Three Years, $4 Trillion, and ‘All the Right Choices’ Later
Oh, and I almost forgot to note that this $35 billion boondoggle, suddenly more important than building roads and bridges, which was supposedly the big priority just a month ago, is supposed to be funded by a surtax on “millionaires” — y’know, the people who would likely be creating jobs by growing their businesses or investing more aggressively if they weren’t already so intimidated by the administration’s regulatory and authoritarian overhang.
The placement of public-sector jobs over private, even though without the private sector’s taxes the public sector can’t exist, is only the latest evidence that Obama’s “choices we’ve made” — he, his administration, and his party — are about something other than economic growth and the country’s fiscal well-being. Meanwhile, real incomes have fallen dramatically, and millions of former jobholders are slowly but surely becoming virtually unemployable beyond entry level through no fault of their own. The government’s “investment” choices could hardly be more corrupt or crony-driven. Its green-obsessive determination to stifle domestic energy exploration and development could hardly be more immovable. The hostility of labor, environmental, and other regulators could hardly be more obvious.
Presidential candidate Herman Cain is largely right when he says that the mostly misguided Occupy Wall Street crowd should relocate its primary headquarters to just outside 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. I would also suggest deploying a contingent to the Capitol. Far more important are the required deployments of sensible citizens to the voting booths in 2012 to give Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and so many others who are ruining the futures of so many a chance to join the ranks of those who have lost their jobs. Whether we can hold out that long — or until January 20, 2013, given potential for last-minute presidential mischief — remains highly problematic.
Dear Dr. Bones,
As I am sure you remember, sir, Babbitt Jr. of Zenith (here doin’ buiness as Th. X. Bloomer of Masonjar juxta Cincinnati) has made a profession of coachin’ the Warrenbuffet County Chambermaids of Commerce in their exotic dances. [*]
The neochoreographer is of considerable interest as a better than average specimen of the pajamaclad, but today let us talk about the ladies, ¿shall we?
Tommy’s Angels do have real problems, after all, even though there is not much chance that they will solve them by prancin’ out a Novena of the Invisible Hand on alternate Thursdays after certain rites involving a rubber chicken of which I know but do not speak. Tommy is not, I think, quight whight about what his freedames’ problem consists in, though presumably he kids himself thoroughly before startin’ to work on his dupes an’ marks. Still, if the student of neocomradology will but apply a modicum of common sense and maybe a dash of Dr. Marx–_¡Economique d’abord!_ alone will perhaps suffice–it is easy enough to make out what is goin’ on out at Masonjar.
The Freedames of Pettybiz (not unlike pretty well everybooby else in the _Heimatland G*ttes_ at the moment) are sufferin’ a severe attack of what the late Dr. Milton diagnosed as a “sense of injured merit.” [**] A Marxoid vulgarian might take the first paragraphettes of the Blumerist wail to mean only that their freeladyships dearly wish that they had gotten cut in on that four gigabucks, as no doubt they do, Pettybiz bein’ what it is. What Pettybiz has always been.
However their freeladyships are Daughters of Virtue (or, at worst, Sons of Wisdom) an’ therefore not to be judged by strict B. X. Madoff standards. They do indeed want their fair share of Fedguv bucks for the obvious Chambermaidenly an’ Zenithite reasons, but they also wish not to be perceived as freeloader freeladies [***]. Even to receive their cravèd loot as icky unmentionable st*m*l*s would leave most of ’em as unamused as Queen Victoria, for, unless I have missed my guess, Chambermaids of Commerce crave to get their loot as reward, as if it were a minor financial ancilla–”Shucks, it’s hardly worth mentionin’, really, ma’am”–to the Nobel Virtue-Wisdom Prize.
How the freedames of Masonjar an’ Zenith would react if offered all the recognition in the world but not a dime of actual tribute is a question I find fascinating but not very relevant. One might say, semiseriously, however, that that is the fix their freeladyships find themselves in already, insofar as our holy Homeland™ rings from sea to whinin’ sea with praises of Pettybiz that border on what dogmatic mythologists used to call ‘blasphemy’: “Father Zeus may have created a universe of two, but ¿how about jobs?”
“Hardly worth mentionin’” above was not quight whight, really, for in fact their freeladyships will not feel any genuine relief of their SIMS (Sense-of-Injured-Merit Syndrome) in which moolah is not a major active ingredient. THE major active ingredient.
Or, to look at the same thing from an inside-the-monkey-house perspective, they will not believe in the spiritual sincerity of any supposed ‘recognition’ of Pettybiz that does not inclose a check or money order. When Masonjar an’ Zenith an’ Rio Limbaugh are got back in proper workin’ order again, the Chambermaids will, of course, rule the roost just like they ruled back in good Sinclair Lewis’s gilded days, but not rule simply because they are better off than the Bad Poor are. The Chambermaid Ascendancy must exist because (A) everybooby in town on all sides of the commuter-rail tracks recognizes that their freeladyships are Better _simpliciter_. But also (B): since this must be a *sincere* recognition of innate or acquired Freebetterness, so to label the neocommodity, naturally their freegoodships will in fact be richer than the Bad Poor happen to be as well as better than the Bad Poor can ever become.
I am perhaps making heavy weather, Dr. Bones, of little more than “Put your money where your mouth is.”
And Mammon knows best.
Happy days.
–JHM
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[*] I express myself my way, oddly enough. His freelordship prefers to selfblurb ’bout “a training and development company based in Mason, Ohio, outside of Cincinnati[, starrin’] personal finance-related workshops and speeches at companies.”
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[**] Sort of like a grand quarterly coagulation of Tee Putty Nation, the other place sounds to be _chez Milton_
“…Dire arms! Yet not for those,
Nor what the Potent Victor (( Hi, there, Barry! )) in his rage
Can else inflict, do I repent or change,
Though chang’d in outward lustre, that fixt mind,
And high disdain from sense of injur’d merit,
That with the Mightiest raised me to contend,
And to the fierce contention brought along
Innumerable force of Spirits armed,
That durst dislike his reign, and, me preferring,
His utmost power with adverse power opposed
In dubious Battel on the plains . . . .
(( An’ furthermore, ¡wait till next year! ))
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[***] The Prefix to Trump All Prefixes is not *always* eulogistic. True Freedumb does not include freeloadin’, for example, an’ it yoosta not include freelove, though times may well have changed. Even in Ohio.
Seriously, you need intense therapy.. or maybe just a girlfriend.
You again!
If not a girlfriend (or a rolling doughnut) perhaps some professional help is in order.
