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- inactive, on 08/16/2008, -11/+67WTF are these idiots talking about?
BUSH BANKRUPTED EVERY COMPANY HE OWNED!
GW Bush Jr has already bankrupted - Arbusto Energy Corp.
GW Bush Jr has already bankrupted - Spectrum 7 Corp.
GW Bush Jr has already bankrupted - Bush Exploration Company
GW Bush Jr has already bankrupted - Harken Energy Corp.
Consider the above pattern to complete the following sentence:
GW Bush Jr will soon __________ the United States of America.
These neocons are an enemy of the Constitution, they have made us radically less safe. They have bankrupt the treasury and ruined our ability to lead on the world stage.
If you support the so-called "Republicans" in charge now, you are no friend of America. | - skipthefrog, on 08/15/2008, -11/+57Because conservative policy has clearly made our economy boom.
- inactive, on 08/16/2008, -10/+55AND THE REPUBLICAN "PLAN"?...
Record Budget Deficits
Record Trade Deficits
Record Bankruptcies
Record Foreclosures
Record Plant Closings
Record Outsourcing
Record Tax Cuts for Millionaires
Record number of big corporate bailout
9 billion missing
Endless, unprovoked expensive wars
No-bid contracts for Haliburton
Record increase in size of Federal Government
THE LIST IS ENDLESS. - cg4et, on 08/16/2008, -10/+41I remember 1992 -- they said the same things about Bill Clinton. They said he would tax and spend and regulate the economy into oblivion. History will record that Bill Clinton left the economy in far better condition than either the George Bush who preceded him or the George Bush who succeeded him.
- ErickStevenson, on 08/16/2008, -9/+33I just hope Obama wins... I'm so sick of these people.
- Berkana, on 08/16/2008, -5/+20If you're a war profiteer, business certainly is booming.
- jaxcs, on 08/16/2008, -2/+16None of it?
- paradexes, on 08/16/2008, -7/+20Neither of them wont. People don't get it. The President of the USA is a puppet office. They dont dictate policy, execute power. someone else does. It all happens behind the scenes now. Corporate interests, banking interests, media conglomerates, those are the people who control the US. The President is just a figure head. Don't forget about FISA. For a candidate for change Obama certainly showed his commitment for change there. McCain is a happy flunky of the old guard establishment. Obama is a reluctant but willing flunky of the old guard establishment. Not alot of difference since both are still working for the (corporate,financial and media interests)
Most people never really thought about who FISA benefits....the TELECOMS. They get massive amounts of OUR tax money on top of what we already make towards facilitating the violation of our privacy. Nevermind the fact that he also met with the Bilderbergers group, a group of known corporate and business leaders around the world (who almost all incoming presidents have met since the 1800s) - rroeserr, on 08/16/2008, -2/+14No, you are wrong.
Uncontrolled gov't spending + Uncontrolled gov't printing of money = Recession - Prescottonian, on 08/16/2008, -1/+13Irony of the Last Line.
- overridemymind, on 08/16/2008, -3/+14Well, you could start by opening your eyes and looking around you. Perhaps try reading the Wall Street Journal -- the recent stories of the US dollar being the weakest it's been in decades?
Meh... what do financial analysts know anyway? George W. and joebob793 are on the case, and they say "The economy is just fine"
... either that, or joe didn't recognize skipthefrog's sarcasm, in which case, I apologize for the above statement. - 0zzy, on 08/16/2008, -4/+15Well, I don't believe he's going to save the economy. But neither will McCain. Either way, we're screwed.
- paradexes, on 08/16/2008, -7/+17Please grow a brain of your own and some eyes to see what is going on around you.
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -20/+29The financial industry realizes that the "anything goes" deregulation they asked for will destroy them, and they recognize that a sane hand at the helm is required.
- netsql, on 08/16/2008, -2/+10How did Republicans sell that Democrats spend more?
How? Look at spending under last few Democrats and spending by Bush is A LOT more. Lets include the cost of the war. Data shows Republicans spend more, but then market that they spend less. And it works. People think Republicans spend less. But the facts show opposite. - inactive, on 08/16/2008, -3/+11Obama will be great for the economy.
High taxes for the rich and no increase in tax for the poor = closes the deficit, increasing economic activity
Getting out of Iraq = further closes the deficit
Oil company tax = encourages lower prices and more energy innovation, closes the deficit further
McCain = gives tax breaks to his buddies, stays in Iraq for his oil and military buddies, spends loads and taxes little = huge increase in deficit.
McCain = scum. - FlaG8r, on 08/15/2008, -6/+13They just want to bet on the winner. With Bush at 20% and Obama consistently polling ahead of McCain, they expect that to be Barack.
- jakereilly, on 08/16/2008, -2/+9So, like, Bush raising taxes and spending more? A republican?
Your logic is nonsense. - pintomp3, on 08/16/2008, -3/+10the republicans controlled congress for most of bush's presidency too, during the time he spend the most money.
