WELCOME TO OPINIONS BASED
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OVERVIEW
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Dec. 28, 2010
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 1
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Dec. 30, 2010
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 2
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Jan. 10, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 3
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Jan. 17, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 4
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Jan. 24, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 5
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Jan. 31, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 6
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Feb. 07, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 7
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Feb. 14, 2011
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SPECIAL ISSUE
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Feb. 18, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 8
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Feb. 21, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 9
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Mar. 01, 2011
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SOCIAL SECURITY PART 10
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Mar. 07, 2011
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SS & MORE PART 1
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Mar. 14, 2011
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Mar. 21, 2011
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Mar. 25, 2011
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SS & MORE PART 3
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Mar. 29, 2011
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Apr. 04, 2011
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Apr. 11, 2011
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Apr. 18, 2011
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SS & MORE PART 7
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Apr. 25, 2011
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SS & MORE PART 7A
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Apr. 29, 2011
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SS & MORE PART 8
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May 02, 2011
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SS & MORE PART 9
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May 09, 2011
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SS & MORE PART 10
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May 16, 2011
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May 24, 2011
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Jun. 06, 2011
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Jun. 20, 2011
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July 05, 2011
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July 18, 2011
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July 19, 2011
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Aug. 03, 2011
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Aug. 15, 2011
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Aug. 29, 2011
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Sept. 12, 2011
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Sept. 26, 2011
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Oct. 10, 2011
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Oct. 24, 2011
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Nov. 04, 2011
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Nov. 07, 2011
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Nov. 21, 2011
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Dec. 05, 2011
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Dec. 19, 2011
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JAN. 03, 2012
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JAN. 05, 2012
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JAN. 17, 2012
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JAN. 31, 2012
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Feb.
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Feb. 23, 2012
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Mar.
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Mar.
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May
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May
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May
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May
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EXTRA II
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June 01, 2012
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June 05. 2012
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June 07, 2012
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Aug. 09, 2012
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Sept. 11. 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 1
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Sept. 20, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 2
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Sept. 24,2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 3
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Oct. 02, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 4
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Oct. 04, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 5
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Oct. 09, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 6
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Oct. 18, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 7
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Oct. 24, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 8
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Oct. 31, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 8 EXTRA
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Nov. 04, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 9
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Nov. 13, 2012
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OBOF & TYMHM
PART 10
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Nov. 20, 2012
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IN THIS
ISSUE
1.
The President still needs us.
2.
Romney & McCain still campaigning.
3.
Obama, no compromise on taxes.
4.
What is happening in Oklahoma
5.
Secession from the Union .
6.
Stand with working families.
7.
Senior Generals lifestyle.
THE
PRESIDENT STILL NEEDS
OUR STRONG
SUPPORT
By Floyd Bowman.
"Opinions Based On Facts."
Last Tuesday, I
pointed out that our President needed us behind him now just as strong and as
much as he needed us during the election year.
I wonder, if any of you have been watching him this past week in his various talks and press conference. If you have, you saw a real firm strong
President. He was totally
Presidential.
In his first
week after re-election, he wasted no time in moving forward, as he has said all
through the campaign. He made it very
clear that he had a MANDATE and he spelled out what that mandate was. The voters have given him the mandate to work
hard for the middle class and those who are struggling to get in the middle
class. "That's my mandate and I
intend to work as hard as I can for that mandate," he said.
He was also
very firm about his position on taxes and revenue. Taxes are going up, particularly, on those
making $250,000 a year or more. He is
asking for the same tax rate for those, as when Bill Clinton was President,
which was 39%. The rumors at this time are
that the Republicans are considering 35%.
The President has said that he welcomes their ideas and will not just
"slam the door in their face."
Some feel that he has left the door open just a very little bit and may
settle for 37 or 37.5 %. Either way he
is really moving forward in a firm and Presidential manner.
~~~
ROMNEY &
McCain
STILL
CAMPAIGNING FOR 2008 & 2012
By Floyd Bowman.
"Opinions Based On Facts."
The 2008 and 2012
Presidential elections are over for everyone, except John McCain and Mitt
Romney. Senator McCain, of course, lost
the election in 2008 to President Obama and he has not gotten over it. In counter point after counter point, McCain
has jabbed and punched at the President every chance he gets. The latest is his attack on Susan Rice,
Ambassador to the United Nations.
He has said that the
statements made by Ambassador Rice relating to Benghazi
The problem with his
harassment is that, Ambassador Rice was exactly correct in her statements and
Senator McCain missed the private briefing in which the CIA provided the
information. Right or wrong, Ambassador
Rice made her statements based on the briefing she received from the CIA, that
McCain missed and has not bothered to get the correct information since.
There is instance
after instance when McCain tries to dig in the President and tries to embarrass
the President. This is what I mean, when
I say that Senator McCain is still campaigning.
