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sorry, i don't have my tin foil hat on like you. you said millions of people have been murdered. i just asked for one name and you can't produce one. then, you can't even recognize the irony and sarcasm of me making you look like a lunatic. maybe you should stick to hanging out with 5th graders and talking about physics. you might learn something.

 

 

Your ignorance is amazing and your lack of life experience is quite obvious. As you mature, develop your knowledge, maturity, and ethics, you will look back at the beliefs you currently hold and feel shame. If that is your understanding of irony and sarcasm then I would also suggest you look them up in the dictionary and then take a writing course to actually learn how to communicate them properly and effectively. Until such time, do everyone a favor and stear clear of the keyboard.

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Your ignorance is amazing and your lack of life experience is quite obvious. As you mature, develop your knowledge, maturity, and ethics, you will look back at the beliefs you currently hold and feel shame. If that is your understanding of irony and sarcasm then I would also suggest you look them up in the dictionary and then take a writing course to actually learn how to communicate them properly and effectively. Until such time, do everyone a favor and stear clear of the keyboard.

 

 

hey, thanks for the advice crackpot. you forgot to name some of the murdered people.

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8th grader reading scores in Wisconsin haven't increased since 1998, despite the increases in spending per student. Obviously more money is not working.

 

They're also higher than the national average, and their math scores are MUCH higher than the national average.

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You know one amusing thing about cutting out the Wisconsin unions, they rank 2nd in the nation as far as test scores go. Obviously it's working there.

I wouldn't credit the union for that. I'd credit them for extorting money from the taxpayers.

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He might have regretted it, but that doesn't make up for the fact that he was responsible for the death of millions of the unborn. You call someone else a 'libturd' and you are the one defending Reagan's actions? Sad.

He alone did that? I don't remember that happening.
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He alone did that? I don't remember that happening.

Most selectively don't. Some other fun Reagan facts -

 

 

 

 

* Reagan was a serial tax raiser. As governor of California, Reagan “signed into law the largest tax increase in the history of any state up till then.” Meanwhile, state spending nearly doubled.

 

 

* Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit. During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion, “roughly three times as much as the first 80 years of the century had done altogether.”

 

 

* Unemployment soared after Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts. Unemployment jumped to 10.8 percent after Reagan enacted his much-touted tax cut, and it took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level. Meanwhile, income inequality exploded.

 

 

* Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously. Reagan promised “to move boldly, decisively, and quickly to control the runaway growth of federal spending,” but federal spending “ballooned” under Reagan. He bailed out Social Security in 1983 after attempting to privatize it, and set up a progressive taxation system to keep it funded into the future.

 

 

* Reagan did little to fight a woman’s right to chose. As governor of California in 1967, Reagan signed a bill to liberalize the state’s abortion laws that “resulted in more than a million abortions.”

 

 

* Reagan was a “bellicose peacenik.” He wrote in his memoirs that “[m]y dream…became a world free of nuclear weapons.”

 

 

* Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants. Reagan signed into law a bill that made any immigrant who had entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty.

 

 

* Reagan illegally funneled weapons to Iran. Reagan and other senior U.S. officials secretly sold arms to officials in Iran, which was subject to a an arms embargo at the time, in exchange for American hostages. Some funds from the illegal arms sales also went to fund anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua — something Congress had already prohibited the administration from doing.

 

 

* Reagan vetoed a comprehensive anti-Apartheid act. which placed sanctions on South Africa and cut off all American trade with the country. Reagan’s veto was overridden by the Republican-controlled Senate.

 

 

* Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. Reagan fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union by training, arming, equipping, and funding Islamist mujahidin fighters in Afghanistan. Reagan funneled billions of dollars, along with top-secret intelligence and sophisticated weaponry to these fighters through the Pakistani intelligence service. The Talbian and Osama Bin Laden — a prominent mujahidin commander — emerged from these mujahidin groups Reagan helped create, and U.S. policy towards Pakistan remains strained because of the intelligence services’ close relations to these fighters.

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Most selectively don't. Some other fun Reagan facts -

 

 

 

 

* Reagan was a serial tax raiser. As governor of California, Reagan “signed into law the largest tax increase in the history of any state up till then.” Meanwhile, state spending nearly doubled.

 

 

* Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit. During the Reagan years, the debt increased to nearly $3 trillion, “roughly three times as much as the first 80 years of the century had done altogether.”

 

 

* Unemployment soared after Reagan’s 1981 tax cuts. Unemployment jumped to 10.8 percent after Reagan enacted his much-touted tax cut, and it took years for the rate to get back down to its previous level. Meanwhile, income inequality exploded.

 

 

* Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously. Reagan promised “to move boldly, decisively, and quickly to control the runaway growth of federal spending,” but federal spending “ballooned” under Reagan. He bailed out Social Security in 1983 after attempting to privatize it, and set up a progressive taxation system to keep it funded into the future.

