looking around says

Taxpayer says

Salvatore says

Good humor for those on both sides of the fence. Take a guess of who plays brutus in this parody. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr5a3AgzANg

6079 Smith W says

http://noir.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=alGNjfw_Q_OA

Chung Lee says

The New World Czar says

Funny how Obama's speech today was promoting more stimulus dollars for "roads, rails, and runways" to a friendly audience. Great...we just might get that slow train to Cincinnati...that doesn't even finish near downtown.

Cannot wait to see what he guarantees his cronies in Cleveland this time (maybe more funneled funds to finish the remodeling at Dimora's palace in Independence).

Remember, it's "We The People" and not "Me The President" that make this country great.

brutus smith says

 Come on general, admit it, you would like to see winnie TRY to kick some big dude in the knee. Don't lie now.

The General says

He He He, Brutus, as your buddy  Ching  "Chow Mein" Won Ton Lee would say "...Me think you funny"

brutus smith says

 Come on winnie, set the date. I want to see it. Come on.

6079 Smith W says

bs writes:

“Apparently you don't think people like sam a, czar and a slew of others can't answer for themselves?”

When did this become a closed forum?

brutus smith says

 And I still would pay big money to watch you try to kick some big dude in the knee. Come on, set a date so we can sell tickets. Come on.

brutus smith says

 So winnie, apparently you don't think people like sam a, czar and a slew of others can't answer for themselves? Do you think they aren't capable of answering? What disrespect and disdain you have for them. That is unless you are them.

Chung Lee says

Socialized states have failed?  Chung Lee thought Chung Lee would point out that Newsweek recently did story and found the 10 best countries to live.  Must be a coincidence but all 10 have socialized medicine.  Funny how Wingnuts like to compare us to Saudi Arabia, Cuba and North Korea but how do we stand up to countries like Sweden, Norway, Netherlands and Canada?  Chung Lee no like the cheerleaders who cheer against America.

6079 Smith W says

bs writes:

“czar, those are called facts,”

Nope. It’s called one writer’s opinion.

After communism collapsed in Albania they thought that Ponzi schemes were a form of capitalism.

Little did they know that the liberals had already constructed Ponzi schemes by stealing from younger generations and giving it to the older with socialist programs like Soc. Security, Medicare, Medicaid and others.

The Albanians' Ponzi schemes just blew up quicker.

brutus smith says

 czar, those are called facts, and I know facts are jibberish to you and your right wing friends.

6079 Smith W says

@ bs:

Unwinding big govt. socialism tends to be a messy affair. The U.S. will eventually have to experience it – like it or not.

The New World Czar says

Right...BS, like the others on the right side of the scale, I don't resort to name-calling like you do when you don't have anything else besides cut-and-paste jibberish to post.

Remember, it's "We The People" and not "Me The President" that make this country great.

brutus smith says

 Typical right wingnuts, all words, no substance.

The New World Czar says

The Soviet economy was a failed basket-case before the dissolving of the Iron Curtain.

Remember, it's "We The People" and not "Me The President" that make this country great.

brutus smith says

 Here is what your Friedman unfettered free market capitalism did to Russia and a slew of other countries.

When the Soviet Union dissolved, he was out, Boris Yeltsin became Russia's president, he supported a corporatist state and adopted Chicago School fundamentalist "shock therapy" masquerading as "reform." Its former apparatchiks cashed in big along with a new class of "nouveaux billionaires" (called "the oligarchs") who strip-mined the country's wealth and shipped it to offshore tax havens. For the Russian people, it was another story. They didn't know what hit them in what was one of the greatest ever crimes by a government against its own people who still today are crushed by it. The toll was devastating and pandemic:

-- 80% of Russian farmers bankrupt;

-- about 70,000 state factories closed causing an epidemic of unemployment;

-- 74 million Russians (half the population) impoverished; for 37 million of them conditions were desperate, and the country's underclass remains permanent;

-- alcohol, painkilling and hard drug used soared, and HIV/AIDS threatens to become epidemic with a 20-fold increase in infections since 1995; suicides also rose and violent crime as well more than fourfold; and

-- Russia's population is declining by around 700,000 a year; unfettered capitalism has already killed off 10% of it; it's a startling condemnation of Chicago School orthodoxy and the man who triumphantly spread it in the name of freedom that's fake, ferocious and fatal

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Economics/Milton_Friedman_Unmasked.html

The General says

Brutus,  buddy, such an angry young, old, middle aged man?? Turn out the lights the parties over.......O-Bye-ma!!

