Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Who Increased the Debt?








Who indeed?





Paul Krugman's  NY Times Op-Ed today focuses on the myth of debt recovery in the past.  
You often hear assertions to the effect that in the past the economy has always rebounded strongly after a recession, so there must be something special at work here — and that something special must be the socialist in the White House.
Yet the reality is that weak recoveries have actually been the norm for the last two decades: both the 1990-1991 recession and the 2001 recession were followed by prolonged “jobless recoveries”.
Take another look at what we're going through and tell me we should be out of danger now two years after the failure of the biggest banks and financial firms in the world as well as the automotive industry.  

Come on people.

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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Thanks for Nothing Anthony

I just commented on today's post by  "A Few Clowns Short".  It kinda put me in the mood to throw in my own two cents about Anthony Weiner, Democratic reprobate & loser. 

We have a Republican field for 2012 expanding exponentially.  We have Paul Ryan's tax bill proposing significant cuts to Medicare.  We have Sarah Palin riding around on a bus acting like a PT to every reporter who asks if she's "a candidate for President."  We have Michelle Bachmann hiring the vicious Right Wing former political advisor to Ronald Reagan, Ed Rollins, as her political advisor in a bid for the Republican nomination.  We have the banks and retailers going at it over debit card charges:  should they have a ceiling or can the banks continue to rake in $95 billion or more dollars in revenue from swipe cards at the retail level?   We have General Petraeus and Secy of Defense Robert Gates retiring but insisting we maintain a strong presence in the Middle East.  Qaddafi refuses to step down.  Our soldiers are still "over there".  Oh yes, and our economy sucks.

What are we talking about?  Anthony Weiner's weiner.  It's front & center and diverting attention from everything that really matters.

He's a jerk.  He should resign.  His wife is to be pitied.  Let's move on. 


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by Cole Scott