Re: [RC] Economist Jeffrey Sachs' view of the current mess

[David R. Block]

Title: ORourke54.htm

Actually, there is a plan. Dismiss or threaten to veto Republican proposals while putting forth none of your own and have the MSM and Democratic media (but I repeat myself) report that the Republicans are intransigent and will not compromise and that the failure is all their fault. Or the fault of George W. Bush. It's actually worked pretty good so far, Congress and the Tea Party find their polling in the shitter. Or course Obozo is getting his numbers down there with them, but as long has his numbers are higher than theirs: WINNING!! David "There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as "caring" and "sensitive" because he wants to expand the government's charitable programs is merely saying that he's willing to try to do good with other people's money. Well, who isn't? And a voter who takes pride in supporting such programs is telling us that he'll do good with his own money -- if a gun is held to his head."--P. J. O'Rourke On 8/21/2011 2:02 PM, bil...@aol.com wrote:   Uhhh, what did anyone expect ? BHO had, for all practical purposes, no high level political experience when he ran for the presidency. Maybe that could have been compensated for if his priorities were fixing the economy before all else, but he made it clear all along that what he was interested in were the priorities of an idealistic social worker with a background shaped by Africa and Indonesia and Chicago ward politics :  Focus on health care whether or not it could be afforded, Muslim outreach, placating homosexuals, and that's about it. America elected a hollow suit styled by the hard Left of the Democratic Party.   I don't especially like to say, "told you so," but I did say so at the time. This doesn't apply to this group all that much, but to everyone who would listen. Yet Obama-mania prevailed.   If only the GOP had nominated someone else. McCain was intent on being a gentleman, not on winning, and basically he ran a miserable campaign. And, like BHO, McCain had no economic plan, either.   Of no surprise to RC -ists , the system is broken and needs to be fixed, this is anything but a matter of one party rather than the other being our political salvation. Any such thing is impossible when there is a system failure. Which is why, looking ahead to the Republican nomination sweepstakes, what is most rational is a sense of  serious skepticism.   Billy   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------       August 19, 2011 Economist Jeffrey Sachs Hits Obama: "There's Never Been A Plan" Economist Jeffrey Sachs on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday : "We're almost three years into this administration, and there's never been a plan. And that's what everybody feels. And the president didn't lead. He waited. The quintessential image, sadly, of an administration that I supported and hoped for much better, is the president waiting by the phone to hear what Congress calls to tell him. It doesn't work in this country that way. It's not a matter that it's August. It's a matter that it's August 2011. So we've been drifting for a very long time. And we've been drifting down. And we had a short-term plan that failed. A short-term stimulus that was supposed to get the economy back on track, but it failed. And now we have nothing behind it. And we have no agreements, and we have no leadership. And, frankly, I do think it's pretty odd the president's on vacation right now. Normally I wouldn't care about such things, but the world markets are in deep crisis. It's no joke. This isn't just an up-and-down little blip. This is a very serious situation." -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <RadicalCentrism@googlegroups.com> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org