CrackBaby, corporate tax rates have been steadily decreasing for 30 years

'Trickle Down'? When's that gonna happen? Where's the JOBS?

retroactive choice


That is very funny, Crack. I like that concept. Good joke.

Of course not- but regulation should require a compelling reason for its existence, not simply a political contribution.

Right now we have regulated ourselves out of business.

One reason (of many) that the stimulus did not work is that there were no "shovel ready" jobs. This is because even building a bridge requires 10 years in court these days, and this adds no value to the bridge once it is done.

Almost all government jobs are US jobs! They aren't outsourced and they circulate money through the economy. Chinese workers don't spend money locally here.

And even higher level government employees don't make nearly as much money as high level private sector employees, so the money goes further.

It's crazy to think you can help our job situation and economy by cutting middle class US jobs and giving the money to corporations thinking they will cut unemployment by creating jobs. We already see that they do not

Karl, this is based on the fallacy that money circulating improves our standard of living. While it may increase our GDP, GDP is a flawed measure of standard of living and circulating money through the economy only exposes this flaw. If I give you $1,000 and you give it to someone else, who gives it back to me, we have increased GDP by $3000, but have we increased our standard of living? Not a bit. Remember, the Soviet Union had 100% employment - they just couldn't provide bread in their stores.

To improve our standard of living we need to produce things - and Government is not the vehicle for this. Everything we create is sold, at some price, and that increases our standard of living. But not everything we demand is created - I still don't own a Porsche, do you?

Is it even faintly realistic to presume that any president could reverse in 2 years the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression, especially with an opposition party dedicated to, literally, absolutely nothing else but trying to ensure he fails?

1. Bush created a problem and started the ball rolling

2. Obama took an already bad situation and made it much worse.

Bush = Obama = not good (pick your poison)

Why bother negotiating with the Arabs when they just lie to you?

Well, Karl, I would like to see a little progress not more sliding down in the wrong direction.

Bush/Cheney only failed because they did not extend the war in the ME.


The evil one

If you held yourself to the same work ethic and accomplishments (results) as you do Obama, you would never get off the ground climbing-wise

Obama has tried to build concensus, and every independant pundit has admitted that but Glenn Beck and Rush Dildo.



The Repugthugs have used the Fillibuster like it was a swiss army multitool, for EVERYTHING that has had the slightest chance of working for Obama OR the Nation.

Rethugs have offered NOTHING that might work, their opposition budget they offered didn't even have any NUMBERS. It was like a BIG title, and three pages of NOTHING.


LEB, you cannot be so ignorant as to suggest the Rethugs have done ANYTHING to actually help the problems we face, they have done NOTHING but scream NO! NO! NO! NO! to the best of hteir ability and at the top of their lungs. Even to the point of harming the US credit rating!

And how unlikely was THAT a few years ago? Say, just before Bush brought us into two WARS that he and his party did NOTHING to pay for?

THOSE guys that gave Halliburton no-bid contracts to supply gas at $300 a GALLON? THat built showers for troops that electrocuted them in the stalls? That supplied domestic drinking water that couldn't be drank by a cow? THEY are the ones that bought Cadallic Escalade SUVs for private contractors (hired Mercenaries) on cost-plus contracts, then set fire to them when they got a frigging FLAT TIRE?

The abuses of the Repugthugs are INCREDIBLE and ARE known (and MORE coming out every day) NOW, that there isn't an automatic top secret classification on the contracts...




You CANNOT support such backhearted, greedy abuses of political power, REALLY, can You? Don't say they didn't happen, I can swamp this place with links and copied text saying they DID occur.