I'm getting SO SICK of gas prices and car taxes!

[ccride]

Not to turn this into an argument but most of the prep for 9/11 happened under Clinton. By the time Bush took office most of the red flags had already been missed. But with out a doubt, as someone who lived through the Carter years of double digit interest rates, he was the worst we hopefully will ever see.

While there is plenty of blame to go around for 9/11, Bush totally ignored warnings about Bin Laden when he came into office, and by September of 2001 he had taken nearly 100 days of vacation. In fact I believe he set a record for the most vacation days taken during his entire presidency.

You are correct about the double digit interest rates under Carter. I had to move in late '79 for my job and buy another house. The interest rates were changing (upward) almost daily. We thought we had lucked out when we found a house with an assumable loan at (only) 9 and seven-eighths per cent interest. At the close however, we found out that the loan had a clause where the mortgage company could escalate the interest to current market rate on an assumption. When we hesitated, they offered to not raise it to the current market rate (13 %) but only 11.5 % . They had us over a barrel so we had to agree, the prevailing wisdom then was "better buy today, it will only be worse tomorrow".

And mortgage interest rates did go even higher after that, I don't remember what it finally peaked at, but those were dark days.

 

[Pixguy]

While there is plenty of blame to go around for 9/11, Bush totally ignored warnings about Bin Laden when he came into office, and by September of 2001 he had taken nearly 100 days of vacation. In fact I believe he set a record for the most vacation days taken during his entire presidency.
You are correct about the double digit interest rates under Carter. I had to move in late '79 for my job and buy another house. The interest rates were changing (upward) almost daily. We thought we had lucked out when we found a house with an assumable loan at (only) 9 and seven-eighths per cent interest. At the close however, we found out that the loan had a clause where the mortgage company could escalate the interest to current market rate on an assumption. When we hesitated, they offered to not raise it to the current market rate (13 %) but only 11.5 % . They had us over a barrel so we had to agree, the prevailing wisdom then was "better buy today, it will only be worse tomorrow".

And mortgage interest rates did go even higher after that, I don't remember what it finally peaked at, but those were dark days.

Care to back up the bolded section with some facts?

 

[ccride]

Care to back up the bolded section with some facts?

Well, since my memory seems to be in question, just a quick check on Google brought up many related links, but start with these 2:

Presidential vacations: How does Obama compare? - CBS News

Think Again: Remember Bush?s Vacation

Care to provide some facts of your own to dispute it?

 

[two_bit_score]

Well, since my memory seems to be in question, just a quick check on Google brought up many related links, but start with these 2:

Presidential vacations: How does Obama compare? - CBS News

Think Again: Remember Bush?s Vacation

Care to provide some facts of your own to dispute it?

Look at Obamas vacations and the extravagant expenses associated and it should make you puke.



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[Barnone]

The government makes a lot of money off of royalties from people pumping oil from government owned land. Some of the contracts were poorly written while other contracts pay the government much better. So the higher the price of oil the more the government makes.

That's a bad thing?

 

[clemsonfor]

To get your started:

1. qualifying food purchases are exempt from SC's sales tax: http://www.sctax.org/NR/rdonlyres/B...6A6F9D/0/Chapter21UnpreparedFoodExemption.pdf

2. SC doesn't have a state sales tax on services (to my knowledge), and

3. there is a state sales-tax holiday for back-to-school items purchased during the first weekend in August.

Steve

I thought food was taxed at 1% as of a few years ago.

 

[smstonypoint]

I thought food was taxed at 1% as of a few years ago.

See the link in item 1.

Steve

 

[Pixguy]

Well, since my memory seems to be in question, just a quick check on Google brought up many related links, but start with these 2:

Presidential vacations: How does Obama compare? - CBS News

Think Again: Remember Bush?s Vacation

Care to provide some facts of your own to dispute it?

Spinning the Bush vs. Obama Vacation Day - By Greg Pollowitz - Media Blog - National Review Online

"This tweet from CBS痴 Mark Knoller is getting some attention from the Left as evidence that President Bush is a bigger vacationer than President Obama:

@WoWSportsWoW Obama to date: 67 days vac & camp david. Bush(43) during same period: 216 ranch/kport/camp david 216 days.

But Knoller痴 math is wrong. For President Bush, staying in his home in Crawford counts as a vacation day but for President Obama, staying in his home in D.C. and hitting the golf course for the afternoon counts as a work day.

President Obama can fly back and forth to Chicago every weekend for all I care. It痴 his home and staying at one痴 home does not make it a vacation day."

 

[Redneck in training]

Most of President Obama's campaign donations were less than $50. He won mostly because President Bush drove the economy off a cliff and it was taken out on Senator McCain. And his being black is just your racism showing.

To those who didn't notice. Obama looks black but, IMHO, he is typical white guy. Just look where he went to school, where he lived, how he talks etc. I don't see the difference. Obama was elected by white people.

 

[300UGUY]

To those who didn't notice. Obama looks black but, IMHO, he is typical white guy. Just look where he went to school, where he lived, how he talks etc. I don't see the difference. Obama was elected by white people.

Youre never going to get that Redneck Card saying things like that!!!