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Well if we could ever get this republican bunch out I will probably buy my own truck and have a little more flexibility to take a day or two off.

But I don't have enough confidence now.

The bottom could literally fall out at any time, it seems to me.

Record trade deficit, record budget deficit, etc.

Not a healthy situation, imo.

Uhh, Sherm, that's the rhetoric that won the 2006 election, and how have things gone since then?

Well Mike you got me there. What can I say?


I guess it's just like shade tree mechanicing when you start trying to fix the economy.

Change one part and if that dont work change something else.

So we changed the Congress and that didnt work so now we need to change the White House.

Do you have a better idea?

shermangeneral wrote:Well Mike you got me there. What can I say?


I guess it's just like shade tree mechanicing when you start trying to fix the economy.

Change one part and if that dont work change something else.

So we changed the Congress and that didnt work so now we need to change the White House.

Do you have a better idea?

Both Hillary and BO have proposed spending 200,000,000.00 ABOVE what GWB proposed. How is increasing spending by that much going to fix the economy? By raising taxes? The stimulus PROVES that money is better off in the hands of the American people and businesses then in the governments hands. democrats, both the big and little d kind must agree because they jumped right on the bandwagon, unless of course they were only jumping on for votes. At any rate, it proves that what moves the economy is the individual, not government.

The best way to fix the economy is for government to stop trying to fix the economy and let it correct itself. That and across the board reduction in spending.

Well Aaron is that what you might call the Hoover approach.?

Just sit back and hope things get better?

shermangeneral wrote:Well Aaron is that what you might call the Hoover approach.?

Just sit back and hope things get better?

Really Sherm? You sure about that?

Didn't Hoover spend more government money in 1930 in an attempt to revive the economy then was spent 1929. And wasn't the stock market back to early 1929 levels by spring 1930. And then didn't Hoover sign into law the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act which many economist believe turned the stock market crash into the great depression and that one act strangled global trade and led to tariff’s on American imports by other countries and did much more harm then it did good.

Hoover's do nothing government intervention did more harm then it did good. Had he actually done nothing and allowed free trade to correct itself, the depression likely wouldn't have been as severe or lasted as long.

Sherm,

I don't want our leaders to sit back and do nothing. I want them to reduce the size of government and cut spending. I'd also like to see them retake control of our currency. I'd like to see them perform the duties the Constitution outlines for them.

btw.....I hear what you guys are saying about being "open". I do think I'm open. Both of our Senators and my Congresswoman hear from me on a fairly regular basis. I also write letters, email and even call state and local officials.

I draw the line at a tracking device.

Here is what we should do about bin Laden and everybody else who threatens the United States.

We should leave the UN immediately. We should say that we have been the world's nanny and policeman for far too long, and that we will not follow world opinion when it comes to defending our children from those who threaten us. We should also say that we are going to be getting out of other country's lives as well, so as not to engender any more animosity than we need to.

well I disagree.

I say let's all just try to get along.

I agree we should try to get along. I am vehemently opposed to preemptive wars. I am fully in favor of getting our big fat intrusive noses out of the internal operations of other nations. I fully support US withdrawal from the UN.

shermangeneral wrote:well I disagree.

I say let's all just try to get along.

YUP, if we all don't agree to just try to get along, ......... then all the trough-feeders and flim-flammers will not be trying, trying, trying ........ to get our money to pay for their haphazard and futile attempts of trying to get along.

They would all be out of a job in a heartbeat and that would not be good ..... for them.



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SheikBen wrote:Here is what we should do about bin Laden and everybody else who threatens the United States.

We should leave the UN immediately. We should say that we have been the world's nanny and policeman for far too long, and that we will not follow world opinion when it comes to defending our children from those who threaten us. We should also say that we are going to be getting out of other country's lives as well, so as not to engender any more animosity than we need to.

Very sound idea, I am sure that would help with economic recovery.

Welcome, ecofriek (I may have welcomed you elsewhere but I have a bad memory).

What would you have done about the economy?

The 1st thing we should next do is ....... forget about bin Laden.

Worrying and talking about him is akin to worrying and talking about Saddam Hussian.

ecofriek wrote:

SheikBen wrote:Here is what we should do about bin Laden and everybody else who threatens the United States.

We should leave the UN immediately. We should say that we have been the world's nanny and policeman for far too long, and that we will not follow world opinion when it comes to defending our children from those who threaten us. We should also say that we are going to be getting out of other country's lives as well, so as not to engender any more animosity than we need to.

Very sound idea, I am sure that would help with economic recovery.

Right now, the one area of our economy that is thriving due to the weak dollar is exports. Our trade deficit is actually shrinkihng so how would leaving the UN and pissing of half the rest of the world to the point that they stop purchasing American products improve the economy?