Reply #67: This is astounding.

[JDPriestly]

The Republicans (and the Clinton administration) experimented with their free market, laissez-faire, next-to-no-regulation, trickle-down theories, and we see the results: the economic melt-down; loss of our manufacturing base; no good jobs; increased poverty, hunger and homelessness increasingly experienced by educated, hard-working middle-class Americans; the Massey coal mine disaster; the BP disaster; more and more outsourcing; more and more importing; more and more trade deficits . . . . There is no end to the misery and destruction this economic theory has caused to our country.

And Obama is no better. If you go to WhiteHouse.gov, you can hear Obama's recent speech on what he claims is a bill that will decrease our imports and increase our exports, a bill that he claims will mean more manufacturing jobs and a revival of manufacturing in our country.

This bill that is supposed to help American industry and jobs WILL LOWER TARIFFS ON CERTAIN COMPONENT PARTS IMPORTED FROM OTHER COUNTRIES.

Surely, President Obama is not so stupid as to actually believe that what we need now is to lower tariffs. That is a con game pure and simple. Sorry, whether it is perpetrated by a Democrat or a Republican, it is not the way to increase jobs in America.

Here we go again. Is it any wonder that intelligent people on the left criticize the Obama administration? What kind of economic recovery plan lowers tariffs? That is absurd beyond absurdity.