US Health Care Reform - Sidney Here's Another opinion!
[QUOTE=Sidney]"The Public Plan health reform is a ''mirage' according to Robert Samuelson of the Washington Post.[/QUOTE]"This thing is going to work!" according to Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning economist, quoted in yesterday's New York Times!
Choose your economist and take your chances!
Link:[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/opinion/26krugman.html[/url]
Samuelson gets the economy right just like Cheney gets war stuff
[QUOTE=Sidney]Today's BA Herald, p8, by Robert Samuelson of the Washington Post.[/QUOTE]I never send opinions to people I do not know, but reading Argentine Private the last few months and seeing the crap that passes for insight on the politics thread, I can't help myself.
I have a great time when I am in BA. I came last April when I needed a break from Birmingham after I quit the worst job I ever had with the ArmorGroup in Afghanistan.
Armor had the security contract at the US Embassy. I left after two weeks because I could see the company was a bunch of corrupt assholes with pals in the Bush camp, who hired dumb and crazy kids, didn't supervise anything and put the embassy at risk every day. It was the most disgusting fuck-up I ever saw. I knew the kid who blew the whistle and caused a huge scandal.
My time there taught me all I need to know about what all the grunts know is hopeless. But the generals don't give a shit, as long as they get their medals. Today generals don't fight, they sit in offices, give orders and get kids killed or fucked up permanently. It's sick. They are armchair warriors, like the know-nothings Cheney and McCain who spout horse shit about Afghanistan and just want us to stay at war forever so their pals can make trillions.
Anyone with a brain knows that criminal conspiracy - the Bush Administration - left Obama an impossible problem. He's fucked no matter what he decides. If you think Bush didn't do that on purpose, come to Birmingham and I will sell you a plantation cheap.
If you want to read another opinion on health care, check out Krugman's piece in the New York Times a few days ago. He says point blank _ "This thing is going to work." Krugman, who has a PhD in Economics from MIT and won a Nobel Prize in economics, is a little more credible than Samuelson, a writer with an undergraduate degree in government from Harvard who is a well-known conservative shill. Here's a link:[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/opinion/26krugman.html?_r=1[/url]
As for the Wall Street Journal dissing the recovery I love it came out on the day we learn the economy grew faster than expected last quarter thanks to the stimulus.
You guys should stick to chasing poontang rather than pissing on Obama. Having lived in the deep south all my life I can see where that instinct comes from. My sweet old Grandma used to say "I don''t hate the coloreds, it's just we all got along better when they stayed in their place."
Honduras - Diplomacy - the turtle wins
A while back there were posts here cheering when the military booted the elected President out of the country.
Now the President was no saint and was infected by the Latin leader's wish to stay in office forever, no matter the rules. It must be something in the drinking water.
Still when the corporate interests who didn't like his left-wing policies to were able to get the army to give him the boot - no matter what the rules, a crisis ensued. And some AR guys who are a bit partial to corporate / military rule said yippy.
A few months later after heavy negotiating led by Arias (that other Nobel Peace Prize winner) and the Organization of American States with support from Obama - a peaceful end to the crisis has been achieved.
No bloodshed, no tearing up the constitution, no re-emergence of another military dictatorship!
Diplomacy - nice idea I'd say!
Wisdom from a Southern Man
[QUOTE=Althebama]I never send opinions to people I do not know, but reading Argentine Private the last few months and seeing the crap that passes for insight on the politics thread, I can't help myself.
I have a great time when I am in BA. I came last April when I needed a break from Birmingham after I quit the worst job I ever had with the ArmorGroup in Afghanistan.
Armor had the security contract at the US Embassy. I left after two weeks because I could see the company was a bunch of corrupt assholes with pals in the Bush camp, who hired dumb and crazy kids, didn't supervise anything and put the embassy at risk every day. It was the most disgusting fuck-up I ever saw. I knew the kid who blew the whistle and caused a huge scandal.
My time there taught me all I need to know about what all the grunts know is hopeless. But the generals don't give a shit, as long as they get their medals. Today generals don't fight, they sit in offices, give orders and get kids killed or fucked up permanently. It's sick. They are armchair warriors, like the know-nothings Cheney and McCain who spout horse shit about Afghanistan and just want us to stay at war forever so their pals can make trillions.
Anyone with a brain knows that criminal conspiracy - the Bush Administration - left Obama an impossible problem. He's fucked no matter what he decides. If you think Bush didn't do that on purpose, come to Birmingham and I will sell you a plantation cheap.
If you want to read another opinion on health care, check out Krugman's piece in the New York Times a few days ago. He says point blank _ "This thing is going to work." Krugman, who has a PhD in Economics from MIT and won a Nobel Prize in economics, is a little more credible than Samuelson, a writer with an undergraduate degree in government from Harvard who is a well-known conservative shill. Here's a link:[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/o...ugman.html?_r=1[/url]
As for the Wall Street Journal dissing the recovery I love it came out on the day we learn the economy grew faster than expected last quarter thanks to the stimulus.
You guys should stick to chasing poontang rather than pissing on Obama. Having lived in the deep south all my life I can see where that instinct comes from. My sweet old Grandma used to say "I don''t hate the coloreds, it's just we all got along better when they stayed in their place."[/QUOTE]Alabama isn't so dumb and redneck after all!
Sunday 9 PM - A program you won't want to miss
HBO is going to air a very important documentary about Barack Obama, Sunday at 9 PM EST.
Barack Obama made history when he was elected President. This documentary gives the inside scoop on the Obama campaign, focusing on the candidate, family members, staffers and voters who helped change history.
The film covers how the campaign dealt with all the horse shit that was thrown at him such as bogus claims of ties to radical Marxist professors, corrupt friends, racist spiritual advisers, etc. It presents things that Fox News is unwilling to put out there on his spirituality, deep family values, proud patriotism and quick sense of self-deprecating humor. It will be a segment to remember.
Mark your calendar and pass this on to everyone you know: HBO, Sunday night, 9 PM ET.
Democrat or Republican, this report will open your eyes to how your country lived up to its promise and put aside racial prejudice and hatred.
If you are proud about our country choosing a better direction as it rebuked the Republican's sad record of war, incompetence and failed economic policies, pass this notice on to everyone you know.
(THIS IS NOT A HIT JOB - SORRY SID!
I Marked My Calender and will be watching
[QUOTE=Canitasguy]HBO is going to air a very important documentary about Barack Obama, Sunday at 9 PM EST.
Barack Obama made history when he was elected President. This documentary gives the inside scoop on the Obama campaign, focusing on the candidate, family members, staffers and voters who helped change history.
The film covers how the campaign dealt with all the horse shit that was thrown at him such as bogus claims of ties to radical Marxist professors, corrupt friends, racist spiritual advisers, etc. It presents things that Fox News is unwilling to put out there on his spirituality, deep family values, proud patriotism and quick sense of self-deprecating humor. It will be a segment to remember.
Mark your calendar and pass this on to everyone you know: HBO, Sunday night, 9 PM ET.
Democrat or Republican, this report will open your eyes to how your country lived up to its promise and put aside racial prejudice and hatred.
If you are proud about our country choosing a better direction as it rebuked the Republican's sad record of war, incompetence and failed economic policies, pass this notice on to everyone you know.
(THIS IS NOT A HIT JOB - SORRY SID![/QUOTE]Assuming the locals don't block the signal!
