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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (656176)	5/23/2012 5:10:48 AM
From: Don Hurst	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578900

You can keep BSing to yourself all you want but it won't change the facts. In 2000 we had a budget surplus and we had Medicare and Social Security and then Bush invaded Iraq to get his family revenge (there were no WMD and he knew it as did Blair and his government) incurring a $3 Trillion unfunded growing debt and when the housing world bubble burst as they always do, our virtually unregulated banking system which had created lethal financial instruments, based on the bubble never bursting and sold all over the Western world, which were not understood and then suddenly toxic. The financial system began to implode and in Western Europe is still imploding. President Obama lead wisely, following a Stimulus strategy which halted our depression but because our debt had risen so dramatically during the Bush years, the previously silent pseudo debt hawks such as you and your fellow repugs now screamed about the required Stimulus spending to halt the Bush Depression. It should have been bigger. And your crowd now blames the "fiscal crisis" on Medicare and Social Security, (they were not "fiscal" problems when the Bush led repugs pushed thru the tax cut to get rid of the Surplus and to benefit the top one percent; ah yes, the wonders and magic of trickle down will fix everything). Yup, don't blame the Bush Tax Cuts for the rich and the senseless financially disastrous, unfunded, unnecessary Iraq war spending for the "fiscal crisis". Blame Social Security and Medicare and the poor and the middle class for the "fiscal crisis". Sure, give the repugs another shot in 2012...the ditch they left in 2008 wasn't deep enough. Bring in the Vulture Capitalist...he knows how to destroy jobs...hell, he even took Mass from 36 of 50 in the nation to 47 in just 4 years with his job creation program. He learned that while he was making his millions (putting it in off shore accounts) outsourcing jobs, bankrupting companies and laying off workers. Sir Jeremy Greenstock, Blair's man in Iraq and former UK UN Amb, interview with Charlie Rose, May 2008 >>"Sir Jeremy Greenstock was the British special representative to Iraq from September 2003 to March 2004. He was British Ambassador to the United Nations during the run up to the invasion, and here is what he told me recently about Saddam's WMD capability:"<< huffingtonpost.com