He, of course, isn't actually campaigning he is just expressing sour
grapes of revenge, that he lost the Presidency to a black man. Yes, I truly believe that race is behind it
and many other things that are going on in our country.
Now, how about Romney,
still campaigning. He made a very good
concession talk and if he had just dropped out after that, he would have saved
his reputation, but he couldn't let it go at that. No, he had to start talking about why he lost
and talking about all the GIFTS the President gave to the youth and seniors and
all the people with health care, which he now is saying, represents $10,000 a
year for the average family. He is now
hurting his reputation, as well as losing the election.
~~~
Obama: No Compromise on Raising Taxes for Rich
President
Obama sits with Speaker of the House John Boehner during a meeting with
bipartisan group of congressional leaders in the White House Friday
Photo by Olivier
Douliery-Pool/Getty Images
President Obama made it
clear Saturday that he’s more than willing to play a game of chicken with
Republicans, confident he’s not the one who will have to blink first. In his weekly address Saturday,
Obama said there are only two outcomes possible during negotiations over the
so-called fiscal cliff: taxes for the richest Americans go up, or everyone’s taxes
go up, reports the Hill.
Obama said that he
hopes to be able to “give families and businesses some good news going into the
holiday season” and called on House Republicans to quickly approve the bill
that would extend Bush-era tax cuts for those making less than $250,000 a year.
In the Republican response, Sen. Kelly Ayotte insisted on the issue of tax
reform, saying loopholes must be eliminated as a way to increase revenue. She
added that the year-end “fiscal cliff” deadline “provides an opportunity for
both parties to change our country’s irresponsible spending path,” reports CBS News.
“When it comes to
taxes, for example, there are two pathways available,” Obama said. “One says,
if Congress fails to act by the end of the year, then everybody’s taxes
automatically go up. … The other path is for Congress to pass a law right away
to prevent a tax hike on the first $250,000 of anyone’s income.”
Democratic and
Republican congressional leaders both expressed optimism Friday after they left
a White House meeting to discuss the looming fiscal cliff.
"We have the
cornerstones of being able to work something out," said Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid, according to the Los Angeles Times.
“This is not something we're going to wait until the last day of December to
get done. We have a plan. We're going to move forward on it."
For now though fiscal
cliff conversations will have to be put on hold as Obama left Saturday for a
brief tour through Southeast Asia, with stops in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.
He will be gone for only five days, but
some have still criticized the president, saying he should have canceled his
trip until a deal to avoid the tax increases and spending cuts of the fiscal
cliff is sealed, reports the National Journal.
~~~
WHAT DO YOU
SUPPOSE IS
HAPPENING IN
OKLAHAOMA?
TO ME, THIS IS JUST
UNBELIEVABLE. This is totally Un-American. First, let me point out that, as you know, I
try hard to write opinions based on facts.
Sometimes it is hard to determine facts.
What I am going to report to you now is from, what I consider to be, a
very reliable source. So, I am going to
report it as fact.
At this writing, there
are two known companies in Tulsa ,
Oklahoma
In the process of
determining what personnel to lay off the Powers that be, went out into the
parking lot and identified cars that had
Obama stickers on them. All of them were
placed on the lay off list. It has been
reported to me that one of the executives in the smaller company was heard
saying to some that were being laid off, "Go let Obama take care of
you." I wonder what they would be
saying if McCain had won over Obama four years ago. We would really be in the soup if that had
happened, I must add, in my opinion. This is a hell of a way to run a railroad. (Midwest
saying)
Oklahoma
has, for a long time, been a red state, but Blue is
coming on fast as evident of many things that have happened here during this
last election. The Tulsa Oklahoma Illinois
~~~
SECESSION
FROM THE UNION .
As reported by Ed
Schultz on MSNBC Thursday 11-15-12, we have seven states that have over 25,000
signatures on a petition filed for secession from the Union . The seven are:
State Petition
signatures
Source:
WHITEHOUSE.GOV
In my opinion, this
secession movement isn't going any place as it hasn't really been thought out
as to what it really would mean and the number of signatures obtained, at this
point, are very few, as compared to what would be needed for it to really
happen. It is just a movement,
expressing sour grapes over race, in my opinion. Note where the states are located, they are
all in the south and south central. Another
movement that will not, in the long run, go anywhere is as follows.
"Despair among
Republicans has turned to rage and now they are starting a movement to impeach
the President. A right wing fringe group,
known for it's ultra conservative theories, is starting a movement to impeach
the President." They have said,
"Our
only recourse now is to move forward with the full impeachment of President
Obama. We suspect that Obama is Guilty
of high crimes and misdemeanors and that there may be grounds for impeachment
as is laid out in the Constitution.
Further, he may not even be a U. S.
The
Conservative Majority Fund
Source: HUFFINGTONPOST.COM
~~~
Stand With Working Families
by Sen. Bernie Sanders
Published November 12, 2012
The Democrats won a major victory on Election Day.
