Voting Day

[A Theist]

I think you might need to start substantiating your claims in the future.

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE WEEKLY CLAIMS REPORT

SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA

In the week ending Oct. 30, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 457,000, an increase of 20,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 437,000. The 4-week moving average was 456,000, an increase of 2,000 from the previous week's revised average of 454,000.

http://www.dol.gov/opa/media/press/eta/ui/current.htm

[Jaysyn]

Very good!

As an aside, I realized that the US can still gain 151k private sector jobs even while unemployment increases slightly. They are two different things.

[A Theist]

DeistPaladin: I'm still waiting to hear how you're going to cut 700 billion out of the budget to cover Bush's tax cuts for the top 1% earners.

For starters, I would like to see congress and the White House help share the financial burden with the rest of us and take cuts in their salaries and benefits packages.

I would also like to see the U.S. defund the United Nations. In fiscal year 2010, the United States funded more than $3 billion to the U.N. We should pull out. Recently, the U.S. stood accused of human rights violations before the U.N. body. Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, and Russia were among our critics. The U.N. is nothing more than a spiteful international America bashing instititution. Iran, Cuba, and Venesuela need to take a hard look at their own human rights records. I see no reason why America should be a part of the U.N. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101105/ap_o...man_rights

Why give them anymore of our money, they don't appreciate it. I would love to see the U.N. building closed, and its staff sent out of our country. Let them build another in Iran.

How the U.S. Funds the UN

Each year, Congress must pass legislation to fund the activities and obligations of the U.S. government. In Fiscal Year 2010, the U.S. sent more than $3 billion to the UN. This total included $2.125 billion for peacekeeping operations, $669 million for the regular budget, and $389 million for agencies that the U.S. contributes to but is not an assessed contribution, such as the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) or the World Health Organization (WHO). The U.S. is the largest contributor to the UN, UN peacekeeping, and UN agencies, paying almost a quarter of the UN regular and peacekeeping budgets.

For the same reasons, I would like to see the U.S. make drastic cuts in foreign aid, especially to Palestine.
http://www.betterworldcampaign.org/issue...he-un.html

I would also look at cutting a lot of small things we fund, like public broadcasting. There's no need for it. Cable and the internet can provide the same things as public broadcasting.

[Minimalist]

In other words, you don't have a clue how to balance the budget.

Relax, neither do those tea bagging shitwits.

[DeistPaladin]

In other words, you don't have a clue how to balance the budget.

Relax, neither do those tea bagging shitwits.

If President Obama is politically savvy, which so far he hasn't been, he'll tell them to put up or shut up with regard to these grand cuts needed to balance the budget and cut taxes at the same time. They're in charge of the House now, so the budget is their baby.

[Autumnlicious]

Recently, the U.S. stood accused of human rights violations before the U.N. body. Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, and Russia were among our critics.

Umm, our troops have been documented by organizations like wikileaks, in their own words, of war crimes.

If you'd like, I can direct you to the torrent or forward you the csv of compiled reports.

And before you beat your patriotic chest, please read up on "anti-partisan operations of World War 2". You'll find that only the Axis powers would routinely massacre groups of civilians.

Until now, when US troops indiscriminately destroy groups of people, regardless of threat. The redacted War Diary for Iraq on Wikileaks shows a major discrepancy in enemy dead versus recovered weapons.

Seems familiar...

Some 480 rifles were found on 6,000 dead partisans. Put bluntly, all these men had been shot to swell the figure of enemy losses and highlight our own heroic deeds.

There were a number of dead which the battalion reported as enemy dead. There is hardly any evidence, however, that they were really partisans. I tell the major that we had previously counted such dead as partisan suspects, but he counts them as liquidated. His terminology is unclear to me but seems to have the purpose of increasing the number of bandits killed in battle.

REF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_...zi_Germany

[Minimalist]

Ooh, Ooh!

I know where to start!


http://www.globalfirepower.com/defense-s...budget.asp

[Shinylight]

Wikileaks is awesome.

[A Theist]

Synackaon:And before you beat your patriotic chest,...

YEE HAW!!! Patriotism! *thumps chest in patriotic fashion while watching the movie "Patton" for the 1000th time*. No room in America for mamby pamby sissified political correctness!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU1vL3TsI...re=related

[theVOID]

Cutting taxes doesn't remove the deficit, it increases it.