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1. #1
   On August 14th, 2011 at 12:01 pm, peteee said:

   i don’t understand wealth redistribution? we give poor folks money, which they blow on booze, smokes, lottery tix, and horizontal fun. how exactly does this help the nation?

2. #2
   On August 14th, 2011 at 12:04 pm, Doug Powers said:

   On August 14th, 2011 at 12:01 pm, peteee said:

   i don’t understand wealth redistribution? we give poor folks money, which they blow on booze, smokes, lottery tix, and horizontal fun. how exactly does this help the nation?

   Exactly. Everybody knows the best way to stimulate the economy and create jobs for the poor is with unemployment checks!

3. #3
   On August 14th, 2011 at 12:18 pm, Zelsdorf Ragshaft III said:

   It is unlawful for the poor to steal money from those who have it, so Democrats by votes by doing the job for them. There is an old saying that goes something like “give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for life”. Theft is illegal no matter who does it. Scumbag democrats are too willing to steal from Peter to give to Paul. Peter will move and Paul becomes a cripple.

4. #4
   On August 14th, 2011 at 12:18 pm, letget said:

   I’m with you Doug, this committee is going to be amoung the biggest joke ever hatched in dc! You can just bet the r’s will cave somehow, they always do to the d’s! This taking from the rich and giving to the poor will make unemployment worse. No business is going to hire with this threat hanging over them. If could help get a r elected if bho is going to be running on his ‘single focus’ jobs and there are none!
   L

5. #5
   On August 14th, 2011 at 12:23 pm, GrnHornet said:

   The straw poll shows that Gingrich isn’t a conservative pick but he is dead on in that this super committee is the worst idea of the century. We the people need to up the pressure on Washington and let them know this is unacceptable!

6. #6
   On August 14th, 2011 at 12:23 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

   Failure is built in to this committee. It is just a way to cement the meme that Republicans won’t compromise so long as they are under the control of a small group of Tea Party radicals. This is a bipartisan script that “both” parties have signed off on.

   Don’t be surprised though if non-budgetary recommendations come out of this commissariat, like gun control, amnesty, and other issues that cannot survive the “messiness” of the democratic process.

   Here is where we stand with our entrenched criminal of elected weasels. We know they are lying. They know we know that they are lying. But instead of telling the truth, they become even more strident in insisting that they are lying to us for our own good and we should just “shut up and eat your peas”.

   By creating this commissariat, all they did was compartmentalize the mess and export it somewhere else so they can focus on other things, like not repealing ObamaCare.

7. #7
   On August 14th, 2011 at 12:24 pm, sidewinder said:

   Wealth distribution should start with the libs and rinos who demand it. How much can be coughed up by eliminating their perks, cut their budgets and staff by, at least, half. How about cutting their own salaries too? And I think I’m being generous in only cutting by half. How much time do they really work? From what I see, not much, by their results.

8. #8
   On August 14th, 2011 at 12:26 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

   On August 14th, 2011 at 12:04 pm, Doug Powers said:

   Exactly. Everybody knows the best way to stimulate the economy and create jobs for the poor is with unemployment checks!

   How else are they expected to hire people and reduce unemployment? After all, and I’m sure Pelosi and Carney will back me up on this, everyone knows that if you need a job, ask a poor person to hire you.

9. #9
   On August 14th, 2011 at 12:28 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

   This may sound like it has nothing to do with spending but someone should propose a constitutional amendment outlawing the practice of exempting the government from the laws they pass and apply to us. It is the foundation of “us vs them” and makes it too easy for them vote in support of an endless diet of crap sandwiches.

10. #10
    On August 14th, 2011 at 12:48 pm, Stephen Macklin said:

    By definition, every tine freedom compromises with socialism, freedom loses.

    I’m getting very tired of the came old crap from go a long to get along to grow the government politicians.

    The debate should not be about how fast or slow the government should be growing but about how fast or slow it should be shrinking. And the answer should be “very fast.”

11. #11
    On August 14th, 2011 at 12:49 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Mr. Hand: What are you kids, on dope?!

