Comments on: Now Running in Michigan

By: erinyes

erinyes — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:12:27 +0000

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/17/lehman-layoffs-will-they_n_127106.html
Whoo-da-thunk?

By: erinyes

erinyes — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:53:04 +0000

I saw this coming over a year ago.Any SANE person knows you can’t spend money like a drunken sailor without taking anything in.
About 4 months ago, I had an opinion piece published in the Orlando Sentinel titled “The Grand Funk, not quite the great depression, but the worst recession since”.Last night’s appearance of Suze Ormond freaking out on Larry King Live along with the various federal officials bloviating on the news/ talk shows validate the premise.Our economy is in great peril.
I fear we will see belly flop after belly flop as the fed searches for that great cosmic “reset button”.
I hope, my friends, that this is the Bush administration’s grand finale, one which drives the stake into the heart of the RNC beast, but who knows what treats are in store for us as the elections loom closer. Suspended elections due to national security threats?
FEMA “Camps” available to the neveaux homeless / jobless?
Perhaps I read to much over at Rense?
One would think the Republicans will suffer the biggest up set in history, but with a war hero (?) and his dominatrix running mate, who can figure out how this Twilight Zone episode will end?
More people standing on a corner asking for CHANGE………
We hear much about the poor “shareholders’ but little of the thousands of new jobless created by the collapse of the Wall Street titans.
Little Georgie will smash his toys in spite as he leaves Toon Town for Crawford (Or Paraguay?).

By: Swami

Swami — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:44:07 +0000

Obama says that things are so bad with McCain’s distortions and flip flops, that now the Bush administration is trying to distance themselves from McCain.

By: moonbat

moonbat — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:47:33 +0000

I recall showing a chart like this one of US deficits and surplusses to a wingnut – he first harrumphed with some snide comment about “is this Enron accounting?”, until he saw that it was put out by the GAO. It was as though his little mind had never seen anything like it before. “What else is Rush not telling you?” I wish I had said.

For years, Democrats were lambasted as the “tax and spend” party – and that’s what McCain’s ad tries to evoke – but Republicans are worse: their motto is “put it on the plastic and let the kids pay for it”. Even McCain, the old McCain, said that Congress was spending money like a drunken sailor.

Wingnuts snort that the Democrats try to buy votes with their programs, but the Republicans do the same thing by offering tax cut lollipops while running up massive deficits, to be repaid later. Republicans buy votes by putting money in your pocket, money that was borrowed from China.

And so, one party is honest about spending and tries to tax accordingly, the other party lives in a complete fiscal fantasyland, and gets away with it, because no one – other than Ross Perot and few others – has had the courage to call them on it. It’s like showing that chart I mentioned earlier – completely foreign concept – they have never even seen anything like it.

My whole theory about wingnuts harkens back to the 70s, where we began to hear of the “me generation”. Little did anyone suspect that these self centered children would morph into Reagan loving wingnuts. Their little minds can’t conceive of contributing to something bigger than themselves, like the government.

Someone needs to drive the meme home that tax cuts really aren’t tax cuts. I suspect the wingnut mind will reject this, because believing in Santa Claus is so much easier.

By: Mark Adams

Mark Adams — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:16:50 +0000

Goldberg makes the goofy argument that since taxes are enforced by criminal law, patriotism has nothing to do with it. So why was the “Patriot Act” a major rewrite of criminal statutes? Why is registration with the Selective Service enforced by criminal law? And is paying taxes isn’t an accepted patriotic duty, we haven’t risen up as patriotic citizens to overthrow this anti-patriotic scheme to steal our hard earned cash — or simply elected more flag-pinned wearing patriots to abolish the IRS?

Okay, I’ll go back to my corner and concentrate on my mantra.

NROOoooooo

NROOooooooo

NROOooooooo.

By: s

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:06:55 +0000

I went and read the snorts and hoots of the right.
I must be missing something. Do they not feel the staggering decicit needs to be addressed? Do they think all of these bail outs are freebies? How do they think it will be paid for if not by someone getting taxed? Why are they against Obama’s plan unless they are making +$250,000. If they are making more than that, do they not love their country enough to forgo their designer jeans for a season to help pay for the mess the current admin has created?
I really don’t understand how they think this will all shake out if no one pays taxes.

By: k

Thu, 18 Sep 2008 17:29:37 +0000

this morning on radio I actually heard it discussed of the US govt defaulting. It is time the US got this wake up call. In 2004 Bill Clinton stood at the Dem Convention and brought up the “how long will our creditors keep this up” subject. It is time to revisit reality.