hanimmal
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You are wrong, that happened under the previous president in Sep. 08.Fletch response:
This is completely wrong. Do you not remember when the first round was given to the banks as a bail out which was part of the original stimulous how Obama forgot to put an overseere on the money and just handed it out? Banks all gave CERO bonuses and higher board members bonuses. They also wer caught throwing multimillion dollar partys with the moneies the governement gave them that was fact and the president had to address that mistake on no putting proper regulations into effect.
http://www.all-about-car-selection.com/foreign-cars.html American made cares are not just the big three anymore. Once the program used all the money that it intended, doesn't it make sense to stop pushing something that you are not sure if they were going to extend?Cash For Clunkers huge sucess??? Not in America its not and the car dealers are not happy at all about this. The amount of money that was put into the program was wasted over 50% of that money left our economy as people bought foreign cars not american. they bought cars built in other countries not here so it gave a bit of money to the salesmen not much as the commissions on these was a reduced rate due to a lower dealership take in which is fact. As I said I have father who sells a uncle who sells for Mazada and 4 friends who sell at different dealers all hate the program. the dealers are now worried now that they took in more clunkers then the governement can pay for. Most dealers stopped the program after the first reports the program was out of money. So besides the earlier reason this program was a huge failure. People traded in cars that were only 5 years old as they could get a new version with no money down and same payment which means more scarp melting more pollution and fuller scarp fields.So our so called green pres just made a huge environmental mess.
And for the dealerships that decided that this amount of money made is not good enough and got upset, I would tell them isn't 3/4 of the commission better than 100% of nothing?
I cannot go to Ford and demand the money that I have in long term bonds with them, because I am worried. It doesn't work that way.Fletch:Hmmm not sure how you say you have more bases as thats also incorrect. China was worried because as Obama is spending he weaken the USD which inturn makes inflation go up. China has bonds with the US and if the rate of value falls to fast they have no choice but to cash in which would cripple our nation to the point of no return.
Yes and no, they bought up tons of raw materials. Essentially it is going to work on the production end, once the world starts to buy they are going to be able to turn on the spicket and not have to spend any money. It was very smart since they are buying very low. Since we are not going to make a bunch of junk to sell to the world that was not the right move for us. We need to improve our infrastructure, our heavy manufacturing days are behind us. We need to focus on technologies.You bring up thier stimulus plan. Have you seen or read what they actuially did.Its nothing like we did here as they are a communist party and dont spend lkike we do. Thier stimulus mostly dealt with larger rations from the goverenment for food and living expenses to quele the people fear of the US collapse taking down China with them. they werent cutting checks and discounting cars and bailing out banks. They did a good package.
You missed what I was saying. In the middle of an economic collapse you cannot let huge multifacetted companies fall simply because you think they are a dinosaur. I don't mind them going bankrupt, but to let it happen in the middle of a economic meltdown, you don't want the hundreds of thousands of american workers to lose their job because they cannot get a loan from the banks that are in a crisis.Fletch: You don't know much about the auto industry do you.. Anyways Chrysler is not an american company and hasnt been for years. After Diamalyer sold it(german owned) to its current owners which is a non US company the company was never US again. they shut most of the US plants down and operated a lot from Canada and Mexico and since closed the Canada plants pissing them off as they passes a 10% tax hike few years back to subsidize them to keep the plants open then got bailed on after the money was given. To pump that much monmey into a non US auto maker thats doesnt sell many cars and doesnt employy a great percentage of workers in the grand scheme was just stupid made no sense. Chrysler looses money quarterly so it cant repay that or make it back it just slowed the enevitable collapse of that company so he made a 5 year bandaide and another bad investment money out the window for something that didnt mean much. Ford was fine ande Chevey needs restructuring.
They use the stalk of the corn for the oil, most the high prices are due to not enough demand for it.Filthy: You may want to actually have a conversation with the man then as then you would know the flex fuelk program is a failure and is being phased out. The E85 fuel is too exspensive to make and then ripples into the rest of our food costs. people dont buy those cars for the added cost on the sticker the higher gas costs and the effects it has on our food supply cost. They have been phasing this out and are just release already developed models. Ford is currently in works on 2 new technologies to be release one is a version of the electric car similar to trhe Volt from Chevy and they also are close to the release of the first production nitrogen run car which will be the future of cars. A car that runs off hydrogen which can be made at home has zero emissions and would provide great mileage at minimal cost hikes. Might wanna have a chat with him then if your gonna be family as the flex is a failked option.Few minutes in any Ford Dealership will give you the entire story.
