Posted on 07/11/2008 5:58:38 AM PDT by tobyhill
Obama: “We need somebody to actually solve the economy.”
Another example of Obama sounding dumb without his teleprompter.
You are correct!
She thinks that because her son-in-law, who works for a different school district, doesn't have to pay anything at all for his benefits, the daughter shouldn't have to pay anything either. "It isn't faaaiirrrr!!!"
I mentioned to her that my health insurance costs me $614/month - that shut her up.
A nation full of BITTER WHINERS.
Wow, very helpful post. Enlighten us more with your wisdom.
After reading Phil Gramm's complete quote in context I see his point, but it's still a huge generalization. It's interesting how people on this site are so patriotic, but have so little faith in Americans.
Sorry to bust everyone's superiority bubble, but the majority of people in this country get up every morning and just go do their jobs. American workers are the most productive in the world.
Those same Americans heard the Republican campaign calling them whiners this morning - thanks to the media repeating only the "nation of whiners" part of Phil's quote. Phil should have known that would happen.
The Republicans can ill afford unforced errors like this.
Fletcher J
I totally agree with what he said. I don’t know what the brohaha is all about.
America as a whole have become a bunch of whiners. What he said was true.
O'Bama says stupid things every day and they cheer. Anybody else stupidly says true things and pays.
Graham is exactly right. dims and the MSM make consumers believe times are bad to win elections. Look at ‘92, and again in ‘00.
It’s not having your head in the sand, and Graham was right.
The economy is not in the best of health, listening to the Dems and the MSM, though, you would think that we were in a time that made the Great Depression look like the high life. How many times in the last four years have we heard “the worst economy ever”?
The economy isn’t healthy right now. Graham is right though, we are not in a monetary recession. The average citizen IS in a mental recession from the incessant drum beat of bad news they hear from supposedly “unbiased” reporters and politicians that hunger for nothing but power.
He is also correct in that there is a large portion of this country that are nothing but whiners. They will suckle off the government teet; taking money out of my pocket in the porcess. They do nothing to fix the problems and will complain loudly and often about how hard life is for them. Then you have Liberal pols on both sides of the aisle that do ZERO to put anything into our economy, or society. All they do is take. They take our money and they take our freedoms on a daily basis. They then turn around and bitch and moan about everything under the sun from the types of light bulbs I use to the War on Radical islam.
Prices are high. If one’s family had been living within their means, the increase is a burden, but it is far from a back breaking situation. How much consumer debt does your average US citizen carry? How much savings do they have in the bank? If these people are having a hard time now, then wait until B. Hussein Obama is president. His stated economic goals will bankrupt this country and drive us into a real recession; one that I think will make the late 70s look like child’s play. Then, these people will see true hardships.
They seem to be more pc than a gay aboriginal Muslim.
Yep, modern day Americans have been voting for big government for decades, we are a nation of idiot whiners.
1.46 when Bush took office? Almost 8 years ago? It was about 2 bucks when dims took congress, less than 2 years ago.ALSO, groceries were 100 bucks a month cheaper, and we were setting a record for the longest job expansion in history, when dims got congress back. Less than 2 years later, we are losing jobs again.
Phil Gramm is Right!
Despite what the MSM say, this country is NOT IN RECESSION!
Recession is defined as zero or negative economic growth. We have neither; our economy simply isn’t growing as FAST as it has at other times, but we still have positive growth!
Yes, gas prices are terrible, and they can eventually cause a stoppage of growth and even shut down many industries, if they don’t find ways to adapt. However, I’m surprised how resilient our economy has been despite the crisis, and unemployment is still in the “structural unemployment” percentage range. (For those who don’t remember their macroeconomics: structural unemployment is the normal percent of unemployment consisting of new workers just entering the workforce, people changing jobs, those out of work due to injury, etc.)
Wait till Hussein takes office, it will rain puppies for the next 8 years.
Just like with Clinton.
The poorest American still has it better than about 90% of the rest of the world’s population.
You are correct. People forget that when the Dims took office the price of oil and food started to skyrocket, people are losing their homes and jobs. Way to go Dims!
>> ... one of his top economic advisers was quoted Thursday as saying that the United States was only in a “mental recession” and that it had become a “nation of whiners.”
Its a reasonable point, I suppose — but an imprudent phrasing. You don’t generally court voters by calling them “whiners”. You offer sympathy for plight, correctly level blame at the liberalism, and offer conservative solutions to problems.
H
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