Comments on: Iraqi War, Alito, Plamegate, or Should It Be … About the Economy?

By: Valium

Valium — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 01:14:16 +0000

Hi :D

By: sleipner

sleipner — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:59:40 +0000

Ha…considering Australia, possibly southern Spain, or perhaps one of the more modern cities in South America. I’m sure you’ll be devastated to see me go

I hope it won’t come to that extreme though, but if things keep going the way they are now America will no longer be the home of the free…we’ll be the home of the owned. Picture an American flag yoyo on the finger of China…

By: Denise Best

Denise Best — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 22:18:53 +0000

So, sleipner …

What country are you eyeing to be a good new home?

By: sleipner

sleipner — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 21:56:26 +0000

We are so far in hock right now that we will HAVE to raise taxes, pretty much no matter what. Especially if the economy starts to slow again (likely considering the oil crunch).

Reducing spending is a lovely idea, but only seems to work under rare circumstances – usually when government is balanced between the parties so neither gives the other what they want, so everyone goes home porkless. Or at least pork-light.

Frankly if we had kept up with how we were going with Clinton we would still have problems, Bush & the Republican congress have moved us from the “problem” level to catastrophic failure in just 5 short (though they’ve seemed interminable) years.

I expect I’ll probably be moving out of the country by 2015, sooner if we get another Republican president.

By: ford4x4

ford4x4 — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 17:25:08 +0000

I think the government is afraid to do anything, because they know they’re going to piss off part of their constituency, no matter what action they take.

The voters can probably be divided into 4 equal parts:

1) Reduce ALL spending and no tax increases
2) Reduce spending (but only on the programs I don’t like) and don’t raise taxes.
3) Reduce spending and increase taxes
4) Keep on spending and increase taxes

Not saying which is the best, but no matter what, somebody is going to have their feelings hurt. The government figures they’ll just keep going the way they are going, and hope nobody notices.