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Why would he make such a claim? Let us examine the situation. The Dems provide Big Gov social welfare programs for Illegals. The Dems provide citizenship to illegals. 11 million new Dem voters (and their kids) as far as the eye can see. Got the point? Indy

One other thing Mags, I gave you a +1 because you were willing to post your ideas in a most likely hostile thread. I however feel that this needs to be discussed as to why people are moving away from Obummer: it is his policies. Indy

Quote: "Get a grip... stop stepping up for corp/bankser/guberment interests" You are also delusional if you feel that I, as well as the rest of the people on this thread have any tendencies of supporting Big Corp, Big Gov, and the Banksters. No on the contrary I stand for the exact opposite. You just can't get past the idea that people who oppose your messiah could be doing anything but what you describe. You need to open your eyes and quite drinking the "coolade" news media who does nothing but give Obummer a pass on everything that befalls him. Big Corp? Shall I say Solendra? Banksters? Shall I say Lehman Brothers? Big Gov? What the HECK is Obamacare? Indy

MSNBC is not a news organization; they have fallen to depths below the gossip magazines that front the checkout stands in the grocery market. Indy

This man is delusional! Indy

This is coming and our politicians in Washington continue to fight over issues that are insignificant in comparison to the economic train wreck that is bearing down upon us. Every time I see a politician make a proposal for more Big GOV spending I cringe knowing it will only bring on the inevitable sooner. For our kids and grandkids sake, we need to stand up to the Big Gov supporting politicians (on both sides of the aisle) and vote them out of office as quick as we can. Unless it is enumerated in the Constitution (such as National Defense) every other spending program needs to be decreased or eliminated. Get ready to say, "the USA has gone the way of Greece." Indy

It is like we put a spoiled, rich teenager in the White House. They only think of themselves, blame everyone else for their own failings, and throw temper-tantrums when they don't get their way. And on top of all this, we have given him the keys to our nuclear arsenal. What have we done? Indy

I find it amazing that whenever we as a society drop into these Capitalism vs. Big Gov (Communism) discussions, those on the Left who are always crying 'foul' do not even consider basic economic principles (I guess this is a result of Liberal Educators dumbing down the system). A business must always consider the costs of goods sold (CGS) in the business model they operate under; if the CGS goes up, due to higher labor cost, they must almost always raise the price of the service/commodity/product sold, otherwise their margins will go down. I believe WalMart operates on a ~4-6% margin, which is very tight for most companies. Indy

Great video. Too much logic for most Liberals to handle; it will be interesting to see what critique they come up with to discredit what was said. Fire away... Indy

As long as the people who have been elected and those who haven't don't get a backbone and stand up to this usurper of power, he and his administration will continue to take every step they can to move this country away from the Constitutional Republic that it was founded to be. How's that 'Hope & Change' coming for you now? Indy

If this doesn't prove the point that Socialism doesn't work then I don't know what will cause people to see the error of this ideology. Good post. Indy

Looks like the Mayhem Guy on the Allstate commercials. Indy

So your statement about those who watch the news and those who don't; this explains everything. You must be heeding your own warning. The one thing I can say that is totally scientific (tongue and cheek) is have you watched "Jay Walking"? Have you ever made the"prime-time" on Jay Walking? It totally proves your point. Indy

I agree with Dog and GymRat; I don't care what party they are from, they should be responsible for their own lunches. Now if the team is having a lunch to discuss work activities, I can see that being paid as a business expense. But otherwise, we are paying them enough to pay their own expenses. Now on the subject of school lunches, kids who are usually on the school lunch program don't need to work, they need to be in school learning. I understand the value of working for a dollar, but in this case the kids need to be focused on school. Indy

