GWB is the greatest
 

failure in US presidential history:

Why just highlight the tax cuts when there are so many failures to his credit

Oh, I didn't read the whole article, just the sinppet you highlighted. If I had more patience I'd probably give a deeper response, but it's Friday and I don't feel like arguing on this beautiful spring day. But try me again on Monday, I might have more to say.

The Great Revulsion
By PAUL KRUGMAN

"I have a vision — maybe just a hope — of a great revulsion: a moment in which the American people look at what is happening, realize how their good will and patriotism have been abused, and put a stop to this drive to destroy much of what is best in our country."

I wrote those words three years ago in the introduction to my column collection, "The Great Unraveling." It seemed a remote prospect at the time: Baghdad had just fallen to U.S. troops, and President Bush had a 70 percent approval rating.

Now the great revulsion has arrived. The latest Fox News poll puts Mr. Bush's approval at only 33 percent. According to the polling firm Survey USA, there are only four states in which significantly more people approve of Mr. Bush's performance than disapprove: Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nebraska. If we define red states as states where the public supports Mr. Bush, Red America now has a smaller population than New York City.

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I always wonder how certain peoples lives are so miserable that they can do nothing but bitch, moan and complain continuously about Bush.

Really, give me some details since I'm apparently pretty good at running my fairly happy life and could offer advice...or at least poke fun at what a stupid mess they've made or how they go obsessing over irrevelant things that don't affect them at all.

But I tend to think they're all just as warm, comfortable, safe and well fed as I am and have just adopted a behaviour pattern of constantly crying like cholicky babies.

come on
you can do better than that !

:BD:

Well what are your analogies?

Mazer did a good job with GG's post explaining to Robobaby how the tax cut is more than fair but he still insists on more wailing.

I could explain the deficit as a percentage of GNP to show it isn't so bad but it'd be a waste of time. He doesn't want to discuss things or understand them, he just wants to bawl his stupid little head off like a lot of others.

So

cholicky babies

:B: :TANT: :BRC: ;( :BAW: :BWL:

let's put the tax cuts into perspective: the Iraq war is being financed with borrowed money, which future generations of Americans will have to repay, with interest. meanwhile, the tax cuts, combined with growing entitlement costs are creating an upward spiral of deficits and debt. no one should be getting a tax cut while there is a war to pay for.

You can't go picking out items in the federal budget and saying one thing is financed by borrowing while another isn't. It's all from the same pool of money.


No one should be getting anything that's been forceably taken from its rightful owner, but that's how governments operate. So trying to keep politicians from stealing from future citizens while allowing them to steal from present ones is simply an exercise in warping ethics that ultimately serves no one.


Eventually the whole corrupt system will have to collapse since there aren't enough decent people in government or voters who'll resist the impulse to behave unethically when it serves their selfish interests so well.

This is worth repeating

the underclasses must pay for war in taxes and blood
only the rich are allowed to profit from it ,this is the way it has always been.

"Lest we Forget"