OMNIVOROUS FROG
EOG Master
He says if we don't act on his ineffective Bill, we are in huge trouble. And this is no scare tactic. From the Washington Pot he titled it, "The Action Americans Need." He should have titled it "Were fucked no matter what." And just like I said, the price for this gigantic boondoggle is climbing. Up to 920 billion now, almost a trillion, but who's counting. What did he have to say? This is the most accurate thing I have heard from the great empty suited orator in years.
"This recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse,"
No kidding, and it took you how log to figure that out? Just substitute the may to will. And I think that point has already passed. Uncle Sam and us should be in the soup line soon. With a tin cup to wander around the world asking for handouts from all the countries that hate us.
But we Americans are great, we figure out crap eventually, even with all of the media spin.
Do you think the country could plunge into an irreversible recession?
<TABLE class=poll_answer cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR class=poll_row_1><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">
Yes
</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">52% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_0><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">No</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">35% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_1><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">I'm not sure</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">13%</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
How would you rate Obama's handling of the economic crisis since taking office?
<TABLE class=poll_answer cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR class=poll_row_1><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">
Poor
</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">35% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_0><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">Fair</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">24% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_1><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">Good</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">24% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_0><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">Excellent</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">17% </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
What's your take on the stimulus bill?
<TABLE class=poll_answer cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR class=poll_row_1><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">I'm against it</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">54% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_0><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">I'm for it</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">46% </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
How much faith do you have in Obama's ability to fix the economy?
<TABLE class=poll_answer cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR class=poll_row_1><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">None at all</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">42% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_0><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">A little</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">33% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_1><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">A lot</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">25% </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
So much for the bright and shiny change. The knight in shining armor is already tarnished. And over half of us think we peaked. I'm with that half. We have seen the best there was to see. And it is all downhill from here. Maybe fast, maybe slow, but downhill in the mother of all recesions, the economic tsunami that wiped out almost everyone. Irreversible as in, a one way trip down poverty lane.
Now doc's overwhelming majority is a minority. People understand this bill as written won't work, and it might not work even if written perfectly. And Frog's ye of little faith is now the majority also. I don't think Obama has a prayer. I did not before he was elected, and I really don't now that I have seen him in inaction.
You will get the few give him time, or you just want him to fail. Bullshit! We don't have any time left, even he admits that. I think the clock has already struck the midnight hour. And when everyone wakes up nothing will be as it is or was. I think the real downer or eye opener has been how totally ineffective that first 350 billion was in the other help out our rich buddies program. It did not even slowdown the crisis.
But someone actually woke up and said, the bill is crap, upgrading our failing government, making it more modern, bigger and way more expensive is not the answer. Fix housing. The latest add is just that. Which in my opinion is all it should be. Housing, infrastructure and more jobs. The rest is a gigantic portion of pork. And pork to be consumed by government agencies. They get fat while the taxpayers who pay for it starve. Can't blame G Dub for that. This is Obama's answer to it, and that is not the answer. No wonder so many have lost faith.
Those no good Republicans got a 19 billion dollar add. Just for the housing industry. So we had a bill for 900 billion without that help? I never thought I would ever say this, but the Republicans actually look like they want to undo the mess they made over the last 8 years. Too late but at least they are trying to hit the bullseye instead of a shotgun approach. We need to help that industry first. At the same time create jobs, and help the average consumer to get back to spend. Our economic model of consumerism is fairly simple. Doomed to fail, but simple. If we don't build houses, it all falls apart. If people don't spend, it falls apart.
Me personally, normally the eternal optimist, has fallen to the dark side of Diogenes school of cynic. Sadly I have very good reason to be cynical. Our model of democracy was usurped by greedy capitalist pigs. Pigs that suffered from overexcess, greed to the point of gluttony. That gambled away our countries greatness. and my kids, thier kids, thier kids, maybe 5 generations worth. Or maybe the show is over. And another peak bites th edust. First oil, now economic. We are screwed.
