The problem with most political threads of any count is that some inordinate amount of noise is supplied by the ass lickers and the cock suckers.
Anybody who can't admit that Bush is a war criminal for sanctioning torture is an ass licker. Anybody who can't get over WMD's and see the value of what may yet become of Iraq is a cock sucker.
Its not a matter of not getting over WMD's- its a matter of a trillion dollars BORROWED against our future on the basis of LIES. Torture is one thing.. but getting us into Iraq in that manner was TREASON.
WOULD the US be int Iraq if we had not been lied to?
What may come in Iraq will come when we LEAVE. And what we leave behind is Half a million Dead, who would be alive today if not for us.
Sorry, but I do not cotton to someone putting blood on my hands for reasons that were known to be false ahead of time.
Anybody who speaks vitriolically against Obama's overture to Iran (albeit premature) is an ass licker. Anybody who doesn't get that Obama's current economic strategy is ill conceived, Chavezesque socialism is a cock sucker.
The primary difference between Bush's economic strategy and Obamas, is that Bush just wanted to HAND 20 years worth of taxpayers money to the richest and most irresponsible fucks in the nation... no questions asked.
A policy of larceny, graft and transferring vast wealth into the hands of 400 people.
That's not socialism... that's Despotism.
Obama is not the one who nationalized the banks... BUSH did... with ZERO oversight.
Obama is not the one who de-regulated the nation into the shitter... BUSH did.
What Obama is doing is fully and entirely supported by EVERY respected economist... with the exception of the Republican demanded TAX BREAKS FOR THE WELL OFF.
When FDR instituted the New Deal, unemployment in the US was 30% Within 4 years the New Deal had rebuilt the US economy to EXCEED its maximum pre-29 crash level. Unemployment had been cut in HALF, and the ONLY hiccup in recovery was caused by his suspension of the new deal in 37 to address Republican demands.
Let me tell you something. Anyone who thinks Government running essential services with taxpayer dollars- essentially making sure the American people's money is spent benefiting the American people... anyone imagining that is "socialism" is a moron of the first order.
Conservatives want to Re-distribute wealth- they just want it ALL to be redistributed to the wealthy. They want the taxes poaid by the middle class to be dumped into the laps of the Corporate CEO's who skim off their personal fortunes and let the rest 'trickle down'.
Anyone who doesn't see that THAT is re-distribution of wealth is an imbecile.
We have PROOF that free market economics and trickle down does not work.
It is, in fact, disastrous.
We have had 20 years of Republican economic thinking and what we have to show for it is crumbling roads, bridges, damns, levees and electrical grids. The States bankrupted, our military spent, our position in the world weakened..
and for what?
To make a handful of already wealthy people even more wealthy. To allow speculators to manipulate the price of gas?
You think THAT is working?
The societies that are successful are those that maximize freedom of markets
WITHIN well defined and policed regualtions that ensure fair play, and stifle graft. Societies that USE tax dollars to maintain and invest in the infrastructure that no quarterly reporting private interest will maintain because there's no 20 million dollar bonus in it for them.
We privatized the electrical grid... if Private enterprise is so damn good HOW COME THE GRID IS FAILING? Why didn't they invest their profits into maintaining and upgrading their OWN, profit making power equipment?
Why? Because it would have come out of their bonuses and dividends... and because the Free market government did not MAKE them do it thru regulation and oversight.
The fat asses rich fucks who run the electical companies just figured when it all goes to hell...the Govenrment will HAVE to step in and fix it FOR them...
California had 40 billion dollars stolen from it thru electrical market manipulations...
Why? Cause the government was not REGULATING it. And the thief, ENRON, STILL went under... How can you cheat customers out of 40 billion in overcharges and STILL go belly up?
Have the SEC take an 8 year vacation, that's how.
And when you see Oil company execs offshoring their obscenely huge profits to evade paying US taxes... Where did those billions comes from?
Why, from manipulating the gas market and sucking $4 a gallon out of the pocket of every driver in the nation... ( which, by the way, was the the economic PUSH that started the whole collapse rolling)
And how did the get away with that? Why, Bush made market manipulation of gas prices LEGAL.
WHY would he do that? Cause his family and all his friends are in the OIL business?
We have seen the power... and mindless irresponsibility of unrestrained capitalism.
Anyone not seeing that is a dimwit.
The pendulum has been way far to the extremist right for a long time now... it NEEDS to come back to some sense of moral good. Less individual avarice, more civic virtue.
What Obama is doing is restoring civic virtue to governance.
Anyone not seeing that is an asswipe and beneath contempt.