Policing other countries cost lots of money... there's absolutely no reason that we need to spend as much as we do on "defense". China doesn't and they have a way larger military than we do. We spend more than the top next five countries on our military. Building up for an imaginary war with Russia. You guys are on one...
Greece doesn't have products to export that's the problem. Not their social programs. Prior to mags bullshit comment above, Germany has been doing excellent during the economic downturn. School is Free there. school is free there. They have better social programs in we do. How did we let Germany become a more forward-thinking society than we are?
Of course a democrat would say such things. They cannot accept their party has done anything wrong. You gotta blame the republicans because they are evil! /sarcasm
And making something of a comeback. It was social programs that wiped out the city. Managed by social democrats. Off topic: Google Black Wall Street. Government not only failed to protect citizens from violence, some took part. The successes prior weren't due to any social engineering like AA, handouts, subsidies, taxing the rich, etc.
When it comes to hating gays, attempting to take away Black people's ability to vote with poll taxes, hammering on all Latinos as illegals, yeah that shit is pretty damn evil.
So if one black person says "Kill all white people", I can say blacks are evil? I know Denny and I support gay rights, we don't believe immigrants are illegal or want to take away Black people's right to vote.
I don't know wtf @dviss1 is talking about! LOL http://www.toledoblade.com/news/2013/07/28/Detroit-mayors-all-Democrats-since-1962.html Detroit mayors all Democrats since 1962 BY TOM TROY BLADE POLITICS WRITER image: http://www.toledoblade.com/image/2013/07/27/150x_b1_a3-4_cCM_z/miriana-jpg.jpg Miriani TOLEDO BLADE ARCHIVE PHOTOEnlarge The former city council president was defeated overwhelmingly in 1961 by a charismatic, John Kennedy-like Democrat, Jerome Cavanagh — the first of a string of Democratic mayors. It could be argued that 1961 was the election in which Detroit started on the path that led to its economic collapse 52 years later. Mr. Miriani was elected to city council in 1947 and, as council president, automatically became mayor after Mayor Albert Cobo’s death in 1957. He was elected in 1958. Under Mayor Miriani, a convention hall — later named after Mayor Cobo — and other parts of the Civic Center were completed and the city’s freeways, water system, and port were expanded. Mr. Miriani was convicted in 1969 of evading federal income taxes, failing to pay taxes on $261,000 in income. He served 294 days in prison in 1970 and 1971 and died in 1987 at the age of 90 in Pontiac, Mich. After leaving office in January, 1962, Mr. Miriani went to work as executive vice president of the Aronsson Printing Co., of Detroit. In 1965, he was re-elected to Detroit City Council but left after his conviction. Jack Casey, a Toledo native and former Toledo Times reporter who covered Detroit politics for the Detroit Free Press from 1956 to 1962, said Mr. Miriani was not an effective mayor, but that he had a lot of institutional support, including from the United Auto Workers. “He was a do-nothing mayor. He didn’t do anything to solve any problems. He created problems,” Mr. Casey said. He said he was aware that Mr. Miriani was a Republican, but that “he did not run as a Republican.” “He ran as a reactionary person. He liked people with money,” said Mr. Casey, who went on to work for Mayor Cavanagh and then to careers in radio, television, and public relations in Detroit. The Detroit Free Press wrote in Mr. Miriani’s obituary, “Miriani confronted a series of urban problems that plagued subsequent mayors: rising unemployment and demands for public services, racial tensions, falling tax revenue, and the flight of industry and white residents to the suburbs and other states.” The article — co-written by then-Free Press City Hall bureau chief David Kushma, now The Blade’s editor — reported that Mr. Miriani was alternately irascible and ingratiating, considerate to supporters and often impatient and insulting to critics. He said he served no special interests, “only the public interest.” In 1957 he refused to welcome delegates to an Islamic convention because some speakers were “anti-American,” according to the Free Press. And in 1959 he refused to attend a welcome for a top Soviet official in Detroit as “not in the public interest.” Mr. Miriani pleaded unsuccessfully for more state and federal aid for Detroit, and tried to deal with Detroit’s economic problems by cuts in city spending and services. He rejected demands that the city enact an income tax on residents and suburban commuters who worked in Detroit. Later, the city did institute an income tax. Mr. Miriani presided over a crackdown on crime that outraged black leaders and mobilized black voters to support Mr. Cavanagh. The Free Press said, “Black ministers and residents held the mayor responsible and vowed to defeat him. They, along with blue-collar and jobless voters and city employees opposed to Miriani’s tight-fisted spending policies, backed challenger Jerome Cavanagh, an obscure 33-year-old lawyer and political novice.” Detroit — like Toledo — has nonpartisan municipal elections, and observers say political party is rarely invoked publicly, especially by