Ron Radosh, with thoughts on the president’s (and his minions’) continuing state of denial about the war we are in, whether we want to be or not.
10 thoughts on “Disconnect From Reality”
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Ron Radosh, with thoughts on the president’s (and his minions’) continuing state of denial about the war we are in, whether we want to be or not.
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” You’re darn right there is!
They didn’t seem to mind funding a pre-emptive strike against an amibiguous enemy, huge tax breaks for billionaires,and throwing money at whole sale war profiteers and clandestine mercenaries but they wont give a dime for health care, schools or improvements to the infrastructure.
Regardless of what people will tell you, Bush inherited a 5 trillion dollar surplus from the Clinton administration and turned it into a 9 trillion dollar deficit. Oh, I’d say there’s a disconnect as much as I hate that word being used as a noun.
Somehow it’s alright for Bush to run the country into the ground but not okay for Obama to try to fix it. “
Five trillion dollar surplus.
Just, wow.
There are people, like Radosh, who want to flatter terrorists by treating flaming underwear as an act of war. They are best ignored.
“Somehow it’s alright for Bush to run the country into the ground but not okay for Obama to try to fix it.”
Barry is incompetent to fix his own breakfast. The Obamist cabal — the collection of black racists, hard-core Marxists, and machine politicians that take turns sticking their hands up Barry’s ass to make the puppet’s arms wave and his voice squeak — dictates policy, and they are only interested in “fixing” the country in the same sense as when you take your tomcat to the vet to be “fixed”.
Wow, Rand puts a title out there “Disconnect from Reality”, and ropes and Jim come here to show us exactly what that means.
They didn’t seem to mind funding a pre-emptive strike against an amibiguous enemy, huge tax breaks for billionaires,and throwing money at whole sale war profiteers and clandestine mercenaries but they wont give a dime for health care, schools or improvements to the infrastructure.
You do realize what the very first thing President Obama did with a near super majority control of a Democrat Congress? He pushed through and signed legislation giving a trillion dollars to Wall Street Bankers to bail out failed businesses they ran into the ground. In that one act, President Obama doubled the deficit left by President Bush. Don’t blame Republicans for passing that trash, most of them voted against the measure, but you know, Obama said “I won”.
ropes, when Obama actually gets around to “fixing” (in the mechanical sense) the economy, then you’ll have a point. Instead, he’s been messing it up since he got into power. All his big projects do the wrong things: the Stimulus actually weakened the economy by inserting suboptimal wealth redistribution and business uncertainty, Cap and Trade is a dumb idea to introduce during a serious recession because it restricts economic activity (at least in the short term and probably in the long term as well), health care “reform” isn’t (as I’ve complained elsewhere there’s a bunch of low lying fruit like malpractice/tort reform that is completely ignored), and now the US government owns a piece of two car companies in a blatant usurping of US bankruptcy law.
I hope you’re not one of those idiots who thinks (or will think) that Obama is failing because he wasn’t ideologically pure enough.
I find it hard to believe that “ropes” is somehow associated with running a business (his moniker links to a “Bits For The Boat” website) and yet is so ignorant as to believe that the Clinton administration left the country with a “5 trillion dollar surplus”. Too much time at sea maybe?
robes wrote:5 trillion dollar surplus from the Clinton administration
The actual data from the US Treasury makes it hard to conclude there was a surplus.
09/30/1992 4,064,620,655,521.66
09/30/1993 4,411,488,883,139.38
09/30/1994 4,692,749,910,013.32
09/29/1995 4,973,982,900,709.39
09/30/1996 5,224,810,939,135.73
09/30/1997 5,413,146,011,397.34
09/30/1998 5,526,193,008,897.62
09/30/1999 5,656,270,901,615.43
09/30/2000 5,674,178,209,886.86
Notice how every year the debt went up? This would not happen if there was a surplus.
The key bit is just the purported size of the surplus Frank. “Five trillion dollar surplus.
Date Debit
09/30/1999 5,656,270,901,615.43
09/30/2000 5,674,178,209,886.86
09/30/2001 0,674,178,209,886.86
09/30/2002 -5,674,178,209,886.86
09/30/2003 -10,674,178,209,886.86
I’d be delighted to reinstitute a long list of policies from the Clinton era if it actually led to a similar table.
He pushed through and signed legislation giving a trillion dollars to Wall Street Bankers to bail out failed businesses they ran into the ground.
What legislation are you referring to? TARP was passed under Bush (and was < $1T).