HughBeaumont
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Member since: Fri Aug 13, 2004, 03:12 PM
Number of posts: 24,461
Number of posts: 24,461
About Me
If anyone's wondering why I haven't been here much lately, it's because I feel no one is learning anything from 2016.
Neoliberalism is a thing and it doesn't win elections in the 21st Century.
People want a candidate that's going to take strong, non-waffling stands on human rights the rest of the world enjoys. Enough living in the goddamned Reagan 1980s. Enough taking solar panels off the roof. Enough introducing more rightwingedness into American economics. Enough medical bankruptcies. Enough governing by mythology. Enough science denial. Enough of spitting on women, children, veterans and the LGBTQI community. Enough kicking the can. ENOUGH. America needs to move past it's "everything has to be about making a buck" bullshit.
I'd prefer a candidate not born during the FDR/Truman administrations. No offense, but you had your time . . . and you got us Trump. Plus, I can't take another one of these still-Capitalist Boomer codgers yap on about "bootstraps" when college now costs a mortgage, necessity costs have been outpacing wage growth for 20 years and automation promises to kill more jobs than it creates.
I don't want to hear what is or isn't "politically achievable". Kick-the-Can economics was never asked "How is it going to be paid for?". Tax Cuts for the rich were never given a spending limit. Folly wars were never asked "Why is this necessary?". Corporate Pork by the billions was and is always approved.
America's safety net needs to be greatly expanded and retirement age needs to be drastically lowered. This country throws out far too many people that still have a decade or two of prime contribution left. If life doesn't get fairer for you or I pretty goddamned quickly, we aren't going to have much of one.
Journal Archives
Since when has it been considered "weak" to ask, want, apply for or seek help/monetary assistance?
Posted by HughBeaumont | Sun Jul 29, 2012, 09:07 PM (4 replies)
For the Republicans, it just doesn't get better.
Posted by HughBeaumont | Thu Jul 26, 2012, 12:53 PM (0 replies)
Phenomenally Stupid Ass Birfer Horseshit The Plain Dealer Prints, Volume I.
http://blog.cleveland.com/letters/2012/07/president_hides_behind_sealed.html
They want Mitt Romney's tax records going back 12 years, but Barack Obama's Occidental College, Columbia University and Harvard University records are sealed. His Columbia thesis paper? Sealed. Selective Service and medical records? Sealed. Illinois Senate schedule and records? Sealed. Law practice client list? Sealed. Certified copy of birth certificate and signed and embossed certificate of live birth? Sealed. Baptism record? Sealed.
Now, who do you think has something to hide? David A. Belin Aurora 
Davey? Tax records are kind of important in a presidential candidate that's purported to have lied either to the FEC or the SEC, by their documents and by his many sketchy statements regarding his past. All the horseshit you listed is part of a giant conspiracy in the cavernous minds of the REST of the "President Ni&&er" people like yourself and Sheriff Joe, perpetuated even AFTER it's repeatedly been debunked. http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/birthers/birthcertificate.asp FUCKING moron. I have no use for the willfully stupid, and that includes this worthless fishwrap for even giving these paranoid Klansmen a voice. NONE. |
Posted by HughBeaumont | Wed Jul 25, 2012, 04:41 PM (23 replies)
Great Facebook Status RE: Sally Ride
Posted by HughBeaumont | Wed Jul 25, 2012, 06:33 AM (7 replies)
JFW Department: "Outsourcing is Good For America" - Cato's Michael Tanner.
Posted by HughBeaumont | Mon Jul 23, 2012, 03:51 PM (3 replies)
A massive tragedy just happened. Gee, what's CNBC got on?
Joe Kernen . . . "interviewing" Grover Norquist . . . pushing the out-of-context "Obama hates Prosperity" meme . . . and urging people to vote for Romney unless you want to see a $500 billion tax increase.
[font size="8"]REALLY???[/font] |
Posted by HughBeaumont | Fri Jul 20, 2012, 08:15 AM (10 replies)
Well, count Yahoo firmly in the Romney camp.
