Obamas Farewell Speech

[Old Ryder]

Some people need to understand that upsetting fellow members/brothers on this motorcycle forum is nothing short of wasted energy. ALL POLITICIANS are liars, cheats and thieves ... that's the sad truth.

Call it age ... but I have come to the realisation that no matter how disgusted I become with politicians ... I just have to focus on my life and do what's best for my family.
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No more calls, please. We have a winner!

[opas ride]

I agree with Phantom for the most part...I have personally known a couple of politicians in my life time that were outstanding citizens and true, and honest with those around them, great family men and very religious and men of high moral character...Both have since deceased but left a great legacy behind them....But as was mentioned earlier 99% of politicians are corrupt, liars, and totally dis-honest in what they do.....At 77 years old now, I mostly ignore politics try to stay healthy and enjoy my wife, life, and children including 16 grandchildren.....Regards and ride safe and If I have offended anyone with my posts, I truly apologize to them.....

[tiltingf6b]

I don't care who you are, that right there is funny!

[tiltingf6b]

No more calls, please. We have a winner!

[tiltingf6b]

I agree with Phantom for the most part...I have personally known a couple of politicians in my life time that were outstanding citizens and true, and honest with those around them, great family men and very religious and men of high moral character...Both have since deceased but left a great legacy behind them....But as was mentioned earlier 99% of politicians are corrupt, liars, and totally dis-honest in what they do.....At 77 years old now, I mostly ignore politics try to stay healthy and enjoy my wife, life, and children including 16 grandchildren.....Regards and ride safe and If I have offended anyone with my posts, I truly apologize to them.....

Never offense taken - after all this is a motorcycle forum

[Phantom]

Dang, Phantom. Thou art wise. Surely your professor was given pause to consider his place in the universe, if not in class then later on. Too funny.

I believe that far too few hold far too much wealth, and that the solution seemed clear to me. Simple, really. I believe each person in the country should wake up, face the provider in the mirror, and go out and make a million bucks. Or at least try. Utilize skill, hard work and perseverance. Now THIS would re-distribute a bunch of wealth. He laughed, thank goodness.

Ironically, I was bored in that class and was failing it due to lack of interest and learning much more in the field than in class. My professor was going to give me a token "C" because I deviated from his curriculum, I disagreed with him and felt that I truly deserved an "A". In order for that to happen the professor gave me a ultimatum . My last assignment had to impress the class and he would allow the class to give me my final grade. Its a long story but I succeeded in getting my "A" I had to do things that I had never done before and it worked.

I ended up doing O.K. in life.
EARNING wealth is not easy,
If you want what you've never had , you must do what you've never done.

[stroguy]

I like catfish, is that seafood? Oops....sorry OP I did watch the speech a bit but I think I heard gunfire outside and turned it off. No hijack intended.

[tiltingf6b]

Here's the federal week in review:
1. Trump fires all Ambassadors and Special Envoys, ordering them out by inauguration day. No exceptions.
2. House brings back the Holman rule allowing them to reduce an individual civil service, SES positions, or political appointee's salary to $1, effectively firing them by amendment to any piece of legislation. We now know why they wanted names and positions of people in Energy and State.
3. Senate schedules 6 simultaneous hearings on cabinet nominees and triple-books those hearings with Trump's first press conference in months and an ACA budget vote, effectively preventing any concentrated coverage or protest.
4. House GOP expressly forbids the Congressional Budget Office from reporting or tracking ANY costs related to the repeal of the ACA.
5. Trump continues to throw the intelligence community under the bus to protect Putin, despite the growing mountain of evidence that the Russians deliberately interfered in our election.
6. Trump breaks a central campaign promise to make Mexico pay for the wall by asking Congress (in other words, us, the taxpayers) to pay for it.
7. Trump threatens Toyota over a new plant that was never coming to the US nor will take jobs out of the US.
8. House passes the REINS act, giving them veto power over any rules enacted by any federal agency or department--for example, FDA or EPA bans a drug or pesticide, Congress can overrule based on lobbyists not science. Don't like that endangered species designation, Congress kills it.
9. Fired top administrators of the National Nuclear Safety Agency. There are no replacements named, and they'd need Senate confirmation anyway. Those two managed our active arsenal of nuclear weapons.
Each of these was fact checked - your welcome to fact check again - in fact I encourage it as long as FOX news is not your fact based source.

[Davidk]

Here's the federal week in review:
1. Trump fires all Ambassadors and Special Envoys, ordering them out by inauguration day. No exceptions.
2. House brings back the Holman rule allowing them to reduce an individual civil service, SES positions, or political appointee's salary to $1, effectively firing them by amendment to any piece of legislation. We now know why they wanted names and positions of people in Energy and State.
3. Senate schedules 6 simultaneous hearings on cabinet nominees and triple-books those hearings with Trump's first press conference in months and an ACA budget vote, effectively preventing any concentrated coverage or protest.
4. House GOP expressly forbids the Congressional Budget Office from reporting or tracking ANY costs related to the repeal of the ACA.
5. Trump continues to throw the intelligence community under the bus to protect Putin, despite the growing mountain of evidence that the Russians deliberately interfered in our election.
6. Trump breaks a central campaign promise to make Mexico pay for the wall by asking Congress (in other words, us, the taxpayers) to pay for it.
7. Trump threatens Toyota over a new plant that was never coming to the US nor will take jobs out of the US.
8. House passes the REINS act, giving them veto power over any rules enacted by any federal agency or department--for example, FDA or EPA bans a drug or pesticide, Congress can overrule based on lobbyists not science. Don't like that endangered species designation, Congress kills it.
9. Fired top administrators of the National Nuclear Safety Agency. There are no replacements named, and they'd need Senate confirmation anyway. Those two managed our active arsenal of nuclear weapons.
Each of these was fact checked - your welcome to fact check again - in fact I encourage it as long as FOX news is not your fact based source.

Trump has done more to help this Country in his few weeks as President Elect than the Obamination has accomplished in 8 years.

[Bill1584]

I like catfish, is that seafood? Oops....sorry OP I did watch the speech a bit but I think I heard gunfire outside and turned it off. No hijack intended.

Catfish is seafood, damnit. So are hushpuppies. So is Thousand Island Dressing. Not a hijack, but a clarification.