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Now I know those big government types can drone on about the multiplier effect of government spending and bolstering free market businesses with bailout cash, but this editorial gives it to you from the peoples perspective.
http://www.chieftain.com/artic…
Hey someday maybe many more can enjoy the benefits of a welfare state, well except those enjoying state provided Defined Benefit payments.
Yes. The economy is doing FAR better than any economic projection of a year ago foresaw. It is impossible to prove a counterfactual (that the economy would have been doing far worse than it is now without the stimulus spending), but all evidence points to the success, not the failure, of the stimulus spending. It’s main shortcoming was that it was too small (as 2008 Nobel Prize Winning economist Paul Krugman emphatically maintains).
That is the nature of free markets. However, if you talk to bankers they are embarrassed that they have such tight restrictive requirements. These tight requirements are somewhat logical (basic good lending), however they have the prying eyes of the Administration/FDIC/Congress looking down them and a pending commercial real estate problem, in addition to risky home loan portfolios.
They can’t afford to slip up with bad loans or they’ll be put out of business or taken over by someone else. The worse part is it is the small local and regional banks that are at highest risk. Those that lend to local companies vs GM and GE.
Obama-Pelosi promised to create millions of jobs if we let them spend a trillion $ stimulus package. Where are the jobs?
Recovery.gov has been shown by CNN, NYTimes, Fox News, etc… to be a corrupt database filled with inaccurate information.
I’m grateful Colorado has slipped to only 10% unemployment [plus those who have given up]. Its much better then Michigan where the unemployment rate is 14% [really 25%] and they are having to borrow billions from the Federal government to meet unemployment payments.
http://www.google.com/publicda…
for someone to be so completely devoid of the capacity of reason?
So, the rebounding economy, rebounding far faster than all projections a year ago predicted, is proof of the failure of Obama’s fiscal policies?
And, news flash genius, bankers don’t want to be regulated. What do you think got us into this mess in the first place?!
Wow.
….in this case, ‘tad wants a Shoehorn with Teeth. If you’re a They Might Be Giants fan, you’ll get it.
3 million or 10 million jobs created [ah, or saved]
Taxing businesses smal or large will restrict any uptick in employment.
How about broad based across the board tax cuts for businesses. Besides Cap and Trade, Card Check, etc. it is another way to unleash business growth.
He wants a shoehorn, the kind with teeth
People should get beat up for stating their beliefs
He wants a shoehorn, the kind with teeth
Because he knows there’s no such thing
He asks a girl if they can both sit in a chair but he doesn’t get nervous
She’s not really there
He wants a shoehorn, the kind with teeth
Because he knows there’s no such thing!
(lala.com has the whole song for free, but it autoplays.) Actually, I should dedicated this to the National Repub Party – it seems to fit their approach to everything these days…
The Colorado unemployment rate is 6.9% seasonally adjusted and 6.6% non-seasonally-adjusted. At no time in the past year has it come close to 10%.
http://www.coworkforce.com/lmi…
http://tinyurl.com/yachnwj
are the least of his problems. His pseudo-economic assertions, both meaningless in themselves for being couched as absolutes rather than as optima (what is the optimal level of taxation?), and in contradiction to the overwhelming consensus of modern economists (who don’t reject Keynesian economics, which is THE macroeconomic paradigm in the field of economics), would make his proclamations absurd even if every datum offered up were accurate. The guy is a noise machine.
The libertarian method of economic “thought” is to assert rigid normative assumptions as fact and then set about desperately attempting to fabricate data to conform to those assumptions.
It’s disconcerting, though, the degree to which this thoroughly debunked variety of economic thought is still able to drive policy.
… about libertarian/Austrian “methodology” is that it’s so versatile. For instance, you can use it to verify such hypotheses as umbrellas cause rain.
See how more effective information is rather than vilification? Good to see you back on the right track.
You are the one who was in the wrong in that other thread. And you still need to retract your outrageous remarks.
I thought that because, for once in your life, you didn’t post something stupid, I would encourage you to continue in a non stupid way. But I guess a troll can’t change its spots that easily. Until meeting you, I didn’t even know trolls had spots.
resort to saying “ass hat” or anything.
My personal favorite, as we all know.
say fuck again.
