Bob Calco wrote: > What does Clinton have to do with what Obama is proposing? Clinton became > the best deficit-cutting Republican ever to hold the office after the > Republicans took control of Congress and drove the spending agenda for the > last 6 of his 8 years. So I guess that if Clinton is Republican then Bush must be ..... a Democrat!!! Wow!!! We should tell him. Be kind enough to send him a post?
> He declared the era of big government over, and at > cooked the books well enough that it looked for a season like we had a > surplus, whereas the Messiah Messiah? Don't know him. I usually call people by their names, a way of showing respect for a fellow human being unless... unless you don't think the person you refer to is a human being. Maybe an untermenschen? > is calling Big Government up out of its grave > like some kind of evil Lazarus, along with an army of hundreds of thousands > of new orcs and zombies for whom he plans to create government jobs. > Yup! I can easily see how a big govt can spend much more than a big army and a couple of wars. BTW, does anyone know how much every one of those rockets used in Afganistan cost? Or the USArmy's budget for Afghan occupation? > Bush had the inverse--Dems have controlled Congress only 2 of his 8, and in > the last two years they've run the show, we've gone from 4% unemployment to > 7.5% unemployment, we've seen the colossal failure of big-government > interventionism in the real estate industry (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are > Dem inventions, and the laws that got them the industry to give bad > loans were Carter and Clinton concoctions, which the Dems defended every > time Bush actually tried to prevent the disaster), experienced the first > painful spasm of our federally mandated dependency on foreign oil, and -- > yes, with Bush's blessing, a pox be upon his name -- the most enormous > expansion of government ownership of the economy, well, ever. The last 2 > years have been a Dem paradise---government manufactured crisis, private > sector collapse and a glorious march to socialism. Woo hoo! That's been the > plan ever since FDR. > But of course! Anyone can see that the economic course is set by the Dems in every Rep govt. ! And all this unemployment you people are experiencing wouldn't happened if Bush wouldn't have salvaged those companies. We would all be happy bunnies right now! > Did you not hear his address, in which he promised multi-TRILLION DOLLAR > ANNUAL DEFICITS for "years to come"? In which he declared only government > could spend enough to create a recovery--that the root of our problem was an > inability or unwillingness to SPEND MONEY AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL? > > What planet has he been on? Anyway. > Some people in this list have been saying that phrase for a long time now.... but I seem to recall you were across the street from them. > There is nothing Clintonesque about his Bush-on-steroids focus on exploding > the size of government, deficits be damned, other than the ex-Clinton figure > heads who he put like cardboard cutouts in his cabinet. But of course! Silly me! I should have known that you could read him like an open book and just KNOW that his cabinet were just "figure heads". Shite, how do you manage to be so smart? _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
