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Thraxle wrote
at 11:18 AM, Wednesday March 4, 2009 EST
...and there is no sign that Mr. Obama is any different from the past democrats that sat in the oval office. The only exception is that he has 100% compliance within his party and a majority in congress that will pass anything Mr. Obama supports.

How hypocritical is it that Mr. Obama continues to remind the general public of the deficit he inherited, but then spends so recklessly that the possibility of having a balanced budget anytime within his term is utterly impossible.

How hypocritical is it that the libs called the recent spending bill that was passed a "stimulus package". How does $20 billion dollars towards food stamps stimulate the economy? What jobs will be created by increasing food stamp allowances? This is only one example of many within that spending bill, but I'll try to avoid making this post unneccisarily long.

One of you left wingers need to help me understand what our President is attempting to do. The view from the cheap seats here in right field makes the picture look exactly like I thought it would look before the election took place; the liberal democrats want a socialist republic in place of our cherished capitalistic society. Let's continue to drain the rich to pay for the poor. Let's continue to increase taxes on large corporations that have been laying off employees at an enormous pace. Let's increase benefits to the unemployed instead of finding ways to provide jobs for them.

I'm ranting a bit, but one thing is clear. Barack Obama scares the living shit out of me. JP, UGB, anybody, please help me feel better about the job he's doing.

And someone explain to me how the fuck he has a 67% approval rating. They must have done the polling at a foreclosure seminar or a foodbank.

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Boner Oiler wrote
at 1:03 AM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT
Rob if you're asking if countries in Europe operate with keynesian economic policies I would say yes. Much of western europe does indeed employ keynesian fiscal policy. That being said, europe is also home to mafia states like croatia and slovokia and oligarchies like russia so to simply say "europe" isn't accurate or adequate. anyway, in the 1980s a lot of countries simply rejected keynesian economics and that led to the deregulation that resulted in the successive bubbles we've seen in a variety of markets. instead of one big recession we've been having progressively worse recessions every few years and i dont think that trend will be abated until we reinstall the regulations we had in the 50s.


By the way I flew today and it was the first time I actually experienced TSA at its finest. Holy shit... my dad left the soviet union because of shit like this, what the fuck.
Karsten4130 wrote
at 2:05 AM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT
Germany put on 2 economic packages to stimulate economy. Basically government spent a lot on schools and infrastructure to stop recession and help businesses survive, especially smaller ones. Worked out pretty good afaik.
skrumgaer wrote
at 5:40 AM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT
Marxism give us some data on the marginal propensity to consume as a function of income.
skrumgaer wrote
at 5:42 AM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT
Boner:

Congrats to your father for making the move.
Thraxle wrote
at 7:23 AM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT
"On top of that, social welfare spending and wealth redistribution help ease the tensions society feels when there is such disproportionate accumulation of wealth as we are seeing now, thus reducing negative socioeconomic effects like violence."

So because some poor guy in the ghetto is receiving food stamps they are going to be less violent or less likely to commit a crime? Right, because the Safeway gets robbed regularly for bread and eggs, and people get robbed by douchebags because they need to feed their family.

"Rob if you're asking if countries in Europe operate with keynesian economic policies I would say yes. Much of western europe does indeed employ keynesian fiscal policy."

And Europe is a model for success? Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't there a few countries (major countries) in Europe that are lacking solvency and requiring "rescues"?
Marxism wrote
at 9:46 AM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT
Karsten4130 wrote
at 9:46 AM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT
No, the major european countries don“t require rescues.
montecarlo wrote
at 9:49 AM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT
^^ as long as germany doesnt get belligerent.
superxchloe wrote
at 10:10 AM, Friday April 15, 2011 EDT
bo when I flew in december and then again in march, the worst that happened was a patdown of my legs because I was wearing baggy sweatpants. oh, and they couldn't figure out that I had a metal bookmark in my backpack in Japan, so they scanned my backpack like 5 times.
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