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QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 07:11 PM) totally! Great point! It's true. And it's in every domestic speech now.

QUOTE (Rex Kicka** @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 03:56 PM) Quote of the day from Obama yesterday at a DNC fundraiser: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_...grab-a-mop.html Hee hee. He keeps joking about the "socialist" thing but if it weren't hitting home he wouldn't even joke about it.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 10:23 PM) I was talking more about domestic consumption in the US as opposed to us buying cheap Chinese s*** like we've been doing the last 20 years, of course China wouldn't produce anything here, that would be stupid if you were Chinese. The Chinese government has a long ways to go before they get their people spending like we do here. There is a long, long way to go before we buy American again. We're too cheap-assed to change that.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 08:32 PM) I believe there's a sweet spot somewhere, that you can raise taxes to a certain point before it starts negatively affecting the economy. The problem is that tax increases are taboo to mention even when they're necessary. I don't know why it's political suicide to suggest minor tax increases for people in my tax bracket. Seriously my entire family is not going to go bankrupt and die if I have to give an extra 600 dollars a year to the feds, after they give me multiple tax cuts over a decade or so. When there's real economic growth, no one wants to talk about it except get those "evil, rich motherf***ers". In reality, everyone benefits, but that's taboo for Dems to admit as well. The problem is, the middle class is no longer going to be the middle class before too long.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 08:27 PM) I've been thinking about it, and I'm starting to believe a weakening dollar isn't the worst thing in the world if it means we start getting manufacturing jobs back here. China's got no other choice. Yes and no. The weakening dollar is a partial cause of this recession as well. You're already starting to see energy prices go back up as a result. Yea, they say "global demand is picking up" but in reality, it's not. Not in any large way. So, weakening dollar means higher energy costs that are pegged to the dollar. That's a small part of course. But China is trying to figure out how to get the money into their own people's hands. I was reading a WSJ from a couple of weeks ago and they were saying that the government is trying like hell to get the people to buy the s*** we Americans can no logner afford. There's a supply glut of crap over there and they can't figure out how to get rid of it. The Chicomms are not going to produce anything here, that's a farce, although the governor of Indiana and a couple of small town dips***s think they will (f***sticks). The Chinese struggle with the goods being dispersed among their own people because it starts driving more and more materialism, which means they tend to think more "free", if you will. That creates instability eventually from the communism/government side of things. Anyway, the falling dollar is a big story - bigger yet once inflation starts - and sooner or later, it has to - it happens every time government is the main beneficiary of stimulus.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 08:23 PM) I don't think the judge is racist, just dumber than f***. Like StrangeSox was saying, interracial kids have such a hard time getting accepted that they only get the worst jobs, like President of the United States. I just can't say what I'm thinking. Joke or not.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 08:36 PM) I tend to agree with kap on the slowing of bleeding, but perpetual tax cutting is s***ty budget policy. Well, there certainly has to be an endgame. You can't just perpetually do it, duh... but in times of deep recession, it's something that has proven to work well IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, which is where jobs should be, not the damn government.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 04:49 PM) What year is this??? Interracial couple denied marriage license QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 05:10 PM) That's the stupidest f***ing logic I've ever heard, I really just had to laugh. For the record my parents have been married almost 30 years. Society has accepted them obviously and if it didn't I really don't think they'd give a s***. Society has accepted me. I could not give a flying rat's ass whether the black community accepted me as black or not. That would be my problem though, not a judge's. Oh this crap infuriates me. I agree 100% with you guys on this one, too. It drives me insane that this crap still happens today. Respect people for who they are.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 12:13 PM) Simple. Have the federal reserve dump in so much money that it has to find a place to go, and bang, 4000 points in the DJIA. WTF is wrong with you? I agree, again.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 08:47 PM) Cutting the corporate tax rate remains one of the weakest stimulative measures out there. For government revenues, sure. Because that means corporations get to keep more of their own money and invest it how they want to instead of handing it over to the government.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 07:20 PM) You know what one of the only good things about the last 8 years is? You just gave us a testable hypothesis. You proposed that you'd get a lot more revenue over a 5-7 year period after major tax cuts. I can actually respond with the federal tax receipts graph. The key thing to note is that even in the last expansion, if you extended the curve from where it was in 2001 (by far the largest dip before this year) you'd have to bend it dramatically downwards to get to where we were at the peak of the expansion. Either the tax cuts weren't as effective as you hoped in dramatically increasing revenue over the 5-7 year period (even before the crash) or the economy under Bush never recovered from 2001's recession, which argues that the tax cuts were ineffective as stimulus. Check your link. And, the receipts would have crashed even harder if there weren't tax cuts in the system. The quickest "stimulus" that never gets the attention it should is the corporate tax rate. Nevermind - the link popped up - I was getting a red X but now it's working.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 05:06 PM) It's a dirty hippy blog so you don't have to read it, but I think this is a spot on reply, discussing a phrase from Bruce Bartlett's new book where he says exactly what you did about Bush's "Spending". Quote from Bartlett's book in italics, reply in normal text. Supply side economics works in the private sector a whole lot more BUT (huge but) you have to have corresponding spending cuts on the government side. I know you think that supply side doesn't work, but it provides a lot more revenue over a relatively short period of time (i.e. 5-7 years) then what we're seeing now on just pure printing press money. The issue becomes there's always cycles in the economy, and when a recession hits, the first thing Democrats want to say is that it's the tax cuts that's killing revenue. The bigger issue is you can't spend yourselves into oblivion like these nitwits (both parties) are doing.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 04:23 PM) Well, "most" Republicans in Congress voted right along with the big spending. Which is why they got their asses kicked last year.

