List of Costs under Bush/McCain

Jesus Christ, one more time.

You do realize that there is a reason New Orleans is where it is, right?

Does the word "port" ring a bell?

And in the wake of Bear Stearns, the silence from the free marketers and the welfare-is-the-root-of-all-evil screamers has been deafening.

 

Yeah, of course. Someone's life is worth something only if they allegedly produce enough to make the economy allegedly grow.

(Ragu unironically agreeing with my sarcasm with 1,000 words in 5...4...3...)

 

First of all, if a Democrat were in power, we wouldn't be wasting billions upon billions in Iraq. That alone would help the economy.
Secondly, remember the good old days under Clinton? When the economy was booming? Would you take those again, because I sure would.

 

I should add, if McCain had beaten Bush in 2000, we wouldn't be in Iraq now.
McCain is trying to play the political game, but he is not so dumb as to attack Iraq because of 9/11.
He also could not possibly have screwed things up as badly as Bush has. There are few who could.

 

Buh buh buh...blowjobVinceFosterWhitewaterGenniferPaulaHillaryhealthcareplan.

 

http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdoc.cfm?index=4938&type=0

 

And while we're blaming people for where they live and what mortgage loans they took out, let's point out that the free market and self-regulation hawks have had exactly the system they wanted, and paid gobs in campaign contributions to get.

Can't get out of a bad adjustable-rate mortgage because your income decreased after a job loss? Screw you. But my gosh, the corporations can't get the bailouts fast enough. The aid for homeowners is a pittance compared to what we're doing for Wall Street.

 

The impromptu middle-class shanty towns of Southern Cali....our generation's Hoovervilles.

 

You had me, you had me, you had me...

....you lost me.

 

Hey I never said the government should stop them. I just said they are stupid for rebuilding in a location where something could easily happen again.

But you may all continue to put words in my mouth.


Also, yes it is a port. And?
I guess learning a lesson only works for your side when it involves staying out of a war. Oh we didn't learn from Vietnam . . .
But when something happens within the next 10 years and people demand to be bailed out again because they built on swamp and flood lands it won't be any different.

As for the people are only worth something if they contribute to the economy . . .
You make it sound as though I don't care at all about helping anyone else but myself. I happen to donate most of my extra cash to the Salvation Army, The Jimmy Fund, St. Jude's Children's Hospital and the MSPCA. So bite me.
The only thing I'm saying is that it shouldn't be and isn't the sole responsibility of the government to carry people financially from cradle to grave. If that's what you want then you're in the wrong country - that is if you're American. That is not what this nation was founded on. Charity is not the federal government's job. It's the individual's.

 

The nation was founded on being able to speak, assemble and pray as you wished, and to not be ruled by England. It was not built on the Laffer Curve.

 

I understand we aren't going to see eye to eye on this.

I just want to make sure that we don't put words into each others mouths along the way.

You can be a socialist and that's fine and dandy. I have nothing personally against you. Your belief system, that's another story.