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Who told you the vast majority of the military doesn't support Obama? Me and my friends do, for what it's worth. Though actually, we don't care who's the Commander in Chief, we care who's offering a pay raise and less deployment.
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by DZAG Wright
Who told you the vast majority of the military doesn't support Obama? Me and my friends do, for what it's worth. Though actually, we don't care who's the Commander in Chief, we care who's offering a pay raise and less deployment.
More pay and less work?
Is that what you just said?
Now we know why you support Obama.
Overall, do you approve or disapprove of the way President Obama is handling his job as president?
Percent Total
approve ████████████ 21.72% 172
Disapprove ███████████████████████████ 51.14% 405
Neutral ██████████ 16.79% 133
Decline to answer ██████ 10.35% 82
In general, would you describe your political views as:
Percent Total
Very conservative ██████ 6.84% 54
Conservative ████████████████████ 38.91% 307
Moderate ████████████████████ 37.01% 292
Liberal ██████ 6.72% 53
Very liberal █ 1.39% 11
Decline to answer ██████ 9.13% 72
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by DZAG Wright
Who told you the vast majority of the military doesn't support Obama? Me and my friends do, for what it's worth. Though actually, we don't care who's the Commander in Chief, we care who's offering a pay raise and less deployment.
More pay and less work?
Is that what you just said?
Now we know why you support Obama.
Originally posted by Sparky63
Here is a 2012 poll of active duty soldiers, airmen, and marines: You can decide for yourself if the majority support Obama or not.
militarytimes.com...
Overall, do you approve or disapprove of the way President Obama is handling his job as president?
Percent Total
approve ████████████ 21.72% 172
Disapprove ███████████████████████████ 51.14% 405
Neutral ██████████ 16.79% 133
Decline to answer ██████ 10.35% 82
Of course the numbers vary depending on the question.
Feel free to pick it apart if you like.
Update, Oct. 21: Fundraising numbers for the month of September show Obama continuing to dominate when it comes to contributions from the military. The new data, which came in after the story below was published Oct. 15, show he raised $142,197, just a shade less than he collected in August, his strongest month with this set of donors. Romney brought in $111,015 for his best month ever with military donors, but that was still 22 percent less than Obama received.
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Originally posted by promenion
Isn't that what everyone wants? Work less, make more? Why you think people go to College? To have a better job, as in "not to work hard" but make big money.
One of the reasons I went back to College, got tired working for "union" night shift work 12 hours a night with only one 30 minute break, plus being monitored and controlled. Hopefully after I graduate I can get a easier job and make more money, hopefully.
Originally posted by ElohimJD
Originally posted by PrplHrt
What Obama doesn't mention is that Ghaddafi was replaced with the Muslim Brotherhood. Not good.
Unless you are pro Muslim Brotherhood...
Egypt falls = replaced by Muslim Brotherhood
Lybia falls = replaced by Muslim Brotherhood
Jordan parliment falls = replaced by Muslim Brotherhood
Syria???...
Yemen???...
Saudi Arabia???...
It seems all governments we have hand assistance in toppling this last presidential term have resulted in the Muslim Brotherhood taking control of the governements...
Not a bad foreign policy eh Mr. Barak Hussien Obama.
God Bless,
Originally posted by Deetermined
Originally posted by promenion
Isn't that what everyone wants? Work less, make more? Why you think people go to College? To have a better job, as in "not to work hard" but make big money.
Those days are over, friend. A college education doesn't guaranty anything any more, except an edge to be able to get a job in the first place. It's never going to be like it used to be. These days employers are asking applicants to have a degree in order to run a copy machine. Why? Because they know that college degrees come a dime a dozen now.
I can see Obama offering employers an incentive to hire young people in order to pay off their college debt to keep it from becoming the next bubble that bursts, but it won't do them any good if they're not willing to work hard, because most everybody has one. They are still going to have to prove themselves in order to advance, and even that's not guaranteed these days if the economy doesn't improve first.
One of the reasons I went back to College, got tired working for "union" night shift work 12 hours a night with only one 30 minute break, plus being monitored and controlled. Hopefully after I graduate I can get a easier job and make more money, hopefully.
I can certainly understand not wanting to work 12 hours shifts, but in the near future, I think you're going to find out that other jobs aren't going to be paying much better, depending on the field you've chosen to go into.
Originally posted by longlostbrother
So incredibly wrong.
Update: Armed Forces Show Overwhelming Support for Obama
Update, Oct. 21: Fundraising numbers for the month of September show Obama continuing to dominate when it comes to contributions from the military. The new data, which came in after the story below was published Oct. 15, show he raised $142,197, just a shade less than he collected in August, his strongest month with this set of donors. Romney brought in $111,015 for his best month ever with military donors, but that was still 22 percent less than Obama received.
www.opensecrets.org...
So even in his "best" month Romney is getting over 20% less in donations from military folks.
Pretty clear who the military want to win, and who they trust.
Correction: This story was changed to accurately reflect that eight of the 11 military branches analyzed have given more to Republican presidential candidates, not Romney alone. Additionally, the sentence detailing which branches give the most money to Romney has been updated with correct numbers.
As opposed to the Republican belief in propping up endless dictatorships yes?
It's not a matter of 12 hour shifts, it's a matter to being compensated accordingly for your hard physical work, if I work very hard in a warehouse, doing all manual labor, on my feet all night long lifting heavy boxes, I should be paid accordingly, at least minimum $15/hour. (I'm talking here about my experience where I worked in a union type of a job). But no, they pay $10 minus all taxes and union fees. The system needs to change.
Originally posted by Deetermined
reply to post by longlostbrother
As opposed to the Republican belief in propping up endless dictatorships yes?
When are some of you going to realize that the Muslim Brotherhood is a dictatorship in disguise?
Gain power first. Build up trust second. Then slam down the hammer on democracy. Just like Iran.
Originally posted by justinsweatt
Who the Military wanted to win was Ron Paul and donated overwhelmingly to his Campaign, way more than the current donations to Romney and Obama.
Despite the fact that Paul once raised almost twice as much as Obama did from the military, the president has received $536,414 from military donors, compared to Paul's $399,274 and Romney's $287,435, according to research by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Originally posted by spinalremain
Only true business scum equates to barbed wire around the Foxconn building being there to keep the hungry workers out.
Mitt Romney wants people to think that Chinese labor conditions are good, and that the barbed wire doesnt keep the workers in, but that they jeep the ones who want to work there out!
Imagine Mitt Romney as president. All American manufacturing either closes down in favor of Chinese outsourcing (which is how he made his fortune), or we will have no labor laws in this country and we will have barred and barbed wire windows here @ home as children pump out products for a dollar an hour.
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