Jackjimturkey, above all I’m unpatriotic, according to my government.

If you ask questions about 9-11, you’re not a real ameriocan, and you love terrorists. Ignore the Constitution

I just find it funny how the Fed gave billions to the banks, who will continue to screw the American people, but not the auto industry who employs millions of American workers. It’s aslo sad when the Canadian Prime Minister, and Australian Prime Minister pledge money to the U.S automakers before our own government does.

All I have to say is F*CK PRESIDENT BUSH! F*CK CONGRESS! AND F*CK EVERY POLITICIAN OUT THERE!

I blame it all on the Republicrats!

Also, Murderedout, the national deficit is not the only thing that affects our economy. Interest rates, available capital, employment rates, inflation, imports vs. exports, illegal immigration, legal immigration, the stock market, medical costs, insurance costs, housing costs, price of gas, amount of poor, amount of middle class, amount of rich, taxes, even the price of a box of cereal, all affect the economy. Sure some things have gotten worse (deficit and price of gas), but others are much better believe it or not (stock market, inflation, employment rates, exports). There are more people in the wealthier classes and upper middle classes now than there were when Bush started. There are less people in the poor classes than when Bush started. If you consider all things, not just one, and you look carefully, you will see that things are better now than they were eight to ten years ago. And I don’t blame Clinton, either. I don’t blame the President, no matter who he is, because he really doesn’t have the power to make all those things change like that. I blame a whole mess of people, including myself. I shouldn’t have bought my home when I did, because it’s not worth what I paid, and never really was. Now I’m trying to start up my own business so that I can deal with the problem I created. Once we stop pointing fingers and start working together, we will make things change.

Legislative branch (Congress) makes laws. They form bills and pass them in front of the President (Executive branch) who can say “no” to a law. Yeah, he has the power to shoot down stuff, but nothing stops Congress from trying again. The Judicial branch, however, makes judgements with the laws that are already established. The thing that the Judicial branch brings to the table is what is called “interpretation of laws” that are written by Congressed and passed by the President.

Actually, let me rephrase my first sentence. That is how the three branches of our government are SUPPOSED to work. The trouble is, there are things that have changed in recent years. The reason that I say that Congress has more power than the President doesn’t actually have anything to do with the actual acts in the government. It has to do with a number of other things. For instance, Harry Reid (a senator from my own state) has been in office since 1987. That’s 21 years, much longer than the President’s two terms. See, these guys may not get their laws passed with the current President. But all they have to do is wait until another person becomes President to try again.

Also, since there are more than one, they can team up to convince voters to work in their behalf. As Catiadesigner said, politicians tell you what you want to hear, or better yet, they tell you what they think will get them re-elected. Reid, for instance, has been fighting against the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository forever. But he never tells the truth when it comes to this issue. If one were to listen to Reid, one would think that the question that is being asked is as follows: In which state should the Federal Government put the nuclear waste?

Some people may even think the question is like this: Should Nevada house the nuclear waste?

If you were any other state, what would be your vote? Because if you say “no”, where would it go? It has to go somewhere.

But truth be told, that question has already been decided on. The vote was 49 states for “yes” and one for “no”. Majority rules, and we lost.

So now, the real question that is being asked is like this: How much Federal funding should Nevada receive to build the roads for waste transportation and build the site for the nuclear repository?

Well, as long as Reid keeps fighting it, the number will go down and down. Why? Because he doesn’t care for the people. He doesn’t want to educate people on the benefits of nuclear energy, the safeties that have been put in place, the scientific research benefits that our schools could have, the money that we could receive, and the future of energy. Instead, he wants to get re-elected. So what does he do? He scares the public about the nuclear repository and then tells everyone that he will fight for Nevada so that we don’t have this nuclear waste in our back yard. That’s what politicians do. They tell you things that will get them re-elected so they can stay in office (or get in office) and try to make new laws.

