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His lie about having no earmarks was HUGE....and the press has completely ignored it!
If you speak the truth, have one foot in the stirrup!
Right about the failing nascent obama regime not being honest with America. The objective is clear - to groom this country to use less energy. First by raising the cost of energy, then by discouraging any incentives to seek reward for diligent and economical application of what little energy remains available.
CEOs who receive too much compensation are to be demonized, while the lowly minimum-wage, poorly-educated, failure-to-launch, aimless and unfocused peon is given ever greater rewards for failing, only encouraging more of the same slacker behavior.
For sure, no positive example is coming from the top.
Sure he does. It always starts out something like this- "We inherited from the Bush Administration..."
Or- "Republican tax cuts that the Bush administration..."
Never does he put the blame where it really belongs. Instead he hires the crooks to his staff. That pretty much sums up just how big a bold faced LIAR he really is.
Unfortunately, thanks to MSM who won't inform the public just who really IS responsible for the mess this nation is in, the sheeple will clap and cheer and wait in hopes of getting some money from the government, too stupid to realize it's a tiny fraction of their own money they have already paid to the government to begin with.
Dow -129.19-1.83% 6,933.74
Obama did it! He made the DOW crack through the 7000 point floor everyone thought wouldn't happen till late spring.
Way to go O-stupid.
—great article—points out some unpleasant truth about health care, also—
One brilliant plumber, gifted carpenter, or adept auto mechanic does more for the American economy (and our collective values) than a dozen 20-something sociology majors in progress.
^^^^^^
This should be printed on posters and put in every school — especially Schools of Education at universities.
I can't get very sanctimonious about it, though -- I'm about as guilty of it as the next guy.
I like VDH. He’’s a Democrat I’ve read. I’ve assumed that as was George Putnam VDH is of the old style Conservative Democrat genre.
It appears in this article that VDH is focused on a different perspective of BIG Government than Obama and his minions rather then Conservative values which would reduce, or eliminate BIG Government in education.
I’d rather discuss the latter.
We can't. It is verboten to tell the American people that anything is their own damn fault. Or even that they share responsibility for the messes we get into. It must always be someone else's fault.
This can be seen by the fact that when discussing the decline of investments absolutely nobody mentions the gorilla in the corner.
Most Americans have lost 30% to 40% of the value of their 401ks, etc. off the peak value. But this peak value was an illusion, with probably at least 15% to 20% being added by the bubble. IOW, if we had maintained reasonable investment and accounting values over the last 15 years, your 401k would have been worth perhaps $250k a year ago, rather than $350k. Of course, had we done that it would still be worth $250k today, or perhaps a little more, and the economy would still be growing.
Yet the universal assumption among pols and pundits is that if not for the Bush administration, or the misbehavior of Wall Street, or ACRA and Fan and Fred (pick your villain), your 401k would still be worth $350k rather than the $200k it's worth now.
We can't. It is verboten to tell the American people that anything is their own damn fault. Or even that they share responsibility for the messes we get into. It must always be someone else's fault.
This can be seen by the fact that when discussing the decline of investments absolutely nobody mentions the gorilla in the corner.
Most Americans have lost 30% to 40% of the value of their 401ks, etc. off the peak value. But this peak value was an illusion, with probably at least 15% to 20% being added by the bubble. IOW, if we had maintained reasonable investment and accounting values over the last 15 years, your 401k would have been worth perhaps $250k a year ago, rather than $350k. Of course, had we done that it would still be worth $250k today, or perhaps a little more, and the economy would still be growing.
Yet the universal assumption among pols and pundits is that if not for the Bush administration, or the misbehavior of Wall Street, or ACRA and Fan and Fred (pick your villain), your 401k would still be worth $350k rather than the $200k it's worth now.
GOOD
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