Your ignorance is only surpassed by the crap that you write. Forget about your 40 years of “executive experience” —(McDonalds)???—and go back to school for a crash course in economics.

Sadly for your argument, The United States is a COUNTRY — not a private business. It’s not difficult even for a CEO to understand that deficit-swelling tax breaks for the wealthy, unfunded wars and other ‘gifts’ to those who don’t need them have gotten us into this mess and it can’t possibly be fixed in a day.

It’s time to set this country back on the path to middle-class expansion, which has ALWAYS been the key to growth of the economy — not more dancing horses and car elevators for multi-millionaires and billionaires. Obama is making improvement, albeit slower than many of us like. But it IS improvement, and not the free-fall into an economic abyss that GW engineered.

Don’t even get me started on foreign policy. The GOP’s ass has been glowing a bright red for the last couple of years due to the fact that Obama has whipped it soundly by taking away one of the GOP’s longtime arguments — and you know it.

You haven’t learned much in 40 years, my friend. Time to call the Koch brothers for some tuition assistance. Go back to school and stay awake this time.

Totally agree. Obama is inept and voting for him again would be a disaster.

Didn’t Romney say he couldn’t be blamed for the mess he inherited as governor? How many CEO’s can you name that have been thrown out of their company without a “golden parachute” after they cost their shareholders and in some cases taxpayers millions or billions of dollars?

The “True Crime” is this entire mess has been the DEDCIATED EFFORTS of GOP Leaders to see that our elected president fails. The failure of any president is a failure of America!

Mitch McConnell swore in 2008 the Republicans would do everything they could do to see Obama failed and he again stated that objective in 2010. The GOP has fought every effort directed toward national recovery and spent billions of dollars creating hate and discontent against the Obama Administration (Internal Development techniques from the Vietnam War) at a huge cost to tax payers and national recovery.

We should have been well on our way to recovery and we would have had the Republicans done their job as we expect elected officials to do rather than spend their time and resources ensuring an Obama failure!

Nazi Bill… you are such a blind moron, you cant even look at simple numbers. I’ll bet you’d vote for Obozo if he was caught raping boys in the showers, wouldn’t you?

See you later Nazi Bill!

LAB… What has Obozo done to fix the problems? 167 fundraisers and 150 rounds of golf? Come on, what has he done?

Have a nice day!

What exactly has Obozo done to fix the “problems he inherited”? And what role did DemocRAT control of the Congress since 2006 play in the creation of those so-called “problems he inherited”?

Any takers?

Have a nice day!

If everyone is going to point fingers, lets just remember that when you do three are pointing back at you (fingers that is).

Both parties have contributed to the deficit, it seems like they, politicians, run on the fact that they will rein in the growing national debt. Once elected they continue to expand it. Now I am no expert, but I do try to pay attention, and here are some observations.

1. The national debt did raise dramatically during the Reagan administration. NOTE: The USSR as we knew it during the “Cold War” was defeated without a shot being fired to bring it about. The President rebuilt the Military, and equipped it to be a deterrent, after several years of neglect. As has been pointed out on other posts — DEFENSE — is one of the enumerated purposes of our national government.

2. President George H W Bush looked to continue many policies, but was not as effective as the “Great Communicator” at guiding the economic ship. He failed to recognize that the regular person on the street was not doing well economically. The group thinking led to his defeat to a masterful politician.

3. President Bill Clinton — I am sorry to say was failing after the first two years of his administration to lead the country because he could not control his own party’s desires. Once the mid-term election came along, he was able to push through, or in some cases sign legislation passed by a republican majority, that reminded us that there is a separation of powers.

Side Note: President (Executive Branch) Executes policy, and sets the agenda. Congress (Legislative Branch) holds the purse strings and passes laws to direct the country. Last but not least the Supreme Court (Judicial Branch) is there to determine if the policies and actions of the government are constitutional, if not, then the law is struct down and the other branches have a chance to reset and try again.

So there was passed a Line Item Veto and both parties worked to balance the budget. Through finding efficiencies in how things were done, some budget cuts, and yes even targeted tax cuts to induce desired behavior. Other parties had their taxes raised. Argue what you may about his personal demons, or how the legislation was passed, but when he left office there was I believe a $1 Trillion surplus over the next ten year period.

4. Enter President George W, Bush — He determines that with that kind of surplus it is best to return it to the people, in this case it was by and large the wealthiest americans. Did he do anything for the poor, Yes I remember some payroll tax cuts, and lest we forget the Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage. Another entitlement, that is quite expensive, though many would argue necessary. Seniors do not have to choose between eating or getting critical medications to prolong their lives or improve its quality. 9/11 took its toll, many corporate scandals rocked the publics confidence in many of its institutions. Then we went to war, all without asking the nation to share the pain by doing without. Instead we bankrolled these efforts on the credit card, while continuing the tax cuts for the wealthy. The Housing bubble burst among other bubbles, and the public saw their 401K tank, homes began being reposessed and many lost trust in government.

5. Enter President Barak Hussein Obama, he is graced with control of both chambers of congress. He is also saddled with the vision he portrayed that he would reach across the aisle to work with the Republicans. He squandered many opportunities by moving slowly, only to be condemned that he was not working with the other party. He caved to many of the spending ideas that his own party wanted passed, and was rebuked during the mid term elections. The republicans were emboldened by the fact that thier delaying tacktics worked, and have since actively worked to block most any legislation that they feel would put the President in a good light. Then decry the lack of leadership on his part. Let us not forget the Healthcare Affordability Act (aka ObamaCare).

I believe that both parties have plenty to answer for. Any extra money is either spent on pet projects (Democrats primarily, but Republicans have been known to do this also), or refunded through tax cuts (Primarily Republicans though as mentioned Targeted by Democrats). Seldom do either party get serious about cutting unnecessary programs, or doing without a few of those fancy toys that the military believes they need.