12. #12
    On August 14th, 2011 at 12:50 pm, sbw999 said:

    Most of our nation’s “poor” have air conditioning, televisions, cell phones, and cars. This is a capitalistic society Clyburn. The wealth gap exists because, by and large, people are different with different abilities, drives, and motivations. Idiot.

13. #13
    On August 14th, 2011 at 12:52 pm, tiredofit2012 said:

    Well at least he is being somewhat honest about what his intentions are…did we expect any less from this progressive libtard…nope

14. #14
    On August 14th, 2011 at 12:56 pm, rightisright said:

    Mitch McConnell has said Republicans on the Committee should be open to compromise.

    What wimp this McConnell is, we can thank this RINO along with tear-baby Boehner for this BS.

    I hear there is poor leadership on the part of the Repukians. That’s not even close to what we have, we have none!

    States need to implement recall laws for senators. These people elected to the senate are safe for at least 6 years to do as they please and to hell with the constituents.

15. #15
    On August 14th, 2011 at 1:11 pm, puhiawa said:

    I think it clear that Obama’s entire political goal was redistribution. He and his cronies had some bizarre idea that they could empty the public treasury into the hands of their Democratic constituents and bankrupt what they perceived as Republican constituents at the same time. A typical Chicago spoils system. Creating a permanent dynasty as we have seen in cities throughout America. The fact that these cities are cesspits of corruption, inefficiency, crime, and ignorance seemed a small price to for Obama. Those problems are caused by white people who need to pay. And thus Clyburn’s delirium.

16. #16
    On August 14th, 2011 at 1:28 pm, yaymm said:

    As I said at the time this “agreement” was hatched, this commission is designed to fail. It will provide cover for all the Congress critters who are not on the commission and the President.

    When it fails, as it surely must, they will all say, “well, we tried, but they just couldn’t get it done” before the penalties kick in. Then either the penalties will go in effect, or the Congress will have to alter the original legislation that was passed.

    If either side gives in on this commission, it will represent total defeat. That’s why we have gridlock in our Congress. The only cure is taking over the Congress and the White House in 2012.

17. #17
    On August 14th, 2011 at 1:37 pm, rplat said:

    The Democrats on this “committee” want only one thing . . . to take your money and give it to their parasitic constituents and get themselves reelected. This is the most disgusting, phony pile of rancid goat dung ever derived by man.

18. #18
    On August 14th, 2011 at 1:40 pm, prendad said:

    BRILLIANT DECISION-MAKING!
    The problem we have is ever-more-powerful government. So, to remedy that, create a hybrid, bastardized super-powerful “super-committee” that will short circuit all the powers of Congress into 12 people (hand-picked by their peers who currently have an approval rating of 14%) giving them enormous, new, monarchy-like, concentrated powers to screw up 100% of America forever.
    T. S. Eliot you were right. This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang but a whimper. …

    Let’s see now, where is my suitcase and my secret map of isolated, un-discovered, un-government-polluted islands?

19. #19
    On August 14th, 2011 at 1:55 pm, letget said:

    On August 14th, 2011 at 1:40 pm, prendad said:
    Let’s see now, where is my suitcase and my secret map of isolated, un-discovered, un-government-polluted islands?

    If you find this would please share where it is? I promise I will be a good neighbor!
    L

20. #20
    On August 14th, 2011 at 2:02 pm, rocketman said:

    ***
    HI PUHIAWA–#15. You got that right, Pilgrim! The Congressional (communist) Black Caucus is a racist anti-American group that went to Cuba and supported Fidel and Raul Castro’s evil government against the Cuban People. They like their style–and want to bring the same benefits to the “proles” in this country. By killing the middle class and business class and making them poorer–which will close the “gap” with the poor! It worked out so well in Cuba, Venezuela, the U.S.S.R, and in Zimbabwe.
    ***
    The built in failure of the “Super” (worthless) Committee isn’t a bug–it’s a feature. If the RINOs cave–the socialist partizans and Comrade Obama win. If they don’t cave–the deadlock allows the gutting of the U.S. Military and other conservative favored “budgeted” spending.
    ***
    A win-win for the marxists and the Good Comrade and his Ilk. While giving Him a blank check for spending now that will never be recouped by nonexistent future spending cuts.
    ***
    Come on Nov. 2012–the U.S.A.’s last chance.
    ***
    John Bibb
    ***

21. #21
    On August 14th, 2011 at 2:02 pm, TigerLady said:

    rplat said:
    The Democrats on this “committee” want only one thing . . . to take your money and give it to their parasitic constituents and get themselves reelected. This is the most disgusting, phony pile of rancid goat dung ever derived by man.

