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Post by The Big Dog on Jul 31, 2008 14:15:37 GMT -5
The best commentary I've seen lately was on the back of a BMW in Marin just the other day. A bumper sticker that read:
"If Al Gore is right, why are you reading this?"
And in this morning's Marin IJ my Assemblypogue Jared Huffman wrote an Op-Ed reminding me that:
* We ARE in a recession (no we're not Jared, you knucklehead).
* The state's budget problems are the fault of obstructionist Republicans shanghaing the process.
* If the state has more revenue we can spend our way out of it.
What a friggin' Bozo.
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Post by jgaffney on Jul 31, 2008 23:55:09 GMT -5
I didn't vote for him. I was working hard to make sure that Migden got the boot.
I liked your old avatar better. Why the change?
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Post by jgaffney on Sept 16, 2008 14:09:41 GMT -5
With the recent swing in the markets, now's a good time to revive this thread. This is also a good time to re-make the argument that posts should be listed in reverse chron order: newest first, just like your email. Anyway, Sen. Joe Biden was interviewed this morning on CNN's "American Morning." The host asked him the question, "If you were in the White House right now, what would you do to revive this economy?" Biden answered with a typical liberal - oops, I mean "progressive" - talking point: We would create jobs. WRONG! Bzzzt! The government does not "create" jobs - at least, not the sustainable kind of jobs we could use now. The only kind of jobs that government creates are the long-lasting, government servant kind of jobs. The recent experience in Petaluma presents first hand evidence of what happens when government creates jobs. I'm sure every reader in this forum can come up with more examples. The correct answer, class, is that government creates the regulatory and fiscal environment that allows the private sector to create jobs. Those are the kinds of jobs that the economy can use right now, not more government drones. Your money, you decide. |
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Post by bolverk on Sept 16, 2008 15:48:13 GMT -5
It is interesting that our current economic woes are not even created by the war in Iraq, though that is what every good progressive claims. With the failure of Lehman, it is quite apparent that the sub-prime lending schemes are finally coming full circle. And gee, good old Penny Pritzker's name is at the very center of the failures beginnings. And she is obviously part of Obama's future cabinet in some fashion.
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