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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>“Take It Outside”</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/22.aspx</link><description>Discussions completely unrelated to public policy issues.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 (Debug Build: 30417.1769)</generator><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278654.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:50:42 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:278654</guid><dc:creator>moveover007</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/278654.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=278654</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Well CHECk -out the &amp;quot;FARMBILL&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;of Aug. 2008 &lt;br /&gt;where 63% &amp;#39;OF FARMERS live in Manhattan ....with name like wallmart. rockefeller, &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thomas.loc.gov"&gt;www.thomas.loc.gov&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269909.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:56:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:269909</guid><dc:creator>Michpatriot</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269909.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=269909</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;Off Topic But Interesting Read........&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Facts are ugly things..........But at the end of 
the day they are still Facts&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---We just anointed the first president with almost no resume. 
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---The only thing we know he is good 
at is lofty rhetoric and reading a teleprompter.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---He got elected by exploiting wealth envy and class 
warfare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---We don&amp;#39;t know if he 
graduated from college.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---We don&amp;#39;t 
even know if he was born here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---His 
resume consists of voting present a hundred and some odd times&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---His resume lists a job as a &amp;quot;community 
organizer&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---His mentor in Hawaii 
was an avowed communist named Frank Davis (from obamas book)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---As a community organizer he helped his buddy Rezko 
get millions to build low income housing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;which was condemned and torn down in about 5 
years&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---He started his &amp;quot;career&amp;quot; in 
politics in Chicago which is famous for dirty deeds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---As if that wasn&amp;#39;t enough he started his political 
life in the living room of an unrepentant terrorist &amp;nbsp;Bill Ayers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---This same terrorist stated that he &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t regret setting bombs&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;I feel we didn&amp;#39;t do enough&amp;quot;, and, 
when&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; asked if he would &amp;quot;do it all again,&amp;quot; as 
saying &amp;quot;I don&amp;#39;t want to discount the possibility&amp;quot; and this gem &amp;quot;kill your 
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; parents, that&amp;#39;s where it&amp;#39;s 
at&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---He sat in a so called church 
for 20 years listening to a preacher preach hate and intolerance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;and said he never noticed the talk about 
G.D&amp;amp;^% America, aids being invented by our government&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; to kill off all blacks in the United States 
of AmeriKKKa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---He got married there 
and baptized his kids there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---His 
wife has never been proud of her country&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---He smoked pot and snorted coke. G.W. was railed on for drinking 
beer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---B.Obama, algore, San fran 
nan, slobbering barney and the rest want to decimate our economy 
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;and will use the scam of 
&amp;quot;global warming&amp;quot; to do it. It&amp;#39;s all about control folks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---We have enough oil to run for a couple hundred 
years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---They are on record as 
saying that $6 a gallon gas is good for us little people.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---New cars burn so clean that you can&amp;#39;t even commit 
suicide with them anymore.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---The 
temperature goes up and down all through history, this is normal. We are and 
have&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; been coming out of a 
little ice age for 300 years now, sure it&amp;#39;s going to warm up a 
little.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---25,000 Climate scientists 
have signed a petition stating that man made global warming is a 
hoax&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---algore is making millions 
selling imaginary &amp;quot;carbon credits&amp;quot; to the useful idiots. P.T. Barnum would be 
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; proud.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---He wants to spread the wealth. Who&amp;#39;s wealth? Mine? 
His?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Barack Obama proposes that we seize the profits of the oil companies and 
use &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;them for $1,000 &amp;quot;energy 
rebate&amp;quot; checks to every family in America. What is to stop them from 
deciding&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;that your business is 
making too much money?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---The &amp;ldquo;evil&amp;rdquo; oil 
companies only make about an 8% return in good years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---Millions of dollars for Obama came from overseas through 
untraceable VISA cash cards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---He says he 
will cut taxes for 95% of Americans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---Only the top 50% of Americans pay taxes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---This means that 45% of Americans will get money for nothing. I 
call this welfare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---If he does half the 
things he has said he will taxes are going to have to go way up&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---The people that will be hurt the worst will be the low 
income, young and old. The same people that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; 
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; fell for all the hope and change nonsense.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---Your car won&amp;rsquo;t run on moonbeams, fairy dust or unicorn farts no 
matter what the chosen one tells you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---Your car will run on natural gas, hydrogen or electricity but at 
this point all of these pollute alot more&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; 
&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;and are way less efficient than gasoline.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---He wants to &amp;ldquo;rewrite&amp;rdquo; the Bill of Rights. What is wrong with the 
old one?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Fact---He thinks that taking guns 
away from law abiding citizens will reduce crime regardless of the fact 
that&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;everywhere it&amp;rsquo;s been tried it 
has increased crime. The bad guys don&amp;rsquo;t obey laws. Try Canada, 
England&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; 
&amp;nbsp;Australia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Fact---If I bring 
up any of these facts the media that is in his pocket has 
convinced&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;all the 
useful idiots that I am a racist hate monger that hates children, furry 
little&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;woodland 
creatures and wants to destroy the planet.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; If you 
voted because you like the line &amp;quot; hope and change&amp;quot; please google &amp;quot;change 
agent&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; If you voted for him because 
you are young and think he is hip and cool...Please google &amp;quot;Hitler 
