SS109 wrote: Paul Volker just had a birthday. I wonder if he would come out of retirement and turn things around.
Republicans won't offer a response? Duh, they are true Americans watching football and snacking on nachos.
Obama couldn't even tell you who the Green Bay QB is even though he already met him in the Oval Office.
Did Barack tell you that on the phone last night or was it when he was over for dinner?
Barack Obama was on a sports program and the host asked him what his favorite baseball team was and he said the Chicago White Sox. Then he was asked who is your favorite White Sox player, he couldn't name a single player.
So I am going to guess either he isn't a real baseball/sports fan or he is so used to evading questions that he can't even answer who his favorite player is.
I would much rather have a President who knows the name of the President of Pakistan than who is the quarterback of the Packers.
BearMtnHIB wrote: Well it looks like I was wrong yesterday when I said Obama's plan was to spend another 300 billion, The news coming out today says it's gonna be 400 billion.
Obama is expected to call for more infrastructure building, and my argument has always been that infrastructure spending is at best a zero sum gain.
I was at the Red Rocks Ampitheater the other day which was constructed by depression era WPA workers. Many other buildings were constructed including the Griffith Observatory. Even my high school auditorium was built under the WPA, and it became a valuable community resource.
Were any buildings of note built with Obama's $800 billion failed stimulus? And now he is apparently going to propose spending another $400 billion? I did hear his press secretary say that it will be funded and the money won't be borrowed but I have no idea how. I'm eager to find out...
I did hear his press secretary say that it will be funded and the money won't be borrowed but I have no idea how. I'm eager to find out...
I heard um say it will be cut from the budget- so if we had 400 billion that could be cut from the budget- why was it not cut before Obama found a new place to spend it?
The real answer is - it will be borrowed from China- and we won't be borrowing the 400 billion for somthing else.
The 2011 budget already borrows nearly 2 trillion of the 4 trillion dollar budget.
SS109 wrote: Paul Volker just had a birthday. I wonder if he would come out of retirement and turn things around.
Republicans won't offer a response? Duh, they are true Americans watching football and snacking on nachos.
Obama couldn't even tell you who the Green Bay QB is even though he already met him in the Oval Office.
Did Barack tell you that on the phone last night or was it when he was over for dinner?
Barack Obama was on a sports program and the host asked him what his favorite baseball team was and he said the Chicago White Sox. Then he was asked who is your favorite White Sox player, he couldn't name a single player.
So I am going to guess either he isn't a real baseball/sports fan or he is so used to evading questions that he can't even answer who his favorite player is.
I would much rather have a President who knows the name of the President of Pakistan than who is the quarterback of the Packers.
Don't you mean Paw-KEE-ston?
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
“...he who warned the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringin’ those bells and, um, makin’ sure as he’s ridin’ his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free. And we were gonna be armed.”[/quote]
"What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love for liberty. You're the state where the shot was heard around the world in Lexington and Concord."
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, Mar 12, 2011
"What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward," Bachmann said. (The Soviet Union broke up into 15 separate republics 20 years ago. Boris Yeltsin was the first freely elected leader of Russia, the largest of those republics.)
U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, August 16, 2011
"In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
George W. Bush, May 1, 2003
BearMtnHIB wrote: Well it looks like I was wrong yesterday when I said Obama's plan was to spend another 300 billion, The news coming out today says it's gonna be 400 billion.
Obama is expected to call for more infrastructure building, and my argument has always been that infrastructure spending is at best a zero sum gain.
I was at the Red Rocks Ampitheater the other day which was constructed by depression era WPA workers. Many other buildings were constructed including the Griffith Observatory. Even my high school auditorium was built under the WPA, and it became a valuable community resource.
Were any buildings of note built with Obama's $800 billion failed stimulus? And now he is apparently going to propose spending another $400 billion? I did hear his press secretary say that it will be funded and the money won't be borrowed but I have no idea how. I'm eager to find out...
While it's not a "building of note," the Shaffers Crossing overpass was built with stimulus money and it seems to be a pretty successful construction project that will most likely be there for years to come. It probably also provided lots of income for those who worked on or supplied materials to the project.
Martin Ent Inc wrote: Government cannot create jobs
I bet if you keep repeating that often enough, after awhile you'll believe it...
The truth is the truth. We're about to waste another 400 billion dollars that we owe back with interest.
Government needs to cut it's size before any jobs are created by those who actually produce in this country. A government job is not created wealth, it's just borrowed from the future. A government job steals real wealth from the actual economy and creates a false economy- it's a band aid at best.
It's all a propped up house of cards about to collapse.
The Shaffers Crossing overpass is complete now- how many jobs are left now?
Answer= zero
More infrastructure at a large cost- but what money will it generate for the local community? Safway town center was more infrastructure- it sits mostly empty and in forclosure with a local economy that can not support it, but if there is even one dollar of business profit - it's generating more money for the local community than the Shaffers Crossing overpass.
