[Theodore R.]

I gather that the economists STILL don't agree!

[pissant]

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.

[claudiustg]

---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!

[steel_resolve]

talk about the Manchurian Candidate

[facedown]

PCR lost his mind years ago.

[95 Bravo]

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.....

[Smile-n-Win]

America's Superpower Days Are Over, {Says Columnist}

MSM's Hegemony Days are Over, Says Freeper

[Steveone]

Another Idiot who can be wrong all his ENTIRE life and Still be Employed!! Only in America Never Forget!

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

But what would be the cost of doing nothing?

Imagine gasoline @ $7 a gallon.

[mewzilla]

Wow. Who tinkled in his Cheerios?!

[RobbyS]

Good grief? Let whatzisface apply this cost analysis to the Korean War or even Reagan's '80s build up.

[DCPatriot]

Quick...may I suggest a "Barf Alert" in the title?

[IronJack]

Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard University budget expert Linda Bilmes have calculated the cost to Americans of Bush's Iraq war to be between $1 trillion and $2 trillion.

Aging curmudgeon IronJack has calculated that Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard Universaity budget expert Linda Bilmes are irrelevant.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

More people are working than ever before......

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..........

[RexBeach]

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.

[razorback-bert]

When manufacturing leaves a country, engineering, R&D and innovation rapidly follow.

We still do the R&D innovation,and engineering of products here, we just build them elsewhere.

[LS]

We need to create a new term here for conservatives who at one time had some sense, but now are just idiots. We'll call it the Buchanan Syndrome.

We have the world's best economy; everyone else can't wait to put money into our companies at fairly low rates of return; we OWN the ultra-high-tech markets; and except for China are leading the world in productivity gains (China only because they had so much further to go, so relative gains were easy).

[TChris]

Yeah, all you dumb neocons! This war will end up costing eleventeen squillion and thirty twelve dollars! And even though we have had fewer casualties in the entire war than we had from major battles in WWII, we're all doomed. It's an utter failure.

Pay no attention to the robust economy! We're all doomed!

Pay no attention to the Saddam Hussein war crimes trial and the millions of free, voting Iraqi citizens! The war is a failure!

If I keep repeating myself enough, it will come true!

[thoughtomator]

From the previous article indexed to JOSEPHSTIGLITZ:

They should read these two books, by two of America's best economists and most forensic critics, and be disabused. I should declare an interest; I have long regarded the Nobel prize-winning Joseph Stiglitz and Princeton University's Paul Krugman as two of the best around.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1000379/posts

[Casloy]

President George W. Bush has destroyed America's economy,

If this is a destroyed economy, give me more of it.

[Grampa Dave]

Preparation H prepared just for the Gloom and Doom Trolls on Free Republic and their hate America pyscho opeders pretending to be conservatives.