"but this recession would have been a depression had we not done TARP,Porkulus, QE1, QE2...etc"

me ^ | 8-29-11 | wobbly bob

[WOBBLY BOB]

this is the typical response all my John Huntsman lovin' , Obama votin' friends have whenever talking up the economy.

what say you?

[WOBBLY BOB]

just overhearing a debate between a Obamatron and a thinker and this reminded me of an often heard claim...

[oldenuff2no]

BS!!!!! Prove this fantasy by directly linked provable facts and not just more liberal BS!!!!!

[WOBBLY BOB]

other leftard talking points overheard this morning in this coffee shop diatribe:

“it never trickles down”

“since we let the rich keep their Bush Tax cuts, why aren’t they creating jobs?-they just sit on their money!”

[Lorianne]

a LOT of Freepers made/make the same argument about TARP ... at the time and since.

[Mr. K]

BS - he may have inheritted a bad situation - BUT THEY MADE IT WORSE

And we GOTTA STOP LETTING THEM GET AWAY WITH CALLING IT BUSH’S FAULT! BUSH’S ECONOMY WAS FINE UNTIL NAZI PELOSI TOOK OVER CONGRESS

[rokkitapps]

That is my question exactly, if tax cuts NEVER trickle down, how does all the stimulus magically “trickle down”??

[MNJohnnie]

The why did 0 claim the Stimulus bill would prevent unemployment from going over 8% while doing nothing would cause it to go over 9%?

[cripplecreek]

I heard Bloviating Bill praise congress for having the courage to pass TARP and saving the world.

[alancarp]

1. I think they’ve proven beyond the shadow of any doubt that there is no possible way to spend yourself into prosperity. They’ve spent more money trying to do so than all previous attempts combined. Probably ten times more.

2. The Dems point of view SHOULD actually be: “well, it would have worked had they actually spent the money where they said they would... but at least Obama has successfully funded his next campaign.”

[alancarp]

Don’t forget: they re-scalred the unemployment number last year to prevent it from hitting 10% at that time (never mind that the number is a joke anyway).

[alancarp]

re-scalred ==> “re-scaled”

[Palter]

That was the point of a bubble, everything is fine, until it pops. And under Bush, we had a massive bubble. So simply giving credit to a bubble is absurd.

[MNDude]

that’s what I heard McCain say too.

[ml/nj]

It IS a depression; and it would not have been had the government simply done nothing. Nothing: no loans to people with no income; no bailouts for them and/or the banks that lent money to them; no bailout for governments that promised too much to their employees; no bailouts for companies that promised too much to their employees. Nothing.

ML/NJ

[WOBBLY BOB]

I'm waiting for them to stop re inflating the housing bubble repeatedly so the market will find the real bottom.

[KansasGirl]

“but this recession would have been a depression had we not done TARP,Porkulus, QE1, QE2...etc”

Tell them that even by their own rationale Obama is a complete failure then because if he would have made all these things 10 times as big, we’d all be rich now!

[Moonman62]

If the government had cut regulations and stimulated small business instead of giving welfare to big business, we would already be out of this mess with a lot less debt.

[Shimmer1]

I say you need smarter friends.

[KansasGirl]

Also, point out all the hotbeds of Democratic liberalism and ask them why they are such cesspools.

[Grunthor]

“what say you?”

I tell ‘em to prove it. They cannot.