On Nov 10, 2:03*pm, "Robert Green" wrote:
"HeyBub" wrote in message
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Home Guy wrote:
Will Perry become the next idiot republican prez, following in Bush's
klownish footsteps?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6an4zSj8LhU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSJv-...eature=related
We can only hope. Unemployment at 4%, DOW-Jones above 12,000, 23
consecutive
quarters of economic growth, low interest rates, virtually no inflation,
dead Mohammadens piled up like cordwood.
It was just an illusion, Bub. *The magical numbers sprouted from all of that
from the Feds spending trillions on post 9/11 security, wars, TSA, etc.
It's amazing how a little government deficit spending can falsely goose the
economic numbers. *Now we're experiencing the crash of the speculative
bubble and runaway defense spending that made those high-flying numbers
possible - but not real.
I keep telling you to go take a course or two in economics
so you can stop making an ass of yourself. To attribute the
decent economy during the Bush years to govt spending
on security is totally bogus. And what exactly would you libs
have done after 911 Sent a cake to Bin Laden?
*We also destroyed Iraq, the country that had the
most to gain from keeping Iran nuke free because they'd be one of the first
victims of Iranian nuclear aggression.
Exactly how was Iraq going to prevent Iran from developing
nuclear weapons? The more logical scenario would be for
Iraq to acquire their own nukes. As for destroying Iraq, polls
of the Iraqis show the mahjority think the liberation of Iraq
was a good thing. Why is it that the libs, who are supposed
to be so concerned about everyones rights, usually wind up
siding with dictators?
I don't miss Bush one tiny bit. *I just wonder how long it will take to pay
off the mountain of debt Bush's incredible spending sprees and cowboy
diplomacy have left us?
We can start working on that right after we get done paying off
the $4tril that Obama has added in just 3 years. And the $10tril
his last budget forecast adding over the next 10 years.
*When will the Republican Tax Cut Fairy come and
wave her magic wand and make 10 years of war debt disappear?
Why is it only war debt that concerns you? The cost of both
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan come to about $1.3 tril. That
is for two wars lasting a decade. Obama managed to add
$4tril in new debt, so war is clearly not the major cause of
deficits and the national debt.
I noticed that voters in Ohio have said "we didn't give the Republicans a
mandate to go union busting" and rolled back the changes that the Tea Party
& Co. *tried ramming down their throats. *How many times do they have to get
bitch-slapped to realize that NO ONE has a mandate when elections are won by
tiny margins?
The debacle the Dems suffered a year ago was NOT by
tiny margins.
*It was pretty easy to see by the tenor of the protests when
that law was passed that the Republicans had made a serious error in
estimating the support they'd garner for union hatchetwork.
Get over it. Union membership has been steadily declining
since the 70s. Voters in many states have had enough of
paying generous salaries, full health care benefits, then seeing
civil service folks retire at 50 to take on a second civil service
position while collecting a generous pension for the first. Of
of holding down TWO civil service jobs at the same time. Or
of toll collectors making $100K+, as is going on here in NJ.
So politicians are making some changes, like asking those
civil service workers to pay part of their medical insurance
costs, just like most of the taxpayers who are paying their
salaries do.
In other news, Republican overreach around the US got knuckle-slapped in a
number of states. *An anti-abortion amendment in Mississippi got trounced,
voting restrictions in Maine got overturned. *The seething southwestern
anti-immigrantion agenda took a hit as Arizonans recalled the State Senate's
president, Russell Pearce and other elections indicated that the day of the
Tea Party may have come and gone. *Now we will have to wait to see if
Wisconsin's Gov. Scott Walker will face a recall vote in the spring.
I'll just wait for the election that's less than a year away.
*As my
very wise journalism prof. said "the pendulum always swings."
With only Romney and P - p - p - Perry looking like they'll survive the
"Quickening" and Obama undoubtedly having some pre-election trick up his
sleeve comparable to capturing Osama, it's going to be an interesting year
ahead.
--
Bobby G.
So, now it was a trick capturing Bin Laden?