Republicans. Mr. Miriani identified as a Republican early in his career but was strictly nonpartisan by the time he became mayor. Bill Ballenger, a former state lawmaker who publishes Inside Michigan Politics newsletter, said Mr. Cobo was the last definite Republican mayor. His party affiliation can be stated with confidence because he was the Republican candidate for governor of Michigan in 1956, losing to incumbent Democrat G. Mennen Williams. “There never was much [Republican Party in Detroit] even in the ’50s and ’60s. There were some councilmen who got elected, closet Republicans, but they’re pretty much all gone today,” Mr. Ballenger said. Preceding Mr. Miriani was a series of Republican mayors starting in 1933 with Frank Couzens, John W. Smith, Richard Reading, and Edward Jeffries, ending in 1948. Democrat Eugene Van Antwerp was mayor from 1948 to 1950. Mr. Van Antwerp was followed by Mr. Cobo, a business executive who was “loaned” to the city to help it through a financial crisis. He served seven consecutive terms as treasurer, 1935 to 1949. Mr. Cobo won two two-year terms and then a four-year term, dying near the end of his third term. Mr. Cobo had decided not to run again in 1957, and Mr. Miriani was already running in the 1957 elections, having easily led the primary contest the week before Mr. Cobo’s fatal heart attack. Though Mr. Cavanagh upset Mr. Miriani in 1961 and he was a popular mayor, his second term was marred by riots in 1967. Republican power waned in Detroit just as the city’s prosperity and population peaked. Roiling beneath the surface was ethnic tension, between the working class whites and blacks who had flocked to the city for its auto factories. Mr. Falbaum, 74, said Mr. Cavanagh tried to solve problems that previous mayors tried to sweep under the carpet. “I believe that the seeds for the riot were planted over the years by other mayors — more conservative, less responsive to black complaints. Jerry Cavanagh, who tried to do the right things for blacks — integrated the police department, responding to black concerns — suffered the worst riot in the country at the time. That to me was a great tragedy,” Mr. Falbaum said. After him came a string of Democratic mayors, including current Mayor Dave Bing. Conservative writers have cited Detroit as a lesson in one-party rule and Democratic policies. Columnist Rich Tucker wrote, “One-party government quickly became bad government, featuring a stream of liberal, blue-state policies such as sweet deals for government unions. Now, though, the bill has come due for these liberal policies.” Read more at http://www.toledoblade.com/news/201...Democrats-since-1962.html#Oj1yuJyHobUa7AF0.99
You never know what I'm talking about Mags. You always take what I say and run in some weird direction with it. You keep calling me a Democrat. Why? I only register Dem to vote in the primary which I'm so glad will STAY CLOSED. I'm a LIBERAL. There are lots of Dems who aren't as Liberal as I need them to be. They don't go far enough and have taken money from Banks and their corporate masters just like ALL Republicans. No one was saying anything about how Detroit declined. I simply said it's being ran by Rethugs now. Now back to my topic on Rapepublicans: Not to mention wanting to govern women's uteri, hammer on poor people by trying to balance the budget buy cutting programs that are in the social safety net, and they don't seem to give a shit about women being raped. http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/rapequotes.asp Pretty fucking evil.
This is pretty evil too! All liberals are evil as well? #25 – “Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.” – Mary Frances Berry, former Chairwoman, US Commission on Civil Rights #24 – “Let me see one of you adopt one of those ugly black babies.” – Abortionist Ashutosh Ron Virmani #23 – “(I get to) kill all the white people… How great is that?” – Jamie Foxx discussing his Django Unchanged role #22 – “(Blacks and Hispanics) are too busy eating watermelons and tacos to learn how to read and write.” – Mike Wallace, CBS News #21 – “Tell Yao Ming, Ching chong-yang-wah-ah-soh.” – Shaquille O’Neil before meeting the Chinese basketball player #20 – “White people shouldn’t be allowed to vote. It’s for the good of the country and for those who’re bitter for a reason and armed because they’re scared.” – Left-wing journalist Jonathan Valania #19 – “You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent. I’m not joking” – Joe Biden to a man of Indian descent #18 – “I give interracial couples a look. Daggers. They get uncomfortable when they see me on the street.” – Spike Lee #17 – “I want to go up to the closest white person and say: ‘You can’t understand this, it’s a black thing’ and then slap him, just for my mental health.” – New York City Councilman, Charles Barron #16 – “We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops. They ought to go.” – Former DC Mayor Marion Barry who was busted smoking crack with a prostitute #15 – “The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person…” – Barack Obama #14 – “(Obama’s) a nice person, he’s very articulate this is what’s been used against him, but he couldn’t sell watermelons if it, you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.” – Dan Rather, CBS Evening News #13 – “…cook him up with some barbecued dog…cook that yellow chump. I’ll make that mother f**ker make me