- KaivenTor, on 08/16/2008, -3/+10@wshwe: Not true. Tax cuts have actually helped stimulate the economy because money that would have otherwise gone to government programs was instead used by companies to employ workers, purchase things, and the trickle down effect has contributed not only to regular economic growth and maintenance but in terms of government revenue as well. The problem with the current administration (well, one of many) is that they took an otherwise decent set of tax cuts and created a bad situation by starting multiple wars and setting the tones for those wars by beefing up contractor paychecks.
One thing i have seen that is somewhat troubling is that Obama has mentioned increasing the top rate tax to pay for additional programs and subsidies. I was watching a rather interesting history lesson on C-Span today that involved this very topic. Turns out the worst economic situations in our country's history have generally been the result of a huge tax increase on the top rate tax. It also seems that this is a very political move because the poor only ever seem to understand that they don't have money, and thus blame the rich for having it all. But nobody wants to pay taxes, so when the tax rate is raised, tax shelters become more abused and the money actually begins to leave the country more so than being invested in it. Then again, there seems to be a class of entrepreneur these days that abuses the current tax system for profits. These are the people we should probably be weary of.
In short, tax cuts are good all around, but the general public never seems to see it that way. The cycle gets kick started again by a politician looking to pay for programs too quickly, and the economy suffers in the long run because of it. Personally, I'd rather see the government figure out a simpler and easier tax system that doesn't need to be adjusted all the damn time. Flat tax or national sales tax with no double income taxing or IRS. - inactive, on 08/16/2008, -2/+8--------------------------Please do less speaking and more moving to a country that applies more of your socialistic/communist ideals.---------------------
Look, a 28%-er telling and American to leave his country. How Charming.
You are obviously an idiot to argue about politics when you don’t even understand the politics of your own country.
Do some research, for about twenty years then come back and post.
We don’t want to hear any more of your ill informed garbage until then - BevansDesign, on 08/16/2008, -1/+7Ron Paul can also heal lepers and shoot rainbows out of his ass.
- aussiejan, on 08/15/2008, -8/+14You miss the point. It is the employees who are donating, not the big firms themselves. What this means is the people who know are saying Obama can better lead in the area of finance than McCain. He will be beholden to nobody but the American taxpayer. Does McCain give you the warm fuzzies because he will owe the oil companies?
- MFoody, on 08/16/2008, -2/+8Wrong. The war didn't turn the economy around that is a myth. You seriously think that taking away a huge amount of capital and labor and allocating to economically non productive conflict saved the economy? Have you thought about this? So is the Iraq war good for the economy? Probably not. The idea that WWII solved the great depression is pretty dubious, It is inferring causation from correlation and big example of the broken windows fallacy. There is a small amount of truth to it in that WWII constituted a massive government spending program but had the money been spent on almost anything else it would have helped the economy more. This is not to say that WWII was not worth fighting but the notion that it pulled us out of the great depression is a really common myth that is spread by pretty much every middle school social studies teacher ever and one that is easily shown to be false if you just use your brain.
- klco, on 08/16/2008, -1/+6***** RON PAUL
If anything the last 8 years have shown us, its that unrestricted capitalism is a VERY bad thing... - alpharaptor, on 08/16/2008, -3/+8please find an example of a pure market, it's unsustainable. without some regulation, corporations would own you; even the constitution isn't purely democratic, it sets up a democratic republic. we elect our representatives to consolidate the concerns of the people the represent and vote accordingly(ideally).
- garryw, on 08/15/2008, -17/+22What a hypocrit. Obama accuses McCain of being in the pocket of big corporations in his ads. Now Obama's supporters want to brag about the fact that Obama has been purchased for the sum of 9.6 million and is beholden to the interests of wall street.
- twomeyw23334, on 08/16/2008, -2/+7No, the financial industry is predicting a Democratic takeover. They consistently give to who they think will have power, which is why they apparently flip-flop every so many years, and why they gave more to Democrats after Bill Clinton came into office.
I thought wall street was evil anyways. You know think progress would be running an article bashing McCain for not caring about the "little guy" were he to be the one receiving more money from wall street.
The hypocrisy and complete inability to understand cause / effect relationships in the real world by thinkprogress and like sites blows me away. - inactive, on 08/16/2008, -4/+9---------------Has Obama ever run a business?? Well, other than a cocaine selling business.------------------
Man, do you get paid to post this *****?!
I can't believe someone that can type is so fvcking retarded!
Obama has ten years experience in public office, more than the two other leading Democratic candidates, Hillary Clinton (six-plus years as Senator from New York) and John Edwards (six years as Senator from North Carolina). Barack's spent eight years spent in the Illinois senate before his two years (and counting) of service in the U.S. Senate.
So tell us, whats it like to look at yourself in the mirror and lie to yourself everyday? - flashback99, on 08/16/2008, -1/+6Ahh.. the good old 1960's commie retort. Here's an idea: HOW ABOUT ***** ADDRESSING THE POINTS?
