Won't your playmates come to your defense? Keep crying and begging for help, I'm sure someone will show up.
Too bad you had to resort to baiting. NO, I won’t engage in the conversation. For the most part I agree with what Rabscuttle has written. I disagree with much you have written and there is no point in joining in with him as you won’t listen to either one of us. So what is the point?
I’ll give one example, then go away. You say Bush’s stimulus has saved the economy. I don’t share your optimism. The only positive I see across the entire economy is the upturn in the stock market, which I attribute to a strong bear market rally. With regard to stocks, it is far too early to say if we have begun a recovery or if the market has rallied on its way to lower lows (which is what I believe.) Frankly, I believe this is an engineered market rally as much as it is a dead cat bounce.
Beyond that, bankruptcies are soaring, foreclosures are at an all time high, home inventories are massive, credit has loosened a bit but is still difficult to get, commercial real estate is on its way to being slaughtered, we have the entire US automotive manufacturing sector in or on its way to bankruptcy, the banks are insolvent in all but name as the “worst case” conditions of the stress tests have already been achieved and the economy is still worsening. I completely disagree with you that an economic recovery has begun, let alone that Bush stimulus funds contributed to it.
As for this and the rest of your argument with Rabscuttle, leave me out of it. He can do just fine without his Gnat Militia and I believe his posts make more sense than yours do, from a reasoned point of view. I only responded here to show that I am consciously not going to be baited into your argument between him and you.
Enjoy. FWIW, I think Bush was a mediocre president and far too liberal New World Order country clubber for my tastes. I wanted a conservative and new I was not getting one when I voted against Gore and later against Kerry. I never voted “for” Bush. I voted against the communists Gore and Kerry because I feared their damage, as I feared Obama when I oted against him, rather than “for” McCain.
This nation hasn’t seen two conservative presidents since Jack Kennedy, who was more conservative than every subsequent president except Reagan.
That’s the truth ... tiresome, crotchety and a broken record.