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So you want to protest against your politicians?

  • 17-02-2013 01:34AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭CollardGreens


    I can understand why the writer of the thread about marching on Feb 9th is mad, but what I can't understand is when this is happening why does most (not all) of the people here think obama is so great when he is screwing the Americans as bad as you are getting screwed? Not only him, but ALL of our congress, both sides. And they are getting ready (they being all of congress) to give themselves another raise.


    75% of MIDDLE CLASS are paying for obamacare, not the rich like you hear on TV.

    Obamacare imposes a new 2.3% tax on gross sales.

    Americans begin paying premiums for federal long‐term care .... or face an excise tax penalty of at least 2.5 percent of adjusted gross income.

    3 MILLION more will be paying more for the new national debt and they keep spending and spending the tax payers money but helping their "friends" (can anybody say FaceBook not paying ANY taxes????).

    The unemployment? We're F'ed!


    So we are all getting screwed....is this what they call "group sex"?


    Most here in the states don't protest, only seems like the younger ones. We do try to vote the bad ones out...I'm one of those hated tea party members. When we have a person running for office we vet them, ask lots of questions. One I always ask is: Will you agree with term limits? NOT ONCE has one of them said yes. They have it easy the rest of their lives. NOT ONCE have I voted for any one of them that say they will not vote for term limits.

    For those that don't know, our congress and senate are fixed for life even if they screw with us after they are voted in ~ it's a lifetime free ride for them and their offspring with great medical care and pay while we to people get the dirty end of the stick.

    Yes....the evil tea party wants to exercise their rights and find someone worth voting for. Do you think marching and holding up a sign will work better? Come back and let me know if it works and we will make signs too. If not, VET THEM AND VOTE THEM OUT!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,533 ✭✭✭SV


    This is Ireland.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 193 ✭✭seantorious


    All right guys lets get the Tea party out of power!!!

    [5 seconds later]

    Well done guys!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    Hi. Welcome to Boards. This is a (predominantly) Irish and Irish-themed discussion board. We don't have Obamacare here. We don't have tea parties either, or rather, ours involve people drinking tea copiously.
    I suspect the froth dripping from your mouth may have blinded you to these facts when posting your partisan political rant.
    Which redneck bulletin board for militias, preppers or Fox Newscasters did you mean to post this to?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Not again :(


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,972 ✭✭✭orestes


    We still don't give a sh1te.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    Didn't the American people vote for Obama knowing about his health care policies?

    And Congress is in charge of the budget, not the President.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭bleg


    'Merica.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,114 ✭✭✭✭wp_rathead


    I can understand why the writer of the thread about marching on Feb 9th is mad, but what I can't understand is when this is happening why does most (not all) of the people here think obama is so great when he is screwing the Americans as bad as you are getting screwed? Not only him, but ALL of our congress, both sides. And they are getting ready (they being all of congress) to give themselves another raise.


    75% of MIDDLE CLASS are paying for obamacare, not the rich like you hear on TV.

    Obamacare imposes a new 2.3% tax on gross sales.

    Americans begin paying premiums for federal long‐term care .... or face an excise tax penalty of at least 2.5 percent of adjusted gross income.

    3 MILLION more will be paying more for the new national debt and they keep spending and spending the tax payers money but helping their "friends" (can anybody say FaceBook not paying ANY taxes????).

    The unemployment? We're F'ed!


    So we are all getting screwed....is this what they call "group sex"?


    Most here in the states don't protest, only seems like the younger ones. We do try to vote the bad ones out...I'm one of those hated tea party members. When we have a person running for office we vet them, ask lots of questions. One I always ask is: Will you agree with term limits? NOT ONCE has one of them said yes. They have it easy the rest of their lives. NOT ONCE have I voted for any one of them that say they will not vote for term limits.

    For those that don't know, our congress and senate are fixed for life even if they screw with us after they are voted in ~ it's a lifetime free ride for them and their offspring with great medical care and pay while we to people get the dirty end of the stick.