Save your fingers for more socially acceptable activities.
Know, no, know.
This is the Stolen Teleprompter running on and on until it depletes the nuclear core that powers it.
Without Mr. President’s superior cackling hen guidance, the Stolen Teleprompter has reverted to default Elmer mode, which was modeled from a prototype Chatty Cathy residing in San Francisco.
*snort*
I don’t care who you are; That’s funny.
What we are seeing is the inevitable result of academics who operate solely on “theory” and their dogmas colliding with the real world.
Their dogmas, based on Keynesianism and the perceived glories of a Euro-socialist sort of planned economy (and planned everything else), call for the government to “do it all”- the planning, the financing, & etc., with the taxpayers footing the bill. The theory behind it being that as the government pumps more money into the economy, the economy should blossom (in government-approved ways), and everybody wins. The people get prosperity, the government gets total control, and nothing ever goes wrong, ever again. (And if anyone doesn’t like it, the government raps them over the head like a schoolmarm.)
The fallacy, of course, is that government does not create wealth; all it can do is print money. To acquire actual assets to pay for all this, the government has to take it from the private sector. Which of course reduces the private sector’s ability to pay its own bills. Result?- not prosperity, but penury.
Sooner or later (more likely sooner) the private sector just can’t take anymore, and basically collapses. At which point, so the planned-economy crowd says, the government takes control and runs everything for the good of all. (Cf. GM and Chrysler, FM-Squared, etc.) And raises taxes to pay for it.
Oops. There’s nobody left to pay them. As Mrs. Thatcher said, sooner or later, they run out of other people’s money.
In the tight little cloister of the academic left, this never happens, of course. More money is printed, more taxes are imposed, and if necessary private assets are seized for the good of all. What the theory fails to take into account is that those assets have already been destroyed by the government’s tax-and-spend mania.
The usual next step is to start identifying “enemies of the state”, and rounding them up for public shaming. This usually occurs fractionally before the peasants show up with the pitchforks and torches to have a “little talk” with the local baron.
Yes, I am comparing modern-day “progressivism” to feudalism. The parallels are truly remarkable. Right down to the cluelessness exhibited by both lots of would-be “absolute rulers”.
The reason it continues (as we see with Obama & Co.) is a steadfast belief on their part that they are incapable of error. And that if they can just get it right- and get rid of all those “reactionaries”- it will all work. This explains their reactions to the TEA Parties. “It’s those damned peasants again! Don’t they realize that we are doing this for their own good?” (Uhh, actually, no- or rather, they think you’re nuts, guys.)
To get philosophical, theory is sort of like an airplane, and facts (the real world) are the ground. And as Bill Whittle says, “Historically, in every encounter between an airplane and the ground, the ground has won every time.”
Obama & Friends have all sorts of rules and theories that try to negate the “ground” factor. None of them work. The one rule they really need to obey, however, does not exist in their mental parallel universe of theories and dogmas.
It’s the one that goes, “When you’re in a hole, stop digging”.
clear ether
eon
no
It’s not simply a situation mistakenly created by head in the cloud academics.
It’s a deliberate attempt to take over the country in order to plunder it and rule it. And marxist philosophy is the con behind the scheme.
Yep. There’s an old saying, to which I subscribe:
I have seen this referred to as, “Whethern’s First Law of Non-Paranoia”.
I think this is a very important principle to retain. Too often in public debate we see accusations of malfeasance directed at actions which are simply due to incompetence, or, sometimes, simply just because the world ain’t perfect.
However, in the case of the Obama administration, there is far too much evidence of malice. The “incompetence” explanation is far from adequate.
Yes, a belief in Keynes may be contributory, but malice is really the only adequate explanation for what we are seeing.
Add to that the known philosophies of Marxism, both its goals and recommended methods, and we can only conclude that this is, indeed, enemy action.
Shocking piece in the NYT’s business section today on the state of of the state of Rhode Island. They are buried under an unbelievably big pile of doo-doo thanks primarily to commitments made to public sector employees and pensioners. They recently changed the assumed return on pension funds from 8% something to 7% something (good luck!) and the pension shortfall went up by several billion $. Note that RI is a very small state, but this situation gives us a bitter foretaste of what will happen in the country as a whole unless drastic steps are taken. READ IT AND WEEP: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/business/for-rhode-island-the-pension-crisis-is-now.html?_r=1&ref=pensionsandretirementplans
“It’s those damned peasants again! Don’t they realize that we are doing this for their own good?”
Maybe the academic elites, those removed from politics, think that way, to assuage their mindless guilt. As for Pelosi, Reid and Obama, with them it’s all about power. They know very well that what seems like “for your own good” to the peasants is meant to continue keeping them in power. That’s why the emphasis on creating public union jobs – the additional campaign contributions and reliable voters from the unions.
…and after Europe collapses, Paul Krugman will whine that even more euros should have been printed.
With all due respect and deference to your experience, I think you are being too charitable to Odummer. And Proreason beat me to what I wanted to say: The Won is a marxist as is most of the Demonrats and their wealthy supporters. Crony capitalism runs deep among them all, but mostly they are all marxists who want to destroy America.;
Why is it we have such a difficult time pinning them down and calling them what they are?
Actually, you and proreason are probably correct in the philosophy which drives Obama & Company. What I’m looking at is their implementation.
Which makes no sense, even from a revolutionary Marxist standpoint. Marxism operates on the principle of co-opting other “proletarian” movements, and then simply seizing control. (Which was how the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia, after all; it was Kropotkin’s Mensheviks who actually pulled the initial coup d’etat).
Similarly, in Germany, the Nazis created a syndicalist socialist state, with favored private groups running things according to their diktats.
In neither case did the new overlords deliberately try to crash the economy to prove philosophical points.
Only in Italy do we find the confluence of Fascist/socialist dogmas coupled with ignorance of economics resulting in a government which tanked its economy in pursuit of a form of spiritual “perfection”. The culprit was Benito Mussolini, whose belief in Fascist theory was only exceeded by his ignorance of economics.
My conclusion is that while a belief in the fundamental “rightness” of socialism (Marxist or otherwise) is the basic dogma of Obama and his minions, their consistent failure to get anything right can only be explained by a near-deadly combination of fanaticism and stupidity. That is, the belief that their pet theories just HAVE to be correct, and that the real world can be forced to adhere to them if they just do everything the theory calls for- repeatedly, unremittingly, and with the maximum force they can bring to bear.
