--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
No. No, you don't. Spending isn't out of control, and
the worst *possible* time to cut back on spending is in a
recession. Plus which, comparisons to Greece or Italy or
Portugal are specious; those countries don't have the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:
No. No, you don't. Spending isn't out of control, and
the worst *possible* time to cut back on spending is in a
recession. Plus which, comparisons to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:
snip
I dare you to read this article by Glenn Greenwald
on Salon.com:
I read
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote:
I understand, but I thought we spent many tens of billions on the
stimulus package, and don't have much to show for it.
This is like saying that the Y2K bug was a myth because people spent billions
of dollars on it
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@... wrote:
Another big difference, BTW, was that Obama came into
office with a huge mandate and all kinds of goodwill,
including a Democratic House and (for a month or so
anyway) a filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the
Senate.
I find myself very sympathetic to the President. His adversaries were
willing to shut down the government, and have total gridlock. Do you
not think he would have engendered just as much, if not more criticism
if he had gone that route? I think you have to bring spending under
control, or you
Kennedy took the hard line approach and we see where it got him. Again I
don't look at a President as any kind of leader these days. Like a state
governor they are there to sell policies to the people. But hey! We own
the government we should be selling our policies to them or better yet
If I already sent this, I apologize - More George Carlin on the owners of this
country
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYIC0eZYEtI
--- On Fri, 8/19/11, Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
From: Bhairitu noozg...@sbcglobal.net
Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'Field of Dashed Dreams
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, seventhray1 steve.sundur@... wrote:
I find myself very sympathetic to the President. His
adversaries were willing to shut down the government,
and have total gridlock. Do you not think he would
have engendered just as much, if not more criticism
if he
