Sometimes I get the feeling that politicians engage in a type of political Garanimals games: match any two or three signature words to enhance their political effect. Newt Gingrich warned citizens of how atheists and Islamic radicals would join together to destroy American. Now, presidential candidate Rick Santorum has combined abortion with social security to say that America’s
“abortion culture” is the reason that the Social Security system is failing. He would have gotten the full ten points if he added “feminists” or “environmentalists” in the dire warning.
The former Republican Pennsylvania senator said abortion rates have reduced the number of children in the United States and, as a result, there are not enough young people to support the system: “A third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion.”
This of course put huge pressure on other candidates like Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty who need to grab the remaining hot button terms before they run out. The remaining words include environmentalists, feminists, homosexuals, reporters (already partially taken by Gingrich who added them with atheists and Muslims), modern art, NPR, and fluorescent light bulbs. This is how the GOP Garanimals game works. Just combine any terms in a conspiracy theory. For example, “fluorescent light bulbs are part of a push by feminists on NPR who reject beauty as a form of sexism and want all women to be shown in a bad light so that more people turn to homosexuality.” Voilà, you have a perfect stump speech.
You can play this for hours with your family and friends.
Source: CNN
It being April 1, perhaps the following will be appropriate for today:
The simplest way to solve the problem of the economy, including the social security puzzle, is to simply eliminate every person, thereby eliminating social security and the whole economy itself.
No social security, no social security problems.
No economy, no economic problems.
No humans, no human problems.
When possible, I prefer life and its problems to no life and no problems…
Okay, so I stipulate that am stupid and ignorant.
Given that…
Anyone have a better choice to offer?
Gyges,
Steampunk Palin … lmao!
Stamford,
I stole the Robama from a steampunk comic book staring Sarah Palin.
http://jezebel.com/#!5739825/someone-has-created-a-sarah-palin-steampunk-comic-book/gallery/4
Gyges,
Lol!
Tip your servers!
I think you’re missing the point. Mr. Sanatorium is just pointing out that not having that sibling enabled the parents of that third of American Youth to go on more extravagant vacations.
Alternately, if 1/3 of American youth aren’t in America, and 1/2 of all statistics are made up, that must mean that 1/6 of Americans are fictional. Including one supposed Barack HUSSEIN Obama. That’s right the President of the U.S. is a Robot, or Robama.
Thank you, I’ll be here all the week.
Romey sez:
“in light of the fact that approx. 45 million beings have been eliminated since the passage of Roe v. Wade, there is some truth in his statement.
at least 25 million of which would be paying social security taxes now. Assuming an average salary of around $25k per year that would be around 84.5 billion annually into social security. $644 billion is spending for social security alone, excluding medicare and medicaid.”
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If all that money had been paid into the SS trust funds, the funds would have accumulated that much more surplus, for which special Treasury securities would have been issued and made available to congress for spending through the general fund.
That money wouldn’t any more be available to SS than the $2.7 trillion in securities already issued. The problem with SS is not that it doesn’t have enough money, it’s that congress doesn’t want to redeem the securities already issued. Doing so would require raising taxes. So the plan is to renege on redemption of the securities. I wonder what the investors in other Treasury securities will think about that.
rafflaw
“How does anyone give this maniac any type of forum.”
Lunatics always herd together … that’s why their psycho-babble makes sense to each other.
“He has no legitimate ideas on how to improve this country. He simply wants to set up the American Taliban.””
Did he ever? This is just the same old shit, different day.
How does anyone give this maniac any type of forum. He has no legitimate ideas on how to improve this country. He simply wants to set up the American Taliban.
this is an interesting article, it seems blacks are starting to wake up and smell the con:
http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2011/03/27/black-and-blue-2-blacks-flee-blue-states-in-droves/
“The Census story is a shocker. First, according to the Times, the Blacks leaving tend to be the “younger and better educated”. Second, the three states Blacks left in largest numbers don’t just include snake-bit Michigan; the other two are Illinois and New York. Within those states, Chicago and the city of the New York (widely considered among the most successful cities in the country) are the places Blacks are deserting.”
“It gets worse. One would think that the Blacks who choose to stay in the cold, unwelcoming North would cluster in the cities where more liberal and humane governance models mandate such generous policies as “living wage” laws and where all the beautiful features of the blue social model can be experienced at full strength.
But one would be wrong. Blacks across the North are fleeing the urban paradises of liberal legislation and high public union membership for the benighted suburbs.”
Santorum 1. The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex. 2. Senator Rick Santorum……
Can this really be true? So does every time this person spit….is he having a vaginal discharge?
Not true Buddha…not true……lol
dallysdad,
People often become obsessed with something they cannot have.
If Republicans paid as much attention to what comes from their mouths as they do worrying about what comes out of a Vagina we would all be better off.