As the old saying goes, “Fanaticism is redoubling your effort when you’ve forgotten your aim”. And from what I see, the Obama team long ago passed the point where even Marxist/socialist theory has any significant effect on their actions.
They are now solely intent on proving that they, themselves, are “right” about everything. And in their worldview, the destruction of the U.S. economy, or even Western civilization as a whole, is a reasonable price to pay for their vindication.
After all, it’s everybody else who will be footing the bill, not them. And they don’t like us, or Western civilization, all that much, anyway.
cheers
eon
my only explanation why the collectivists and its various tentacles haven’t applied the death blow is the mere existence of the 2nd amendment coupled with a sort of liberty/individual freedom “spidey sense” that is being triggered in a large percentage of our populace
My view is that marxism is simply that sizzle on the steak. They don’t give a shit about the philosophy, or any philosophy for that matter. They just want total power and total wealth, forever. If they thought the Consitution was a quicker way to dominate humanity, they would be giving away pocket summaries rather than fanning the flames of class envy.
Proof positive is…..Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Philosophers? lol Self-interested thugs? absolutely. Just like Caligula and Stalin. They just live in a different time and place.
People have all kinds of theories about what/why/how is thia man doing but you have to admit it appears to be a government run by people basing all decisions on self preservation and politics. There are no policies, ideas, or actions put forth that are not about the next election and how they (the Democrats) can win. They were not successful with this strategy in the last election but the attempt to dump the national treasury in the pockets of their supporters continues unabated.
Who are the 40% that think he’s doing a good job? The ones getting the checks.
Until the checks stop coming — and they start shouting “revolution!” and “oppression!” once more.
Crumbs, so many are bought with crumbs. Others are making bank on green fraud.
I wish, I really wish, one of the Republican candidates would stand up and just say that Obama, Reid, and Pelosi want to hire more teachers and lawyers just so that they can pump up union jobs and, more importantly, union dues to help get the democrats elected. I would also love to hear a Republican finally make clear to the American public that union members have NO SAY on which political candidates their union will support. The union members are working not only for the unions, but for this corrupt union kickback scheme for democratic politicians which is funded with THEIR union dues. Why doesn’t ANY Republican candidate say this? If they did, they would be a hero to millions of Americans, as well as millions of union members. For God’s sake, take the battle to THEM, and stop being afraid of what they will do. If the union leaders are going to vote Democratic anyway, then you really have nothing to lose. Go after the union members and ingnore the union leaders. You may not get their union dues “contributions,” but you WILL win the election.
Really makes you angry, doesn’t it?
They’re supposed to be the opposition.
But these Country Club Clowns just schmooze everybody.
They’re the LOYAL opposition for their perks.
Beaner et al need to go, and without pension, and probably to jail.
And we have to put Barry on welfare, and build him a library, and listen to his insufferable and pricey speeches about how he was right every step of the way.
With all the frustrations we have to deal with from this aholyo that one chaps my ass more than all the rest – whats coming (soon I hope).
Thats all we need – a Jimmy Carter retread. I can see it now – every time some jackassed reporter sticks a mic in Obummer’s face he’ll let us know how and why the HMFIC is doin it all wrong. But since he’s the HMFIC (for now) he don’t want anyone to be dissin him.
Vigorous opposition to Clinton got him reelected. We are like the Russians waiting for Napoleon to leave Moscow. When the snows come we will kill every last one of them.
I think you’re confusing the role of the GOP. Its charter is clearly one of opposing real opposition to the socialists. The GOP is the Cloward Piven (block the true opposition) of politics. The elite in the GOP have exposed themselves as being totally unwilling to fight the evil we face -and their embarrassing and systematic orchestrated takedown of the only true reformer, Palin (tsk, tsk, she’s not ready) while pushing Christie and Romney (Both liberals)should be obvious to all.
The frustrating silence of Bush, and McCain and the establishment GOP in the face of the left’s absurd attacks against America is no longer rationally excused from its anti-opposition addiction.
Third party is not suicide -it’s our ownly hope of survival!
Very good. To borrow from Sherlock Holmes, once you eliminate the impossible (GOP opposition to socialism), whatever remains (opposition to opposition to socialism), no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
End of heartburn. No more calling and writing to GOP representatives hoping that it will spur attacks on big government and then being disappointed. Now you can sleep at night knowing that the supposed “right wing” party you used to support is actually just the right wing of the far left Democrat Party.
As a stress buster, this can’t be beat.
The real fight should be to give public workers the freedom to decide whether to support unions or not, and to bar public entities from collecting dues. In most cases the government entity employing them ENABLES union activities by collecting dues automatically from workers’ paychecks. In cases where workers have the freedom to decide whether they want to pay union dues or not, most no longer opt to do it. When the public entities are no longer allowed to collect those dues for the unions–I assume the costs associated with doing this are ultimately born by the taxpayer?–union incomes will collapse, as will their political power. In my opinion, this is where the focus should be.
Couldn’t agree with you more. I’ve made this same argument many times, too.
We pay for this union luxury over and over again, through taxes paid to local, state and federal entities and through higher product/service costs in the private sector.
Both public and private sector employers should be prohibited from collecting union dues for the unions. It’s the union’s job and they should be forced to do it on their own time and dime.
It would significantly alter the political landscape, which is precisely why it’s not been done.
Bull Hooey !!!unions are domineering socialistic committies staffed by nonworking poloticians
Tax union dues at, say, 70%! That will spike their power.
The rot is not all on one side of the aisle, sad to say.
If Mitt Romney gets in, we will have four more years of Obama, but with an (R) after his name.
He will do nothing to roll back any of the job-killing, business-strangling, budget-busting taxes and regulations and wasteful spending of the Obama era. He will simply continue it.
“…. the economy is not where it wants to be and even though I believe all the choices we’ve made have been the right ones, we’re still going through difficult circumstances.” – Barack Obama
Based on the way Obama does things; given that he is a Leninist-Marxist (amongst other things); the above statement is obviously indicating that Obama is purposefully tanking the economy. To think otherwise is to remain ignorant of Obama and his anti-American ideology.
“Going through difficult circumstances” is not referring to the actual economy going through difficult circumstances; rather, it’s referring to the obstructions to Obama’s methods that he’s encountering in trying to tank the economy.
Obama wants government to be the answer … getting people to depend upon government is therefore the goal. Tanking the economy is the quickkest way to achieve that objective. Tom Blumer – I refuse to believe that you still do not understand Obama’s tanker-in-chief; agitator-in-chief and community-organiser-in-chief methodology.
