Re: Pelosi: Congressional pay cut undermines dignity of the job
Am I sure? Yes. Quite.
Are you brighter than me? No idea. How is it you know such a thing?
Would I like my ass handed to me...? Not particularly. But if that's how you Christian-and-moral-values Republicans debate, who am I to stop you? Go for it.
What Pelosi meant about the food stamps is exactly what she said, that for every dollar spent, 1.79 is created in economic activity. here's why (Pssst... you could have easily looked up the reasoning yourself, but I suspect you didn't really want to know. Not exactly a hallmark trait of bright people).
Food stamps: The struggle to eat | The Economist
Your comment about the Guam thing is also not exactly evidence of brightness in that you ascribe being a Democrat to saying a silly thing. Bright people, and even not-so-bright people, are well aware that saying stupid things is a human thing, NOT a political party thing.
The president's policies have not led us down the path you mention. In fact, the increase in government assistance is a result of the Bush economic collapse/near Depression. Any time there is a massive economic collapse, the need for assistance goes up. In addition, common sense tells bright people that trickle-down economics (AKA Reaganomics/Gush-uponomics) will result in more hardship for the masses since you're redirecting most of the wealth to a tiny percentage of the population. Now presumably you support these economics. Please don't complain about the inevitable consequences.
In addition, bright people are aware that Obama's spending is actually lower than Bush's. DEmocratic presidents actually spend LESS. Obama has not cut spending levels, but he has leveled them off, DESPITE a severe economic crisis. Biggest expenditures have been the war in Iraq and the tax cuts for very wealthy people, both of which you presumably supported and had not problem with such spending. But spending on improving infrastructure bothers you. go figure. That's a little like splurging on a Rolls Royce while condemning spending on a college education.
Yes, I'm a Democrat. You got one thing right! Congratulations! I'm impressed.
See, I told you that I was brighter than you and your'e no Democrat.
My Grandfather was a Democrat, and he disassociated from the party when they got hijacked by the likes of HOJ.
Your'e just a partisan highly uninformed individual who's been co-opted into the progressives disaster.
he thought, being a WWII vet that the modern day Democrat party was a disgusting joke.
How you guys only care about soldiers lives when a Republicans in office , or when Stephanopolis quit counting dead soldiers when Obama was elected.
How you only care about shooting victims when they're white children and you can use their death to gain points on a old liberal argument.
How many kids have been gunned down in Chicago this year ? Last year ?
How all of the anti-war protest dried up, or that any grown person could be so stupid as to blame Bush for our current disaster when Clinton gave HUD regulatory power to force the GSEs into buying massive toxic debt and when Clinton in 1995 under EXECUTIVE ORDER forced banks to comply with CRA regulations by loaning to people with poor credit.
No, the massive "depression" is made and mandated by Clintons actions which included allowing for those toxic loans to be securitized in the first place.
You libs whine about regulations and banking that caused it. Well your'e partly correct. Regulations under HUD and CRA not only caused it, they mandated it.
Oh and your'e including TARP in Bush's spending ? Obama voted for that and hey, he "leveled off " spending...
THATS hillarious. 900 billion last quarter alone. Thats like saying I leveled off shoiting bullets into the home intruder at ...90000 bullets.
He was probably dead after the first 3 or 4.
It looks like your'e trying to say a Keynesian approach is needed to repair the collapse of the Democrat mandated bubble? You actually believe that borrowing and taking money out of the private sector to put back into the private sector is going to turn the economy around ?
And at the same time threatening more regulations, higher taxes on producers and then unleashing ObamaCare on companies with more than 50 employees ?
Not to ention the sur taxes in ObamaCare. You think thats how you grow a private sector economy ?
This isn't Keynesian, its desperation. Keynes never argued for massive structural debt with no economic growth. You guys have corrupted Keynes theories.
Youv'e actually bought into the manufactured "eat the rich " lie ? How unfortunate.
You see Obama's approach has people with real wealth holding onto their cash, instead of pushing it out into the market. They figure only an idiot would invest in Obama's economy and they're right.
I mean you actually publicly claimed Obama has spent less than Bush...LOL !!
Do you realize banks are holding onto massive reserves ? Yup. And since 2008 they're getting paid interest on those reserves by the FED. Thats money they by law HAVE to have on hand.