The technologies need to improve and we need to develope new ones. This is the way America can still stay number 1 for the next century, we need to develope our way out of this mess we are in.
No that is WAY wrong, it is a lie that you heard.Fletch: I dont understand what your saying here as a responce. Yes you can be denied buying insurance if your already sick but not if you have insurance and get sick. If you have insurance and then have a heart attack the new governement insurance wouldnt cover you after age 55 as that is the age they would consider you a high risk and not worth the money. The new program also calls for tylonol to replace viocdine as prescribed pain medicine and things like hydrocodone and percs to be bann and illegal which cant happen as those meds are needed. Trust me after back surgery you need more then tylonol
They will not deny care to anyone, that is the point. Medicare/aid is the best hands down at giving the doctors the choice of what to do to their patients.
Insurance companies are notorius for denying care that the doctors have told their patients they need, because they don't want to pay for it.
The reason why everything is overpriced at the hospitals is not due to the Doctors pay. It is due to the hospital having to spread the money over the system to pay for the people that don't have insurance and cannot pay.Fletch: Dont think you followed I said the government should step in meaning make a review and regulatory board to access medical bills (this includes anything medical being hospital, doctors, insurnace paying for this) and set limits to the over charges that in return effect how much a doctors is paid as they get way too much, how much the hospital can charge for an asprin which is way over done to pay the high doctor salaries and then in return the insurnace company charges higher rates to cover those blown up costs making insurance unaffordable. Its all similar to the great principal Reagfan laid out which saved our country called trickle down economics which worked perfect and Clinto reaped those great years til his last term when he messed with it and started the snoball we are in now.
That is the major problem with the system now. You cannot blame the doctors for what the insurance companies and administrators decide the prices to be. They work damn hard to get a degree that essentially takes ten years and costs about $200k to get.
Your calling 11% the majority? That is how many home mortgages are deliquent or in foreclosure during this crisis.Fletch: Wrong again you gotta do some homework if your gonna have car people in your family. Most people cant afford cars even those who end up getting them. dealers have to do so much smudging on applications to get peopole into cars as they may have jobs but the national credit ratings are all time bad meaning they cant really afford a new car but it gets done. The amount of upside down trades attempted is astronomical if you go into a dealer and talk to someone who is a friend or family and will speak honestly. Most new car buyers come in within 24 months trying to get out of the contracts but are so upside down on loan to value ratiuos they cant. This new program was directly made for people who cant afford cars well let me rephrase it was made " to help the environment" but since no thought was put through its identical to the home loans that were given no credit bad credit no income verification needed. people who couldnt afford the car and come up with a down payment now have the downpayment which makes the loan easier to get even if they cant really afford it but its free money lets get some fre cars. People dont all think logivcally about the payments and insurance they think me need car me got car now.. Its a very paid program.
That is the problem with this, you are confusing 'the majority' with something that is not even close. If the "Majority" of car loans would be in default that would mean that over 51% of all cars bought would be repoed. So out of 13.2 million vehicles that means over 6.6 million cars get repoed. Totally off base.
You are not wrong, if you talk about the 10% that are in repo. It is still very high, but to say majority is wrong.
Again my fiance' is a pharmacist and deals with all the insurances all day every day. And it is a fact that Medicaid/care are the most direct and easy to deal with. Infact you know the Detroit Medical center. They came out and talked about how much money they would save (Hundred thousand a year) just in processing if they got all their people to be on medicare.Fletch: lol Efficient thats a joke maybe try them and find out. they paid for things but its a fight the whole way. They fight paying anything at all times and you have to call daily, fax, process, refax. They have hard time believeing you need those kidneys your getting or that heart transplant you got. They are a company that is broke and does not want to pay an utter mess. They dont care what meds doctore perscribe you they will try to force a cheaper alternative on you even if the make up of the meds are different but used for the same type of thing. You have to get so much extra paper work for no substitution just to get your meds.
Now one thing to know is that people do steal from this system. People are over drugged and constantly want vicodine, percesat, ect. So they try to not give that out unless it is needed, since most people are using it as a drug that they can sell and make a buttload off of our money. That does need to stop.