He believes his own lies; and THAT’s where we have to begin when we hear or read what he says.
Obama’s only function is to lie. He is a master at it.
But the most insidious aspect of it is his ability to downplay the horror of any situation. An asteroid could be within 15 minutes of crashing into the earth and little lenin could sit there calmly and believably with a half-smile on his face telling the public that the best people are working on it and that everything is under control.
He is the most accomplished liar who has ever lived.
Reason Magazine summed it up months ago: Whenever Obama says “Let me be clear”, substitute “Let me lie to you” and it all makes sense.
Any “Republican” who can’t understand or refuses to acknowledge what destructive liars Obama & Co are, needs to go. One cannot deal honestly with the dishonest, reason with the unreasonable, or meet evil halfway in “compromise”.
Fox Snooze is still falling all over themselves in their “fair and balanced” reporting to the point of looking stupid. Oreally still cannot pin down Odummer as a marxist. And FBN is rapidly going left.
You’ve got THAT right.
Roger Ailes is to blame for emasculating Fox News.
While he is the consummate pathological liar, he’s NOT very good at it. Anyone with an IQ over 50 can smell his Bravo Sierra a mile away. Our biggest problem is the beltway is full of politicians not statesmen. You know, one rat wont squeal on another. That’s why I’m looking for more to vote for than the status quo. I also don’t like the fact they’re almost all lawyers. I’ve enver emt one yet that wasn’t out to fill his own coffers.
Just look at the legal system with the revolving doors. Set up by lawyers because they know it’s job security. Same goes for Washington.
How did he get elected then?
Because of his detailed Hope and Change agenda? Because of his overwhelming qualifications? Because of his life skills and accomplished off-the-cuff communications style? Because of the compelling vision he painted of America? Because he proved he had the adminstrative skill to reverse the liberal-created economic catastophe?
Obviously not.
He got elected because he is the best liar who has ever lived. (abetted, of course, by his fellow liars in the make believe media and “academia”)
Yes, but the American people drank the Kool-Aid. After Joe the Plumber and “redistribute the wealth” , anyone now nsaying “We didn’t know!” reminds me of the people living near Auschwitz who didn’t question “that funny smell.” Scary.
You write that “Anyone with an IQ over 50 can smell his Bravo Sierra a mile away. Our biggest problem is the beltway is full of politicians not statesmen.” Another very good commenter writes “Only people who are contributing members of a country should be allowed to vote”. I respectfully take issue with both of these comments. The real issue is that there are far too many voters who are “take it to the grave” LIBERALS who will vote again for Obama. These are not folks with an IQ of 50. Nor unsuccessful. They are simply liberals. They know he is a liar which they actually appreciate as being clever. They know that his policies are failures but they don’t give a damn so long as they are comfortable. The “rats” (destructive politicians) will always be among us. They are relatively easily removed by simply being voted out of office. The mindset of their supporters is almost impossible to remove. Liberalism is a deeply embedded religion. Therein is the real challange and the only cure is in the numbers of those who are willing to express their conservative values by nominating and electing conservative office holders. Simply said, the problem is not the fools (liberals and RINOs) who hold office and positions of power. It lies with the selfish fools who put them where they are.
Disagree. While I think we are all on the same page. IT is the 47% who pay no federal income taxes and who receive gov’t benefits are the very ones who will vote for Zero and anyone else who will give them free things. While I abhor limousine liberals and RINOS it is the 47% who drive pols to make dumb fiscal decisions. And the same goes for SS, Medicare and Medicaid. They vote for their own selfish reasons. Recall Alexander Tylers axiom regarding people voting themselves government largesse.
Don’t blame the power seeking demagogues, they’re just doing what comes naturally.
Blame the spineless, self-satisfied Country Club Repubs.
Not one of them ever submits simple bills such as:
Eliminate the miniumum wage.
Outlaw collective bargaining by Civil Services.
Abolish whole departments and sunset their regulations.
Start to throw out the tax code piecemeal, exposing all the gimmies.
Eliminate loans to individuals (e.g., students) and grants to anybody.
Put foreign aid on a loyalty test.
If you decided to run for office, I’d say you’ve already got a platform. I’d vote for you in a heartbeat as would most, if not all, my fellow TEA Party Hobbits!
raise the voting age to 35 and you must have paid 100k in taxes by then.
The core of your idea is a good one. It would have to be a Constitutional Amendment.
Only people who are contributing members of a country should be allowed to vote. Since local sales taxes are paid by almost everyone, they can vote locally, but for federal elections, no voting if no tax paying.
FICA and Medicare taxes should be excluded because they (in theory anyway) are enforced retirement plans. The limit for income taxes paid should be much less than 100K, and the age should be more like 25. Otherwise, it makes a lot of sense.
Why should anybody have a say-so over what I have to give them if they contribute nothing themselves?
Of course, it has no chance of passing; but it would be an interesting topic for national discussion it would be.
“No mans life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session!”
40 years ago, the Unions were anti-government. Now they ARE the government.
And the Democrat Party is the most perfuse criminal organization to ever operate within the borders of the United States with exemption from prosecution.
Their “media” is complicit in the charade of “government”, while they rape and pillage anything of value in the economy.
And they want to get re-elected!!!
You are completely correct in this article, Mr. Blumer.
And I’m sure you are aware that situations like these don’t end well. Some people will not take “no” for any answer, and they have to be spanked. That takes individuals that are prepared to act as adults, and step up to their responsibilities.
Count me in all the way.
Thanks, Mr. Blumer. You turned up the temperature a couple of degrees for US frogs in the pot.
It seems the natural progression of the Administration is to further instantiate the “pulic sector” kapo class. Fire, EMT, police, water, air, food – everything. Every community gets a SWAT unit, while the penalties for criminal activity are relaxed? See Occupy Anywhere. Sheriff Joe Arpao could fix this problem in a day.
Absent intimidation, coersion, slowdowns, sickouts, strikes, sabotage, graft, orchestrated violence and now Denial of Access attacks, unions have absolutely no leverage in any negotiation across the table from anyone interested in saving the taxpayer money. Public sector unions enable/encourage the shift of allegiance of the membership from serving those who pay them, to the transnational Brotherhood.
Forced dues flowing to Democrats who propose/pass laws/regs/rules that favor unions at taxpayer expense is RICO-worthy! Job #1 is to de-unionize public sector employment ASAP. While the infrastructure arms up, we critique their tactics and fund it. I’d love to see one of the candidates promise to de-unionize the public sector, although I remain pesimistic.