    Well said and exactly on target. It’s not about poor people, it’s about votes and control.

22. #22
    On August 14th, 2011 at 2:14 pm, rambler said:

    So the person who thinks islands tip over gets a seat on a super committee. Brains are really working over time in DC.
    The point of redistributing anything is to destroy wealth and the incentive for creating it. One might as well burn it in the street instead of sending it down the poverty rat hole. “Big gov produces small people”, (M. Steyn). Income redistribution is just another drug for the population. If it were the way to prosperity, then Soros would be gaining power by handing out his money instead of sucking it out of every household’s earnings and investments. The biggest money thieves are the same ones who propose that the rest of us aren’t doing our fair share. It is kind of difficult to do anything when the DC money grubbers keep stealing money for social programs which only work to kill the country. This new committee’s mandate is to pillage the remaining wealth in the country. Soros’s hand in the stock market volatility will destroy all retirement plans and corporate holdings.

    Robert Heinlein said, ” Thought history, poverty is the normal condition on man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded – here and there, now and then – are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or as sometimes happens, driven out of a society, the people slip back into abject poverty.”

    The Soros funding of the DC crap has crushed the creativity of this country. It is time to return the favor.

23. #23
    On August 14th, 2011 at 2:15 pm, JHSII said:

    Given that the committee was designed to fail in the first place, it is not super-powerful nor all-powerful. Remember what gets cut if the committee fails. The military. That was the intent in the first place. The democrats got what they wanted while the republicans caved.

    Tea Party takeover in 2012!!

24. #24
    On August 14th, 2011 at 2:21 pm, RedDog said:

    Clyburn – the third-ranking House Democrat and a member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) – is vowing to use his perch on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to tackle the nation’s enormous wealth gap.

    Mr. Clyburn: You do realize that you don’t actually have to steal other peoples’ money to make a decent living. Here’s an idea. Maybe if you get your constituents on board with the idea that they can actually WORK a job (applying oneself to gainful productive employment?) to bring in income thereby making a better life for themselves and their families. Have you tried that angle in life? Ring any bells? Bueller?

    Restrict the federal government to 15% of GDP permanently. Cut, Cap, Balance. Keep in mind that 15% is just the feds piece of the vig. Just say no to tyranny baby.

25. #25
    On August 14th, 2011 at 2:23 pm, ChapBix said:

    #7. On August 14th, 2011 at 12:24 pm, sidewinder said:

    I’m totally with you on this and have been saying it here, on Face Book and among people I meet on a daily basis. When we show up to start taking their wealth (100%) first, wonder if they will begin to shut up about wealth re-distribution?

26. #26
    On August 14th, 2011 at 2:26 pm, ChapBix said:

    #8. On August 14th, 2011 at 12:26 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Perhaps it could be said that poor people hired Barry and his merry band of Democrat Libtards, albeit with other people’s money.

27. #27
    On August 14th, 2011 at 2:34 pm, RedDog said:

    If anyone needs “reeducation” it’s these little neo Marxist highwaymen. They are completely wedded to the notion that all the people and businesses that make up the national economy exist to provide for them. Grifters: Redistribute yourselves to thinking about actually working for a living.

    The Working American works to support his own family, not idle jackasses and entitlement thugs. If you don’t work you don’t eat. Sorry. The truly needy are an entirely different matter.

    Conservatives need to do a judo move and feed the class warfare meme right back to them. Americans won’t tolerate politicians stealing property. Most of the government taxing schemes are theft by redistribution and it must end. It is twice the size it needs to be.

    At the very least an attitude adjustment is coming to these people, and not just via the 2012 election.

28. #28
    On August 14th, 2011 at 2:41 pm, thejim said:

    We must remind our fellow Conservative voters just who gave us this super-group-of-elitist, and we can begin the list with Boehner, Cantor, McConnell, and every Republican and Democrat that moved it forward &/or voted for it on the floor. They all have to go if our country is to survive.

