[Nix 2]

FLAME AWAY!!!

[Fawnn]

There's a reason Hillary and her ilk are running around moaning that "we have to undo the damange being done to this country," "the current administration is trying to undo everything we accomplished during the Clinton administration," and all of their other such nonsense. This president is accomplishing great things for our country! He's defending our country! He's taken the war to the terrorists' backyards.

President George W. Bush knows how to choose his battles -- here and abroad. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't have our country's best interests at heart. Period!

[sauropod]

"Are you watching the teachers' union howling at the moon? They can't teach, so they blame the kids for not being able to learn. Bush gave them their chance. They are blowing it big-time. The more they try and steal our kids, the harder we fight, and the more they scream. But it will have its end and it will be under a Bush presidency. We need good minds to have better goals. No one knows that better than he does. The dems are freaking out over *No Child Left behind* because if a teacher can't teach, he/she has got to go. The dems would protect these stupid, moneygrubbers at any cost including the cost of your children's education."

This is a stupid post. NCLB has dictated that math be taught to special needs children that can't handle it. My ex-wife has told me what has been happening (she is a special education teacher). If the kids can't handle it, the test scores are down. If the test scores are down, the school suffers from the county education bureaucracy and people lose their jobs over a stupid, stupid one size fits all prescription.

[KangarooJacqui]

FLAME AWAY!!!

On the contrary... I read that post and it made me proud to be an American.

Until I remembered that I'm not. (Oh well!)

[redrock]

Excellent post!!!!

redrock

[mathluv]

Dittos. Excellent post.

[Tamzee]

A fine rant indeed and you do not stand alone!

[FairOpinion]

PING PING PING

I didn't see anyone ping you to this, and I am sure you wouldn't want to miss this most excellent editorial written by FReeper Nix 2.

[FairOpinion]

Ping to a well written editorial pointing out Bush's successes.

[hope]

Gosh, I think I like you...

I can tell ya, the whiner's stand a good chance of getting John French Kerry elected, and that makes me ill!

[Miss Marple]

Dear Nix,

I haven't read the replies yet, but I can imagine what is to come.

I agree with you and applaud you for your stand. No matter the aspersions on your character you will receive, you are right. Some people here are committed to using conservative "principles" to destroy the president. They care about nothing but defeating him, even at the expense of the country.

[Missouri]

Ping.

Interesting thread.

[MissAmericanPie]

Stay calm, we have a front end loader on the way to dig you out of that mountain of bull you just buried yourself in.

[.30Carbine]

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"...as if you so-called conservatives were personally wounded and the bleeding will never stop....This is too pathetic. Do you let others do your thinking now?

You are jumping to so many bogus conclusions...the crocodile tears are starting to make Conservatives look more and more like the libs with their hands constantly extended....your misplaced anger...Do you want to be Canada? Then go the hell there and stop calling yourselves conservatives, because you ain't.

If you were truly conservatives..."

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[.30Carbine]

I especially appreciated this part:

Are you so nonsatisfiable that you don't realize that the man from Texas stood and faced down the UN so that they can't even get a paragraph ratified because he has them running in circles and has not much to do with the terrorists and crooks who run the damb place.

I was so worried by that smear piece I read in the Washington Times the other day:
White House seeks to loan U.N. funds - $1.2 Billion - for renovations
I'm greatly relieved to hear the truth come out on this thread.

[prairiebreeze]

Thanks for a great post!

[labolarueda]

"What exactly about the immigration reform has you so riled up? You are jumping to so many bogus conclusions, I don't even know where to start. You call it amnesty, and I ask you WHEREIN lies the amnesty?"

Bush is not kicking out the hispanic illegal aliens, ergo it's an amnesty.

His amnesty proposal will hurt him very badly at the polls as it will determine whether our Western culture will survive or be replaced by an alien one with a consequential civil war.

[dasein64]

"Unappeasable" is the operative word. IMO a good many of the Bush bashers are mostly interested in promoting whatever third party they belong to. They are willing to throw over a fierce defender of America's freedom for the sure betrayal of that freedom by any one of the pro UN RAT presidential candidates. President Bush will just have to win reelection this November without their help, and he will.

[Ben Bolt]

I'm wondering why folks refuse to vote in the best interest of the Republic . On the other hand I see you have some laughter in the mean time .

[GOPcapitalist]

Other than listening to the demons wail about the deficit, what difference has it made in any of your lives? None.

It actually has made one substantial, albeit indirect, difference. The economics of national income accounting derive an identity in which the trade balance for the nation as a whole, IM-EX, equates to the relationship between savings and investment for the nation as a whole, S-I. Put another way, when investment exceeds savings we will have a trade deficit. This little chart from the Congressional Budget Office displays the historical presence of this tendency along side trade surpluses and deficits for the last 30 or so years.

As you can see in it, when I exceeds S, trade has almost always gone into negative territory.

So how does this relate to deficits? Well, American citizens aren't particularly known for their savings habits even though they do still save a little. But one major participant in the U.S. economy has no clue what the word "save" even means nor has it for a long time. That participant is the U.S. government and they spend every penny they take in and then some. So what happens when deficits rise? Federal government savings, or lack thereof, automatically put the U.S. economy deep into the hole before individual saving are even considered in the equation virtually assuring that they will fall short of investments. The result? We have to go abroad to finance our investments, which means more trade in imports. So all of a sudden we get a trade deficit that is huge!

Now, is having a huge trade deficit a bad thing? Not necessarily in itself nor should currently having one be too much of a cause for concern from an economic perspective. But it does do one thing undesirable: large trade deficits, and even simply having large imports, are history's favorite scapegoat for economic hardship. They are always the very first thing that gets targetted whenever the economy isn't operating at perfection (and it doesn't even have to be a bad or recession economy - anything short of 110% boom is enough cause for people to start scapegoating the trade deficit, always has been, and always will be). So whenever trade deficits persist for a long time, a combination of mistaken popular opinion in the masses and outright political demagoguery by those who want electoral gain by pandering to the masses (or alternatively an inefficient industry) starts clamoring around for higher tariffs, more agriculture subsidies, and bad old fashioned government protectionism. When they do that even supposedly conservative free trader republicans like Bush start caving and giving them their tariffs to shut them up (much as he did with the steel tariffs a year or so ago, and more recently textile tariffs). The longer it lasts, the worse it gets and eventually free trade initiatives (which are economically beneficial and productive to us) start to suffer by either stalling before completion or, worse, being repealed or violated after the fact. That means higher prices for consumers, which hurts us all.

So in that sense, the budget deficit by way of exacerbating the trade deficit, which in turn gives a scapegoat to protectionists who then use it to succeed in stalling or backtracking on the move towards free trade, comes around to hurt you, me, and everybody else who ever buys anything by causing higher prices than we would otherwise have to pay.

[texasflower]

Outstanding article.