Every elected official who supports/is supported by unions must be unseated in 2012, or we’ll never eradicate the blackmail. As it is, we face a future at worse odds than our Founding Fathers did. At least the local police were allies, then. Patriots need be far more persuasive to their neighbors / countrymen, or we lose. Civility is waning fast.
In a collectivist State the civil servants always come first, the rest get the crumbs. Reid is stupid enough to come out with this, but it doesn’t matter, nobody in the media will call him on it. The bucks are going on them and the public spending on our “run down” infrastructure, the one that on all levels of government we spend billions a year to maintain. Obama/Reid and the rest use our cash to build a loyal cadre of government employees, and the unions as well. The gravy train ends there.
The Democrats have been on full loot mode since 2006 (if not 1933). Preserving the rule of law and the constitution are meaningless to them. Democrats want a gold-plated all powerful bureaucracy.
Why on earth do Republicans ever talk about anything besides the economy?
If I was running, I’d answer every question with 20% unemployment, downgrade, 4 trillion in new spending, DC is the wealthiest county in the country. 1.3 trillion deficit, Solyndra, 1 tillion “stickittous” no infrastructure improvements, 14 trillion national debt, 40,000 in debt for unborn children, union thugs, Goldman Sachs in Obama’s pocket, GE, bureaucrats make twice what an average american makes, take away fed spending and we are in the Great Depression, 40 cents borrowed on every dollar spent by government, Greece, brink of oblivion.
Once again, agree.
However, I’d connect the final dots. Everything hinges on a vibrant US economy: national security, global leadership, personal and collective freedoms, quality of life today and tomorrow.
The Rs should make the economy the answer to every single question. And, oh yeah, they should stop shooting at each other and turn their sights onto the real problems: Obama and the Bamacrats.
Exactly.
ANY Republican is better than Obama.
“Why on earth do Republicans ever talk about anything besides the economy?”
Because there are quite a few in the GOP base who have other priorities.
“Being pro life means more than overturning Roe v Wade….
“Pro life means treating abortion like murder. It means going beyond overturning Roe v. Wade and reversing the “right” to an abortion. It means making abortions illegal and throwing the sick doctors that perform them and the mothers that seek them behind bars as murderers.”
http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2011/10/21/a-mea-culpa-on-herman-cain-and-abortion/
The problem with discussing issues other than the eonomy is that they are not strategicly wise. We need to win, and the way to win is to focus on the issues that gather the widest possible support. Issues that turn off the one-issue voters should be avoided. The marxists, on the other hand, will do everything in their power to make the election about every issue they can come up with…OTHER than the economy.
So, I have said many times that the issues of social security and Medicare should be avoided. Paul Ryan and Rick Perry made HUGE errors giving attention to those programs. Why discuss them when any solution, even the mildest suggestion, is sure to inflame millions of senior citizens who otherwise would vote Republican? Let those topics rest for an election when the entire future of the country doesn’t depend on defeating the greatest enemy the country has ever had. The same thing is true about illegal immigration, as Rick Perry has found out in spades. He would have been better off to simply say that in-state tuition for second-generation illegals was passed by over 90% of Texas legislators and he accepted their decision. Instead, he tanked his campaign by being forthright about his view.
Likewise for abortion. Yes it’s important. Yes it needs to be addressed. Just not NOW. The response, if one is forced to answer should be to say that it is properly an issue for the states, since the Constitution does not have a position on it. In a different year, a year that won’t be deciding whether the country will be marxist or capitalist, a different answer will be more appropriate.
I am not at all sure that tackling the social issues on a national scale is ever a good idea. Who knows how many seats of office have been lost to the Democrats because all too often Republican candidates make the mistake of putting off the very large number of fiscally conservative but moderate-on-social-issues voters by weighing in on sensitive social issues. I call it a sad case of cutting off one’s nose despite one’s face.
If not now, when? If not us, who? We’re always being told to wait, and we’re sick of it. Let’s just do it. Amend the Constitution to secure the right to life for the unborn. If we refuse to do that, we don’t deserve to preserve our Republic.
Someone with no business experience and a naive academic view of how the business world works might actually believe that the only way to spur a ‘green economy’ would be to force the existing economy to become inviable, and that the sufferring of the unfortunate millions in that dramatic change would be justified for the greater goal. So long as he could continue to provide dole-outs to his core constituency of supporters.
Yes, the Left either is ignorant of, or refuses to accept, the classic Bastiat fallacy about “broken window stimulus.”
Bastiat posed this question: If you want to create jobs, why not just go down a street smashing all the windows of all the buildings, and then hire people to repair the windows? What’s wrong with that?
A left-winger would say, “Nothing’s wrong with that! Let’s do it!”
You hear this from the Left all the time: If we could regulate and tax the oil and coal industries out of existence, think of all the jobs that would be created in wind and solar power! (They completely ignore all the workers in the oil and coal industries who would now be unemployed, as well as all the stockholders’ wealth that would be gone too.)
Arm yourselves. You can now buy Bushmaster AR-15′s at Walmart. If the Marxist Left thinks that we conservatives will roll over and become willing serfs they will find out the gravity of their error. I’ve had enough of Big Government know-it-alls trying to tell me what I can and can’t do, trying to run my life, and taxing me to death to pay for their dependent class of moochers. It has to stop.
Stopping it won’t be a bit pretty, as they won’t go down easily.
All the more reason to arm yourself. Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
I have trouble understanding why Obama and his intellectual-giant fellow travelers don’t conclusively demonstrate the healing power of their cherished economic theories in the laboratory of the world stage.
Since the Obama administration is: 1) (selectively) enamored of liberal European models of social and economic organization; 2) convinced that the administration, alone, understands legitimate scientific method; 3) unstinting in the conviction of its own moral superiority; 4) self-assured in its understanding of macroeconomic systems; 5) infatuated with globalist initiatives; and 6) uniquely positioned to advance social justice, why not put their messianic methods to the test in, say, Greece?
Surely Obama’s impeccable logic and oratory power would enlighten and hold spellbound the Greeks and the European bankers as he explains to them that what Greece needs to reduce its crushing debt is more public hiring and spending, and that what the banks need is greater vilification. Could a second Nobel be far behind?
Come to think of it, with the marvels of modern media, one has to be shocked that the Greeks and other Europeans haven’t already seized on Obama’s economic wizardry to solve their economic crises.
