http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100927/ap_on_bi_ge/us_obama
This is the first and only smart thing he has said since becoming president
This is the first and only smart thing he has said since becoming president
FINALLY, after 2 years Obama gets a clue!
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DUH! Taxes don't go to pay primarily for education... rather for teachers' lavish retirement benefits!
America needs more of an "if you don't work...if you don't produce and provide for yourself... you might as well just slink off into a corner and DIE". Society doesn't NEED PARASITES. YOU'RE NOT "ENTITLED" TO ANYTHING... THE WORLD DOESN'T OWE YOU A LIVING SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU WERE BORN!!
Darwinism... SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST... all others perish!!!!
America needs more of an "if you don't work...if you don't produce and provide for yourself... you might as well just slink off into a corner and DIE". Society doesn't NEED PARASITES. YOU'RE NOT "ENTITLED" TO ANYTHING... THE WORLD DOESN'T OWE YOU A LIVING SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU WERE BORN!!
Darwinism... SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST... all others perish!!!!
Um, so kids and the disabled should be left to die?
Yeah? The land of the free, the brave, the compassionate, the benevolent, the highly tolerant, the we-take-care-of-our-own .......
and now we dump our ideals and shaft the poor, the unfortunate, the so-called lazy bums aka parasites?
Seems to me, down the road apiece most of you preachers will be at the Salvation Army yourselves, that is, assuming you're not posting from there already.
Behold one of our own from the Great Depression era - you mean to tell me that if you saw her and those kids, some of that pack ice that is YOU, would not melt?
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all the paras below are extracts, none is my own writing
In 1932 at least 200,000 young people and 25,000 families roamed through the country looking for food, clothing, shelter, and a job.
The unemployment rate was as high as 25% (not including women and minorities which likely would have been closer to 40-50%). Unemployment would remain in double digits until 1943.
The reasoning of the authorities involved was as follows: if the Federal Reserve pumped excessive paper reserves into American banks, interest rates in the United States would fall to a level comparable with those in Great Britain; this would act to stop BritainÂfs gold loss and avoid the political embarrassment of having to raise interest rates.
The Fed succeeded; it stopped the gold loss, but it nearly destroyed the economies of the world, in the process. The excess credit which the Fed pumped into the economy spilled over into the stock market, triggering a fantastic speculative boom. Belatedly, Federal Reserve officials attempted to sop up the excess reserves and finally succeeded in braking the boom. But it was too late: by 1929 the speculative imbalances had become so overwhelming that the attempt precipitated a sharp retrenching and a consequent demoralizing of business confidence.
As a result, the American economy collapsed. Great Britain fared even worse, and rather than absorb the full consequences of her previous folly, she abandoned the gold standard completely in 1931, tearing asunder what remained of the fabric of confidence and inducing a world-wide series of bank failures. The world economies plunged into the Great Depression of the 1930s
In 1932 at least 200,000 young people and 25,000 families roamed through the country looking for food, clothing, shelter, and a job.
The unemployment rate was as high as 25% (not including women and minorities which likely would have been closer to 40-50%). Unemployment would remain in double digits until 1943.
The reasoning of the authorities involved was as follows: if the Federal Reserve pumped excessive paper reserves into American banks, interest rates in the United States would fall to a level comparable with those in Great Britain; this would act to stop BritainÂfs gold loss and avoid the political embarrassment of having to raise interest rates.
The Fed succeeded; it stopped the gold loss, but it nearly destroyed the economies of the world, in the process. The excess credit which the Fed pumped into the economy spilled over into the stock market, triggering a fantastic speculative boom. Belatedly, Federal Reserve officials attempted to sop up the excess reserves and finally succeeded in braking the boom. But it was too late: by 1929 the speculative imbalances had become so overwhelming that the attempt precipitated a sharp retrenching and a consequent demoralizing of business confidence.
As a result, the American economy collapsed. Great Britain fared even worse, and rather than absorb the full consequences of her previous folly, she abandoned the gold standard completely in 1931, tearing asunder what remained of the fabric of confidence and inducing a world-wide series of bank failures. The world economies plunged into the Great Depression of the 1930s
They get it.
How else do you think they grow their supporter base?