What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I invested twice that in strippers.


Rookie.

What's the ROI on a thing like that nowadays?

 

[Saint Peter]

What's the ROI on a thing like that nowadays?

Two songs per lap dance.

Keep your tongue in your mouth. Keep your hands in your lap. Keep a fresh drink in front of you.

Have a nice time.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Strip clubs were so much better when I was in my prime.


Coke and a smile got you laid in your seat...


Then they ran the strippers out of Topeka to clean up the politicians.

Epic, epic FAIL!

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Now that we know the Obama Administration is cooking the books on unemployment, we kinda wonder what else they are lying about, lies like you keep your own doctor, you keep your coverage, there are no death panels...

 

[Saint Peter]

They all lie to you.

You did not know this?


Rookie.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Does Obama really expect American energy companies to be out there hiring hundreds of thousands of workers when the President himself has placed the entire Gulf of Mexico under a deep-water drilling ban? Does the President believe that health insurance companies will be expanding their operations when Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, is out there bashing them for rate increases and demanding that they operate at a loss? Does he think that the financial reform bill recently put into effect is going to increase the number of jobs in the financial sector when it specifically strips the major banks of some of their most lucrative profit opportunities?

Month after month now, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported weak job numbers -- numbers that U.S. News & World Report has now begun to call "bogus." And yet even as the job market has weakened, the President has pressed ahead with his destructive program of regulation, nationalization, and increased taxation. His top economic advisers, Larry Summers and Christina Romer among them, have begun to abandon the sinking ship. Presumably none of them really want to take the fall for an economy that has gone nowhere but down in two years and that shows no sign of a strong recovery.

Soon it will be Mr. Obama, sitting alone in the Oval Office, dreaming up more schemes for regulation and taxation. Looking out the window across the White House lawn, it might appear that little has changed. But tens of millions of Americans are now without work, a fact that the President apparently fails to recognize. He presses on with environmental regulation, restrictions on business and industry, and huge tax increases on small businesses and on investors. The First Lady flies off on extravagant resort vacations, with her retinue of sixty, while the President spends week after week golfing or exercising his tongue before friendly college audiences.

Meanwhile over 17% of Americans are unemployed or underemployed, and that figure increases every month. What is the President going to do about it? Raising taxes on "the rich," as he plans to do in January, will only make matters worse. Higher taxes on capital gains and dividends will simply drain capital from the private sector. Death taxes will force tens of thousands of small businesses to close up shop. A continuation of high corporate tax rates, the second-highest among developing nations, will only keep American businesses at a disadvantage to foreign competitors. Increased regulation on the part of the EPA, the FTC, the FCC, the Justice Department, and other government agencies simply puts more pressure on American companies. And the president's solution to these problems of taxation and regulation? More taxation and more regulation.

For American workers, the disheartening September employment jobs report and those that preceded it are more than enough reason to vote the Democrats out in November. But even if Republicans gain control of both houses of Congress, we will still have a very irresponsible president in the White House. Are his ruinous economic policies a justification for impeachment? That is a question that the American public needs to start asking itself.

Jeffrey Folks
The "Hated and Vilified" American Thinker
Where people go when they want to see an opposition viewpoint rather than more catcalls from the peanut gallery...

I wonder, do we stop bashing Bush now that he's polling WITH Obama?

 

[Saint Peter]

I wonder, do we stop bashing Bush now that he's polling WITH Obama?

No...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

They all lie to you.

You did not know this?


Rookie.

Here we go again. When Republicans do it, it's an O'Donnell hunt.

When Democrats do it, it's *shoulder shrug* they all do it, what can you do about it?



*Atlas Shrug*

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Even as Obama tries to centralize planning...

China has firm reasons for being proud of its economic achievements. Last year, China passed Germany as the world's number-one exporter. This year, China overtook Japan as the world's second-biggest economy and has the largest foreign exchange reserves (worth 2.5 trillion dollars) in the world. However, China's economic good fortune seems to be coming to an end.

China's exports are slumping; its domestic consumption continues to flounder. The problem is an ever-increasing gap between the rich and the poor in China caused by a highly centralized system of power.

China's state-controlled economic development is obviously a bottleneck to further fiscal advancement; working on political reform is a must. Apparently, some of China's top leaders, who are all members of the Communist Party, have been well aware of the seriousness of the situation. These leaders, however, either as Marxists or as practical rulers, have all clearly known the close connection between political reform and economic development.

Zhang Xiaomao
The American Thinker
__________________
"The more communal enterprise extends, the more attention is drawn to the bad business results of nationalized and municipalized undertakings. It is impossible to miss the cause of the difficulty: a child could see where something was lacking. So that it cannot be said that this problem has not been tackled. But the way in which it has been tackled has been deplorably inadequate. Its organic connection with the essential nature of socialist enterprise has been regarded as merely a question of better selection of persons. It has not been realized that even exceptionally gifted men of high character cannot solve the problems created by socialist control of industry."
Ludwig Heinrich Edler von Mises

Why would we pay attention to the habits and attitudes of other countries when we were founded as the exception to and the haven from the habits and attitudes of other countries?