Tis the season for the shepherd to shear the sheep. Both the shepherd and the sheep have coats thick with wool. The shepherd shall profit greatly to hearth and home. And all that is left over will yield to the next season. For now all are safe and warm through the cold winters night. Yet brazenly the wolves have set a meat grinder near the shepherds shed feeding their slatternly appetites all day long on sheep de jour, seasoned with lies of course. Slyly they allow most of the lambs to return to the flock, but soon the shepherd notices that his shearing time has been reduced to naught. For the wolves rapaciousness has swallowed their insatiable gluttonous heart, which is fed on a diet called “want”. But look their are some bones and sinew left. Maybe enough to feed and make strong a posse of righteous folk who can set back in balance who is the shepherd and who is the sheep, and most mystifyingly why we need wolves so all shall gain once again. Let us be thankful for bones and broth, but lets not forget the wolves.They make us wise.
Draft Her S.P
Obama recently told ABC’s Jake Tapper, “the economy is not where it wants to be and even though I believe all the choices we’ve made have been the right ones, we’re still going through difficult circumstances.”
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I’ve looked at this sentence in every way I can and it makes no sense whatsoever. Where, exactly does the economy “want to be”, Homer? If you’ve made all the “right choices” then it naturally follows that something you’ve done isn’t working, yet you’re baffled by a sour economy? All that Keynesianism is all so….clear, right?
I was taught in college macro-economics that Keynes never intended for his theories to be put into practice; That they were “paper exercises” to educate how the flow of money works. It’s an inexact science at best and very difficult to predict given all the variables.
But statists think it is absolutely essential to eliminate variables and in so doing, create a command and control economy where incentives to produce are destroyed. That’s one absolute in economics. People will take care of themselves first, they HAVE to. If the government takes that over, as shown in NORK, Cuba, the USSR, etc, then the people have nothing.
When given the freedom to buy things, innovation, creativity, incentive, competition all thrive. This doesn’t set well with the OWS types who have hated competition all their lives, or were taught to hate it. But counter notion that “everyone is just as good or bad as everyone else” is crap. Tell that to Michelangelo; Can one of the OWS pukes paint the ceiling like he could? BTW, it’s not very well known but Ol’ Mike there was handsomely compensated for painting that ceiling. In fact he halted work on it when no payment was made for about a year.
Capitalism has allowed this nation to flourish and thrive and has given rise to such expressions as “Good ol’ American know-how”. Many very significant things in the world were invented here. Although patents continue to rise in number in the US, few people are finding the finance needed to explore the market. “Green” energy boondoggles are the latest craptacular failure of the Obama administration.
Although he and his cronies are intentionally ruining the economy, it is done so both with malice AND ignorance by not realizing what happens when you try to manipulate the market.
Cloward and Piven expressed what they believed would happen as soon as anyone would act as Obama has: economic collapse. It rather appears to be working, though it has a ways to go.
I’ve always wondered, however, just how a “perfect” world can be built from the ruins (the second half of the Cloward-Piven Strategy). After WWII, there was the U.S. to help raise a ruined country. After Obama1, who will help to raise the U.S.? Or will the Community-Organizer-in-Chief merely rearrange the deck chairs and declare, “Mission accomplished!”? (Followed by, “It’s okay to applaud.”)
Yeah, like Mark Levin has said, Obama’s goal is to have ALL of us out in the government rice paddy with our asses in the air.
Even as a staunch conservative I’ve had a hard time believing that Obama and company were so low as to be trying to harm the economy. But when I learned that O asked the Japanese government for permission to go to Hiroshima to apologize for the atomic bomb—he was in an apologizing mood at the time—something clicked and suspicion turned into belief that he is our first Nation-Wrecker-in-Chief.
But I have the feeling that the worst that O will do begins the morning after the election—as in doing a Clinton and then some. But we can all take heart from the fact that, after the damage he has already done and will do by then, there won’t be much of anything left for the Bamster to destroy.
I was wondering about that. He could give a Presidential pardon to all sorts of nefarious types, vote for a bunch of anti-Israel resolutions at the UN like Jimmy Carter did after his defeat, withdraw from Bahrain and Afghanistan, bring KSM into the civilian judicial system. If he can find a way to pardon the wikileaks traitor he may do that, or reveal all sorts of classified information. There is no telling but we should all be concerned.
BTW, is it just me or does anything feel the the Democratic Party in its current state should be not a mainstream party? If they support something nutty as OWS they should be out on the fringe with the Communists and Nazis.
Well, the Leftist base of the Democratic party is clearly anti-Semitic. There is no question of that. Whether or not they would favor a return to a neo-Nazi “final solution” to the current “Jewish Question” remains to be seen. However, the Leftists do support the “Palestinian Cause” whole-heartedly; and The (Undesignated U.N.) Territories have been governed by Hamas for quite some time now; and Hamas openly & vividly states in its founding charter that it seeks the annihilation of the state of Israel (which they have underscored many times in the recent past through the wholesale slaughter of Israeli citizens by means of Hamas suicide bombers) … But still, it could be that the more leftward-leaning caucus of the Democrat base is merely uninformed. So I would hate to apply the Nazi label to them. At least for the time being. It may be that the Code-Pink arm of the Obama faithful merely desires the evacuation of all Jews from the Levant, just as all Jews have been removed from most other parts of the Middle East in the post-Holocaust era. So be of good cheer, my fellow Americans. Evil slumbers yet.
An inferior health care plan that no one wants and CANNOT afford to pay. The threat to jail and/or fine those who don’t purchase the government enforced plan.
Massive spending as if there is no tomorrow. Fighting wars we have no money for. Massive borrowing.
The Massive giving away of Billions of dollars every year to other countries, including the oil-wealthy Middle East, Hamas-controlled Gaza and the Palestinian Authority organization who fill their war chests, build mansions and laugh all the way to the bank with free infidel money. Whilst in America, homeless shelters are filled to capacity; tent cities have sprung up all over the U.S. filled with desperate, jobless, homeless, neglected Americans.
Massive debt. The massive printing of paper money out of thin air to DELIBERATELY create out-of-control inflation. There is no question that the total DESTRUCTION of America’s economy is planned. The results will be horrifying. In the once wealthy and great nation of America, millions of Americans will become destitute, hungry and homeless with no money or resources to help them.
Organic, non-GMO avocado, fruit and nut trees and berries must be planted in all of our nation’s cities’ and towns’ parks to help the many millions of Americans who will soon be in a desperate struggle to survive because of the highly destructive economic policies of our government.
