Comments on: I Would Vote for Gov Romney if He Was a Democrat

By: elsaofis.com

elsaofis.com — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 00:36:03 +0000

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By: shneur pershin (@shneurpershin)

shneur pershin (@shneurpershin) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 23:08:44 +0000

mark as u say many times on shark tank when u try to take your business nation wide it fails miserably. the same thing works with romneycare its like the post office at a state level it would work but on a national level you know fair well it would fail its too big. if they would try with state by state maybe you have a chance. for example food stamps i have many friends that are on food stamps with illegal papers i.e. they are not eligible. how do they get away with it? because its too much for the government too handle especially when they cant fire workers who don’t produce like you would in a second if it ruins the profits.

so when it comes too health care it would fail because its not a possible feat to accomplish thats what romney was saying (and you see this with every stimulus program including the bailout of the auto companies ford is the only profitable company out of all fiat is moving back to Italy and Chrystaler sells 75 percent of their cars too governmant not a good sales team at all

By: Cary J Calderone Esq (@LegalCary)

Cary J Calderone Esq (@LegalCary) — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:02:24 +0000

Typo report or, maybe a lapse in thought process. In this article you claim you would never make an investment decision based on tax rates. Two post ago you wrote: “I would change to zero the taxes on any gains from the sale of stock or bonds purchased during an IPO and held for 5 or more years. All dividends/interest paid by that stock/bond would be tax free. If you sell it prior to the 5 years, you are taxed at your personal regular income tax rate.”

Why drop the rate for those holding 5 years then?

BTW-if you don’t think tax rates can effect investment and GDP-look at the UK when their highest rates were similar to the new French rates of 75%,,,,

By: Tim Shepley

Tim Shepley — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:26:19 +0000

HOW DO I ANSWER HIS QUESTION
I was sitting around the house one night watching television with my 8 year old son. I just so happened that it was during the height of the campaign trail for elections, and one of several million commercials had come on the T.V. As if watching a candidate bad mouth and accuse his opponent wasn’t annoying enough, what followed stop my heart and really scared the hell out of me.
My son looked at me, mind you he was as serious as an 8 year could ever be, and asked me “Dad, I don’t understand something. If everything I hear about the people trying to get elected is true, why does anyone vote for them? All they say about each other is how many bad things they have done. Steal money, get arrested, raise taxes, make millions of dollars and not share any of it, and a lot of other things. I thought they were supposed to be there to help us and make things better. When I get older, I don’t think I want to vote for anybody.”
What do I tell an 8 year old? How do I defend what is supposed to be the greatest government in the world? As he learns in school that our government is one that is supposed to be “BY the people and for the people” all he sees is money taking, self-serving, politicians that depend more on mudslinging and name calling, then on the merits of what they accomplished. Where did the ethics go? Is it more important to us, the American people to vote for the lesser of two evils, then to vote for someone who actually is going to make a difference?
Did we collectively as a people forget exactly why over 200 year ago our forefathers left England and came to settle here on American soil? To escape oppression and unfair taxes, to live a life where each of us had a voice, and to not make the same mistakes they lived through. I hate to tell you this, we are failing.
Did we forget that “politicians” are in fact Public Service Workers? On that ask yourself, “When did any other type of public service worker (i.e. Firefighters, Police, etc.) get to vote on their own raises or benefits? Even better, when Mr. and Mrs. America lose a job they have to jump through hoops to be eligible for unemployment or public assistance, but a politician gets health care and a salary for the rest of their life, and if you are important enough, security as well. If they get elected to “help make a difference” why do we pay for all their needs, (i.e. food, travel, medical, sometimes housing) and still have to pay them a huge salary?
Did we forget the Civil War, where brothers fought brothers to stop the oppression and slavery of people simply because they were different or had no money? Did we forget a war that united the north and south as one United States, just so we could divide it on a different basis, Democrat or Republican, Upper Class, Middle Class, and Lower Class? Because if we say that all men are created equal, again we have failed.
How do we send our sons and daughters to foreign lands to fight in wars, that someone else has deemed important, even when we don’t understand what the issues they are fighting for mean? Even worse, when they get home after doing their “duty” we don’t give them the respect and admiration they deserve. We just tell them, go find a job.
Did we forget a thing called the Hippocratic Oath, where all of our injured and ill are to be cared for, not for the dollars, but because it is the humane thing to do?
Did we forget that our elderly are the reason we are even here today, or do we just push them aside like a worn out pair of tennis shoes?
Did we forget about the Equal Rights Movements that allowed us to understand, no matter what creed, color, religion, or any other difference we may have we are all still human beings? How can we tell an employer that they are not allowed to discriminate against individuals based on so many categories, but yet tell people that they are not allowed to marry whom they want to, just because they are the same gender?
Have we developed such a taste for hate, murder, and other criminal actions that we allow criminals to enjoy every luxury that a free man enjoys, even though the people they preyed upon will always carry the scars of the crimes committed against them?
I feel that the time has come for Americans to understand:
1) If only a few select are successful, we as a whole country have failed.
2) If not everyone can be made healthy, the system itself is infected.
3) If we separate ourselves on factors of money or political sides, that old saying becomes more important than ever “UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL”
4) If ignorance is so costly, why do we make it so hard to get an education?
5) If we tell one person they can’t do what they want because it conflicts with our personal beliefs, have we not just watered the seed of discrimination, allowing it to grow?
6) Most importantly, 95% of us, The American People, are allowing the remaining 5% to dictate to us and tell us how we are going to live and what we are entitled to.
From where I am standing, it looks like we have gone and become exactly what we ran away from. The few controlling the masses. The money making all the rules. The self-righteous making rules that we have to follow, but are not applicable to themselves. Taxation without representation. Throw the sick into the street and let someone else clean up the bodies. Have we become exactly what we hate?
IT’S TIME FOR A REAL CHANGE…MORE TO COME
Mark, let me know how to answer him If you come up with a good answer i will check your blog regularly to see if we can talk.