Despite dozens of billionaires spending huge amounts of money to defeat
President Obama, he won a crushing victory in the Electoral College and
received 3 million more votes than Romney did nationally. Democrats won 25 of
33 seats contested in the Senate and, to everyone’s surprise, expanded their
majority there by two. They also gained
seats in the House.
Now, with this victory behind them, the president and Democratic leadership
must make it very clear that they will stand with the middle class and working
families of our country. These are the people struggling to keep their heads
above water economically, the people who worry about whether they can afford
health care and whether their kids will be able to attend college. These are the people government should be
worried about – not the millionaires and billionaires who are doing just fine.
Most importantly, in the coming weeks and months, the Democrats must demand
that deficit reduction is done in a way that is fair – and not on the backs of
the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor. At a time when real unemployment remains close
to 15 percent, we must also focus on creating the millions of jobs that our
people need.
In America
As Vermont
In terms of deficit reduction let us not forget that in
2001, when Bill Clinton left office, this country had a $236 billion surplus. As a result of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
that were unpaid for, huge tax breaks for the rich, a Medicare prescription
drug program put on the credit card and a significant decline in federal
revenues because of the recession, we now have a $1 trillion deficit and a $16
trillion national debt.
Congress must address the deficit situation and the fiscal cliff, but we
must do it in a way that is fair. At a
time when the wealthiest people in this country are doing extremely well and
their effective tax rates are low (think Mitt Romney), the people on top must
pay their fair share of taxes to help us deal with the deficit. We must also end the outrageous loopholes that
allow one out of four large profitable corporations to pay nothing in federal
corporate income taxes. Further, it is
absurd that current tax policy allows the wealthy and large corporations to
avoid paying over $100 billion a year in federal taxes because they stash their
money in tax havens in the Cayman Islands and
elsewhere.
We must also take a hard look at wasteful spending in the Defense
Department where we now spend almost as much money as the rest of the world
combined. Significant savings can be
found at other federal agencies too.
What we must not do, however, is move toward a balanced
budget on the backs of the elderly, the children, the sick and the poor. Sadly,
that is what virtually all Republicans and some Democrats want to do. As Vermont's senator, I will do all that I can
to prevent cuts in Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, education and other
programs vitally important to the working families of America.
In my view, if the Republicans continue to play an
obstructionist role, the president should get out of the Oval Office and hit
the road. I frankly do not believe that
there is any state in the country, including those that are very red, where people
believe that it makes sense to continue giving huge tax breaks to millionaires
and billionaires while cutting Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. I have a strong feeling that when large
numbers of constituents all across this country start calling and emailing
their senators and members of Congress about this issue, we’re going to win and
win big.
The good news is that we are already beginning to see
some Republicans make thoughtful comments on this issue. Bill Kristol, the
conservative commentator and Weekly Standard editor, said Sunday that the
Republican Party should accept new ideas, including the much-criticized
suggestion by Democrats that taxes be allowed to go up on the wealthy.
"It won't kill the country if we raise taxes a little bit on millionaires,"
he said on Fox News Sunday. "It really won't, I don't think. I don't
really understand why Republicans don't take Obama's offer."
~~~
Why Do Senior Generals Live Like Billionaires?
Posted Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012.
In the days since the
scandal involving former CIA director David Petraeus came to light, one aspect
of his lifestyle that came to light but has received little attention is “the
imperial trappings that come with a senior general’s lifestyle,” writes the Washington Post.
Former defense
secretary Robert Gates flatly points to the many benefits that a four-star
general receives as perhaps one of the things that may have contributed to
Petraeus’ actions. “There is something
about a sense of entitlement and of having great power that skews people’s
judgment,” Gates said.
The commanders who lead
the U.S.
That kind of lifestyle
can contribute to a disconnect from reality. Gates says he tried to cut back on the perks
when he led the Pentagon but quickly discovered it amounted to the “third rail”
of the Defense Department.
NOTE FROM FLOYD:
The amount of money that is allotted
to the Military is simply out of control, in my opinion. It appears that the Military is starting to
become the tail that wags the dog. In a
tight pinch, this could become dangerous.
With the wrong people at the top of the Military, and in conjunction
with the Millionaire and Billionaires, along with Wall Street, a coup could
occur before anyone knew it.
I am sure
that the top brass in the Military can be very intimidating if they were a mind
too. That, apparently, is what Gates ran
into when he tried to cut back on some of the perks. I, personally believe, that it would not, at
all, be a bad thing for the reduction in Military allotment. It's my understanding that parts of the Military
already have billions of dollars that they haven't spent.
I would like
to see Senator Coburn, of Oklahoma
~~~
If the good Lord is
willing and the creek don't rise, I'll talk with you again on Tuesday, November
27, 2012.
God Bless You All
&
God Bless the United States of America
Floyd
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