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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
It's Ron Paul. He doesn't have to be complaining about anything specific, he could just be complaining in general :P
Jokes aside, freely-contracted prostitution involving consenting adults is a victimless crime, and since Ron Paul's a libertarian, he's generally against criminalizing that kind of thing on a state level either.
edited 24th Nov '12 11:53:12 AM by Ramidel
House Republicans plan vote on expanding visas
It bothers me more that they might win any significant Hispanic support at all purely due to transparently self-serving legislative tactics.
Then again, if we're getting them to stop obstructing and start support sensible policies, it's a win in at least those specific areas no matter the reason for 'em doing it.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.The democrats shot down this same bill back in September, minus the family green card addition that has been added to sweeten the pot this time around.
EDIT: Here
is the vote tally. It got a large majority with almost all the republicans and 30 democrats voting yea, but due to some procedural quirk it needed a 2/3 majority to pass and thus was defeated by the remaining democrats.
edited 24th Nov '12 1:57:40 PM by EdwardsGrizzly
<><Hm, that link appears to be severely misleading. Apparently what the Republicans are in favor of isn't 'expansion,' it's shuffling the types of immigrants around so the numbers stay the same overall but the ones we get are more educated. And that's at BEST, discounting the details that would apparently shrink overall numbers, not increase them.
Yeah, don't blame the Democrats if they shoot that down. There's a difference between reform and playing musical chairs.
Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.@Karkadinn: I figured that out, and edited my post accordingly. I'll move it down here:
That's definitely a good thing, but I'm unsure about the first part. On the one hand, it certainly seems that someone who has already lived here for years and earned a degree in a valuable field from an American university is a better person to admit than a randomly selected person from a country where few people even want to come here.
On the other hand, without the lottery there may be some countries from which no people will immigrate here at all, which seems sad.
Grover Norquist is angry that Georgian Senator Saxby Chambliss is breaking his pledge.
THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA DIDN'T WRITE THAT PLEDGE YOU WHINING ASSHAT.
Share it so that people can get into this conversation, 'cause we're not the only ones who think like this.As a Georgia voter, I am very much behind Mister Chamblis on this.
Of course, I'm from Atlanta so not exactly representative of the state.
"The marvel is not that the Bear posts well, but that the Bear posts at all."I saw it on I think it was MSNBC a day or three ago.
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At this point we should just reduce it as much as possible through tax increases on the wealthy and a lowered military budget and leave it at that. We can't afford to cut social programs when so many people still rely on them. When the economy improves fewer people will rely on them and they can be cut without causing too much harm. We can also tax more people because this means more individuals have jobs which will boost revenue and allow us to eliminate the deficit entirely. Honestly the deficit and debt are problems but they're ten+ year problems and can be averted by the next administration. The fiscal cliff and its cuts will cause harm this year.
edited 24th Nov '12 6:19:36 AM by Kostya