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  • Posted By: Vote Now @ 10/27/2008 9:47:51 PM


    Comment: Obama has 63 Nobel Laureates working on his policy team. They are developing a plan to push America back to the top. Who is responsible for McCain's planning? Americans would be shocked to find that Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the sole person responsible for planning McCain's policy for America's future. Holtz-Eakin is also McCain's economic advisor, filling two full time positions on McCain's team. How can one single man (an economist) be responsible for developing a viable technology plan for our future? Obama has an enormous pool of the most intelligent, talented men and women in America working for him. Soon, they will be working for US.

    And let's not forget that the McCain campaign spent more on Palin's makeup artist than it did on it's foreign policy advisor. When you pay your makeup artist DOUBLE what you pay your foreign policy advisor, it is time to start examining your PRIORITIES.

    You look just fine without makeup, John. And Sarah is young enough not to need any. So cut the crap, and start paying some good ECONOMIC ADVISORS so you can have a fiscal plan to present to America. We're in the middle of a huge global financial meltdown, and you are worried about hair and makeup? PLEASE start worrying about the middle class, John. Please.

  • Posted By: Vote Now @ 10/27/2008 9:45:39 PM

    THE GREAT BUSH DEPRESSION
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
    The government took them over because they are bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
    the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything seen in generations
    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand how its been broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He was the last to know somthing was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a budget surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?
    Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
    which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that
    Stand up and hold them accountable
    Bush isn't on the ballot this year but his policies are
    Elect Obama Biden 2008






    Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: Vote Now @ 10/27/2008 9:45:30 PM

    THE GREAT BUSH DEPRESSION
    I follow an economist named Bob Proctor. He has called the top and bottom of every market crash since the 70s correctly.
    He perfectly predicted the current meltdown and the picture he paints about what will happen next
    is terrifying.He thinks it will be worse then the great depression.
    The banks in the U.S. are going under one after the other. Countrywide ,Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch , Fanny and Freddy Mae ,AIG
    The government took them over because they are bankrupt. Even with the goverment nationalizing hundreds of billions of dollars in debt the stock market is crashing
    the credit markets are frozen and all of us may suffer beyond anything seen in generations
    McCain just like Bush " doesn't understand the economy".
    That not just my opinion its his own words. Not only does he not understand how to fix it but he does not understand how its been broken.
    It is no surprise that he doesn't. The people that make up these securities use quantum mathematical models very few people understand.
    Bush and McCain both can take the credit for this mess since they helped deregulate the laws that were protecting us.
    Bush's economic advisor Phil Graham wrote the deregulation bill that allowed banks to take huge risks with all of our future.
    Now, Phil Graham is the head of McCain's economic policy.He is also McCain's choice for the next secretary of the treasury.
    No one in this country can afford for that to happen. The last time Bush met with his economic advisors was in March. He was the last to know somthing was wrong. Phil Graham had the guts to say that we are in a mental recession after he helped create the worst economy meltdown in our lifetime. Check out this link to the truth http://my.barackobama.com/keatingvideo
    It will take the best and brightest minds in the world to get us out of this nightmare. As bad as Bush has done, McCain would be
    even more destructive because things are in much worse shape. The next president will not inherit a budget surplus like Bush did but a crashing economy and a 11,600,000,000,000 (trillion) dollars deficit. Most of it Bush created and it will take decades to pay it back.
    If you do what you have always done then you will get what you have always got.
    When it comes to policy Bush and McCain are the same 90 percent of the time.
    So why are the polls even close then ?
    Mccains team just said they no longer want to talk about the economy.Instead they would like to spend time talking about obama
    which means running the biggest smear campaign in history.
    They think they can just tell you lies and you wont be smart enough to see through it
    Let's teach him we are smarter than that
    Stand up and hold them accountable
    Bush isn't on the ballot this year but his policies are
    Elect Obama Biden 2008






    Check out this video of sarah palins interview and ask your self if she understands what she is talking about.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36Xc0GG4iQ

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/27/2008 9:39:15 PM

    Obama has formed his cabinet. Crystal Knight said today that Mr. Obama will name Bill Richardson to head State Department. Rep. Conyers to head Department of Redistribution and Reparations (formerly Treasury), Rep. Barney Frank to head Department of Peace (formerly Defense), Kwansi Mifune to head Department of Political Correctness (formerly Education). Dennis Kucinich to head Department of No Justice No Peace (formerly Justice). Reverend Sharpton to head new Department of Shakedowns and Community Organizing.

