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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (121461)	3/21/2010 12:19:39 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

>>We have a pretty good revival under Newt/Clinton's "balanced budget", which all nutjobs claim was fake numbers.<< Knighty, your partisanship leaves you wide open to manipulation. the following truth's apply to clinton's "surplus:" 1. tax receipts from a stock market bubble dramatically increased tax receipts. i recall you complaining about that bubble while it was going on. unless you want to be manipulated into arguing bubble economies are good for the citizenry over the long term... welcome to the bust. 2. the total national debt (all sources of borrowing, including inter-grovernmental) went up every single year clinton was in office. there was one year where it was almost balanced, but not quite. 3. the numbers themselves aren't "phoney," they are cherry picked. they use the "public debt" numbers in order to generate the "surplus" - assuming that borrowing from intergovernmental sources somehow doesn't count as borrowing. aren't we in our current meltdown because greenspan started blowing credit/stock market bubbles and clinton broke the glass-steagall and legalized TRILLION dollar bucket shops (yes, both republicans and democrats wanted the same thing, but the buck stops at the white house - and he couldn't conceal his SE grin in the picture)? clinton is oh, so happy! narcissus.net

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (121461)	3/21/2010 12:27:02 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

please call up your buddy dodd and tell him to stop all the uber banking give aways. huffingtonpost.com they broke glass-steagall and refuse to try re-enact it. they enabled TRILLIONS in bucket shop debts, if not 100s of TRILLIONS, and they refuse to do anything about it. yes, the republicans are just as guilty, but that proves my point - the two party system is a psy-op in order to manipulate people into thinking they have a voice when the only real voice on things that matter to the financial oligarchs is their own since they buy their voice in government regardless of party.