| TheRealMafoo said: "In a press conference that was short on specific details of the deal" Yea... like everything that's promised before it's delivered, I will believe it when I see it. Remember, this comes from the same group of people who said we need to piss away 780 billion dollars to keep unemployment below 9%, and that 9% would be in 2010. We see how well that worked out. They said they would close Gitmo. They said they would bring troops home from Iraq, and end the war. Today there are 131,000 troops in Iraq, and they are staying the maximum time allowed by the Bush treaties. More troops are in war zones today then when Obama took office. Deliver on just one fucking promise, and then tell me what your going to do. Until then, tell me only what you have done. |
They predicted that without a stimulus that unemployment would not get higher than 9%. I don't really see how you can fault them for the fact that the economy actually turned out to be worse than everyone expected. They got those numbers from private sources (i.e. people in the private sector, economic experts, etc.).
If anything, it means there was a greater need for a stimulus than they thought. Your argument is essentially like saying that the fire department shouldn't have brought a hose to a fire because the fire was worse than they expected. It really makes no sense.
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