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/27/2008 9:34:07 PM

    Obama to purge CIA. "Barack is going to replace any CIA official involved in espionage, surveillance, racial profiling, and in the development of the AIDS virus" said Kwansi Mifune today.

  • Posted By: Vypurr @ 10/27/2008 8:09:53 PM

    Regarding Obama's "respect" for the constitution and his "redistribution" agenda -

    From an Obama interview: "But, the Supreme Court never ventured into the issues of redistribution of wealth, and of more basic issues such as political and economic justice in society. To that extent, as radical as I think people try to characterize the Warren Court, it wasn???t that radical. It didn???t break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution, at least as its been interpreted and Warren Court interpreted in the same way, that generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties.

    Quote from another blogger:

    "The notion that the Supreme Court could arbitrarily and capriciously "break free from the constraints of the Constitution" is even more chilling than the activist ideology that would suggest they legislate from the bench. In this case, instead of simply usurping the authority of the Congress, they instead would be also bypassing the state governments and their role in ratifying constitutional changes! Nothing, nothing, could be more totalitarian!"

    In Obama???s America, we???ll finally be able to break free of the "constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution" and in so doing, achieve "social justice" through "redistributive change."

    So much for the America I knew!

    • Posted By: Nins @ 10/27/2008 8:38:01 PM

      You are quite confused, Vypurr. Obama is a professor of Constitutional Law. He has deep love and respect for the Constitution and is committed to upholding all of it.

      In his book Audacity of Hope, Obama writes at length about the FAILURE of SOCIALISM and the failure of communism. He talks in glowing terms of the Constitution and the founding fathers. He enthusiastically states that American democracy is the greatest political system on earth. Obama is not a socialist, and he does not admire socialism.

      You need to recognize that all democracies socialize certain functions: police, fire fighting, military, roads, public schools, sewers, water. This is for the greater good and we all accept it. It does not make us socialists.

      To you, Vypurr, and to all of the conservatives out there who think that Obama is a flaming liberal, I would like to remind you of what he did when he was elected President of the Harvard Law Review. The Law Review President gets to name ten individuals to write articles for the Review, and these ten people also get to control the content of the publication. All of the minorities and the liberals thought they finally had it made, that Obama would appoint ten left wing editors. Instead, Obama appointed three conservatives, three liberals and four moderates. That year the Law Review was critically acclaimed as the best run and best written Harvard publication in decades.

      So when he wins in November, conservatives don't have to freak out. Obama is a centrist and will appoint a balanced cabinet full of active people who will really get things done. Kind of like the way our multi-cultural society is supposed to be. And exactly what we need in this time of economic crisis.

      • Posted By: Vypurr @ 10/27/2008 9:26:59 PM

        Nins, as much as you wish you could, you cannot argue with Obama's own words! Label him any way you wish, but Obama is anything but a "centrist!" By his own words in that interview, and his "spread the wealth around" he recently made, it's obvious that redistribution is his agenda....

        And "break free from the constraints of the constitution" speaks volumes just in itself....

  • Posted By: LVUONG @ 10/27/2008 8:39:21 PM

    And on-the-job-training president Obama won't be ready on day one to handle the international crises during the next 6 months, as Joe biden puts it. America cannot afford an on-the-job-training commander-in-chief in a dangerous world. Even Hillary clinton and Joe Biden declared Barack Obama unprepared to be leader during the primaries, as he could not answer the phone, at 3 A.M., but John McCain will be ready. Is it America's destiny to have Joe Biden and Michelle Obama as future presidents, as Barack Obama is a smoker, and chances are he will get lung-cancer or throat-cancer?

    • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 10/27/2008 9:16:31 PM

      The odds that Obama will get lung or throat cancer in his mid-40's are pretty low - the odds that McCain will have a serious health crisis at 72 are pretty high, and McCain has already had cancer.

      And frankly, experience is over-rated - Bush had plenty, and it didn't do him any good. Then again, Obama had no experience in campaigning for president but managed to beat the Clinton machine, so it seems clear that he is an apt pupil.

      I'm more interested in someone who can ask the right questions of the right people, listen to them, and make sound decisions - again, skills that Bush certainly didn't have, and I see little indication that McCain has them, either.

      Obama, however, seems to surround himself with smart people, and actually listens to them. Bush surrounded himself with Rove, Rumsfeld and Cheney but couldn't be bothered listening to Colin Powell, or even his own father, and McCain has Palin.

