The near-collapse of the world financial system in the fall of 2008 and the global credit crisis that followed gave rise to widespread calls for changes in the regulatory system. And Dems delivered. Bush appointee Ben Bernanke said yesterday that the economy won't pick up until 2014--nearly 6 long years after Pub bubble policies trashed it. My memory is as long regarding the gulf war fiasco too. I might not be a Democrat any longer but I will never be a Republican.
No, the reason the economy won't significantly heal until at least then is the socialist tax-and-regulate environment this regime has imposed on the American people.
So you know more than Ben Bernanke now? Can't blame your side for using it against your so-called freedom haters who you understandably want to unseat in order to force your agenda, yes you have an agenda and it certainly is not hands-off of anything but the economy. Another reason I hate Republicans is that their big push for law and order legislation back in the 80s, particulary with draconian drug laws has led to this mess with us housing more prisoners than any country on the face of the earth. I say face of the earth, because, well, you know, you seem to have a lock on who goes to heaven and who goes beneath the face of the earth too with your certainty about how we all should live and behave, except when it comes to economic activity, then it's hands off. I repeat, Ben Bernanke just said the other day that this economy will not come unstalled until 2014. Wonder who will be in power to take the credit when it does.
(here you will find reasonable gentlemen in the Pub party who were once intransigent now coming around to realize and understand the sad truth of what their party largely wrought 30 years ago.)
It's time to reiterate something that comes up in these threads once in a while: most conservatives don't think about drugs or drug policy much at all. It's way down the list of pressing concerns in our world, except for the way it figures into Latin American gang activity and the like.
Most people with anything really on the ball spend little if any time thinking about getting high.
Here's a serious question for you: If you went to a Pub candidates' dabate or forum and had the chance to ask a question, would you first choice for a question - in this day of $13 trillion deficits, unemployment above 8.5% for three-plus years, Iran saber-rattling and clearly attaining nuke capability, Egypt holding 19 US NGO personnel, and 70 percent of the US population dependent to at least some degree on government largesse - have to do with marijuana policy?
The near-collapse of the world financial system in the fall of 2008 and the global credit crisis that followed gave rise to widespread calls for changes in the regulatory system. And Dems delivered. Bush appointee Ben Bernanke said yesterday that the economy won't pick up until 2014--nearly 6 long years after Pub bubble policies trashed it. My memory is as long regarding the gulf war fiasco too. I might not be a Democrat any longer but I will never be a Republican.
ReplyDeleteNo, the reason the economy won't significantly heal until at least then is the socialist tax-and-regulate environment this regime has imposed on the American people.
ReplyDeleteSo you know more than Ben Bernanke now? Can't blame your side for using it against your so-called freedom haters who you understandably want to unseat in order to force your agenda, yes you have an agenda and it certainly is not hands-off of anything but the economy. Another reason I hate Republicans is that their big push for law and order legislation back in the 80s, particulary with draconian drug laws has led to this mess with us housing more prisoners than any country on the face of the earth. I say face of the earth, because, well, you know, you seem to have a lock on who goes to heaven and who goes beneath the face of the earth too with your certainty about how we all should live and behave, except when it comes to economic activity, then it's hands off. I repeat, Ben Bernanke just said the other day that this economy will not come unstalled until 2014. Wonder who will be in power to take the credit when it does.
ReplyDeleteRead more about the American Gulag at:
"The Caging of America" in the New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2012/01/30/120130crat_atlarge_gopnik
James Webb's Criminal Justice Crusade from Newsweek:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/09/11/jim-webb-s-criminal-justice-crusade.html
(here you will find reasonable gentlemen in the Pub party who were once intransigent now coming around to realize and understand the sad truth of what their party largely wrought 30 years ago.)
It's time to reiterate something that comes up in these threads once in a while: most conservatives don't think about drugs or drug policy much at all. It's way down the list of pressing concerns in our world, except for the way it figures into Latin American gang activity and the like.
ReplyDeleteMost people with anything really on the ball spend little if any time thinking about getting high.
Here's a serious question for you: If you went to a Pub candidates' dabate or forum and had the chance to ask a question, would you first choice for a question - in this day of $13 trillion deficits, unemployment above 8.5% for three-plus years, Iran saber-rattling and clearly attaining nuke capability, Egypt holding 19 US NGO personnel, and 70 percent of the US population dependent to at least some degree on government largesse - have to do with marijuana policy?
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