Pres. Obama begins post-SOTU tour in Idaho

[Statistikhengst]

It's fun to watch Righties degenerate like they are on this thread.

What Righties here have not noticed is how well the President was received in Idaho.

Wow, a picked crowd and Stat thinks he was well received. Give us a break.

Idaho is not a monolithic red state.

Boise is a different world politically than the rest of Idaho redvoter

Boise is a largely Democratic and with a growing Latino population it will gradually change over the long run. Obama is someone who thinks and acts in the long term.

Psst. You just spoiled his fantasy. There is still about 1/3 of Idaho that is really quite Democratic in it's voting patterns and most of those people are really quite receptive to our President. President Obama is absolutely right: there are not blue states or red states, there are the United States of America. I wish Rrrrrraging Rrrrrrighties would finally catch on to this simple-to-understand idea.

 

[LoneLaugher]

I heard yesterday that his SOTU address had the lowest number of viewers in the history of USA. I wonder exactly how many people watched it?

Also someone told me that recently while hearing about a discussion on the 2016 election it was implied that Obama would be running for a 3rd term. Did you hear anything about that?

Oh yes. I heard that too. He's planning on announcing it when gas is less than $1 per gallon. It's gonna be awesome!

 

[Statistikhengst]

I heard yesterday that his SOTU address had the lowest number of viewers in the history of USA. I wonder exactly how many people watched it?

Also someone told me that recently while hearing about a discussion on the 2016 election it was implied that Obama would be running for a 3rd term. Did you hear anything about that?

Oh yes. I heard that too. He's planning on announcing it when gas is less than $1 per gallon. It's gonna be awesome!

Oh, indubitably, that is surely going to happen!!!

 

[westwall]

It's fun to watch Righties degenerate like they are on this thread.

What Righties here have not noticed is how well the President was received in Idaho.

Wow, a picked crowd and Stat thinks he was well received. Give us a break.

Idaho is not a monolithic red state.

Boise is a different world politically than the rest of Idaho redvoter

Boise is a largely Democratic and with a growing Latino population it will gradually change over the long run. Obama is someone who thinks and acts in the long term.

Yes, I know all of that. Trainloads of Californians have been abandoning that state due to its effed up situation, and dragging their idiotic beliefs to other states, trying to screw them up as well. Californians are like locusts, they destroy one field, then move on to the next, and the next, and the next.

 

[westwall]

It's fun to watch Righties degenerate like they are on this thread.

What Righties here have not noticed is how well the President was received in Idaho.

Wow, a picked crowd and Stat thinks he was well received. Give us a break.

Idaho is not a monolithic red state.

Boise is a different world politically than the rest of Idaho redvoter

Boise is a largely Democratic and with a growing Latino population it will gradually change over the long run. Obama is someone who thinks and acts in the long term.

Psst. You just spoiled his fantasy. There is still about 1/3 of Idaho that is really quite Democratic in it's voting patterns and most of those people are really quite receptive to our President. President Obama is absolutely right: there are not blue states or red states, there are the United States of America. I wish Rrrrrraging Rrrrrrighties would finally catch on to this simple-to-understand idea.

Dictatorships are always simple Stat. As a good German I am sure you're familiar with that concept.

What's amazing is how many East Germans, when absorbed by the West, desired to go back to the old tried and true socialist system where they lived in their 2 room apartment, were fed whatever their masters felt was due them, and all because they were either too stupid, too afraid, or too lazy to work in the Western world.

 

[Derideo_Te]

It's fun to watch Righties degenerate like they are on this thread.

What Righties here have not noticed is how well the President was received in Idaho.

Wow, a picked crowd and Stat thinks he was well received. Give us a break.

Idaho is not a monolithic red state.

Boise is a different world politically than the rest of Idaho redvoter

Boise is a largely Democratic and with a growing Latino population it will gradually change over the long run. Obama is someone who thinks and acts in the long term.

Yes, I know all of that. Trainloads of Californians have been abandoning that state due to its effed up situation, and dragging their idiotic beliefs to other states, trying to screw them up as well. Californians are like locusts, they destroy one field, then move on to the next, and the next, and the next.

Really?

There are no home grown Dems in Idaho because that would be unimaginable? Not one of them who can think for themselves and figure out that the Libertarian GOP and their Wall Street Casino Lords and Masters are screwing them and their kids and grandkids out of their future?

 

[westwall]

It's fun to watch Righties degenerate like they are on this thread.

