Karee

So an unarmed black woman, who is obsessed with Obama is murdered by Obama's body guards, while using a car as a weapon

Ohh no. I didn't know she was black. Is there going to be another year long media cicus?

I am a stickler for grammar and spelling

It's called personal responsibility. You should try it.

I wonder why Obama's not all about personal respnsibility whe it comes to hanading out billions in food stamps, and free cell phones, and and and the list goes on. Yet on this issue, he is. Very curious.

As the majority name one single major piece of legislation that they've passed or even proposed...well except for the repeal of the ACA 50 times.

Just name ONE major accomplishment since 2010?

And shutting down the government doesn't count as an accomplishment because they've literally abstain from action to achieve that.

Here's how it all works if you're interested:

if you want to save western union fees, have whoever you send money to open a bangkok bank account - then you can transfer via ACH to the Bangkok Bank US branch

Isn't the wire transfer a $35.00 fee? Because they have Bangkok Bank and last time I did that, Bank of America dinged me $35 for the wire transfer fee.

Why are you snooping on my SIP?

Too much copy pasting going on. But, yes I was snooping on someones SIP.

45 days past, weren't they in recess with the summer vacation?

That too. Makes me wonder why people expect congress to pass laws? Don't we have enough of them? Seems like most of the time they just screw things up.

That takes maybe 15 minutes.

Kinda shocking so few bills have been introduced in the last month. I only went back ~45 days, so maybe it's normal for congress.

I guess the better question is why does congress need to keep passing bills all the time? Isn't there enough laws on the books already? Why not leave well enough alone?

Would Canada have to abide by the "rules" of the Constitution? Because that wouldn't go over well.

I bet they'd love two year election presidential election campaigns vs. 60 day campaigns for MPs.

As the majority name one single major piece of legislation that they've passed or even proposed...well except for the repeal of the ACA 50 times.

Just name ONE major accomplishment since 2010?

And shutting down the government doesn't count as an accomplishment because they've literally abstain from action to achieve that.

Generally the Speaker of the House does not introduce bills. Other members of congress usually do that. In the last month or so these bills have been introduced by members form both parties:

• H.R.2084 - Partnership to Build America Act of 2013

  To establish the American Infrastructure Fund, to provide bond guarantees and make loans to States, local governments, and non-profit infrastr...

  Introduced Sep 04, 2013 17 Views
• H.R.2846 - Recognition of Jerusalem as the Capital of the State of Israel Act

  To transfer to Jerusalem the United States Embassy located in Tel Aviv.

  Introduced Aug 16, 2013 13 Views
• H.R.2771 - Expedite Our Economy Act of 2013

  To repeal the requirements under the Natural Gas Act for obtaining authorization for the exportation or importation of natural gas, and for ot...

  Introduced Aug 16, 2013 6 Views
• H.R.2947 - International Women's Freedom Act of 2013

  To express United States foreign policy with respect to, and to strengthen United States advocacy on behalf of, individuals persecuted and den...

  Introduced Aug 16, 2013 9 Views
• H.R.3053 - Healthcare for our Heroes Act

  To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to carry out the Department of Veterans Af...

  Introduced Aug 15, 2013 23 Views

I guess it's kinda hard to introduce legislation when you're spending all of your time raising the limit on the national credit card.

In fact, Boehner has not done anything since he was elected. Absolutely nothing. Zero. Zilch. Nada.

That would be incorrect. But if it makes you feel good to jump on the bandwagon, have fun!

I've never heard of any conditions attached to AP with regards to I-94. May I know where this information can be found. I didn't find any such information during my research.

Me neither. That's a new one.

It is not turning a profit. It is supporting the growth of the national economy. From such growth, an increased revenue stream results. That stream will be reduced if you put the process in reverse. With a reduced revenue stream, deficits grow. Look at the nations in Europe that have gone that route. All have an economy now that is smaller than it was when the great recession first hit. All have more severe fiscal issues than they had before. All have larger debts now than they had before. And they lack the economic engine to pull themselves out of that mess. They took the gas out of the tank and wonder why the damn thing won't crank up. Well, gotta put gas in first then you can get some mileage. It's really not that hard to understand.