      McCain's latest book tells the story of the day he was shot down - he chose to drop his bombs rather than leave his crippled air craft.

      Not sure we want that kind of experience in our commander-in-chief, a man who would rather drop bombs than survive - I shudder to think what McCain's 'experience' would prod him to do if he had access to nuclear weapons.

    • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/27/2008 9:04:54 PM

      Don't kid yourself. Obama is more than ready. He has a very clear vision of where he wants to take this country internationally. He has been waiting for this moment for a long time.

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/27/2008 8:27:51 PM

    Who is bested suited to lead in these difficult times? The two candidates have had to deal with both a major presidential level decision and a global crisis in the past couple months.

    We just witnessed as good a side by side crisis test as you could ask for. Both candidates had to respond to the global financial meltdown, which John's campaign manager Rick Davis called "the worst financial crisis in our nation's history." It was John McCain who was late to recognize what was happening and then couldn't figure out how to respond. He made a dramatic show of suspending his campaign because he knew he needed to seize the initiative politically, but then didn't seem to have any coherent position once he took charge. It doesn't inspire confidence when you say you're going to do something and then back down within days.

    On the critical matter of selecting a VP who would step into the Presidency in an emergency, John McCain gives us an unintelligent mediocrity without knowledge or experience in national and international issues. Palin clearly was chosen to fire up the religious right base, but she has little appeal to the vast swath of America. Obama's VP pick is Sentor Joe Biden, who clearly has foreign policy chops and could legitimately step into the Oval Office should the need arise.

    John's horrendous POW experience did nothing to prepare him for the job of president. A captive soldier must cope with a situation in which he has no control and can decide nothing. A President of the United States must make good decisions over and over again. Barack Obama has demonstrated the intelligence, calmness and good judgment we so desperately need in a leader for these troubled times. He has been tested repeatedly in this marathon campaign and he has risen to meet every challenge, sticking to his message of hope and change, and not falling into the low-life mud slinging we have seen from McCain.

    Obama has better judgement, better temperament, better manners and better ideas that John McCain. I'm a middle-aged white female Christian Republican, and I am voting for Barack Obama.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/27/2008 7:54:36 PM

    Now there is proof. In the exchange with "Joe the plumber" Obama let it slip that he really is as radical as his early political mentors, Davis, Ayers, Wright, etc., and that he is into the failed economic policy of wealth redistribution. Now, an interview with Obama in 2001, mysteriously overlooked all this time by the main media outlets, proves this fact. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iivL4c_3pck

    Obama's redistribution and restitution plans alone would be bad enough, but add Reid and Pelosi to the mix, with the three of them controlling both houses of Congress and the executive branch without any effective restraint, and you have something that should causes concern even among moderate Democrats.
    See Wall Street Journal: A Liberal Supermajority:

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122420205889842989.html

    Indeed, some democrats are publically saying as much. See Barney Franks comments on the news, including face the nation last week, stating essentially that Democrats in Congress intend to greatly raise taxes and go on a spending spree.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Mazjm_A5k

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

    See http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/23617.html

  • Posted By: RandyHiggins @ 10/27/2008 7:32:16 PM

    I'm praying for the next president and hoping he doesn't resign in 6 months. Whoever gets the office gets the biggest challenges the nation has faced since the 30's and possibly since the civil war.

    I hope all of us who have enjoyed the free for all discussions here will also be unceasing in our prayers for the next president and congress.

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/27/2008 7:18:22 PM

    What a historic election! Americans must turn out in big numbers and vote for the man who most trusts us, the man who will best protect us, the man who will best defend the Constitution of the United States, the man who most loves his country. Some say that Obama is that man. Some say that McCain is that man.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/27/2008 6:19:35 PM

    In this video, Obama, who claims he has "no ties with Acorn" notwithstanding the $800,000 paid to an Acorn group during the primaries, is campaigning at a convention of Acorn and I believe two other Community Activist's organizations. Ask if he will be their ally if he becomes President and pledge to meet with leaders of Acorn and the others in his first year, Obama says, quote:

    "Yes, but let me say that before I even get inaugurated, during the transition, we are going to be calling all of you in to help us shape the agenda."

    See and hear it for yourself. Obama promised that Acorn and a couple of other groups like it will setting his agenda if elected even before he is inaugurated:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vJcVgJhNaU

  • Posted By: MegaDeath @ 10/27/2008 3:08:07 PM

    Obama would be a scared wimp if he encountered a crises that involved an attack on the U.S. He would save his own ass by giving Bin Laden a Blow Job and tell him not to hurt him.

