2009 Predictions

[lonewolf]

Ah yes...2009...the year of CHANGE! I had more in mind, but can't think of them right now. I'd like to see others' ideas. Here are some of my predictions for the upcoming year:

1. Significant increase in the federal gasoline tax
2. HR 40 will pass the House but get killed in the Senate (Slavery Reparations Act)
3. The Employee Free Choice Act will become law (eliminates the secret ballot for unionizing).
4. The Iraq War will continue as it was. Withdrawal will depend on "conditions on the ground".
5. The Bush tax cuts will remain in effect
6. Middle class tax cuts, if any, will come in the form of tax credits thru a one-time stimulus package, not thru actual rate reductions.

"Here's your change"

[EyesOfAnguishbassist]

Who's going to the Super Bowl?!?! lol

[songsmith]

Ah yes...2009...the year of CHANGE! I had more in mind, but can't think of them right now. I'd like to see others' ideas. Here are some of my predictions for the upcoming year:

1. Significant increase in the federal gasoline tax
2. HR 40 will pass the House but get killed in the Senate (Slavery Reparations Act)
3. The Employee Free Choice Act will become law (eliminates the secret ballot for unionizing).
4. The Iraq War will continue as it was. Withdrawal will depend on "conditions on the ground".
5. The Bush tax cuts will remain in effect
6. Middle class tax cuts, if any, will come in the form of tax credits thru a one-time stimulus package, not thru actual rate reductions.

I tend to agree, except with #4. America wants out, and I think with Moqtada Al Sadr being pacified by the US ($$$), the Shia will behave themselves, and our need to be there will be lessened. In a few years, if anything explodes, it won't be our problem (of course, it never was).

I'm the first to admit, I don't like where the Dems will take us much more than where the Bushtards have us. Way, way, WAY too much money is being spent propping up Big Business, and while I think putting Americans to work on infrastructure is good at base level (we DO need new bridges and dams and such), we simply can't afford it. It's like, if I wasn't meeting my mortgage payments, I wouldn't spend money on a pool thinking that might increase the value of the property. After all the election-year posturing, it's business as usual, domestically speaking.
Let the chips fall, for Pete's sake. Let GM go belly-up, if they can't compete. Let some white-collar guys get their hands dirty working menial jobs for awhile, it's character-building. If I have to be happy coming home from work feeling like I just got beaten with a hammer, then it must be good to take off your tie and WORK, right?
Incidentally, I think if the Employee Free Choice Act gets signed, the union rank-and-file will revolt, and leave unions even quicker than they are now, equalling less money and power for union elite (ie the Dem Party), and that makes me think it's a dead issue. The fact that Hannity talks about it daily tells me it's another "Libs are cancelling Christmas"-type boogieman tactic. I'm not worried about it.------>JMS

[lonewolf]

Who's going to the Super Bowl?!?! lol

This will be the year that the Mannings face off in the Super Bowl

[I have a question]

songsmith wrote:
the Shia will behave themselves





Yes, I really hope he learned his lesson.

http://www.knx1070.com/SHIA-LABEOUF-DUI/2678398

[bassist_25]

The passage of the Employee Free Choice Act will do wonders for the job security of my day gig career, and my colleagues who are arbitrators may see a renaissance of new work. However, I'd be more excited if it were being propositioned during an economic boom as both unions and management actually have things to negotiate about. Right now, I don't even think wages should be on the forefront of representatives and union business agents' minds. Companies need to remain competitive and if they aren't competitive, nobody wins - management or labor. I think that we're going to see a lot of talk about job security at the bargaining table with labor giving up economic concessions such as wages in order to know that they'll at least still have a gig to go to every day. I also see concessions being given in order to retain health care, no matter the actual quality of the plan. Frankly, I'd like to see a more unitary labor relations system, much like Germany's or perhaps Japan's. That would, however, require some major amendments to the NLRA, particuarly the Taft-Hartley Act.

Regardless of how you feel about collective organization in the work place, I am glad that the Employee Free Choice Act has some balls when it comes to punitive damages for firing employees who are attempting to organize. The current policy of being ordered to reimburse back pay is not a deterence at all.

[bassist_25]

I'm the first to admit, I don't like where the Dems will take us much more than where the Bushtards have us. Way, way, WAY too much money is being spent propping up Big Business, and while I think putting Americans to work on infrastructure is good at base level (we DO need new bridges and dams and such), we simply can't afford it. It's like, if I wasn't meeting my mortgage payments, I wouldn't spend money on a pool thinking that might increase the value of the property.

I definitely agree. Everything the government has been doing is akin to taking aspirin for a back injury. Yeah, the pain goes away temporarily, but eventually, you have to face facts: 1. Either go in for the damn surgery or 2. Live the rest of your life in pain. Not enough money being in circulation is a symptom of a larger problem. Another stimulus package is really not going to help the 500,000 people who lost their gigs in November. It's the Give a Man a Fish... parable. When Keynes said to put government-sponsored injections into the economy to stimulate it during down time, I don't think he was saying to do it when a good chunk of your economic base has moved across the sea.