a sushi roll and cook me some rice.” – Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. talking about Philippine opponent Manny Pacqioa #12 – “I can’t stand black guys. I would never touch one. It’s gross.” – Useless socialite and porn star Paris Hilton from Neil Strauss’s book “Everyone Loves You When You’re Dead” #11 – “I’d rather be called a N*gger than a Slave.” – Film critic Roger Ebert #10 – “Sometimes I wish slavery was still goin’ on” and “I don’t need black fans anyway. Y’all don’t buy albums.” – white female rapper Kreayshawn. Followed by the apology: “I am sorry, I LOVE FRIED CHICKEN!” #9 – “I think one man is just as good as another so long as he’s not a n*gger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will says that the Lord made a White man from dust, a n*gger from mud, then He threw up what was left and it came down a Chinaman. He does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is race prejudice, I guess. But I am strongly of the opinion Negroes ought to be in Africa, Yellow men in Asia and White men in Europe and America.” – Harry Truman in a letter to his future wife Bess #8 – “Some junior high n*gger kicked Steve’s ass while he was trying to help his brothers out; junior high or sophomore in high school. Whatever it was, Steve had the n*gger down. However it was, it was Steve’s fault. He had the n*gger down, he let him up. The n*gger blindsided him.” – Roger Clinton, Bill’s hillbilly brother on audiotape #7 – “A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.” – Bill Clinton to Ted Kennedy #6 – “You f*cking Jew bastard.” – Hillary Clinton to political operative Paul Fray. And let’s not forget: “I love this quote. It’s from Mahatma Gandhi. He ran a gas station down in St. Louis for a couple of years. Mr. Gandhi, do you still go to the gas station?” #5 – “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People” – Kanye West on the President’s handling of Hurricane Katrina #4 – “White folks was in caves while we was building empires… We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.” – Rev. Al Sharpton in a 1994 speech at Kean College, NJ #3 – “Hymies.” And “Hymietown.” — Jesse Jackson’s description of New York City while on the 1984 presidential campaign trail #2 – “The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him.” – Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan #1 – “I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.” – Lyndon B. Johnson to two governors on Air Force One according Ronald Kessler’s book, “Inside The White House”
http://mediatrackers.org/national/2013/06/20/6-horribly-racist-comments-from-obama-admin-officials 1. “You’re not a member of the Taliban, are you?” – Chuck Hagel, Secretary of Defense While taking questions at an event at the University of Nebraska on Wednesday, Hagel asked an Indian man if he was a member of the Taliban before the man asked his question. The man, Robin Gandhi, is an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska. Video of the exchange can be found here. 2. “I love this quote. It’s from Mahatma Gandhi. He ran a gas station down in St. Louis for a couple of years. Mr. Gandhi, do you still go to the gas station? A lot of wisdom comes out of that gas station” – Hillary Clinton, Former Secretary of State During a 2006 fundraiser in St. Louis, Clinton joked prior to reading a quote by Mahatma Gandhi that he used to run a gas station in the city. She later apologized for her remarks, saying they were a “lame attempt at humor.” 3. “In about 18 months from now, hopefully [state Sen. Vincent Sheheen] will have sent Nikki Haley back to wherever the hell she came from and this country can move forward.” – Former South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian At a state Democratic party event in May of 2013, Harpootlian attacked the ethnicity of South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, whose parents are Indian immigrants. After his comments ignited a fire storm, he claimed that he meant she should go back to Lexington County, S.C., where she used to live. He later claimed that he meant she should go back to being an accountant. Harpootlian, who resigned just days after his remarks, had previously compared Haley to Adolf Hitler’s mistress. When asked whether he would apologize about the Nazi comments, he said, “Hell no. This is fake. Nikki Haley is feigning this.” 4. “You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking!” – Joe Biden, Vice President Biden’s remarks to an Indian-American supporter in were captured by C-SPAN at a campaign event on June 17, 2006. 5. “I mean you’ve got the first sort of mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and nice-looking guy.” – Joe Biden, Vice President During a 2007 interview with New York Observer reporter Jason Horowitz, Biden offered his thoughts on Barack Obama, his opponent at the time for the Democratic nomination for the White House. 6. “[Harry Reid] was wowed by Obama’s oratorical gifts and believed the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one such as a Obama — a ‘light-skinned’ African American with ‘no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.'” – Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, as quoted in the book Game Change
You're full of shit mags. And yes DJANGO WAS THE SHIT!!! When he started WHOOPIN' THAT RACIST'S ASS with that bullwhip I stood up and clapped. Am I racist now?