29. #29
    On August 14th, 2011 at 3:09 pm, stuckinIL4now said:

    Hey Rep. Clyburn–what a great opportunity WASTED appointing you to this, or any other, committee. Then again what better committee to appoint losers than to a loser committee.

30. #30
    On August 14th, 2011 at 3:16 pm, passingruffian said:

    Clyburn puts the “super” in super committee, doesn’t he??

31. #31
    On August 14th, 2011 at 3:38 pm, yaymm said:

    How many of the people on this committee/commission are bullet proof? I suspect all of them are either retiring by the end of 2012, or represent districts that are so safe they don’t have to worry about local (constiuent) public opinion. They are nothing more than a “cutout” for the Congress and President. The “agreement” for this legislation was nothing but a Kubuki Dance to continue politics as usual.

32. #32
    On August 14th, 2011 at 4:28 pm, Cybergeezer said:

    Any one of their meetings can be a buffet and photo op, and be called
    The Last Supper of Pharaoh Obama.

33. #33
    On August 14th, 2011 at 4:41 pm, Straight_Talk_Luigi said:

    How’s that made-up position going for you, Rep. Clyburn?

    You gotta love how the MSM calls this guy the “No. 3″ Democrat in the House.

    (laughs)

    And they say Lebron James was a slave?

34. #34
    On August 14th, 2011 at 4:52 pm, z_montana said:

    On August 14th, 2011 at 4:28 pm, Cybergeezer said:

    Any one of their meetings can be a buffet and photo op, and be called
    The Last Supper of Pharaoh Usurper Obama.

    Now we can have the Usurper Supper Committee.

35. #35
    On August 14th, 2011 at 4:58 pm, paulie said:

    How is it that a country that is supposed to believe in equality has a congressional black caucus? Where’s the Asian caucus, the whitey caucus, or especially for Debbe Blabbermouth Schultz the ugly poodle caucus?

36. #36
    On August 14th, 2011 at 6:03 pm, prendad said:

    rplat said:
    The Democrats on this “committee” want only one thing . . . to take your money and give it to their parasitic constituents and get themselves reelected. This is the most disgusting, phony pile of rancid goat dung ever derived by man

    Well said, and click below to see how the rancid goat dung pile just keeps on growing:

    http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/12/democratic-hill-staffers-head-to-maui-on-taxpayers-dime-for-senate-indian-affairs-committee-field-hearing/

37. #37
    On August 14th, 2011 at 7:36 pm, bodfish said:

    Aww, gee. C’mon. I think we here are a tad too unforgiving and perfectionist. — especially of Republican House leadership.

    This “Committee” of 12 is non-Constitutional, has no underlying law of authority… and will come out in the wash as a big talk factory. A chance to win a few cheap points, especially to fog up the horrible performance by Dems in Congress and certainly by Nobama. A smokescreen, purely.

    Oh ye of short memories, Boehner actually is a Conservative. He cried the night he became Speaker? Sure, and are there men who cry at funerals and weddings? I remember practicing my Father-of-the-Bride Speech/Toast for the mirror and cried every time. I held it together at the actual reception, just. Boehner tried to mention his late father — who never saw his son from such humble beginnings reach the peak of his career as a legislator. Maybe he wears his emotions on his sleeve. And so? That make him less of a man or as a legislator?

    He is a sinner– smokes too much and actually plays golf, bet he doesn’t cheat like Slick Willy did.

    Well, he was one of 11 kids who had to work as a kid and took 7 years to get his B.A. (in business Admin.) because he had to work to afford tuition. First ever in his family to go to college. He is 61 and I don’t know him or have anything to do with Ohio or him. He married just once at 24, still is — same woman, they have two daughters. He worked for a small business (plastic packaging) and worked his way up to be its president. He ran for Congress in 1990. Oh, and I see in Wickipedia he was a high school linebacker for coach Gerry Faust who later was Notre Dame’s head coach.

    Liberal? I think not. Remember if you are old enough the Gang of Seven in 1991, just before the first Republican Revolution. Bomb throwers like the young Gingrich (not him now). They shamed the House with the House Bank Scandal exposed; House Restaurant; especially House Post Office scandal. Toppled a Dem. Speaker — Tom Foley defeated by Republicans in his home district. Boehner was a top lieutenant to the New Repub. House — entered leadership.