Watch it. And weep for our great nation and people:
FALL Of The Republic – The Presidency Of Barack H Obama – The Full Movie HQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LPNRI_6T8&feature=player_embedded
SCARY……
Is this REALLY our AMERICA??????
Know the TRUTH about the Government Health Care Bill H.R.3200 – Key Points
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcBaSP31Be8
It’s also a war against the fast-disappearing middle class.
Why employers avoid hiring the long-term unemployed
Obama’s comment is spooky. If he believes he has made all the right choices, then what did he really hope to accomplish? One measures the success of a course of action by its results. Did he intend high and under employment? Staggering deficits and a debt that seems impossible to ever repay? No return on traditionally safe investments so that old people watch their savings disappear through inflation and spending the principle? Street mobs crapping on police cars?
Now what’s in store for us if he continues his “successful” presidency?
chaos and societal destruction.
yes. yes. yes. yes.
tyranny
Tyranny has been the goal for 10,000 years, and for 9,770 of them, they have succeeded.
@24 Doug Johnson
Barack Obama is a perfect Storm. If he had intended to destroy the economy and trash employment, while exploding the deficit and the national debt, he couldn’t have done a better job. Yet, if that was his intention, you would think that he would have gotten something right in the last 2 ¾ years, if only accidentally.
If Obama is merely incompetent and/or stupid, why has he made NO decision that turned out good for Joe Citizen?
A strange view shared among the choir on this site. The GOP was fully prepared to spend, borrow and print just as the democrats have should they have gained the White House. The financials and auto industries would have been bailed out by a GOP administration along with GOP favored sectors and industries just as the Obama administration and democrats have and continue to try to do. The housing industry who contribute hundreds of millions to the GOP would have gotten billions of GOP preferential bailout funding which would have been lost down the toilet. The democrats want to feed a green economy and the GOP wants to feed the traditional fat cats of the financials and Wall Street.
One thing you won’t hear the republicans and tea party address is the nations gross wealth disparity and the decade of increasing poverty. Neither party will address the real consequences of globalization of the economy and the strategy of nation building around the world. The democrats are blind to commerce non competitiveness and the republicans are blind to the consequences of a globalized economy choosing rather to blame government taxation and regulatory policy. Neither party is worth their salt to run the country much less address the real problems and attempt to fix them.
The private sector who holds the nation wealth, also holds the power to fix the problems of the nation but they are to busy investing and positioning with those nations who can best provide the most profits for goods and services around the world. Greed is a private sector disease and not a government disease! The greed destroying the nation is among the top wealth holders and the working middle class. All the political jibberish being bantered about by the republicans and the tea party is nothing more than a diversion from the real problems and is a sideshow by circus clowns.
No matter what party is in office during these times and circumstances, they will spend, borrow and print in an attempt to stay more economic collapse and social suffering since the private sectors wealth holders are unwilling to be responsible to their homeland and its people. Private sector greed driving inflation and economic disparity is what has destroyed the nation and its economy. Maybe when the people begin to connect to the real issues the nation can begin to address real problem solutions. Taxes and regulatory policies are the least of the real problems destroying this nation!
As it stands right now, the republicans and tea party haven’t anybody running for office that is willing to address and unite a majority of the nation around the real problems. Its doubtful any of them even understand the real problems! Their only interest is in political jockeying for an election that very likely may not go their way even inspite of high unemployment and Obama’s low poll ratings. Over the coming months many people may wake up to the consequences of the private sectors economic disparity and greed which will leave the government and politicians essentially irrelevant in their revolt. Until then, the government, be they democrats or republican led, will continue to beg, borrow and steal in an attempt to prop us some kind of economy and abate even more social suffering.
This troll knows what the republicans would have done if Obama hadn’t done it. What a genius!!
Here’s a dose of reality slugger.
This country is the greatest that has ever existed. Millions of people fight and claw to get IN the country every year. They don’t mind risking their life to do so. Even after Obama and the rest of you thugs have stolen TRILLIONS from the productive citizens of the country, STILL the major problem “the poor” have is frigging obesity. The daily diet of a “disadvantaged” “patriot” in Detroit would feed a family of four in Bangladesh for a month.
You are simply a power-hungry, greedy blood-thirsty thief who will flatulate out any lie or distortion to increase your power, no matter what the consequences to the country or the people who make your dispicable criminal life possible.
Because that’s what marxists do.
Have you ever done a comprehensive study and reviews done of the Paulson Plan? If so, assume for the moment that the GOP retained the White House after the 2008 election. The Paulson plan and philosophy for the financials and Wall Street carried over into the Obama administration and it failed. The Paulson plan also had a provision for bailing out the auto industry but had no other provisions separate for the growing unemployment continuing past 2008. The Paulson plan was all about revitalizing a grossly inflated and unsustainable housing market. I would like to see what you can present or argue that a GOP administration would have done other than throw money at the realities of 2009-10-11 circumstances. What would the GOP have done for the States who were unable to sustain the costs of rising unemployment and facing their own possible bankruptcies?
I don’t think there are millions of people fighting to come to America nowadays as you claim. Maybe those of some wealth and assets or other means of networking in their ethnic communities for economic means but certainly not the traditional millions of common labors of the past. Hundreds of thousands who were or still are illegal immigrants by the way.
Before you condemn millions of citizens as losers and a drain on the producers I would suggest you invest some time into looking at the governments demographic charts of those who recieve government social benefits. But for the current high unemployment circumstance the demograhpics and percentages are not what you obviously think they are unless you are suggesting that the aged and disabled should not be receiving any benefits. Have you checked the education benefits debt owed to the government lately? Thats a benefit and cost that one could reasonably argue to be discontinued. So could 100% of federal and state subsidies to communities and commerce.
It would be nice if people were having conversations over real problems, real facts and real solutions rather than all the self serving political diversions and rhetoric of the day.
Pro, don’t waste your time. This clown has all the earmarks of “a physicist” right down to the condescending tone. There are subtle differences, but if it’s not him, it’s someone who “thinks” just like him and prefers to source his “knowledge” by letting books tell him what to think vs. reading something and then assessing his own perspective on the subject, allowing for differences of opinion.
Straight academia. “It is that way because seven out of ten highly accredited and recognized academics have signed onto the matter with approval. Therefore, I must think as they do or I am somehow not worthy. And, by distinction, YOU are not worthy because you (obviously) haven’t read the referenced texts/publications/blog posts of said “expert(s)” and therefore are thinking wrongly and must be excluded”.
