Granted they vote for the green party candidate.


I wish taxes were comsumptive rather than based on income.

 

Granted, your taxes consume your entire salary. While greenland's consumptive based GST allows them to improve over Ireland's pre capita wealth.

I wish the greens weren't insane.

 

Granted: they don't

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I wish everyone would just shut the fuck up about the election, Obama, McCain and Palin. Each of them have their good points and their bad points. The media is (and always has been) liberal by far (except for maybe Fox), so it will continue to hound the Republicans regardless of who the candidates are. And while the media focuses on stoopid shit like how much Sarah Pailin spends on her wardrobe, they choose not to focus on the fact that their polls are infected with votes from registrants who are dead, pets, underage or just plain non-existant. In making a completely UNBIASED observation, the dirt that the Democratic party has dug up on McCain and Pailin:
She spends lots on clothes.
He's old.
He's not being nice with his campaign accusations.
He doesn't know how to use a computer.
He doesn't know how many houses he owns.
She has a kid with an illegitimate baby in her belly.

Dirt the Republican party has dug up on Obama and Biden:
Obama associated with a known domestic terrorist (c'mon, it doesn't matter how old Obama was when he committed the terrorist acts, he still chose to associate with him).
Obama is planning to raise taxes.
Obama has little experience.
Obama APPEARS to have an agenda that shares some commonalities with socialism.
Nothing on Biden, not sure if that's good or bad.

Of course I realize that it would appear that I am leaning toward the Republican side, but the facts are there.

As for me, I already voted. I don't care who wins this election because regardless of who it is, they have one helluva a mess to clean up. And whoever it is is going to face the most harsh criticism from their opposing party.

BTW, not that I'm defending Bush, but it's funny how people forget that under this same administration, real estate values in theis country climbed to the highest they've ever been. The DOW climbed to the highest it had ever been. It wasn't the administration, it was the public that bit off more than they can chew, that is in very large part why people are losing their homes. No way should a person making $40k a year even think about buying a $200,000 home. Maybe the lenders shouldn't have been allowed to get in to sub prime lending, but nobody went to the public and forced them to buy homes they couldn't afford. It's all part of this 'I want what he has and I want it now!' attitude that this country has fostered for far too long.


Finally:

 

Dude, the housing prices were not their highest 'values' it was the prices because money that should not have been loaned was being loaned to every tom dick harry and plumber joe. They started buying up the houses and competition got stiff and inflated prices to ridicuolous numbers. The homes were not actually worth that much and now the prices are correcting.

The dow was also very LOW during the bush administration with the tech bubble bursting. Strange how 2 major bubbles burst during bush's administration, as well as the biggest terrorist attack on US soil. Yeah he's a great one

Also, the dirt on Palin...she wants to turn the US into a godfearing right wing hell hole. In her reign as queen she'll abolish the freedom of religion rule and make it the freedom to worship Christianity her way only rule. Keep god in school as long as it's her god. McCain is a good man, I just don't think he's a good man for now. Other McCain dirt you forget. His big role in the S&L scandal. Hurmmmm yes he cheated the system and taxpayers to help himself and his cronies. Republicans are all about their cronies.

That being said, I don't know who I want to be the next President, because I don't want to pay more taxes. 50% is enough (fed plus state)


I wish politics were cut and dry about issues and not a bunch of lies and spindoctoring.

 

Granted. We now live in a monarchy.

I wish Raj would break the rules, read back and realize I am not defending Bush. If push comes to shove, quite a bit of the mess that went down during the Bush administration was a product of things done in the Clinton administration. And speaking as a real estate broker, You couldn't be more wrong about real estate values. The value of a home is defined by what the market will pay for it. A CMA and an appraisal are both based on similar home SALES in the area. You are right about what drove up the prices, but the prices dictate the value of the homes. Things were booming, but it wasn't ENTIRELY the administration's fault that it collapsed. If more Americans lived within their means, our economic structure would be much stronger. I agree with Obama's earlier statements about how Americans live their lives financially (I'm paraphrasing). We can't keep going on with buying things we don't have the money for. These things need to be taught in school and at home. Palin might want God more prominent in our nation (not saying I agree or disagree) but so did our forefathers who founded the nation. They didn't want freedom of religion, they wanted freedom to practice THEIR religion. Besides, of the four of them, she's the hottest.

 

I wish Peter would know that I agree that Palin is hot.

In the end you are right about prices dictating the value of homes, but it was artificial. It's like the tech stocks were with their artificial high prices with p/e's of 50 or greater. Nuts.

I completely agree with you on one major point. The American mentality is SICK. Living on credit and entitlement is sick. Learning from society and home that buy it now pay for it later is okay is sick. People thinking they deserve whatever the other guy has despite what hard work the person put in to get it is sick.

There needs to be a fundamental change in thought. I personally don't have a problem with the tightening up of credit. People may actually learn to live with what they have.

I wish I could hug Peter right now. :hug:

 

Granted. :hug: :accordingly:

I wish more people understood what Raj and I both agree on.







































...That Sarah Palin is hot.

 

Every independant analysis that I have seen of liberal media bias demonstrates the opposite. One of the reasons for the Federal anti-trust laws was to prevent one sided reporting resulting from single ownership, but luckily those were ignored or subverted.

Regardless of who owns it, it rapidly becomes lowest common denominator. Who cares about Brittany? A lot more people than those who care about public policy. Take the tax issue, side by side the Democratic platform is lower taxes until the 250k bracket, then it has a higher rate than the Republicans.

The issue of the clothes is unimportant, the issue is symbolic, how does someone we don't know handle themselves? McCain and the Keating criminal conspiracy Scandal we know, Palin and HER ethics scandal we don't.

The issue of voter rolls has been ignored. When does it come up? Not for 4 years. Who brings it up, the very Justice Department who disenfranchises voters illegally (see the repudiation by the 4 past ag folks in today's paper). Flush the votor rolls and start new, I'd be up for that.

Socialism. American's wouldn't recognize it if it hit them in the face repeatedly. Start with our Antitrust laws: All major sports, legal socialism. Reserve Bank transactions, socialism. Auto maufacturer bailouts, socialism. Aircraft bailout, socialism. Bank bailouts 3X, socialism. Social Security, socialism. Corn/Wheat/Rice/Safflour/Cane/etc. subsidies, socialism. Oil producer subsidies, socialism. Aircraft procurement policies, socialism. Rail system, socialism. Haliburton KBR no-bid contracts, you got it more socialism.

 

Yes but you forgot to make a wish so your points are moot.

I wish the world was just a friggin perfect place.

 

Granted, but since you are imprefect you are kicked out.

I wish this pineapple tasted like I thought it would.