tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10214951.post1667752083233738542..comments2024-03-17T08:07:12.695-05:00Comments on Between The Lines: Using unneeded federal bucks may fiscally damage LAJeff Sadowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03972004592729833310noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10214951.post-56670186175252586482010-08-24T23:27:54.242-05:002010-08-24T23:27:54.242-05:00And for the record, the auto bailout (which I oppo...And for the record, the auto bailout (which I opposed) worked out great and will (hopefully) be ending soon. Lets hear a nice post from you eating crow on that one. The point is: bailouts are bad, but sometimes necessary. Liberals struggle with the difficult questions of when they are appropriate; Conservatives slavishly approve when their leaders do it and hysterically scream when liberals do it.<br /><br />The hilarious icing on the cake is your absurd claim that Obama has been killing jobs. Any moron who can read a graph will tell you that the job market has been totally in the opposite direction as under Bush. You'll believe anything. Lets be honest, Jeff: it was you people who ruined the economy. You owned all three branches of government for nearly the entire past ten years, and now you own this depression (even if you conservatives manage to convince yourselves otherwise).<br /><br />Lastly, you are always bitching about taxes, but never really deal with the issue meaningfully alongside the national debt and deficit. Yes, taxes are uncomfortable for corporations. But you know what else is uncomfortable: spiraling debt leading to economic collapse. Jeff: your political party is the worst offender of racking up the national credit card debt. Having placed us into dire financial straights and record credit card debt, you have now decided that we need to pay LESS of the national debt down and simultaneously rack up MORE debt via your unfunded tax cuts for the wealthy. <br /><br />Why should we listen to you? These terrible policies got us into this mess.Mr. Harris Plutocrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14272042050207617611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10214951.post-38835593186768151092010-08-24T22:45:16.728-05:002010-08-24T22:45:16.728-05:00Another profoundly ridiculous post by our conspira...Another profoundly ridiculous post by our conspiracy-theorist professor. Jeff: you seem to have forgotten that the "big" bailout was created by conservatives. TARP wasn't some liberal redistributionist scheme. Do you realize that nearly every conservative in this country (according to a recent poll) thinks that TARP was Obama's evil scheme? The reason people like you have such short-term memory problems is that you are professionally dishonest; you bury your head in Hannity and Dr. Laura and other transparently dishonest shrills. You are a joke.<br /><br />But I love your characterization of the education funds as the teacher union/Democrat campaign fund "usurpation of resources." It would be fair to note that many children would benefit, and many teacher jobs would be saved. But we know you don't want to be fair. In your world it's all a game to see who can come up with the most grotesque characterization of what is otherwise routine government functions. (Much like how you people freak out when Obama bows, shakes hands with, or sneezes near some exotic-looking foreign leader; your obvious conclusion is that it is code for the subjugation of american values to sharia and a code to terrorists everywhere to redouble their efforts). <br /><br />Of course, if we apply Jeff's own logic to normal conservative stuff, we can have the same outcome. Republicans pass massive, unfunded tax cuts for the rich > the rich in turn plow back funds into Republican campaign coffers > Republicans "usurp resources" to "perpetuate their evil domination". It's so simple. Not that you would hear Jim Lehrer hyperventilating and scribbling wildly on chalkboards about acronyms signaling the apocalypse. It's your people that pull that crap, Jeff. And you are their most impressionable devotee, with the strongest appetite for the most absurd bile that even other die-hard conservatives would pass up.<br /><br />And for the record, the auto bailout (which I opposed) worked out great and will (hopefully) be ending soon. Lets hear a nice post from you eating crow on that one. The point is: bailouts are bad, but sometimes necessary. Liberals struggle with the difficult questions of when they are appropriate; Conservatives slavishly approve when their leaders do it and hysterically scream when liberals do it.Mr. Harris Plutocrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14272042050207617611noreply@blogger.com