6079 Smith W says

mikel says

talk about getting stuck on words brutus.  where did i say the article was written by newsweek?  i just said oberblowhard must be the editor.  anyways, newsweek is so far left that it is stuck up obamass rearend and it would never publish either middle of the road or rightwing documents no matter how good it might be.  apparently the old adage about assuming is right about you brutus.

brutus smith says

 The Russians adopted Milton Friedman's economic model, and let think who else did that? Why of course we did. At least they were smart enough to throw it out, unlike us.

6079 Smith W says

CBO reports are: Garbage in – garbage out.

So it would be worse with the Repubs and it’s wonderful with the Dems currently running the show? LOL.

The only thing that report says is that neither party knows what the h*ll they're doin’. Tell me something I don’t know.

The Dems won’t cut spending and the Repubs can’t tolerate the political heat to cut either.

Pure and simple: Without spending cuts the future budget of the U.S. will continue to climb until it’s unsustainable and we have a Greek style fiscal crisis or worse.

In Greece they’re laying off public employees and cutting public pensions by 30%.

The U.S. is spending more than it brings in as tax revenue and it’s borrowing and printing the balance needed – it cannot continue on this reckless fiscal path forever. It will eventually collapse.

The Soviet Union's economy imploded from too much spending and too much foreign borrowing - sound familiar?

brutus smith says

 You right wingnuts really do get stuck on words don't you. It was a CBO report PUBLISHED in Newsweek, not a Newsweek report.

Repubs have nothing, nada, zilch.

kURT says

6079 Smith /winnie, you still here ? How come you never made the move to Texas like you said you would?

pdb

mikel says

newsweek is the most leftwinged pub out there!  i think keith oberblowhard is the editor.  get a grip.

brutus smith says

http://donklephant.com/2010/09/03/private-sector-job-growth-in-2008-2009-2010/Pretty straightforward.

Dems aren’t going to win any economic ingenuity awards, but we’re out of the recession, private sector jobgrowth is still holding on and we’ve got the shopping season coming up, which should drive even more.

But what if the Republicans had their way?

Well, let’s refer back to the Congressional Budget Office’s recent projections, as brought to you by Newsweek. Basically, the Republicans wanted to extend the tax cuts and that’s about it. What effect would that have on the economy?

Extending all of them, according to the CBO, would lower unemployment by 0.3 to 0.8 percent over the next year or so; extending them solely for people making less than $250,000 would produce a somewhat smaller effect, for a difference of roughly 200,000 to 500,000 people.

 

The problem, as economist William G. Gale of the Brookings Institution has noted, is that “of 11 potential stimulus policies the CBO recently examined, an extension of all of the Bush tax cuts ties for lowest bang for the buck.” In fact, he continues, “letting the high-income tax cuts expire and using the money for aid to the states, extensions of unemployment insurance benefits, [or] tax credits favoring job creation … would have about three times the impact … as continuing the Bush tax cuts.”

In addition, it’s unlikely that extending the cuts for the richest Americans would have much of an effect on small-business hiring, which is a claim that Republicans make with some regularity. Why? Because of the taxpayers that report running small businesses on their taxes, only 2 percent fall into the top two income brackets.* The other 98 percent of small-business owners make less than $250,000 a year and wouldn’t pay higher taxes under Obama’s plan

mikel says

bs posts: "Stimulus Package has Created Jobs, Boosted Economy"

really?  are you happy that obamass has spent almost $267,000 per job to save it?  if so you are as stupid as the man that is making that claim.  the only work force that has increased is the federal gov.

brutus smith says

6079 Smith W says

brutus smith says

 I am not saying the big whigs at GM ran the company right. But you know from being in the auto industry Ford, GM, Chrysler, Toyota and the others share the same suppliers. If they were allowed to go under, a lot of these suppliers would have went under also. Ford would have been scrambling, along with the others to get parts, thereby putting them in jeopardy too. To call it a union bailout is wrong. There are a lot more non union suppliers than union suppliers. 

brutus smith says

 Still stuck on that 8% figure huh? It would have been worse without it.