I am of middle age from a very poor family in a NW state. I grew up with two younger brothers and of the three of us, I was the only one to finish college and then continue to finish with a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering. All three of us have done very well in life and let me just tell you it was not because of Big Gov Liberal handouts or programs. No instead, we all chose to do it through old fashioned hard work and effort. Everytime I see the whining Liberal, Communist, Socialist start their rants about how the poor can't do anything w/o Big Gov handouts, I say Bull Shytte!!! Open your eyes, there are people all around us who are doing this the old fashioned, American way. Indy

You are proving Pukster's point...now heed your own words. Indy

The so-called "polar vortex" of dense, frigid air that dropped temperatures in some parts of the country to record lows is now spreading to southern and eastern parts of the U.S., shattering more temperature records, forcing flights to be canceled and keeping many schools and businesses shuttered. Temperatures on Tuesday morning were already at 8 degrees in Atlanta and 6 degrees below zero at a remote weather station in the north Georgia mountains -- the coldest temperatures in the state for years. Temperatures hit lows in parts of West Virginia not felt for 25 years, while the extreme cold in Virginia beat record lows that had stood since the late 1950s. The National Weather Service said the mercury bottomed out at 3 degrees before sunrise at Baltimore-Washington Thurgood Marshal International Airport, with a wind chill of minus 16. New York City's Central Park broke a 118-year-record Tuesday morning when the temperature there dropped to 4 degrees. It's previous record of 6 degrees had stood since 1896, according to MyFoxNY.com. Monday's subzero temperatures also smashed records in Chicago, which set a record for the date at minus 16, and Fort Wayne, Ind., where the mercury fell to 13 below. Records also fell in Oklahoma and Texas, and wind chills across the region were 40 below and colder. Officials in states like Indiana already struggling with high winds and more than a foot of snow urged residents to stay home if they could. "The cold is the real killer here," Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard said Monday as he asked schools and businesses to remain closed another day. "In 10 minutes you could be dead without the proper clothes." Forecasters said some 187 million people in all could feel the effects of the "polar vortex" by the time it spreads across the country. Tennessee utility officials on Tuesday braced for near-record power demand, while Ohio prepared for its coldest temperatures in decades. Wind chill warnings stretched as far south as Florida, where cold weather shelters opened up from St. Petersburg to Pensacola on Monday. At the Water Front Rescue Mission in Pensacola, which ordinarily serves just men, the shelter was opening its doors to women and children. The shelter can accommodate about 250 men and perhaps another 100 women and children, said Mick Breault, president of Water Front Rescue Mission. "We will open our doors to everyone until we fill up," he said. A hard freeze warning is in effect for the Tampa Bay area from 9 p.m. Tuesday to 7 a.m. Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. Hard freeze warnings were issued Monday for the northern half of the state and extended as far south as Hernando, Lake, Sumter and Volusia counties. Freezing temperatures in north Florida could last for 18 hours overnight Monday and into Tuesday, as well as another 15 hours from Tuesday night into Wednesday. In central Florida, temperatures are expected to dip below freezing Tuesday night. The cold weather has also forced the cancellations and delays of thousands of flights, leaving travelers stranded at airports. As of Tuesday morning, more than 2,300 flights were canceled across the U.S. and more than 3,200 were delayed, according to the flight tracking website FlightAware.com. Half of the flights out of Cleveland's Hopkins International Airport -- where the temperature Tuesday morning was minus-8 degrees -- were already