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[QUOTE="surrealnumber5"] funding bureaucracy does not aid any state.

Well then the recipient states should cut back on their bureaucracy and start living within their means.

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Because states can't afford it? The problem with spending so much money on a select few areas is that other places don't get the money they need for maintenance and upkeep.

Plus I don't think it's right that certain states' citizens should have to pay for places like New York and California. So I'm against the Fed just handing out cash to begin with.

surrealnumber5

Well then the recipient states should cut back on their bureaucracy and start living within their means.

[QUOTE="Ace6301"]Pretty much. I'm still confused as to how infrastructure is being ignored so heavily. It should be something both sides can agree to. Can't have a functioning country if your bridges fall down and if other countries have faster more efficient trains and highways.airshocker

Because states can't afford it? The problem with spending so much money on a select few areas is that other places don't get the money they need for maintenance and upkeep.

Plus I don't think it's right that certain states' citizens should have to pay for places like New York and California. So I'm against the Fed just handing out cash to begin with.

Wow. He was actually really articulate in his point.Wish there weremore OWS protesters like him instead of the drum beaters who don't know what they're really protesting.

No one has the "right' to a job. People should have to earn a job. Most of the OWS people are just hippies/hipsters (for lack of a better term) who just think its cool to fight the Man. You hit on a good point about demand though. Demand drives business more than anything else. And people need money and jobs to drive demand. Businesses and business people do not create jobs simply because they have money on hand, whether it's through tax breaks or good strategy.

wasn't the president's comment talking about the effort america had to put forth to go out and seek foreign investment? where are people getting that he's calling joe the plumber lazy for laying on the couch eating frtios from???comp_atkins

I hate it when people call Americans lazy, considering we work way more hours than most countrys in Europe do.

The man that lost over 4 billion to bankers is calling me lazy? How about doing your own job Mr. Rockstar?

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I do not have problem with Obama said that clearly. But, I have concern with TC's attitude toward GOP. That kind of attitude can easily cloud his judgement.magicalclick

Ouch! That kinda hurt:P. The old GOP from twenty years ago is not the GOPof today. I wrote the sentence the way I did because I'm seeing this kind of distortion more and more from conservative politicians and pundits. Death panels, Obama apologising for America and nowObamacalling Americans lazy. When was the last time you saw the Democrats distort someone's comments so much on the national stage?

Well not really, but that's the way the GOP is gonna play it (out of context, of course). Apparently he was asked a question about foreign investment in the US and he said the US has been such agood place to invest in over the past decades that we haven't actively gone out to seek investment very much.

Rick Perry has already released an ad trying to attack the President over this. What do you guys think? Is the GOP routecherry picking at its finest or do they have something here?

From Politico:

The controversy started when Obama, responding to a question about impediments to foreign investment, attributed the perception to a lack of motivation in the United States.
"I think it's important to remember that the United States is still the largest recipient of foreign investment in the world. And there are a lot of things that make foreign investors see the U.S. as a great opportunity: our stability, our openness, our innovative free-market culture," the president said to business executives. "But we've been a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades. We've kind of taken for granted — well, people will want to come here, and we aren't out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new business into America."

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68534.html