jody
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Wed Dec-17-08 05:52 PM
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| 1. Bush has pumped money into the pockets of the 1% who own over 50% of our financial wealth for nearly |
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eight years via tax cuts etc. and today we have $10 trillion debt and several trillion more facing us for future costs of his war on terror.
I fail to see how more corporate handouts or make-work jobs for the unemployed will CHANGE our economy in any substantial way.
When Carter became president, our national debt was about $700 billion.
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| -Obama considers $1 trillion plan to jolt economy |
Turborama |
Dec-17-08 05:42 PM |
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Bush has pumped money into the pockets of the 1% who own over 50% of our financial wealth for nearly |
jody |
Dec-17-08 05:52 PM |
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Jobs. Jobs. Jobs. Real jobs. Jobs making things. Doing |
Tansy_Gold |
Dec-17-08 06:12 PM |
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He'll also have to get us the f*ck out of Iraq |
Lorien |
Dec-17-08 06:42 PM |
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It sounds like you don't want a Democrat then. |
ozone_man |
Dec-17-08 07:39 PM |
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Sorry, but it was Ronnie Raygun and his trickle down economics that got us into this mess. |
sarcasmo |
Dec-17-08 07:42 PM |
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Sure, but Democrats are supposed to be better than that. |
ozone_man |
Dec-18-08 07:47 AM |
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Yeah, well, I was criticizing the Summers and Geithner picks |
Tansy_Gold |
Dec-17-08 10:37 PM |
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Tax inherited wealth and un-earned income?? |
silverojo |
Dec-17-08 11:04 PM |
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I don't expect any of that happening from Obama. Is he even considering |
Blue State Native |
Dec-18-08 07:54 AM |
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Uh,,,, |
WriteDown |
Dec-18-08 08:01 AM |
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The financial markets have designed the collapse. So I don't |
midnight |
Dec-17-08 08:11 PM |
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What an excellent idea. Excessive borrowing got us this mess, so excessive borrowing will cure it! |
Psephos |
Dec-17-08 09:02 PM |
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Read John Maynard Keynes. deficit spending is what you are supposed to do in a depression. |
Odin2005 |
Dec-17-08 11:26 PM |
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I have read him, and what he says is not quite what you think |
Psephos |
Dec-17-08 11:48 PM |
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No borrowing |
tama |
Dec-18-08 03:16 AM |
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The Fed is going to beat him to it. |
Skink |
Dec-17-08 09:47 PM |
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Say hello to the new New Deal. |
Odin2005 |
Dec-17-08 11:23 PM |
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No Jobs...No Recovery. |
OhioChick |
Dec-18-08 10:21 AM |
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