canceled for the day. On Monday, more than 4,500 flights were canceled and more than 14,000 were delayed, FlightAware.com statistics show. JetBlue plans to resume some flights in the Northeast on Tuesday morning and return to full operation at four affected airports by mid-afternoon. Some passengers at Boston's Logan Airport had been stuck for two days, sleeping on cots and chairs. Southwest Airlines Co. suspended flights at Chicago's Midway Airport Monday and canceled more than 100 of its planned 230 daily departures there. Spokesman Brad Hawkins said that the extreme cold made tasks such as refueling so much longer and more difficult that it the airline couldn't keep its usual schedule. By late Monday, Southwest had resumed flying at Midway, although Hawkins described the initial activity as "a trickle." The airline's planes are expected to be in position to resume normal operations on Tuesday, he said. Recovery will be the focus in several Midwestern states Tuesday, since the subzero cold followed inches of snow and high winds that made traveling treacherous — especially on interstates in Indiana and Illinois — and was being blamed for numerous deaths in Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. In Brimson, Minn., the temperature plunged to 40 below zero on Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service. PJM Interconnection, who operates the power grid supplying energy to more than 61 million people in parts of the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest and South, has asked users to conserve electricity Tuesday because of the cold, especially in the morning and late afternoon. More than 30,000 customers in Indiana were without power late Monday night. Utility crews worked to restore electricity as temperatures plunged into the negative teens, but officials cautioned some people could be in the cold and dark for days. Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence issued disaster declarations, paving the way to request federal aid. "My kids are ready to go home, and I'm ready too," said 41-year-old Timolyn Johnson-Fitzgerald, of Indianapolis, who faced a second night sleeping on cots at a Red Cross shelter with her three children, ages 11, 15, and 18. More than 500 Amtrak passengers spent Monday night on three stopped trains headed for Chicago because of blowing and drifting snow in north-central Illinois. A spokesman said the trains — coming from Los Angeles, San Francisco and Quincy, Ill. — are operating on tracks owned by BNSF railroad and crews are working to reopen the tracks. Bob Oravec, a meteorologist at the Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Md., said the blast of frigid air raised concerns that roads wet from melted snow would freeze over Tuesday. "In Maryland, we lost a lot of the snowpack and a lot of water is draining off, and the temperatures are dropping fast," Oravec said. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency, announcing that parts of the New York State Thruway in the western part of the state will be closed due to dangerous driving conditions, according to Reuters. But there are signs things are returning to normal. The Minnesota Zoo also announced it would reopen to the public Tuesday. State lawmakers in Indiana planned to kick off their 2014 legislative session after a day's postponement. And warmer temperatures — at least, near or above freezing — are in store for some parts of the Midwest. Indianapolis should reach 27 degrees on Wednesday, and other parts of the central U.S. could climb above freezing later in the week. Even International Falls, Minn., had something to look forward to. Wind chills dropped as low as -55 Monday, but were expected to rebound to 25 below Tuesday. By Friday, the low was expected to be 5 to 10 above zero, Oravec said. Until then, take advice for dealing with frostbite- and hypothermia-inducing cold from Anthony Bickham in St. Paul, Minn., who jumped around while waiting for the bus Monday. "You gotta keep it moving," Bickham said. "Stay warm at ... all costs, you know." <My comments> This is just a blip on the radar screen for the Global Warming crowd...things will warm back up soon. Indy