It is dense to think that they are going to be releasing enemy combatants into the cities. That is not going to happen as we have prisons.Fletch: Yeah it is but thats his plan. he found one place that took 2 of them and that was Austrailia everyone elsae said no. So you tell me where do they go? No one will take them and Michigan is the only place he has come up with sooo where do they go as he is hell bent on emptying gitmo by January and that gotta go someplace and you dont mind them in your yard soooo..
China is the only ones that can deal with N Korea, we should leave it up to them to get their dog on its leash. It is not our fight unless they make it. And they don't have the technology to make it our fight yet.Fletch: Yes China control thier food. You say starve them off for months.. You realise what would happen right away if China did that and its why they dont do it right?? Kim is right next door it is known he has at least 6 nukes ready on mid range missles. You ever see a dog thats been abused and starved? When they have nothing to loose and will die without a fight or maybe survive if they fight they will fgightr. If kim knows he is doomed and the people will turn on him he will launch and take some with him. He keeps thats fear in the air as his blanket of protection hoping people dont forget it and uses itr as leverage. china could try to cut them off but it would take hits on the way out and with thier population a few nukes coulkd kill what 50 million people instantly before Korea was reemoved then China is radio active for what 80 years or so?
It may piss you off, but until we have a delcaration saying we have a national language we don't. Should people learn it, of course, as they won't be very helpful to the economy until they do. And those countries have a national language.Fletch:Wow this all blows my mind..you are an american citizen correct as you dont seem to know much about our country...Its not the way of saying someones taking your job but they take the money from our countries economy. man this is so basic...Ok i live in a area around a city of 5 million people and we have a heavy illegal immigrant issue. they come get 1 house and put 15 people in it. So they are not adding to the housing economy. They all work yes but they send all but what is needed right back to mexico. Go to the currency exchange on Fridays and firt of the month and there are lines of Mexicans most illegal sending money westren union back to mexico to smuggle more family here or to pay for thier family thier. None of that money went into out economy it all left gone no taxes on it and not spent here. GONE.Now Im not sure where you live but if you went to grade school in the US you know our official national language is English so yes we do have an official language cant believe I had to explain that.It is written in law and recognized as our countriews language and you know whay people get all in arms about people who live here should speak it?? Because this is America this is our language to bve a productive memebr you must know it. The country doesnt change for you you change to be apart of this country. Dont forget your natyive language but for gods sake you must learn english to be an american and be a productive citizen in this society and the issue is too many poussy ass liberals and such say ohhh but they cant go tro school and learn as they dont understand english..well then put them in english classes and when they learn tey can join regular public schools. Its all about being a citizen .If i move to France guess what I gotta speak french..I go to mexico arwe the signs in english for me nope all spainish.
The money that they send to mexico to get their families here is lost, but what happens when they get their family here? They stop and are part of the economy.
And again they do not take americans jobs, which is the big thing that people like to cry about. If an american cannot get a job over a person that is poor and not able to talk the language, they should do something about getting some skills.
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. And they did not find any yellow cake uranium or materials to make nukes.Fletch: Thats was a response to you saying his reasons for war were false and the protesters were good. well his reason were true and proven and I explained that whole thing 2of 3 reason physically show and the third more then enough to know it was true. soo your statement saying his reason for going in were false were actually all true reason making that statement you said completly false so thats why I replied as I did.So Iraq and the Rebbels in Afgahnasatn did nothing to us in your eyes? thats very intersting. As in my eyes I saw them take down 2 US towers and kill dozens of US citizens on our soil and then I see traing tapes of them preping to fight americans and plot domestic bombings to prove a point so for me yeah thet are the enemey and they did it to use we didnt go find them they picked a fight with someone out of jealousy and contempt. Now they have to pay the piper. But thats me you kill my citizens here at home for no reason but to make a point and Ill erase you.
So I stand by it, we blew their country apart for the wrong reasons. We already were fighting in Afghanastan and had no reason to invade iraq. Even the Generals were saying that it was the wrong move.
And that is why I said you were dangerously close to racism. And I stand by it, even though your trying to clean it up a bit. The middle eastern people are far different from the religious nuts that are blowing themselves up.Fletch: Well i never made a statement on race just on thier society but if you defend thier actions thats up to you but to think thier country and culture are respectful or believe in that and are not on the most basic of human levels is nuts. A passionate person who cares about life doesnt strap a bomb on thier body walk into a coffee shop and blow every stranger away to get attention for a cause. thats just crzyy with no regard for life.To live everyday for killking another who doesnt want to folow your supposed god is crazy. Yes all religion is evil and starts most wars. I have n o compassion for those being not from thier race so be careful and know the words you accuse with but for how thiy live thier live and treat others. You smack me and Ill smack you back you shake my hand and talk ill talk with you.Kill my father while he is drinking coffee so the world knows your group Ill find your group and will do my best to make sure everyone knows who you were before I return the favor.