That’s how these guys have more power than the President. He can only do the re-election thing once. These guys can do it over and over until they die. And, since there are more of them, they can spread their political propaganda out much easier and much faster than the one guy who’s only real power is the ability to say “no”. The thing is, he can’t say “no” to the American public.

I picked on Harry Reid because of my personal involvement in the Yucca Mountain project, not because of his party affiliation. I do not like Harry Reid, but I wouldn’t like him if he was a Republican, either. I do not like politicians that are willing to throw away their values and to mislead the people in order to line their own pockets. Personally, I’d love to see almost every Senator and Representative be replaced with all new blood. We need people that are willing to hash out what’s best for us, not what’s best for their re-election.

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About 9/11, I was part of the news crew on the West Coast when all this bad stuff went down. There were a lot of things that happened that we were instructed not to share with the public for fear that widespread panic may break out. Much more happened than the Twin Towers (and the Pentagon was not the only thing). At least 11 planes were known to have been hijacked. One was heading to Chicago, one to Houston, two to L.A., one to San Francisco, and several to other places. There was another bomb in another government building that was talked about for only a few minutes, and then never mentioned again (for the same reason I stated above).

The attacks were real. Take it from someone who works in the video industry. When you see those two cameras showing different colored explosions, you must realize that each brand of camera has a completely different color sensitivity. One may show orange and yellow much better (Ikegami and Canon) while another will be more sensitive to blue (Sony). One may also be more sensitive to light and the other may bring out the shadows better. Not only that, before a camera is used for a shoot, it must be white balanced so that it picks up the colors in the most correct way possible. If Camera A is white balanced in the shade and Camera B is white balanced in the sun, the colors will look very different from each other.

Also, ground angles and air angles will appear to have different impact locations, which locations can be affected by lens aperture and zoom as well. Lens manipulation is how they make the moon look really gigantic in the movies and in photos, even though it never is that big to our eyes.

The 9/11 incident was not staged or enacted by Bush. The attack on the WTC was intended not only to kill people, but to create fear and distrust, to bring our economy to its knees and to end capitalism. It took years, but it appears that the intended effect is starting to happen…

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Let’s examine something, Thomas jefferson(U.S. president) one of his most famous quotes was” dissention is the greatest for of patriotism”, that was said by Thomas Jefferson. I find it very disturbing that since 9-11we been following the philospy of Herman Gorring, ( a nazi). Herman gorring made a statement that” it’s easy to take a country to war, easy, it doesn’t matter if there a democracy, dictatorship, communist, or anything. what you must first do is convince the people there under attack, then you denounce all the pacifists for being unpatriotic, and you also state that they are putting the country in danger, because of the position there taking, empowering the enemy. ”

Now isn’t that the exact thing we been told since 9-11?

Borat if 9-11 was not fake, then why are a great majority of families of the victims, asking for a new investigation? Why was Bin laden never charged for 9-11? Go the the FBI website, hes charged for the USS cole, and the U.S embassy bombing, but oddly enogh, not 9-11, i find that very peculiar. I also find it odd that Bush stonewalled the 9-11 investigation for 2 years. How did three buildings collapse from 2 planes? No building in the history of mankind has fell at the rate of gravity from fire. They blew into powder, the only way that could happen is by demolition. Jet fuel is 4/5s kerosene. It doesnt burn hot. If you turn on your camping stove for 3 hours shouldnt, it melt the grates? it doesn’t! So your saying 19 highjackers armed with box cutters, deafeated the U.S. multi-billion dollar air defense system, all while conspiring with a 6 and a half foot beared man, who lives in a cave? If what they said was true? why was noone fired? or demoted in our air defense system? Because if noone is fired, the world moves on as it is. They also said they found pieces of flight 93 wreckage 5 miles away? I could see 500 yards, but not 5 miles. 9-11 just doesn’t add up.

