I saw the big phony. Why donate? He gets enough
Posted By: from the Middle East anyway...scary guy.nm on 2008-10-29
In Reply to: Oh yeah, in case you want to see what he can do for you... - mj
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Start with yourself - did you donate and what percentage?
Bet that is a big no, and $0. Seeing as you're so into helping others who cannot because of no fault of their own.
I don't think anyone on this board ever said we should not help the handicapped who cannot help themselves. Most people here whether they are liberal or conservatives have compassion. It's the ones who can help themselves, who are physically and mentally able to get jobs but they won't because it's easier to sit at home and receive that welfare check. By all means I am not saying everyone on welfare can get a job, but there are a good percentage of those that can (and pay taxes to help those who can't), but why should they when they are getting it for free. And now it will be even easier for them to get something for nothing.
Not everybody is only out for ourselves and screw everyone else. I donate money to a charitable cause - an Indian reservation in Arizona to help provide food and water to them. I wish I could donate more or to more charities, but I'm a one-income three person family, and I send money to my family back east who are having a hard time, which leaves me with nothing left over. Do I want government to take more taxes from me - no way....let me decide for myself which charities I want to donate to.
Not sure what the beef is here. I do not agree that we all are out for only ourselves, but in these economic times and people out of work and losing everything, how can you expect them to want government to take more money out in taxes.
So, I may be misinterpreting this message. Are you for the government taxing us more, or are you just mad at GW and his administration and want to vent. While your venting you should vent about what the Clintons did on their way out to include taking everything not nailed down not only in the WH but also on Air Force One.
Ya, thanks for your phony thanks...sm
saw your other post below on links......
You're the phony.
And you're the one who has issues..severe anger management issues. You've been up and down this board throwing hissy fits, one right after another, being rude, crude, angry and obnoxious to anyone who dares to disagree with you, and you even had the audacity to suggest to someone (who has put up with your crap and tried to discuss issues with you) that they have anger issues. YOU are the one with an obvious anger problem. You act like a 3-year-old who is throwing a tantrum because she can't get her way. You're the one who is phony. You must have a pitiful personal life, and it must really suck to be YOU because you are obviously miserable.
Romney is a phony, but at least not a lunatic. sm
McCain will bomb Iran the day after he takes office. There really is no difference in voting for either one - they will both assure the status quo, but I do not want McCain anywhere near a button for a bomb.
phony outrage coming from the
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Pelosi is even more phony than Obama
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This guy gets it. Sees through the phony Obama
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Oh, I know. Al Gore is the biggest phony
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More Bush abuses: Phony 9/11 Loans
Nevada tanning salon gets 9/11 loan: audit
By Jim WolfThu Dec 29, 3:10 PM ET
A Texas golf course, a Nevada tanning salon and an Illinois candy shop were among small businesses that may have improperly received U.S. subsidized loans intended for firms hurt by the September 11 attacks, an internal government watchdog has found.
The Small Business Administration's inspector general said in a report made public on Wednesday that in 85 percent of the sample of loans it reviewed, a company's eligibility to receive the money through the program could not be verified.
A leading Senate Republican called for further investigation, but the Small Business Administration said the program was properly implemented.
The one-year, $4.5 billion Supplemental Terrorist Activity Relief, or STAR, program offered loan guarantees to small businesses adversely affected by the September 11 attacks.
However, the Small Business Administration had failed to properly oversee lenders to make sure that only eligible borrowers obtained STAR loans, the watchdog's report found.
Money may have gone to businesses that were not adversely impacted by the terrorist attacks of September 11th or their aftermath, wrote Robert Seabrooks, assistant inspector general for auditing.
Congress authorized the program in January 2002, and set aside $75 million to cover potential defaults. The program was operated through the Small Business Administration's main loan-guarantee program and the loans were made by participating banks. In all, 8,201 loans were approved totaling $3.7 billion, but only 7,058 were actually paid out.
Of 42 STAR-loan recipients interviewed by the inspector general's office, just two said they were aware they had obtained a such a loan. In cases where eligibility could not be established, 25 of 34 borrowers interviewed stated they were not adversely affected by the attacks, the report said.
GOLF COURSE
The report's examples included the Texas golf course, whose owner was cited by a lender as saying people were more interested in staying home and watching the attack on television than playing golf. However, the course was owned by someone else when the attacks took place and the justification for the $480,000 in loan guarantees did not apply to the new owner, the report said.
The tanning salon's lender blamed the September 11 attacks for hurting the Las Vegas casino industry which employed many of the salon's customers.
However, the inspector general found the salon's business had grown by 52 percent in 2001 and 32 percent in 2002 and said there was no evidence the owner could not borrow outside of the program. The SBA guaranteed $437,000 in loans to the salon, which were used to expand.
The Illinois candy shop received $21,250 in guarantees but could not back up its claim that the attacks had delayed the shop's opening, the report said.
Senate Small Business Committee Chairwoman Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, said her panel would look into the program.
If abuses are discovered, many questions must be answered by the parties involved, beginning with how and why was this allowed to happen, she said in a statement.
SBA said it has told lenders it will not honor guarantees on defaulted loans that fail to document the September 11 link.
SBA implemented the STAR program as Congress intended, Administrator Hector Barreto said in a statement.
The inspector general said it appeared qualified borrowers were not shut out of STAR loans.
(Additional reporting by Diane Bartz)
Pathetic are people who would follow this phony.
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I dont hate Obama, but he seems like a phony.
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Rush cant stand a phony spouted scripted
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