I am all for eye for an eye, and really for me it is head for an eye. But to place blame on an entire group of people is dead wrong as most are innocent.
I guess giving an old lady what she requested doesn't ruffle my feathers, did you know it had an origional opera on it that was made for her with a slide show of her times in america. Doesn't matter at all really, but it was nice. It was talked about on the BBC back during the whole hubub.Fletch: If you take the entire statement and not a piece of one sentence it all made sense. Your a representive of the largest free world country there is and your meeting for the first time the Queen of England and an ipod (I never saw or heard any place saying she wanted one so youd have to show me that) to a woman in her what 70s. A chineese mad ipod as your first gift from America to England. It went to show how he doesnt think or prepare he just impulse acts which was what the statement was tied into.
The stimulus was 787 billion that was what I was going off of, we have not spent 8 trillion.Fletch:Nope math was right at 300 million people getting 28000 each thats 8.4 trillion dollars which is right around what he is spending for his stgimulous packages and programs. I agree with you on the point that the first stimulous checks were bad ideas also. But you say the money is put instead of fixing what is wrong now into things like ducation and new roads. Yeah those need attention but are not priority right now. Those are things that if the country doesnt fail might help out in the future but if the country fails before then it helped no one. You dont put a new outfit on before you take a bath as you just ruin the new outfit. You have to stop the free fall and bleeding before you look to fix the future you have to fix the now and he didnt do that at all. great new roads but no cars since people cant buy them and the new socilistic government doesnt have money to give me a free one. So great lets live on the nice new road with my 2 well educated kids who dont have jobs since there are no jobs. Its not even comprehendable to go that route yet. he cant fix it all by spreading just a lkittle everywhere he needs order and preperation and doesnt do either,. You ask about my recipot of checks and balances and say it cant be done. Yeah pretty easily you do realize we are in a computer age right? You see those tv converter cards they gave everyuone? Guess what it was a visa card but could only buy what? A tv converter.. see the program is written for allowable things and rejects others its a very simple thing. Link cards only aloow food purchase not beer. thats trhe simplest thing issues the cards that are programmed no cash so no buying liqour drugs rims, purses,big screen tvs its pays the necessities only and that forces us to be responsible while all that money is back in the flow of our economy now business can hire more employess for the demand, people can catch up and refinace homes at lower rates and be able to survive. Maybe you dont loose your work truck and still do construction jobs. Its all simple and feasible.
You need to spend the money on things that matter, not junk. Using that money in this way means that it is being spent and going out into the economy, not into ceo's hands.
And it can be directed into this that last decades and not are just a sugar high that is not able to be used later on.
What I said stands. There is nothing in the works yet, not saying it won't eventually happen but I see that being more around 2012ish so he can get reelected. That is just republican scare tactics at work again.That tax will come by 2010 first quarter he all but said it. he has dropped his tax bracket 5 times and it keeps getting lower and now that he admitted his mistakes he realised there is no choice but to tax to start paying what he is spending. there is no way around it he will have to and anyone with a brain knows it cant come all from the rich or they close up business and do lay offs and dont start new jobs and thwat would seal our fate. Gotta styop and spread the love to the middle class as the poor dont have any to tax.You call it scare tactics but in fact its just more democrate denile. If i close my eyes and say it wont happen it will all go away...not gonna happen Im just hoping and it should be so that we make it through this term and get him out as fast as possible. He has ruined it for African Americans being presidents for awhilke ill guarantee as he just went nuts in there like he did in Illinois, I wish Powell would have ran as he would have done right.
Geithner said something about making tough desicions in regards to taxes, not the Obama administration. I think that Geithner is right that it should be done to pay for the mess America has gotten itself into the last decade, But then the Obama administration immediatly came out and said that they had no plans on doing this.
So until something more concrete comes out, it is anyones guess. Either way it sucks, but that doesn't mean it cannot go either way as of now. Anything more than that is just a guess.
Government Proposes Massive Shift In Online Privacy Policy
This does suck. I also hate that google has been selling this information to companies for years.
And also they are coming out with tracking linked to the tv you watch. This will allow the ad companies to direct ads towards the type of people that they want to convince to buy their crap.