Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (837467)	2/18/2015 6:50:47 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1577883

There is no doubt there are lots of people doing it. That doesn't make it acceptable. I don't know who you're referring to, and I don't blame this'd on obamacare or other forms of government payments UNLESS they voted for the politicians who made it happen.

To: bentway who wrote (837467)	2/19/2015 6:03:02 AM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1577883

To Dave, having Obamacare is being on the 'public dole'! Even if you don't get a subsidy! What's up with these folks...there is no purity in government spending...you can forgive the uninformed, but he's an accountant and should understand this...by his definition he's on the dole by merely living in Arkansas...if you live in CA or NY you should be really pissed. Most of the people I know that ARE on various forms of the 'public dole', that is, soaking the government for benefits with both hands, being on trumped up 'disability', etc., are old conservative Republicans! They boast of it and trade 'tips' on LindyBill's thread.. Same where I live...super red in politics they don't understand, but go to Walmart on SSDI payment day and the place is swamped....and they go home with some of the worst foods...my wife and I are in bewildered awe for some of the garbage they eat and drink. Al

To: bentway who wrote (837467)	2/19/2015 8:21:11 AM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577883

Seeking to differentiate himself from his father and brother, both former presidents, the former governor of Florida asserted, “I am my own man.” But the man who emerged on stage at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs did not sound well-versed in foreign policy. Bush’s clunky, rushed delivery paled in comparison to the hazy facts in the speech and vague answers he gave during a Q&A session following his remarks. Speaking of the extremist group based in Nigeria that has killed thousands of civilians, Bush referred to Boko Haram as “Beau-coup Haram.” Bush also referred to Iraq when he meant to refer to Iran. Further, Bush misrepresented the strength of ISIS, saying it has some 200,000 men, which is far greater than the U.S. intelligence community’s estimates. Last week National Counterterrorism Center Director Nicholas Rasmussen pegged the fighting strength of ISIS at between 20,000 and 31,500. “Governor Bush misspoke,” Bush aide Kristy Campbell told The Daily Beast after the speech. “He meant 20,000.” Referring to the leader of the so-called Islamic State, Bush referred to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as “the guy that’s the supreme leader or whatever his new title is—head of the caliphate.” Bush was also short on describing how he might combat the threat of ISIS. “Taking them out” in partnership with regional allies was about as specific as he got. “We have to develop a strategy, that’s global, that takes them out,” Bush said. “First, the strategy, you know, needs to be restrain them, tighten the noose, and then taking them out is the strategy.” “First, the strategy, you know, needs to be restrain them, tighten the noose, and then taking them out is the strategy.” Unlike senators who have more opportunities to delve into international affairs, governors tend to have a steeper learning curve on foreign policy ahead of a presidential run. And for all his bluster about being different from his brother and father, Bush didn’t really espouse a particularly unique worldview. The similarities in doctrine shouldn’t come as a surprise. A list of his advisers in The Washington Post reads like a who’s who of hawks from the George W. Bush and Reagan administrations. Bush did coin a new term—“liberty diplomacy”—and spoke of the need for the United States to be engaged around the world. He also endorsed the National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of Americans, which began under his brother following 9/11, as “hugely important.” At times Bush veered into talk about trade and the economy—two topics he was obviously more comfortable speaking about than issues of national security. As Bloomberg noted Wednesday, Bush has exposure to foreign markets as an adviser to Barclays PLC, he lived in Venezuela, and led trade missions to dozens of countries as governor. The best-received lines from Bush were the gauziest. “We shouldn’t be as pessimistic as we are. We’re on the verge of the greatest time to be alive,” Bush said. “We’re in our ascendancy as a nation, we just have to start acting like it again.”