Youth&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;I really hope you study 
history and grow up before the next election.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; If you voted for him because he &amp;quot;promised&amp;quot; your little special 
interest group free stuff or your union that he will &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;pass laws that favor you then you threw the 
country under the bus because you are selfish.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; If you voted for him because you expect free stuff (he&amp;rsquo;ll pay my 
mortgage and buy my gas) you are a thief&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;and you just want the government to do the dirty work. Economics 
101- The government has to take&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; 
&amp;nbsp;someone else&amp;rsquo;s money to give you any of this &amp;ldquo;free&amp;rdquo; stuff. They don&amp;rsquo;t have a 
money tree. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; If you voted for him 
because you are a &amp;quot;democrat&amp;quot; and your family has always voted &amp;quot;democrat&amp;quot; then 
you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;need to do a little research, 
this ain&amp;#39;t your daddy&amp;#39;s dem party no more. George Soros said it &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;perfectly, &amp;quot;this is our party, we bought and paid 
for it&amp;quot; Please google George Soros&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; If 
you voted for him because the media convinced you that G. Bush is a bad guy, 
then you suffer from Bush&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; 
Derangement &amp;nbsp;Syndrome, there is no hope for you if you are that 
gullible.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;Words From A Cuban 
Immigrant.......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;In the late 1950s, most Cubans thought Cuba needed 
a change.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; So when a young leader 
came along, every Cuban was at least receptive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;When the young leader spoke eloquently and 
passionately and denounced &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;the 
old system, the press fell in love with him. They never &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;questioned who his friends were or what he really 
believed in. When &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;he said he 
would help the farmers and the poor and bring free medical &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;care and education to all, everyone followed. When 
he said he would &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;bring justice 
and equality to all, everyone said &amp;#39;Praise the Lord.&amp;#39; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;And when the young leader said, &amp;#39;I will be your 
change and I&amp;#39;ll bring &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;you 
change,&amp;#39; everyone yelled, &amp;#39;Viva Fidel!&amp;#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;But nobody asked about the change, so by the time 
the executioner&amp;#39;s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;guns went 
silent the people&amp;#39;s guns had been taken away. By the time &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;everyone was equal, they were equally poor, 
hungry, and oppressed. By &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;the 
time everyone received their free education it was worth nothing. 
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;By the time the press noticed, it 
was too late, because they were now &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;working for him. By the time the change was finally implemented Cuba 
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;had been knocked down a couple of 
notches to Third-World status. By &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;the time the change was over more than a million people had taken to 
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;boats, rafts, and inner tubes. 
You can call those who made it ashore &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;anywhere else in the world the most fortunate Cubans. And now I&amp;#39;m 
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;back to the beginning of my 
story.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Luckily, in America we would never fall for a 
young leader who &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:x-small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;promised change 
without asking, what change? How will you carry it out? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;What will it cost America ?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;font color="#808080" size="-1" face="sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269840.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:40:56 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:269840</guid><dc:creator>crazycajun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269840.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=269840</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;here are some facts that should burst the myth bubble.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Children, not women, are the largest group of people receiving public assistance. Less than 5 million of the 14 million public assistance recipients are adults, and 90 percent of those adults are women (U.S. Bureau of Census, 1995). The majority of the recipients are White (38 percent), followed by 37 percent African Americans, and 25 percent other minority groups (Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans) (McLaughlin, 1997). However, African Americans are disproportionately represented on public assistance because they are only 12 percent of the population (O&amp;#39;Hare, Pollard, Mann, &amp;amp; Kent, 1991).&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;now, what was all that about republicans being the largest group of people receiving public assistance?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269839.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:30:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:269839</guid><dc:creator>crazycajun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269839.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=269839</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;let&amp;#39;s look at some statistics of some countries that provide MORE welfare than we do.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;yes, these are EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, and thus are revered by the left.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;denmark taxes it&amp;#39;s citizens 50.4% of it&amp;#39;s gross domestic product to cover it&amp;#39;s welfare tab.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;sweden taxes it&amp;#39;s citizens 50.2% of it&amp;#39;s gross domestic product to cover it&amp;#39;s welfare tab.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;is this the kind of taxation we can look forward to?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269838.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:20:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:269838</guid><dc:creator>crazycajun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269838.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=269838</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;by the way...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;there is no u.s. office of economic statistics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;statistics are compiled by many sources. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269837.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 08:12:38 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:269837</guid><dc:creator>crazycajun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269837.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=269837</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;i note with pleasure that president elect obama has taken the same route to the white house that president lincoln did.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i also note with pleasure that a democrat holds a republican in highest regard.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269726.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:55:43 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:269726</guid><dc:creator>crazycajun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269726.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=269726</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;the question was WOULD YOU CONSIDER MICHIGAN A RED STATE OR A BLUE STATE?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the premise that michigan has a democrat in the mansion is well known, so it should not have to be verified.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the premises stated afterward are easy to verify, and well known to those who keep up with current events.