I was only responding to Nuguy's whining about President Obama's vacationing.
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"you can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time".
Our "incompetant-in-chief" is now taking credit for "the biggest budget cuts in history".
Like he had anything to do with it.
It should have NEVER come to this.
He, and his fellow Democrats had a solid majority in the House and Senate and refused to pass a budget because they were coming close to an election and they didn't want the people to see their plans.
These people have to go before they bankrupt this country. But then again, that's really his agenda isn't it.
I hope that you "fools" who are "fooled all of the time" by this idiot will soon realize what he really is all about.
Sadly, I doubt it.
I am reminded of a 60s interview of the band, The Who. When they were $100,000 in debt for smashing guitars, they were really worried. Soon they were $1,000,000 in debt and they just laughed it off. There comes a point where you don't care anymore when the problem is bigger for the lender. The people in government will continue to smash guitars and make no mistake, they laugh it off at this point. I'm sure China will understand.
U have a short memory, Wall Street sent the World economy into the trash. Bush and team, Wall St., the too Big to fail Banks, the GOP don't regulate business,TRUST US, Enron & the other rip-off artist fucked the economy. Not the union worker or the middle class. Don't start the story at Obama's watch. Don't fabricate history, some of us read. The quote that is attributed to Lincoln, is from the Bible.
Right up there with the IQ of the rest of your comments. Not to mention the one about the US being "bankrupt." Now, I'll be the first one to agree the deficit is way too big and the Democrats should have gotten their act together and passed a budget last year when they had the majority. They are gutless, disorganized pussies. But, while we are not in good shape financially, we are very far from bankruptcy. In fact, we aren't even close to being in as bad shape as Japan. Our debt is 70% of the size of our economy. Japan's debt is 200% of its economy. And Japan is still able to fund itself, including rebuilding after the earthquake and tsunami. These are facts. And, no, this is not to say we don't need to cut spending. We do and we must. But, please, F_U don't let yourself be confused by the facts, as usual. Just keep on posting stupid, meaningless and inaccurate shit. We'll just start ignoring it.
I agree that both parties are at least partly responsible.
I just want to know how what the Republicans did can be described as not regulating the economy.
Bush appointed Bernanke who kept the Fed's interest rate down to 1%, pumping a couple trillion dollars into the economy to try to stimulate us out of the tech bubble recession. Bush signed Sarbanes Oxley. Bush signed the steel tariffs. He signed the American Dream Downpayment Act. Bush signed the first bailout bill after the housing bubble collapsed. Bush gave is prescription drug benefits for Medicare. Bush allowed the deficit and government spending to grow at a record pace.
I see no deregulation here. Just more and more big government.
As for Enron, it did NOT operate in an unregulated economy. It operated in an artificially created market, the California Power Exchange, which was full of all sorts of regulations. Just look up "Death Star", one of those Star Wars named schemes Enron used to swindle California's electricity consumers. If not for regulation, those schemes would not have worked.
Blame the Republicans, but don't blame some non-existent deregulation.
No body cared to enforce it. One big reason for that is, Bush appointed cronies. Next you are going to come and say Bush didn't start the Iraq war. If the tech bubble was burst and he knew the economy is going down, why would the genius cut taxes for the rich and squander the surplus. The only defense these indefensible actions among many is; they were all stupid.
Do I agree with Obama on this Budget agreement, no, absolutely not. He should have stood his ground and the government shut down like Clinton did. This is the reason I still believe Hilary would have been better president than Obama. Yep, I know Clinton got blow-job in the White House and lied about it, it didn't affect me, this country or rest of the world negatively or kill innocent people by thousand or have terrorist attack on the US.
Terrorist attack, we can debate all you want, not listening to Richard Clarke and not giving him even an audience while intoxicated because the children got power is inexcusable for POTUS. Nothing dead or alive happened during his entire administration, only thing happened was; thousands Iraqui civilians were killed, the oldest Ethnic Christians of Iraq are homeless and are wandering helpless in Syria and Jordan and there aren't any Christians in Iraq where they have lived for thousands of years. Unjustifiable. Let us not even talk about the false pretense of it all.
What did the right wing wants to do? Do away with any and all regulations, reduce taxes, give them subsidies, bail them out and cut budget to hurt the poor.
It is amazing how many misguided people are supporting them without realizing they are really hurting themselves. This notion of democracy without taxes to keep civil society in tact is insanely absurd. At the rate wealth is concentrating at the top 1%, don't worry; you will be in the poor house soon. Why would anyone want to invest their retirement, or any asset they have without oversight? So, you are just fine they take high risks with your money any way they wish and, you are OK if you loose it all. What makes anyone think they won'd do it again? The people who caused it are gone, will be gone soon or retire with the wealth and new set of greedy one's will come along and will do the same. Did anyone loose money in their 401K (working stiff here) or in their IRA, have you gotten it back yet? What % of raise did you get in 2010? Did your Health Insurance or co-pay go up in 2011? Are you paying more for food? These are the things common man (middle-class) has content with daily. The pittance middle class get in tax reduction doesn't make difference with any of his/her daily concerns. Yep, can pretend to be rich and have life in luxury, if one is willing to run up credit card, spend whatever equity on the house or by taking out high interest loans. Don't worry, tax cuts are going to save your ass! Unlikely.
can't think of a resaon to not make 'the president chalking up the most days on vacation a "one-termer".
Of course not! But, let me help you!
Oops! Seems you're wrong again! Imagine that!
If you have not realized what how the financial crisis occurred and what caused it by now, billions of links on the Internet is not going to help you. Obama's vacation link is priceless when the previous one has the record and widely known as the most vacationing president.
Since you have made a conscious decision to divorce yourself from truth and reality and has latched on to sheer stupidity and soundbites wholeheartedly nothing is going to help. It is like talking to cows, they make the same noise.
I was only responding to Nuguy's whining about President Obama's vacationing.
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between going on "vacation" and working at your "home" office like those you referenced, and just packing up and going places, just to be going.
No'Bama has no home, except the White House, just like Clinton.
Try to explain it away anyway you want, No'Bama is "seeing the world" on our dime, NOT doing his job.
Well, ain't that cute? "Working from home." Ya, I know some guys who work from home, and they don't have to meet anyone, and they don't get near the work done than they do at the office.
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
Who bankrupt this country? Ready to play "Guess who said that?"
The quote is: "deficits don't matter."
Now let's guess who said that. Was it
A) Barack Obama
B) Nancy Pelosi
C) Harry Reid
D) Ronald Reagan
If you answered anything other than "D", then you don't know how to do a google search. Next question.
Who was it that said, "Reagan taught us that deficits don't matter." Was it
A) Barack Obama
B) Michael Moore
C) Alan Grayson
D) Dick Cheney
I'm sure everyone will get that one right. Final question. What percentage of the national debt came from Republican administrations? Was it
A) 6.55%
B) 15.69%
C) 23.04%
or
Never mind that Lincoln was speaking of slave labor in furtherance of abolitionabolition. Read his entire 1861 inaugural address.