Not all Republicans agreed with the war. Far from it.

The War is now obama’s war. He just issued orders to send THOUSANDS more troops to war. Of course he did it without the press. On the QT.

The responsibility for this financial debacle lies on the backs of the Dems in congress when they changed regulatory laws and encouraged, nay forced, banks to create subprime loans so that “everyone could have the dream of home ownership”.

Excuse me while I puke!

Dems, while receiving hundreds of thousands of $$$$ from Fannie and Freddie, put those companies under the wing of the Federal Government. It’s no surprise that obama was second pig in line for the most $$$$ from Fannie and Freddie.

Go take a basic economic course if you want to put your two cents in on these issues. At least spending on wars are stimulating.

So much for transparency.

Delia writes: “Watch that. My version of the acronym..”

Sorry, Delia. I seemed to have tread rather heavily onto your turf and hereby cede you rights of authorship with grudging counsel that POTUS has always been the accepted acronym for the president of the United States.
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Aww. You took all the gas outta my funnin’. *sniff*

How about NMPOTDC [Not my president of this divided country]?

Well, I tried. Head hurts now. Must lie down.

“But why should anyone who actually can create or increase businesses, profits, or jobs do so if their motivation, . . . is continually and increasingly sapped by soak-the-rich taxation? ”

Rich people like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and others have donated billions of dollars to charities, partly because of good will and partly to reduce taxes. There are 400 billionaires in the USA and all of them don’t need but a fraction of their net worth to get along in a very comfortable way. So the next best step is to “share the wealth”.

“I have over $12,000 of my life savings invested in Bank of America stock. . . . That stock is worth less than $2000 now. ”

I don’t think the gov’t actions (Bush & Obama) had a direct impact on the stock price loss. It’s Wall Street. All those guys want is COMMISSIONS, commissions, commissions. So they fuel RUMORS every day and the panicky and ignorant investors buy and sell like drunk mice. One of the pieces of advise running these days is “If you need the money in less than five years, don’t invest in stocks”. This goes well for retirees. Stay put. B of A stock will eventually rise (months? years?).

Except, as others have said, it won’t go to people who work; it’ll go to government bureaucrats and the like, who haven’t worked an honest day in their lives.

We can’t afford the government we have now, much less the kind that the Porkulus would provide. It’s time not only to beat back on this full-on assault on the productive class, but to actually *grow* the productive class. And yes, this would be done at the expense of the unproductive class (government workers, Congress, etc.). The time is now….