02-05-2013, 01:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Swampmaster
to "stimulate" the economy and help big connected auto dealers, how about another $3 billion "cash for clunkers" program?
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Another insightful point that makes us all really think.
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02-05-2013, 02:15 PM
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Gator Country Gold
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Originally Posted by Row6
Perhaps you have never heard of the interstate highway system, the Rural Electrification Administration, Hoover Damn, Oak Ridge Nuclear Power facility, or all the even earlier governmental utilities which helped us become the worlds breadbasket and industrial powerhouse. But closer to home, maybe you think UF, that bastion of socialized higher education is more expensive and less efficient than it's private competitors. You should get that knee jerk looked at.
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Are these are the same 'highways" that the Dems in Florida, are trying to put tolls on?
And stop confusing the great acts of POTUS' in the past with this clown in the WH.
Not all government project are 'revenue rich,' and not all governments (like Obama's) have the same altruistic approach to making things better for all Americans without tapping into more 'revenue'.
The days of making things for all of us to enjoy and taking nothing in return are long gone - it's not the way Obama and his tax and spend Leftists operate.
The Leftists love to spend money that they don't have, and they need more money (tax revenue) to keep up their spending habits. This 'new idea' is nothing more than a Trojan horse of taxes for all of us to be forced to pay.
Insanity - look it up.
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02-05-2013, 08:44 PM
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Heisman Winner
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Originally Posted by gregthegator
Much easier TO RECORD all conversations THAT way...program in just like THE show..."Person of Interest"....just EVEN more ability to TRACK you 
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02-06-2013, 08:40 AM
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Gator Country Silver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gatorrick22
Are these are the same 'highways" that the Dems in Florida, are trying to put tolls on?
And stop confusing the great acts of POTUS' in the past with this clown in the WH.
Not all government project are 'revenue rich,' and not all governments (like Obama's) have the same altruistic approach to making things better for all Americans without tapping into more 'revenue'.
The days of making things for all of us to enjoy and taking nothing in return are long gone - it's not the way Obama and his tax and spend Leftists operate.
The Leftists love to spend money that they don't have, and they need more money (tax revenue) to keep up their spending habits. This 'new idea' is nothing more than a Trojan horse of taxes for all of us to be forced to pay.
Insanity - look it up.
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So your previous rant about the government was only the government under President Obama. Please make that more clear in future posts.
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02-06-2013, 10:30 AM
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Gator Country Gold
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Now this:
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A cellphone company whose top executive has close ties to President Obama lobbied for and won a piece of a major new government push to provide Internet service to low-income job-seekers, even though critics say the company’s smartphones are poorly suited to the task of helping those in the program find work.
The program’s supporters tout it as a way for the unemployed to learn technical skills, to prepare resumes and to search for jobs, but one of the 14 pilot contracts that the FCC awarded went to Miami-based TracFone Wireless Inc.
TracFone CEO F.J. Pollak has been a frequent White House visitor and his wife Abigail has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for both Mr. Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns.
And although TracFone had originally lobbied for the program, critics say its contract would not provide recipients with skills-boosting computers and services, but would supply high-end Android phones, ready to play games and browse Facebook but doing little in the way of getting a job.
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Nice.
Now, I expect ALL of you who bitched about the Cheney/Halliburtun ties to speak out agains this one too...
I won't hold my breath.
Read more: http://p.washingtontimes.com/news/20...#ixzz2K8JunHEs
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02-07-2013, 12:24 AM
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Gator Country Gold
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Row6
So your previous rant about the government was only the government under President Obama. Please make that more clear in future posts.
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Just read it carefully!
And, you should try and remember who the current POTUS is on your own, that way I wont have to remind you every time I post.
Eisenhower, a Pub POTUS, was responsible for our nation's highway system. Obama has nothing to show for the trillions he's raped America for..... Of course it's about Obama - and his complete and utter failure as a POTUS.
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02-07-2013, 07:24 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gatorrick22
Just read it carefully!
And, you should try and remember who the current POTUS is on your own, that way I wont have to remind you every time I post.
Eisenhower, a Pub POTUS, was responsible for our nation's highway system. Obama has nothing to show for the trillions he's raped America for..... Of course it's about Obama - and his complete and utter failure as a POTUS.
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I'm glad that we agree on the high value of big government programs like the interstate highway system, Rural Electrification, Oak Ridge, Hoover Dam, myriad local and state government utility creations, and UF, even if we disagree on our present Commissar..., I mean president. Here's to a new Socialist Future, comrade!
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02-07-2013, 09:56 AM
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The interstate highway system wasn't built for the "people". That was a side effect. Anyone with rudimentary post-WWII history knowledge should know this.
