Soon it will be one month from the presidential elections. Below, a detailed list of the debates coming up in October, as scheduled. Follows each date are my notes. Warning, at times I get snarky..
October 3, 2012
Topic: Domestic policy
Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: University of Denver in Denver, Colorado (Tickets)
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
Moderator: Jim Lehrer (Host of NewsHour on PBS)
The moderator will open each segment with a question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the topic.
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I don't even know what the hell domestic policy is. Does this mean how we shall control crime? Is this about our social infrastructure? Jim Lehrer?
October 11, 2012
Vice Presidential
Topic: Foreign and domestic policy
Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Centre College in Danville, Kentucky (Tickets)
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan
Moderator: Martha Raddatz (ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent)
The debate will cover both foreign and domestic topics and be divided into nine time segments of approximately 10 minutes each. The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond. The moderator will use the balance of the time in the segment for a discussion of the question.
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Oh my goodness this one is a foreign AND domestic policy. And I still don't know what domestic policy consists of. But hey, it's Biden against Paul Ryan. The jokes write themselves.
Who the hell is Martha Raddatz?
Topic: Town meeting format including foreign and domestic policy
Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York (Tickets)
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
Moderator: Candy Crowley (CNN Chief Political Correspondent)
The second presidential debate will take the form of a town meeting, in which citizens will ask questions of the candidates on foreign and domestic issues. Candidates each will have two minutes to respond, and an additional minute for the moderator to facilitate a discussion. The town meeting participants will be undecided voters selected by the Gallup Organization.
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Okay, now we're back to foreign and domestic policy.
I sure hope the moderator, Candy Crowley of CNN, pounds on ole Barry about his relationship with Israel.
I predict that Mittens will make mincemeat out of Obamer.
Candy Crowley, she tries but she's another Lamestream loser-burger.
October 22, 2012
Topic: Foreign policy
Air Time: 9:00-10:30 p.m. Eastern Time
Location: Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida (Tickets)
Sponsor: Commission on Presidential Debates
Participants: President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
Moderator: Bob Schieffer (Host of Face the Nation on CBS)
The format for the debate will be identical to the first presidential debate and will focus on foreign policy.
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Sheesh, Bob Schieffer, a dim bulb loser burger, what they can't any moderators with some credibility?
At any rate, the topic is foreign policy. Mittens will wrap up the debates the clear winner with this final presidential debate
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SOCIAL SECURITY NOW CALLED FEDERAL BENEFIT PAYMENT'/ENTITLEMENT!
Have you noticed, your Social Security check is now referred
to as a "Federal Benefit Payment"?
The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a “Federal Benefit Payment.” This isn’t a benefit – its earned income!
Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too.
It totaled 15% of our income before taxes. If you averaged $30K per
year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security.
If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security $375/month, including both your and your employer’s contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment.
Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.
That’s almost three times more than today’s average Social Security benefit of
$1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration (Google it - it’s a fact).
And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in
low-risk interest-earning accounts.
Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They “forgot” that
it was OUR money they were taking. They didn’t have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them.
And they didn’t pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently, they’ve told us that the money won’t support us for very much longer. But is it our fault they misused our investments?
And now, to add insult to injury, they’re calling it a “benefit,” as if we never worked to earn every penny of it. Just because they “borrowed” the money, doesn't mean that our investments were a charity! Let’s take a stand.
We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government –
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going, for the sake of that
92% of our population who need it.
Here’s a novel idea: Reduce the military budget to support our own population. Get out of the countries who don’t want us there. Bring our soldiers home and
invest some of the $700B+ in giving them new careers building roads and parks, teaching our children, creating new technologies, discovering cures for
illness.
Then take the rest and begin to pay back Social Security, and call it what it is:
Our Earned Retirement Income.
Ending With a Smile
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