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I miss your logic.
Interesting that 2 of the countries above us are very Socialist (Sweden and Finland) ... and 2 have much more rigid government control of everything (Singapore and Germany) ... maybe our problem is we aren't socialist and controlling enough
) ... if we had ended the cold war before it began who knows what our economy would be like now
Not if you lived through Jimmah. Not at all.
If you really believe that was the problem, then you're just another ignorant Republican not bothering to do his research. So let's see the rest of your posts.
And you completely disregard the fact that the fact-checker consensus on Bill Clinton's speech - which, unlike recent RNC speeches, was loaded with specifics and numbers...the consensus is that Bill's speech was right on the money.
And again. Please, FFS, can some of you morons at least TRY to understand what concepts like what socialism actually is and what it isn't?
What? Name one thing he's done alone that's been "piss poor performance." One. He's working with a Congress who's approval rating has dipped to the single digits during one of the worst recessions in the last century.
Except in this case, using your analogy, when the addict withdraws because you refuse to supply him you he ends up hurting everyone around him to get his fix or commits suicide, neither of which is what I want for my nation. Extending the analogy further, there's a reason we put substance abuse addicts through AA, methadone/subutex clinics, rehab, etc. etc. In the same sense this is a huge problem that took 30+ years of high living and negligence to create, and it won't be fixed overnight.
This post is almost a completely perfect representation of what the Republican party has become. It completely fails to address a competing viewpoint, accuses the other side of its own flaws (complaining about name-calling while tossing out insults) while revealing a complete lack of intellectual capacity all at the same time. LOL HAHAHAHA LMAO
Exactly. The reality is that the stimulus package worked. It wasn't a magic cure-all fix, but the numbers show that it did cause a turn-around from the trend of losing jobs. I think we've seen enough proof in the last three decades to definitively state the obvious, that supply-side stimulus is nowhere NEAR as effective as demand-side.
The biggest problem we will face moving forward is that all of the countries above us have virtually no military budget ... with a full quarter of our budget being military, and as the only remaining Super Power we will have military responsibilities around the world that other countries won't have ... one long term solution (but it will never happen due to people's paranoia) is to allow the UN to have a standing military and take over the Super Power role played by the USA ... without that we better get used to countries with small defense budgets passing us by so that we can play our needed role as a Super Power
The biggest problem we will face moving forward is that all of the countries above us have virtually no military budget ... with a full quarter of our budget being military, and as the only remaining Super Power we will have military responsibilities around the world that other countries won't have ... one long term solution (but it will never happen due to people's paranoia) is to allow the UN to have a standing military and take over the Super Power role played by the USA ... without that we better get used to countries with small defense budgets passing us by so that we can play our needed role as a Super Power
Please, come back when you're actually ready to discuss it rather than laughing it off.
Because those are the Congress leaders who voted to pass the stimulus package. Why would the Obama administration and its supporters fight tooth and nail with a lot of cry baby Republicans who didn't want any stimulus money passed, then turn around and give them money which they didn't support or want? Besides, I wouldn't put it past them to waste said stimulus money just to hurt the Obama administration. Honestly, you're just not thinking.
I'm not sure you even understand what you're typing. Please, what would you have rather seen done to reverse the recession? The thing is people want a quick fix and a magic band aid but realize the absolute magnitude of what is going on here.
Exactly, and it's tough to say. WW2 got us out of the Great Depression pretty damn quickly, but we don't want or need another World War to get us out of this one.
