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| It took the Bush administration more than a few weeks to make this financial mess. We should allow the Obama administration more than a few weeks to clean it up. | Add / Read Comments |
| Having a black president doesn't mean that white people shouldn't have to pay their taxes. | Add / Read Comments |
| 2003 was a record setting year for personal bankruptcies and personal debt. 2004 was even worse, and in 2005 barkruptcy rates continue to rise. | Add / Read Comments |
| Goldman Sachs purportedly made $15 million trading in subprime mortgage securities. The SEC fined it half million dollars. What kind of signal does that send??? | Add / Read Comments |
| Sarah Palin (or any Alaskan for that matter) complaining about federal spending is an exercise in hypocrisy. | Add / Read Comments |
| The current economic crisis is just the latest iteration of the boom-and-bust cycle that can be observed in any historical analysis. | Add / Read Comments |
| One third of the "Obama Stimulus Package" was tax cuts for the middle class. | Add / Read Comments |
| The stimulus DID work. The hemorrhaging of jobs during the end of the Bush years has been stanched. The economy is now creating jobs. Had the stimulus bill been larger, job growth might well have been more robust. | Add / Read Comments |
| Republican-speak: "Live within our means" Translation: "Further contract the economy" |
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| The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) that bailed out the big Wall Street banks was passed under Bush, NOT under Obama. Is this country suffering from collective amnesia???
Also, the Obama stimulus plan was actually the second stimulus plan. Doesn't anybody remember the $500 checks that we all got from Bush? |
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| The deficit reduction plan proposed by the Bowles-Simpson commission is not a serious proposal. | Add / Read Comments |
| Why would anyone want to retain the Bush era tax structure instead of returning to the Clinton era tax structure? Or the Bush era anything for that matter? Doesn't anyone remember the 90's? | Add / Read Comments |
| The recent Republican bluff over shutting down the government had nothing to do with balancing the budget. The real intent was to redirect money away from working people to the military-industrial-complex. | Add / Read Comments |
| Standard & Poor's was a co-conspirator in the mortgage scheme. They took money from the big banks and then rated the junk securities the banks created from liar loans as safe investments. They shouldn't be taken seriously. At the very least they should be heavily regulated. More probably they should be indited. | Add / Read Comments |
| The recent debt reduction bill created a "super congress" committee of 12 that has been assigned to come up with over $1 trillion in spending cuts. If they fail, a provision in the bill will trigger automatic spending cuts of over $1 trillion. The whole thing is just theater. | Add / Read Comments |
| Want to see what it looks like when government is run like a business? Look at Ireland, Greece and Spain. | Add / Read Comments |
| Since President Obama took office, domestic oil production has increased while foreign oil imports have decreased. Oil prices are up because of the increase in global demand and because of market speculation. | Add / Read Comments |
| Republicans praise Ronald Reagan as the greatest modern American president, while in the next breath they bloviate about how the federal debt is the worst problem facing America. What they seem to forget is that Ronald Reagan was the father of the modern federal debt. | Add / Read Comments |
| Yes, America is better off than it was four years ago. | Add / Read Comments |
| It took Clinton 12 years to clean up Reagan's mess. Could we really have expected Obama to clean up Bush's (much bigger) mess in 4 years? (And if he fails, is the best strategy really to bring back the Bush team?) | Add / Read Comments |
| Paul Ryan is not really a "numbers guy," he just plays one on TV. | Add / Read Comments |
| Trump inherited a healthy economy from Obama. How long will it take him to break it? | Add / Read Comments |
| The irresponsible fiscal policies of the Republican led government decrease the value of the dollar abroad, which makes it more expensive for Americans to travel. | Add / Read Comments |
| Bush doesn't want a solution to global warming that devastates the American economy. His tax cutting plan has already attended to that. Now all he needs is a global warming strategy that devastates the environment. | Add / Read Comments |
| Drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will not solve our dependency on foreign oil. We must NEVER give the oil companies a chance to do to ANWR what they did to Prince William Sound in 1989. | Add / Read Comments |
| There is no "free" market. | Add / Read Comments |
| The solution to the globalization crisis in the developed world is not for labor to concede to wage, insurance and pension cuts, but rather for management to reform itself so that it is nimble enough to respond quickly to the changing demands of the marketplace. | Add / Read Comments |
| Tax simplification and flat tax are not the same thing. Tax Simplification: good. Flat tax: bad. | Add / Read Comments |
| The fundamental problem underlying the current financial situation is that our economy is built on federal borrowing and consumer debt. The proposed solution is to borrow $700 billion and ram it into the banking system so that Americans can borrow it from the banks. What's wrong with this picture? | Add / Read Comments |