The problem with the Environmental Movement was that they hitched their cart to the Global Warming horse. That horse is no longer heading where they want to go and now have to try to hitch their cart to another horse, Climate Change. The problem is that most people have caught onto the Environmental Movement scam and are now realizing the reality of the world we live on-namely that man has no more control over this world and the weather than we do in changing the gravitational force that we are under. The Environmental Movement has resulted in some good things-clean water, clean air is not a bad thing. I can speak from experience because I travel to SE China and breathing the air is like attaching a breathing tube to the back of a 1960's diesel truck exhaust pipe. America is not the great polluter in the world, third-world countries are the problem. Indy

Obama is going back to his roots: Class warfare Minimum wage Income Redistribution All of the Democratic staples... Indy

I am glad they are home as well, but realistic in the fact that if the blood and lives of our soldiers is spent for this administration to turn its head and run and let the region return to pre-war status, then I don't agree with what has been done. Indy

Exactly! Everything that is happening now was foretold if we left Iraq early, but because of Obama's thirst for power and political reasons, he pulled the US troops out of the region. Indy

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Bitterly cold temperatures blowing into the Midwest and Northeast in the coming days are likely to set records, disrupt schools along with airports and endanger those who go outside without the proper clothing. The frigid air will begin Sunday and last into early next week, funneled as far south as the Gulf Coast because of what one meteorologist called a "polar vortex," a counterclockwise-rotating pool of cold, dense air. As a result, forecasters are expecting startling temperatures in many places: 25 below zero in Fargo, N.D., minus 31 in International Falls, Minn., and 15 below in Indianapolis and Chicago. Wind chills may reach 50, 60 or even 70 below zero. At temperatures of 15 to 30 below, exposed skin can get frostbitten in minutes and hypothermia can quickly set in. "People need to protect themselves against the intense cold," said Dr. Brian Mahoney, medical director of emergency services at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis. "They have to wear a hat, they have to have face protection." Mahoney said mittens are better than gloves, layers of dry clothing are best, and anyone who gets wet needs to get inside. "A person not properly dressed could die easily in those conditions," said National Weather Service meteorologist Scott Truett in St. Louis, describing the expected wind chill in Missouri at daybreak Monday. It hasn't been this cold for decades -- 20 years in Washington, D.C., 18 years in Milwaukee, 15 in Missouri -- even in the Midwest, where bundling up is second nature. Weather Bell meteorologist Ryan Maue said, "If you're under 40 (years old), you've not seen this stuff before." The arctic chill will affect everything from sports to schools to flights. Mike Duell, with flight-tracking website FlightAware.com, says to expect airport delays and flight cancellations because of the cold temperatures. "For some of them, they run into limitations on the aircraft. They're only certified to take off at temperatures so low so if they get into a particular cold front it can prevent them from being able to legally take off," he said. "In a lot of cases, it's just ice." Sunday's NFL playoff game in Green Bay could be among one of the coldest ever played -- a frigid minus 2 degrees when the Packers and San Francisco 49ers kickoff at Lambeau Field. Medical experts suggest fans wear at least three layers and drink warm fluids -- not alcohol. Minnesota has called off school Monday for the entire state -- the first such closing in 17 years -- as well as the Wisconsin cities of Milwaukee and Madison. Already, parts of New England dropped into the negatives Saturday, with East Brighton, Vt., seeing 30 below zero just after midnight and Allagash, Maine, hitting minus 36. The cold will sweep through other parts of New England where residents are digging out from a snowstorm. Snow will reduce the sun's heating effect, so nighttime lows will plummet because of the strong northwest winds, Maue said. Fresh snowfall is expected Saturday night, ranging from up to a foot in eastern Missouri and southern Michigan, 6 to 8 inches in central Illinois, 8 or more inches in western Kentucky and up to 6 inches in middle Tennessee. The South also will dip into temperatures rarely seen. By Monday morning, western and central Kentucky could be below zero -- "definitely record-breaking," said weather service meteorologist Christine Wielgos in Paducah, Ky. And in Atlanta, Tuesday's high is expected to hover in the mid-20s. Before the polar plunge, Earth was as close as it gets to the sun each year on Saturday. The planet orbits the sun in an oval and on average is about 93 million miles away. But every January, Earth is at perihelion, and on Saturday, it was only 91.4 million miles from the sun. That proximity doesn't affect the planet's temperatures. Maue noted that it's relatively uncommon to have such frigid air blanket so much of the U.S., maybe once a decade or every couple of decades. Yet, Truett said there are no clear trends in weather patterns to indicate what kind of temperatures are in store for the rest of the winter. http://www.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=38321&content=101192221 Maybe some are wishing we had a little more Global Warming this year. Indy

Liberals never fully understand the ramifications of their actions. They pass laws saying they are for "safety" or for "the children" but do not look at the empirical data to make future decisions. They are blinded by their ideology and never make the leap to tie policy or law with results. Throw on top of this the fact that most could care less about the Constitution and the 2nd Amendment, and we the people of this great country have great concerns in the land. Indy

It is kinda hard to do the "right" things for America when you have an affinity for the enemy. Indy

Progress! Every step closer is one more thing completed to get this "baby" delivered. Indy