Bushed

I took Macroecomics last semester in school and see this differently. Americans have spent the last 25 years spending more than they make and getting by on debt, now it is coming back to bite us and we are all surprised. Americans need to wake up to the realization the Discover and AmEx are not going to solve our problems. If each of us were to be on a budget and spend less than we make, putting the extra money in our savings accounts, you would see our economy improve. Americans have to quit relying on the Fed & President Bush and start fixing the problem ourselves.

JUST SO YOU KNOW I'M SICK OF ALL THE THIS IS HISTORIC TIME FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT BULL *** IT WILL BE HISTORIC WHEN WE CAN ELECT SOMEONE WHO DON'T LIE TROUGH THIER TEETH TO GET ELECTED ALL THIS IS BULL *** PLAIN AND SIMPLE THE PARTIES DON'T CARE HOW WE FEEL THEY JUST DO WHATEVER THEY CAN TO GET THIER PERSON ELECTED AND WE FIGHT IT OUT ON THESES *** BLOGS WAKE UP PEOPLE ALL OF THE CANIDATES SUCK REAL BAD........................................................ OUR CHOICES ARE DUMB OR DUMBER WHICH ONE DO YOU LIKE ???

the economic stimulus was created by printing money out of thin air, increasing the money supply and decreasing the value of the dollar further. this drives prices up everywhere, hurting everyone. it's not that there are too many global economic factors for bush to help the economy. the president nor any government can help an economy by stimulating or regulating it. the only way to help an economy is to make it freer. and we've been doing exactly the opposite for the past hundred years.

Here's some change you can believe in: the amount of times McCain has changed his values and positions on the issues.

The reason half of the conservative Christian right hates McCain is because they think that they can't trust him. McCain started his career as part of the Christian right (there's a little-known fact). Once he landed in the soup as part of the Keating Five (which almost derailed his career) he positioned himself as a liberal and became a reformer for campaign finance in an effort to resurrect himself. For those of you who don't remember, the Keating scandal had to do with some shim sham corporations pumping money into McCain's coffers. So McCain became a reformer to shine up his tarnished image, and that was his first departure from the right.

Other, more serious betrayals of the right came later, after McCain got swift boated by Bush in 1999. The great Texas Republican political machine laid McCain to waste, and McCain was mad as hell. He started voting against the party line and against Bush. He suddenly supported abortion rights, opposed the Bush tax cuts, co-sponsored a patient's bill of rights with Kennedy and Edwards, and got on the environmental bandwagon with John Kerry. My gosh, he even tried to crack down on gun shows in legislation he put forth with then-Democrat Joe Lieberman. And in 2001, when Senator Jeffords of Vermont switched from Republican to Independent in an effort to counteract Bush's stranglehold on the Senate, McCain announced that he was considering becoming a Democrat, and went into a pow-wow with Senator Tom Daschle at his Sedona ranch. And did you know that John Kerry floated the idea of having McCain as his VP in '04? That was to have cemented his status as a newly-minted Democrat.

But instead of joining Kerry, McCain suddenly switched his affiliation, came out in support of Bush in '04, and jettisoned his liberal image. Suddenly, it was the "old" McCain from the 1980s back in the saddle, the neo-conservative, take no prisoners Creationist. Against abortion. For the war. The SAME man who opposed a Federal amendment banning gay marriage and openly met with gay groups now was pushing a gay marriage ban in Arizona. The SAME man who said in 1999 that he was opposed to overturning Roe vs. Wade, now suddenly in 2007 is promising that he will stack the deck in the Supreme Court with religious right judges and overturn Roe vs. Wade.

But the religious right isn't so sure about him. He's supported so many different opposing positions at so many times, that they are afraid that they are getting played in the name of McCain's political expediency.

You don't have to take my word for this. Watch news clips of McCain talking about the same issues in different years, which proves what I have written. Get on the Straight Talk Express and get it straight from the horse's mouth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajm5JTf7jZs&feature=related

drastic action for a spineless government and apathetic people!

price controls fuel $2.50/gallon
drop taxes 25%


then instead let the fed gov and oil companies sweat!

Comment: Last time i checked, congress is supposed to make the laws and bush is supposed to enforce them.

Ths problem with this comment is that Bush keeps vetoing anything that Congress passes that doesn't benefit the big corporations. And the Democrates don't have enough votes yet to over ride his vetos. Don't blame the Democrats for the roadblocks the Republicans throw up that impede the progress of this country,

Last time i checked, congress is supposed to make the laws and bush is supposed to enforce them. Democrats have been in charge of congress for a while now, and what a bang up job they've done, they were right, they were going to bring change, except we have had change for the worse. how about passing laws that keep the price of crude from going up simply due to speculators making eachother rich, oil companies have had the same profit margins for the last ten years, nobody was complaining then when they were losing money, just because they are having record profits does not mean at all that they are price gouging. it simply means that with a weaker dollar, it takes more dollars to buy the same amount, and so the actual number of dollars from profit is higher, but with the same percentage profit margin. and stopping the filling of oil reserves is not any kind of an answer to oil prices. but niether is opening Anwar. the supply of oil isn't short, so therefore the demand should not be greater, it is the lack of new refineries, foreign consumption increase, price speculation, and the weak dollar that is to blame. how about making congress allow new refineries to be built and capping price speculation. i know this was a rant but come on people, get informed and don't let democrats and left wing agendists tell you what is going on, bush may not be the best president, but i am almost positive that one man is not the cause for all of our problems, and that is why there are three branches of government so that one man is not responsible.
Side Note: Barack Obama- "We live in the greatest nation on earth, no help me change it"

This RAW - WAR IS LEAVING a bitter savour on the economy.........RAWHIDE!!!!!, but that was the Wild West ages ago.

I see some comments regarding the do nothing Democratic congress which was swept into office in O6. years later......nothing. as a matter of fact things are not as good as when they came into office. why dont some of you whiners complain about them and their posturing and rhetoric and symbolic acts. the last strategic reserve play by them was indeed laughable.

sounds familiar to this General coming up. change for change sake which means really no change at all only for the worse.

Mostly because I feel that Mc C would have a hard time disentangling from present problems. The disasters.