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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (14845)	7/6/2009 12:29:42 PM
From: jlallen	5 Recommendations Respond to of 103300

lol Krugman is an idiot. The "stimulus" was nothing but a left wing wishlist not properly targeted to creating jobs.....it is a gigantic waste of money.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (14845)	7/6/2009 12:33:25 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

Yes, the "Stimulus" (Porkulus) Bill should have been at least 1,800 pages so even fewer of our elected officials would bother to read it... Once again our wasteful gov't thinks that throwing money at a problem is the answer and once again they were wrong!

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (14845)	7/6/2009 12:48:49 PM
From: TideGlider	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

No, the "stimulus Bill" wasn't a stimulus bill!

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (14845)	7/7/2009 9:13:45 AM
From: JakeStraw	5 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

The federal picture is so bleak because the Obama administration is the most fiscally irresponsible in the history of the U.S. I would imagine that he would be the intergalactic champion as well, if we could gather the data on deficits on other worlds. Obama has taken George W. Bush’s inattention to deficits and elevated it to an art form. The Obama administration has no shame, and is willing to abandon reason altogether to achieve its short-term political goals. Ronald Reagan ran up big deficits in part because he believed that his tax cuts would produce economic growth, and ultimately pay for themselves. He may well have been excessively optimistic about the merits of tax cuts, but at least he had a story. Obama has no story. Nobody believes that his unprecedented expansion of the welfare state will lead to enough economic growth. Nobody believes that it will pay for itself. Everyone understands that higher spending today begets higher spending tomorrow. That means that his economic strategy simply doesn’t add up. bloomberg.com