[witchhunt]

I predict the end of Christianity. Jesus will make an appearance on Youtube and say "Look people, the only reason I came back is because I said I would and to say that I gave you this beautiful planet and the mentality to keep it that way and you assholes fucked it up. That's right, I said you assholes fucked it up. I'll be leaving now and I can promise you I won't be back again." When the Christians hear Him drop the "F" bomb, that'll be it.

[metalchurch]

I predict the end of Christianity. Jesus will make an appearance on Youtube and say "Look people, the only reason I came back is because I said I would and to say that I gave you this beautiful planet and the mentality to keep it that way and you assholes fucked it up. That's right, I said you assholes fucked it up. I'll be leaving now and I can promise you I won't be back again." When the Christians hear Him drop the "F" bomb, that'll be it.

Haha, thats some funny shit....Jesus on youtube.

[f.sciarrillo]

I predict that it will be 2009 until dec 31.

[bassist_25]

I predict the end of Christianity. Jesus will make an appearance on Youtube and say "Look people, the only reason I came back is because I said I would and to say that I gave you this beautiful planet and the mentality to keep it that way and you assholes fucked it up. That's right, I said you assholes fucked it up. I'll be leaving now and I can promise you I won't be back again." When the Christians hear Him drop the "F" bomb, that'll be it.

Wow, only January 3rd and we already have a contender for Post of the Year.

[CHICKSINGA]

Well, so much for The ManningBowl!

[lonewolf]

Well, so much for The ManningBowl!

Yeah, how about that?

It looks like the Hyper Bowl might end up a Big Ben Sackfest

[Banned]

I will go way out on a limb and say the Earth will warm (mostly in the summer months) and then cool down (in the fall and winter). We need a vast governmental program to prevent this of course.

[CHICKSINGA]

Well, so much for The ManningBowl!

Yeah, how about that?

It looks like the Hyper Bowl might end up a Big Ben Sackfest

If'n they get past them Chargers! After PSU losing to USC I don't know how much more ribbing I can take from my buds in LA!

[UNEARTHA7XMatt]

I predict some rain in 2009. Maybe some sunshine. Maybe some snow.

[f.sciarrillo]

I predict some rain in 2009. Maybe some sunshine. Maybe some snow.

Don't forget that it will get light, then dark, then light again.

[metalchurch]

There's actually a 98% chance of darkness tonight.

[f.sciarrillo]

I also predict that later in the year it will stay light out longer, and get warmer.

[felix'apprentice]

i predict me buyin a whole lot of guitar stuff and making a lot of noise.

and raisin a whole lotta hell ............


- kayla

[Colton]

I predict... a whole lot of nothin musically.


(call me a relic, call me what you will, say im old fashioned, say im over the hill, but todays music aint got the same soul....)

[JackANSI]

My 2009 predictions:

Captain & Tennille return to the top-40.

Some terrible thing will happen in some far away country.

Steve Jobs will die.

Republicans will complain about Barrack HUSSEIN Obama.

Democrats will complain about Sarah Palin's sex tape getting more air time than Obama's 'Cribs' episode.

I will get a new TV.

Probably a new fridge too.

LHC will break again, postponing the end of the world until the proper date, 2012.

[UNEARTHA7XMatt]

I predict that I will beat Left 4 Dead before 2010!

[lonewolf]

I just remembered another one that I forgot.

The "Fairness Doctrine" will get passed & signed into law before Congress manages to do anything useful (not that they ever do anything useful).

For those of you who are not familiar with the fairness doctrine...

Since liberal, progressive and left-wing media shows cannot raise a large enough audience to break even, it is difficult to keep these shows on the air, even with George Soros bankrolling them.

This bill would require all networks on public airways to present "equal time" for all "political views", irregardless of commercial viability. The law contains no definition as to what constitutes opposing "political views" and leaves the matter in the hands of bureaucrats.

This is what I like to call the castration of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.

"Here's your change"

[songsmith]

I just remembered another one that I forgot.

The "Fairness Doctrine" will get passed & signed into law before Congress manages to do anything useful (not that they ever do anything useful).

For those of you who are not familiar with the fairness doctrine...

Since liberal, progressive and left-wing media shows cannot raise a large enough audience to break even, it is difficult to keep these shows on the air, even with George Soros bankrolling them.

This bill would require all networks on public airways to present "equal time" for all "political views", irregardless of commercial viability. The law contains no definition as to what constitutes opposing "political views" and leaves the matter in the hands of bureaucrats.

This is what I like to call the castration of the 1st Amendment to the Constitution.

"Here's your change"

Jaques Cousteau: "Zee Largemouth Johnnyfish, tiring of the taste of flamebait, swims away..." --->JMS