2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[Dark Sage]

If it's so insignificant, then why is the GOP working so hard to oppose it??

[Roy Karrde]

If it's so insignificant, then why is the GOP working so hard to oppose it??

A: Because this won't be the only tax increase, there will be small ones here and there, and eventually it adds up to a fairly sizable tax increase.

B: It would send a message to the market that Capital Gains are now fair game. Want to scare the market quickly? Send that message.

Now I ask: Why is it that Democrats are now so key on raising taxes? What has changed from 2009/2010 to now where tax increases is such a big thing for them?

I think we both know the answer to that: The Radical Occupy Wall Street Crowd.

[Dark Sage]

you know Roy, I don't like the OWS crowd, but do you know what they remind me of, in a way?

The protesters that held the Boston Tea Party in the days before the American Revolution, the very event that a certain GOP-led movement has named itself after.

Those colonists were protesting against an unfair law by striking against a corporation with a monopoly, and the OWS protesters are marching against large corporations that are very much like the East India Company.

So why in the world is a splinter group of the GOP naming themselves after that event? I would think that it's contradictory.

Edit: By the way, I in no way take back my earlier claim that the Boston Tea Party was an act of vandalism that shouldn't be admired. I'm just looking at it from a historic viewpoint.

[Roy Karrde]

you know Roy, I don't like the OWS crowd, but do you know what they remind me of, in a way?

The protesters that held the Boston Tea Party in the days before the American Revolution, the very event that a certain GOP-led movement has named itself after.

Those colonists were protesting against an unfair law by striking against a corporation with a monopoly, and the OWS protesters are marching against large corporations that are very much like the East India Company.

Funny but I don't remember those in the Tea Party calling for MORE taxes and MORE regulation against them. And honestly the way the OWS movement acts toward U.S. activities, guns, and religion, there is a pretty good chance that the Tea Partiers back then would SHOOT the members of the OWS movement.

So why in the world is a splinter group of the GOP naming themselves after that event? I would think that it's contradictory.

How so they were protesting against increasing taxes and increasing regulation over them. Same as the Tea Party today is doing.

Edit: By the way, I in no way take back my earlier claim that the Boston Tea Party was an act of vandalism that shouldn't be admired. I'm just looking at it from a historic viewpoint.

So from a historical context you are saying that it was a negative act of protest? That a major founding event of our country shouldn't have happened?

[Dark Sage]

Gas prices are now down for the fifth straight week in a row.

Tom Kloza, the chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service, called earlier predictions of $5 a gallon gas prices "apocalyptic," and told the folks at AAA that he'd wear a clown costume to their annual meeting if he was wrong. It looks like he won't have to get a costume.

He was right, the GOP was wrong.

And after speaking to an economic expert, I realized that many people don't realize that gas is actually quite cheap compared to many other products we use.

Let me put it in perspective. If shampoo (for example) were sold the same way pertroleum was, by the barrel, the bottle-sized amounts of it we'd buy would cost a LOT. We'd be paying $15 for one bottle of Pert Plus. Milk would cost about $16 a quart. Orange juice, even more.

And if gasoline were, in turn, priced the same way those products are now, the cost for it would be astronomical.

But the point is, gas prices are going down. One less thing you can blame on Obama.

[Roy Karrde]

Gas prices are now down for the fifth straight week in a row.

Tom Kloza, the chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service, called earlier predictions of $5 a gallon gas prices "apocalyptic," and told the folks at AAA that he'd wear a clown costume to their annual meeting if he was wrong. It looks like he won't have to get a costume.

He was right, the GOP was wrong.

And after speaking to an economic expert, I realized that many people don't realize that gas is actually quite cheap compared to many other products we use.

Let me put it in perspective. If shampoo (for example) were sold the same way pertroleum was, by the barrel, the bottle-sized amounts of it we'd buy would cost a LOT. We'd be paying $15 for one bottle of Pert Plus. Milk would cost about $16 a quart. Orange juice, even more.

And if gasoline were, in turn, priced the same way those products are now, the cost for it would be astronomical.

But the point is, gas prices are going down. One less thing you can blame on Obama.

I completely and utterly admit, the GOP was wrong and I was wrong. Gas Prices are down. Now they are down because the economy is going into the crapper and it looks like Europe is about to implode, so hey I am freely able to admit that I was wrong, I honestly did not think the economy would be sliding back into recession, or France and Greece would make a collective suicide pact.

But then again I would not really be touting that right now seeing the reason as to WHY they are down right now.

[Dark Sage]

In other news, Michelle Bachmann just made a very dubious move. She has become a dual-citizen of the United States and Switzerland.

Switzerland is a country with mandated heath care for all its citizens, the very program pushed by Mr. Obama that she swore to repeal.

Hopefully, she'll move there and never come back. I'm sick of this hypocrite.