WE DONT HAVE ANY MORE MONEY. WE"RE BROKE. THE FEDERAL GOVT HAS A DEBT THAT EQUALS 6+ YEARS OF REVENUE. THE GOVT. TOOK IN 2.45 TRILLION IN FY2012. THE DEBT IS 16 TRILLION PLUS

That means that theoretically if the government didn't spend one cent for 6 years, and still collected the taxes etc. that they do now, that it would take 6+ years to break even. The fact that you think it's a good idea to spend even more money has me wondering about you.

ETA: It shocks me that folks like you look at those numbers and worry about some touriust attracttions.

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I meant the govt. should not be in the business of turning a profit.

I see. We should have never built any national infrastructure.

I can tell you're losing an argument when you start going to the google image well to make your point. Where did I say anything about infrastructure? Since you brought it up, most of that infrastructure was built when we didn't have a debt that was reaching 100% of GDP. Think about that. The debt is 100% of our entire economic output for one year. And you want to worry about some stupid tourist attractions? Go find and image for that silliness and make it your wallpaper.

They do have the Finns and the Russians to the north.

The Arctic kinda blocks that, although with this global warming thing, that all could be some prime beach area worth fighting over.

What a bad deal that would be for Canada. They already have the benefit of only having one border with their second strongest ally.

My argument is that we're getting a pretty good bang out of the buck from these things. The height of stupidity is to willfully slow down the very economy that we need to run stronger in order to have any chance to tackle the deficit.

Again the govt. has no business getting a bang out of any buck. They're not there to turn a profit. You can't keep spending money you don't have simply to keep the economy going. The government has no business doing that espeically when they have a 16 trillion dollar debt. LIke I said, if we had all this extra money laying around, it might be something to look at. We don't have any money.

No. But tourism accounts for a good bit of our economy. In some places, it accounts for most of the economy. Kill it and the deficit will get worse not better. When airlines, hotels, restaurants and other businesses in the travel and leisure industry flourish, more people are employed, more people pay taxes, fewer people rely on public benefits and local, state and the federal government have more revenue coming in keeping things going. You wanna cut those revenue streams in order to make the deficit smaller. That's like proposing to quit a job so you can pay off a loan faster. Makes no sense whatsoever.

Well that's what happens when you spend more than you collect. As far as I can tell, those tourist places aren't going anywhere. They can sell the private interests and let them run them. we could have the Washington monument sponsored by Pepsi. Or the Smithsonian sponsored by Google. I know that sucks, but that's what you get when run up a debt like that.

This notion you have that we should keep these things we can't afford because it might hurt the economy, is the height of stupidity.

You keep acting like the government is supposed to perform as some kind of business. That's what got us into this mess. ####### are they doing running tourist attractions when they have a 16 trillion dollar debt anyway?

I'm glad Sam's extended their membership to all military for free. It was a mad house at the commissary here on Monday.

Question. Which is better, the commissary or Sams?

A Pakistani friend of mine pointed out another bonus to this. He says it will be tough to start any wars while this is going on.

Why not co-nominate Bashar Assad? That's how silly that award has become.

I just priced a ticket to PI this week. The ticket round trip was $400 in airfare and $435 in fees/taxes to make it $835 total.

Where the hell do all those fees go?

It's crazy...

Since the ticket was double, they should give you your own personal security guard for the flight. $835 is pretty good though. I've been pricing tickets to Thailand, and they've all been ~$1300

All the people who think this is no big deal are obviously not personally affected. We were alerted by homeland security that some essential services may not be available during the shutdown. What a great time to take advantage of the lax in security. But then again, that's obviously Obama's fault.

Maybe if they used the security fees they charge on every single airline ticket for actual homeland security, and not dump it into the general fund, there wouldn't be an issue.

Yes, kill tourism and the hospitality industry to bring the fiscal house in order. Good Lord.

So they should spend money they don't have to support privately run hotels? Since when is it the govt's responsibility to make sure hotel rooms are full? Hey I might support something like that if we were flush with all this extra cash, but we're not.

I had a family member call me recently asking to borrow money to make the payment on their BMW. I suggested they sell the car since it's almost paid off and maybe use the money to buy something more reasonable. That way they would have no car payment and some cash left over. They were having none of that. This thread reminds of that conversation for some reason.