Stimulus Package has Created Jobs, Boosted Economy

redwhiteblue says

brutussmith

My apology for the mistake,  General Motors said two months ago that they had paid all their stimulus package back.  I do not understand why it would be good for the taxpayer owening 61% o any part of a corporation.  I heard the ceo of GM make that statement, on a number of news networks, why did the story get totally sidetracked after one day.  Please try and explain  to me why Ford Motor Company did not take any of the stimulus and is making a significant amount of money, last but not least the president did go to other car manufacturers and tell them that the only reson Ford is creating a profit is because of the stimulus.  That has to be the most blatant lie that  he has told this week.  You are keeping the glued to the computer.

brutus smith says

 They have a 61% stake in the company. That is good for the taxpayers. What stake or guarantee do we have with the TARP money Bush gave to the big banks with no strings attached?

brutus smith says

On March 20, 2010, CBO released its final cost estimatefor the reconciliation act, which encompassed the effects of both pieces of legislation. Table 1 (on page 5) provides a broad summary and Table 2 offers a detailed breakdown of the budgetary effects of the two pieces of legislation. CBO and the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that enacting both pieces of legislation will produce a net reduction in federal deficits of $143 billion over the 2010-2019 period. About $124 billion of that savings stems from provisions dealing with health care and federal revenues; the other $19 billion results from the education provisions. Those figures do not include potential costs that would be funded through future appropriations (those are discussed on pages 10-11 of the cost estimate

http://www.cbo.gov/publications/collections/collections.cfm?collect=10

redwhiteblue says

brutus smith,

The first thing that I would like to say, I was a member of two unions and was to be elected for union president, prior to my election I changed jobs.  I once again was employed by union factory for approximately nine months, and moved into a management position, so I am very familiar with unions and the workings of unions.  in the first place every new car you buy has a minimum of $1200.  To pay for employee benefits, these benefits were negotiated by the UAW and Ford Motor Company, the unions said that if they did not get the contract they want there would be a strike.  if you would notice the states that have the largess unemployment are union states with large corporations.  When the president and the democrats approved the stimulus package which was not read in its entirety by anyone who voted for it, things really fell apart.  By the way you can check this fact by reaing the newspapers.  The stimulus partially went to General Motors and Chrysler, by the way the government still owens 70% of  General Motors.  This can be checked out also.  The president said when the stimulus  passes the unemployment rate would not exceed 8% interesting it is now between 9 1/2% an 11%.  That is very easy to check out.  The president said in his speech that GETMO would be closed by the end of the first year.  It's been almost two years and it stale is open.  That also can be checked out.  The president said that the detainees would be prosecuted in New York City, that's still hasn't happened. that also can be checked out.  The president said that the new Healthcare System would be neutral deficits this is another issue that can be checked. this is a problem, the congressional budget office nonpartisan has already made it clear that this is Not going to be deficit neutral.  That can also be checked out.  There are many more areas that I can go into if you would like that can be proven.   I would like you to know that I think that you are a (Patriotic American) make no mistake about that, there are issues that we have that we may never resolve.  We have al right to agree or disagrees.

brutus smith says

rwb, other than insulting Liberals and unions, which you are wrong , you haven't stated your position on things that have happened over the last 30 years which then I can prove you wrong on. I reread your posts and all you do is throw insults. State some facts to prove your position.

redwhiteblue says

brutus snith,

First of all I did not set on my butt in the United States  in my private little conner, I was in the Army M-48 Tanks in 1963, I reenlisted in the Combat Engineers till 1967. I spent 13 months in Asia.  So didn't even try to  lecturing you, it's obvious to me that you need a lecture, and educated on the constitution and the bill of rights.  You will not be able to offend me at all because, I know what is right I know what is wrong, and I know darn well know that it is impossible to debate anyone who is the liberal democrat because they are so closed minded,  they cannot see the forest for the trees.  For you to make a assumeption that I am wrong with what I have written is really, ignorant on your part, anything that I say I can prove, unfortunately I do not believed that you have the intelligence level or the IQ that makes anything that I say  will help you understand the conservatives, and democrats,there is a significant difference, although at times the republicans make mistakes and  will own up to them unlike the democrats and liberals.  You have to remember that when the president pushed through the stimulus with the democrats  most of them did not even read  the stimulus package thoroughly or completely, to their own admission, shame on our elected representatives for been as incompetent and lacking in integrity as they are.  This is my own opinion and I assure you my opinion is right.

