Rex, you are pathetic. You only choose to argue points that are subjective and can't be proven one way or the other. When you are faced with relevant questioning of your postion, you hide behind the "you aren't capable of understanding" defense as to why you cannot or will not defend your position. You are a mindless coward; a zombie programmed by the media and years of misery and self pity it seems, a failure in life who refuses to look within for the cause of your misery and instead chooses to blame anyone and everyone around him. Are you yourself dependant on the government to provide for you? Is that why you are so hell-bent on welfare and socialism?
There you go again, marc... I come back to this board and find that you addressed me twice while I was out. Your first post is fine. It asked questions without the childishness. But then I scroll down the board and see you reverting to your childish stunts. I don't have to run from your points or questions; they're too easily refutable. But get this through your head: I WILL NOT discuss matters with you until you learn how to DISCUSS things. You are free to call anything I post stupid, or childish, or whatever. I am not a perfect human being... I am quite fallible, and some of my opinions just might very well turn out to be stupid. But when you call ME stupid, or a child, or a coward, that crosses the line. So, have a nice day. I hope that the next thing you address to me is a bit more civil.
Thanks for admitting you are human, from the tone you have taken since you got here, I was beginning to wonder. It's ashame I had to resort to being a complete ******* to get you to admit you are just like the rest of us. Since my points are so easy to refute, you are more than welcome to do so. I promise my feelings won't be hurt. I hope to have a nice day, you do the same.
It isn't. I started the post wanting to talk about his laissez-faire attitude towards big corporations then ended up talking about tax and spend. Enron, Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon, etc all got fat and happy under Clinton's questionable economic policies, then when Bush took office the dot-com bust happened, Enron went bankrupt, etc. What I was trying to get at is that it is unfair to blame any of the economy's current struggles on Bush. He is only trying to clean up all of the aftereffects of the Clinton administration. It takes years for new policies to have their effects.
It certainly isn't obvious to me. Reaganomics never worked as advertised. The "trickle down" theory of economics turned out to be bogus.The corporations socked away huge profits and Joe Average never saw any real money trickle down to him. It's why GHW Bush lost the 1992 election despite his Gulf War popularity. People were not doing very well economically after 12 years of Reagan/Bush economic policies. They voted with their pocketbooks. It's astonishing to me that some people actually believe that the Recession of 2002 under GW Bush was the result of Bill Clinton's 1990's administration. Now you are saying that the unprecendented prosperity of the Clinton era was actually the work of Ronald Reagan in the 1980's. Amazing. It reminds me of an old Soviet Joke: Stalin gave Khrushchev two letters before he died. He was told to open the first when things looked really bad and to open the second when the situation became really desperate. Things got very bad in the late 50's and Khrushchev opened the first letter. It read, "Blame everything on me." So he blamed all of the trouble on Stalin and survived. The situation got really desperate in the late 60's, so Khrushchev opened the second letter. It read, "Prepare two letters."
thats weird how the corporations put the money in magical secrettown. you would think the rich whoevers who had the money at least put it in a bank where banks could invest it, or at least hire people to build their palaces and fancy cars. or at least employ some hookers or or maybe these rich corporations used the money to hire even more joe averages. but none of that happened, the evil corporations took the money out behind the office and burned it in some magic way that it never benefitted anyone. average joe just gets screwed by the man again.
"Trickle down is why George the First lost re-election" . Funny, I thought it was because he said "READ MY LIPS, NO NEW TAXES", and then was immediately villified for having the audacity, to lie to the American people. Funny how small that lie seems now, compared to 8 years of slick willie. :thumb:
you just don't get it do you? he didn't lose because of what he said, he lost because of the situation of the economy. what a bunch of idiots, all i hear is oh this guy said this or what ever. when bush loses everyone will be saying this or that but it will come down to the economy. not iraq, not sadam, not oh-suckin-my-bin-lappin, just the economy! i'm not saying that it is all bush's fault because 9/11 is the biggest reason but there were things he could have done different. remember, it wasn't till clintons second term before the economy really took off, that would mean it took crazy reagonomics 16 years to improve the economy, wait, i thought all the repubs said it was because of the repub. controlled house and senate.
sorry to make it seem that i'm attacking you, you were just the last post when i read the thread. bush could have handled the economy a lot different in this election, he could have said it like it was instead of trying to convince people the economy is doing good. i think if he were more honest people would understand instead of feeling like if the economy is doing so good why did i lose my house, or my car or what ever. he can't tell people the economy is doing good because they are the one with the bank account, or lack of. it will probably take another 8 years for the economy to fully recover from 9/11 regardless of who is president we just have to pray that there will not be another 9/11.