    • Posted By: Nins @ 10/27/2008 5:26:03 PM

      This kind of nonsense shows how weak you are, MegaDeath. I've got news for you, kids read these blogs, so PUT A SOCK IN IT.

    • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/27/2008 4:54:38 PM

      Obama is not a wimp. Don't kid yourself. If he fails to protect America it will not be because of a lack of courage.

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/27/2008 5:25:31 PM

    Obama has 63 Nobel Laureates working on his policy team. They are developing a plan to push America back to the top. Who is responsible for McCain's planning? Americans would be shocked to find that Douglas Holtz-Eakin is the sole person responsible for planning McCain's policy for America's future. Holtz-Eakin is also McCain's economic advisor, filling two full time positions on McCain's team. How can one single man (an economist) be responsible for developing a viable technology plan for our future? Obama has an enormous pool of the most intelligent, talented men and women in America working for him. Soon, they will be working for US.

    And let's not forget that the McCain campaign spent more on Palin's makeup artist than it did on it's foreign policy advisor. When you pay your makeup artist DOUBLE what you pay your foreign policy advisor, it is time to start examining your PRIORITIES.

    You look just fine without makeup, John. And Sarah is young enough not to need any. So cut the crap, and start paying some good ECONOMIC ADVISORS so you can have a fiscal plan to present to America. We're in the middle of a huge global financial meltdown, and you are worried about hair and makeup? PLEASE start worrying about the middle class, John. Please.

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/27/2008 4:53:36 PM

    Who is bested suited to lead in these difficult times? The two candidates have had to deal with both a major presidential level decision and a global crisis in the past couple months.

    We just witnessed as good a side by side crisis test as you could ask for. Both candidates had to respond to the global financial meltdown, which John's campaign manager Rick Davis called "the worst financial crisis in our nation's history." It was John McCain who was late to recognize what was happening and then couldn't figure out how to respond. He made a dramatic show of suspending his campaign because he knew he needed to seize the initiative politically, but then didn't seem to have any coherent position once he took charge. It doesn't inspire confidence when you say you're going to do something and then back down within days.

    On the critical matter of selecting a VP who would step into the Presidency in an emergency, John McCain gives us an unintelligent mediocrity without knowledge or experience in national and international issues. Palin clearly was chosen to fire up the religious right base, but she has little appeal to the vast swath of America. Obama's VP pick is Sentor Joe Biden, who clearly has foreign policy chops and could legitimately step into the Oval Office should the need arise.

    John's horrendous POW experience did nothing to prepare him for the job of president. A captive soldier must cope with a situation in which he has no control and can decide nothing. A President of the United States must make good decisions over and over again. Barack Obama has demonstrated the intelligence, calmness and good judgment we so desperately need in a leader for these troubled times. He has been tested repeatedly in this marathon campaign and he has risen to meet every challenge, sticking to his message of hope and change, and not falling into the low-life mud slinging we have seen from McCain.

    Obama has better judgement, better temperament, better manners and better ideas that John McCain. I'm a middle-aged white female Christian Republican, and I am voting for Barack Obama.

  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/27/2008 4:52:35 PM

    NowfortheTruth asserts that the goal of community organizing is to "redistribute wealth."

    The real goal of community organizing is to assemble political power for those who historically have had none: the poor and minorities. Some community organizations exist to redress the fact that white banks have refused to loan money to black clients. If you want to call this "redistribution of wealth," go right ahead. The rest us will continue to call it racism.

    And when it comes to discussing "redistribution of wealth" and calling Obama a socialist, it is time for you to rethink that strategy. You might be stepping into a huge pile of dog doo-doo, Now fortheTruth.

    Did you see McCain on Meet the Press this Sunday? Tom Brokaw played two clips of when McCain was against the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. McCain sings the praises of "redistribution of wealth" and says "wealthy people can afford more taxes."

    When McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, he said that he was taking a "principled stance." But when Obama opposes these same tax cuts, McCain labels Obama as a "socialist." Nice double standard, John.

    The doo-doo gets deeper, Now for the Dog Stuff on my Hoof.

  • Posted By: AdamB15 @ 10/27/2008 2:05:48 AM

    Hey bunchofchemies (first post), Bill Clinton made a wrong choice.... i can't remember what it was... No wait!

