Comments on: The deficit in pictures, so even our friends on the left can understand them

By: jcw

jcw — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:52:35 +0000

“One that can remember history from less than a century back. “Intellectuals”, in Republican-speak.”

But yet can’t remember the history of the last century of his own country, one that seemed to do much better once the government monkey was off its back.

By: Phoenician in a time of Romans

Phoenician in a time of Romans — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:08:50 +0000

This of course is the mantra of the big government neo keynesian.

One that can remember history from less than a century back. “Intellectuals”, in Republican-speak.

By: jcw

jcw — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:18:46 +0000

“Do nothing” is not credible.

This of course is the mantra of the big government neo keynesian. Instead let’s create $ 10 trillion in new debt over the next 10 years, $30,000 for each person in the US on top of what we already owe. Think that will have any effect on our currency or perhaps on our ability to get others to finance this ridiculous expansion.

By: Phoenician in a time of Romans

Phoenician in a time of Romans — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:32:46 +0000

The reason people tend to consider the Depression as lasting until the second world war is because we were so deep in it by 1933 that even eight straight years of expansion couldn’t get us back to where we were in the early ’20s…

Which, of course, leads to ,a href=”http://geezeo-cms.s3.amazonaws.com/JobLossesRecessions.jpg”>this fascinating graph.

“Do nothing” is not credible. I urge the Republicans to associate themselves with it at every chance they can as people’s jobs and lives are ruined…

By: Yorkshire

Yorkshire — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:10:47 +0000

MAS1916:
Our public school system has turned out such an uneducated set of voters that even this won’t make sense to them. Opponents will just deny the evidence and accomplices in the media will not investigate any deeper. Otherwise, how could Obama stand up before the nation and say that he will cut the deficit in half when in each year the actual deficit (by his own figures) will increase.

Shit floats to the top sometimes, and it does here. BO quadruples FY08 Deficit in FY09. So by FY12, the defecate is half of FY09′s Defecate. All Bullshit, All the Time. Yup, it’s half of FY09, but still double FY08. Only the gullible will believe the blue smoke and mirrors this guy is blowing up our butts.