who should be our next president? and why?

[eqgh5uea]

Pwners of Indian Casinos.

This is our country just as much as any1 else's. During the Civil War, the 'railway war' was the most important aspect for getting supplies (a huge problem for Tecumseh which is why the Mexicans probably/maybe would have denied an alliance to defeat the U.S. in 1812---although, the Apache were a major problem for getting emmissaries to the Mexican's united states [perhaps with the help of us Cree (the plain kind)---which could have helped]) and logistics to teh troops/field-commanders: Native Americans in the American Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[mannip23]

Ron Paul needs to be our next president or we are in deep sh*t

[wagon596]

I think we should change the whole damn system. Have a president from each party and they must agree to have shit go through. Now that would be democracy

you know,, this isn't a bad idea,,,,but then it'll work out the same,,,,,,nothing gets done.

[eveleen]

Yeah is ZAB!!!

[abwil2]

Any 1 but a repub. All repubs do is spread the wealth along to other wealthys. 8 years of bush really screwed this country up and its definitely gonna take longer then 4 years for someone to fix all his fuk ups. Demo even if its not obama or a independent thats not a tea party.

[GottImHimmel]

You ignorant liberal, Obama and his cronies in the fed are de-valuing our dollar at staggering rates, we need to ABOLISH THE FED

---HERMAN CAIN FOR PRESIDENT!

[lamebrane]

Every problem we currently have; economy, troops overseas, jobs and the loss of the middle class, is due to Bush/Rove/Cheney and the eight years of their running this country into the ground. The billions of dollars spent on their wars, their allowance of the raping of the average person by the banks and Wall Street, and their elitist attitude towards the disadvantaged, has put this country into it's current situation. Perhaps Obama could have done better, but the divisiveness permeated by the right wing media and the republican Congress has done nothing but put this country into a bigger morass. Nothing could have been done in just 3 years to have fixed the problems those bastards created, and I just pray every day that the people of this country who are tired of the BS will throw everyone currently in Congress out so we can start over with some new ideas and new direction. Obama is NOT the problem; the uncaring phony Republicans who continually block any changes or new ideas are the ones who need to go. I hope they take Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and all the other ignorant hate-filled and inhumane media members with them to some other planet for them to destroy. Maybe they can go live on some asteroid that will eventually come and destroy the Earth. They would get a kick out of that.

[lamebrane]

You ignorant liberal, Obama and his cronies in the fed are de-valuing our dollar at staggering rates, we need to ABOLISH THE FED

---HERMAN CAIN FOR PRESIDENT!

Yeah..........that would really work. Maybe we could all start speaking German or Chinese while we're at it. You're an ignorant capitalist. There is a lot more about this country than just money.

[mannip23]

Do you even know anything about the Federal Reserve?? Fed is both corrupt and unconstitutional. It is inflating currency today at nearly a Weimar or Zimbabwe level, a practice that threatens to put us into an inflationary depression where $100 bills are worthless. What most people don’t realize is that the Fed was created by the Morgans and Rockefellers at a private club off the coast of Georgia. It is actually working against their own personal interests. Yet that is how a government which is almost 15 trillion dollars in the red behaves by entrusting taxpayers’ financial futures to the Federal Reserve, which pumps money into the economy whenever it chooses and makes secret deals with Wall Street executives, foreign central banks, and other politically-connected insiders without any significant oversight from Congress.

Snuck through Congress on Christmas Eve in 1913, the Federal Reserve Act established the Fed as America’s central bank. The Fed essentially creates money out of thin air, manipulates interest rates, and interferes with the free market. By doing so, the Fed fuels our economy’s boom-bust cycle and has helped devalue our dollar by over 95%.

According to the Minneapolis Federal Reserve branch’s own website, what you could buy with $1.00 in 1913 would now cost you $22.55.

Although Congress and the Treasury helped bring about the housing bubble and financial collapse with legislation, regulations, and keeping the funds flowing to reckless institutions like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Fed was the main cause of the crisis. Its interference in setting interest rates distorted the market, and its status as the “lender of last resort” ensured banks could hook individuals and businesses for loans on projects that weren’t in as high demand as forecasters believed.

When the crash occurred, common sense dictated a change in policy. But the Federal Reserve only increased its lending and intervention to historic highs.

While selling Americans a bill of goods that the economy would never recover without unprecedented bailouts, we now know that at the peak of its “emergency lending,” the Fed was providing nearly 90% of its discount window loans to foreign banks! This included making over 70 loans to a bank partially owned by the Bank of Libya.

The Fed was able to get away with these actions because Congress lacks the authority to thoroughly and completely audit it. In fact, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke appeared before Congress early in the crisis and was able to refuse a direct request to disclose which institutions were receiving trillions of taxpayer dollars from the Fed.

[GottImHimmel]

Why is this not in the offtopic thread?