liberalism has failed/we are doomed (ethic, racist, solution, education system)

[butkus51]

Originally Posted by Old Gringo

So, maybe you haven't done so well in the past 25 years.

I've done great. Thank you. Home and vehicles paid for. Nice nest egg. Vacations twice a year. How about you?

[Old Gringo]

Originally Posted by Fleet

Actually, when Bush took office, the economy was heading toward a recession and became a recession by March, 2001.

Kinda stunning how he took that teensy little dot-com recession and transformed into the near depression he left us with when he returned to Texas.

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by Old Gringo

The Reagan era that Pubs look back on so fondly.



It was the other six that were the problem.

Ronny had a lot of give and take, to get what he wanted done.

Really, look when the economy started to tumble in 2007, when Reid and Pelosi took control of the purse.

[Old Gringo]

Originally Posted by butkus51

I've done great. Thank you. Home and vehicles paid for. Nice nest egg. Vacations twice a year.

So, what's got your forehead vein pulsing so hard?

Sounds like you should be a real happy guy, not a malcontent.

How about you?

I'm real close to retirement and doing fine. Still got a few years left on the mortgage, but it's less than 3% interest. And property values here didn't take a nosedive like they did in lots of areas.

[Old Gringo]

Originally Posted by BentBow

Ronny had a lot of give and take, to get what he wanted done.

That's how politics is played when it's based on the national interest.

Just stubbornly blocking progress results in stagnation. Which is where we are now.

Really, look when the economy started to tumble in 2007, when Reid and Pelosi took control of the purse.

Really, they found a huge IOU in that purse and no coinage. Left by the Pubs, who held the purse strings since 1995. And the Pubs have had those purse strings back in their hands for more than two years. Haven't done anything but try to leverage it against the prez. Hasn't worked too well.

[butkus51]

Originally Posted by Old Gringo

So, what's got your forehead vein pulsing so hard?

Sounds like you should be a real happy guy, not a malcontent.




I'm real close to retirement and doing fine. Still got a few years left on the mortgage, but it's less than 3% interest. And property values here didn't take a nosedive like they did in lots of areas.

So what's that tear running down your cheek? Sounds like you're not used to being dismantled in debate. I'll break you in real slow kid. I know you live in an insulated and pollyannic existence where everyone is a leftist bobblehead. Got a news flash for ya. People do have opinions that you will not approve of. And if you whizz your Depends every time you hear something that makes your arse pucker up, you need to avoid political forums. Now, you want a Kleenex?

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by Old Gringo

That's how politics is played when it's based on the national interest.

Just stubbornly blocking progress results in stagnation. Which is where we are now.



Really, they found a huge IOU in that purse and no coinage. Left by the Pubs, who held the purse strings since 1995. And the Pubs have had those purse strings back in their hands for more than two years. Haven't done anything but try to leverage it against the prez. Hasn't worked too well.

600 billion IOU(once tarp was paid back with interest.)

So they wrote more IOU's totaling 16 trillion. That make sense.
Adding 4 trillion a year, to that, is your justification???


For the last 2 years a stop has been place on the credit cards and the Congress(both senate and house) hold the purse. Reid wants more spending and more taxing. Bohner wants less spending(still spending though) and less taxing.

Stalemate!

[scarabchuck]

Originally Posted by butkus51

After the fifty years of unchecked liberalism it is safe to say we are doomed. Writing checks with no hope of making good on them, pitting people against each other by class, race, gender, religion and ethnicity have finally taken their toll. The master plan of the left has always been to divide and conquer. That as well as creating a dependency society hell-bent on creating addicts to social heroin i.e.,the govt trough. It has led people to believe in a 'Bizarro World' of sorts. What once was considered unacceptable is now the norm.
If you are a minority then you are automatically a victim.
If you are out of work it is because some rich person put you there.
If you make a profit you are made out to be 'evil' and 'greedy'.
If you are Christian then you are to be mocked and ridiculed.
If you disagree with someone you 'hate' them.
Feel free to add to the list as you see fit.

Well we are only doomed if we don't follow the flock of sheeple. Everyday I wonder if I could just get a lobotomy and wake up one of the sheep.. it would be so much easier than to deal with what is going on in our country.

Here is another example of the idiocracy that is going on in our country:

In the name of diversity City Recruits Minority Lifeguards Even if They Can’t Swim

[BentBow]

Originally Posted by scarabchuck

Here is another example of the idiocracy that is going on in our country:

In the name of diversity City Recruits Minority Lifeguards Even if They Can’t Swim

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy Crap.

[butkus51]

Originally Posted by scarabchuck

Here is another example of the idiocracy that is going on in our country:

In the name of diversity City Recruits Minority Lifeguards Even if They Can’t Swim

And you'll have the leftoids defend this by saying something stupid like "well if it saves one life it is worth it". Screw the 100 other people who drowned.