Well….have a couple of things that I want to talk about and, as I said, Rick Perry is going to be fun…first, I still marvel at the way the repubs keep chanting “get government out of the way”, but in Texas, over 500 million dollars of “government money” has been handed out to Perry’s cronies that are his biggest campaign contributors; a “pay for play system” that says that if you are not ready to give millions to Perry’s political campaign, stay out of Texas because you won’t get any government contracts. Politicians used to go to jail for that kind of stuff and now it is held up as a miracle? Now, we have the idiot stand up and calling Obama the greatest job killer in the history of the country….never bothering to do the math that more jobs were lost in the last year of ole GW’s term than there has been in Obama’s term…so how are you going to blame that on Obama? That companies were cutting jobs in anticipation of Obama getting elected? Just more nonsense from another Texan who was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple….geez….
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Rick Perry is going to be fun…
Well…two days on the campaign trail and we have the first of what I expect to be many gaffes coming from our latest Texas tragedy, Rick Perry. This idiot came out a a couple of days ago with one of the most telling statements of the strategy of the repubs to keep the economy in the tank until the 2012 elections when he said that if the Fed did anything to help the economy in an election year it would be akin to treason and that Bernanke would not be treated well if he came to Texas. So, Rick, because there is an election over a year away, we should do nothing to help people get back to work and ease their financial distress because it may help Obama get elected? We can see that the repubs are no longer even lying about caring about anyone but the rich and powerful that buy them elections and that Rick Perry is just another underachiever who thinks that the minimum wage jobs that he has created in Texas is a template for the rest of the country in the repubs race to turn the US into another Mexico or China…geez….
Oh, one last thing…where are the jobs gov Snyder?
Nice job conservatives….austerity in a recession does not work…
Well…this is going to be a quick hitter for now….as the world has been gripped by the nonsense of the right across the world that austerity is the right path to take in a recession, we have started to see what the results of these programs are in Europe and they mirror the slowdown here in the US. I cant wait to say that Keynes is right and has always been right…the proper path to take in a recession is to continue to stimulate until the economy’s growth is self sustaining by the increase in demand that comes with rising incomes. It’s not really that complicated and it works every time when there are educated adults in charge….that are not so ideologically driven as the right is here….and since the austerity program was enacted first in Europe, the troubling slowdown in France and Germany that is happening now is what we can expect here, too…nonsense, nonsense, nonsense….thank you tea party….geez…
Paying for representation…
Well….I was just shocked a few minutes ago when I read of the newest way that the repubs are excluding people…even their own constituents….they are now charging people from 15 to 35 dollars to gain entry and ask questions at their political events. Yep, folks…the repubs have sunk to a new low in trying to exclude people from their right to petition their elected officials…what are going to do next? Sell autographs? Turn their houses into bed and breakfasts? I’d like the tea partiers like Paul Ryan to try to find charging for access to them in the Constitution….what a bunch of hypocritical idiots….gezz…
Rick Perry and jobs….
Well..now that Rick Perry is in the repub race, I thought I’d do a preemptive strike against his boasts that he is a job creator that can do a better job than Obama has done is this nasty recession. I laugh because he is trying to tie the creation of jobs in Texas on his watch to the same old tired repub lines of tax cuts and union busting. What has really happened is that the run up in oil prices has added the only jobs that have been created in his term, oil related jobs…yep…and as I have said before, that means that everyone else in the country has subsidized these jobs by paying more for gas and oil…basically, the entire state of Texas is only growing because of the corporate welfare that the rest of us pay to the companies based there. So, the next time you hear this right wing religious zealot talk about his success, take away the accident of oil in the ground there and you have the same no growth policies that have never worked and will never work….but that doesn’t matter to the repubs….
Well….not really that depressed…
Well….I just can’t believe the hypocrites in the repub party and the latest talking point that was released yesterday that is taking Obama to task for taking a vacation while the economy is in danger of a double dip recession. Man, these guys have the best selective memory I have ever seen….I just want to remind you here that their darling pres, ole GW, took more vacations than any president in history and Obama is nowhere close to the time off that GW had at this time in his presidency…so repubs, get over it and get your own house in order. I do have one other question….when did Grover Norquist become the constitution? All of the repubs that have been appointed to the “super congress” that is supposed to find solutions to our economic problems have signed the no new taxes pledge that ole Norquist has forced upon them….does their oath of office include to preserve and protect Grover Norquist?
Okay that depressing post from yesterday….it’s hard at times to keep your sanity when the world appears as if it is imploding in front of your eyes but as the Who said….”we get hungover but we always survive it”….and that is what is going to happen here….we’ll all survive it…I hope….
Too depressed to write…
Well…after the Koch brothers bought another election in Wisconsin yesterday, I’m too depressed to write much…our democracy is doomed to be the wholly owned subsidiary of the rich here and that is too depressing to take lightly….I may come back to add to this one but the double whammy of the Dow being down another 400 points today is just getting to be too much….
Idiots, idiots, idiots….
Well….the idiots on the right are still trying to place the blame on Obama for this major crash in the economy…now, let me get this straight…ole Boehner goes on tv and says he got 98% of what he wanted and then you have the right saying it’s Obama’s fault? The insane logic that the right used to justify cutting the budget in the midst of a recession is the fault here…the markets are just reacting to this insanity….what happened to the right’s slavish devotion to “the market” and their faith that it will do everything right with no regulation or shaping at any time? But, as you know, the repubs flip flop faster than than you can even see…and they have never let consistency be an impediment to trying to make political gains from any event.
One last thing…I am kind of holding my breath about the recall elections in Wisconsin today…it could be the first chink in the Koch brother’s armor….and they are still trying to buy this election; just like they did in 2010…having spent almost 30 million dollars to try to sway this election, I hope the grass roots can counteract this money…if that happens, maybe we’ll get rid of the deep pockets that have put this country on the wrong path. geez…
How do you like the tea party now?
Well….the stock market tanked today and the damage is spread across the world….since the tea party terrorists started the whole debt ceiling nonsense, the dow has lost almost 20% and you and I and everyone else that didn’t vote for those idiots have paid real money for their ignorance and stupidity. How do you folks that voted for these idiots feel now? The entire blame for the damage done to our country should be laid at the feet of these so-called patriots and we need to ensure that they are all one term congressmen….or impeach the lot of them for malfeasance and for shirking their oath to the constitution. I am almost speechless…nope, I am speechless…geez…
Another trillion dollar tea party tax…
Well….I hope you’ve had a chance to see that what I predicted last week with interest rates rising for the first leg of the tea party tax on the middle class has happened and there is a new leg to that story that is occurring as we speak….the Dow is down almost 400 hundred points and that means any of us that have 401K’s or IRA’s (and that is most of us) have just paid another trillion dollars for the tea party nonsense that held up raising the debt ceiling. Yep, but you shouldn’t be surprised…the republicans are always wrong on the economy…every fricking thing they do is the exact opposite of what should be done…and remember, it was the tea partiers led by Michelle Bachmann that wanted the US to default on it’s obligations and truly believed that there would be no effect…what do you say now Michelle?…what do you say now Cantor? Geez…what idiots….
Oh, one last thing, where are the jobs Boehner?