On 1/28/2011 10:39 AM, Stephen wrote:
>> This is what they think will "save the country"...
>>
>
> I'm still no wiser.
>
Then, I guess I don't get precisely what your point/question is.

Mine is that we are bankrupting the middle and lower class, nah, erasing 
the middle class (hell, I made less than 13k last year on my own job), 
while lining the pockets of people that, if they keep it up, will have 
to sell shit they make in China to people in Mexico, because the people 
in the US won't be able to afford to buy it. And, half the idiots in 
congress right now think jobs, pay rates, deficits, budget short falls, 
costs in general, and the inability of anyone to buy anything, is all 
going to be fixed by good old Reagan Voodoo Economics (i.e., trickle 
down economics), so the solution is more outsourcing, removing minimum 
wage laws, stripping away safety nets, repealing anything the government 
does for people, oh.. and giving more tax breaks to "US companies". The 
same companies shipping more than 49.9% of their jobs to some other country.

This isn't just a difference of opinion at this point. Even the damned 
experts responsible for determining what the effect of government 
policies has all say its madness. Many of the people in the party 
driving this have said "parts" of it are mad, even if they won't say all 
of it is. Its, to use a literary analogy, like watching the Wizards from 
the Unseen University, of Discworld fame, try to balance the budget, 
while Star Trek Ferengi give them advice on the rules of acquisition. 
The "experts" they use are in it purely for the money, and by 'the 
money', I mean *their money*, not to help anyone, unless it makes them 
more money doing it, and the people they are advising are back stabbing 
idiots, who say things like, "Sputnik caused Russia to go bankrupt!" 
Thereby simultaneously missing *why* the satellite was even mentioned 
*and* proving they probably couldn't correctly tell someone what they 
had for lunch five minutes ago, and get it right, never mind quote 
plausible facts from world history.

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