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And they will believe Hope and Change from her and project too.

Hmmmm.

The greatest defenders in America of a Castro or Chavez are precisely those whose lifestyles and income would be impossible under such regimes.

Ain’t that the truth. Us folks in flyover country use water heater blankets, storm doors, weather strip and the like because they will save us a buck or two in the long run, nothing else. No “higher” sense or altruism involved here.

I think too many miss this. Our overlords would preach to us what they would never do themselves, left to their own devices because they can afford to not do the right things. It is that simple.

Poor Citizen @ 26:

Give it another two years then get back to us “deeper thinkers.”

Ba-Da-Boomp! Hey, Folks! He’ll be here all week. I LOL’ed, I surely did! By saying that you are pretty much guarantees it ain’t true. “Deeper thinker” indeed. More like “steeper stinker”.

Ward Dorrity @ 75:

Harris’ work is important not just for its context of the threat posed by Islam, but for his analysis of the rational vs the tribal actor. This is where the starry-eyed utopianism that lies at the heart of most modern liberals utterly breaks down. To assume that all men want the sames things that you do; that they see the world in the same terms that you do is breathtakingly, suicidally stupid.

Emphasis mine. Ward! Few I know in these parts understand that we cannot understand the various “bad actors” in the world for just these reasons. They have their own world view that is completely foreign to the experience of most in the US because they have not traveled beyond the safe borders of the Western World.

A few points from this morning:

- IOC selected Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympics. The pictures of 0bambi tell all. The narcissist has received his first major defeat and the world did not bow down to his exalted presence. Tantrum to follow in 3..2..1..
- 0bambi met with his AfPak General, McKrystal, as an afterthought to the trip to Copenhagen. ‘Present’ vote to follow.
- ACORN is catching heat from all the angles. If the Fed DoJ does not investigate look for the volume level to be turned UP ….. WAY UP!
- Unemployment is up to 9.8%. Cuing The 0bamanation claims that this is a success and things are ‘getting better and better’ in 3..2..1..

I think there was some “deal” or “understanding” made between privileged white kids in the 60′s and the angry blacks they noticed in their teens.

Some sweeping, moral and political absolution was delivered to these upwardly-mobile white kids in unspoken exchange for something.

(Exactly what was extended in return? Unqualified political support for any pleading? Virtually unlimited access to tax money? Praise for Michelle Obama’s wardrobe?)

The effect of this on the character of many privileged white kids was not to develop a real, hard-won moral maturity, but to deliver a smug, comfortable moral vanity that innoculated them from any angst over their own material success.

The exact nature of this Class “deal” escapes me, but SOMETHING occurred between these two groups and it was not a lightning flash of moral enlightenment, as Liberals like to claim. That “something” exchanged is the key to understanding everything else about the Liberal political and social attitudes we see today.

What you are analysing in this piece, it seems to me, are the mature effects of this great sixties understanding, but, to me, it’s like seeing the residual grin of the Cheshire cat while the cat itself remains invisible and inscrutable.

If stimulus was so necessary then the obvious and time tested solution was tax rebates to all tax payers. At a cost that could have been 1/2 to 1/3 of the current travesty that would have stimulated the hell out the private sector and been spent much more usefully than a bureaucrat could possible even imagine.

Bush is not without his mistakes but nothing compared to Obama/Pelosi/Reed’s. Bush’s mistake was bailing out the banks instead of buying up toxic assets. The government could have held on to those assets for a few years and then sold them back to the private sector for a small profit, say a few hundred billion dollars.

Economy in Free Fall 2/12/09
Dow Jones Down Over 2,000 points since Election Day 2008, 3400 since Democrats took over both houses of Congress in November 2006.
These were the numbers on 8 November 2006 Compare them to today.
Dow 12176.56 all time high

NAS 2384.94

S @ P 1385.72 ALL UP

Gold spot $635.00

Wheat $3.78
Oil $59.83 Brent spot

Nat. Gas 7.823 Henery Hub spot

Gas $1.5636 wholesale
Unemployment 4.4%

Home interest rate as low as 5.375%

CD best rate bank 5.45%

Fed. T Bond rate 5 year 4.75%

CPI 201.8 up1.3%

Job creations; up 132,000 in Oct
.
GDP est.3rd Q up 1.59%
Budget total deficit for 2006 $248.2
2006 budget 2.2 trillion
Inflation rate, latest figure 2.06%,
Yen 117
Euro 1.27
British # 1.87
Canadian $.76

Now we have ‘…bring-a-gun, …punch ‘em hard’ Obama at the helm.

What a switch that is.