What Righties here have not noticed is how well the President was received in Idaho.

Wow, a picked crowd and Stat thinks he was well received. Give us a break.

Idaho is not a monolithic red state.

Boise is a different world politically than the rest of Idaho redvoter

Boise is a largely Democratic and with a growing Latino population it will gradually change over the long run. Obama is someone who thinks and acts in the long term.

Yes, I know all of that. Trainloads of Californians have been abandoning that state due to its effed up situation, and dragging their idiotic beliefs to other states, trying to screw them up as well. Californians are like locusts, they destroy one field, then move on to the next, and the next, and the next.

Really?

There are no home grown Dems in Idaho because that would be unimaginable? Not one of them who can think for themselves and figure out that the Libertarian GOP and their Wall Street Casino Lords and Masters are screwing them and their kids and grandkids out of their future?

Of course there are. A good friend of mine lives in Nampa, like me, he too is a Dem, but California Dems are different. They have a high percentage of progressives in their ranks, and progressives are mindless destroyers of individual rights.

They are followers of a dictatorial philosophy that is counter to every Democrat ideal I know of. They don't believe in individual rights and responsibilities but instead believe in the all reaching power of the State.

 

[Statistikhengst]

It's fun to watch Righties degenerate like they are on this thread.

What Righties here have not noticed is how well the President was received in Idaho.

Wow, a picked crowd and Stat thinks he was well received. Give us a break.

Idaho is not a monolithic red state.

Boise is a different world politically than the rest of Idaho redvoter

Boise is a largely Democratic and with a growing Latino population it will gradually change over the long run. Obama is someone who thinks and acts in the long term.

Yes, I know all of that. Trainloads of Californians have been abandoning that state due to its effed up situation, and dragging their idiotic beliefs to other states, trying to screw them up as well. Californians are like locusts, they destroy one field, then move on to the next, and the next, and the next.

Really?

There are no home grown Dems in Idaho because that would be unimaginable? Not one of them who can think for themselves and figure out that the Libertarian GOP and their Wall Street Casino Lords and Masters are screwing them and their kids and grandkids out of their future?

Oh, and just to add: California balance it's budget. In fact, California now has a surplus. I hear that some idiot out there thinks that Californians are abandoning their state. LOL.

 

[Statistikhengst]

And I think that someone was silly enough to call me a good German. What an idiot. I am an American, I just live overseas.

Now, for that idiot who cannot stay on topic, back to the OP:

Obama begins his post SOTU tour in Idaho.

After Idaho, the President was in Kansas, touting his childcare proposals.

Obama pushes childcare initiatives in conservative Kansas Reuters

 

[westwall]

It's fun to watch Righties degenerate like they are on this thread.

What Righties here have not noticed is how well the President was received in Idaho.

Wow, a picked crowd and Stat thinks he was well received. Give us a break.

Idaho is not a monolithic red state.

Boise is a different world politically than the rest of Idaho redvoter

Boise is a largely Democratic and with a growing Latino population it will gradually change over the long run. Obama is someone who thinks and acts in the long term.

Yes, I know all of that. Trainloads of Californians have been abandoning that state due to its effed up situation, and dragging their idiotic beliefs to other states, trying to screw them up as well. Californians are like locusts, they destroy one field, then move on to the next, and the next, and the next.

Really?

There are no home grown Dems in Idaho because that would be unimaginable? Not one of them who can think for themselves and figure out that the Libertarian GOP and their Wall Street Casino Lords and Masters are screwing them and their kids and grandkids out of their future?

Oh, and just to add: California balance it's budget. In fact, California now has a surplus. I hear that some idiot out there thinks that Californians are abandoning their state. LOL.

Are you sure you're a statistician? Really? Remember Stat, there's lies, damned lies, and statistics. California's "balanced budget" isn't. They are merely referring to the General Fund ONLY! Are you even capable of telling the truth? I mean even a prog such as you should have at least a minimum requirement for the amount of factual information in a post!

Below are three links that show the Board your complete divorce from reality with the statement that California has "balanced" its budget.


Sacramento Bee Columnist Dan Walters notes:

…there’s been so much recent jockeying on how the state keeps its books that referring merely to the general fund as the budget is not only incomplete, but downright misleading to the voting and taxpaying public.

The tendency has been to shift expenditures from the general fund to new special funds and that has the effect – intended or coincidental – of flattening out general fund numbers and thus making the growth of state spending look smaller than it has been.

