The Disappearing Recovery

[Jagger69]

Rick Perry/Michele Bachmann in 2012!!!

Happy Days Are Here Again!!!! :nanner:

Quick sidebar....this is the type of pretzel logic leadership you can expect from a Perry administration:

Texting plan vetoed in Texas

Texas Gov. Rick Perry killed legislation Friday that would have banned texting while driving in Texas.

Perry cited “the overreach of House Bill 242″ and called it a “government effort to micromanage the behavior of adults.”

Texas already bans texting by teens. The bill would have extended that ban to all drivers. The veto means distracted driving legislation succeeded in 2011, although there were at least a dozen bills seeking to toughen the existing laws. There are numerous local laws against text messaging while in city limits.

The Republican governor suggested that backers of distracted driving legislation divert their efforts toward education.

“The keys to dissuading drivers of all ages from texting while driving are information and education,” Perry said in his veto statement. “I recommend additional education on this issue in driving safety and driver’s education courses, public service ads.”

The planned “intrusion into Texans’ lives,” as the governor put it, started life as a bill regarding the right to carry sidearms by retired law officers. The author was Rep. Tom Craddick, whose rejected distracted driving legislation HB 243 sought to ban text messaging while driving. The amendment to the firearms bill was sponsored by state Sen. Judith Zaffirini. It essentially revived her texting bill SB 46.

The Senate (28-3) and House (80-61) approved the amended HB 242 with relative ease, in votes taken May 29.

The amended bill would have prohibited a driver from reading, writing or sending a text-based communication while operating a motor vehicle, unless the vehicle is stopped. Opponents said drivers would be penalized for simply receiving a text message while behind the wheel.

“Texting while driving is reckless and irresponsible,” Perry said late Friday. “I support measures that make our roads safer for everyone, but House Bill 242 is a government effort to micromanage the behavior of adults.

“Current law already prohibits drivers under the age of 18 from texting or using a cell phone while driving. I believe there is a distinction between the overreach of House Bill 242 and the government’s legitimate role in establishing laws for teenage drivers who are more easily distracted and laws providing further protection to children in school zones.”

The governor wasn’t singling out distracted driving legislation for a veto. He killed another 22 bills Friday, with a personal best (or worst) of 83 bills vetoed in 2000, a record for Texas.

By this line of thinking, why can't I drive drunk then?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/31545004/Texting_And_Driving_Worse_Than_Drinking_and_Driving

:dunno: Also. where is the scientific documentation that proves that teenagers are more easily distracted while texting and driving than adults are?

The guy is scary....:surprise:

Ok....sorry don't mean to hijack the thread. :2offtopic

 

[Hot Mega]

Quick sidebar....this is the type of pretzel logic leadership you can expect from a Perry administration:

The guy is scary....:surprise:

Ok....sorry don't mean to hijack the thread. :2offtopic

Reflects two, simple realities:dunno:;

1. Texas has a budget surplus.

2. Gov. Perry likes to text while he drives. :1orglaugh

 

[georges]

obama fixing the economy? You gotta be kidding:sarcasm::stir::error:
Unemployment higher than before, social security and free healthcare for leechers as well as a huge debt. I knew since the very beginning, since he was elected that he would fail. If you had enough sense of analysis, you should have seen what he did for the state of illinois that in fact he did nothing positive at all. When people make decisions based on marketing, they vote for irresponsible and idiotic candidates.

 

[Hot Mega]

obama fixing the economy? You gotta be kidding:sarcasm::stir::error:
Unemployment higher than before, social security and free healthcare for leechers as well as a huge debt. I knew since the very beginning, since he was elected that he would fail. If you had enough sense of analysis, you should have seen what he did for the state of illinois that in fact he did nothing positive at all. When people make decisions based on marketing, they vote for irresponsible and idiotic candidates.

:error::error::error:

You forgot:rant:

 

[Rey C.]

