Comments on: OBAMA HASN’T SHEATHED HIS SWORD OF FEAR QUITE YET

By: Locomotive Breath

Locomotive Breath — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:59:31 +0000

And where do you suppose he’s going to spend that tax money? At Tax-Mart? If we put a billion dollars into, say, building a bridge, I kind of think it’s going to go to Joe’s Bridge Building Company. Joe’s going to buy some stuff from Caterpillar and from Frank’s Cement. And then Joe’s workers and Frank’s workers and Caterillar’s workers will spend their pay at Sears, Target, Wal-Mart. And then all those retail folks will spend their money at McDonalds. Right? Money flowing from the taxpayer to the private sector.

You may have missed it but the taxpayer IS the private sector. The gov is going to have to tax the hell out of all the people involved to get the billion dollars back.

By: EBJ

EBJ — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:39:23 +0000

Obama is an economic nitwit. McCain is an economic halfwit (maybe quarterwit). Heck of a choice we had this go round.

By: bobwire

bobwire — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 06:59:34 +0000

Rest assured Rick that capital is far more clever than the government we have in place.

You will have again the boom and bust cycle that you crave.

And we will again just like today have innocent victims, people who merely wanted to go to work everyday, save a little, see their kids off, and retire. Your fellow Americans.

These fellow Americans will find themselves in the dustbin of history, proving that the system works. After all, is not history written by the winners? If all you could ever hope for was a steady job, a roof over your head, and hope for your offspring are you then not dull, stupid, and inflexible?

Go ahead and screw your boot in the face of those who chose not to participate in Tulipmania.

Your fear of fear is misplaced. Your fervent wish will again come true. Obama is no obstacle, as capital is far too clever.

By: Conservative Thinker

Conservative Thinker — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 03:38:07 +0000

My favorite part was when he said, “We don’t want a situation in which some countries are making extraordinary efforts and other countries aren’t with the hope that somehow the countries that are making those important steps lift everybody up.” Hhmmm sounds like a familiar scenario within the United States of which Obama has a completely opposite view.

How ironic. When it comes to the people of the US, Obama is fine with hard working people making all the effort so as to enable those who cannot be bothered to get off their arses; all in the hopes that we who work and pay taxes will hold this country together, in all its marxist glory.

This man is a complete joke!

By: cedarhill

cedarhill — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:55:18 +0000

Must have been my reception. I heard Obama doing what he always does - a series of straw men, a series of misdirection, a series of lies and an ample helping of the fear of “do this or else doom”. What was absurd was his reference to the narrow prosperity of the past. I’d say that almost 3 decades of prosperity will not be matched in anyone’s lifetime. It’s all blathering.

The Dems in Congress today bought into his budget. Reid is going to fast track nationalized health care. Meanwhile Soros is making billions a year on all this misery.

As some have been saying since last summer, Obama will implement everything in this Congress. Public open really be damned since they won’t get another opportunity regardless. Everything will be either be done outright, slipped in, regulated in or executive ordered in. All the moderates and blue dogs and screaming bloggers notwithstanding. It’s just like the answer to why Tiger Woods married a supermodel - because he can. And he will.

By: Scrapiron

Scrapiron — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:52:43 +0000

Anyone seen the promised ’stimu-less check yet? Not coming but the wonks who came to the white house from wall street can keep their bonus. BWAHAHAHAHA Insanity is loose in the white house.

The white house gardner got fired. All he did was go in the white house and ask if anyone had seen the ho.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:48:09 +0000

Sounds like the centrists Democratic senators have influenced Obama to tamp down his spending on the budget, which was a good thing. He’s only been on the job for 65 days, under dire straights, he’s learning. We’ll all be fine, just a little patience is needed. I won’t judge him until a year is up.

By: Arthur

Arthur — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:57:05 +0000

> Returning to “an economic cycle of bubble and bust” is, I’m afraid, historically unavoidable. If you are going to have free markets, you are going to have periods of prosperity and periods where the markets “correct” imbalances. If Obama wishes to repeal the business cycle,…

There we see the key to understanding Obama’s mistake. He actually things the economy is simple enough that the government can manage it and control. It’s not. It’s too complex for any man or group of men to understand - much less manage effectively.

Sure, there are general prinicples that usually work - but you can’t fine tune the economy enough to get rid of the peaks and valleys of the business cycle. I’m pretty confident you can wreck it, however.

By: Foobarista

Foobarista — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:37:29 +0000

Basically, a system that allows bad ideas to be found out and permitted to fail, instead of being “rewarded” with more funding. Also, in general, I’d prefer a system with fewer, but better paid and more qualified, civil servants.

In general, the centralized command&control management model used by government is something that hasn’t been used in other parts of our system for many years, and hoping that somehow it’ll somehow work there when it’s been ditched everywhere else but government is silly. Even our democratic institutions are out of scale and can’t possibly provide accountability to the citizens for the vast number of things government is supposed to do.

Modernizing how government is managed is as important as figuring out what it should and shouldn’t do.

I’d also abolish civil-service defined-benefit pensions. We shouldn’t have lifers who’ve spent their entire working lives in government, who are professionally rewarded by rocking the boat as little as possible for X years. People should be able to move in and out of government and private-sector work so ideas move in both directions.

By: the Fly-Man

the Fly-Man — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:12:23 +0000

I will never forget that Bush was handed a surplus and a majority in both the House and the Senate for 6 years. We are only 10 weeks into the new administration. That asshole drove us off a cliff and every person who supported him and his party’s selfish destructive fetishes are to blame. I can’t help but laugh my ass off at every new pathogen of failure Rick tries to tag Obama with. Pathetic, complicit, denial inflicted losers, the lot of you all. You’re lucky we have Socialism at this point.