So, When’s the recession?
The video below caused a little controversy. Does it really imply that since I posted it I hope that the Dems get in power and tax the shit out of the top 10% income earners? No, it doesn’t.
Yes, for the administration to say out loud that we are in a recession is a self-fulfilling prophecy. No, taxing the rich isn’t the way to build a strong economy. Yes, the country is in varying stages of denial about the state of the economy. No, I do not think McCain or the GOP are the right people to get us back on track.
OMG! The Republicans won’t be good at stimulating the economy?! How could you say that? That’s what they do! That’s who they are!
Nope. The GOP’s domestic policy and attempts to control spending during this administration is an embarrassment. The GOP has become the spend party. The GOP won’t raise your taxes, but they’ll spend every goddamn dime you’ve given ‘em.
War, war, war. Quite frankly, If I were about to lose my house to foreclosure and lose my job I wouldn’t be caring about terrorists or Iraq or genocide in Darfur. I’d be wondering how I was going to get a new job if the economy continues to free fall.
It’s the economy, stupid.
McCain’s latest speech on the economy was to ask the financial institutions in trouble to help their customers. Gee! Thanks! What a great idea? We’re laying off people and our customers can’t pay their bills on time, but we’ll just let it slide.
I do not believe the government should put in some big bailout plan…for either the financial institutions or for the homeowners. Both were culpable in predatory lending and in stupidity. But, 900,000 foreclosures on the books this year is not good for the whole. That means, the government really does have to do something. What? I don’t know. I don’t get paid enough to figure that out. Hell, if it were me I’d come up with some Draconian program to require homeowners in foreclosure to pay the government back with their first born child if I were to bail them out. But, I’m a jerk.
Maybe we’ll have Hooverville chic before too long.
I don’t advocate more taxes, but I will pay my fair share. It’s my duty to the country to keep it solvent. I do insist they spend my money wisely, though.
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folks losing their homes is not a result of the so-called recession. that is a symptom of greedy banks lending money to uninformed home buyers. Govt shouldn’t bail out banks but allowing foreign monies to prop up those failing financial institutions isn’t smart policy either,
I take offense to those who will snicker at the part of the video that says America will go into Iraq as liberators. Frankly, we are that to the Iraqi people that have been treated harshly if not outright murdered by Saddam. We are not liberators to the terrorists that continue to kill our troops….that’s not the ordinary, walking-around Iraqi citizen.
Why am I getting so worked up over this liberal gotcha video? I don’t know. It is certainly par for the course for liberals to lie….just review Hillary’s “ducking and running from bullets in Bosnia” and Obama’s “I never heard reverend Wright make incendiary statements”
Libs are a joke a a scourge to the earth.
There, nuff said.
Back to my coffee.
A big part of the reason the dollar (and the rest of the economy) is collapsing is that BushCo decided to cut taxes in the middle of a war - meaning that they’ve deferred an even bigger tax hike down the road for all the spending they chose (especially the war o’ choice).
So, yes, taxes do make a big difference - but not how most people think. Taxing the rich to pay for this war would have shown our creditors that we were serious about our debts rather than intending to just inflate our way out of them.
And are we viewed as liberators by the tens of thousands of Iraqis who have been blown up by our bombs, missiles, tanks, and guns?
How about the 2 million Iraqis who have fled their country?
How about the orphans and the widows and the homeless-those who have no place to go or no one to provide for them, thanks to our gallant efforts to “liberate” them?
Ah, well, I guess they’re just all a little collateral damage to you, eh P.S?
no Locutor - there was collateral damages as there are in every war. It is extremely unfortunate but war is not suppose to be neat and tidy. But let’s review your comments, shall we?
Not sure where your tens of thousands number comes from but be assured Saddam killed his own people, those other tens of thousands you left out.
I will accept your 2 million number as the number of those leaving Iraq. Wouldn’t you if your leader was killing his own people indiscriminantly. So were his sons, that is if they weren’t raping the local women. Oh yes, speaking of relatives, Saddam killed his own son-in-law.
The widows and orphans are taken care of (no, not all but neither is this country either) and the Americans are trying to dodge car bombs and IEDs from Iraqi terrorists while trying to help the country stabilize so they the Iraqi people can help better take care of their own. If I recall, it is the Americans that have helped care for burn victims and others in our usual humanitarian efforts.
Sorry you don’t support the troops that keep you safe and provide the freedom to make dumb comments on the internet.
^Nope, nobody supports the troops when they say the policy of the war is a big mistake. Ugh, that argument is straight from a talking point fax you receive.
If you are seriously going to stand behind the war, you are well into the minority of people in the world that believe it was/is a good idea.
Try again.
govnuh - what can I say? You’re very misinformed. You can’t listen to a small minority of peaceniks and claim real knowledge. It just doesn’t work that way.
“It is extremely unfortunate”–you make it sound like just bad luck. But it’s not bad luck–these deaths are a direct result of our presiden’ts decision to pursue a war of choice. The general estimate of the death toll I alluded to, “tens of thousands”, is based on several studies that have been conducted. IF you’ve been following the news about Iraq, I can’t see how you could have missed them: the Iraqi Health Ministry Survey, the Lancet Survey, the Opinion Research Busines s Poll. The lowest estimate among these three is that about 80,000 Iraqis have been killed, and the high end runs close to a million. Here’s a link to Wikipedia entry that summarizes a number of studies and info sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_in_the_conflict_in_Iraq
Glad that you accept the number I cited, around 2 million, as the number of refugees produced as a direct result of our war, but you imply that they left as a result of Saddam. No, that’s the number of refugees leaving Iraq AFTER Saddam’s regime fell, not before.
As for your last comment, that’s quite a cheap shot. I support the troops by opposing the president’s use of them as pawns in his little macho war game. I support the troops in the sense that I don’t want them to get killed in this stupid, pointless war. I want them to come home, as soon as possible, safely.
Bush’s war has cost a lot of Iraqi and American and British lives, and all for what? None of us here in the US are any safer, nor are the Iraqis.
Hope you will enjoy the recession, the high gas prices, and the loss of American prestige abroad that Bush will be leaving as his legacy.