Double Dip Recession Coming?

Originally Posted by Biological Graffity

What you all think of a great mortgage shut down? if the majority of Americans (including the police and armed forces) simply refused to keep paying their mortgages simultaniously...I think the best way to kill a parasite is to starve em

What do I think? I think that you have the dumbest opinion I have read today.

Originally Posted by UncleBuck

the culmination of 30 years of supply side, trickle down reaganomics.

The federal government hasnt had a real balanced budget since Andrew Jackson was president. Blaming reagan and the bushes doesnt explain why the debt went up EVERY YEAR under Carter Clinton and Obama.

some graphs. particularly interesting is the "surplus" of the Clinton years which was not reflected in a reduction in debt, it simply resulted in new spending the following year.

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these graphs show the real reason for our country's indebtedness, financial instability and heavy tax burden.

when revenues exceed expenditures, the money is immediately spend on some new daft program, or retarded initiative which puts additional burdens on future budgets to continue the new programs. having Clinton's "surplus" simply made the trough longer, so more piggies could get their snouts in.


we cant stabilize the economy until the piggies get sent to market. its time to cash in our Pork Stocks, and start sellin bacon!

and i mean all the piggies. not just the ones with D's by their names.

Originally Posted by UncleBuck

the culmination of 30 years of supply side, trickle down reaganomics.

As opposed to confiscate and sprinkle around.... Yeah, that has worked wonders in the last 3 years... Oh wait...

Originally Posted by UncleBuck

the culmination of 30 years of supply side, trickle down reaganomics.

= deficit spending, which you already said was the only way to bring us around. To which I say, if deficit spending keeps nations going strong, then why don't we spend $100,000 Trillion. for sure that would solve all problems, it is after all about 1,428 years of World GDP.

Originally Posted by NoDrama

= deficit spending, which you already said was the only way to bring us around. To which I say, if deficit spending keeps nations going strong, then why don't we spend $100,000 Trillion. for sure that would solve all problems, it is after all about 1,428 years of World GDP.

Better yet, if deficit spending was the way to go, why isn't Europe thriving? We are following Greece and Spain over a cliff, and democrats are saying "follow us! we know the way!"

By the way, if bigger and bigger government, and more social programs and more entitlements works, Why is the poverty rate no better today than it was 30 or 40 years ago? Compared to 30 years ago - health outcomes are no better, education outcomes are no better, the poverty rate is no better BUT WE DO HAVE bigger government, millions more in public jobs, more on government programs, higher unemployment and massive deficits. And yet, some of you have a hard time seeing that liberalism doesn't work??

You really just have to hope that you get sucked in by the lies of the lesser of the evils...sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't...but politics is not made to make the people happy, or give them a say...democracy is now the same thing it was in Roman Times...A way for rich men to get richer by meddling in other poorer people's affairs to see where they can make another quick buck fr themselves...

Originally Posted by missnu

You really just have to hope that you get sucked in by the lies of the lesser of the evils...sometimes it works out, and sometimes it doesn't...but politics is not made to make the people happy, or give them a say...democracy is now the same thing it was in Roman Times...A way for rich men to get richer by meddling in other poorer people's affairs to see where they can make another quick buck fr themselves...

Poor people, however, are a lot better off today than they were, say, 200 years ago. So where did aid come from?

ps how does one make money on people who have no money?

Originally Posted by Illegal Smile

ps how does one make money on people who have no money?

Ever heard of the "army of the unemployed"? Some believe the current set up intentionally keeps a segment of the population unemployed/underemployed so that people will be willing to work for low wages and increasingly low (if any) benefits. I tend to agree, but I'm not real sure.