Posted on 01/11/2006 7:06:56 AM PST by Theodore R.
We are doomed. Hopefully this genius is smart enough to move to France before our imminent collapse. Heck, I'll chip in for his plane fair.
Remember, Paul Craig Roberts was originally a Reaganite before Reagan was.
---President George W. Bush has destroyed America's economy---
At least you don't have to actually read the article to see that it's utter and total leftist fantasy!
talk about the Manchurian Candidate
Yep, and Scott Ritter was a staunch anti-saddamite before it was popular and David Brock was a memeber of the VRWC. ;o)
PCR lost his mind years ago.
Apparently there are still plenty of jobs for hack Communists...er, I mean columnists like this jerk.
If he thinks the cost of fighting the WOT is high, he'd better hope he never experiences the cost of losing it.....
Does Roberts now consider himself a leftist? He worked for Regan under Reagan. Or does he consider many of today's establishment conservatives to be leftists?
MSM's Hegemony Days are Over, Says Freeper
That was exactly my thought too. I kind of appreciated the author not wasting my time by letting me know that right up front.
Imagine gasoline @ $7 a gallon.
Good grief? Let whatzisface apply this cost analysis to the Korean War or even Reagan's '80s build up.
Quick...may I suggest a "Barf Alert" in the title?
Aging curmudgeon IronJack has calculated that Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Universaity budget expert Linda Bilmes are irrelevant.
More people own their own homes than ever before.....
More people own stocks than ever before.....
More tax revenue is streaming into the federal coffers than ever before.....
Illegal aliens are risking their lives to enter the country for work....
Yeah....I guess the economy is shot..........
Harry Turman used to say that he'd like to meet an economist with one-hand. That way none could say "Well, Mr. President, on the other hand..."
Nothing has changed.
President Truman also used to be fond of saying this: "The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." He loved to read history.
Meanwhile, the fellow from Harvard is incorrect. Unemployment is @ 4.9%, nearly 70% of America lives in its own house(that's not only a record for America, but for the world), and the cost of money is still at 40-year lows with virtually little or no inflation(depending on where you look). If you want work you can find it. All is well.
The deficit? President Reagan used to tell reporters, the deficit was big enough to take care of itself.
As for the war in Iraq, we are winning and that's for certain. It is not a popular war, but we have had many of those in our history. Most turned out to be beneficial.
President Bush is doing the right thing in Iraq because it is the difficult thing to do. Oftentimes in life, the easy thing, i.e., cut and run, is the wrong thing to do.
As for the rest of it and an exit strategy, please see my tagline.
We still do the R&D innovation,and engineering of products here, we just build them elsewhere.
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