Bwild: I think under the neo-cons it'd be worse.. they'd let the car industry go under for a start. And you don't suddenly pull out of a major economic collapse in an instant. It (as anyone who's studied to any degree of economic history) takes time.

Unemployment has gone up in ALL of the western world. Just because it's happening in the USA does not make you guys special and immune to the current global economic crises.

Tuesday:

Tuesday: I'll wait.

Tuesday: you're dodging the question. answer it. It's NOT a matter of opinion that a human being dies in EVERY abortion. The death rate is 100% for all practical purposes.

Tuesday: And how do you justify supporting a man who favors the butchering of the unborn?

Tuesday: Then why extend them at taxpayer's expense when there is NO MONEY TO PAY FOR IT???

Tuesday: More nonsense. Using your exact argument, unemployment is "supposed to be a temporary help not a lifetime crutch."

Tuesday: More nonsense. Using your exact argument, unemployment is "supposed to be a temporary help not a lifetime crutch."

Tuesday: Those cuts will affect families with small helpless children. You know that. Thousands will be affected.

Tuesday: So you favor taking food stamps away from families with hungry children? hmmmm

Tuesday: oh and Nope, you're wrong.

Tuesday: Nonsense. Get it right. I have NOT stated any personal opinion on the matter of food stamps. I only point out the hypocrisy of the left. I am not personally against unemployment benefits being extended but think it's more prudent to use money we have rather than indulge in more reckless deficit spending. As for food stamps, you must be in favor of food stamps being slashed. So then you favor taking food out of the mouths of this nations poor children. hmmmmm

Tuesday: Look it up. You just believe what the dems tell you. How much deficit spending can this country stand? The majority of the people want fiscal responsibility. The Democrats are being reckless. Our debt is skyrocketing since Obama took office. And he has plans to make it worse. He's a socialist. The government can't pay for all these entitlements. The money isn't there.

And don't miss the larger point. Democrats went out of their way to vilify the Republicans because of the dispute over benefit extensions. And yet the Dems slash food stamps!!! Does that make sense to you?

The Republicans just wanted to use cash reserves to pay for it. Democrats wanted more deficit spending.

Tuesday: The Republicans did want to extend the benefits. You just don't have the facts.

In a matter of hours Thursday, the Senate approved state fiscal aid and child nutrition bills which help pay for themselves by cutting more than $14 billion from food stamps. didn't they just make a big deal out of the Republican's refusal to renew jobless benefits? (Even that wasn't true. The Republicans just wanted to use cash reserves to pay for it. Democrats wanted more deficit spending.

and NOW after all that fuss, the Dems cut 14 Billion dollars taken out of the mouths of children, and the most needy among us (can't you just see the liberal media headlines had this been a Republican cut?

But there's not been a word from the liberal media.

"Jobless Claims in U.S. Unexpectedly Climb to Three-Month High." Bloomberg headline, August 5, 2010.

"Food stamp use hit record 40.8m in May." Bloomberg News headline, August 5, 2010.

And yet:

"The Recovery Summer of 2010." Headline of the Democratic Party of Georgia.

heads in the sand (or somewhere else)

Given the six-digit salaries these folks are pulling down for their never-ending battle against “hate” (however they choose to define it), it’s pretty obvious that Santa is very good to them every year.
It’s also curious that the world’s leading civil rights organization can’t seem to find a single minority whom they consider to be worthy of a top management position.
Funny that an organization that spends tens of thousands of donor dollars promoting “Mix It Up” Day in America’s school cafeterias seems to believe that “diversity” ends at the Boardroom door.
Some things just never seem to change much in Montgomery.
Happy New Year, SPLC, no doubt all your Christmases will continue to be white.

http://rkeefe57.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/splc-dreaming-of-a-white-christmas/

Bwild: The stimulus has failed to deliver. And you won't find any Democrats that want to meet their constituents and defend the spending. They are all in hiding. Obama is clueless as a President. He keeps slipping in the polls. More and more liberals are talking about buyers remorse. He's lost almost all independent support. And the dems here have their heads in the sand (or somewhere else).

unemployment is higher now with yomama, than with bush.....guess the stimulus bill was only meant to help the banks who are foreclosing on loans at record rates.

Tuesday: I never let political affiliation get in the way of a good joke,.........and have you ever wondered why there are so few good Republican comics?

Tuesday: Pringles here advertise they have 90 in the stack... they don't say there use to be 99!!

Artful Dodger: So.. in this imaginary world of tea party politics you can suddenly pay off trillions of debt in 1 year??

.. It took the UK about 60 years to pay off the loan to the USA that we incurred through WWII.. It'll take years for our CONSERVATIVE led government to get the money back we've put into the banking system to hold it up... and to reverse years of bad management. And it is something their coalition partners the Liberals fully agree with.

Anyone with even a tiny amount of economic sense knows that. It's not hard to understand.. the debt to the Chinese has to paid back, also the fact that defence spending went through the roof under Bush, is now a debt that has to be paid off.

It seems looking back through records, in the Raygun & Bush I years public debt quintupled.. and under Bush II doubled.

Under Raygun the banking regs were changed..
Medical charges in the USA are out stripping inflation like a bat out of hell.

N' this is all ok???

Obama still sucks farts.

Tuesday: It's called PMT. Past My Time. Bed Time that is!

Tuesday: excuses, excuses, excuses. His policies have failed and continue to fail. He's a bad President and more and more Democrats feel that way. Few want his endorsement in upcoming elections. His stamp of approval is political death.