Oh wait- I just said fuck again.
Dammit
Am I really that transparent?
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but facts generally don’t accomplish much with him.
Yeah, I typically don’t waste my time arguing with un-persuadable people, but sometimes it’s necessary to debunk their erroneous statements.
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But he’s trying to have a discourse with Libby. That’s like arguing with a stuffed animal with one of those strings coming out the back that says about 3 canned messages.
should skip their Federal bank charter and the federal deposit insurance and just be private investment companies who follow otherwise legal and profitable lending rules.
which questions Obama’s birth, loyalty, etc is for folks to go to the dealership and waste an hour of a salesperson’s time pretending interest in buying a car. Then walk out.
The more people who do it, the more effective it will be.
to make them start to get rather malicious and rude to real customers. It’s actually a fun thing to do. I do it fairly regularly with junk phone calls. First time I did this was with a salesman just off the base in San Diego. They preyed on young sailors to buy jewelry, cars and coffin sized bibles. I’d waste their time, feigning interest and then walk away. Their time with me was time they could not spend hoodwinking some naive person.
…to the Sierra Club hippies that come to my door or the job-killing Environment Colorado petition hustlers at DIA.
are they illegal immigrants taking jobs @ $6/hr that otherwise erstwhile U.S. citizen undergrads could have? Because they speak pretty fluent English to be illegal immigrants.
Bold theft of $1 billion in oil, resold in U.S., has dealt a major blow to the treasury
By Steve Fainaru and William Booth
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, December 13, 2009
MALTRATA, MEXICO — Drug traffickers employing high-tech drills, miles of rubber hose and a fleet of stolen tanker trucks have siphoned more than $1 billion worth of oil from Mexico’s pipelines over the past two years, in a vast and audacious conspiracy that is bleeding the national treasury, according to U.S. and Mexican law enforcement officials and the state-run oil company. Using sophisticated smuggling networks, the traffickers have transported a portion of the pilfered petroleum across the border to sell to U.S. companies, some of which knew that it was stolen, according to court documents and interviews with American officials involved in an expanding investigation of oil services firms in Texas. The widespread theft of Mexico’s most vital national resource by criminal organizations represents a costly new front in President Felipe CalderГіn’s war against the drug cartels, and it shows how the traffickers are rapidly evolving from traditional narcotics smuggling to activities as diverse as oil theft, transport and sales.
I think we’ll be seeing a lot more of this.
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If, by that you mean a lot more writing from Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter and author (Big Boy Rules) Steve Fainaru, I fully agree.
Steve got me my only column inches in the WaPo ever. His brother broke the BALCO – Barry Bonds story. Quite the dynamic duo.
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And the border war just keeps going – and I thought it must be all drugs and truckers.
And here all along I thought Mexico’s most vital national resource was all the illegals the home builders in Denver use.
Guess that makes them “petroltrafficantes,” not “narcotrafficantes.”
By the way, tequila fans, here’s a standard recipe for a “petroleo”:
Petroleo
1-1/2 ounces tequila
1 ounce Mexican lime juice
1 serrano chile halved from top to bottom
Pour the tequila and lime juice into a small glass. Add salt, pepper, Maggi sauce and Worcestershire sauce to taste. Mix ingredients. Add one half of the serrano chile and one or two ice cubes. Use Blanco or Reposado tequila
Just ask this gigantic iceberg that broke off the Arctic shelf:
I’m sure George Soros broke it off, with the help of Nancy Pelosi and ACORN.
since the ‘tads of the world can correctly claim that the process has been occurring for millions of years. So point Libertad and the rest to the front page of the NYT today. Far more relevant and scary to us here in a water-stressed region:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12…
Mann data and computer processes errors have been corrected
And now you’re switched and started working for the Climate Change Deniers astroturf groups? You do know Congress is on to this shit:
“Yesterday the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming (EIGW) held their (previously postponed) hearing on fraudulent letters sent to Congressmen by supposed “grassroots” organizations opposing the Waxman-Markey House climate bill (H.R.2454 American Clean Energy and Security Act).
