DISQUS

AMERICAblog: The numbers don't lie - this economy is terrible

  • houstonray · 1 year ago
    Hmmm, wasn't the Republican convention full of "PROSPERITY" signs the other night? Oh wait, I guess they meant THEY were prosperous but screw the rest of us....

    God we HAVE to win in November....
  • ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago
    Did the Republicans remember to take their "Whites Only" signs back to RNC headquarters after their convention?
  • mf_roe · 1 year ago
    Tsk, Tsk, they use the more PC term "Blacks Allowed" now thereby saving on the cost of signage since so few are required.
  • Wild_Weasel · 1 year ago
    If the Republican/NeoCon line was accurate,

    - The Middle Class would have been growing rather than shrinking

    - Fewer people would lack health insurance

    - More jobs would have been created

    - Our educational system would be creating a more educated workforce instead of creating "FOR-PROFIT EDUCATION SYSTEMS."

    They're driving America off the cliff.
  • Wild_Weasel · 1 year ago
    Think about the Republican mantra of "Service"

    Isn't one of the definitions of "service" to perform sexual intercourse?

    Isn't that what the Republicans want to do to this nation? Service it? F#$k it over.
  • Wild_Weasel · 1 year ago
    Think about the Republican mantra of "Service"

    Isn't one of the definitions of "service" to perform sexual intercourse?

    Isn't that what the Republicans want to do to this nation? Service it? F#$k it over.
  • bluestockton · 1 year ago
    Watching Rachel on "Countdown." She played a clip of Cindy McSame telling the crowds that she loves the old POW "with all my heart." But she made him sign a prenup, so evidently she doesn't love him as much as she loves her money.

    Maybe it's because when we married, we were flat broke and had no assets to protect, but I always liked the definition of a prenup as "an agreement between two people who love each other almost as much as their possessions."
  • mf_roe · 1 year ago
    Prenup = Repug foreplay
  • Ben Dover · 1 year ago
    Those making less than $5 million a year will just have to suck it up. Bunch of whiners anyway...

    /snark
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Maybe Cindy's smarter than Hillary. Who's going to pay Hillary's debt? Bill? Obama? Those two have already flown the coop. Hill's doing the best she can to raise the money on her own after being abandoned by her party, her husband and her friends. That's why politics is a rough business.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    Yeah, numbers don't lie. It's a minor recession. Time to switch to socialism. It worked so well in the Soviet Republic. It should do even better here. Except, for the fact that: OOPS! The hunters and Bible thumpers still have all the firearms. I'm sure Obama will sign an executive order to alleviate that insignificant problem...
  • Wild_Weasel · 1 year ago
    BUSBOY lives in a bubble.

    Socialism says that certain things rest with the community as a whole.

    America already provides its citizens certain things to the community as a whole. For example, we have roads in rural areas that would not pencil out using profit/loss principles. We have fire protection for all. We have public education for all. And on and on.

    We used to have a military that that was the sole provider of national security. However, lately, we have commercialized it. Blackwater does not pencil out as a business decision. The ground troops cost many times what we pay to a GI. Erick Prince makes a thousand times more than our American generals. The 140,000 GIs would be a much lower number if we weren't paying mercenaries.
  • Busboy · 1 year ago
    I live in the real world; making decisions every day based on economics. When Obama is president with democratic majorities in both houses? Then, those decisions will be made based on the "new" economics. Jimmy Carter wanted to seize all of the assets of pension and profit sharing plans and roll them into social security. My company immediately abandoned the Plans. Not on the fact; only on the threat. Carter's dream never came true. But, as it turned out, all of us were better off in the long run because a lot of those P/P plans went broke anyway. Just like General Motors employees may wind up with nada in their old age.
  • Wild_Weasel · 1 year ago
    You live in a BUBBLE. Real world America has some socialism and some capitalism. The pendulum has gone too far to the right thanks to K-Street lobbyists.

    That's why my tax dollars are fattening the wallet of Blackwater CEO by millions of dollars even though GIs could and should be doing the work, and for a lower cost.

    That's why pensions are dying up for private sector workers.

    Get out of your bubble and look at the real world.
  • Ben Dover · 1 year ago
    There are no unemployed. There are only those that have refused to open an EBay account.

    Love the new bumper sticker:

    "McCain/Palin - Building A Bridge To Nowhere"
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    WASHINGTON—The Treasury Department is putting the finishing touches to a plan designed to shore up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that would essentially amount to a government takeover of the mortgage giants.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122064650145404...
  • mf_roe · 1 year ago
    The master plan is simple, the US Treasury will buy out all the failed investments now burdening the GOOD people, this will be financed by worthless dollars from the FED. Bankrupting this generation is not sufficient, the next three generations will never see a positive net worth.
  • Ben Dover · 1 year ago
    When Palin isn't busy selling stuff on EBay, keeping her kids from running amok on the condom isle, trying to ban books at the local library, supporting bridges to nowhere, I hear she's deeply religious and belongs to one of the radical splinter Pentacostal groups. Must be a snake handling cult I would figure.
  • mf_roe · 1 year ago
    They don't handle snakes, they channel reptilian behavior.