Parts Catalog Accessories Catalog How To Articles Tech Forums
Call Pelican Parts at 888-280-7799
Shopping Cart Cart | Project List | Order Status | Help



Go Back   PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum > General Discussions > Off-Topic Discussion

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Display Modes
  #61  
Old 09-03-2012, 04:39 PM
Banned
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Blue Point, NY
Posts: 25,396
Quote:
Originally Posted by link View Post
If contributions reflect corporate support there is a lot of support for O among the wealthiest businesses. See the following:

http://www.opensecrets.org/overview/topcontribs.php
Showing the list of contributors hardly means anything regarding whether the Board of Directors of the corporation has the confidence to invest for the future.

But, you already knew that.

Try again.

Reply With Quote
  #62  
Old 09-03-2012, 04:43 PM
Banned
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Blue Point, NY
Posts: 25,396
Quote:
Originally Posted by t walgamuth View Post
You guys are buying into the R propaganda. Businesses may be sitting to some extent now but after the election they will spend and hire either way. If I am a business man and need to hire someone to make more money am I going to stop and say "Who is the president?" then do it or not because of that? I don't think so.
Too simple.

If you are a major corporation and you need to decide whether to make a significant capital investment for the future or simply mine your current product line..............what are you going to do?

Under Obama, you simply bank the profits and you do not reinvest them. More than enough examples of this in many industries.

Nobody is investing for the future under Obama because he has no vision for the future. He also has lied to the public and saddled the businesses and the taxpayers with a monumental health care plan that nobody believes is affordable down the line.
Reply With Quote
  #63  
Old 09-03-2012, 04:47 PM
Banned
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Blue Point, NY
Posts: 25,396
Quote:
Originally Posted by David Wilson View Post
I disagree. He does have a vision. But I don't like his vision.
What exactly is his vision?

During his initial election campaign, he severely criticized the spending patterns of GWB and stated flatly that spending must be curtailed and he would do it.

See any signs of that vision?

I see continued deficit spending and ongoing printing of money without any vision. By the end of his second term a quart of mayonnaise is going to cost $10.
Reply With Quote
  #64  
Old 09-03-2012, 05:08 PM
MTI's Avatar
MTI MTI is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
Posts: 10,626
Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Carlton View Post
Try again.
Don't you mean "Thanks for the lists?"
Reply With Quote
  #65  
Old 09-03-2012, 05:32 PM
t walgamuth's Avatar
dieselarchitect
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Lafayette Indiana
Posts: 38,963
Jobs have been cut in government to the lowest levels in recent history. what else does the president have control of? He was saddled with two wars of which he has gotten us out of one with some finesse and is working to get us out of the second one without creating a worse mess by leaving too abruptly.

He promised healthcare reform and delivered it. it was his top priority and has been promoted for over sixty years without previous success.
__________________
[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.
Reply With Quote
  #66  
Old 09-03-2012, 09:27 PM
Registered User
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 7,415
Romney is a business success, Obama is a successful politician. Which do you prefer?

Obama has the highest unemployment of any president in living memory- but then poor people tend to vote Democrat ...
Reply With Quote
  #67  
Old 09-03-2012, 09:27 PM
Banned
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Blue Point, NY
Posts: 25,396
Quote:
Originally Posted by t walgamuth View Post
Jobs have been cut in government to the lowest levels in recent history. what else does the president have control of? He was saddled with two wars of which he has gotten us out of one with some finesse and is working to get us out of the second one without creating a worse mess by leaving too abruptly.
You'll get no argument from me. He's done an excellent job in international affairs.


Quote:
Originally Posted by t walgamuth View Post

He promised healthcare reform and delivered it. it was his top priority and has been promoted for over sixty years without previous success.

Healthcare reform would have been excellent if he didn't lie about the cost. Nobody that I know can afford the cost, especially small business owners.
Reply With Quote
  #68  
Old 09-03-2012, 10:25 PM
MTI's Avatar
MTI MTI is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
Posts: 10,626
Quote:
Originally Posted by MTUpower View Post
Romney is a business success, Obama is a successful politician. Which do you prefer?
I still don't understand the relationship between being a business person and a successful president. The corner office isn't the same as the Oval Office in so many ways, it's as if touting Mr. Romney's non-political resume is the safer political path than his political record as governor.

By the way, to ignore Mr. Romney's ascent to the top of the GOP, which is more a reflection of his political compromises and talents, not his business experience, is self deceit.

So, which do you prefer?
Reply With Quote
  #69  
Old 09-03-2012, 10:49 PM
Dubyagee's Avatar
All fields are required
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: SE
Posts: 7,954
It is a terrible statement of the condition of the American state of mind that these two idiots are our only choices. Depressing actually.

