Is 'Octomom' America's Future?

Wall Street Journal ^ | February 13, 2009 | Peggy Noonan

[libstripper]

A moment last Monday, just after noon, in Manhattan. It's slightly overcast, not cold, a good day for walking. I'm in the 90s on Fifth heading south, enjoying the broad avenue, the trees, the wide cobblestone walkway that rings Central Park. Suddenly I realize: Something's odd here. Something's strange. It's quiet. I can hear each car go by. The traffic's not an indistinct roar. The sidewalks aren't full, as they normally are. It's like a holiday, but it's not, it's the middle of a business day in February. I thought back to two weeks before when a friend and I zoomed down Park Avenue at evening rush hour in what should have been bumper-to-bumper traffic.

This is New York five months into hard times.

[libstripper]

OMG. This reads like the first few chapters of Atlas Shrugged. The Peggy, in her own air headed way goes on to say nobody knows what to do. She just can't get past the Obamagaz she spent the last eight months breathing to see how the DemonRats crashed the economy and how Obama's keeping it that way. She's a sharp observer and a good describer who's totally clueless about what caused the problem and how to fix it.

[utahson]

Anyone that listens to Peggy Noonan falls into the deaf, dumb and blind category. Noonan is the younger version of HELEN THOMAS and not much prettier. In fact, Helen might be nicer.

[snowrip]

I was just in NYC for the weekend. It WAS quiet, unbelievably so... we walked into restaurants, nice ones, every night with no reservations and were immedaitely seated, there were no lines at the clubs, and the stores were clear of weekend shoppers.

[freeangel]

“Americas future?”

It already is. She just made the news because she chose to have most of them at one time instead of one after the other while expecting taxpayers continued support. Oh wait! They already have taxpayers continued support-—just ask any of the obamatrons.

[Shery]

I am most surprised by those who are shocked, shocked mind you, that Obama would let the country sink into this economic morass. However, The One made it very clear on the campaign trail that America’s economy needed to reduced to that of the rest of the world so that we’d be on more equal ground. Of course, he only means those of us Americans who are not considered to be the Elitists, like him and his throngs of leftists. As you remember, when the Bolsheviks took over, it was not for the good of the people, just a transfer of wealth from those who’d earned it to those who had envied it.

[Eye of Unk]

I think it is, some people need to reference how many Muslim woman are giving birth to more than one baby.

Imagine all of the little human incubators like something out of an Alien movie, moms with distorted bulging bellies that may have possibly even more than octuplets.

Why should Islam care about a womans right? They probably have plans to have thousands if not more giving birth to 3,4,5 or more children...as often as possible until the mother is incapable.

Islamic puppymills, its coming to America.

If they cannot invade America they will do it from within.

[Pietro]

I have a difficult time feeling sorry for NYC. They've been sucking the cream off the top of our economy for decades.

[econjack]

...and a professional governing class that doesn't have a clue what to do.

Oh, please. Washington knows exactly what to do, but won't because it destroys their chance to sop up the power that comes with handing out $700 billion. They want the credit for saving the system, even if what they are doing is actually counter-productive. What is needed is a $700 billion tax cut for those who actually pay taxes, and that the 60% of us who aren't on the public dole.

You want to see this mess end? Try this: Cut the max tax rate for personal income to 17%. Cut the corporate tax rate to 10%. (The fastest growing economy in the world right now is NOT China, it's Ireland. Do you think it's by coincidence that they have the world's lowest corporate tax rate of 12%?) If you did these two things, people's takehome pay would jump and they could plan for sustained increases in long run spending...exactly what's needed. Corporations in Europe and the Pacific Rim would bolt here in a heartbeat to set up shop and unemployment would drop like a stone.

You think Washington doesn't know these things? They do, but they would rather make Harry Reid happy with his LA-to-Vegas railroad plus all the other pork than address the real problem.

And before you start saying crap that "the tax cuts would lower gov't revenues, making the deficit even worse", read up on the Laffer Curve and the associated experience in England and India before you trot out that hackneyed excuse. The solution is simple...we just don't have enough people in Washington who aren't economic whores.

[iopscusa]

Clueless Peggy, is she really this oblivious? Another Noonan turn of phrase, ‘professional governing class’, certainly gives a peek into this moonbat’s mind. I cannot believe she actually wrote anything that RR used.

[Mac from Cleveland]

I love her line “I’m in the 90s on Fifth heading south...”

For those who don’t know NYC, if you’re on Fifth in the East 90s and you’re headed the other way—north, you’re right at the border of Harlem, crossing into it. Somehow, I doubt ol’ Peg-leg has ever set foot there.

What is she crying about anyway? She has her Messiah at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.-he’ll make it all better.

Probably she was most upset that the bar she mentioned in the article had closed.

[happygrl]

You need to read the last paragraph.

Noonan does know what we need to do.