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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (372247)	7/9/2010 1:16:53 PM
From: KLP	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793899

The Libs have to know they are in trouble when Zuckerman and Niall Ferguson have such harsh words for their little bitty ears to hear….. “If you’re asking if the United States is about to become a socialist state, I’d say it’s actually about to become a European state, with the expansiveness of the welfare system and the progressive tax system like what we’ve already experienced in Western Europe,” Harvard business and history professor Niall Ferguson declared during Monday’s kickoff session, offering a withering critique of Obama’s economic policies, which he claimed were encouraging laziness. “The curse of longterm unemployment is that if you pay people to do nothing, they’ll find themselves doing nothing for very long periods of time,” Ferguson said. “Long-term unemployment is at an all-time high in the United States, and it is a direct consequence of a misconceived public policy.” Ferguson was joined in his harsh attack by billionaire real estate mogul and New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman. Both lambasted Obama’s trillion-dollar deficit spending program—in the name of economic stimulus to cushion the impact of the 2008 financial meltdown—as fiscally ruinous, potentially turning America into a second-rate power. “We are, without question, in a period of decline, particularly in the business world,” Zuckerman said. “The real problem we have…are some of the worst economic policies in place today that, in my judgment, go directly against the long-term interests of this country.” I'll second that… “The real problem we have,” Mort Zuckerman said, “are some of the worst economic policies in place today that, in my judgment, go directly against the long-term interests of this country.” More at the link below Nadine provided… thedailybeast.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (372247)	7/9/2010 1:48:41 PM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793899

There are always a lot of speakers at meetings at the Aspen Institute. I'd really be interested to know exactly what Brolin found so "Mind-blowing?" Did he and Babs come to the realization that their Messiah is ruining their nation or did they listen to another speaker more apt to praise the goodness of Socialism and totally agree with his/her assessment? Either way..........who cares about those twits? youtube.com This was greeted by hearty applause from a crowd that included Barbra Streisand and her husband James Brolin. “Depressing, but fantastic,” Streisand told me afterward, rendering her verdict on the session. “So exciting. Wonderful!” Brolin’s assessment: “Mind-blowing.”