* If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?
If George W. Bush had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?
If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?
If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the fourth of May (Cuatro de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?
If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word advice would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?
If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?
If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?
If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans , would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?
If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?
If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?
So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive?
Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry. He’s done all this in 5 months — so you’ll have three years and seven months to come up with an answer.
* Just want to keep my friends at POLS up to date on the latest grass roots e-mail. Love- NEWSMAN.
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We do miss you though NEWSMAN. Post more real stuff, and fewer chain e-mails.
so I get it a month later.
I see you guys are still making the world safe for “Democrat-icy”.
Greetings to all.
Haners and I may have hung up our keyboards, but we check back on you guys once in a blue moon to see if QD has gone straight, or if Libertad has come out of the closet.
Best Wishes from CD-5, the island of sanity in the sea of blue.
NEWSMAN
I was being serious too. And please tell Haners I said hi next time you see or talk to him.
ONE OF THE BEST EXPLANATIONS OF WHY OBAMA WON THE ELECTION
From a teacher in the Nashville area
“We are worried about “the cow” when it is all about the “Ice Cream”
The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year.
The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest.
I decided we would have an election for a class president.
We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.
To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members.
We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have.
We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot.
The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids.
I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support.
I had never seen Olivia’s mother.
The day arrived when they were to make their speeches.
Jamie went first.
He had specific ideas about how to make our class a better Place. He ended by promising to do his very best.
Everyone applauded and he sat down.
Now is was Olivia’s turn to speak.
Her speech was concise.
She said, “If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream.”
She sat down.
The class went wild. “Yes! Yes!
We want ice cream.”
She surely would say more. She did not have to.
A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream?
She wasn’t sure.
Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it.
She didn’t know.
The class really didn’t care.
All they were thinking about was ice cream.
Someone said you can’t have ice cream unless someone pays fot it.
The class responded, Yes we can. Yes we can.
Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a landslide.
Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and 52 percent of the people reacted like nine year olds..
They want ice cream.
The other 48 percent know
They’re going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess.”
Remember, the government cannot give anything to anyone —
That they have not first taken away from someone else.
Lets say the government takes away your beer money, and gives it to a poor student for a scholarship. And that student then invents a cheaper way to make beer.
You can then buy more beer with your remaining money than if you had never paid that tax.
That’s what those of us that understand economics call an investment 🙂
You’ve outlined the root of the problem.
This:
is not government’s right. What if he worked hard for that beer money?
And this:
is the fairy tale liberals use to try to justify and sell income redistribution.
Some people are going to be more productive than others. It’s a law of nature.
Equalization of opportunity, not outcome.
Which means free public education through college for all.
We need courts, cops, firemen, the military, and someone to supervise building roads and schools.
It’s the income redistribution where the government shifts from being in its proper role, to trying to equalize a world that is not and never can be “equal”.
It is not Government’s role.
It is NOT the Governments money.
As far as “Free” education from pre K to PHD. (See above.)
There is no such thing as FREE education. We pay if we provide too little, just as well as we pay if we try to provide too much.
Those who are eligible to receive the education are not equal, because human nature does not make us equal.
Some can be doctors, and some are never going to get into medical school no matter what laws you pass, unless you suspend the laws of competition and pay the consequences.
I don’t want my doctor to be a C or D student, do you?
I had to work and pay for mine. Minimum wage for some of it.
How did the President do it?
If so, then you didn’t “pay for [yours].”
If you went to a public university more than half of the cost of paying for your education was paid for by others.
I did go to a public state owned college, and yes I know it was subsidized.
The portion I did pay made me work harder to make that Dean’s list.
I don’t advocate eliminating state funding for higher education, just as I don’t advocate for increasing state funding, especially never would I advocate making it FREE to all. Nothing with the cost in buildings and personnel that generates the overhead that education does should ever be called FREE. Someone is laboring to support it. Either it is the parents, students, or the taxpayers, or currently, a combination of all 3.
Why do we pay 100% of 12th grade but maybe 1/3 of 13th? Especially in today’s world where 99% of the workers need a college degree.
My answer would be that generally speaking, publicly financed education is for the children of our state.
Again generally speaking, you turn 18 in 12th grade, and are then an adult, eligible to work without the restrictions of a minor, eligible for military service, and are responsible for yourself.
In the middle ages you were having kids at 14.
I think what has historically occured is education was free up to the age required for blue collar workers to get skilled jobs. In other words, it was a training program for businesses.
It started off being elementary school, then up to 8th grade, then high school. That is why we have elementary, middle, & high schools.
