"We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt."
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, 1816
Doesn’t that make you feel all warm and fuzzy now that our nation is in debt for $16 trillion we can never pay? We could rephrase that statement and ask the question today: “How do we keep our rulers from burdening us with additional irreconcilable debt?” It is apparent they, the elected, are incapable of doing it themselves so the only choice is that we vote them out of office and give them the opportunity to manage their personal budgets, not ours. They have shown no will to exercise good judgment over the taxpayer’s dollars.
They are also destroying the wealth of the nation. Cash for clunkers immediately comes to mind. That one act single handedly destroyed billions upon billions of dollars. Those billions were assets of our nation and almost destroyed the used car industry. All thrown away as if it was yesterday's newspaper. If you couldn't afford a new car...you were simply out of luck. Hyperinflation will eventually settle in devaluing the dollar even more and making it virtually impossible to sustain any semblance of the life we have now. You cannot divest trillions of dollars into the economy and not expect these repercussions; it is inevitable. Those dollars will become worthless pieces of paper.
Come November you should know what to do. When it comes to those in office: Keep angry! Keep watch! Keep score! Keep involved! Keep voting, just not for them.
Steve Ramey
-- American, USMC Vietnam veteran and Freedom lover
10 October 2012 Semper Fidelis et Vigilo!
If the economy was down and 27 million Americans were unemployed/underemployed there would have been great consternation as there is today. The only time in recent years was during the Clinton years when we had a Republican speaker (not squeaky clean) but strong on budget. We all know the house originates all spending or did until the last few terms ago when presidents began to circumvent the Constitution. Obama is not the only one but the major one and the current one that's causing the pain. In most cases it take both houses to either increase or decrease spending. We need a leader to guide these two into agreeing on deep cuts to Depts of Energy, Education and EPA. We can run our schools at state level.
I'm not going to critique all of the statements you've made throughout the posting and thread as there is not enough time. I'll focus on your business of selling recruitment advertising. If you've been doing this type of work for any length of time (cold calling/telesales any type of product or service) you know the effort can often be compared to pushing a rope. If you are trying to sell recruitment advertising during a period that is described as the greatest financial crisis since the great depression..... 1. If you were being honest you would admit that the causal factor of the decline was not the election of the President, instead it was the onset of the greatest financial crisis since the great depression. 2. If you want to blame someone besides yourself, how about Mitch McConnell saying in November 2010, "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president". He wasn't real concerned with the struggles of your business.
I'm not sure where you were during Reagan's first term but the average monthly unemployment during his first 4 years was 8.7%, only slightly better than Obama's 9.06%. Reagan also had the benefit of a bi-partisan Congress that helped create nearly 1.4 million government jobs during his administration.
You could call it George W. Bush's and the Republicans' Solyndra, a company called Range Fuels. Instead of claiming to turn cylindrical solar cells into energy, Range Fuels said it would squeeze fuel out of woodchips. We learned the government has liquidated this failed, heavily subsidized undertaking. Range Fuels a cellulosic ethanol company backed by as much as $156 million in U.S. loans and grants from President George W. Bush’s administration, is being forced by the government to liquidate its only factory after failing to produce the fuel. To turn wood chips into ethanol fuel, George W. Bush's Department of Energy in February 2007 announced a $76 million grant to Range Fuels for a cutting-edge refinery. A few months later, the refinery opened in the piney woods of Treutlen County, Ga., as the taxpayers of Georgia piled on another $6 million. In 2008, the ethanol plant was the first beneficiary of the Biorefinery Assistance Program, pocketing a loan for $80 million guaranteed by the U.S. taxpayers. Republicans who have lathered the subsidies on Soperton and celebrated them -- Gov. Perdue, President Bush, Sens. Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss. "
Those are just excuses a good saleman makes more calls and overcomes objections.You need to work harder.
Michael k. I'm still making a good living. I don't know anything about pushing ropes but it seems you do so push onward. By the way, I DID BUILD MY BUSINESS and Nobama didn't have a freaking thing with building it but did help slow it down. Don't question my honesty!!!!
Actions speak louder than words, and deficits didn't bother conservatives when Reagan was running up the debt, Bush 41 was running up the debt, or when Bush 43 turned surpluses into deficits. Nor do they care about deficits (while saying they do) when supporting a presidential candidate who has posted promises on his website that will add nearly $7 trillion to the national debt over ten years (not including the hundreds of billions that would be added by making the Bush tax cuts permanent for people making over $250,000). There aren't enough deductions and loopholes to come anywhere close to filling that gap (unless you raise taxes on the middle class). Conservatives can say that they want lower taxes and increase defense spending, or they can say that they want to balance the budget...but they can't have both. And when push comes to shove, they'll take lower taxes, misbegotten wars, and wasteful defense spending over balanced budgets any day.
Isn't it a very un-conservative thing to do to blame your lot in life on someone besides yourself? You built that. So that must mean you also ran it into the ground by 60% over the last 4 years. Seems to me you are trying to have it both ways. Your success is all your own. Your failure is someone else's? Isn't that what the 47% are guilty of? Blaming their lot in life on external forces? Are you the 47%?
Excellent comment. Steve did devote some time to run in the Republican primary against Senator Bob Balfour the guy who couldn't keep correct expense reports and tried to beat the state out of hundreds of dollars.Steve lost by a big margin running against a crook.Maybe because of Steves extremist views.The crook however, will probably be reelected in the general election which says something about the virtues of gerrymandering and Republicans.
The gallop is often used as an indirect argument from authority, as it appears to paint the "galloper" as an expert in a broad range of subjects and the opponent as an incompetent bumbler who didn't do their homework before the debate. Such emphasis on style over substance is the reason many scientists disdain public debates as a forum for disseminating opinions. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop (Thanks George. I learned something new.)
"In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts inflammatory,extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as a forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion."
Thanks have enjoyed reading your factual and accurate post.We need more truth in these comments instead of rehashed remarks from right wing radio talk radio.
George, Tell us of all the great things you have done to make a difference in this world! Michael k, Want to match incomes? At my worst I can do better than you! Brian Crawford, If you had any sense of economics you would realize that by reducing taxes more people go to work actually placing more money into the federal coffers. Don't let facts get in the way. If you know how look it up you will see the coffers did rise during that time.
Roger that.
I would suggest that you read the books (13) from the author Barbara Ehrenreich especially "Nickel and Dimed" to better understand the issues you both talk about.
Romney Wins Georgia In 2012. Democrat votes make no difference. Bye Bye.
Please remember at least one of your "wars" above was started by people flying planes into buildings, so UNLESS you hold the position that BUSH did it - DROP that talking point. TOO many people have suffered and are still suffering today for THAT to be glossed over ANY more ANYWHERE...
If it is a simple equation of: lower taxes = better economy why doesn't it apply to these economies?
Yours was an intellectually dim response to my last posting. Perhaps your business and political struggles can be explained after all. Don't assume that those who disagree with you are not high earners. I could be a limousine liberal.