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valvano
07-02-2009, 07:12 PM
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124650399438184235.html


Hope.......Change........Suckers.......:rolleyes:

"Last summer, Rep. Brian Baird (D., Wash.) took a four-day trip to the Galápagos Islands with his wife, four other lawmakers and their family members. The lawmakers spent $22,000 on meals and hotels, records show. Mr. Baird, a member of the House Science Committee, said the trip was to learn about global warming.

On the first day, lawmakers toured a breeding center for giant tortoise and land iguanas before dining with scientists, according to an itinerary for the trip. The next morning, lawmakers headed to the Galápagos National Park while their family members had the option of hiking, swimming or shopping. That afternoon, the group boarded a boat to visit a sea-lion colony and search for white-tip sharks."

yeahwho
07-02-2009, 10:33 PM
You are now using campaign slogans for a story about an incident that happened before Obama was elected.

In case you didn't realize that.

valvano
07-03-2009, 06:44 AM
You are now using campaign slogans for a story about an incident that happened before Obama was elected.

In case you didn't realize that.



so? democrats now control both houses of congress and the white house....
you are a sucker if you thought change was going to occur...

yeahwho
07-03-2009, 10:50 AM
so? democrats now control both houses of congress and the white house....
you are a sucker if you thought change was going to occur...

Retroactively? I did not know that all of this could of been prevented if I voted for McCain. I am a sucker.

Dorothy Wood
07-03-2009, 11:16 AM
Retroactively? I did not know that all of this could of been prevented if I voted for McCain. I am a sucker.

yeah, obviously we'd all have great jobs and live in little mansions if McCain was elected. there'd be no taxes and no corruption. it's really a shame, life could've been so awesome, but now we're stuck with Barack HUSSEIN Obamba and we'll all be working in internment camps soon.

sucks.

valvano
07-03-2009, 11:33 AM
yeah, obviously we'd all have great jobs and live in little mansions if McCain was elected. there'd be no taxes and no corruption. it's really a shame, life could've been so awesome, but now we're stuck with Barack HUSSEIN Obamba and we'll all be working in internment camps soon.

sucks.

^ making parts for GM cars...

yeahwho
07-03-2009, 12:17 PM
^ making parts for GM cars...

If your lucky, the unemployment rate just officially hit 6 1/2 million in the US this month. Once you take into account the 100,000-plus new jobs that we need each month just to keep up with a growing population, we’re about 8 ˝ million jobs in the hole.

I'm hoping some of the spending on those congressional trips in 2008 (when Bush was President "A Safer World and More Hopeful America" "steady leadership in times of change") had at least a little bit to do with finding jobs.

Schmeltz
07-04-2009, 09:48 PM
Starting Murderous Foreign Wars down 100% Under Dems

valvano
07-05-2009, 11:57 AM
Starting Murderous Foreign Wars down 100% Under Dems

because we now capitulate to those who want the USA to go down??