Date: June 1st, 2012 9:36 AM Author: frum canary national goal in life
Romney just doesn't have anything to sell. if unemployment goes really high and things totally collapse, he could win. but otherwise, nobody buys that CUT TAXES LET DA JOB CREATORS DO WUT DEY DO will solve our problems. so Obama by default.
Date: June 1st, 2012 9:39 AM Author: multi-colored alcoholic piazza
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Romney just doesn't have anything to sell. if unemployment goes really high and things totally collapse, he could win. but otherwise, nobody buys that CUT TAXES LET DA JOB CREATORS DO WUT DEY DO will solve our problems. so Obama by default.
Date: June 1st, 2012 10:32 AM Author: charismatic mediation
right, it would be ridiculous to have someone there who has a truly top-tier understanding of what drives growth businesses and what makes large employers tick. let's just keep organizing the community since that seems to be working so well.
Date: June 1st, 2012 10:36 AM Author: frum canary national goal in life
Romney would do little that is substantively different from what Obama is doing, which is substantively not that different from what Bush would have done.
the United States is not a chain of Staples stores. Romney does not have some magic plan in his back pocket that will solve the problems we have, which are complex and deeply systemic.
Date: June 1st, 2012 10:39 AM Author: charismatic mediation
yeah, i actually kind of agree with all this. still, do you really think obama has a stronger grasp on the principles at work here? if not, why mock romney's qualifications?
Date: June 1st, 2012 10:41 AM Author: marvelous lay
you are monstrously stupid. obama has spent the last two years telling everybody who will listen that he wants to raise taxes to crushing levels, effectively nationalize several sectors of the economy, ban any energy development that doesnt meet the demands of envrionmental whackjobs, keep subsidizing bullshit green jerb industries, keep spending and deficit records at ludicrous highs, and do nothing about the impending crisis that we face because of all our different SPS social programs. and romney wouldnt be substantively different. gas yourself you pathetic fucking piece of shit.
Date: June 1st, 2012 10:48 AM Author: charismatic mediation
brother, he basically created one of the most successful vc/pe funds on the planet. even fucking clinton claims his credentials are "sterling." what actions of his do you think indicate a poor understanding of the way businesses are run?
pretty much back to clinton's policies? what like ending welfare? abiding by a paygo that doesn't exempt every union or identity-based special interest group under the sun? the only thing obama has been decent on is free trade.
and clinton operated under both a gop-controlled house and senate. and that didn't stop him. the sad fact is, obama doesn't inspire trust or confidence in anyone other than huffpo blog readers.
Date: June 1st, 2012 2:40 PM Author: appetizing awkward locus
dont be an ass. Obama wants to go back to Clinton tax rates, has similar ideas re investment in emerging tech, high speed rail, same trade and foreign policy. The only think Obama has stray on is HCR (clinton wanted single payer), DOMA and DADT.
Obama would love to have Clinton's congress right now.
clinton had the political will to tax a bull economy. taxing a recessionary economy would be dropping the atomic bomb. if you worked for a living, you would see how much it sucks to have that paycheck raped every month just so some bureaucrat can get a raise or glbt seniors can get a new rec center tricked out with computers
Date: June 1st, 2012 10:29 AM Author: marvelous lay
lol faggot - america has very little exposure to the global economy at this stage and job #s have been declining for three months, which is from well before this latest round of euro shit began. gas yourself fanboi.
Date: June 1st, 2012 10:33 AM Author: marvelous lay
american banks have very little exposure to shitty greek/spanish etc. sovereign debt. if those countries crash, american banks wont go into a tailspin (but will likely suffer secondary effects in the weeks and months after). gas yourself for being so stupid.
Date: June 1st, 2012 10:38 AM Author: arousing thirsty menage telephone
not talking about financial risk. american businesses are very much exposed to international markets. multinationals like apple, coca cola, mcdonalds, etc earn a significant portion of revenues from abroad.
Date: June 1st, 2012 11:03 AM Author: marvelous lay
where did i say the US is not affected by this you faggot. demonstrate to me how US JOB GROWTH is affected by global economic drivers in the short term faggot.
Date: June 1st, 2012 10:47 AM Author: Wonderful university milk
Together the Eurozone economy is about as large if not larger than the American economy. You'd have to be a retard to think that a recession there would have no effect on the US and the rest of the global economy.
Date: June 1st, 2012 10:54 AM Author: Wonderful university milk
Nothing you have said makes any sense. The euro troubles have been occuring for more than just a few months. Your attempt to characterize Euro problems as having only minor "secondary effects" is similarly retarded.
Date: June 1st, 2012 11:04 AM Author: marvelous lay
what are you babbling about faggot? i didnt edit shit. i'm sorry your hero is about to get some mormon dick up his america-hating anus but you dont need to take your anger out on me.
Date: June 1st, 2012 10:44 AM Author: appetizing awkward locus
This is what is so infuriating with conservatards. "God awful"? Really. You can make a case for "average" maybe, "mediocre", perhaps. But why the need for this its-the-end-of-America as we know it hyperbole?
The global economy has been fuct since 2008. We can argue about why and what to do but divided gov since 2010 has ensured that NO SINGLE PIECE OF DOMESTIC POLICY gets enacted till 2013. So economically, this country has been on autopilot since the GOP got the House. Add to that austerity at the state house level and this is what you get, economic doldrums until somebody wins in Nov and gets to get all the credit when a real recover kicks in (assuming the GOP doesnt sabotage it yet again).
Date: June 1st, 2012 11:41 AM Author: odious flesh cuckoldry marketing idea
Obama was elected under a sense of crisis and his party controlled the Senate and House.
Obama could have made it his top priority to work on the economy and jobs. He could have put the interests of all Americans first. He didn't.
Instead, he chose to use the crisis for partisan ends, to spend the enormous stimulus on things that would have no impact on jobs, to wrest power from the market and our private lives and put that power in the federal government. Obama wanted to be a new Reagan or new FDR. He put himself first.
Date: June 1st, 2012 11:48 AM Author: razzle-dazzle amethyst home quadroon
it must really bother you that krugman has been right all this time about the stimulus not being big enough, and that being mostly republicans fault, huh? Did you know the stimulus was mostly tax cuts? Wait- what?? Your beloved tax cuts didn't stimulate job growth? Mind blown.
Date: June 1st, 2012 11:56 AM Author: odious flesh cuckoldry marketing idea
Way back when Krugman started his schtick, I realized that Krugman knew the stimulus wouldn't work and so he was looking for the exit. It was obvious years ago.
what exactly should he have spent the stimulus on that would have an effect on jobs? for the record, over half the stimulus was used for tax breaks, unemployment and medicare/medicaid/food stamps/social security (mandatory spending).
Date: June 1st, 2012 2:35 PM Author: cordovan motley office love of her life
times have changed since reagan and Bush 1. Polarization of politics is good for Democrats on the national scale. They'll never get blown out again. They'll always win their big states.
The people voted for Gore, so for this debate that's all that matters. (who the people of America actually favor nationally)