Americanonly says

Gee, ol Brutus must be getting hot under the collar... all he does is attack someone who actually speaks the truth ... Good going RWB.   Not all Americans are like Brutus than God. 

middleclass says

If you want to know how screwed up our government is and why, (this includes BOTH parties) read "Who Will Tell The People" by william Grieder...... I am sure you can order it on Amazon.... disgusting.

6079 Smith W says

Hopefully Mr. Obama won't get caught lip-syncing his speech in Cleveland like he did recently:

http://www.theonion.com/video/obama-caught-lipsyncing-speech,16889/

You might also like:

http://www.theonion.com/video/obamas-home-teleprompter-malfunctions-during-famil,14383/

Salvatore says

Maybe Obama was delusional when he made all those promises. Now he uses a teleprompter for scripted speeches.

Salvatore says

What does brutus have to say about the 7 LIES? No comment, brutus?

brutus smith says

 rwb, you have no idea the price my family paid in the Viet nam war. Don't ever lecture me about being in the military. If you want to debate issues fine, but don't ever, ever lecture me about giving me something. You probably never left the states, sat in your little corner. You don't know what the real price of war is, so keep your stupid comments about it to yourself.

F. ear  O. ligarch  X.enophobes.

brutus smith says

redwhiteblue says

Salvatore,

I agree with you 100%, I wish I could tell as many lies as the president has and still a job. 

Salvatore says

Obama will probably give Russo and Dimora high praise for creating jobs for cronies via bigger government and spreading the wealth. I doubt that anyone will ask Obama why he broke his campaign promises about no more secrecy and a more transparent government.

Remember Obama's speech in 2008?

"I will make our government open and transparent so that anyone can ensure that our business is the People's business, .......I am going to make it impossible for congressmen or lobbyists to slip pork-barrel projects or corporate welfare into laws when no one is looking because, when I'm president, meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public. No more secrecy. That's a commitment I'm going to make to you as President: No more secrecy."........"When there's a bill that ends up on my desk as President, you, the public, will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it so that you know what your government is doing........... When there are meetings between government lobbyists and a government agency, we will put as many of those meetings as possible on line for every American to watch......When there's a tax bill being debated in Congress, you will know the names of the corporations that would benefit and how much money they would get, and we will put every corporate tax break and every pork-barrel project on line for every American to see. You will know who asked for them, and you can decide whether your representative is actually representing you."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/no-more-secrecy-open-the_b_591303.html

No more secrecy?????

7 LIES IN UNDER 2 MINUTES BY OBAMA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UErR7i2onW0

Why doesn't the news media question Obama about all these lies that he spoke of in order to get elected? Seeing and hearing is believing in that 7 LIES BY OBAMA IN UNDER 2 MINUTES youtube video. What does brutus have to say about the 7 LIES?? Some support Obama for free taxpayer money also called Obama Money. Get in line to get free Obama money. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19v5Kjmc8FI

What does brutus have to say about the 7 LIES??

redwhiteblue says

Brutus Smith,

 After reading your comment, I have come to the conclusion ,you have to be one of the most ignorant and uninformed democrats  that I have ever heard of.  If you would like to speak about  rightwing nuts, you should understand that they do read newspapers, watched numerous TV News broadcasts, listen to talk radio, vote on every election, and then communicate with our representatives, we do not need to cry because we are man enough to stand up and do everything that is within our power, and our constitutional rights to rectify the situations, unfortunately it's quite obvious to me that the only reason that the democrats and the president got elected to office, is  because most of the liberal people in the United States cast their vote without knowledge of the candidates the constitution and the responsibility that our representatives have to us.  If the president would quite catering to the unions and to states like, Ohio and Michigan and other states that are liberal we would not have the situation that we are in.  I thank God that very shortly we will have  the opportunity to replace a bunch of ignorant politicians that  are for the money and not the people.  You must remember this is a representative Republic, which means that our representatives are here to represent every person that is American citizen.  I am a Vet.  United States Army, I served my country ,to gave you the right to, be as ignorant as you would like to be.

I do give you credit you do know how to capitalize the word God, there is still held for you if.