What’s most interesting in similarity between “anonymous” and “a physicist” is the belittling tone, the condescension, the arrogance. But then, that’s a fairly common trait among the members of the proletariat. “I’m right because I’ve read the things that the right-thinkers have written and therefore, it’s now certified because I agree with it.” Or some such drivel. Never a thought given based on actual human behavior, personal reflection or introspection. In other words, “Don’t confuse me with the way people really are, I read a BOOK”.
In short, there is no hope. Greedy republicans want grandma to die because that’s what all the news agencies are reporting. No further cynicism is required. Besides, all the academics KNOW this to be true, so therefore it IS true.
“I don’t think there are millions of people fighting to come to America nowadays as you claim.”
what a monumental dolt.
take a cab, go into a 7/11, buy a burger, get your grass cut, have a room painted, see who’s doing the cooking in your favorite restaurant, buy something in a Walmart.
TENS OF MILLIONS of people fighting to get here.
But that’s not the problem. The problem is people, specifically yourself, too stupid to understand that WORKING is what makes people successful in this country, not pontificating, philosophising or citing fellow travelers who know even less than you know, if that is even possible. See, they are willing to get a job instead of demanding that the world must provide them a living.
and SG-1, you are correct.
The banal, limp-wristed, passionless, pasty writing style with the nonsense references and appeals to higher powers is the hallmark of the cowardly physicistwhatever, now apparently too embarrassed to use the fantasy tagname. And it’s in disguise as well. No happy faces, no links to self-pleasuring websites as “authorities”. What a monumental dolt. Probably a whiney adolescent class salutitorian trying to be somebody and clueless about how to do it
You show great insight when you state “The problem is people, specifically yourself, too stupid to understand that WORKING is what makes people successful in this country, not pontificating, philosophising or citing fellow travelers who know even less than you know, if that is even possible.”
Since when in the past 50 years does “working” necessarily equate to productivity? Try taking a look into the world of leisure and pleasure that employ and entertain like minded people by the millions who have way to much idle time and wasted minds on their hands. Take a look at the financial sheets of such businesses as a Barnes and Noble whose shelves are filled with the works of literaries of every useless information and entertainment sector known to mankind. Take a look at the pornography industry who have no shortage of customers 24/7. Few Americans today know anything about real productive work.
Your social and economic class, democrat, republican or tea party, drives the the social and economic corruption in America. Your social and economic class drives and supports the nations exported economies to places like China, India, Mexico and so many other foreign lands. How many times and how many dollars do you spend each year shopping at such places like Walmart, Target, K-Mart, Sears, Pennys, Macy’s, Home Depot and on down the line? Everytime you spend a dollar at those places you support the economic transfer from America to some foreign nation.
In a free society it is the majority who determine equality or inequality of social and economic affairs and not any government. The government only takes approximately 18% to 20% of the nations monetary wealth leaving the other 82% of monetary wealth and assets to the people.
The middle and working poor classes make certain they hand over their wealth each month and year over to the top 20% of wealth holders who hold 60% or more of the nations monetary wealth and assets. Money talks and BS walks so they say. Every citizen who surrenders their monetary wealth and futher extends themselves into personal debt due and payable to the wealthiest also surrenders their voices and power. When wealth disparity becomes such that only a few controls the nations majority of wealth they become the controlling voice and power over society and government. Thats where America is today.
While you may feel intellectually superior coming to sites such as this condemning millions of people according to some self serving perceived political idelology you’re everybit as responsible for the falures leading to the nations circumstances as those you choose to condemn. The next time you choose to condemn somebody you may want to take some self inventory and see just how much you have today is far above what you’ve actually contributed to or have paid for. If you’re retired or nearing retirement you will have received in full, everything you contributed within the first five years or less. That makes you reliant upon the funding of those younger generations contributing to your retirement. If you die leaving debt you leave to others to make up for the losses you will to the younger generations be it higher insurance premiums or writeoffs. You and your generations democrats and republicans shaped what is America today not the government. The young people rising up today may not appear to meet your standards or have a clear and concise message but one thing they do know and represent is that your generations are leaving them a big pile of crap for their future and future generations. Your generation has created a historic framework of economic disparity leaving the majority power over society and government to a small percentage who hold the majority of the nations monetary wealth and economic assets. Your generation continues to blindly feed the corruption and greed that is destroying the nation. Attempting to blame a governmet whose offices are held by citizens elected by citizens and lobbied by citizens is more than ridiculous. Blame yourself and your generations for the ills of the nation today. You’re a part of the team that sold freedom, equality and captialism down the river for the spoils of corruption and greed.
The self righteous are an amazing lot of people.
You should know.
So, this $4 trillion debt is because I shop at Home Depot and watch too much porn?
Damn.
Get a job.
You will have less time to pretend that you aren’t such a failure. Work long enough and you might actual become something other than a failure.
So why are people living beyond their means, and borrowing money to make up the difference?
Anyone think maybe the elite in this country know the US economy is a sinking ship and they are just getting there money out in the form of stimulus spending? There is an element in our country the are bleeding the wealth out of the country before the final economic death kneel, which will be bankruptcy.
If the republicans don’t win both houses come 2012, then the inevitable will happen……………..the final collapse of the US economy and all it’s wealth. There is one consolation in all this and this is “we are the United States and we will make a survive it.”
I am one of those people that voted for Jimmy Carter and lived to regret it. I swore that I would never get “taken” politically again. Now a new generation of American voters will learn the same lesson with President Obama. But remember this one thing, after Jimmy Carter, we got Reagan. Are there any Reagan’s out there? Newt comes to mind. Herman Cain, maybe? I am starting to like that combination.
Regards from NC
” Obama recently told ABC’s Jake Tapper, “the economy is not where it wants to be and even though I believe all the choices we’ve made have been the right ones, we’re still going through difficult circumstances.”
In the arab, muslim tradition history is not considered a tool for recording past events accurately. It is viewed as amorphous changeable narrative that serves two purposes. The first is the advancement of Islam. The second is to make the listener feel good. In order to understand the reasoning used by BHO one must first accept the obvious even though most people will deny it. Once one accepts the obvious all the actions of BHO and all his statements fall neatly into place.
b Hussein o ? A muslim ?
Bingo.
I have always said that ‘Elmer Fudd’ could beat Ovomit in 2012. I am beginning to think that Ovomit is actually Elmer Fudd in disguise! Ovomit is way in over his head…has been from day-one!
TEA PARTY DEBT COMMISSION To beat the debt, America must first beat Washington.
http://www.freedomworks.org/tea-party-debt-commis…
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