Self centered wannabe dictator or flip flopping meat puppet.
__________________
Satan creates nothing: he only ruins everything. He does not invent: he tampers. And his followers are no different ~ Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
Reply With Quote
  #70  
Old 09-03-2012, 10:54 PM
Banned
 
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 146
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dubyagee View Post
It is a terrible statement of the condition of the American state of mind that these two idiots are our only choices. Depressing actually.

Self centered wannabe dictator or flip flopping meat puppet.
I blame the MSM. The best and the brightest don't want to deal with them.
So they don't participate.
Reply With Quote
  #71  
Old 09-03-2012, 11:05 PM
t walgamuth's Avatar
dieselarchitect
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Lafayette Indiana
Posts: 38,963
Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Carlton View Post
You'll get no argument from me. He's done an excellent job in international affairs.





Healthcare reform would have been excellent if he didn't lie about the cost. Nobody that I know can afford the cost, especially small business owners.
How do you think you know the cost? It hasn't even been all implemented has it?
__________________
[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.
Reply With Quote
  #72  
Old 09-03-2012, 11:07 PM
t walgamuth's Avatar
dieselarchitect
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Lafayette Indiana
Posts: 38,963
Quote:
Originally Posted by David Wilson View Post
I blame the MSM. The best and the brightest don't want to deal with them.
So they don't participate.
That is a cop out. You have to want to be president first. It is a thankless job. If they can't take the heat in the kitchen then they need to stay thehellout!
__________________
[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.
Reply With Quote
  #73  
Old 09-04-2012, 07:06 PM
Banned
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Blue Point, NY
Posts: 25,396
Quote:
Originally Posted by t walgamuth View Post
How do you think you know the cost? It hasn't even been all implemented has it?
I believe the OMB put the cost at close to $1T over ten years. You have different data? Let's see it.
Reply With Quote
  #74  
Old 09-04-2012, 08:30 PM
t walgamuth's Avatar
dieselarchitect
 
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Lafayette Indiana
Posts: 38,963
Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Carlton View Post
I believe the OMB put the cost at close to $1T over ten years. You have different data? Let's see it.
And he had this info when he made his projection?
__________________
[SIGPIC] Diesel loving autocrossing grandpa Architect. 08 Dodge 3/4 ton with Cummins & six speed; I have had about 35 benzes. I have a 39 Studebaker Coupe Express pickup in which I have had installed a 617 turbo and a five speed manual.[SIGPIC]

..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.
Reply With Quote
  #75  
Old 09-04-2012, 08:38 PM
mgburg's Avatar
"Illegal" 3rd Dist. Rep.
 
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Onalaska, WI.
Posts: 221
Quote:
Originally Posted by elchivito View Post
Okay, here's an incomplete list

Jeff Brotman, Founder of Costco
James Sinegal, Founder and former CEO of Costco
Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of salesforce.com
Jon Corzine, Former CEO of Goldman Sachs, CEO and Chairman of MF Global, Former Governor of New Jersey and US Senator
Ari Emanuel, CEO of William Morris Endeavor Entertainment
Nathaniel Fick, CEO of the Center for a New American Security, author of One Bullet Away, a New York Times best seller
Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and CEO
David Geffen, Founder of Asylum Records, Geffen Records, and DGC Records; cofounder of DreamWorks SKG
Berry Gordy, Founder of the Motown record label
Steven J. Green, former CEO and Chairman of Samsonite Corporation and United States Ambassador to Singapore
Gary Hirshberg, Chairman, President, and CEO of Stonyfield Farm
James Lassiter
Kevin Liles, Former executive Vice President of Warner Music Group
Michael Lynton, Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment
Jeffrey Katzenberg, CEO of DreamWorks Animation
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook co-founder and CEO
Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo
Mike Medavoy, Chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures
Wolfgang Puck, Chef and Restaurant Mogul
Tom Rothman, Chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook
Russell Simmons, Cofounder of Def Jam
Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google
Steve Westly, Venture Capitalist and Fmr. California State Controller
Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
Probably high on the "Don't Need To Obamacare" list, unlike the rest of us schucks.

But hey, they're businessmen.

__________________
.

.
M. G. Burg
'10 - Dakota SXT - Daily Ride / ≈ 172.5K
.'76 - 450SLC - 107.024.12 / < .89.20 K
..'77 - 280E - 123.033.12 / > 128.20 K
...'67 - El Camino - 283ci / > 207.00 K
....'75 - Yamaha - 650XS / < 21.00 K
.....'87 - G20 Sportvan / > 206.00 K
......'85 - 4WINNS 160 I.O. / 140hp
.......'74 - Honda CT70 / Real 125

.
“I didn’t really say everything I said.”
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ~ Yogi Berra ~
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks


Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is On
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On




All times are GMT -4. The time now is 06:06 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.7
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions, Inc.
Search Engine Optimization by vBSEO 3.6.0
Copyright 2024 Pelican Parts, LLC - Posts may be archived for display on the Peach Parts or Pelican Parts Website -    DMCA Registered Agent Contact Page