Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Welcome to Slider's Dugout -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Amelia Carhartt who wrote (15390)	2/15/2009 8:19:01 PM
From: Fiscally Conservative	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 50328

Your right. I would include myself in that characterization;believing what I want to believe. It is hard not to be objective when interpreting the political arena. Politics and fiscal policy are entwined. In this country we can not have one without the other. Congress and the Senate decide how they will spend taxpayers dollars. In fact they also decide how much we should or not be taxed. That "bunch of crap made in China" will end up costing us dearly if we do not wake up to the fact every dollar spent on an American made product produces jobs and tax revenue here at home and every dollar spent on goods overseas depletes our wealth. Unfortunately I tend to agree with you on a nasty Depression having the effect of a wake up call. It is not what I would like to see happen. Far too many good citizens would suffer greatly as well their dependants. Our elected leaders,those inept politicians,ultimately decide our fate not the other way around. Regulation of the banking industry is their department not the average "Joe Sixpack" ( I hate that Wall St terminology). The consumer is driven by his/her obsession to satisfy their needs as varied as they are. The Regulatory bodies,we entrust our welfare to, govern the standards we as a nation are ruled by, reside in both the House and the Senate. Maybe Slider is right. It is amazing how people haven't taken to the streets to protest our legislative failures. But I think this will inevitably change because the failures that occurred yesterday will be repeated tomorrow. Stimulus packages will not change our ultimate course. Nothing will buy you happiness. It simply can not be bought. Being older I would rather have my youth back than the dollars saved over the years. Money can be replaced with hard work but not one's youth. and so it goes...