The animosity in this thread needs to be significantly turned down. I would voice my opinion, but I would just be shown how I am wrong. As for the people yelling and cussing: do you realize your over-the-top shouting match is a mirror-image of the lack of bipartisanship you complain about? It seems as though you want the House and Senate to listen to one another, but you're not willing to do so at a non-political website?
No, I don't want anybody to listen. I want motherfuckers to start pulling out guns and start shooting each other. I want heaps of dead democrats and republicans.
When that took place there were no bail outs and the unemployment rate then and financial ruin was far worse.
Yes, let's read history again, shall we? FDR instituted massive programs, the depression did not end. The only thing that got us out was WW II.
Studying history is useless, if you only take the shallow high school version of it. It's even more useless if you assume that people aren't going to take their high school understandings, and use that to try and fix the situation. Our leaders/congress/president have about as much understanding of history as you do, and the lobbyists who control them couldn't care fuck all about history. Multinational corproations, and the banks that own them, don't need America to pull out of this... in fact, the more debt, the better... because under the fractional reserve system, money is created from debt.
you are absolutely in DE-fucking-NIAL
No, you are in denial. The Republicans are going to stomp the democrats faces on the curb, because the democrats are in power right now, that means they are perceived to be the ones who are supposed to be fixing the economic mess. If the mess gets worse, anti-incumbency will rise. That's reality. Sorry, Americans get dumber by the day. That's reality.
But, wait, maybe the democratic base could come forward, and save yoru beloved party's power!!
Ope, nope. Obama, and the democrats have not done a god damned thing, but argue about healthcare for a whole god damned year! No end in sight in Iraq,
escalation in Afghanistan. What about the economy? Oh, we got a worthless pork bill passed. Again, I ask, where is the clean energy apollo project? Why aren't we building any bridges? How abotu just a couple of massive public works projects? A dream... a vision. If we are gonna spend $700 billion on a stimulus, let's do something amazing! Nope, no real infrastructure.
China just finsihed a thousand mile long high speed rail system, they will soon finish the three gorges damn. What has America done lately? And where the fuck is that freedom tower anyways?
Do you think the socialist types on the left, haven't noticed Obama packed his cabinet with bankers?
Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
---George Orwell's Animal Farm