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Dr Caputnick Phd
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Norman, Norman...calm down. Ask your doctor to increase your medication. Maybe you could go out on disability for the mental disorder of liberalism.
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ConcernedinMA
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Hey you should not get mad at him the president is making billons because they are letting these oil companies charge a fortune for thier oil and gas. Those repuplicans refuse to tax those making the money. So look who is paying for all this the middle and lower class working people who are trying to make ends meet.
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DAVE HARDING
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Two years ago the country turned the Congress over to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They promised us many things, including winding down the war in IRAQ, but they have delivered on nothing. We need to CHANGE THE CONGRESS, starting with the do- nothing- for- 20 years Senator John Kerry. Norman, BUSH IS GONE as of January, but NOTHING will change unless you and others write, work, and vote to CHANGE THIS DO NOTHING CONGRESS. Vote AGAINST all incumbents!! If you're against term limits because you can always vote them out of office, now is your time to shine!
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Allen
Pittsfield, MA
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ConcernedinMA wrote: Hey you should not get mad at him the president is making billons because they are letting these oil companies charge a fortune for thier oil and gas. Those repuplicans refuse to tax those making the money. So look who is paying for all this the middle and lower class working people who are trying to make ends meet. Actually, the president has very little to do with the price of oil. OPEC, supply vs. demand, CFTC, and to some very small degree Congress - but not the President. If you feel he does, please explain. Also, the president's investments are held in a blind trust. For all he knows he could be short the USO and losing millions of dollars ("billions" is a bit of hyberbole).
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Allen
Pittsfield, MA
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Regarding the author (and his ilk), it has been 17 months and noone has been able to offer a pro-Obama case. It's always anti-Hilary or Anti-Bush. I have been asking and waiting for 17 months for supporters to give me the positive bullet points behind Obama, and noone can seem to do it. Bottom Line: There is nothing behind Obama, except for the mindless sheep who are in awe of his flowery words.
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Eric
AOL
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5 1/2% unemployment and 4% inflation is a ruined economy?
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Gerry
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Allen wrote: <quoted text>
Actually, the president has very little to do with the price of oil. OPEC, supply vs. demand, CFTC, and to some very small degree Congress - but not the President. If you feel he does, please explain.
Also, the president's investments are held in a blind trust. For all he knows he could be short the USO and losing millions of dollars ("billions" is a bit of hyberbole). Bush has had a low dollar policy. This low dollar means we pay more for gas. We have to compete with other currencies for oil, so we have to pay the price. According to Michael Greenberger, former Director Commissioner of Future Trading Commodities on C-Span 27 May 08, "Bush has turned his back on speculator problem on oil." There is so much Bush can do, like calling for a crisis and calling for an energy council and get the politics out of this. Bush has pushed for four things during his presidency. Privatized social security, his tax cuts, his war, and free trade. All have failed. Bush has talked week after week on these subjects, but very little on an energy crisis, a monetary crisis, and a potential food crisis caused partly by corn ethanol.
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eaglereader
Middlefield, MA
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Nicely Put, couldn't have said it better myself!
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Eric wrote: 5 1/2% unemployment and 4% inflation is a ruined economy? The numbers you post are correct, and can be directly related to fighting inflation under Reagan. It took 20 years to get to here. It is what is happening now and the past 7 and half years under this president. Clinton along with the help of the republican congress left us with a yearly surplus. We now have deficits of 400 billion dollars, we have a debt that went from under 6 trillion dollars to 10 trillion dollars when Bush leaves. We have a worthless dollar. We have not paid for this war. we borrow more and more from Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China. We are more dependent on oil. The policy of late is sending our middle class jobs overseas and our money to Iraq. Our infrastructure is being neglected. We are approaching a recession and the tax cuts are all ate up. Bush has attacked science (embryonic stem cell research) there is no future to look to. What can be seen is inflation and/or stagflation and interest rates will have to go up choking the economy and higher unemployment. Bush is a total disaster. He is a liar, full of deceit, arrogant, ignorant, and incompetent. He will go down as the worst president ever.
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Common Sense
Pittsfield, MA
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Allen wrote: Regarding the author (and his ilk), it has been 17 months and noone has been able to offer a pro-Obama case.
It's always anti-Hilary or Anti-Bush.
I have been asking and waiting for 17 months for supporters to give me the positive bullet points behind Obama, and noone can seem to do it.
