It’s The Economy, Stupid
Dec 4th, 2007 at 8:28 am by Susie
Now didn’t I warn you kids about what happens when you let Republicans play with the economy?
For months, Dale Albright, a 30-year-old Tampa, Fla., bankruptcy lawyer, has watched as his clients buckle under mortgage and credit-card debts. After an expensive recent hospital stay, he’s worried that a run of bad luck could leave him in financial straits, too.
“I care about bringing our troops home…and for the most part, I believe as far as domestic terrorism goes, I think we’ve got that pretty much under control,” Mr. Albright says. “But the economy really scares me.” A longtime Republican, this election he says he’s voting Democrat.
With the parties just weeks away from the first presidential nominating contests, economic concerns are seizing a top spot in many voters’ minds. Falling housing prices, rising gasoline prices and health-insurance worries are supplanting the war in Iraq and concern over terrorism.
“The middle class already is suffering from falling real incomes, even before this new economic slowdown,” says investment banker Roger Altman, an economic adviser to Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton. “This slowdown suggests the economy, once again, will be the No. 1 issue in 2008.”
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It’s the economy, stupid.
Hey, something else Clinton did first!
I haven’t said this out loud for a few days; What a bunch of pricks.
[...] Original post by Suburban Guerrilla [...]
Do not forget about Ron Paul. He is a Republican and not a neo-con. He wants to remove all troops from across the world, remove your federal income tax and believes in the true concept of small government.
Falling housing prices, rising gasoline prices and health-insurance worries
First, housing prices- of course they couldn’t go on the way they have for the past 15-odd years. I’m in the biz & I’m suprised it has gone on this long. As long as the glut of unsold units remains, regardless of which party controls what, it ain’t changin’ except thru market forces. BTW Government regulation is NOT the answer.
Rising gas prices-China is expected to surpass the US in auto production in about 4 years, and they will drill to run those babies. You think China’s worried about it? The market is bigger, & we ain’t changing that.
Health insurance worries- Want this instead? It’s what we peons will have if government take over this. You think the economy is slow now? WE WILL suffer economically if we nationalize 1/7 of it.
The Republican economic house of cards wasn’t exactly built to withstand a real winter storm. The picnic is over, winter is coming and, no, we’re not just talking about the weather.
Kevin, your kung fu is weak.
To wit:
1) Housing prices: Artificially high. Right now, “the government” is cooking up a way to regulate the subprime mess so it doesn’t bring down the economy. The Booshites seem to think government intervention is the only answer. Guess that invisible hand got caught jacking off too many bankers lately.
2) Gas prices: This is called the bumpy plateau. Google it. Markets and prices will go through a period of spikes and drops as the market responds to declining oil outputs and the consequent rising prices of liquid fuels. The market there will be limited by availability of those liquid petroleum products. This is why the US big three automakers are in a business that has literally no future; the Chinese are following the American lemmings right over the cliff.
3) Keep the craptastic Ayn Randian teenage social philosophy to yourself. That mindset works great until you need to call an ambulance because you or a member of your family is bleeding to death; it is then you understand the value of socially conscious government. Or perhaps you should get cancer and have your insurance company drop your coverage. How would that feel, being stroked by that invisible hand?
So, in closing, we ARE ALREADY suffering economically because the government has hollowed out the US economy and replaced it with a service and financial “industry” trojan horse that produces virtually nothing of real value. It was unthinkable that all the liquid cash could be siphoned out of an entire national economy and into the pockets of the very wealthy and simply replaced with worthless promissory notes and commercial paper, which was bundled and sold to foreigners who didn’t have a clue what was happening. It’s morning in American, Kevin. You’d better grow up fast and abandon this intellectually bankrupt nonsense that you get from the radio and teevee.
C’mon Goose, you can’t be that innocent! Who is in there with “the booshites” trying to bail out goofballs who took on something they couldn’t handle. Runnin’ for political points, that’s all it is.
I’ll stand by the oil opinion. PERIOD
I suppose I’m just a little kid who don’t understand nuttin’ & need you guys to fill me in on what life is really all about. Readin’ that there stuff I linked to just is so much BS, ain’t it……
I’ll close with this ‘un: I don’t often come back to this site after posting ‘cuz, frankly, comments like this turn me , and alot of others like me, off.
It’s morning in American, Kevin. You’d better grow up fast and abandon this intellectually bankrupt nonsense that you get from the radio and teevee.
So. That’s just your way of saying I’m right, right?
What DOES turn you on, Kevin?
Neocon talking points?
This gordian knot of problem we all face isn’t a liberal vs. conservative or republicker vs. demoncrat problem any more. It’s a question of saving our society from becoming a bad imitation of post soviet russia. First clue will be that things slowly begin to suck for more and more people…
Stay tuned.
I’ll stand by the oil opinion. PERIOD
Re: The oil.
(Pssst! It’s running out!)
http://www.oilposter.org/