Bushies seek to revolutionize the country the wrong way [BerkleyEast tale of Bush and the neocons]

Capital Times ^ | 2-14-06 | Ed Garvey

[Bommer]

Perhaps there is an easy way to solve our nation's economic problems.

Dow hits 11,000. Unemployment @ 5.2%. And we still are in the Depression! Damn! This Meth problem is worse than I thought!

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

This Capital Times is one of the most insane cage-liners I've seen in a very long time.

Remind me to stay the hell out of Madison until it's time for the siege.

[A. Pole]

Why not make it clear that corporations should have the same First Amendment rights as other citizens to contribute to campaigns?

Why not to make corporations to be the full fledged persons with all the rights and abolish the status of a person for the citizens/individual human beings? That way this process will be brought to its logical conclusion.

After all the corporations represent the most productive members of the society. The mere human beings are superfluous and parasitic relic of the past.

[SJackson]

Why not to make corporations to be the full fledged persons with all the rights and abolish the status of a person for the citizens/individual human beings? That way this process will be brought to its logical conclusion. After all the corporations represent the most productive members of the society. The mere human beings are superfluous and parasitic relic of the past.

Substitute academia and government for corporations, the author would agree.

[A. Pole]

Dow hits 11,000. Unemployment @ 5.2%. And we still are in the Depression!

It all depends how you measure the unemployment. By some measures the unemployment during the Great Depression was close to zero.

[L98Fiero]

The writer of this article must live in some fantasy world......or he's an idiot.....probably both.

[clintonh8r]

...they plan to eliminate government as we have known it since Franklin Roosevelt

Hey Ed, you stupid git, that's a great idea!

[kaktuskid]

Dow hits 11,000. Unemployment @ 5.2%. And we still are in the Depression! Damn! This Meth problem is worse than I thought!


Unemployment is now @4.9! (4% is considered full employment)

[kojak]

>>When you read the Bush budget, you must conclude that they don't want to trim the fat, they plan to eliminate government as we have known it since Franklin Roosevelt.<<

Yes! See http://www.house.gov/paul/nytg.htm

[Publius6961]

The author of the article seems to be blissful oblivious to the distribution of income vs percentage of total taxes paid...

What more needs to be said?

[presidio9]

I thought Ithaca was Berkeley East.

[wizardoz]

Darn, till he said he wasn't serious, I was getting excited!

[Billthedrill]

OK, OK, I am not serious.

Well, that's a relief. With these genius types it's kind of hard to tell. Glad he let us know.

But the Bush administration and the neocons are serious.

Not about that. See point one.

I do get the sense that some "progressives" are finally, at long last, sensing that progressivism has turned into pure reaction and that the most truly progressive individual in government is named Bush. "But it isn't progressivism as we define it!" Yeah, so what?

[Fintan]

 

 

[Bommer]

By some measures the unemployment during the Great Depression was close to zero.

and just how drunk did you have to get back then to see a bread line and say, "Yep, no unemployment here!" Unemployment was close to 25%.

[ozzymandus]

Last I heard, unemployment was 4.7%. Of course, if you just have to look for the bad side, employment is only 95.3%.

[RHINO369]

Eliminate the income tax- great idea
Eliminate coperate tax- great idea
Protect coperations from lawsuits- bad idea, if they are at fault they are at fault. How about protect them from insane lawsuits
Repeal new deal- Great idea
privitize schools- Amazing

Sounds like this guy is the smartest person I've heard in a long time. Haha, I love how offended liberals are of conservitive ideas. BTW how is Bush's spending threatening to destroy goverment! He's making it bigger.

[MNJohnnie]

Unemployment is actually at 4.7%, not 5.2%

[MNJohnnie]

Current Unemployment is 4.7% Full employment is considered at 5%. The only reason they say 4% is because of the last 2 years of the 1990s we got down there, however as anyone who went into a convince store in 1998-1999 could tell you, MOST of the people employed at the low end after you get under 5% are marginally employable at best.

Plus there is some question if the changes made by the Clinton Admin to calculate the Unemployment rate were as accurate as the previous method. The numbers reported after 1995 are probably underreporting the Unemployment rate due to those Clinton era changes.