Posted on 05/21/2012 9:21:25 AM PDT by lbryce
That’s the headline on yesterday's AP story by Charles Babington. The headline appeared on the main Yahoo page, which is far more heavily trafficked than any newspaper, and was picked up, based on a Google News search, by several hundred newspapers.*snip* The idea was to attribute plausibility to what is in fact a laughable suggestion.
In order to effect the economy, Republicans would have to 1) enact policies that would do one or the other, or 2) block the Democrats from enacting policies that would do one or the other. The Republicans haven’t enacted anything since the Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007, so the theory has to be that the GOP has blocked something that otherwise would have helped. In fact, however, the Democrats have been able to enact the major components of their economic plan, including the stimulus–perhaps the most dismal failure of any legislative initiative in American history–and Obamacare. Democrats have caused discretionary spending to skyrocket and have run up $5 trillion in new debt since President Obama took office. So they have pretty much had their way.
*snip* The AP story offers two possible answers. First, John Boehner has said that he will not agree to another increase in the debt limit unless the Democrats agree to spending cuts. But why would that hurt the economy? If more government spending were the path to prosperity, we would all be lighting cigars with $100 bills. *snip*I created this chart last summer to track federal spending against total payroll jobs. Another year of data is available since then, but the trend lines would be the same. Since the Democrats took control of Congress in 2007, spending has boomed. Has that spending been good for the economy? You be the judge'
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The answer of course is that the GOP is indeed trying to sabotage the Economy not really to hurt Obama but mostly more emphatically to sabotage the Economy by choking off its industries', lay waste to the land, impoverish its people, ruin initiative, diminish enthusiasm, destroy infrastructure in all categories, force Americans back to an agrarian, hunter-gathering society.. Haven't you kept up on the Times coverage of the election? The special articles on the Republicans dirty campaign tricks, how the Republicans will stop at at nothing to win. Do you not in fact read your full allotment of ten free New York Times Pay Wall articles?? (Down from the initial largesse of 20 free articles in the immediate afterglow of the Times Pay Wall giddiness.)
Next Topic: How long has it been since the GOP began using corporal punishment as outlined in their political platform to discipline their spouses, children?
that is rich
And the way they did it was with all of those House of Representative appointments to the House of Representative Cabinet posts.
The communist mulatto doesn’t need any help !
In the beginning I thought he and his henchmen were just too ignorant and eager. I have changed now and believe they have planned and are focused on reducing this nation into a European Socialist nation and are working 24/7 to make it happen.
I wouldn’t doubt that there are many prominent leftists that believe that businesses aren’t hiring because they want to hurt 0bama, and many of these leftists will actually attribute it to racism.
Companies aren’t investing or hiring because they fear what this fascist might do tomorrow to make their investment worthless.
Our family is shutting the check book, foregoing all major purchases, until after the election. It’s a small price to pay for the future of the country.
Reality just escapes me.
Only a psychotic liberal could come up with an idea so stupid!
‘Sabotage the Economy’?
You mean as in ‘manufactured crisis’... like the Republicans were handed in 2008???
In other news, it has been found that 6 million Jews committed suicidwe in World War 2, in order to make the National Socialist Party look bad.
Sounds like a good idea
“Companies aren’t investing or hiring because they fear what this fascist might do tomorrow to make their investment worthless.”
Companies began GOING GALT with the anti-biz rhetoric of Pelosi and the Dems, when they took over Congress in 2007.
Remember how the Mainstream media LAUGHED at the very idea of a business “Going Galt”?
Yet, the CEO’s of Both Intel and Emerson Electric very publicly tried to warn what was happening, and the mostly gay-run mainstream media ignored, then ridiculed them.
When headlines are written in the form of a question, the honest answer is usually “no”.
In order to effect the economy, Republicans would have to 1) enact policies that would do one or the other, or 2) block the Democrats from enacting policies that would do one or the other.One, we are and have been in the Obama Recession, Two, Obama's "stimulus" was just a money laundering operation to enrich his campaign funds and various cronies, and Three, not even the Demwits have been voting for his budgets.
For example, she says, had someone else been at the podium, the image of that "bearded guy", aka Flanders Smith, proprieter of the 'Smith Medicinal Cough Therapy Drops' would help identify the era and leader of the day, with whose cherry cough drop concoction helped sooth all those hoarse throats in all those hotly debated discussions.
The GOP sabeotaged Newt, Santorum, ........
I think they want obama to win. Why else would they push a liberal?
I think the economy started contracting when the people saw who would likely become president. The last three months of the Bush presidencywas in reality is the first three months of the 0bama presidency.
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