I think the time has come to add 4 more years.
But it’s interesting that your paying a small proportion for something motivates you.
In contrast, the fact that others were helping me was a motivation for me.
is 4 generations of people dependent upon the government, because taxpayers were forced to give up some of the money they earned to allow the government to give single mothers money for each child they had, so long as there was not a man in the home.
Democrat policies resulted in speeding the destruction of much of the Black family in our inner cities, and creating generational poverty and dependence on government.
But, it was an investment in political power, as those dependent now need the party and its candidates to sustain the political machine that supports the government policies that take more from those according to their abilities (earnings), and give it to those according to their needs.
Sound familiar.
But the fact remains that the richest countries on the planet are all ones with substantial tax burdens.
And the ones with little to no taxes are hellholes like Somalia & Chad.
Taxes are not used perfectly. But in a democracy they tend to be used well and provide a substantial return on investment.
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And yes, if George W. Bush had done all those things or any of those things, I would have called him an idiot. Because regardless of whether he did those things or not, his actions and decisions and policies demonstrated his complete lack of understanding of any major issue. It wasn’t a game, and it wasn’t based on his malapropisms. It was because he truly was clueless about everything.
Except overgrowth. He understood the crap out of clearing brush.
You think the most popular, revered President of the latter 20th century is an idiot, because you think his policies were wrong.
Let me introduce you to facts. These may not be familiar to you because you hang out here in the echo chamber, and actually believe in Government as a benevolent solution to America’s problems.
FACT: When RR took office, after 4 years of Jimmy Carter, unemployment was at the highest level of the last 70 years. (Higher than on Obama’s watch so far.) The Soviet Union was a major superpower that threatened the peace and stability of the world. They had nuclear weapons targeted on my city, where my children live. Inflation was high, and the prime lending rate was well over 10% apr. The top income tax rate was over 70%.(I could go on.)
FACT: Ronald Reagan left office in Jan of 1989. The top tax rate was 28%. Inflation was under control. (I got a 30 year mortgage for under 6.5%.)
And within 24 months, the Berlin wall fell, then the evil empire fell, and when my children went to sleep at night, for the first time in my or their lifetimes, there were no nuclear weapons targeted at my city.
The Reagan Revolution, was followed by the post Reagan Prosperity that lasted for over 10 years after he left office propelled by Republican majorities in congress.
So I say, please for goodness sake, give me, give us, give America another man like Ronald Wilson Reagan.
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wait excuse me
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no for real this time
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Reagan’s policies (and the “Reagan revolution” which put Republicans in charge of the Senate) led to a recession in 1982 and 1983.
Then there was another recession in 1992.
Then a Democratic President was elected, and we didn’t have a recession until another Republican was elected President.
Immediately there was a recession.
Sorry, where was I?
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“A nation that ignores its past is doomed to repeat it.”
The policies that sustained the country in the 1990’s were passed by a congress controlled by Republicans.
was caused by…what? Democratic policies from 1993?
Larry Kudlow
http://www.nationalreview.com/…
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your “Reagan prosperity” by moving across country for a crappy job. When Reagan was elected, there were over 140 union carpenters working (mostly in Vail) out of the Leadville union hall. 8 months later, there were 17 supervisors and foremen left, working with their tools trying to hang on to a job.
You can spout all the revisionist history garbage you like and spout statistics that don’t mean a damned thing to all the guys who got laid off when Reagan started union busting. I was living in Summit county, making a good living as a carpenter until “Ronnie Raygun” was elected. The next three years were a struggle just to get back to where we were before Ronnies’ Republicans free-marketed us into the unemployment lines. I was there. I remember.
If i remember correctly, it actually got worse before congress passed the Reagan Tax cuts.
http://www.house.gov/jec/fisca…
I like how they keep trashing the “Democrat-controlled CBO” because they’re embarrassed by how wrong they are.
… remind me again, what is it about Newsie that you respect? This diary is an excellent example of why I don’t feel that way (substance-free diary, Reagan worship, citation of sources so biased that they have no credibility outside hard right circles).
We all cherry-pick to some extent. But he does not base his views on blind faith and he will concede on clear facts.
No he doesn’t. He doesn’t do ANY of those things. He doesn’t discuss issues, or concede on clear facts, or base his views on anything other than blind faith. You’re thinking of someone else.
because here, on this very thread, I see him actually discussing the issue of higher education with David. There may well be other examples of newsie doing that elsewhere.
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I still have the marks on the wall where I was beating my head against it…JK
I’m just a grouch…