https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/ Florida's #1 online community for sharing information about hunting, fishing and the outdoor experience en-US Mon, 18 May 2026 13:09:16 +0000 wpForo 60 https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/what-a-2021-clusterfuk/ Sun, 12 Sep 2021 08:57:40 +0000 POLITICS & THE ECONOMY Cr0ck1 (Beagler) https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/what-a-2021-clusterfuk/ https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/2-important-florida-races/ Tue, 25 Sep 2018 18:26:50 +0000 The point of this post is the threat I just heard the last few days from the Tallahassee mayor Andrew Gillum. If elected governor, he intends to ban all "assault rifles" in Florida. Most of us know that the AR does not stand for assault rifle, we know what AR stands for. With this bold statement, I would urge you to vote for Ron DeSantis for governor, as he apparently has great respect for the 2nd Amendment.
We have the same issue when we analyze the Florida US Senate race. Candidate Scott is pro 2nd Amendment, Candidate Nelson is opposed to your right to own "certain" firearms. He seems to hide behind his so called support for those hunting, folks it's not all about hunting!
This goes way beyond the issues discussed concerning who needs an "automatic" rifle to hunt deer and other such ignorant statements. Politicians, Republican, Democrat or Independent who wish to limit your 2nd Amendment rights need not be elected or re-elected.
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A GUN IN THE HAND IS BETTER THAN A COP ON THE PHONE]]> POLITICS & THE ECONOMY treefarmer https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/2-important-florida-races/ https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/presidential-time-of-the-year/ Thu, 06 Aug 2015 16:03:28 +0000
What do you all think.?


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# 10 Only in America... could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $35,000.00 per plate Obama campaign fund-raising event.

# 09 Only in America... could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when they have a black President, a black Attorney General and roughly 20% of the federal workforce is black while only 14% of the population is black, 40+% of all federal entitlements goes to black Americans - 3X the rate that go to whites, 5X the rate that go to Hispanics!

# 08 Only in America... could they have had the two people most responsible for our tax code, Timothy Geithner (the head of the Treasury Department) and Charles Rangel (who once ran the Ways and Means Committee), BOTH turn out to be tax cheats who are in favor of higher taxes.

# 07 Only in America... can they have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media primarily react by fretting that Muslims might be harmed by the backlash.

# 06 Only in America... would they make people who want to legally become American citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege, while they discuss letting anyone who sneaks into the country illegally just 'magically' become American citizens. (probably should be number one)

# 05 Only in America... could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country's Constitution be called EXTREMISTS.

# 04 Only in America... could you need to present a driver's license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote.

# 03 Only in America... could people demand the government investigate whether oil companies are gouging the public because the price of gas went up when the return on equity invested in a major U.S. Oil company (Marathon Oil) is less than half of a company making tennis shoes (Nike).

# 02 Only in America... could you collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7 Million PER MINUTE, and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money.

# 01 Only in America.... could the rich people - who pay 86% of all income taxes - be accused of not paying their "fair share" by people who don't pay any income taxes at all.]]> POLITICS & THE ECONOMY Triple Creek Reaper https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/only-in-america/ https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/david-jolly-wins/ Tue, 11 Mar 2014 20:36:40 +0000 POLITICS & THE ECONOMY Rusty https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/david-jolly-wins/ https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/article-from-the-morning/ Wed, 22 Jan 2014 10:17:50 +0000
No, Mr. Obama, we don’t dislike you because you’re black

By Wayne Allyn Root Published January 21, 2014 FoxNews.com

America, we have an egotistical, delusional president. He has convinced himself that he is disliked by many Americans because he is black.

In a lengthy interview with New Yorker magazine editor David Remnick the president tells him, "There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black president. Now, the flip side of it is there are some black folks and maybe some white folks who really like me and give me the benefit of the doubt precisely because I’m a black president."

President Obama’s approval rating has fallen badly in the national polls. His ratings are historically low. The second lowest in modern history at this point of a presidency. Lower than Bush. Lower than everyone but Richard Nixon.

I don’t dislike Obama. I dislike his beliefs and his policies.
Here come the excuses. Obama desperately wants to believe it’s all because he’s black. Because if he didn’t have that excuse, it would have to be based on his performance.

When Obama blames "some folks" for not liking him because he's black, he refers to conservatives and white Americans. I’m an unapologetic member of both groups.

It’s an interesting excuse.

If we disliked him for the color of his skin, that would excuse his failed performance as president. How convenient. That would excuse everything he’s done to damage or destroy American exceptionalism, capitalism, and the U.S. economy.

If this was about race, it would excuse his dismantling of the economy. It would excuse the 92 million working-age Americans not in the workforce.

It would excuse all-time record lows for workforce participation. It would excuse tens of thousands, and in some cases, hundreds of thousands of Americans dropping out of the workforce every month.

It would excuse the fact that only crummy, crappy, low-wage part-time jobs are being created because of Obama’s policies.

If this was about race, it would excuse Obama taking the formerly greatest health care system in the world and plunging it into crisis and confusion.

