You mean when the cold war ended? Yup, training the Afghanis
to fight the Soviets sure paid a dividend- and his name is Osama. How much have we spent on terrorism since 9/11? Yup, Reagan sure saved us a lot of money (snerk!)

Saying Reagan ended the cold war brands Sven as sadly misinformed.

And what of all the off-budget spending for the military that you never once mentioned?

Another proponent of voodoo economics. Been there, done that, and Reagan left office with a debt larger that all previous presidents combined. Leave the corporate rate where it is, raise the SSI cap, and make the wealthy pay on every dollar earned, like the rest of us. I’m sure this sentiment will brand me either as unserious, or unschooled, in Svedburg’s eyes – but so what? His scheme is one that’s already failed in the past.

Now that’s just plain redundant.

Whats your point? Are you implying that razor thin profit margins are a threat to oil companies like they have been to so many airlines?

hahahahaha. hahahahaha. right dude….blowing billions of dollars on fraudulent poorly performed construction in a country thats now giving VIP welcomes to heads of state from Iran is about as much of an investment in “america’s future” as me blowing my inheritance on strippers is an “investment in my future”. if we were investing the money in our own infrastructure the argument may hold some water, but as it is, all we’re doing with that money is giving an unfriendly foreign government a safe base to expand its polticial power. remind me when the last time an iranian head of state visited iraq before we invaded? would you beleive our own heads of state had more frequent welcomes in the old iraq?

Don’t “immoral greed” amd “wholesale thievery” ring a bell? Your foolish rightwing rants are sick, as are your theories. all bullshit covered with dung. Record profits are record profits; billions are billions. Y*ou can go on and on about “margins” if you like, but real working people are being savaged by the ultra-rich, and you are justifying it with schoolboy ignorance.

And if I’m not mistaken, wooofie got his start at the time of Nicole & Ron’s murder.
His presentation hasn’t gotten any better either.
Soon he’ll have nothing to report but the details of britney’s latest meltdown.

We can start by having a real, open, and public dialogue about the ghastly shortcomings of our current tax collection system and how a more pro-growth approach to funding the Federal (as well as state and local) governments will relieve unecessary burden on the business and research communities to create wealth and keep it within our shores. Our trading partners in Europe laugh at how we incur unecessary imbedded taxes into our products, even before we export them to countries with more growth-friendly tax structures, thereby killing our products in foreign markets. Cutting the corporate tax rate has been a boom to the economy of Ireland, which has jumped into the lead among EU members after being the laughingstock for so long.

One more thing, arctic monkey. I’m willing to bet you’re upset about the record profits the oil companies have been reporting. But are you familiar with the difference between “profit” and “profit margin”? If you are, you wouldn’t be so upset. What about “supply and demand” ring a bell?

-We won’t need ” LUCK ” as Lindsey offers to “make McCain into GW “.——–MCCAIN IS DOING THAT HIMSELF !!!!

-But let us take what Lindsey suggests, ” McCain is a complete introvert “, ” His OWN guy”, “Rugged individualist” (completely dependent on the GOP & Americans for our votes).

Exactly how does that play for the rest of America if he is self absorbed as President?

His own man, That depends on voters to get to the Presidency. Rugged individualist that drew his income from taxpayers his entire life. had to marry wealth instead of creating his own?

“His own man, ” my arse “. Sorry we live in a society. Basically that makes ole John a socialist.

He’s still a republican. You are too. Republicans have screwed this country sideways the last 8 years. Good luck with that, shithead.

http://www.optimist123.com/optimist/2007/05/its_productivit.html

I’m not saying that Jorge Bush is the best example of someone with good economic policy to maximize the debt-to-GDP ratio, but our policies today seem much more logical than trying to have more Federal playcalling in the market (Clinton) or raising taxes further on production (Obama and Clinton, especially Obama). Obama realizes that his tax policy will most likely result in less taxes collected, but he still persues a policy of wealth envy and class warfare, why?

Also, those who say “America used to be the world’s largest creditor, now we’re the largest debtor.” I’d like to know who told you that, or what your criteria for being a debtor or a creditor is. After WW2, the public debt-to-GDP ratio was over 120%, while today it is less than 40%. Keep in mind that is public debt, not all debt, and public debt is often considered a better indicator of whether or not the government is insuing too much debt. As far as being the worlds largest debtor, that may be because we have so much freakin money. Our debt-to-GDP ratio puts us in similar company of S. Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan (countries many of you probably think are creditors). That’s from the CIA factbook, sorry the link isn’t pasting correctly.

Oh, I see the difference . . . in a geographical sort of way.

COOPER: Senator McCain, are Americans better off than they were eight years ago?

MCCAIN: I think you could argue that Americans overall are better off, because we have had a pretty good prosperous time, with low unemployment and low inflation and a lot of good things have happened. A lot of jobs have been created.

What’s John been smoking?

May 4th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
I like that! “sneaky curmudgeons”. Fits well! The silence from them about Hillary is deafening! Considering the number of people in this country that are seriously against anything sexual or having to do with “extra curricular” activities while married, can you imagine what the swiftboaters will do with this:

Gennifer Flowers quoted her lover, Bill Clinton, colorfully, with respect to Hillary’s experience in performing oral sex on women on page 42 of her book, Passion and Betrayal. In the book, Bill Clinton said to Flowers, “She [Hillary] has probably eaten more p**** than I have”

The wingnuts can spin gold out of hay. Here, if true, Hillary is bisexual as well as both she and Bill are Polyamorous! (Loving more than one person at the same time.) Boy, the poison emails will be shooting all over the internet. What a boon to keep the straying evangelicals in the fold!