So get over the finger pointing — There is plenty of blame to go around — Put the country before the party and represent all your constituents, not just those with the big checks. — I’ll step off the soapbox and let you all have a chance tothrow a grenade or two.

Wow. You are seriously confused.

212… I keep hearing this lefty mantra of “helping the middle and lower class”. What exactly do you mean by “help”?

Perhaps we can say that given 1865 Lincoln was a Republican. However the Republican party of that time would be considered the Democratic Party today. It is a difficult historical thing to understand, but Lincoln were he to be alive today, would be a Democratic politician.

That is an insult to Vulcans and especially Ambassador Spock. If anything that Cheney “thing” more closely resembled a Ferengi.

We tried that in 2010 and look what we got. The HOUSE is now full of scurvy slimeballs without the common sense God gave a goose. You want more of that?

Cheney and Bush were told Hussein had WMDs which was a fairy tale.

Collin Powell is still pissed about getting bum information and making the infamous Weapons of Mass Destruction speech before the UN General Assembly and looking like a clown.

Tony Blair British Prime Minister lost his election because he believed Bushie baby about WMDs and sold the idea to the Brits (who aren’t really that sharp anyway).

Really??? Wow, I thought only the extreme right’s hatred of the Clintons had gone to this level. I guess that we are in fact an equal opportunity nation after all.

He was our president, regardless of what state or party you are a citizen of. I would call for respect to the position, if not the man.

Ron… you can wake up from your crack induced haze any day now. Look it up. Gas prices on average when Obozo took office were about $1.75 nationally. Today, they are on average $3.50. That’s a 100% increase, you dope!

I think the only business you may have had a shot at running was a drug dealing business. For certain, only in that business will you find the customers are actually more stupid than you. Not in any other legal business, that’s for sure…. except maybe the business of collecting welfare checks.

Have a nice day!

My Lord, but you DO like to hear yourself prattle. I wouldn’t recommend that you make much use of the word ‘certified’ given your overabundance of unwarranted certitude.

Because I do believe in assisting the less fortunate, please allow me to point out the fact that ‘pack animals’ (as you more-or-less correctly refer to yourself and others) are normally led by alpha personalities. Alpha personalities have one significant attribute that utterly eludes the ‘trickle-down’ troglodytes: They exhibit a strong sense of community. Alpha ‘charlatans’ who do not exhibit this concern for the well-being of the pack usually enjoy rather short-lived success. Trickle-down aficionados may believe that Citizens United has opened the door to the golden age of corporate greed, but history has a way of making lessons out of such events.

Given your emigration (or escape, as the case may be) from your oft-referenced ‘motherland’, I can see how this fact might irritate your delicate sensibilities. There is admittedly no shortage of predators and opportunists who are willing to take whatever path necessary to survive, and a few take it a step further and predate others beyond any reasonable need. Americans are fairly tolerant of this behavior as long as it doesn’t cause widespread suffering for those who you derisively refer to as ‘sheep’. But at this point you appear rather confused — your refer to the masses as ‘mindless sheep’ while pointing out the number of firearms owned by said ‘sheep’, insinuating that this provides some validation of your greed-induced blather. It doesn’t. In fact it’s quite the opposite.

Americans aren’t stupid, comrade — we get that there are greedy social deadbeats in the world. Americans are perfectly willing to abide greedy blowhards — up to a certain point. We don’t mind it so much until you get on your soapboxes and start proselytizing to the rest of us how your greediness is the most clever and righteous form of human behavior ever devised, elevating you to a superior status among mankind.

Who do you think you’re fooling? Try to peer through the vodka haze for long enough to see that gluttonous, knuckle-dragging selfishness is only one of many possible human attributes and isn’t even very novel. There are many successful people who don’t believe this way. I get it: You are a greedy slug who takes help from others hand-over-fist, all the while loudly bellowing nonsense about how you are a self-made man. If you can’t appreciate the success that MY hard-earned efforts have afforded you, you may either give me back the assistance you so ungratefully snorted up over the years or risk alarming the sheep of your motherland by returning to whatever God-forsaken swamp you escaped from in the first place.

Try to stand up without leaning on your knuckles long enough to learn that there are those of us who are both successful AND appreciate how we became that way. Some of us believe that continuing that opportunity for those who come after us is a worthy cause. I don’t expect you to be able to understand it, but I’m afraid you’ll have to deal with it. That’s the future.

Nom… while I understand your point that some are born leaders and others are born sheep, I dont think such matters are cast in a genetic concrete for most people. There are too many examples of those that have come from nothing, against the odds, to make themselves successful, by whatever definition they choose to make.

As well, there are too many examples of those who were former leftist nutjobs that somehow were able to snap their way out of the trap of lies that makes up the leftist rationale. I was a liberal in college and shortly thereafter, but became aware the world and how it worked so differently than I thought it did when I was being indoctrinated in school. It took a little while, but I eventually came to realize all that I thought about the world (about the rich taking advantage of poor, about racisim always keeping black people down, about how women were discriminated against, about how unfair the world really was and that the economic pie is fixed and rich people steal the pieces from the poor) was an absolute lie. It was a bill of goods with empty boxes. And so many people out there actually believe these lies for their whole lives, it’s frightening. This is why I call Leftism/Statism/Socialism/ Liberalism a disease. It’s almost always fatal, but it can be cured. And the fact that it can be cured is evidence that the “genetic” theory doesn’t necessarily explain the divergence between the left and the right.

As well, read my response to WhutHeSaid’s response to you. I think I’ve interpreted his post quite accurately.

Have a nice day!