- klco, on 08/16/2008, -0/+4neither will voting for McCain...
- overridemymind, on 08/17/2008, -1/+5"***** lefties! Goddamned righttards!"
This, my friends -- THIS is why no matter what we do to try and change our nation for the better, things will only stay the same. We are a nation divided -- not by borders -- not by fences or boundaries (of the traditional sense) but divided into the extreme left, who hates the extreme right -- and vice versa. Rather than attempting to find common ground -- our political system merely bashes the other side of the fence, and things get progressively worse.
Abraham Lincoln once said: "A house divided cannot stand" -- that has never been truer than it is today.
We, as a nation, have lost our sense of unity. We have become, like the Sunni and Shiia - separated by differences in the means to achieve a common goal. Look at almost any pro-republican article, any pro-democrat -- hell, look at digg! You will almost always find the right attacking the left (vice versa) -- republicans attacking democrats -- liberals attacking conservatives. Look at the polls over the last twenty years, over the presidential candidates, and you will see a rising trend of public opinion being separated straight down the middle.
We... are a house, divided -- and, as Lincoln stated in his speech -- we are beginning to fall. - mmilton, on 08/16/2008, -1/+5I'm an Obama fan but....... raising the capital gains tax from 15% to 25% will hurt the economy. Instead he should be cutting it by 2/3rds to bring about more capital investments and create jobs.
- dksupremacy, on 08/16/2008, -1/+5couldn't you said the same thing about writeman?
- inactive, on 08/15/2008, -18/+22Obama is terrible for the economy. Yet McCain is no better. Both will spend like drunken sailors furthering the debt while running massive deficits.
- NSResponder, on 08/16/2008, -8/+12Obama will be bad for the economy. The question at hand is whether McCain will be worse, which is entirely possible.
Right now, the economy is suffering from the results of the runaway inflation that Bernanke and Greenspan perpetrated, and the massive growth of government spending, both on the war and on handouts. I've heard nothing from either McCain or Obama that indicates any intention of getting serious about tackling the problems.
-jcr - klco, on 08/16/2008, -1/+4Probably something along the lines of taxing any company that does business in the United States on their profits from their US activities. Either that or they shouldn't be allowed to play here
- JK1150, on 08/16/2008, -2/+5buried spam
- klco, on 08/16/2008, -1/+4First, its Democratic you ideological shill.
Second, if we weren't backed into this ridiculous war do you think our spending would be so out of control? The federal government is slashing budgets everywhere except for the military-industrial complex. - Bone1205, on 08/16/2008, -1/+4bush has spent more than any other president in history. are you aware of this war abroad?? do you know how much money that has cost?? do you realize that bush has put our national debt higher than it ever has been in history? you have no ground claiming that Obama is going to be bad for the economy. the republican tactics for solving the problems in the economy just lead to more problems.
- flashback99, on 08/16/2008, -1/+4"Man, do you get paid to post this *****?!"
You hit the nail on head. - Nevarius, on 08/16/2008, -2/+4Yet its ok to use another method of "re-distribution of wealth" which favors the top % in hope that it will "trickle down"?
Charge/borrow and spend vs. tax and spend...Which one seems more fiscally responsible?
The middle class shrinks as the economic gap increases, Considering that movement of money within a system strengthens the economy, the shrinking middle class is something to be worried about due to less people spending. Poor people don't spend much, rich people tend to horde but its the middle class that spends.
Yeah...i know anything to the left of neo-con ideology seems like Socialism/Communism to some, but look at the static political scale. The democrats are more or less moderate conservatives while the republican party has just lost its mind. When the father of American conservatism, William F Buckley, denounced the republican party, It should have at least told you something..perhaps the soul of the republican party has died. - ScottMitchell, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3And McCain's 100 year war will be bad for the economy, too.
- postvivace, on 08/17/2008, -0/+3I would hardly call Bush a real conservative. Even in fiscally conservative standards, Reagan and Bush Sr. were hardly conservative.
- jakereilly, on 08/16/2008, -6/+9Shouldn't you be learning something about economics so you can contribute something to the discussion other than mindless remarks?
- baltar2008, on 08/16/2008, -6/+9It just ***** amazes me how often GOP fanboys trot out the words 'socialism', 'communism', and 'marxism'. By the standards of any other political system in the world both parties are right wing ffs.
- Mejari, on 08/16/2008, -2/+5*points to the history of the past several decades where Republican presidents increase the national debt, while Democratic presidents decrease it*
- inactive, on 08/16/2008, -2/+5-------------McCain and Obama will both start the next war regardless of who is elected, and they'll both be terrible for the economy, so who really cares about all of this?--------------------
Where do you get the authority to speak? Lemme guess, out of your ass?! - malex, on 08/16/2008, -0/+3Wow, remember how bad the economy sucked back when that Marxist Socialist Clinton was in office?
- inactive, on 08/16/2008, -1/+4Who's idea was it to spend $12 billion a month on a war in Iraq? That's nearly $5k/second.
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