Posted on 11/05/2008 4:51:58 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
This thread is not worth the
Doesn’t all of this Obama worship remind you all of “The Life of Brian?”How can people be so blind by this farce?I have never seen this type of lemming mentality in all my life.
When the messiahnfuhrer lays his holy hands upon it, the standard desert weed shall become the best Panama Red.
Free pies? Make mine crow.
Instead of kumbaya might I suggest Maranatha?
Also, a second: His own church,the church of Rev.Wright.
kumbaya my Lord, kumbaya
(pass the marshmallows)
Ever heard the saying “it sounds like English, but I can’t understand a word you’re saying”? That’s Wayne Swan. Trouble is, he doesn’t understand anything he’s saying, either - so what hope is there for the rest of us?
let’s not forget both bush presidencies were very good at bringing countries together in crisis. it’s keeping them together that is the difficult part.
Barry Adoration Syndrome
Wayne Swan is the one who has spent half of the 20 billion surplus already and is now talking about using the rest. God help us. America you think you’ve got problems.
One liberal American talking head (Charles Gibson, anchor i.e. newsreader of ABCNews) even asked him why he wanted to raise taxes on capital gains since lower cap gains taxes have been proven to increase tax revenue. Obama replied that he didn't care if it did, he was concerned about fairness. This with about sixty percent of Americans invested in some way with the stock market.
So Americans have elected a socialist to run the world's greatest free-market economy. If that isn't the definition of stupidity, I don't know what is.
Yes, but does your pm, Rudd, have a socialist past like Obama's? Did he promise to "spread the wealth?"
Sorry I’m slack in replying, I’m just getting used to how Free Republic, pings, and all that, works.
He didn’t actually say ‘spread the wealth’ but very pro union policies hinted at it. Also the very fact that Australian left wing Governments always pillage the surplus that the conservatives have built up to fund spending projects directed at the ‘needy’ and noisy masses is a pretty good indicator too.
The previous conservative Government also had a ‘future’ fund funded by the sale of Government assets, the labor Government soon suggested plunging into that even during the election campaign, they couldn’t help themselves.
As I said the conservatives had built up a 20 billion odd surplus over 10 years or so and half is now gone in just a year since the socialists were elected.
Now I know that George Bush is somewhat culpable over the American deficit but he has had pretty unusual, virtually one off circumstances, solialists always plunge us into debt here.
Although I'm a big Bush supporter, that is a fair knock against him. However as a percentage of the gross domestic product, the deficit under Bush for the last three years was only one or two percent of gdp. His tax cuts from 2003 worked extremely well, as tax cuts always do, to stimulate the economy.
But Bush, and the country, are victims of the Democrats control of two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) known by the nicknames Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Under Dem control, these enterprises granted trillions of dollars of worthless home mortgage loans to people who couldn't afford them. We are now paying the penalty for these Dem sponsored (and Dem refusal to accept responsibility for) mistakes. Both Bush and McCain tried to reform the GSEs to no avail.The Republicans have been falsely blamed for the mess on Wall Street. We will now reap the whirlwind under Comrade Obama.
Incidentally the man most responsible for the mess at the FMs, Franklin Raines, was an unofficial financial advisor to Obama. How's that for irony? The crisis, falsely blamed on Wall street bankers, helped propel Obama into the presidency.
I’m not particularly disparaging President Bush, the most unfairly maligned President in history in my opinion, but in hindsight the invasion of Iraq was a mistake fiscally, and those ingarateful Iraqis will ultimately pay the price in my opinion.
Go on Obama pull out, then let’s see them have a good life, I don’t think so.
I will never forget President Bush standing on that pile of rubble threatening America’s enemies, somehow I just can’t see Obama in the same light, oh well, such is history.
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