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

[kbate]

6 or 8 weeks on iggy for BB. It has reached the level of tiresome.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

It's like he intends to blur the lines of distinction and give Liberals the ammunition they need to prop up their cartoonish stereotypes...




Maybe he's a mole.

 

[RightField]

6 or 8 weeks on iggy for BB. It has reached the level of tiresome.

Agree. Good morning.

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

What? am I chopped chorizo?

 

[RightField]

It should be an interesting few months as the elections start to gear up. There's a few in the formally monolithic press who are begining to question whether the hope and change policies have actually done any good.

 

[RightField]

What? am I chopped chorizo?

Good morning brother AJ. How are you today?

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

Finest Kind!





I mean, other than watching the 401K shed some weight...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

It should be an interesting few months as the elections start to gear up. There's a few in the formally monolithic press who are begining to question whether the hope and change policies have actually done any good.

They will soon be job scared, even the press is "downsizing..."

Reminds me of the descriptions of the purges in "We the Living," as the pie shrank, the party was culled of the lesser ideologues...

... discarded 'useful idiots.'



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"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
Ayn Rand

 

[RightField]

They will soon be job scared, even the press is "downsizing..."

Reminds me of the descriptions of the purges in "We the Living," as the pie shrank, the party was culled of the lesser ideologues...

... discarded 'useful idiots.'



__________________
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
Ayn Rand

I wonder what the press will blame their own downsizing on? The lack of Government largess?

 

[richard_daily]

I've been predicting the end of the world for a while, ya know. We're almost there.

Jobs doing useful work would solve all our problems, I preach it every day, and when I do everyone reacts like I'm speaking in tongues.

Religious wingnuts have believed that they are the "last generation" now for what... 4000 years or so?

 

[richard_daily]

Individual Health Care Mandate. If you are a citizen, you will be required to have a qualifying health insurance policy, or to pay the fine. If you do neither, they may arrest and jail you (giving you prison health care).

They are not taking away your right to refuse care, they are taking away your right to not pay for care for everyone.

It has nothing to do with helping make the nation work, heart attacks, or cheating death - it has to do with individual freedom and self determination, two things the health care act abhors.

Again, I ask; how much has this cost you? Please give dollar amounts.

I'm surprised that you are all of a sudden caring for the well-being of others.

And since you have this new-found compassion, perhaps we can talk about that...

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I wonder what the press will blame their own downsizing on? The lack of Government largess?

Yes... calls to government financing in the name of fairness and getting corporations out of the advertising business since in their view, FOX tailors its news to the rw-radical advertisers...



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What class does not solicit the favors of the state? It would seem as if the principle of life resided in it. Aside from the innumerable horde of its own agents, agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, the arts, the theatre, the colonies, and the shipping industry expect everything from it. They want it to clear and irrigate land, to colonize, to teach, and even to amuse. Each begs a bounty, a subsidy, an incentive, and especially the gratuitous gift of certain services, such as education and credit. And why not ask the state for the gratuitous gift of all services? Why not require the state to provide all the citizens with food, drink, clothing, and shelter free of charge?
Frédéric Bastiat

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiap...opter.crash/index.html?iref=BN1&hpt=hp_t1This past weekend I was in the company of some very liberal relatives who were incensed that S&P dared downgrade the credit standing of the United States. In their myopic worldview, this was simply another part of a vast right-wing conspiracy out to denigrate and defeat Barack Obama. They refused to accept the reality of the disaster facing the country if a dramatic change of direction is not immediately forthcoming.

In an attempt to make a complex subject understandable I recently proposed a "National Insolvency Index" that measures the ability of a country to remain solvent, avoid national bankruptcy, and grow its economy. A snapshot of the present-day and future health of any nation can be ascertained by reviewing two factors: the annual government budget deficit as a percent of its Gross Domestic Product and the unemployment rate. The accelerated level of deficit spending (except in times of a major war such as World War II) is indicative of a lack of fiscal discipline and tax revenues sufficient to finance those expenditures. These revenues can only come from an economy in an overall growth cycle epitomized by high levels of employment. When large deficits are coupled with a dramatic increase in unemployment for more than three or four years in a row, that country has embarked on a dangerous road that will lead to insolvency if not addressed quickly.

By the accumulation these high budget deficits, the total national debt will dramatically increase, thereby exacerbating the nation's problems as borrowing needs (pulling money out of the private sector) and subsequent higher interest cost will by necessity escalate, putting a further drag on the economy and its ability to create jobs. Thus a potential vicious cycle is initiated (one in which the United States now finds itself).

If a nation wishes to maintain its solvency and continue to expand its economy, it should not experience deficits higher than 3% of its Gross Domestic Product and, in today's quasi-welfare societies, unemployment rates above 6 to 7%. On an aggregate basis, a combination of these percentages should always remain below 10. The higher this "National Insolvency Index" above 10, the greater the problems that country is experiencing, and if that index remains above 10 for three years or more the viable solutions to solve the dilemmas will be increasingly difficult to enact.