By: James Jacobs

James Jacobs — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 13:34:19 +0000

MC – Naysayers often decry attempts to form a viable 3rd party & recent history gives credence that it’s a David vs Goliath undertaking. As an admirer of your biz cred & political acumen – you’re positioned in a unique standing to make a positive change on our grid locked & counterproductive federal government. Along similar lines that engaged the Tea Party, I believe a Centrist or Moderate movement would be attractive to the majority of American voters. My view is instead of forming a 3rd party with an individual platform, you build a ‘movement’ accepting of Dems & GOP reps that campaign & adhere to compromise & productive governing. Make use of your significant like-minded influential contacts to get the steam-roller moving. Engage the masses via social media & with buy-in & support the movement will demand attention. Now utilize your broadcast influence, imagine the interest & ratings on AXS.tv with fresh new political programs that champion cooperation & condemn obstructionalist behavior of elected officials. Form a team of respected pundits who are willing to disavow their former roles as partisans & shed light on the very processes that are dominating the discourse on the partisan cable & talk show programs. Assemble a panel of experts to arbitrate contentious bills to eliminate the ploys politicians use to avoid passage. In doing so, you educate the audience & expose the politics in play. Similar to the NRA, this movement becomes an endorser of candidates & an exposer of bad politics in play. You’re already doing this with ‘Dan Rather Reports’ – this is an expansion of this idea & a critical piece to building momentum. Most importantly you employ me, a Denver based broadcast professional with tons of ideas in this area – hit me up man!

By: POTUS | The (Semi-Regular) Roaming Lama

POTUS | The (Semi-Regular) Roaming Lama — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 06:31:50 +0000

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By: squeezedwords

squeezedwords — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:29:03 +0000

i agree with voting democratic if not to clean up the lobby a bit

By: Tom Anderson (@TomTomJAnderson)

Tom Anderson (@TomTomJAnderson) — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 06:17:30 +0000

One thing I really hate about smart guys like Cuban is their blindness to the plight of small business. Reducing tax rates on small businesses actually does help them invest in America. Screw big corporations. I think we all know they’re prostitutes. So can we please, please stop bashing Romney for wanting to lower tax rates on SMALL BUSINESSES, by claiming they’re tax cuts for big corporations.

By: S Raja Gopalan

S Raja Gopalan — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:55:01 +0000

Folks,
This is a good post but a little more research would show that we do have an alternative. We do have other candidates that we can vote for. If Mark Cuban wants a fiscal conservative and a social moderate, that would be Gary Johnson, Libertarian. I am not advocating any candidate in this context (although i have made up my mind) but here is a lit of all the candidates running in 2012:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2012

Now if we, the People want to sit on our behinds and complain about the electoral system but do not want to even do enough research to check out all the candidates, i guess we have no one to blame but ourselves . . .

By: A Guleed (@AGuleed)

A Guleed (@AGuleed) — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 21:14:05 +0000

If you don’t speak up, who will? Great Mark! Path of success!