:georges:



But anyway... yeah, what we don't need is a President who gives blanket amnesty to illegal aliens, has the government take ownership of a failing bank and then pretend that it didn't, requires hospitals to give free treatment to any criminal or illegal alien who stumbles through the ER door, who signs away our gun rights with the swipe of a pen and who takes us from being the biggest net creditor nation in history to the biggest net debtor nation in history. What we need is another "good, Christian conservative" President... like Ronald Reagan! :sarcasm:

I find that it's more fun to throw darts when they're covered in facts, rather than made up stuff... but that's just
me. :dunno:

 

[Straight Shooter]

obama fixing the economy? You gotta be kidding:sarcasm::stir::error:
Unemployment higher than before, social security and free healthcare for leechers as well as a huge debt. I knew since the very beginning, since he was elected that he would fail. If you had enough sense of analysis, you should have seen what he did for the state of illinois that in fact he did nothing positive at all. When people make decisions based on marketing, they vote for irresponsible and idiotic candidates.

I live in Illinois and he didn't ruin our state. What the hell do you know anyway, you live in Europe

 

[Hot Mega]

:georges:



But anyway... yeah, what we don't need is a President who gives blanket amnesty to illegal aliens, has the government take ownership of a failing bank and then pretend that it didn't, requires hospitals to give free treatment to any criminal or illegal alien who stumbles through the ER door, who signs away our gun rights with the swipe of a pen and who takes us from being the biggest net creditor nation in history to the biggest net debtor nation in history. What we need is another "good, Christian conservative" President... like Ronald Reagan! :sarcasm:

I find that it's more fun to throw darts when they're covered in facts, rather than made up stuff... but that's just
me. :dunno:

I find it more fun to throw rep to deserving posts when I haven't been whoring it around.

 

[Straight Shooter]

So your answer to this mess and Obama's is just to print more money the U. S. doesn't have? Real economic recovery will begin when Obama goes.

You make no sense at all. This whole debt ceiling thing has to do with paying our bills. These are things that we already bought and we now have to pay for it. It isn't new spending.

 

[Trident1]

So your answer to this mess and Obama's is just to print more money the U. S. doesn't have? Real economic recovery will begin when Obama goes.

Icecold wants to devalue our currency apparently.

 

[titsrock]

I seem to remember most Liberals thought the stimulus was too small and would do nothing other than keep the sinking ship afloat. It appears they were right. That's all that's happened. If we actually instituted an Obama stimulus it would've been more. Then we could've seen who was actually right and who was wrong. :dunno:

I really wish all politicians except Obama would stop referring to "the American people" or saying "the American people want this" because they don't represent the American people at all. Politicians represent their constituents. Only the president has the support of the American people because it is only that office for which all Americans cast a vote for. I didn't vote for 98 other senators or 450+ other congresspersons. Therefore, shut up about "the American people" and be honest about representing the interests only of your constituents.

How many congresspersons have actually created jobs, btw? Why do the GOP cry and plead for "small businesses" when they don't act on behalf of them ever? Unless by small business you actually mean large, offshoring multinational....

Jagz was right back on page 1 of this mess of a thread. The Gov't that the wig wearers and musket totters created 200+ years ago is an outdated relic today. It was meant to be for a colonial territory of 500,000 not the 350million + nation we are today.

We were actually fucked when the GOP greenlighted tax cuts during war time. That was what fucked us. And the bitterest thing is that both wars were such appallingly awful mistakes greenlighted by the GOP congress at the time....So much big government bullshit came out of a result of faulty GOP panic --the tax cuts, the Patriot Act, the DHS..etc..

Obama should say "Hi Tea Baggers, here's where we agree--I've written legislation to dismantle DHS and the Patriot Act and you being the astute 'personal freedom lovers' that you are will be the first to support me, right?" -- I'm guessing that issue would drive a nice wedge between the Tea Baggers and the GOP Corporate Baggers and might actually hand the Dems a nice little victory...and knowing clueless Obama he won't do anything as such...:weeping: