The White House Puts on Veto Gloves Against CISPA

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willard

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It's an election year, and Obama is not a stupid man. Stopped short of saying he'd actually veto it (needs support from the fat cats with fat wallets) but put on his good guy hat and showed the populace that he cares enough to stop blatantly overreaching legislation, if it comes to it. He's clearly using this as an opportunity to create talking points for the debates in the months ahead without undermining potential financial support too much.

Politics is disgustingly two-faced. Still, this is better than we could hope for from Romney, who made hundreds of millions of dollars by buying businesses to gut them, lay off the workers and get out with quick cash.

Why can't we have candidates we actually like? People we'd actually trust to run the government in the best interests of the people instead of the corporations? How did things get this bad?
 

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[citation][nom]wolley74[/nom]Some faith in humanity has been restored, finally someone sees how stupid these bills are[/citation]


They still got a long way to go though =/

But still its a start.
 

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the amount of deception the MPAA's lobyist use to force bills into congress is utterly disgusting. I'm glad someone is reading these bills, I'd rather wipe my ass with them.
 

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[citation][nom]syrious1[/nom]the amount of deception the MPAA's lobyist use to force bills into congress is utterly disgusting. I'm glad someone is reading these bills, I'd rather wipe my ass with them.[/citation]
Hey, it's not like it's the fault of our congress men and women for not having a clue how the country they're responsible for running actually works.

Personally, I think the system we have implicitly adopted where whoever has the most money gets to dictate the facts works great. I mean, it's resulted in billions of dollars in revenue for the executives in entertainment, energy, finance and defense! We're so happy with it in fact that our government is honestly trying to give broad censorship and information gathering powers to these same private companies with absolutely no oversight.

How can something making so few people so incredibly rich be broken?

 

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Bill like this are the reason that the government almost never gets any thing productive done. It would be amazing what the government could get done if they did not try to pass bill that will obviously never be passed. Mostly the ones that blatantly slaughter peoples rights.
 

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[citation][nom]syrious1[/nom]the amount of deception the MPAA's lobyist use to force bills into congress is utterly disgusting. I'm glad someone is reading these bills, I'd rather wipe my ass with them.[/citation]

Force the bills? Dude, the MPAA lawyers literally WRITE the bills and hand them off to Congress to pass!!!
 

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[citation][nom]livebriand[/nom]Thank you Obama! Fuck you RIAA/MPAA.[/citation]

I wouldn't be so quick to sing the praises. As others have pointed out, it's election season. And I doubt if that dude brushes his teeth without checking w/ the polsters first. So with something like CISPA, the White House move was very calculated and had little, if anything, to do with your personal interests... My bet says that with an Obama back in or fresh up Romney, this will come back up and we won't hear a peep from the WH.

If only there were a candidate, still in the race, that the media never mentions, that has a 30 year history of voting NO on this stuff (and anything and everything else that doesn't abide our Constitution)... Where would we find such a person?
 

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WAKE UP PEOPLE i hope im wrong but ITS A TRAP

he said he would not pass the NDAA bill as long as it had the provision where citizens can be arrested or kidnapped and held with out trial...in fact this was a lie since it came out that the administration had asked for the provision...
ALSO
Obama passed the NDAA bill under the radar on new years eve...this is important because the people were distracted at this time, and the news cycle was at a lull

come on people wake up think, have an original thought, please....
 

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[citation][nom]willard[/nom]Still, this is better than we could hope for from Romney, who made hundreds of millions of dollars by buying businesses to gut them, lay off the workers and get out with quick cash.[/citation]

Unfortunately, that is legal at the moment. We really need a law saying that when someone 'buys' a company that they are required to not dismantle it for X period of time afterwards.
Not saying that buying a company to gut it should be illegal, but it should be required for them to be honest with the workers and the people selling the company in question about their intentions.
 

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[citation][nom]JasonAkkerman[/nom]FTW! Glad to see this administrator doing something right.[/citation]

Oh please this admin has done a ton of things right, objectively, speaking this president is actually very good.

1) Saved American Auto Industry, GM went from bankrupt to the #1 car manufacturer in the world again a place it hasn't held since the 1990's.

2) Got Osama, Ghaddafi, and Al Wahari at a fraction of the cost

3) Dow went from 5000 on January 21, 2009 when Obama took office to more than 13,000 today

4) passed a healthcare bill that if people actually bothered to read would be quite good for the average citizen

5) Ended the recession 6 months after taking office, the US economy has grown every quarter since June 2009

6) Added over 5 million jobs over the last 3 years, US economy has added jobs 26 of the last 30 months

7) Corporations can complain but they've all seen record profits, Intel, Apple, GM, Ford, GE, Exxon, Goldman ... and so on ...

8) Gave the largest tax cut in US history, and for a change it was one finally geared for small businesses and the middle class

9) Cut interest rates on student loans, added more funding for student loans, removed the banks from being middle men in the student loan process especially when the money was coming from the government not the banks to begin with

10) ....

I could keep going, but the reality, of who Obama is does not at all jive with this mythical person most conservatives and some people see who is out to destroy America.

Greatest qoute of the day from Obama Iowa speech , in reference, to him admonishing the house of representatives even considering not extending the interest cut on student loans ... one republican respresentative said that the Obama policy on this is "like stage 3 socialist cancer ... and that he was using the issue to distract the American people from the economy" .... Obama in his speech, today at University of Iowa, stated really "stage 3 socialist cancer", what does that even mean, what is he even talking about ... and that these guys are so out of touch that giving access to education for America's future work force is exactly about the economy. He doesn't know economy the Republicans are talking about, but you students are and will be the future economy. What economy are the republicans refering too.

 
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