Sacramento Bee -- Capitol Alert

"SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown proclaimed last week that California, which now has enough cash to pay its day-to-day bills, can no longer be described by naysayers as a "failed state."

But even though it appears to be free of the deficit that dogged the Capitol in recent years, the state is no model of financial health.

Sacramento is legally obligated to pay many billions of dollars withheld from schools, local governments and healthcare providers as lawmakers struggled repeatedly to balance the books. It owes Wall Street more per resident than almost every other state. And it has accumulated a crushing load of debt for retiree pensions and healthcare, now totaling more than taxpayers spend each year on all state programs combined.

The budget Brown proposed Thursday addresses only a small portion of the overall debt, which stems from the same types of bills that drove cities like Vallejo, Stockton and San Bernardino into bankruptcy. The state is likely to find its debt consuming an ever larger share of money meant for the basic needs of government."



California s debt still a heavy cloud over state s future - Los Angeles Times






The 2013-14 Budget California rsquo s Fiscal Outlook

 

[Statistikhengst]

Wow, a picked crowd and Stat thinks he was well received. Give us a break.

Idaho is not a monolithic red state.

Boise is a different world politically than the rest of Idaho redvoter

Boise is a largely Democratic and with a growing Latino population it will gradually change over the long run. Obama is someone who thinks and acts in the long term.

Yes, I know all of that. Trainloads of Californians have been abandoning that state due to its effed up situation, and dragging their idiotic beliefs to other states, trying to screw them up as well. Californians are like locusts, they destroy one field, then move on to the next, and the next, and the next.

Really?

There are no home grown Dems in Idaho because that would be unimaginable? Not one of them who can think for themselves and figure out that the Libertarian GOP and their Wall Street Casino Lords and Masters are screwing them and their kids and grandkids out of their future?

Oh, and just to add: California balance it's budget. In fact, California now has a surplus. I hear that some idiot out there thinks that Californians are abandoning their state. LOL.

Are you sure you're a statistician? Really? Remember Stat, there's lies, damned lies, and statistics. California's "balanced budget" isn't. They are merely referring to the General Fund ONLY! Are you even capable of telling the truth? I mean even a prog such as you should have at least a minimum requirement for the amount of factual information in a post!

Below are three links that show the Board your complete divorce from reality with the statement that California has "balanced" its budget.


Sacramento Bee Columnist Dan Walters notes:

…there’s been so much recent jockeying on how the state keeps its books that referring merely to the general fund as the budget is not only incomplete, but downright misleading to the voting and taxpaying public.

The tendency has been to shift expenditures from the general fund to new special funds and that has the effect – intended or coincidental – of flattening out general fund numbers and thus making the growth of state spending look smaller than it has been.

Sacramento Bee -- Capitol Alert

"SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown proclaimed last week that California, which now has enough cash to pay its day-to-day bills, can no longer be described by naysayers as a "failed state."

But even though it appears to be free of the deficit that dogged the Capitol in recent years, the state is no model of financial health.

Sacramento is legally obligated to pay many billions of dollars withheld from schools, local governments and healthcare providers as lawmakers struggled repeatedly to balance the books. It owes Wall Street more per resident than almost every other state. And it has accumulated a crushing load of debt for retiree pensions and healthcare, now totaling more than taxpayers spend each year on all state programs combined.

The budget Brown proposed Thursday addresses only a small portion of the overall debt, which stems from the same types of bills that drove cities like Vallejo, Stockton and San Bernardino into bankruptcy. The state is likely to find its debt consuming an ever larger share of money meant for the basic needs of government."



California s debt still a heavy cloud over state s future - Los Angeles Times






The 2013-14 Budget California rsquo s Fiscal Outlook

From the link:


"But even though it appears to be free of the deficit that dogged the Capitol in recent years, the state is no model of financial health."


California's budget is balanced. It's deficit: ZERO.

Gov. Brown told the truth. You don't like it? Tough **** for you.

The debt is a different story. Lot's of families balance their checkbook and the money runs fine, but they still have debt.

But you knew that already. All you are doing is trolling. That's all.

 

[Derideo_Te]

It's fun to watch Righties degenerate like they are on this thread.

What Righties here have not noticed is how well the President was received in Idaho.

Wow, a picked crowd and Stat thinks he was well received. Give us a break.

Idaho is not a monolithic red state.

