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I watched some of the speeches on TV last night and there were a couple things that were memorable.  Obama's speech was pretty much expected, although it may have been her best effort yet from a delivery standpoint.  Interesting that after spending months pounding Romney for being an evil rich guy who's out of touch, Obama still felt the need to spend most of her speech trying to convince people that Obama is just regular person, someone you might bump into at the local coffee shop or stand in line with at the post office. Yeah right.

The parts of Castro's speech about American Exceptionalism were the antithesis of the modern day Dem Party, and some of his words would have received resounding boos from the same people who cheered had they been spoken by someone like Rubio or Santorum.  It seems that many of the partisan hacks that attend these conventions are all about supporting the candidate and their eyes kinda gloss over when it comes to policy ideas or defining principles.  The cult of personality is clearly alive in both parties.

Another point taken away from the speeches last night is how much the left equates charity with government.  They somehow believe that paying taxes is the same as making a charitable contribution.  They somehow believe that charitable programs and entitlement programs are the same thing.  They aren't.  When you give to charity, you do so voluntarily.  Taxes aren't voluntary, they are taken by the gov via threat of force.  If you aren't happy with the way the charity spends your donation, you are free to stop giving.  God help you if you stop paying your taxes.  Charities are able to accomplish a whole lot with very little.  Gov always manages to accomplish very little, even when they tax and spend a whole lot.  Generally, people who get help from charities don't abuse the system.  There probably aren't many people "getting over on the man" by taking advantage of a free night in a homeless shelter or a free meal at a soup kitchen.  I'm guessing most people aren't going to a food bank unless they need food.  On the other hand, you have massive entitlement programs ripe with fraud and abuse.  If the Salvation Army can feed someone for $1 day, it would probably cost the gov $4 a day for the same thing.  And worse yet, they'd have to collect a total of $12 per day in tax revenue so they could spend $8 to operate the bureaucracy to be able to give someone $4 worth of food that they could buy anywhere for $1.   We've spent tens of trillions of dollars fighting the war on poverty and we have more poor people than ever before.  Hey lefties, many of us would be willing to pay more in taxes if you could show us that our tax dollars are being used wisely. But you can't, because they aren't.  So until you figure out how properly manage the trillions of dollars you have flowing into the treasury every year, shut-up about raising taxes already.

One last thing - why is it that the vast majority of the women at the DNC are physically unattractive?  I'm not talking about average looks, I'm talking about flat out ugly.  It looked like a "pig in a poke" dance last night in Charlotte.  Was there some contest going on about who could bring the fuggliest date to the speech? Wonder who won? Seriously, where do they find these chicks?  Did they all attend Michelle's White House Boot Camp Workout where they ran the 100 yard dash in a 90 yard gym?  Damn, Michelle Obama is no looker, but she looked like a supermodel compared to most of the dogs in the audience.

Hey guys, this is where the REAL Problem is:

As of Friday, August 31, the official debt tally reached $16,015,769,788,215.​80

 

No need to look outside the White House

speeches, speeches, speeches, excuses, excuses, excuses...

Ok folks we are on a roll now.

 

The first trillion in national debt took about 200 years

 

Now it takes less than 1 year to get $1 trillion in debt.

 

OK OBAMA let's see if you can get to $1 trillion debt in 1 month

 

Come on Obama you can do it.

 

Come on Obama your our man

 

Come on Obama spending $1 trillion in 1 month is easy

 

Just give the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt $1 trillion dollars it would just take like 2 seconds for you to sign the check.

 

Come on Obama you can do it.

Good morning all. Do you think investors are waiting for Fridays employment #'s?

WHAT???

Facebook () shares rose after CEO Mark Zuckerberg indicated he has no plans to sell any of his stock in the social network for at least 12 months.

 

I saw a press conference where Mark and his new wife were going to sell about 1 million of his shares so they could start a new life together

 

Those shares were sold a long time ago so I guess Mark is half way right

Look up a movie on the net, its called Inside Job really show how corupt wall st. and the goverment  are. Tells about the crash of 08. and how all this bullcrap could have been avoided except for the greed of a few.

 Europe? Come on. Goldman Sachs has had three years now to contain any contagion. And it ALL goes away just by shoving a pen into somebody's hand and having him scribble on a piece of paper

Nothing has changed - same $h!t, different day. They will run the market up for their normal 3:00 dump......... it has nothing to do with Greece, Europe, the economy or anything else in the so called news media - it's all about  greed, pure and simple. Yesterday they ate their young, today and tomorrow they will inbreed with each other so they can feast on their new young on Friday.