| Giving a tax cut is not a great accomplishment. Balancing the budget so you CAN give a tax cut is a great accomplishment. | Add / Read Comments |
| Bush is not imitating the tax policies of President Kennedy when he cuts taxes. | Add / Read Comments |
| The current federal debt that the current administration is incurring in our name is forcing the U.S. to borrow billion dollars a week, and about half of that comes from foreign entities. | Add / Read Comments |
| You can’t borrow your way out of debt. | Add / Read Comments |
| The 2006 federal budget trotted out by the administration in February 2005 that is supposed to eliminate the federal deficit in 4 years actually increases spending by 8%. | Add / Read Comments |
| Bush administration (and Republican led Congress) incompetence is quantified as US deficit hits record $413 billion. | Add / Read Comments |
| Under the Bush administration's leadership, the U.S. trade deficit continues to set new records. | Add / Read Comments |
| Dick (The man who puts the "vice" in the Vice-Presidency) Cheney speaks, SpinShield responds… | Add / Read Comments |
| While the Bush administration trots out cheery economic numbers, Americans feel the pinch of the real economy. | Add / Read Comments |
| The Bush administrations contention that the economy is improving is simply not true for average Americans, and they bear a substantial amount of responsibility for the current economic slump. | Add / Read Comments |
| Elderly Americans pay for a record increase in Medicare benefits while Bush continues to tout extending tax cuts for the elites. | Add / Read Comments |
| A life with inherited wealth has given Bush a sense of entitlement which makes him unable to see the problem with spending taxpayer money without restraint while at the same time insisting (via tax cuts) that the bill doesn't have to be paid. | Add / Read Comments |
| The 2001 "energy crisis" in California manufactured by Dick Cheney and Enron CEO Ken Lay that cheated millions out of electricity rate payers in California was just the warm-up for the record setting gasoline prices of 2004. Again, someone is getting very rich at the expense of consumers. | Add / Read Comments |
| The people who produce the goods and services should receive the lion’s share of the profits those goods and services generate. Investors are due what remains. | Add / Read Comments |
| Increases in the minimum wage should be tied to congressional pay raises. | Add / Read Comments |
| The people that make the most money are not necessarily society's "most productive members." | Add / Read Comments |
| The Republican strategy is to "shrink the size of government until we can drown it in a bathtub." The result will be the opportunity to privatize services currently provided by government so that they generate more profit for investors and less services for citizens. | Add / Read Comments |
| The Republicans real ambition is to shrink the middle class until it's small enough to drown in New Orleans. | Add / Read Comments |
| A small businessman would rather his customers had money than his lenders. | Add / Read Comments |
| Republicans are quick to praise the virtues of the free market and to deride government handouts until their corporate contributors (or colleagues) want government money. | Add / Read Comments |
| Bush seeks to balance the federal budget on the backs of poor children, old folks and the handicapped, while eliminating taxes on investment income and estates that billionaires pay and spending $622 billion on the military (over $2000 for every man, woman and child in America), much of which goes to contractors that donate to the Republican party. How much greed is enough? | Add / Read Comments |
| Slavery in America never really went away. | Add / Read Comments |
| Current free trade agreements between the United States and its trading partners have initiated a "race to the bottom" of the wage scale. | Add / Read Comments |
| The stock market reaches record highs while corporations cut back or eliminate pension funds. Once again, as the Republican government sits idly by, money earned by American workers is redirected from those workers to the idle rich. | Add / Read Comments |
| Irony Republicans have just pushed through a bankruptcy bill designed to punish people who accrue irresponsible debt. These are the same Republicans that are borrowing over one billion dollars PER DAY to keep the federal government running. Irony here, anyone? |
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| Republican policies encourage corporations to set up off shore tax dodge schemes to avoid paying taxes. Working people pay higher taxes to make up the difference. | Add / Read Comments |
| If the current crop of trade agreements create more jobs in America than they send overseas, then why are we over a million jobs in the red during the last three and a half years? Who's doing that math?!? | Add / Read Comments |
| When Republicans say they want to pay for Katrina reconstruction with "off-sets" (spending cuts) they are lying. They want to pay for it by borrowing. (The cuts they do recommend will come at the expense of the working and middle classes.) | Add / Read Comments |
| The Bush economic policy has hurt the middle class while it benefits the elites. | Add / Read Comments |
| Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Tx) perpetuated the standard Republican lie on the Senate floor in early August 2006 with her comment regarding the estate tax. | Add / Read Comments |
| The policies of the Democratic Party benefit working people, while the policies of the Republican Party benefit the "investor class." | Add / Read Comments |
| Offshoring American jobs is bad for American workers. | Add / Read Comments |