Jeff1787
Sarge
I'm tired of paying high taxes. I guess I'm just selfish and unreasonable.
The high tax on beer is really a ball buster!!!
The high tax on beer is really a ball buster!!!
I'm tired of paying high taxes. I guess I'm just selfish and unreasonable.
The high tax on beer is really a ball buster!!!
I hate to tell you this then but a VAT is coming your way as well.I'm tired of paying high taxes. I guess I'm just selfish and unreasonable.
I didn't think so.
I hate to tell you this then but a VAT is coming your way as well.
No, it isn't the correct definition of a Neocon.Why not? That's the correct definition.
No, it isn't the correct definition of a Neocon.
You seem dangerously close to describing a Congressional Democrat atm (small j/k) but no closer to giving a cogent definition of a neocon. Here's a hint it doesn't really mean w/e Cutlass and people he agrees with dislike.How not? They make stuff up and then attack anyone who doesn't conform to their fictional world view.
You seem dangerously close to describing a Congressional Democrat atm (small j/k) but no closer to giving a cogent definition of a neocon. Here's a hint it doesn't really mean w/e Cutlass and people he agrees with dislike.
Aparently 6% of Total US mortgages caused a worldwide finacial collapse.
Lehmen brothers cooking the books to a tune of $50 Billion had nothing to do with that whatsoever.
I am pretty sure 50 billion dollars did not cause the crisis either.
I'm not sure if "always wrong" is the entirety of the definition of "neoconservative;" I think it's a necessary but not sufficient element. No definition of "neoconservative" is complete without acknowledging that they're always wrong about everything -- communism in Indochina (we lost, and nothing they predicted happened), communism in Central America (the Sandinistas took power, and nothing they predicted happened), the strength of the Soviet Union in the 1980s (it collapsed), the Iraq War (do I really have to say anything?), &c. For a complete definition, you'd have to include stuff about their anti-communist origins, interventionist foreign policy, and support for terrorism in furtherance of that interventionist foreign policy.
But whatever their position is on an issue, you start with the premise that they're wrong. Their track record really doesn't allow for any other interpretive approach.
Cleo
If that 50 billion dollars is what would be responsible for Lehman brothers collapsing, then yeah, it probably is.
I don't even know what 50 billions he is talking about, and I doubt it is what caused Lehman to collapse. And no, Lehman is not what brought down the whole global economy. It did not cause the crisis anymore than Gavrilo Princips caused the Great War.
From my understanding, they would not be the principal cause, however their dropping dead would cause a domino effect.
Well they've come around to the notion (which has been true since at least 1981) that republicans have abandoned fiscal conservatives to pursue neoliberal economic policies. I don't see a lot of intellectual horsepower coming from their camp, and won't expect any soon given who they chose to chair their big national meeting. I would love to see a truly liberal counterpart to the tea party movement - one that recognizes this health care bill is really just a suit of the emperor's new clothes. Liberals should be up in arms over this joke legislation, which goes far enough to piss off the right, but not far enough to actually solve the problems it set out to solve. The truly liberal members of congress (I think there are about 15 total) who backed down and voted for this crap are spineless cowards, willing to cave into the system to maintain campaign funding from a party that has abandoned liberalism for neo-liberal economic policies. Choosing between a republican and a democrat is like choosing whether the guy raping you is going to use a condom.I don't really see how that could be. The Democrats are deeply flawed. I'll grant that. However, these tea-partiers range from evil to deranged to just irresponsible. I haven't seen anything of them yet that isn't a disaster.