SoulDesertion: MANdirtEXCUSES: You know, it sucks that during the debates the one who I liked the most was the one who spoke with the most passion, Ron Paul. He'll never get it, though. Im a registered Republican, so out of the four I'm probably going to go with McCain. He has the most experience, but then again he's not experienced in the executive branch. Huckabees too religous and closed minded, Giuliani seems to truly back himself on just 9/11 and Romney; although a brilliant businessman and an all around good person does seem to want to be President, just to be President.
I'm not fully impressed with any of the candidates who have a chance.
I was impressed with Obama getting votes.
Lets be honest here. The President who will do the best job cleaning up what happened, even though I dont HATE Bush, would be Hillary. Her hubby, ehemm, Political Partner whose already been there for 8 years would be the best adjusted to take control. I hate the Clintons, though..
I wish Ron Paul had a chance. I would go with Romney so we can pull our economy out of the fucking gutter.
I'm sure Mccain will probably win. Blah.
hi SD,
While I diagreed with Ron Paul on some key issues I love the guy and I would have been perfectly happy if he were elected President.
We need a massive sshake up in the worst way and Paul would have delivered (as would Obama)
Ronmey and McCain are both on record (in almost every speech) saying that they agree with the trickle down policies Bush put in place which is why we are in this mess with a falling dollar, falling wages, and massive jobs leaving the country.
If you want our economy fixed then Romney is actually the worst choice.
The media likes to say that "he's been CEO of very sucessful companies" but the truth (or lies) lies in the details.
Look at how he's addressed building profit within the companies he's ran.
He did the exact same thing that Republicans in Government have done for the past 7 years to help those CEO's out.
Step 1: Move jobs OUT of America.
Step 2: Bring in cheap labor from other countries to build profits and that also works against American workers because we lose bargaining power in wage negotiations.
Step 3: Use step 2 to keep American wages flat or falling.
Step 4: Merge with enemies and then cut heads (and raise prices)
These plans are why unemployment is up and wages are flat for the first time since the great depression.(wages are down for women and minorities)
These guys are all mega corporate whores who don't understand what it's like to live pay day to pay day.
Romney said in a speech recently that he sees the economy falling and he thinks about what stocks he should buy.
Is this a guy that understands what you and I deal with from day to day?
Not even close.
Romney is by far the worst candidate for fixing the economy.
McCain is equally as bad but I give him a slight edge because he at least realized back in 2002 that the Republican tax rebate (bribe the voters at the cost of their childrens taxes going up) was stupid as well as how top heavy the the Bush tax cuts in 2002 and 2003 were.
Tax cuts will not, have not and do not create jobs.
Demand and demand solely creates jobs.
Look at the Clinton years, demand for US products were high, consumer confidence was high and the US dollar was so strong that no CEO's or corporations were whining about high taxes (that GHW Bush put into place prior to Clinton) companies were hiring, giving nice raises, people were spending their money and the economy was through the roof and the middle was getting fatter and with that the bottom was getting pulled upwards.
Right wingers like to say the "glory years of Clinton" was all because of the internet boom but that's not true at all. The internet and companies related only accounted for 11% of job growth from 1992 to 1999.
PS: Right wingers also like to tell the lie that "AL Gore said he invented the internet." What Al Gore did (and said) is that he pushed the Congress to adopt funding to get the internet out into the public as a tool for job creation. He didn't like that it was only being used by our Government. He looked outside the box and look what we have today.
So on one hand they use the internet as an excuse for a good sound economy for all those years but then they use the very same arguement against Al Gore when he ran for President.
Do you see how they play this game? And the media allows them to play the game and the media repeats it over and over.
Back on point......
But if you create massive federal expenses with limited income (tax cuts) you must borrow which creates massive federal debt and combine that with massive tux cuts mostly for the top it equals gigantic revenue losses for the feds and you end up with a falling dollar like we've seen now for years which snowballs into what we are just starting to see.
Believe me, this is only the tip of the iceberg. We are facing a great depression type scenario and no candidate can stop that train from crashing.
Our banks were minutes from shutting their doors last month and think about how many people have direct deposit. When a company files for bankruptcy (think Enron) guess what? You can't have access to your money even the check you haven't recieved is protected under federal bankruptcy laws when a bank files.