If anything the auto industry should be amongst the direct beneficiaries of the war as vehicle suppliers. If they couldn’t put two and two together and envisage rising petrol prices and a subsequent fall in demand for the types of vehicles they were building, surely that’s their fault.

Let the big three fall and encourage more enlightened companies to come and manufacture in the USA. Why should the working man care about the nationality of the fat cats on his company’s board? It makes no difference whether the guys taking the profits and paying as little tax as possible are American or Korean. All he needs to worry about is somebody sending him a paycheque next month.

LOL thats a good one. to republicans, everything is a dems fault. even if bush is prez– hi gas, recession, housing, automakers…a democrats fault. lol not only finger pointers but you guys love to exaggerating facts, twisting facts…making up facts…you guys are hilarious.

I guess the Republicans are gonna show some “Tough Love”
We’ll see if they can handle the storm if GM does go under, because the Dems aren’t gonna take the blame, and GM may not be around to.
DrFill

That’s so true.
Believe me the Unions will be screwed like always. All you union hater’s will get your wish. The same Lame CEO’s will get paid the and the U.S. economy will continue its race to the bottom for middle-class Americans, like it has for the past 6-7 yrs.

Hey! Your doing a heck of a job Republicans.

I don’t say the media has a political bias, even though I’m part of it and I see it every day, but I do say one major thing that people just don’t realize when they watch the news. News is NOT information. News is entertainment. We do not make news to inform you of what’s happening. We make news to keep you watching. The more you watch, the better our numbers are. The better our numbers are, the higher the demand is for advertising air time and the higher our advertising prices are. If you keep watching, we essentially can make more money. We don’t care about political bias. We care about viewers and what they want. We won’t tell you that the market is really great, because you’ll watch the station that tells you how bad things are. You want to be “informed”, but if we entertain you properly, you’ll stay tuned.

But here are two options of what I predict may happen:

If GM does in fact go completely under and close their doors, then there will be many people out of work for some time. However, the three million people that will lose their jobs make up only 2% of the entire workforce. As bad as that is, it’s not going to make the country completely blow up and die. There are still many investors out there, and a startup company that may be interested in buying some of the old GM manufacturing equipment will show up and buy a plant or two. Then, someone will start making cars again, and a new auto manufacturer will be born. Maybe a couple of new ones will be created. Who knows? But I certainly don’t expect three million people to just sit on their @$$es and complain about losing their jobs until the end of the world. Instead, some will get together and make things happen. We may end up seeing the best cars the world has ever known coming out of this.

If GM goes bankrupt and doesn’t go out of business, they will make quite a few changes in their structure. You may see a lot of changes throughout many industries as a result. Salary caps will start, along with some new innovation in cars. The unions may be restructured as well. The people at the top need to realize they are sucking the life out of some companies, and shareholders are important but customers are even more important. I guarantee if GM chooses this option, they will become a leaner, greener, more efficient machine, and great products will be produced in the end.

Please, no one say things like “GM making good products? LMAO!”, because that is the immature way of looking at things. The only way they can be strong is if they make a good product, and they will if they want to survive. I honestly see things happening this way, and if they do, they will have my backing.

As far as GM, Ford and Cerberus mishandling of their own private business – since they have not shared their profits with the rest of the country when they were profitable, there is no reason for the country to aid them when profits are gone. I have more sympathy for a guy who sells pizza and can’t make a living then for Red Ink Rick and Ford Family Trust. As far as workers – if they have desire and talent they will find work. 50% of cars produced in US are made by Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Hyundai. Latest factory GM opened in Russia, not Detroit.

Lastly to address Dems Vs. GOP debacle. We need both parties. When Dems were in complete power (1992), they screwed the country to a point that it created Republican Revolution in 1994. Like any revolutionaries, Republicans got completely drunk on power and become as corrupt as Democrats once were. Furthermore, they completely forgot Republican principals (or rather Libertarian principals) of smaller government and less taxation. Which brought us to election day 2008.