Posted by HughBeaumont | Tue Jul 17, 2012, 07:23 PM (7 replies)
Sooooooo . . . tell me again, Libertarians, how you're different than hard-right Republicans.
http://lewrockwell.com/vance/vance297.html
The link I gave was to my article "Is Ron Paul Wrong on Abortion?" in which I said these things:
Why should it be considered libertarian to kill a baby in the womb or unlibertarian to oppose such killing? And even worse, why would a libertarian say that it was unlibertarian to advocate killing foreigners in an aggressive war but not non-libertarian to kill a baby in the womb? Killing someone is the ultimate form of aggression. Especially a helpless, defenseless fetus that is only guilty of suddenly waking up in a womb. The fetus certainly had no control over being a parasite, aggressing against a woman, invading a woman’s body, or adding unwanted pounds to his host – but its mother certainly did. If an unborn child is not entitled to protection of life, then to be consistent, libertarians should have no problem with the abortion of a fetus from one month old to nine months old. The nine-month old fetus is no more viable than the one-month old one. In fact, a one-month old baby has the same degree of viability. I hate to be so crude, but leave all three of them unattended on a table in a hospital and see what happens. Why should it be considered libertarian to kill a baby in the womb or unlibertarian to oppose such killing? This has nothing to do with giving the government greater control over a woman’s body; it has everything to do with preventing aggression and protecting innocent life. If Roe v. Wade were overturned and abortion laws were once again made the provision of the states, there would be nothing unlibertarian about supporting state laws making abortion a crime just as laws against murder, manslaughter, and wrongful death are considered legitimate actions of the states. 
Oh, that's right. YOU'RE NOT. |
Posted by HughBeaumont | Tue Jul 17, 2012, 06:54 PM (1 replies)
Dumbest Columnist on the Planet. There isn't even a close second. And he "writes" for the PD.
http://www.cleveland.com/obrien/index.ssf/2012/07/obamas_love_for_the_middle_cla.html
SO much idiocy packed in one column. You won't find yourself just getting dumber with each passing sentence, you may experience DNA breakdown. Possibly certain functions of the brain will stop working. Don't say I didn't warn you: In proposing that tax cuts be retained for anyone at all, Obama is violating a Democratic commandment: Thou shalt not admit the efficacy of lowering tax rates in promoting economic growth.
But if that's what it takes to put Republicans in a box by forcing them to explain why it makes sense not to raise taxes on "job creators" -- a phrase Obama utters with a smirk -- well, Paul Krugman will forgive him. Republicans, meanwhile, should explain -- in detail. Unlike Obama, they'll be telling the truth and making excellent fiscal sense. And speaking of details, let's look closely at a few of the other things President One-Note said during Monday's ramble. "Many members of the other party believe that prosperity comes from the top down, so that if we spend trillions more on tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, then that will somehow unleash jobs and economic growth." Many members of the other party believe that because it's true. "Trickle-down" isn't an economic theory; it's an inescapable economic fact. When the top of the economic heap experiences prosperity and growth, it doesn't hoard its capital. Everyone stands to benefit. Conversely, when the top of the economic heap experiences pain, as it has in Obama's economy and as it will to a greater extent in the higher-tax economy Obama proposes, everyone stands to suffer. What was not true in Obama's statement was the reference to tax cuts as government spending. Tax cuts involve money that does not belong to the government. "We" don't "spend" anything when "we" grant a tax cut. "We" simply allow people to keep more of their own money and use it as they see fit in the private sector of the economy.
WHAT "PAIN" ARE THEY EXPERIENCING, YOU FUCK???? The Stock Market's risen close to 5,000 points since the Failure Fuhrer skipped town in a helicopter! The CEOs and other assorted larcenists are conducting business as usual with bonuses, perks and options packages. You could take away 50% of the top 5000's WEALTH . . . notice I said WEALTH and not INCOME, and they'd still be so goddamned wealthy it would literally be impossible for them to outspend it. Beginning to hate Republicans on this matter. Stop apologizing for cockamamie theories that do not FUCKING WORK. Stop defending something even high-ranking Republicans know is bullshit. The evidence is irrefutable. These tax cuts have cost us close to 2.5 trillion dollars since we implimented them. You're a satirist, bro, and not a very good one at that. |
Posted by HughBeaumont | Sun Jul 15, 2012, 08:29 AM (3 replies)
