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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (91950)	9/30/2010 9:16:22 AM
From: Sedohr Nod	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224724

I'm expecting a trend towards actual revolution if some manner of fiscal control and responsibility does not appear in government in general.....It's the SPENDING, Kenny.....the SPENDING. Damn few democrats deserve reelection....none come readily to my mind. The further we go into this experiment, the more we survive despite the government

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (91950)	9/30/2010 9:22:44 AM
From: Sedohr Nod	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224724

p.s......I've already posted that I didn't vote for my local GOP congressman in the primary....but there is no way in hell I'll vote for his "more government" democrat challenger in the general. I was hoping for more conservative new blood representation....there is no chance I'll intentionally help move the trend further left.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (91950)	9/30/2010 9:31:20 AM
From: JakeStraw	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224724

Kenneth, Why do you support bad government. Are you that much of a myopic ignorant partisan?!

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (91950)	9/30/2010 9:44:44 AM
From: JakeStraw	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224724

We have an unemployment rate that is beginning to look stickily stuck above 9%. GDP growth, the official measure of economic life, keeps falling (down to 1.6% in the second quarter). The stock index blips up and down daily. Solution No. 1 was to throw nearly $1 trillion of stimulus at the economy. But Keynes failed. Then they sprayed the economy with gallons of Chairman Ben's Quantitative Elixir, or QE. Nothing happened. They could have extended the Bush tax cuts, but instead the Pelosi Democrats punted the subject past the November election, the equivalent of kicking the ball straight up in the air. It looks to me as if there's only one policy they haven't tried: economic growth. The United States doesn't have Eurosclerosis yet, but the Democratic Party does. That's because the party has welded itself forever to the public-sector unions, as the social-democratic parties have in Europe (see the current wave of national strikes in Spain and France). Strong growth has no meaning to the public sector, so its political foot soldiers don't waste time pushing it. Exhibit A is the Obama administration's abandonment of trade deals with Colombia, South Korea and Panama. online.wsj.com