 

 

* Reagan did little to fight a woman’s right to chose. As governor of California in 1967, Reagan signed a bill to liberalize the state’s abortion laws that “resulted in more than a million abortions.”

 

 

* Reagan was a “bellicose peacenik.” He wrote in his memoirs that “[m]y dream…became a world free of nuclear weapons.”

 

 

* Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants. Reagan signed into law a bill that made any immigrant who had entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty.

 

 

* Reagan illegally funneled weapons to Iran. Reagan and other senior U.S. officials secretly sold arms to officials in Iran, which was subject to a an arms embargo at the time, in exchange for American hostages. Some funds from the illegal arms sales also went to fund anti-Communist rebels in Nicaragua — something Congress had already prohibited the administration from doing.

 

 

* Reagan vetoed a comprehensive anti-Apartheid act. which placed sanctions on South Africa and cut off all American trade with the country. Reagan’s veto was overridden by the Republican-controlled Senate.

 

 

* Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden. Reagan fought a proxy war with the Soviet Union by training, arming, equipping, and funding Islamist mujahidin fighters in Afghanistan. Reagan funneled billions of dollars, along with top-secret intelligence and sophisticated weaponry to these fighters through the Pakistani intelligence service. The Talbian and Osama Bin Laden — a prominent mujahidin commander — emerged from these mujahidin groups Reagan helped create, and U.S. policy towards Pakistan remains strained because of the intelligence services’ close relations to these fighters.

and he is stillbetter than the loser in chief Obango

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WASHINGTON -- Everyone knows that money buys political access.

 

But in Wisconsin, apparently all you have to do to get the governor on the horn is just pretend to be a super-rich contributor - who also happens to be aiding his fight against unions - and he'll be happy to take your call.

 

And bend your ear for 20 minutes, too.

 

That's what Republican Gov. Scott Walker did Wednesday when he thought that Kansas billionaire industrialist David Koch was on the line to talk about Walker's fight to wring budget concessions from the state's public employees.

 

A key trigger for more than a week of protests has been Walker's insistence that the unions, which have agreed to other concessions, throw in the towel on their right to collective bargaining.

 

It's made him an instant folk hero to the right and villain on the left.

 

But it wasn't Koch on the phone. It was actually writer Ian Murphy, of a liberal online news site, pretending to be Koch. But that didn't stop Walker from explaining to "Koch" how his anti-union battle needed to spread to Ohio, Michigan, Florida and other states.

 

"You're the first domino," Murphy-as-Koch said.

 

"Yep, this is our moment," Walker replied.

 

A spokesman for Koch Industries didn't return calls seeking comment.

 

David Koch and his brother, Charles, run Koch Industries, a conglomerate based in Wichita, Kan. They're a major force behind the tea party movement and donate money to conservative causes and candidates, including Walker's own election last fall.

 

The online news site, buffalobeast.com, posted the conversation and it soon went viral. The site subsequently went offline, possibly due to the crush of people trying to fathom how someone was able to so easily dupe the governor and his staff.

 

"The governor takes many calls every day," Walker spokesman Cullen Werwie said in a statement.

 

At a news conference, Walker said, "The things I said are the things I've said publicly all the time."

 

In their conversation, Walker told his caller about possible strategies under discussion to lure Democratic lawmakers back to Madison. They fled to Illinois last week to thwart Republican efforts to gain a quorum and vote on Walker's plans, which would easily pass because his party holds the majority.

 

One of the ideas Walker told the fake David Koch was to force the Democrats in exile to return to Wisconsin to get their paychecks, which are otherwise directly deposited in their bank accounts.

 

Besides aiding Walker's election, conservative business groups tied to the Kochs have paid for $320,000 in ads pushing his budget legislation. The Kochs also have business interests in Wisconsin and recently set up a lobbying office in the capital.

 

Charles Marsh, who teaches journalism ethics at the University of Kansas, said that the website's tactic "certainly doesn't fall into any time-tested concept of what a true journalist is."

 

But Marsh said, "I acknowledge my own hypocrisy. I think it's disgraceful and shameful. I would fire any reporter who did that. But I can't wait to read what the governor said."

 

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/23/2082208/wisconsin-governor-falls-for-fake.html#ixzz1EqEy9men

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The people of Wisconsin elected him based on what he ran on during the election. He is fulfilling those promises.

The people of Wisconsin were fed a shit sandwich disguised as change that would help the Wisconsin people. Much like those on the federal level.

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The people of Wisconsin were fed a shit sandwich disguised as change that would help the Wisconsin people. Much like those on the federal level.

 

 

Kinda like the shit sandwich obama fed you disguised as change and hope and love and people fainting and transparency and rainbows flying out his ass etc...

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