| rocketpig said:
I've been a fiscal hawk since I was old enough to vote. The irony of the situation is that right now, the government should have a massive surplus to spend its way out of this deficit and then when things get good, they should be trying to slow it down and amass a new surplus for the next down time. Funny how politicians always seem to forget that second part and even funnier how people are too fucking short-sighted to vote in people who will enact financial strategies based on the longterm instead of five minutes from now. Anyway, people are stupid. Always have been, always will be. Learn to accept it or you'll have an ulcer by the time you're 30. |
I've accepted long ago that the average person is a complete idiot, but its so unnerving when they act like they know what they are talking about when they clearly have no idea whatsoever.
I just ask for a consistent and effective economic policy even if I don't always agree with the policy. If Bush and the other Republicans had slashed taxes but had managed to keep the deficit at bay, I wouldn't be upset at all. Its just obscene that the Republicans in Congress now are acting like they have always had a sound economic policy and are now trying to obstruct anything from being done.
Even Bush and Cheney have the right idea (wow, am I actually saying that...). They know that in times when the economy is according to all sources plummetting like a rock that it is better to err on the side of doing something rather than doing nothing. As Cheney so eloquently put it, its almost as if the Republicans are trying to go down in history as the "Herbert Hoovers" of the 21st century.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