    It was Rhawanda! (Sp?) That's right.. he chose to do nothing, now hundreds of thousands are dead...

    Hahaha, this is what i learned in a 7th grade social studies class, and it was awhen i was like a 1 year old... where were you?

    • Posted By: BunchofChemies @ 10/27/2008 2:19:39 PM

      Name one President in the modern era who never made a poor choice in foreign affairs when examined in retrospect. I'll settle for a military that isn't bogged down in two wars, no Guantanemo gulag, and no sanction of torture. Who would argue that George W Bush gets any better than a D in foreign policy? Hey, his daddy gets a B in my opinion, same as Clinton. Reagan was over-rated, and gets a C. Carter was a C, too. Unless you are FDR or Woodrow Wilson, it is hard to get an A.

  • Posted By: ariziowa @ 10/27/2008 4:57:30 AM

    Agreed !! It is quite hilarious - Osama and Democrats are going to "fix" the world. Talk about hubris! Go ahead our saviour!

    • Posted By: chris s. @ 10/27/2008 12:50:14 PM

      The real hoot is that you expect those who broke it to fix it. If you take your car to a mechanic and he screws it up; do you keep taking it to the same mechanic over and over? Well, maybe you would. As for the fixing the world, it is sooo broken by Bush and co. that it is going to take a loooong time to fix. If everything isn't back to great in six months you will probably blame Obama and conveniently forget who messed this thing up in the first place. Face it, it's going to take awhile. We Americans are not very patient with our leaders and that could be the reason for a 4 year Obama presidency. Then what? A Palin presidency? I shudder to think!

  • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/27/2008 9:16:23 AM

    We stand at the edge of a precipice. An Obama presidency will lead to the following: 1. Less economic opportunity. 2. A tyranny of political correctness. 3. Undermining of Israel. 4. Chavez having free rein in South America. 5. Appointment of radical judges. 6. More crime. 7. A weakening of our military. 8. Our being more vulnarable to terrorit attacks.

    • Posted By: RO in Reno @ 10/27/2008 9:30:14 AM

      We are at the edge of a precipice, the brink of disaster in fact.
      But let me tell you kid it was the Republicans who have taken us there, people like you are part of the problem not the solution.

      • Posted By: josemarti @ 10/27/2008 9:43:06 AM

        The solution is: 1. Respect for the Constitution. 2. Respect for the rule of law. 3. Respect for the collective wisdom of the American people. Obama has respect for none of these.

        • Posted By: neos @ 10/27/2008 12:41:53 PM

          1. Senator is a constitutional scholar. His respect for our constitution is based on understanding.
          2. ???????
          3. Obviously you have little respect for the wisdom of the American people. They are making their choice clear and you think they are wrong.

        • Posted By: TheVigil @ 10/27/2008 10:31:34 AM

          I disagree with that, to the extent that I feel you have no respect for the truth. Both candidates are fine and decent men, in my opinion, but I agree with the policies of one of them more. You haven't offered a single fact to prove your position.

          But you're entitled to your opinion, as unfounded as it might be.

    • Posted By: RockRibbedConservative @ 10/27/2008 10:17:28 AM

      Exactly! Jimmy Carter's second term. Welcome to Paradise!

    • Posted By: benluclar @ 10/27/2008 9:27:27 AM

      Excellent post. I agree. Get the word out for others to THINK before they VOTE.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/26/2008 6:32:18 PM

    The Kennedy tax cut.

    http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/bg1765.cfm

    About half way through the article.

