Posted on 09/02/2012 10:49:10 PM PDT by Arec Barrwin
yes he has some good points but overall it sounds like whining
Of course, it’s Bush’s fault.
Good read!
Miss this, and you miss the whitewash. This documentary is an implicit whitewash. It relies on an assumption, namely, that we are not dealing in 2012 with a single political administration, which began in January 2001. Sadly, we are.
By tracing the start of the budgetary nightmare to 2001 and the Bush administration, North jumps the shark. The fiscal insanity began long, long before Bush.
Clearly still scratching my head why our former president never appeared at the Republican convention. I've never seen anything like it. My liberal co-workers joke about it at work.
Yup. Try Kennedy.
Bush certainly didn’t do anything to stop it, especially TARP and the bailouts.
Try FDR.
He is the guy in charge .... why keep shifting the blame? Bush screwed up and now Obama screws up even worse. They are both screw ups! Obama knew what he was getting into and fought really hard to get the job. His promises and results did not happen. Get rid of him and give someone else a shot. Thats about all we can do for now. If you or I screw up at work, do we get to blame the last guy? No .... WE GET FIRED!
He misses the point of the documentary , which is the psyche of the engineer now driving this runnaway truck. Romney will try, successfully or not,to put the brakes on. Obama will press the pedal to the metal, until it comes to the inevitable bend on the road.
People forget that FDR’s New Deal, was more or less merely a continuation of policies already enacted under Hoover.
Just as Obama merely continued Bush’s policies for the most part.
Whatever you’re smoking, take it easy.
Yes, it began with LBJ’s guns and butter approach. Trying to run the war in Vietnam and his Great Society at the same time. By the Spring of 1968. we had run out of money. It was the looming liquidity crisis which, more than the Tet debacle, that persuaded Johnson not to send more troops to Asia. Seeing the hand-writing on the wall, he bailed out, and left the mess to Nixon. Nixon had the choice of suddenly abandoning the South Vietnamese and beginning a withdrawal.But he also did little to slow the social spending, and so he had to abandon the existing currency arrangement that been in effect since 1945. Since then we have been dealing with fiat money.
Yes, but WHAT HE IS LEAVING OUT is that while he blames President Bush, he admits that DEMOCRATS in House and Congress pushed these bills through.
When was TARP and the bailouts?
Yeah, but that wouldn't help the author prove his point (nor make money).
This author doesn't mention the 'mess' that Clinton handed to Bush. Maybe he's too young to remember.
Monday is empty chair day. Pass the word.
Many propositions in this article are absolutely correct. I haven’t seen the movie, but I did read and promote “The Roots of Obama’s Rage”. I totally agree with the book. Everyone (almost) ignores the fact that Bush’s last two years of his second term were dominated by a National Socialist Democrat Party Congress, which resisted Bush’s attempts to control Fanny May and Freddie Mack, leading to the meltdown which was caused by fast-food affirmative action home loan LAWS.
D’Souza was NOT dead wrong, he was dead on regarding what was in the book. I will have to respond more later, it’s getting too late for me now.
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