Bottom Line: There is nothing behind Obama, except for the mindless sheep who are in awe of his flowery words. I think it might be because giving you the positive bullet points behind Obama would be like telling my one year old why Steinbeck is the greatest American writer to have lived. He'd just look at me an poop in his diaper. Don't worry about Obama, just stay in your own little world, I think Hannity might be on now.
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Publius
Holyoke, MA
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Gerry wrote: <quoted text>
The numbers you post are correct, and can be directly related to fighting inflation under Reagan. It took 20 years to get to here. It is what is happening now and the past 7 and half years under this president. Clinton along with the help of the republican congress left us with a yearly surplus. We now have deficits of 400 billion dollars, we have a debt that went from under 6 trillion dollars to 10 trillion dollars when Bush leaves. We have a worthless dollar. We have not paid for this war. we borrow more and more from Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China. We are more dependent on oil. The policy of late is sending our middle class jobs overseas and our money to Iraq. Our infrastructure is being neglected. We are approaching a recession and the tax cuts are all ate up. Bush has attacked science (embryonic stem cell research) there is no future to look to. What can be seen is inflation and/or stagflation and interest rates will have to go up choking the economy and higher unemployment. Bush is a total disaster. He is a liar, full of deceit, arrogant, ignorant, and incompetent. He will go down as the worst president ever. You confuse budgetary surpluses with national debt. Having a billion or two of budget surplus is meaningless when it does nothing to reduce the debt (30 TRILLION DOLLARS plus daily interest) which grows daily as the Fed keeps floating loans of Mandrake dollars created from nothing to fund budget overruns. And the M3 is so diluted with the worthless paper that it's not even reported any more.
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Publius
Holyoke, MA
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DAVE HARDING wrote: Two years ago the country turned the Congress over to Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. They promised us many things, including winding down the war in IRAQ, but they have delivered on nothing. We need to CHANGE THE CONGRESS, starting with the do- nothing- for- 20 years Senator John Kerry. Norman, BUSH IS GONE as of January, but NOTHING will change unless you and others write, work, and vote to CHANGE THIS DO NOTHING CONGRESS. Vote AGAINST all incumbents!! If you're against term limits because you can always vote them out of office, now is your time to shine! What you advocate means that we as the electorate need to become much more informed and politically active, grounded in real morals and ethics, and shut of voting party lines. Political parties have become but a vehicle to office; the platforms are meaningless. We have career congresscritters and senators whose primary endeavor is doing whatever to gain reelection. Really knowing the candidates, their core beliefs, and their affiliations is what's necessary. But that's work and takes time from reality teevee and Budweiser.
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Dave Ward
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Gerry wrote: <quoted text>
The numbers you post are correct, and can be directly related to fighting inflation under Reagan. It took 20 years to get to here. It is what is happening now and the past 7 and half years under this president. Clinton along with the help of the republican congress left us with a yearly surplus. We now have deficits of 400 billion dollars, we have a debt that went from under 6 trillion dollars to 10 trillion dollars when Bush leaves. We have a worthless dollar. We have not paid for this war. we borrow more and more from Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China. We are more dependent on oil. The policy of late is sending our middle class jobs overseas and our money to Iraq. Our infrastructure is being neglected. We are approaching a recession and the tax cuts are all ate up. Bush has attacked science (embryonic stem cell research) there is no future to look to. What can be seen is inflation and/or stagflation and interest rates will have to go up choking the economy and higher unemployment. Bush is a total disaster. He is a liar, full of deceit, arrogant, ignorant, and incompetent. He will go down as the worst president ever. Thank God-There are voices of sanity out there. Gerry you are right on! It's all politics as one of my favorite quotes from ,of all people, Groucho Marx. "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies." The Bush administration in a nut shell.
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Publius
Holyoke, MA
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And it goes without saying that if you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything.
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Publius wrote: <quoted text>
You confuse budgetary surpluses with national debt.
Having a billion or two of budget surplus is meaningless when it does nothing to reduce the debt (30 TRILLION DOLLARS plus daily interest) which grows daily as the Fed keeps floating loans of Mandrake dollars created from nothing to fund budget overruns.