Boise is a different world politically than the rest of Idaho redvoter

Boise is a largely Democratic and with a growing Latino population it will gradually change over the long run. Obama is someone who thinks and acts in the long term.

Yes, I know all of that. Trainloads of Californians have been abandoning that state due to its effed up situation, and dragging their idiotic beliefs to other states, trying to screw them up as well. Californians are like locusts, they destroy one field, then move on to the next, and the next, and the next.

Really?

There are no home grown Dems in Idaho because that would be unimaginable? Not one of them who can think for themselves and figure out that the Libertarian GOP and their Wall Street Casino Lords and Masters are screwing them and their kids and grandkids out of their future?

Of course there are. A good friend of mine lives in Nampa, like me, he too is a Dem, but California Dems are different. They have a high percentage of progressives in their ranks, and progressives are mindless destroyers of individual rights.

They are followers of a dictatorial philosophy that is counter to every Democrat ideal I know of. They don't believe in individual rights and responsibilities but instead believe in the all reaching power of the State.

You are demonizing an entire state for what you perceive to be "mindless destroyers of individual rights".

So now the onus is on you to substantiate that claim and prove that they have "destroyed individual rights".

 

[Statistikhengst]

So, back to the topic, considering that some idiots, westerly direction, cough-cough, have no idea how to stay on topic.

The President used 2 days to start his Post SOTU 2015 tour across the country, exactly as he said he would do in his address.

First, Boise, Idaho.
Second, The U of K in Lawrence, Kansas.




http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/22/u...the-union-theme-to-idaho-and-kansas.html?_r=0

 

[Statistikhengst]

Wow, a picked crowd and Stat thinks he was well received. Give us a break.

Idaho is not a monolithic red state.

Boise is a different world politically than the rest of Idaho redvoter

Boise is a largely Democratic and with a growing Latino population it will gradually change over the long run. Obama is someone who thinks and acts in the long term.

Yes, I know all of that. Trainloads of Californians have been abandoning that state due to its effed up situation, and dragging their idiotic beliefs to other states, trying to screw them up as well. Californians are like locusts, they destroy one field, then move on to the next, and the next, and the next.

Really?

There are no home grown Dems in Idaho because that would be unimaginable? Not one of them who can think for themselves and figure out that the Libertarian GOP and their Wall Street Casino Lords and Masters are screwing them and their kids and grandkids out of their future?

Of course there are. A good friend of mine lives in Nampa, like me, he too is a Dem, but California Dems are different. They have a high percentage of progressives in their ranks, and progressives are mindless destroyers of individual rights.

They are followers of a dictatorial philosophy that is counter to every Democrat ideal I know of. They don't believe in individual rights and responsibilities but instead believe in the all reaching power of the State.

You are demonizing an entire state for what you perceive to be "mindless destroyers of individual rights".

So now the onus is on you to substantiate that claim and prove that they have "destroyed individual rights".

And interestingly enough, this thread is not supposed to be about California at all. It's about the President speaking in Idaho, and visiting Idaho for the first time. Amazing how some people just don't get it.

 

[Derideo_Te]

It owes Wall Street more per resident than almost every other state.

Gosh! The Wall Street Casino Bosses swindled billions out of CA retirement funds leaving the state on the hook. In a fair and just society the Wall Street Casino Bosses would be doing hard time and their assets used to repay the CA taxpayers for what was stolen.

Unfortunately the Libertarian GOP won't hear of that happening so instead the CA taxpayers are stuck with the bill for the GOP's malfeasance.

 

[westwall]

Idaho is not a monolithic red state.

Boise is a different world politically than the rest of Idaho redvoter

Boise is a largely Democratic and with a growing Latino population it will gradually change over the long run. Obama is someone who thinks and acts in the long term.

Yes, I know all of that. Trainloads of Californians have been abandoning that state due to its effed up situation, and dragging their idiotic beliefs to other states, trying to screw them up as well. Californians are like locusts, they destroy one field, then move on to the next, and the next, and the next.

Really?

There are no home grown Dems in Idaho because that would be unimaginable? Not one of them who can think for themselves and figure out that the Libertarian GOP and their Wall Street Casino Lords and Masters are screwing them and their kids and grandkids out of their future?

Of course there are. A good friend of mine lives in Nampa, like me, he too is a Dem, but California Dems are different. They have a high percentage of progressives in their ranks, and progressives are mindless destroyers of individual rights.