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02-07-2013, 09:58 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by oaklandroadie
The interstate highway system wasn't built for the "people". That was a side effect. Anyone with rudimentary post-WWII history knowledge should know this.
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At least they get to use it.
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02-07-2013, 10:59 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by oaklandroadie
The interstate highway system wasn't built for the "people". That was a side effect. Anyone with rudimentary post-WWII history knowledge should know this.
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You are wrong. While defense was one reason for the construction - as part of a national highway system begun early in the century - it was not the only, or main reason. Eisenhower liked it for that reason, but not for it alone. In any case, who cares?
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02-07-2013, 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by Lawdog88
As long as they can use the new, powerful, wi-fi technology to figure out who has guns and who doesn't, I'm down wid dat.
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This, and where those guns are located, in real time, 24/7.
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02-07-2013, 11:23 AM
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Gator Country Gold
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gatorrick22
Are these are the same 'highways" that the Dems in Florida, are trying to put tolls on?
And stop confusing the great acts of POTUS' in the past with this clown in the WH.
Not all government project are 'revenue rich,' and not all governments (like Obama's) have the same altruistic approach to making things better for all Americans without tapping into more 'revenue'.
The days of making things for all of us to enjoy and taking nothing in return are long gone - it's not the way Obama and his tax and spend Leftists operate.
The Leftists love to spend money that they don't have, and they need more money (tax revenue) to keep up their spending habits. This 'new idea' is nothing more than a Trojan horse of taxes for all of us to be forced to pay.
Insanity - look it up.
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You beat me to it... Just this week, a story about how the local government(?) wants to make I-4 a toll road through the middle of Orlando.
I remember when they built the East-West Expressway. It was sold as a toll road, but for only 12 years until it was paid for. Then the tolls would be removed, and it would become a free highway...
That was, what? 40 years ago?
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02-07-2013, 11:33 AM
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Gator Country Diamond
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gatorrick22
Are these are the same 'highways" that the Dems in Florida, are trying to put tolls on?
And stop confusing the great acts of POTUS' in the past with this clown in the WH.
Not all government project are 'revenue rich,' and not all governments (like Obama's) have the same altruistic approach to making things better for all Americans without tapping into more 'revenue'.
The days of making things for all of us to enjoy and taking nothing in return are long gone - it's not the way Obama and his tax and spend Leftists operate.
The Leftists love to spend money that they don't have, and they need more money (tax revenue) to keep up their spending habits. This 'new idea' is nothing more than a Trojan horse of taxes for all of us to be forced to pay.
Insanity - look it up.
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the bill to add tolls to the interstate around Jax was sponsored by a Republican, passed by a Republican-controlled legislature and signed by a Republican governor.
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02-07-2013, 11:54 AM
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Gator Country Gold
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Row6
I'm glad that we agree on the high value of big government programs like the interstate highway system, Rural Electrification, Oak Ridge, Hoover Dam, myriad local and state government utility creations, and UF, even if we disagree on our present Commissar..., I mean president. Here's to a new Socialist Future, comrade!
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One more time. Obama would never have made these things happen. He's nothing more than a big government-takeover-commie.
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02-07-2013, 12:04 PM
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Gator Country Silver
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gatorrick22
One more time. Obama would never have made these things happen. He's nothing more than a big government-takeover-commie.
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Of course that makes no sense, but whatever.
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02-07-2013, 01:23 PM
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Heisman Candidate
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Originally Posted by wargunfan
There would be huge costs to set up and run this putative government surveillance system which would be passed on to all tax payers whether or not they used the system. I say keep it in the private sector where real jobs would be created and some privacy can be expected.
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Do people ever read the articles they comment on? The government is looking to make certain spectrums of the airwaves free so anyone can use it. The government isn't building or maintaining anything. Its just not selling the airwaves so anyone can go out and put out a free wireless service on these frequencies (and I assume that they will forbid people from charging others to use these airwaves for wireless communications).
Given the actual facts of this issue. Your argument about surveillance should be directed at private companies and entities as they will be the ones maintaining the network. In other words, who is going to keep these companies from tracking information used over their "free" network? Or do you not see it as an issue if information tracking is done by private enterprise.
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02-08-2013, 08:28 AM
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Government built the super highway system for us, and we got places much faster. Not that big a deal to do the same things to move us into the century we live in and make data faster.
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02-08-2013, 03:35 PM
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Heisman Winner
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Quote:
Originally Posted by rpmGator
Government built the super highway system for us, and we got places much faster. Not that big a deal to do the same things to move us into the century we live in and make data faster.
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Unless there is some nefarious plan for data mining.
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