    Yes....the evil tea party wants to exercise their rights and find someone worth voting for. Do you think marching and holding up a sign will work better? Come back and let me know if it works and we will make signs too. If not, VET THEM AND VOTE THEM OUT!

    ..I don't know the point you're trying to make mate? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭CollardGreens


    Hi. Welcome to Boards. This is a (predominantly) Irish and Irish-themed discussion board. We don't have Obamacare here. We don't have tea parties either, or rather, ours involve people drinking tea copiously.
    I suspect the froth dripping from your mouth may have blinded you to these facts when posting your partisan political rant.
    Which redneck bulletin board for militias, preppers or Fox Newscasters did you mean to post this to?

    Seems to me we have the same problem with our politicians? Or did I read it wrong that you like yours and everybody in Ireland is "happy, happy, happy"?!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    So they're not "yours" then? Just "ours"??? Wut?? Ohh, you're a Yank. Ha. HAH. HHAAAH. Soo, alls well in Amerikayay then?? Edit, didn't red the OP, just saw it was a Yank and had a knee-jerk reaction. I suppose a Yank is better than a tug to a blind man.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    The Tea Party hit its peak in 2010. The movement caught the mainstream Republicans off guard, but in this last election, many of those Tea Party candidates have been voted out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    Seems to me we have the same problem with our politicians? Or did I read it wrong that you like yours and everybody in Ireland is "happy, happy, happy"?!

    Seems to me that we still don't have Obamacare or tea parties here, and you cross-posted some redneck nonsense that doesn't apply this side of the sadly not quite wide enough Atlantic.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Seems to me we have the same problem with our politicians? Or did I read it wrong that you like yours and everybody in Ireland is "happy, happy, happy"?!

    We're happy as pigs in s**t :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    Seems to me we have the same problem with our politicians? Or did I read it wrong that you like yours and everybody in Ireland is "happy, happy, happy"?!

    You dislike our (as in fellow American) politicians so much that came to an Irish board to bitch about them?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭CollardGreens


    I don't know the point you're trying to make mate

    I saw the thread about Marching on the 9th against the way the Irish politicians were screwing the people of Ireland. I was reading the Irish political thread and it is just like reading threads about what is going on in America. Seems to me we have the same problem, wouldn't you say?

    Maybe y'all like your politicians taking all your money and not having jobs.....was just a guess that just maybe, we would be able to discuss this and help each other and not make smart ash remarks as some have, it is not helping the problem both countries have.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    Ireland is not America.
    Ireland's problems are not the same as America's problems.
    Start from there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    I saw the thread about Marching on the 9th against the way the Irish politicians were screwing the people of Ireland. I was reading the Irish political thread and it is just like reading threads about what is going on in America. Seems to me we have the same problem, wouldn't you say?

    Maybe y'all like your politicians taking all your money and not having jobs.....was just a guess that just maybe, we would be able to discuss this and help each other and not make smart ash remarks as some have, it is not helping the problem both countries have.

    Did you hear of Michael Lowry? Now theres a story for you!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭CollardGreens


    Oh Lord....I'm talking with children that are not even old enough to vote and never have voted, they only want to hold up signs because they don't have a job.

    Yess sir ree, calling names will get you that high paying job!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭CollardGreens


    Ireland is not America.
    Ireland's problems are not the same as America's problems.
    Start from there.

    This is where you are wrong! Yes, we do have the same problems ~ that is the point!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    Most here in the states don't protest, only seems like the younger ones. We do try to vote the bad ones out...I'm one of those hated tea party members. When we have a person running for office we vet them, ask lots of questions. One I always ask is: Will you agree with term limits? NOT ONCE has one of them said yes. They have it easy the rest of their lives. NOT ONCE have I voted for any one of them that say they will not vote for term limits.
    Term limits restrict and deny the people the right to choose.
    Yes....the evil tea party wants to exercise their rights and find someone worth voting for. Do you think marching and holding up a sign will work better? Come back and let me know if it works and we will make signs too. If not, VET THEM AND VOTE THEM OUT!
    Yeah. Try anything if the democratic process doesn't work for you. e.g. Sarah Palin will say anything to get elected.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,194 ✭✭✭✭IvySlayer


    IvySlayer wrote: »
    Didn't the American people vote for Obama knowing about his health care policies?