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;so, where is the answer to the question?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;it is rude to be asked your opinion and not to get it. i have given you mine gladly every time it has been asked for, and several times when it has not.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;when i was younger, and someone used a word i didn&amp;#39;t know the meaning of, i LOOKED IT UP. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;when i was younger, and someone quoted a fact that i wasn&amp;#39;t sure was the truth, I LOOKED IT UP.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;the reason i did this was to get MY OWN IDEAS, not the ideas that the speaker or writer was trying to get me to believe. in other words, i wanted THE TRUTH.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;YOU have been given the truth, yet you do not absorb it. you REFUSE TO TAKE IT IN. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SUCH STUBBORNNESS is why no one believes you anymore. therefore, we must believe that NOTHING you say is the truth. as you refuse to absorb the truth as you have been presented it. nor have you come back with any facts and truth yourself. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;spouting angry rhetoric and name calling has won you no friends on this site, neither has threatening others. both are tactics&amp;nbsp;usually reserved for union bosses, &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;now, if you through pouting, and have not been asked not to post here again, please post your answers.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269721.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:21:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:269721</guid><dc:creator>crazycajun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269721.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=269721</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;tell us, TRUE/FALSE...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;why do we suddenly only hear from your alter-ego? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;;you couldn&amp;#39;t have given up on your principles so easily? or could you?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;i suppose the shock of having someone actually stand up to your ascerbic wit IS a bit of a unusual occurrence, but stranger things have been known to happen.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;you once accused me of cowardice, but i think it is you who is a coward, afraid of standing up to your own beliefs, as misguided as they are, and convincing others of the rightness of them. you instead, rely on bluster and threat, namecalling and abuse to get your points made.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;those points are meaningless, if they don&amp;#39;t persuade others that you are right.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;so far, even your alter-ego refuses to mention you.&amp;nbsp; oh the shame of it....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269715.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:06:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:269715</guid><dc:creator>crazycajun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269715.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=269715</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;you know, TRUE/FALSE&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if you are SO WORRIED about how many people are on welfare, why do you support EVEN HAVING WELFARE IN THE FIRST PLACE?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;karl marx wouldn&amp;#39;t allow welfare, he said everyone must work. that&amp;#39;s why he called communism the &amp;#39;WORKER&amp;#39;S PARTY&amp;#39;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;chairman mao wouldn&amp;#39;t allow welfare either... he just shot all the people who wouldn&amp;#39;t work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;even the castro brothers won&amp;#39;t allow welfare. before you can take advantage of the &amp;#39;WONDERFUL HEALTH CARE SYSTEM&amp;#39; they have down in cuba, you have to be not only a PRODUCTIVE WORKER, but a member of the communist party. that keeps all the riff-raff from central america out of cuban hospitals. (don&amp;#39;t think they don&amp;#39;t try).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269685.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:14:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:269685</guid><dc:creator>crazycajun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269685.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=269685</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;congratulations, our great and wonderful dumbocrat governor has lead us to being NUMBER ONE...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;IN UNEMPLOYMENT. WE HAVE MORE UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE HERE THAN ANY OTHER STATE IN THE UNION, AND IT&amp;#39;S GETTING WORSE EACH DAY. WAIT TILL THE BIG THREE SHUT DOWN.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269680.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:24:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:269680</guid><dc:creator>crazycajun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269680.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=269680</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;hey TRUE/FALSE...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;NOW i understand why you won&amp;#39;t move to canada.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;they just LOWERED THEIR WELFARE RATE to get the MOOCHES OFF.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;HMMMM... a SOCIALIST COUNTRY LOWERING THE WELFARE RATE... which means NO UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE FOR MOOCHES.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;no wonder you don&amp;#39;t dance across the bridge yelling &amp;#39;ZIPPITY DOO DAH&amp;#39;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269679.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:20:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:269679</guid><dc:creator>crazycajun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269679.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=269679</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;hey stingray.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;you may not have noticed, but the guy who started this thread, TRUEBLUE has given it up as a bad job. he has found that once a few people have pummeled him with facts, as you have, that it&amp;#39;s not so pleasant posting liberal drivel. so he has stopped and ran away.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;but keep up the good work.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269678.aspx</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:01:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:269678</guid><dc:creator>crazycajun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269678.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=269678</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;dear keith...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;you may not realize it, but TRUEBLUE is an admitted socialist. he just VOTES REPUBLICAN.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269677.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:26:07 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:269677</guid><dc:creator>KeithAlmli</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269677.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=269677</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;You may want to read up on who recieved assistance. At minimum 60% of Democrats recieve any type of help. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You may also want to reverb your thinking - Democrats=socialism&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Re: Biggest recipients of assistance are republicans.  Why do they vote AGAINST themselves??</title><link>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269645.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:41:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">85480579-cbb1-4596-8e66-ca77d6981342:269645</guid><dc:creator>crazycajun</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/269645.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.michiganvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=22&amp;PostID=269645</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;why are you worried who recieves the most public assistance?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;don&amp;#39;t socialists want EVERYBODY to be on the public dole?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;boy, you sure are one CONFUSED&amp;nbsp; socialist/republican...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ornery too... that must come from looking at that hairdo every morning. really... hair club for men... really...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>