If we wish to explore the benefits and strengths of the different views and methods of Statism, then we should look to Europe and the power of the State, but if we wish to explore the benefits and strengths of the different forms of Individual Liberty, then we should look to our own states strengthened by the lack of powers of a limited Federal Government.
A_J, the Stupid

 

[Saint Peter]

Here we go again. When Republicans do it, it's an O'Donnell hunt.

When Democrats do it, it's *shoulder shrug* they all do it, what can you do about it?



*Atlas Shrug*

I thought that was the game.

We get something new to bitch about every week here. The First Lady's shoes. Then her garden. Obama going to a soccer game. Or not.

The wolf crying has numbed the masses.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I thought that was the game.

We get something new to bitch about every week here. The First Lady's shoes. Then her garden. Obama going to a soccer game. Or not.

The wolf crying has numbed the masses.

Yeah...

I do a lot of that...



Of course, with Bush as President, you were doing none of that...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

History paging Paris Hilton...

Paging Paris Hilton...

From a historical angle, present-day China's economic achievements repeat part of an old pattern. Fathers captured power by force, and sons firmed the power through economic growth; then grandsons or great-and-so-on grandsons lost it through lack of wisdom, cowardice, and incapacity. The alternation of political power with hereditary properties was supposedly ended when the Communist Party of China seized power in the 1940s. But the traditional political structure and attitude have not been abandoned.

We don't need Democrat Wealth-redistribution.

We just need to start having kids again instead of murdering them as useless inconveniences...

Paging Paris...

 

[Saint Peter]

Yeah...

I do a lot of that...



Of course, with Bush as President, you were doing none of that...

I admit to poking some fun at Daddy when he puked at the Japanese dinner party. That was funny! And W doing coke. And the twins getting drunk and showing us their panties. That shit was funny and well placed! You know it. I know it.

Gardens are boring. Not bitch worthy.

You fuckers just need better screening.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

You have me confused with busybody.




Aside from comic relief, I've stuck to the issues...

One issue is how focused Michelle seems to be on wealth and status while (badly) trying to pretend to be in touch with "the little people."

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

China's industrial might is packing machine made stuff into cartons and instruction manuals into plastic sleeves.

The last time China had a brawl with anyone (Vietnam 1979) it got its ass kicked.

 

[Saint Peter]

You have me confused with busybody.

Sorry. It is easy to get the two of you confused. He uses MOOSELIMBS!!! and you stick to baybee.

Aside from comic relief, I've stuck to the issues...

One issue is how focused Michelle seems to be on wealth and status while (badly) trying to pretend to be in touch with "the little people."

* Everybody funny.

And what politician is not out of touch with the people? Daddy Bush was FUCKING AMAZED at the scanners (that had been in place for years) at a grocery store. I think the First Lady is much more in tune to the common American that any of the Bush clan.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Well, if they are so much in touch...





How did they recreate the Bush hate in such a short period of time?


Spanish nights? Gilded tennis shoes? Lavish parties? Stars?

It took the first couple, what? 20 months to rehabilitate Bush in the polls?

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

China's industrial might is packing machine made stuff into cartons and instruction manuals into plastic sleeves.

The last time China had a brawl with anyone (Vietnam 1979) it got its ass kicked.

Vietnam has a history of that, but then, so too does Burma/Myanmar...

 

[rosco rathbone]

China's industrial might is packing machine made stuff into cartons and instruction manuals into plastic sleeves.

The last time China had a brawl with anyone (Vietnam 1979) it got its ass kicked.

Interesting article in the WSJ about how anti-free trade sentiment seems to be bipartisan these days.

 

[Saint Peter]

And what politician is not out of touch with the people?

Well, if they are so much in touch...





How did they recreate the Bush hate in such a short period of time?


Spanish nights? Gilded tennis shoes? Lavish parties? Stars?

It took the first couple, what? 20 months to rehabilitate Bush in the polls?

What politician is not out of touch with the people? Only the lowly city counsel and small town mayors. With bigger office comes parties, ass kissing, perks, and all the rest of the dirty side of politics. This was true when we were wearing powdered wigs and it is true today.

I do not expect the POTUS to eat ramen for dinner. There will be trips. There will be perks. Party affiliation changes nothing.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Interesting article in the WSJ about how anti-free trade sentiment seems to be bipartisan these days.

The ruling class will fall for Smoot-Hawley every time...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Vietnam has a history of that, but then, so too does Burma/Myanmar...

Japan is the suspect to keep an eye on. Soon enough theyll get their shit together and bitch-slap North Korea, then China.

Here's the players for World War 3: US vs Japan & Mexico....maybe Turkey.

 

[rosco rathbone]

The ruling class will fall for Smoot-Hawley every time...

As I understand it, it's the proles driving this, not the ruling classes.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Proles?




Well, leave it at that, I have to scoot for a while...


See ya next week.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Japan is the suspect to keep an eye on. Soon enough theyll get their shit together and bitch-slap North Korea, then China.

Here's the players for World War 3: US vs Japan & Mexico....maybe Turkey.

You read Friedman's "Next 100 Years" too, I see.