The United States has not only one of the worst National Insolvency Indices in the world since 2009 -- the year Barack Obama assumed office -- but the most dismal picture imaginable over the next ten plus years assuming nothing is changed.
The Obama Years:

See chart: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/the_bitter_fruit_of_insolvency.html

The average for the eight years of George W. Bush: 7.4

Per the Government Accountability Office for the estimate of future annual budget deficits and the Congressional Budget Office for their estimates of future unemployment rates (it should be noted: the CBO notoriously underestimates), the next 10 years are as follows if no massive and dramatic changes are made:

See chart: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/the_bitter_fruit_of_insolvency.html

At no point from 2009 to 2022 and beyond does this index fall below 10. A disaster of monumental proportions is in the offing, and the optimistic outlook by the Congressional Budget Office that the unemployment rate would be at 5.5% by 2016 will never happen making the index even worse than the above chart.

Over this period from 2009 to 2022, the national debt held by the public as a percent of the Gross Domestic Product will grow from 53.0% to 125% and interest expenditures from 1.4% of GDP to 3.7% (nearly tripled).

This is why S&P has downgraded the creditworthiness of the United States and in reality should follow up with another more dramatic downgrade soon.

Steve McCann

 

[busybody..]

Knock off the Nigger-stuff; you're beginning to resemble ThrobDownSouth...

Lemme AXE you sum fin, Mr OH! FFENDED guy

This.....Former Obama Budget Chief Peter Orszag Says White House Projections Are Too Optimistic.

And this....Fat Bloated Bitch Roemer was on Bill Mahr and said WE ARE FUCKED

yet when they were under Obama, they implemenetd and DEFENDED his policies, why?

If its not

DEFENDING THE NIGGER

WHAT WAS IT?

 

[busybody..]

6 or 8 weeks on iggy for BB. It has reached the level of tiresome.

You can IGNORE the TRUTH

But

THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE

The sooner its confronted and acted up the sooner we restore the US

IGNORING IT MEANS IT GETS FIXED LATER

RATHER THAN SOONER

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

I'm not the least bit offended by your words or the fact that you've decided to play the stereotype in a Obamaesque failure to make your point...



Carry on; I know for a fact that you eschew our respect for the effect you deem to be generating.

 

[busybody..]

I'm not the least bit offended by your words or the fact that you've decided to play the stereotype in a Obamaesque failure to make your point...



Carry on; I know for a fact that you eschew our respect for the effect you deem to be generating.

has NOTHING to do with expecting or needing respect!

has to do with LOVE OF COUNTRY AND TRYING TO TAKE IT BACK!

 

[busybody..]

has NOTHING to do with expecting or needing respect!

has to do with LOVE OF COUNTRY AND TRYING TO TAKE IT BACK!

and YOU know and I know

and those that have me on "IGGY" know

the country is trending MY way!

 

[richard_daily]

has NOTHING to do with expecting or needing respect!

has to do with LOVE OF COUNTRY AND TRYING TO TAKE IT BACK!

"Baby, I only hit you because I love you, and you make me so cra-zy.".

Nah, you were already crazy.

 

[busybody..]

when you have a sitting Senator

who not only BLAMES everything on the TERRORIST TEA PARTY

but calls for the media to censor them!

the answer is NOT to IGGY BUSYBODY

THE ANSWER IS TO USE ALL AVAILABLE WEAPONS AGAINST THOSE THAT ATTACK OUR RIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[busybody..]

"Baby, I only hit you because I love you, and you make me so cra-zy.".

Nah, you were already crazy.

I thought I was on IGGY?

No need to address me,

You have nothing of anything to say

 

[busybody..]

when you have an established member (one of many) of the MEDIA

say

THE PROBLEM IS THE CONSTITUTION

when you have an established member (one of many) of the MEDIA

say

"WE" when talking of DUMOH policy


The answer is NOT to IGGY BUSYBODY

The answer is to take back teh country


ONLY WEAK MINDED IGGY BUSYBODY!

THE COUNTRY WAS AND IS MORE BUSYBODY THEN IT IS ANYONE ELSE!

 

[Frisco_Slug_Esq]

has NOTHING to do with expecting or needing respect!

has to do with LOVE OF COUNTRY AND TRYING TO TAKE IT BACK!

You are most assuredly going about it in the wrong manner and method.

 

[busybody..]

You are most assuredly going about it in the wrong manner and method.

Maybe

Yet it is UNDENIABLE

OUR COUNTRY IS TURNING MORE BUSYBODY EVERY DAY!

 

[busybody..]

BUSYBODY TOLD YOU ALL THIS

BEFORE YOU ALL MADE A MISTAKE

IT WAS SAID

BUSYBODY WAS THE CRAZY JUAN!


JESSE WALKER OFFERS YOUR CREEPY QUOTE OF THE DAY:


From an essay in the Sunday New York Times: “The public was desperate for a leader who would speak with confidence, and they were ready to follow wherever the president led.”

No, that isn’t an historian explaining the rise of Mussolini.

It’s the Emory psychologist Drew Westen, writing wistfully about the leader he wishes Obama would be.


Sheesh.


There is ZERO question that had Obama been white, NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN SAID, NOR WOULD HE HAVE WON ONE PRIMARY!