    Led the Federal Marriage Act, opposed ANY special rights for homosexuals, incl. military. Pro business and small business voting record. Member of Select Intelligence Com. — strong record on Nat. Security.

    _Never_ attached any Earmarks for his own district in Ohio. Not associated with pork projects. Recently led the fight against cap and trade, and for the group of things to balance the budget. His House passed a strong budget, first such bill in the House or Senate for years… and it sits there still on a Senate shelf… not the fault of Republican leadership. That’s really the only bill they needed to pass. It is perhaps naive to think the House could do much more, substantively. Are they sometimes snookered on small political issues/ Sure. As the old adage goes: Politics ain’t beanbag. A majority of one House; lacking the Senate and the Presidency, and many judges, and most Press … I think Boehner and gang have done pretty well, and most are actual conservatives. Maybe not perfect to some standards, but this is a long dance, and the dance with the Dems must continue for about 16 more months. I really do not think over-the-top criticism of what few leaders we do have will help defeat the Socialism of Obama. Ben Franklin: “A Republic if you can keep it!” THAT is the big prize, not some talky-talky committee. They threaten to cut the military budget, the opposition threatens. But fortunately the budget arises in the House. Talky-talk. Just as I did when SanFRanNAN lost her gavel, there will be a bottle of the best single malt, my favorite anyway, opened for toasts no matter the hour when BHO, ummm, ummm, ummm is defeated in the Electoral College. Eyes on the prize. Obamanure and his misguided minions have their gaze focused. I vote, and I’ll vote against Obama and for the Republic.

38. #38
    On August 14th, 2011 at 7:41 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    RedDog said:
    Mr. Clyburn: You do realize that you don’t actually have to steal other peoples’ money to make a decent living. Here’s an idea. Maybe if you get your constituents on board with the idea that they can actually WORK a job (applying oneself to gainful productive employment?) to bring in income thereby making a better life for themselves and their families. Have you tried that angle in life? Ring any bells? Bueller?

    Hey, here’s the stretch on your good idea, RedDog – get these deadbeats to work in NON-Government jobs, which are, by definition, not gainful productive employment.

39. #39
    On August 14th, 2011 at 8:56 pm, RedDog said:

    On August 14th, 2011 at 7:41 pm, babiesgrandma said:

    … get these deadbeats to work in NON-Government jobs, which are, by definition, not gainful productive employment.

    Government should only be as large as necessary to provide for the most basic requirements of commerce and the general economy. The Framers designed it to only be a basic support infrastructure for the benefit of the People.

    Remember the Terminator movie? The federal government has become Skynet – a self aware, self- actualizing entity with Marxian The Democrats at its center. Democrats have successfully co-opted a service organization created to serve the People (by using Taxpayer monies to buy political allies), into an instrument of war against them. And it is virtually immune to opposition right now – especially with MSM propaganda cover. Clever and immoral.

40. #40
    On August 14th, 2011 at 9:02 pm, RedDog said:

    Once the FDR Marxists figured out that there were ungodly mountains of money resident in the Middle Class they ginned up the Class Warfare strategy and it has been “Katie bar the door!” ever since.

    The alarm must be sounded loud, clear, and constantly to the American People. Give the Marxists no rest until we completely destroy their ability to wage war on America.

41. #41
    On August 14th, 2011 at 9:04 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

    Super Committee member and Tea Party conservative Pat Toomey opines that the committee is doomed.

42. #42
    On August 15th, 2011 at 9:53 am, Rjulio said:

    And what, exactly, does this moronic boob know about anything other than stealing from the rich? This is a true example of a plantation black man. Do the owners’ dirty work for them. In the end all them will fail.

43. #43
    On August 15th, 2011 at 11:37 pm, NJ-Aviator said:

    A better suggestion and goal for the dems would be to close the laziness gap.

    The people earning that “wealth” have to work for it. Maybe the Dems can figure out a way to motivate the portion of those low income people who are low income because they couldn’t be bothered to put forth an effort to be responsible for their own financial situation.