Should I support more school funding for the children of these "people" or should I just continue to advocate that a part of northern California should secede (we are the world's 17th largest economy) and become another country, leaving this part of the state in the third world...

I know, I know, Texas wants to secede now too...

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I agree that The Fed is largely to blame for our current crisis.

I didn't see the "monkey see monkey do" picture that was carried here in Denver. THAT WAS offensive!

"I am not your ATM" - agreed.

What's up - and what's up with Alternet (and the Huff Post) all of the sudden?

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So, the "American Taxpayers are the Jews for Obama's Ovens" didn't ofend you?

How about the "The New Face of Hitler: Barack Hussein Obama" (picture of Obama's face photoshopped onto Hitler's body)? Did you find that offensive?

I guess the real question is, what does it take to offend you?

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The idea of taxing rich people probably causes him to turn green and bust out of his clothes. The Increduble Schmuck.

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I love it when bottom-feeding sliders give it that extra wallow. Makes watching them for free even more fun. As for the people in that crowd who aren't rich, just duped, or smitten with some kind of Fat-Assed-Palinskified Hoodoo--it goes double for them.

I hear there were hundreds--HUNDREDS--of people at each of these protests in all those cities! Imagine that! Not exactly Inauguration Day 2009, but a pretty good showing for the Party of the Walking Dead.

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im all for the white slavery thing,,when does that start?????? :)

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The White Slavery one is pretty offensive, but the rest? Is it offensive to point out that the debt we're incurring will have to be paid by our children and grandchildren? Or that the Federal Reserve is not, perhaps, the best method for controlling currency? Or that we, as taxpayers, are not a cash cow (ATM) for government?

I'll bet there were liberals everywhere counting the days till George W. Bush's term ended. How is it offensive for conservatives to do the same?

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So ya got a little more change in your pocket. Are you going over to the local schools to help pay for books or teachers?
Are you running over to pay for your elderly neighbors food, meds or Heat?
Will you be constructing Body Armor for our Troops? Securing our Ports? Monitoring the borders? Chasing down Armed Bank Robbers? Repair a bridge on your off hours?Running into a burning building to save a childs life?
Give you back your Tax Money- To do what with..Buy a bigger Flat Screen, another video game to keep your kid occupied while you go to Curves? Buy the lastest IPhone?
How much of Civilized Society are these folks will to give up- or compensate for the loss of?
Home Schooling- so our kids will be subjected to your limited (antiquated) education level- and that's just what you remember or can comprehend yourself. Worse yet is the fact not everyone has the ability to adequately convey concepts..Teach with any efficiency.
Do I love to pay taxes- No. But I am not willing to give up civilization or progress to keep a few more bucks in my OWN pocket. And that is exactly what tax cuts are Greed. Refusing to share funds with those who our future depends on, our past was built on, and who protect US at the moment.
Funny the Gov of TX never bothered to mention the FACT that his Salary is paid with Tax Dollars. Is he Volunteering to Run his new 'Soveriegn' country for Free? Rely on the good Will of his citizens to also Volunteer to cover all the Services usually paid for thorugh tax revenues. Are Texans willing to have Mandatory Military Serivce- Like those communist countries? It will take Training, and lots of citizens those very large border regions.
and what about that already huge Deficit- think the Tooth fairy will replace it will magic cash? The only way to bring down a deficit is through taxes- and the best way to share that burden would be to have the bulk of our Citizens paying into it. So unemployement and home foreclosures negate Deficit reduction.
As a smoker, I don't begrudge the new higher taxes on cigarettes. At least I know the funds will help cover the health care costs of some child. Besides US smokers are a dying breed. Our gift to the next genereation is Dying in a timely manner- not lingering for decades in Long term care suffering from Alzheimers because our Heart won't stop beating.do the next generation (and yourselves) a favor- Have a doughnut,smoke a cigarette, eat a steak.
Only the self absorbed, the Greedy and simple minded promote tax cuts.

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Rather than demanding tax cuts and other idiocies, these dumb "common folk" should instead stridently demand that these corporations and those many 'well-to-do' who stash voluminous amounts of money on offshore accounts to pay their fair share of taxes. We are all paying more taxes because there are those NOT paying (and I'm talking about the wealthy!!!)

When I look at the "teabagging" crowd, all I saw is the classic example of easily-led and fooled SHEEP!!!!

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Sadly, these American's are probably decent people who get their information from the rants of people being paid millions to make
suckers out of them. While the deals that destroyed our economy were being made, the corporations who own the vast majority of
TV stations and radio stations were paying Beck and Hannity and Limbaugh to distract them from the real issues. They were being brain washed with the myth of "liberal media" and told that the biggest threats to their way of life were birth control and gay marriage.

It took 30 years to get here. Our president is trying to work through situations that would NOT exist if our elected officials had done
their jobs and read everything that they voted on prior to voting. While alot of it will go to stablilize our economy, it will also go to pay debts that were incurred by the previous administration. At least this president has the courage to put his war into the budget for all to see - not separate it to soften the blow.

No one thinks that Wall Street deserves a bailout or that our banks should be rewarded for poor fiscal oversight, but I don't recall alot of protest when the legal changes were made that caused all this to happen. Why was any American company allowed to get so large or so leveraged that its demise could cause our economy to collapse?