Best Wishes...OF :+waving-5
"This recession might linger for years. Our economy will lose 5 million more jobs. Unemployment will approach double digits. Our nation will sink deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse,"
No kidding, and it took you how log to figure that out? Just substitute the may to will. And I think that point has already passed. Uncle Sam and us should be in the soup line soon. With a tin cup to wander around the world asking for handouts from all the countries that hate us.
But we Americans are great, we figure out crap eventually, even with all of the media spin.
Do you think the country could plunge into an irreversible recession?
<TABLE class=poll_answer cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR class=poll_row_1><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">
Yes
</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">52% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_0><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">No</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">35% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_1><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">I'm not sure</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">13%</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
How would you rate Obama's handling of the economic crisis since taking office?
<TABLE class=poll_answer cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR class=poll_row_1><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">
Poor
</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">35% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_0><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">Fair</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">24% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_1><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">Good</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">24% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_0><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">Excellent</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">17% </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
What's your take on the stimulus bill?
<TABLE class=poll_answer cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR class=poll_row_1><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">I'm against it</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">54% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_0><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">I'm for it</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">46% </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
How much faith do you have in Obama's ability to fix the economy?
<TABLE class=poll_answer cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 border=0><TBODY><TR class=poll_row_1><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">None at all</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">42% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_0><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">A little</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">33% </TD></TR><TR class=poll_row_1><TD class="poll_answer_td poll_text_2">A lot</TD><TD class="poll_answer_td_2 poll_text_1">25% </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
So much for the bright and shiny change. The knight in shining armor is already tarnished. And over half of us think we peaked. I'm with that half. We have seen the best there was to see. And it is all downhill from here. Maybe fast, maybe slow, but downhill in the mother of all recesions, the economic tsunami that wiped out almost everyone. Irreversible as in, a one way trip down poverty lane.
Now doc's overwhelming majority is a minority. People understand this bill as written won't work, and it might not work even if written perfectly. And Frog's ye of little faith is now the majority also. I don't think Obama has a prayer. I did not before he was elected, and I really don't now that I have seen him in inaction.
You will get the few give him time, or you just want him to fail. Bullshit! We don't have any time left, even he admits that. I think the clock has already struck the midnight hour. And when everyone wakes up nothing will be as it is or was. I think the real downer or eye opener has been how totally ineffective that first 350 billion was in the other help out our rich buddies program. It did not even slowdown the crisis.
But someone actually woke up and said, the bill is crap, upgrading our failing government, making it more modern, bigger and way more expensive is not the answer. Fix housing. The latest add is just that. Which in my opinion is all it should be. Housing, infrastructure and more jobs. The rest is a gigantic portion of pork. And pork to be consumed by government agencies. They get fat while the taxpayers who pay for it starve. Can't blame G Dub for that. This is Obama's answer to it, and that is not the answer. No wonder so many have lost faith.
Those no good Republicans got a 19 billion dollar add. Just for the housing industry. So we had a bill for 900 billion without that help? I never thought I would ever say this, but the Republicans actually look like they want to undo the mess they made over the last 8 years. Too late but at least they are trying to hit the bullseye instead of a shotgun approach. We need to help that industry first. At the same time create jobs, and help the average consumer to get back to spend. Our economic model of consumerism is fairly simple. Doomed to fail, but simple. If we don't build houses, it all falls apart. If people don't spend, it falls apart.
Me personally, normally the eternal optimist, has fallen to the dark side of Diogenes school of cynic. Sadly I have very good reason to be cynical. Our model of democracy was usurped by greedy capitalist pigs. Pigs that suffered from overexcess, greed to the point of gluttony. That gambled away our countries greatness. and my kids, thier kids, thier kids, maybe 5 generations worth. Or maybe the show is over. And another peak bites th edust. First oil, now economic. We are screwed.
Best Wishes...OF :+waving-5