Telling the union people what they want to hear. The truth is irrelevant. Just tell them what THEY want to hear.
While we are discussing another stimulus, take a look at this:
FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Policies-Prolonged-Depression-5409.aspx
August 10, 2004
Two UCLA economists say they have figured out why the Great Depression dragged on for almost 15 years, and they blame a suspect previously thought to be beyond reproach: President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
After scrutinizing Roosevelt’s record for four years, Harold L. Cole and Lee E. Ohanian conclude in a new study that New Deal policies signed into law 71 years ago thwarted economic recovery for seven long years.
“Why the Great Depression lasted so long has always been a great mystery, and because we never really knew the reason, we have always worried whether we would have another 10- to 15-year economic slump,” said Ohanian, vice chair of UCLA’s Department of Economics. “We found that a relapse isn’t likely unless lawmakers gum up a recovery with ill-conceived stimulus policies.”
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The fact that the Depression dragged on for years convinced generations of economists and policy-makers that capitalism could not be trusted to recover from depressions and that significant government intervention was required to achieve good outcomes,” Cole said. “Ironically, our work shows that the recovery would have been very rapid had the government not intervened.”
Pathetic.
Did Bush (or Reagan, or even Clinton, for that matter) engage in this kind of partisan attack directly on his opposition?
Clinton did it a bit, but I don't remember it raised to this level.
I don't remember Bush or Reagan doing it at all.
And that’s the point of the phony 50 billion dollar “stimulus” Hussein is pushing. He simply wants to paint republicans as standing in the way of job creation. But it ain’t gonna WORK, Hussein.
Pure Bolshevistic class-warfare BS!
LIES, lYING, LIAR.
LLS
“These are the folks whose policies helped devastate our middle class and drive our economy into a ditch. And now they’re asking you for the keys back.” President Obama 2010
No, Mr. President. Only dimocrats drive into ditches. Young ladies die in the process. Ever ask dear friend Ted Kennedy about that?
Why couldn’t the union booger-eaters dress up a little? If I was going to go see the president (and be seen on TV), I’d wear something better than a tee shirt and ball cap.
He’s trying to be the “yes parent” telling the kids they can have ice cream for dinner despite the fact that there is no ice cream, no dinner, and no money for food or rent. Then the republicans can be the bearers of bad news.
Fitting that he went to Milwaukee, a city whose economy and industry that was once the envy of the world was destroyed by trade unionism.
>>ends the indignity of insurance companies jacking up your premiums at will or denying you coverage just because you get sick; reform that shifts control from them to you.<<
Begins the indignity of government jacking up your premiums at will or denying coverage just because you are old; reform that shifts control from you to me.
And since when does he know what PUBs are saying? The only time he listened to PUBs was so he could say:”We won”.
demagogue, demagoguery
Obamassiah:"(Republicans say) No to reforming Wall Street."
Now he presents himself as the Champion Of The Middle Class.
In fact, he is intent on destroying the middle class and taking away our ability to earn a living independant of Obama handouts.
Free people with a way to earn their own income and make their own way in the world are apt to be hard to control and not easily herded into government plantations.
Sad to say, the big unions have become partners in the socialist takeover of America. Their leaders are nothing more than parasitic rumpswabs for Obama and other democrats. They are happy to run their own plantations for him as long as they get their percentage. He is happy to let them screw their membership, sucking their money and independance, as long as they deliver the vote.
Hey nobama, God doesn’t like it when you repeatedly break one of his commandments. You’ve gotten so good at it I suspect He has a special place reserved for you.
Obama touts this as “roadways, railways and runways”. All of these things are under governmental control. Once again, he and Auntie Nan will be sending taxpayer $$$ to Democrat strongholds to be doled out to preferred contractors.
How many unemployed Americans are construction workers working for unionized companies? Jobs bill - it is to laugh.