Where were these protests when our previous president blew our nation's biggest budget surplus in history within the first 3 months he was in office - giving tax cuts to millionaires?

I would like to know where the protesters were when the protections of the New Deal were being dismantled in Washington by people that they elected? They were being frightened away from supporting national health care by Harry and Louise (paid for by Insurance companies).

When the Hedge Fund managers wanted to have their million dollar salaries taxed at the capital gains rate of 17% while teachers and
firefighters pay 33% or more - where were the tea bags then?

Where were these patriots when Rumsfeld was sending our kids off to Iraq to ride in unarmoured Humvees in 2003, 9 years after the Marine Corps announced that the humvee was a "deathtrap"?

How many of these people live in a state that owes jobs to the manufacture of the F-22 - even though the Pentagon doesn't want them because they don't work? Can your state survive without overpriced government contracts?

WAKE UP FOLKS! YOU HAVE TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND GET REAL!!!

As to paying taxes, it would have taken my parents 5 years to earn in salary what I paid in taxes this year. I am lucky to live where
this type of opportunity exists.

Do these protesters plan to boycott the things that their tax money goes to support? Hospitals? Public schools? Interstate highways? Water and sewage systems? Do you have electricity that comes on when you want it to? Is food safer here than food in the third world? Are bad drugs recalled from your pharmacy? Many of countries have lower taxes, but try finding one with our standard of living. I don't hate taxes just the wasting of them.

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Oh horrors – someone criticized Obama-messiah! Offensive or WHAT? Is this what Alternet has come to?

White slavery
As a result of the massive hold-up currently in progress (otherwise known as giving the banksters 12 trillion and counting no questions asked), Americans will be put deep into debt bondage for generations. That is a form of slavery. As for the other connotations – yes, we got screwed.
Verdict: accurate, legitimate protest

Our tax dollars given to Hamas to kill Jews, Christians and Americans
The only relevant question is, “did Hamas receive US money?” Let’s face it, even the UN (who never before met an anti-Zionist it didn’t love) has serious problems with Hamas. Hamas have killed dozens of leaders from other Palestinian groups; they have stated they want to wipe out Israel and the Jews, and they persecute Palestinian Christians within their territories.
verdict: legitimate protest

Obama: what you talkin about Willis! Spend my money?
Sorry, don’t get it – could be because I didn’t grow up in the USA.
verdict: pending more information

Obama … loves baby killing
Other anti-abortion signs on steps of a building in Columbia SC
You think it’s offensive to characterize abortion as baby-killing? A lot of people think it’s merely accurate.
verdict: legitimate protest

Barack Obama supports … sodomy, socialism and the New World Order – so did (other presidents)
Sodomy – I suppose this is against gay marriage which these people believe is condoning a “sin”.
verdict: could be offensive
Socialism – protest based on poor information: socialism would mean that the government controlled the banks, whereas it’s actually the other way around. (My reaction – gosh, if only!)
verdict: ill-informed and I don’t agree, but legitimate protest
New World Order – Bang on.
verdict: completely accurate, and legitimate protest

Barack Hussein Obama – the new face of Hitler
Obama = Hitler
Perhaps they have heard about the new excuses being developed for shutting down the Internet, or the cover-up of torture, or the continuation of rendition, or rounding up people for paramilitary training (and indoctrination), or deploying US troops in the homeland for civilian control, or continuing and extending wiretapping, or they’ve noticed that civil liberties have not been restored, the Patriot Act has not been repealed.
verdict: legitimate protest

The American taxpayers are the Jews for Obama’s ovens
Overstated, could bring hurtful memories to the fore for some Jews. However, this is not anti-semitic, it doesn’t approve of the behavior, it is a comment on how badly American taxpayers are being treated and regarded. Also see “Hitler” comments.
verdict: on the edge

Guns tomorrow
Yes, it’s a threat. Some people believe that the government couldn’t care less about mere words and protests – it just helps the populace let off steam and feel they still have their voice. Notice the protester is already holding a pitchfork.
verdict: offensive (if you find the American War of Independence offensive too)

Obama was not bowing – he was sucking Saudi jewels
Sexual connotations. But it’s nothing new for a US president to be obsequious to the Saudis.
verdict: finally, something offensive.

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Those of you who like taxes so much should volunteer to pay the taxes of those of us who don't.

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I loved seeing all of these very foolish people and all of their signs. They should hold a tea party everday; saturday and sunday! The more often the better. Each time these foolish people get out the more damage they do to themselves and the REPUBLICON House of Worship where Don Bush controlled until his forced retirement!!!!!

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So why should it surprise anyone that some of the signs are OFFENSIVE?

Any protest of any kind is going to attract a few people who are off topic and on the fringe. However if the photographers went out to "Cherry Pick" the worst, and this is all they could find then overall I would have to say the protests were unoffensive.

90% of the ones I saw were anti-administration and economy specific. Given that many of these protesters crossed party lines to vote for Obama it seems understandable that they feel betrayed. They voted for change and got more of the same "on steroids".

Take any poster you disliked concerning Obama and Imagine it with Busch's name instead and You will probably see it as accurate.

Since little has changed and we have actually experienced more spending since Obama has taken office, What else would you expect?

If you still feel they are offensive after that then you are just blindly following with no real expectations of change, or you just hate a certain class of people. That just makes you a prejudiced bigot.


"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
--HERBERT SPENCER

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