Gotcha Journalism

[barfo]

Sorry, barfo, but this isn't BBF.com. You're no longer the only one who is allowed to be snarky.

Are you saying I prevented you from being snarky over there? If I did I apologize.
Anyway, go ahead and be snarky all you want. It's fun for the whole family.

barfo

 

[barfo]

Taxes.

Really? What do you compute as the tax increase/decrease (in % or $) that you'll see under each candidate?

My deep down feeling is that I wil personally benefit more with McCain as president. Will the country be better off . . . I don't think so . . . but honestly I don't know enough about politics to feel confident about that and i do feel confident McCain will put more money in my pocket.

I am wrong about this? (I would love to be.)

I think it is very possible you are wrong about it. How did you come to that conclusion? Is it just a feeling, or have you studied their tax plans?

barfo

 

[maxiep]

Are you saying I prevented you from being snarky over there? If I did I apologize.
Anyway, go ahead and be snarky all you want. It's fun for the whole family.

barfo

I was intimidated by your Rep Power. I was afraid if I crossed you, I may be banned...oops, too late.

 

[barfo]

I was intimidated by your Rep Power. I was afraid if I crossed you, I may be banned...oops, too late.

Well... I certainly didn't ban you. Or approve of it.

barfo

 

[maxiep]

Well... I certainly didn't ban you. Or approve of it.

barfo

I'm just messin' around, barfo.

 

[mook]

Taxes.

I beleive Obama will be reaching out and helping the people that really need help. And that is a good and noble and right thing to do. And I am anything but independently wealthy or a corporate elite or anything like that, but, as maxiep said, I don't need gov't help.

Of course I realize a strong middle class (that I think is eroding) is good for the nation. But man this economy has me freaked out. Poverty sucks and those people deserve help, but I don't feel that it should come out of my paycheck right now.

I know how bad this sounds and I've been for Obama ever since he won the democratic nomination, but I like these boards because no one knows who I am and I can say things even if politcally incorrect or flat out makes me an asshole (like I think my thoughts do here).

My deep down feeling is that I wil personally benefit more with McCain as president. Will the country be better off . . . I don't think so . . . but honestly I don't know enough about politics to feel confident about that and i do feel confident McCain will put more money in my pocket.

I am wrong about this? (I would love to be.)

I checked out my own likely taxes here:
http://www.alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/

They say I'll get about a $980 tax cut under Obama, and a $801 tax cut under McCain.

Of course, I don't think either candidate will be able to pull off the tax cuts they are proposing after what's happened this past week.

 

[barfo]

I'm just messin' around, barfo.

I know.

barfo

 

[Dumpy]

Taxes.

I beleive Obama will be reaching out and helping the people that really need help. And that is a good and noble and right thing to do. And I am anything but independently wealthy or a corporate elite or anything like that, but, as maxiep said, I don't need gov't help.

Of course I realize a strong middle class (that I think is eroding) is good for the nation. But man this economy has me freaked out. Poverty sucks and those people deserve help, but I don't feel that it should come out of my paycheck right now.

I know how bad this sounds and I've been for Obama ever since he won the democratic nomination, but I like these boards because no one knows who I am and I can say things even if politcally incorrect or flat out makes me an asshole (like I think my thoughts do here).

My deep down feeling is that I wil personally benefit more with McCain as president. Will the country be better off . . . I don't think so . . . but honestly I don't know enough about politics to feel confident about that and i do feel confident McCain will put more money in my pocket.

I am wrong about this? (I would love to be.)

Some people say that the difference between a democrat and a republican is that a republican asks: What can the government do for me? While a democrat will ask: What can the government do for those that are less fortunate than me?

 

[Dumpy]

I checked out my own likely taxes here:
http://www.alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/

They say I'll get about a $980 tax cut under Obama, and a $801 tax cut under McCain.

Of course, I don't think either candidate will be able to pull off the tax cuts they are proposing after what's happened this past week.

I'm better off under McCain! How about that!

 

[Denny Crane]

Some people say that the difference between a democrat and a republican is that a republican asks: What can the government do for me? While a democrat will ask: What can the government do for those that are less fortunate than me?

Democrats ask: why tax me when you can tax the guy up the street who makes $1 more?

(Class warfare)

 

[MARIS61]

Does she have the chops to take advice from experts and arrive at the optimal decision? Perhaps. Does she know much herself? Not really, but she seems to have a good gut for what's right and wrong. Reagan led that way, and it worked. Bush 43 led that way, and the results were mixed.

Matter of opinion, and how you measure success.

Reagan destroyed our economy, crippled worker's representation, workplace safety, and sent the cost of running government through the stratosphere by privatizing government without regard for performance or cost.

 

[maxiep]

Some people say that the difference between a democrat and a republican is that a republican asks: What can the government do for me? While a democrat will ask: What can the government do for those that are less fortunate than me?

And some people say that the difference between a Democrat and a Republican is that a Republican asks, "Why does the government need to be involved?" while a Democrat will ask "Why wouldn't the government be involved?"

 

[Dumpy]

And some people say that the difference between a Democrat and a Republican is that a Republican asks, "Why does the government need to be involved?" while a Democrat will ask "Why wouldn't the government be involved?"

that's true. a friend of mine argues that the FDA should be abolished, and consumers should just sue if their family members die.

I don't know where he stands on tort reform.

 

[julius]

And some people say that the difference between a Democrat and a Republican is that a Republican asks, "Why does the government need to be involved?" while a Democrat will ask "Why wouldn't the government be involved?"

cept when it comes to gay marriage or who you, as an adult, decide to sleep with...or going to a doctor to help you take your own life when you're terminally sick...or what a woman does to her own body...


that's no longer what the republican party does. republicans (as citizens) might be more that way, but not the party.

 

[Stepping Razor]

And some people say that the difference between a Democrat and a Republican is that a Republican asks, "Why does the government need to be involved?" while a Democrat will ask "Why wouldn't the government be involved?"

Unfortunately, I don't think Republicans actually govern as if they care about that question. At least not in this century.

I wish they did.

SR

 

[maxiep]

Unfortunately, I don't think Republicans actually govern as if they care about that question. At least not in this century.

I wish they did.

SR

Very true. Compassionate conservatism is merely big government matched up with faith. Small government Republicanism is dead.

 

[julius]

Very true. Compassionate conservatism is merely big government matched up with faith. Small government Republicanism is dead.

Sadly, small government period is dead. It's the mindset I love most, less of them, more of us deciding for ourselves. Although obviously there has to be some laws that the Government enforces, etc.

I love figuring out how to use bold.