richardhutnik said:
HappySqurriel said:
heruamon said:
I heard an urban legend that over the last 5-6 years, conservative think tanks and other like-minded organizations have been paying people to post seemingly innocence forum topics on random websites. The goal of course is to implant subliminal messaging to people at a low intrusion level. It's probably nothing more than just that, but when I read some of the topics on many of these "GAMING" sites (Same thing at WoW forums), it kinda makes me wonder.
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I suspect that if you did a study on older videogame players (between the age of 25 and 50) you would find that they tended to be fiscally conservative libertarians. During the Bush years there were endless topics (on most gaming forums) about the expansion of government and the out of control deficits; and the thing that surprises me personally is how many people who I agreed with about the problems with Bush who don’t seem to think those are issues with Obama.
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On the other side, you had individuals who supported Bush and not think they were problems, now think they are problems. The Hannitys of the world say deficits don't matter because we were "at war". Now these issues do matter, I guess because we aren't "at war". Apparently "emergencies" are used to justify any extreme measures and throw out every principle. Like now of course. How can deficits matter when we face a crisis like this?
I wonder how many principles Bush cost people.
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While I never supported Bush's deficits, I do think that the people who defended the Bush deficits have a "get out of jail free card" in that they can claim that supporting a defict of 2% to 3% of GDP is quite a bit different than supporting a deficit that is over 10% GDP.