    President Kennedy proposed massive tax-rate reductions, which were passed by Congress and became law after he was assassinated. The 1964 tax cut reduced the top marginal personal income tax rate from 91 percent to 70 percent by 1965. The cut reduced lower-bracket rates as well. In the four years prior to the 1965 tax-rate cuts, federal government income tax revenue--adjusted for inflation--increased at an average annual rate of 2.1 percent, while total government income tax revenue (federal plus state and local) increased by 2.6 percent per year . In the four years following the tax cut, federal government income tax revenue increased by 8.6 percent annually and total government income tax revenue increased by 9.0 percent annually. Government income tax revenue not only increased in the years following the tax cut, it increased at a much faster rate.
    The Kennedy tax cut set the example that President Ronald Reagan would follow some 17 years later. By increasing incentives to work, produce, and invest, real GDP growth increased in the years following the tax cuts: More people worked, and the tax base expanded. Additionally, the expenditure side of the budget benefited as well because the unemployment rate was significantly reduced.
    Using the Congressional Budget Office's revenue forecasts (made with the full knowledge of the future tax cuts), revenues came in much higher than had been anticipated, even after the "cost""of the tax cut had been taken into account. Additionally, in 1965--one year following the tax cut--personal income tax revenue data exceeded expectations by the greatest amounts in the highest income classes.
    Testifying before Congress in 1977, Walter Heller, President Kenned''s Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, summarized:
    What happened to the tax cut in 1965 is difficult to pin down, but insofar as we are able to isolate it, it did seem to have a tremendously stimulative effect, a multiplied effect on the economy. It was the major factor that led to our running a $3 billion surplus by the middle of 1965 before escalation in Vietnam struck us. It was a $12 billion tax cut, which would be about $33 or $34 billion in today's terms, and within one year the revenues into the Federal Treasury were already above what they had been before the tax cut.
    Did the tax cut pay for itself in increased revenues? I think the evidence is very strong that it did

    • Posted By: neos @ 10/26/2008 6:39:40 PM

      A wise person once told me what can happen when you torture sadistics....

      • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/26/2008 6:44:00 PM

        Ha! How are you doing? Had a nice chat with Nims last night.

        • Posted By: neos @ 10/26/2008 6:49:54 PM

          Doing well, thank you. Glad to see that some of us can start to have nice chats again.. 9 more days. Meanwhile i am trying not to tear my remaining hair out from reading posts by the redoubtable loriw. Kinda like a rock, only dumber. Criminally gullible that one.

          • Posted By: Vypurr @ 10/26/2008 10:19:21 PM

            I've noticed little Lori get to you big time.... How come, neos?

            • Posted By: neos @ 10/26/2008 10:27:18 PM

              Unlike Unholy and Icey who are evil and deserve their fate, i almost feel sorry for loriw. Almost. She is so pathetically dumb and allows herself to be mentally abused and manipulated by the likes of Sharenews, Limbaugh,et. al.who prey upon her gullibility. If she could just once question the filth she so readily swallows, just once, then I could have just a little more hope in the potential of my species. Capice?

              • Posted By: Vypurr @ 10/26/2008 11:06:42 PM

                Ohhhh, you sound so angry! Actually, Lori isn't dumb. I've read her posts. You just think so because she doesn't agree with you..

                This is just a long winded answer to say that you're intimidated by her!

                BTW, I speak fluent Italian... While "capice" is acceptable, 'capisce" is proper. Capisce?

                • Posted By: neos @ 10/27/2008 12:28:54 PM

                  I can do typos in several languages. I suffer from PFS (Pudgey Finger Syndrome). Intimidate, no; exasperate, si. It isn't about a point of view, it is about honesty. Let me give you a recent example.
                  There was a voluntary response suvey on a military blog site recently. Sharenews takes a cooked up version of a report on this survey off and posts it. loriw bites. Now, the disclaimer for this survey in the original article (a disclaimer that not surprisingly didn't make it into sharenews' posting) clearly stated that it was NOT a scientific 'poll' and did NOT reflect the military as a whole. The respondents tended to be senior officers and white. (Who else in the military has laptops and idle time to fill in surveys?) In essence it was comparable to one of those goofy phone in surveys that Fox news does after debates. You know the ones that show McCain winning 86% tyo 12% with 4% undecided. LOL.
                  Now all this is patiently explained to our poor little addle-minded loriw and the next days she goes on happily speading the results of this survey as if it had validity. This is dishonesty. Now who really knows what the military would poll like. I have my opinion and you have yours. perhaps the survey was close.
                  The point is that loriw is happy to spread lies. I don't think she started a out as a bad person but this campaign has twisted her. Either dumb as the proverbial bag of hammers or a liar. I'm banking on dumb in the hope that there is someday redemption for her and that ignorant backwater of our nation that is the Limbaugh audience.
                  Ha capito?

                • Posted By: YashBudini @ 10/27/2008 8:21:58 AM

                  Well then you saw only what you wanted, not the whole picture.

          • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/26/2008 7:00:25 PM

            I understand. Perhaps you can devine what VOTE NOW is up to. I got to go help with homework, but I'll catch up to you later.

            • Posted By: neos @ 10/26/2008 7:04:52 PM

              Well. I thought that Vote Now was an automatic program that downloaded on this site at predetermined intervals, but today there seems to be a new message? Good luck with the homework! Ciao for now.

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