This.thread.is.dead.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 12:22 PM) To point this out and turn the table a bit, look at the bush administration. Some had no problem with him running up debt but others who are the far right fiscal conservatives had issues with that. It's just ironic now that those same people who supported bush's spending now oppose Obama's. Most conservatives weren't ever ok with Bush's spending. You make a stupid point here.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 14, 2009 -> 02:31 PM) For once, I agree with you. The DJIA is ridiculous.

QUOTE (lostfan @ Oct 13, 2009 -> 09:35 PM) This is actually the kind of stuff Steele should be doing, and not getting involved in policy debates in public all the time. That's not his job, and he's gotten smacked down by Republican leadership a couple of times for it. He can't help himself. He thinks he's the GOP Barack Obama or something. Advice, Mr. Steele: get the hell out of the way, jackass, and do what you're supposed to be doing. You're not helping re: policy.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 13, 2009 -> 04:29 PM) Wow, somethings wrong with me. I was totally reading kap's rick perry post as Rick Astley and I was like wtf why is rick rolling being taken seriously. I feel like lostfan thinking kevin jones was still healthy.

QUOTE (Cknolls @ Oct 13, 2009 -> 02:34 PM) Of the supposed 400-500 billion savings from Medicare, how much will actually be saved? Congress has yet to implement previous attempts to save using the same method. And if they do not act where do we make up that 400-500 billion? ANd add to that the fact that the Baucus bill will make insurance MORE expensive as the AHIP report stated. +90 billion= the amount by which the Ways and Means committee underestimated the eventual cost of Medicare. Why is it so hard to realize that costs always out strip savings in any legislation in Washington.... Because they don't care.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 13, 2009 -> 12:06 PM) BREAKING: GOP Sen. Olympia Snowe Says She Will Support Reform Bill Not a surprise in the least.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Oct 13, 2009 -> 11:09 AM) Praying doesn't work. I know because I've prayed to win the lottery for 20 years. It might help if you bought some tickets once in a while.

For some reason the reply/quote isn't working on this post, BigSqwert. I'm not exactly a Rick Perry fan. I know that you've spent a little time down here... Perry's a legend in his own mind and it drives me crazy. If he gets re-elected, he will be governor for 16+ years. That's too long. Although I think a lot of people are trying to push him into running for president in 2012. Please don't and say you did, Mr. Perry.

I hate Jacksonville. They are either 30.0 or 0.0 for MJD. CONSISTENCY, PLEASE. So that way I know who to bench. I've been playing rotation on D, SF paid BIG for me last week, and they lost the week for me this week.

QUOTE (bmags @ Oct 6, 2009 -> 01:43 PM) I have optimism they will move away from "raid" solution, and it should be mentioned, the city is 15 mill large, so 2000 is obviously still high, but it's also one of the biggest cities in the world. But, The inhumane things US cities have done to their poor is move them, put them in shelters to hide them, with favelas, i just hope that brazil doesn't bring a big war to them. You mean Brazilian cities, right? Otherwise I'm confused as to what you're getting at.

Congrats, Steve! I finished a marathon - it sucked because I couldn't train, had a broken foot from playing softball. I signed up to run and a week later, I broke my foot. At least I finished. It was the Orlando Marathon in 1999.