And the M3 is so diluted with the worthless paper that it's not even reported any more. The yearly deficits and the national debt are two different sets of numbers. The yearly deficits is the shortfall of revenue on the budget every year. At the time Clinton left office, I think the surplus was something around 50 billion dollar into the black. That is a far cry of what is happening today when you have a shortfall of 400 billion dollars to the red. When Bush came into office the national debt (which is the accumulation of deficits since the beginning of this country) was less than 6 trillion dollars. When Bush leaves the debt will be 10 trillion dollar. So it has taken us 200 years to get to 6 trillion and add in 8 years under Bush we will had at least 4 trillion dollars. That does not include every program and the military broke or stretched thin. When Clinton (and I don't like Clinton) left office, by being in the black and not having deficits said we were on the way of paying down that 6 trillion dollar debt. Today we will have a 10 trillion dollar debt when Bush leaves. Does this clear it up? I don't think I can explain it any better.
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Gerry
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Let me clarify something I screwed up with my sentence. It was 6 trillion dollars when Bush came in and add 4 trillion dollars that he spent, Bush will leave with a 10 trillion dollar debt. And add to that the 400 billion dollar yearly deficits or shortfall of the budget.
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Gerry
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Simply put you can't have tax cuts, a war, and no cuts in spending. It won't work in a million years. Bush believes in ideology and he won't budge. It is his way or no way. This is what we will have to live with for the rest of his term.
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Allen
Pittsfield, MA
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Gerry wrote: <quoted text>
Bush has had a low dollar policy. This low dollar means we pay more for gas. We have to compete with other currencies for oil, so we have to pay the price.
According to Michael Greenberger, former Director Commissioner of Future Trading Commodities on C-Span 27 May 08, "Bush has turned his back on speculator problem on oil."
There is so much Bush can do, like calling for a crisis and calling for an energy council and get the politics out of this. Bush has pushed for four things during his presidency. Privatized social security, his tax cuts, his war, and free trade. All have failed. Bush has talked week after week on these subjects, but very little on an energy crisis, a monetary crisis, and a potential food crisis caused partly by corn ethanol. Respectfully, it is easy for regular folks to say "Bush had a low dollar policy". It is more difficult for regular folks to explain that - and you did not. The dollar's valuation relative to other currencies goes far beyond what any president can do. It is easy to grasp at sound bites, but that does not mean they are correct. And please don't get me wrong - I'm not defending Bush for anything. It's just that when it comes to certain economic symptoms, presidents get far more blame and/or credit than they deserve. If you (or anyone) really want to beat up on Bush, there are a lot of factually correct topics you can discuss. This just isn't one of them. Economics is a matter of fact, not opinion. And, in fact, Bush has had virtually nothing to do with the price of oil. Do you really give the guy credit for having the economic muscle to bring a barrel of oil from $17 in 2001 to $134 today? Bush is getting too much credit/blame.
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Allen
Pittsfield, MA
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Common Sense wrote: <quoted text>
I think it might be because giving you the positive bullet points behind Obama would be like telling my one year old why Steinbeck is the greatest American writer to have lived. He'd just look at me an poop in his diaper. Don't worry about Obama, just stay in your own little world, I think Hannity might be on now. That's just rude. But it's what I expected. No one can come up with a postive on Obama so they have to throw stones to compensate. Listen, Mr. Rude, I'm not trying to bash Obama. I just have no idea why people like him. And every time I ask people why they like him (including Jesse Jackson) I can't get a straight answer. So be rude if you like. But if you want to win Obama a vote, try using, I don't know, Common Sense.
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Allen
Pittsfield, MA
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Gerry wrote: <quoted text>
The numbers you post are correct, and can be directly related to fighting inflation under Reagan. It took 20 years to get to here. It is what is happening now and the past 7 and half years under this president. Clinton along with the help of the republican congress left us with a yearly surplus. We now have deficits of 400 billion dollars, we have a debt that went from under 6 trillion dollars to 10 trillion dollars when Bush leaves. We have a worthless dollar. We have not paid for this war. we borrow more and more from Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China. We are more dependent on oil. The policy of late is sending our middle class jobs overseas and our money to Iraq. Our infrastructure is being neglected. We are approaching a recession and the tax cuts are all ate up. Bush has attacked science (embryonic stem cell research) there is no future to look to. What can be seen is inflation and/or stagflation and interest rates will have to go up choking the economy and higher unemployment. Bush is a total disaster. He is a liar, full of deceit, arrogant, ignorant, and incompetent. He will go down as the worst president ever. "Bush is a total disaster. He is a liar, full of deceit, arrogant, ignorant, and incompetent. He will go down as the worst president ever." I'm not going to argue against that. All I am saying is that a fuller understanding of economics correctly argues that far too much blame/credit is given to any administration regarding symptoms. You can hate the man, but there is no need to torture economic facts.
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