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Opinion: America's Misplaced Anger
aolnews ^ | 11;2/2010 | Michaeel Cohen

Posted on 11/02/2010 8:24:34 AM PDT by genghis

(Nov. 1) -- The American people are mad as hell, and they aren't going to take it anymore. They're tired of billion-dollar bailouts that have bankrupted the country. They are tired of Democratic politicians who are raising their taxes. They are tired of a Congress that has basically done nothing over the past two years.

Come Tuesday, these angry voters are going to shake up Washington, by voting for a Republican Party committed to reversing the failed policies of the Democratic Party. Sounds like a pretty good list of complaints, right?

There's one problem. It's simply wrong.

In reality, bank bailouts have actually turned a healthy multibillion-dollar profit. The economy has expanded over the past five quarters. And since Democrats took control of both Congress and the White House in January 2009, 95 percent of Americans have seen their tax burdens go down. Yet according to a recent Bloomberg poll, Americans (by a 2-to-1 margin) believe the exact opposite.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alternatereality; democrats; democratslose; enemedia; leftuniverse
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I apologize for posting such craziness, but if the rats really believe this, it is going to be a great few election cycles.
1 posted on 11/02/2010 8:24:39 AM PDT by genghis
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Hey, Mike...

Go-Sit-In-The-Corner Pictures, Images and Photos

2 posted on 11/02/2010 8:27:02 AM PDT by TexasPatriot1 ("Tyranny is defined as that which legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry" Jefferson)
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They are tired of a Congress that has basically done nothing...

BS. Congress has done PLENTY. Plenty of the WRONG things.


3 posted on 11/02/2010 8:27:20 AM PDT by Paisan
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if the policies are so profitable then why is the deficit so ridiculously high?


4 posted on 11/02/2010 8:27:26 AM PDT by ari-freedom (Vote for Robert Turner for Congress and kick out that Weiner!)
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Unemployment has DOUBLED and the cost of groceries has gone up by approximately 30%.

These people are delusional.


5 posted on 11/02/2010 8:27:33 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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Someone has lost their mind. Oh its a liberal. Never had one probably.

Reality Rejection is a form of mental illness.


6 posted on 11/02/2010 8:28:35 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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No......how about the Media’s misplaced bias, arrogance, and elitism.

Cohen is so smart,he thinks he has a better reason for us to be angry than our own reasons..........gosh the media is so smart.

Out of touch and they don’t have a clue.


8 posted on 11/02/2010 8:29:18 AM PDT by JNRoberts
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Boy i tell you what, the pyschotherapy business is going to be booming the next few months.


9 posted on 11/02/2010 8:30:04 AM PDT by ChinaThreat (3)
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Liberals believe nonsense and lie all the time as well.

This is why they have all been running around cslling everyone who dares disagree with them “enemies”, “racist”, etc.


10 posted on 11/02/2010 8:30:34 AM PDT by Williams (It's the policies, stupid.)
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In reality, bank bailouts have actually turned a healthy multibillion-dollar profit.

When you write off debts against the taxpayer, then yes, profits are what you are left with.

I understand that burglary turns a healthy profit too.

11 posted on 11/02/2010 8:31:10 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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Over the past two years a Democratic-controlled Congress passed comprehensive health care reform, reformed the student loan program, overhauled the financial system and passed a nearly $800 billion stimulus measure. In short, the 111th Congress has been among the most productive in recent American history.

You can't make this up folks...the fact that 60% of us wanted none of this crap escapes this moron!!!

12 posted on 11/02/2010 8:31:10 AM PDT by ontap
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Uninformed, just like the majority of Dems. Here’s a link to a really funny video...heard it on Beck this morning. Someone interviewed rally goers at Stewart’s rally on Saturday with the question: Is Obama a Keynesian?

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/stewartcolbert-rally-goers-obama-is-not-a-keynesian-hes-an-american/


13 posted on 11/02/2010 8:31:26 AM PDT by dawn53
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And since Democrats took control of both Congress and the White House in January 2009, 95 percent of Americans have seen their tax burdens go down.

That's one benefit of losing your job or making less money.

14 posted on 11/02/2010 8:32:25 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average.)
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Doing “nothing” would have changed election day considerably - they’d still have both houses in the next Congress.


15 posted on 11/02/2010 8:34:32 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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LOL. Keep telling yourself that, Michael. People are mistakenly voting Republican out of irrational anger because they are too stupid to realize all this government spending is turning a profit!!!

What about all the other government spending? Are people OK with that Michael? That’s what these liberal dopes never address and are in denial about. The people want to stop the spending insanity, period. It goes way beyond TARP.


16 posted on 11/02/2010 8:34:58 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: GeronL

An ideology based on lies, or on THE lie, is bound to produce faulty conclusions.


17 posted on 11/02/2010 8:35:10 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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That's right! Also - people who don't pay taxes have been given "tax credits".

Meanwhile, everyone's share of the national debt has quadrupled.

18 posted on 11/02/2010 8:35:28 AM PDT by agere_contra (...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
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To: genghis

I love it when they tell us what we are thinking.

It exposes how clueless they are.


19 posted on 11/02/2010 8:36:23 AM PDT by skyman
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Author: Michael Cohen

Can anyone say ‘JournOlist’?


20 posted on 11/02/2010 8:37:32 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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