Think about the chaos that this will cause.
Democrats pushed hard to bail out people which would then help the banks but Republicans in Congress stuck together and would only approve a deal if it was directly pointed to helping banks, so the feds pumped $130 billion into banks in the past couple of months and it barely even made a dent in the problem.
Guess who stopped the US banking collapse from already happening?
Saudi Arabia and Dubai.
They now own a third of the major US banks and all of them that they didn't buy (does Countrywide ring a bell) are going to crash and burn bigtime.
The falling dollar and lack of confidence in an economy or the dollar equates to inflation. Again, we haven't even seen the tip of the iceberg with inflation.
Let me give you an example of something that is probable according to the GAO. Not possible but probable.
If we take the wrong measures of renegotiating our trade deals with China and we make them angry they could threaten to want their money for their bonds ($3 trillion which equals 37% of our entire federal debt) and we would have to default because we don't have any money and our dollar would fall 70% in one minute.
Think about having to pay 70% more for everything AND posessing a dollar that is worth 70% less than it was.
This is something America has never seen and the GAO which is the only honest oversight agency now in our Government says that this scenario is probable. This is exactly WHY they are pushing Bush hard to get our National Guard back from Iraq right now to protect banks and farms and to try to stop civil unrest that is sure to happen if our dollar keeps crashing.
Now throw in a heavy dose of horrible trade polices (some of which is Bill Clintons fault) and you end up with where we are at.
and don't forget that Romney has no problem at all with businesses policing themselves which is exactly WHY we have the current housing problems and bank failings among a thousand other things.
They did no federal oversight on banking since 2003 on loans and you saw a heavy dose of irresponsible lending and horrible scenarios like banks lying to people and telling them that they were on 30 year fixed loans when the small print on page 83 said it was a 5 year ARM.
I despise the federal Government as much as anyone but it's naive to think that we can let corporations or industry police themselves.
If they policed themselves they would have created a market for the 45 million Americans walking around with no healthcare.
If they policed themselves we wouldn't see Polar Bears in the actic with record high mercury levels in their fur. Think about how high mercury levels must be near our shores if Polar bears in the arctic circle are getting mercury on their fur. I will never eat another fish as long as I live.
We need certain branches of the Government and we need them to work affectively.
FEMA in regards to Hurricane Katrina was a microcosm of how broken our federal Government is because of this CEO mentality of taking care of corporations at all cost and hope everything else falls into place.
These guys are breaking important branches of our federal Government on purpose so Dems have to try to fix them later on (which usually means higher taxes on everyone) which means talking points for Republicans in next election cycle.
They play a sick and evil game with us and what infuriates me more than anything is that they are playing games with not just us but many generations who have yet to be born.
Right now we are all making interest payments on money that Ronald Reagan borrowed and spent and his spending was tiny compared to this stuff.
Back to broken agencies.....
Look at NASA for example. The corporate wing of the RNC didn't like the comapnies who NASA was contracting so instead of trying to open them up for bids they instead change the entire agenda for NASA. They cut funds for the research on the ISS, cut the Hubble out of play, etc.... Suddenly it was all about going to the Moon again and then onto Mars.
I know top people at NASA. They were scratching their heads wondering why on earth anyone would want to go to Mars. The top dog Sean O'Keefe resigned because of this.
It wasn't about going to Mars, they knew they we'd never go to Mars, it was about moving money around to friends instead of people they didn't know and it was about undermining a solid federal agency.
This goes much deeper than FEMA and NASA, our IRS spends $2 to collect 50 cents, the post office is a huge waste of money, homeland security is a complete joke, and even solid agencies have been gutted like a fish like the EPA which does no oversight on toxins in our water or air anymore or the FDA who no loger does independent studies on new drugs. Now we trust drug company research ONLY.
If an energy company sees no federal oversight then guess what...they stop gathering polution correctly disposibng of it and instead just tosss it anywhere because nobody is looking and profits will go up!
I could go on forever with this stuff but I have to run.
take care.
Those that give up freedom for security deserve neither.
Ben Franklin