It would distract us from seeing his failed ObamaCare web site that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Or his blatant lies about keeping our health insurance if we like it. Or his lies about the middle class not being taxed to pay for 30 million new patients.

Or his lies about the quality of care remaining the same, even though we’ve added 30 million new patients, with no new doctors.

Or his lies about prices going down, while our rates are going through the roof, and his own IRS predicts health insurance will cost the average family a staggering $20,000 per year by 2016.

If this was about race, it would excuse his lies about wanting to create jobs for middle class Americans while he’s made conscious decisions to hire foreign companies (who rely on cheap foreign labor) to build and fix the defective ObamaCare website.

If this was about race, it would excuse his never ending spending and debt.

Or the damage he’s done to middle class Americans -- the doubling of gas prices, the all-time record highs for electricity, the jobs he’s destroyed by not approving oil drilling, or fracking, or the Keystone Pipeline.

Or using the EPA to try to put coal industry completely out of business.

It would excuse his using the power of the IRS to persecute Tea Party groups and conservative critics (like me), while allowing the IRS to hand out fraudulent tax refunds to illegal immigrants claiming fake dependents not even living in the United States.

It would excuse four dead American heroes in Benghazi, a refusal to send help while they were fighting for their lives, and a blatant cover-up before the election.

But putting all that aside, let me point out a few inconsistencies in Obama’s allegation against conservatives:

First, I don’t dislike Obama. I dislike his beliefs and his policies.

Second, last I checked Obama is not just “black.” He’s half white, born by a white mother, raised by white grandparents.

Third, I’ve been consistent my entire life. I’ve been a true blue conservative patriot since age 3, when I handed out campaign literature for Barry Goldwater, in my father’s arms. I judge people by their political beliefs and policies, not the color of their skin.

At the age of 11, I despised the policies of ultra-leftist Presidential candidate George McGovern. His beliefs and policies were almost identical to Obama’s today. Did I hate white Midwestern men?

In 1980, as a student at Columbia University, I despised the policies of President Jimmy Carter, whose policies were almost identical to Obama’s today. Did I hate white Southern men?

Today, I despise the policies of ultra-leftist politicians like Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Do I therefore hate white Mormons and Italians?

Lastly, I can think of many Jewish Democrats whose policies I despise. The first one that comes to mind is Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose statements often make me physically ill. Does that mean I hate Jews? That’s pretty funny, because I’m Jewish.

In each case a Republican conservative like me despises the political beliefs and policies of people I believe now, or believed back then, to be extreme, radical, socialist, economically ignorant, and damaging to America and capitalism.

No, Mr. Obama, we don’t dislike you because you’re black. But we do despise your policies, your lies, and your destruction of the greatest country, economy and middle class in world history.]]> POLITICS & THE ECONOMY Triple Creek Reaper https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/article-from-the-morning/ https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/political-correctness-finally-gone-too-far/ Wed, 18 Dec 2013 21:15:55 +0000
I have gay friends and gay clients. While I don't agree with it, I accept it and move on. This daily crap of not offending the gays or muslims has finally gotten out of hand. And don't get me started on the Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays debacle. I put a real life situation that happened to me on my FB page yesterday]]> POLITICS & THE ECONOMY Iluv2hunt https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/political-correctness-finally-gone-too-far/ https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/environmentalist-use-epa-to-help-destroy-the-2nd-amendment/ Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:01:18 +0000
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But it only gets worse when we get into political convos. I usually avoid it, but when I've been drinking we always get into it somehow. He literally tries to tell me that anyone that makes good money needs to give their excess to the ghetto community to help out and turn things around for them..... We go to Taco Bell and a nice black lady serves us and is happy and doing her job, so he tells me why do the rich not hand out money to people like her, and why can't she get a better job.... He tells me the #1 reason why America is in debt is because we keep funding our military!!!! He also thinks all of our troops should be scattered about in america only and none should be overseas which would bring crime rate to zero... He goes on a ride along after I talked him into it (I'll explain later) and I ask how it went. He says that all cops are aholes and they are only out to get black people. I ask what happened and he says they pulled over a car of blacks and they were all high and one had a prescription bottle with an unknown pill in it and the cops hauled the driver off. He says it was a little mistake and they all should have gotten off with a warning and that there are worse things going on for cops to be worried about. This is why he doesn't want to be a cop now.

Now some background. He is in his mid 20s, and has a bachelors at usf in criminology. He thought he could get into the FBI straight out of college lol. I made him go on the ride along because he has been working at chump jobs since college and doesn't understand that that degree literally only allows you to become a cop pretty much and you must move up from there. He now works at a job I got him a few years ago and I'm not sure he will ever move on, but oh well. I like him as a friend and he is a good roommate, but I cannot believe how some people think. He's a nice kid and easy to get along with until he opens up his mouth about race and his political views. But I realize this is how the majority of democrats think. I can literally keep you guys up with things he says every week.]]> POLITICS & THE ECONOMY OriginalCracker https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/so-my-roommate-is-a-democrat/ https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/government-closing/ Wed, 02 Oct 2013 07:29:36 +0000 POLITICS & THE ECONOMY wingshooter https://beagleroutdoors.com/community/politics-the-economy/government-closing/