“The fraudulent letters were supposedly from grassroots organizations representing the elderly, veterans and ethnic minorities, some of which included the NAACP and the American Association of University Women (AAUW). The letters were exposed as fraudulent by the Charlottesville Daily Progress out of Charlottesville, VA. The source of the letters was Bonner and Associates, a grassroots firm that was hired by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE).”
http://www2.dailyprogress.com/…
Found a way to pay for that new Mac after all?
It is ammazin’ the spin you try to put on the facts that these guys used “Mike’s Nature Trick” and all other sorts of crap to distort the data and misrepresent the facts.
The search the emails: http://www.climate-gate.org/
Climate-gate.org was established on November 24, 2009 through GoDaddy.com with a private registration. Private registration indicates that the owner of the site cannot be identified by looking up a domain name on a “WhoIs” search.
This website contains an index reference to the stolen emails from the Climatic Research Unit.
Climate-gate.org acknowledges being established by the conservative sites: PajamasTV and Competitive Enterprise Institute.
PajamasMedia.com was established on April 14, 2005. PJTV.com was established on January 6, 2000. CEI.org was established on August 29, 1995.
These websites are hardcore conservative and strongly anti-global warming. Climate-gate.org was established approximately less than a week after the stolen emails appeared online.
with you under that bridge, or do you just snatch up whatever slimy thing happens to be passing by when you get peckish? And do you snatch them with your paws, or does your tongue dart out and snap the little critters into your slobbering maw? Just curious.
just not at the speed we’ve seen in the past few decades.
The fact that the Earth has natural cyclical climate fluctuations isn’t evidence that we shouldn’t be worried. We should be worried about making them fluctuate even more wildly.
Colorado’s record drought happened a couple centuries ago. If we can push the climate system just enough to cause that level of drought again, we are in serious, serious trouble. Yea, it could happen naturally without our influence. Or it could happen sooner with our influence. It’s a risk we ignore at our peril. Pretending that the risk does not exist is lunatic.
22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found
WASHINGTON – Computer technicians have found 22 million missing White House e-mails from the administration of President George W. Bush and the Obama administration is searching for dozens more days’ worth of potentially lost e-mail from the Bush years, according to two groups that filed suit over the failure by the Bush White House to install an electronic record keeping system.
The two private groups – Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and the National Security Archive – said Monday they were settling the lawsuits they filed against the Executive Office of the President in 2007.
It will be years before the public sees any of the recovered e-mails because they will now go through the National Archives’ process for releasing presidential and agency records. Presidential records of the Bush administration won’t be available until 2014 at the earliest.
The tally of missing e-mails, the additional searches and the settlement are the latest development in a political controversy that stemmed from the Bush White House’s failure to install a properly working electronic record keeping system. Two federal laws require the White House to preserve its records.
The two private organizations say there is not yet a final count on the extent of missing White House e-mail and there may never be a complete tally.
Meredith Fuchs, general counsel to the National Security Archive, said “many poor choices were made during the Bush administration and there was little concern about the availability of e-mail records despite the fact that they were contending with regular subpoenas for records and had a legal obligation to preserve their records.”
“We may never discover the full story of what happened here,” said Melanie Sloan, CREW’s executive director. “It seems like they just didn’t want the e-mails preserved.”
Sloan said the latest count of misplaced e-mails “gives us confirmation that the Bush administration lied when they said no e-mails were missing.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200…
“Oh Mr, Rove, are you sure all we have to do is just put them in the Trash Folder?”
This could be big. Cheney headed underground?
no doubt.
should have burned those electrons…..
Soon to be Show and Tell.
On top of the US Attorney problem. New Rasumssen poll has him down 8
Countdown on cable TV, coloradopols on the internet, emails and a Senator on a conference call simultaniously.
Had to graduate some dogs. Priorities, priorities.
Please help us explain these difficult times. Would love to get the “insider” view. Plus the Ritter talking points would be helpful.
Salzburg, like Joe Lieberman, rules!
Hope you all are doing well.
just so I can read your nonsensical nonsense more often.
Eventually you’ll come around, and I’ll have you in my eeeeevil clutches.
from a balmy Austria? Who has more snow?
They do. Much more.
Pre snow.
My two little ones are up and bright-eyed and bushy – tailed at 3:43 AM.
But we’re home. Jet lag doesn’t seem so debilitating when you’re in your own house.