Robert Gibbs: Air Force One is with him

A POP UP GUIDE to The Constitution for these invaders.

"Robert Gibbs looking somber after reading the playbook for the next big White House push - for Universal Health Care"

Das Kapital must of been checked out from the Air Force One library.

Did Cheney autograph it?

I think he is holding the Dick Cheney autobiography.

FYI, I believe he bought it at Prairie Lights in Iowa City.

Yep, that's right folks our duly elected President is now being referred to as an "Invader" by TeaBaggers and Republicans alike. And they assure you, their irrational fears of a popularly elected Democrat has nothing to do w/ race. They are not racist they are merely fiscal conservatives who stood silent on the sidelines while President Bush racked up debt, grew the Federal government, bailed out the airline industry and gave taxpayer handouts to agribusiness

It is often good to teach your kids about the mistakes in history.

Star Wars:
A Pop up Guide to National Deffense
by
Ronald Raygun

Unsensible,

You loons used to rail about the deficits and debt under President Bush, now you are all silent. What gives as BO has added $2 Trillion to the national debt in 14 months.?

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

BTW - the socialist healthcare reform bill will not reduce the deficit.

Tommy Vietor: "Oh my god, Darth Vader has a book about Darth Vader!"

Horrible Form,

It's also important to teach your children facts.

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123026360

I guess it was the phrase "Star Wars" that teri did not get.

Also, if you think $100B and 20 years of technological capitol was well spent on an item that has never been deployed in battle is a wise investment, then I got some of this snow made with holy water to sell you too. This defense program was also one of the reasons that prolonged the Cold War, and nearly the sole reason that led to the tensions with schrub and Russia. Idiots.

Horrible Form,

I guess you don't get that the cold war was won w/o firing a shot. Satillite Defense led to the "lengthing" of the cold war?

Did Jimmy Carter have us on the winning track? I'm sure the freedom loving people of Afghanistan, Nicaragua, or Angola would tend to differ.

Why would I suspect your children would learn facts when their parent doesn't know any?

Bad Form:

Laser destroys missile:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/13/business/la-fi-laser13-2010feb13

I see where the F-35 Lightning fighter jet program's cost has "soared from $197 billion to as much as $329 billion." Nothing comes cheap when the govern-mint is spending taxpayers dollars as if they haven't earned them, which they haven't.

It's also "capital" btw. The Capitol is destroying the economy by ensuring there will be no investment of "capital.

And conservatives are "idiots?"

Xcellentform,

Never deployed what have you been smoking? Have you ever heard of the Patriot missile system. Are the new long-range ship base intercept missiles that have already shot down a satellite in orbit and it was not a test shot. Or how about the aircraft base laser system. Or how about the fighter aircraft long-range intercept missile that has been tested and shown to work. And how about the GPS system that was began under the initial Star Wars appropriations.

Don't forget that Clinton has his own pop-up guide for interns.

Hey sensible, what does making terrible decisions by ignoring half of the country you swore to protect and defend, got to do with race?

teri, read this link and let it sink in: http://air-combat.suite101.com/article.cfm/us_aircraft_lost_to_the_soviets

Do you not see a pattern of aggression and initiations? If the US had to shoot down 20 military aircraft that passed over our air, raygun surely would've went to all-out war. Do you think that would've rattled the nerves of our civilians....having at least 20 military flights go over the US? It would've sent mouth breathers like you into a war mongering tirade.

Oprah lover,

Would you like me to convert that $100 billion into today's amount for you, or would you rather just agree and say that it was a waste of money that has never been used yet? I'm sure your fighter-jet project was another military projet forwarded by the knuckle-dragging pugs. BTW, could you do some more research to help prove my points?

"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." 1 Cor 13

Crooks,

I just took the first one on your list....do you want me to go further? http://www.globalsecurity.org/space/library/congress/1992_r/patriot.htm

None of your drivel disproves my first point....what is the cost/ kill ratio? What did it really achieve? How many people could've recieved healthcare with the $100B in the 1980's?

Horrible Form,

As opposed to Carter, Clinton, and Obama who would have handed the keys to the city to the Soviets. If Carter/Mondale would have been in charged, we would have had Soviet style healthcare.

Defense spending in the 80's was a temporary, while an entitlement is forever. We already have 2 entitlements that we are $107 Trillion in the hole on. What's your solution for bailing that out before you had a 3rd entitlment?

teri,

FYI, there is nothing "temporary" about a pugs desire to increase the defense budget. It's a sick perversion that they always fear everything to the point that only guns will make them feel safe.

I've been doing some actual research on the "unfunded liability" of entitelments, and came across these links. Read them over and tell me what I am missing. In general, if a pug tells me something, I am inclined to believe the opposite.

http://robertreich.blogspot.com/2009/05/truth-behind-social-security-and.html

http://desperadosoutpost.com/2009/05/26/the-return-of-the-social-security-is-going-broke-myth/

Horrible Form,

You do the research but all you do is post a couple of links from a couple of leftist. Just posting the links tells me you don't understand the material.

What you are missing is that the unfunded liabilities going out 75 years is $107 Trillion. Using a discounted cash flow, the present value to fund that laibility today would be $17 Trillion - according to Social Securirty actuaries. $17 Trillion is about 18 months of this countries GDP or five yearsof BO spending - pre ObamaCare.

The other disturbing fact of the unfunded liability, other than its size, is the direction it is heading. It is getting larger, not smaller. Liberals whined for years about Bush's deficits but now their silence is deafening even though BO's deficits are at least twice the size.

As far as defense spending, I believe words "provide for the common defense" is in the constitution. Also, in the constitution is a provision that spending, including defense spending, originates in the House of Representatives, which during the Reagan years was controlled by the democrats.

teri,

Your $107T sure shrank in a hurring to $17T. Also, why would you use a discounted cash flow, other than to patch up your point? Since you claim to be the numbers man, tell me what the liability is using our historical trend cash flow rate.

Horrible Form,

I am the numbers man, you on the other hand out of your league. You use the term "historical trend cash flow rate". Never heard of the term, so I Googled it. Only link that appears is your silly use of term in this posting. Nice try.

teri,

Yes, I will let your >$90T mistake speak for itself, when addressing calculations.

You and John love to get into tangents of terminology when you realized you lost a debate. I'm not suprised that you can't decipher English....it showed well in that post about me employing my employees for no less than $12 hr. FYI dodo, some of them were as high as $25 hr., not including partners.

As for the reduction from the $107 Trillion to $17 Trillion, that is no erorr. That is the difference bewteen the simple math of incoming revenue and outgoing expenditures and discounted cash flow, as determined by the social security actuary. You just make-up terms to try and sound intellgent. BTW, their actuary didn't use the "historical trend cash flow rate". LMAO.

And you still haven't answered the question from the last post:

"WHY did you pay them $12/hr and not $10 nor $15? "

"Did you need a gov't to tell you what to pay them?" That's a simple yes or no.

What the heck were you a partner of? It wasn't anything to do with finance - obviously, not engineering - you don't think logically, not law nor medicine.

Lost the debate? I'm not the one WHINING about tangents.