    And Congress is in charge of the budget, not the President.
    Oh Lord....I'm talking with children that are not even old enough to vote and never have voted, they only want to hold up signs because they don't have a job.

    Yess sir ree, calling names will get you that high paying job!

    Care to address my points above^^^^


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Oh Lord....I'm talking with children that are not even old enough to vote and never have voted, they only want to hold up signs because they don't have a job.

    Yess sir ree, calling names will get you that high paying job!

    Do you not get it? We have our own problems without getting yours too.

    *Delighted to be called a child, the family were saying it was my advanced age*


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    This is where you are wrong! Yes, we do have the same problems ~ that is the point!

    I think the point is that you got lost on the internet. Head back down that way, turn left at the we-sell-ammo online stores, past Rand Paul's home page, keep going until you see the how to make moonshine site, turn right there, keep going right, right again, when you get to the crossroads turn right and pass the Deliverance IMDB page, and you should be in the general vicinity of the political commentary boards you were looking for.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    I met a tea party supporter two years ago. Boy was he aggressive! He claimed that the tea party name originated with the Boston Tea Party and their slogan " No taxation." He conveniently forgot to add two crucial words. The correct slogan of the Boston rioters was " No taxation without representation." There is a difference.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭CollardGreens


    @IvySlayer ~

    Good question, Obamacare was not voted on by the people. It was congress that put it through. A lot of laws are no longer being voted for, just passed by executive orders. They do it for money, they don't care about what the people want after they are voted in.

    The person that said something about Term Limits, I don't know if you have them with your politicians or not. We do and it's terrible, they get in then everything changes ~ they get paid off, money talks.

    If some of you open your eyes and stop being so...so hateful, then you will see that across the pond the same thing is happening. This is not an Ireland or American problem, it is a problem happening in a lot of places.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,161 ✭✭✭frag420




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    @IvySlayer ~

    Good question, Obamacare was not voted on by the people. It was congress that put it through. A lot of laws are no longer being voted for, just passed by executive orders. They do it for money, they don't care about what the people want after they are voted in.

    The person that said something about Term Limits, I don't know if you have them with your politicians or not. We do and it's terrible, they get in then everything changes ~ they get paid off, money talks.

    If some of you open your eyes and stop being so...so hateful, then you will see that across the pond the same thing is happening. This is not an Ireland or American problem, it is a problem happening in a lot of places.


    Right then! I have only one question for you if you'd care to answer?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 453 ✭✭CollardGreens


    @ Feargale: I met a tea party supporter two years ago.

    That would be just like me saying that because there are a lot of boys being jerks to me here I need to think all here are mean.

    I think there are some smart folks on this forum, I'm just having to pick through a few thorns, lol.



    (@ Chucken, I'm still gonna put you and Moo on that taco, chicken and cow..)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    When you can point out how the IMF/EU troika are requiring the United States to repay hundreds of billions of failed bank debts, then I'll accept that we have the same problems.
    Otherwise, Cooter tells me that Boss Hogg has sent deppity Cletus to interrupt the moonshine run, so perhaps you and Uncle Jesse could get on the radio and tell the good ole boys to make a run for the county line.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,966 ✭✭✭✭syklops


    Oh Lord....I'm talking with children that are not even old enough to vote and never have voted, they only want to hold up signs because they don't have a job.

    Yess sir ree, calling names will get you that high paying job!

    I have a job and I am old enough to vote. I'm old enough to buy "licker" too.

    Im quite happy with our government. I disagree with their position on abortion, and the property tax has been handled badly and numerous other things, but they are doing ok in my book. Thanks to them I got a job in my home country and Im back and I can get my life back on track. The days of being negative are over. Despite what Joe Duffy would have you believe things are improving.


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