They are followers of a dictatorial philosophy that is counter to every Democrat ideal I know of. They don't believe in individual rights and responsibilities but instead believe in the all reaching power of the State.

You are demonizing an entire state for what you perceive to be "mindless destroyers of individual rights".

So now the onus is on you to substantiate that claim and prove that they have "destroyed individual rights".

And interestingly enough, this thread is not supposed to be about California at all. It's about the President speaking in Idaho, and visiting Idaho for the first time. Amazing how some people just don't get it.

And they are all inter-related....Gosh, Stat thinks that the world exists in a vacuum.

 

[Statistikhengst]

It owes Wall Street more per resident than almost every other state.

Gosh! The Wall Street Casino Bosses swindled billions out of CA retirement funds leaving the state on the hook. In a fair and just society the Wall Street Casino Bosses would be doing hard time and their assets used to repay the CA taxpayers for what was stolen.

Unfortunately the Libertarian GOP won't hear of that happening so instead the CA taxpayers are stuck with the bill for the GOP's malfeasance.

And indeed, it is malfeasance.

 

[Statistikhengst]

Yes, I know all of that. Trainloads of Californians have been abandoning that state due to its effed up situation, and dragging their idiotic beliefs to other states, trying to screw them up as well. Californians are like locusts, they destroy one field, then move on to the next, and the next, and the next.

Really?

There are no home grown Dems in Idaho because that would be unimaginable? Not one of them who can think for themselves and figure out that the Libertarian GOP and their Wall Street Casino Lords and Masters are screwing them and their kids and grandkids out of their future?

Of course there are. A good friend of mine lives in Nampa, like me, he too is a Dem, but California Dems are different. They have a high percentage of progressives in their ranks, and progressives are mindless destroyers of individual rights.

They are followers of a dictatorial philosophy that is counter to every Democrat ideal I know of. They don't believe in individual rights and responsibilities but instead believe in the all reaching power of the State.

You are demonizing an entire state for what you perceive to be "mindless destroyers of individual rights".

So now the onus is on you to substantiate that claim and prove that they have "destroyed individual rights".

And interestingly enough, this thread is not supposed to be about California at all. It's about the President speaking in Idaho, and visiting Idaho for the first time. Amazing how some people just don't get it.

And they are all inter-related....Gosh, Stat thinks that the world exists in a vacuum.

I know how to stay on topic and not troll a thread. Cuz goodness knows, the mods don't like it when someone trolls a thread! Gosh darn!

 

[westwall]

It owes Wall Street more per resident than almost every other state.

Gosh! The Wall Street Casino Bosses swindled billions out of CA retirement funds leaving the state on the hook. In a fair and just society the Wall Street Casino Bosses would be doing hard time and their assets used to repay the CA taxpayers for what was stolen.

Unfortunately the Libertarian GOP won't hear of that happening so instead the CA taxpayers are stuck with the bill for the GOP's malfeasance.

Yes, they did. And you would have thought that the Obummer admin would at least try and put some of those scumbags in prison, but no. Too many of them are IN his admin (especially scumbags from Goldman) and they want to profit from the corruption too.

 

[westwall]

Wow, a picked crowd and Stat thinks he was well received. Give us a break.

Idaho is not a monolithic red state.

Boise is a different world politically than the rest of Idaho redvoter

Boise is a largely Democratic and with a growing Latino population it will gradually change over the long run. Obama is someone who thinks and acts in the long term.

Yes, I know all of that. Trainloads of Californians have been abandoning that state due to its effed up situation, and dragging their idiotic beliefs to other states, trying to screw them up as well. Californians are like locusts, they destroy one field, then move on to the next, and the next, and the next.

Really?

There are no home grown Dems in Idaho because that would be unimaginable? Not one of them who can think for themselves and figure out that the Libertarian GOP and their Wall Street Casino Lords and Masters are screwing them and their kids and grandkids out of their future?

Of course there are. A good friend of mine lives in Nampa, like me, he too is a Dem, but California Dems are different. They have a high percentage of progressives in their ranks, and progressives are mindless destroyers of individual rights.

They are followers of a dictatorial philosophy that is counter to every Democrat ideal I know of. They don't believe in individual rights and responsibilities but instead believe in the all reaching power of the State.

You are demonizing an entire state for what you perceive to be "mindless destroyers of individual rights".

So now the onus is on you to substantiate that claim and prove that they have "destroyed individual rights".

The evidence is in all the people, and businesses, that are abandoning the State for more friendly climes.