that, is that they could never raise the rates without impacting their own pet constituency, because the rates are the same for EVERYBODY. That’s the beauty of the plan. You can’t pick and choose who to favor and who to screw. Everyone pays the same, so there is a huge disincentive to raise rates.
[quote]HG Thrower wrote:
The argument against 9-9-9 in the debate was that it opens a new conduit for taxation, and congress could just make it the 20-20-20 or whatever else they felt like. The problem with that, is that they could never raise the rates without impacting their own pet constituency, because the rates are the same for EVERYBODY. That’s the beauty of the plan. You can’t pick and choose who to favor and who to screw. Everyone pays the same, so there is a huge disincentive to raise rates.[/quote]
True.
[quote]Jewbacca wrote:
Art Laffer (probably the smartest economics guy alive) [/quote]
Ahem…