Comments by kmbjd40
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Posted on November 12 at 5:24 p.m.
My last post isn't an admission of anything of the sort. The simple answer to most of these problems is the free market. The free market is always a more efficient mechanism for handling the problems that this country faces. In the free market, people have an incentive to do things correctly, because if they don't they go out of business.
With government you have just the opposite situation. The political class is motivated by what is politically expediant and what will satisfy whatever constituency they need to please to maintain their power. Plus, they're not spending their own money or using their own resources so they don't have to worry about how much money this program costs, or how much money that program wastes. They can always blame the other guy. As long their heart was in the right place and their supposed intentions were pure.
I never said there is no role for govenment. But the governments role should be limited. Far more so than the way we find things today. Go to USdebtclock.org if you want to see in black and white the utter disaster the our federal government has become. It's truly a sphincter tightening experience. Yet what are the Dems proposing? What is their solution? Why, their solution for everything: Spend, spend, spend. Then spend some more. What? The spending's not working? It's only making things worse? Well, by God, let's spend some more! Oh yeah. And tax. We can't forget that.
I hate to tell you, but it doesn't work. It has never worked. It never will work. The fact that libs keep going down this path should tell anyone with even the slightest degree of intelligence that the left is hopeless collection of complete morons, or they have a more nefarious agenda. I happen to think it's a combination of the two.
Reagan said it best when he summed up the Democrat's governing philosophy in this way: "If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. If it stops moving, subsidize it." (God how I miss those times, when we had a real President.)
Posted on November 10 at 6:23 p.m.
The bottom line, when you boil it all down, is that the government is the root cause of all of these problems. Period. Government interference only makes things worse. That has been demonstrated time and again throughout history. More government is not the answer. As is always the case, more government will only make compound our problems. Period. Anybody who doesn't understand this is hopelessly naive or ignorant of history.
And I hate to tell you, but most sloganeering occurs on the left, not the right. "Change we can believe in" is the most recent and glaring example. Unfortunately, none of you Obama supporters took the time to ask exactly what that meant. Now we're stuck with this Presidency and this Congress and will all suffer because of it.
We already have $100 TRILLION in unfunded mandates. Nothing is being done or even discussed to address this. Instead, Washington politicians seem to be hell bent on making the problem worse. As long as they can hold on to their power, which is their only real consideration.
The point is, politicians of both parties are completely out of control and have lost sight of what their real purpose is: to serve the American people in the most practical, efficient and responsible manner possible and make policy decisions with that goal in mind. Judging by what's going on in Washington, that's not even a consideration.
Posted on November 10 at 2 p.m.
Like you, I was only kidding. Lighten up a little.
Posted on November 9 at 6:44 p.m.
So let me get this straight, Obama said that if his ridiculous "stimulus" bill passed, unemployment wouldn't go above 8%. The unemployment rate now stands at 10.2%. But we conservatives are whining for pointing out this simple fact. It's all Bush's fault, right?
The Democrats force banks to make loans to people who can't pay them back and refuse to allow anybody to interfere with Fannie and Freddie and the entire economy nearly collapses as a direct result of the unintended consequences of their utter stupidity. But we're whining if we point this out. After all, it's all Bush's fault.
The Democrat's want to force people, using the threat of jail and heavy fines, to purchase health insurance whether they want it or not, something that is so fundamentally unconstitutional and unAmerican that it is breathtaking. (And don't hand me any garbage about people having to buy car insurance. Driving is a privilege and involves the operation of dangerous machinery that can put others at grave risk both physically and economically. Plus, since you don't have to own a car, you don't have to have car insurance.) But let me guess, it's somehow Bush's fault, right?
Posted on November 7 at 2:18 p.m.
Ouch! I guess Obama's monumental decline is having a more profound effect on my old buddy Yeahuhuh than I imagined. I mean, the vitriol and invective he is spewing is particularly harsh. I guess when you're on a sinking ship the desperation starts to bleed through after a while. Unfortunately for him, he's like a chained pit bull who has no teeth.
Let me see if I can really get him going: Obama's approval rating in the Rasmussen poll (the most accurate and consistent poll out there) hovers between 46 and 48% while his disapproval stays between 51 and 52%. They don't have the votes in the House to pass that health care monstrosity of a bill. Cap and trade doesn't have a prayer of passing. Last Tuesday's election results in Virginia and New Jersey. 40% of the country is conservative, while only 20% is liberal. The Democrat's have been polling behind the Republican's in the generic congressional ballot for the past several weeks. Oh, the list goes on and on...
Ain't reality a b***h?
Posted on November 6 at 5:47 p.m.
Once again, it never ceases to amaze me the number of people who will post on this site without having the first clue what they're talking about. Anybody with the slightest intellectual curiosity would have investigated the causes of our current economic situation and know where to lay the blame. But that's been talked about ad infinitum here and not worth the effort to rehash for you brain-dead Obama Kool Aid drinkers. You misguided souls just keep holding on to the illusion that caused you to support our pathetic embarrassment of a President in the first place as his presidency continues its free fall into obscurity and irrelevance.
Southernwoman, I see you're as informed as always. The unemployment number is actually higher now than what Obama projected had the stimulus not even passed. Go figure. But since he clearly has no clue what the hell he's doing, I guess that shouldn't come as a surprise.
Posted on November 6 at 11:30 a.m.
What!? Say it ain't so! The stimulus was supposed to prevent unemployment from going above 8%. I think it's pretty safe to say now that Obama has made "change" a dirty word.
I'm starting to think I'm psychic. Nearly everything I posted about that Marxist fraud before the election has come to pass. Boy, November of 2010 can't get here fast enough!
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Posted on November 13 at 7:22 p.m.
We don't have free enterprise in this country? Have you lost your mind? (That question was purely rhetorical, of course.) Our free enterprise is overly regulated, but we do have a system of free enterprise nonetheless. And you claim you don't like things the way they are but you support Obama? Huh? He's doing his level best to make the situation far worse.
I will agree with you that the Republican's did lose their way. They tried to become Democrat's lite and they paid a heavy price. My hope is that the party will return to Reagan conservatism, if not out of an affinity for the ideology itself, then because it is the politically expedient thing to do. It's the best we can hope for.
Reagan inherited a mess. The difference between him and Obama is that Reagan took the appropriate steps to fix the problem. And it worked. Obama is doing the polar opposite, following a formula that has failed every time it's been tried.
Reagan busted the budget? Reagan was working with a Democrat Congress nearly the entire time he was in office. He did the best he could with what he had. Plus, budget deficits under Reagan topped out a 6% of GDP, and that was for only one year. Our deficit this year is 10% of GDP and the Obama White House is predicting deficits of at least 7% of GDP for the next decade.
The bottom line is, I want what is best for this country. Obama and the Dems are trying to transform this country into something that it's never been, and will ultimately destroy us.
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