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Its like the people support their president and disregard the noise from the wingnut faction.
Sixty-seven percent say world leaders respect Mr. Obama, while 18 percent say they do not respect the president. That’s a sharp contrast to the response when this question was asked about Mr. Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, in July 2006: Just 30 percent then said the president is respected by the leaders of other countries.
Mr. Obama’s overall approval rating, meanwhile, has hit a new high of 66 percent, up from 64 percent last month. His disapproval rating stands at 24 percent. Nearly all Democrats and most independents approve of the way the president is handling his job, while only 31 percent of Republicans approve.
“Nearly all Democrats and most independents approve of the way the president is handling his job, while only 31 percent of Republicans approve.”
It’s like Republicans are a different species.
how’s that galt movement going led by a husband and wife on the TN taxpayer dole
There are still some rough times ahead regarding the Bush/Republican Recession.
But we’ve got a leader, not a pretend-president taking orders from Uncle Dick.
Say, how many of you think Obama’s policies and spending plans are inflationary?
How many of you think government control of the auto industry will lead to improved market share against the japanese?
How many of you think that Obama’s redistribution of wealth will benefit you personaly?
If we go with all of Obama’s spend and tax policies will your taxes be higher or lower 5 years hence?
“Say, how many of you think Obama’s policies and spending plans are inflationary?”
In the short term yes, necessarily so. Republicans shit the bed, and Obama is being forced to clean it up. The worst thing he could do is ignore the problem and let credit markets remain stagnant.
“How many of you think government control of the auto industry will lead to improved market share against the japanese?”
I think Obama is making a mistake here. I’d rather he let the Big 3 fail. Better yet, see if Japanese or Korean auto-makers would be interested in buying the Big 3’s infrastructure at a reduced pride. They make better cars than Americans do, and they could provide (actually, they already provide) plenty of jobs for Americans.
“How many of you think that Obama’s redistribution of wealth will benefit you personaly?”
Much better than Bush II’s. Instead of tax cuts for Paris Hilton and George Soros, Obama’s budget is aimed at middle-class earners like me. People making over 250K/year will go back to the tax rates they paid in the 1990’s, when they were still, you know, pretty fucking rich. Much richer than me at least.
“If we go with all of Obama’s spend and tax policies will your taxes be higher or lower 5 years hence?”
For eight years Bush gave us spend and raise-the-deficit policies. They were terrible for the economy. I’m imagining that if my income remains on a steady rise, my taxes will be proportionately higher in five years.
Republicans started two wars and couldn’t finish either of them. Wars are expensive things. If you support the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, you should support paying higher taxes.
See, this is a fun game Amused Observer. Let’s keep playing!
Say, how many of you think Obama’s policies and spending plans are inflationary?
I should hope they are inflationary, given that we’re in a deflationary spiral caused by a credit crunch and lack of demand. Seriously, do you have any idea what the point of the stimulus was for, and do you have any idea what the nature of our current economic crisis is?
Seriously Tyro, inflation is what will get Americans out of this crisis, as it devalues consumer debt.
Historically when a government writes a check it can’t cash, it inflates it away. Why do you suppose China is floating the idea of a new international currency?
Some of the people here don’t understand the difference between higher prices for some goods, lower prices for other goods, inflation and deflation.
“Why do you suppose China is floating the idea of a new international currency?”
No, they’re not. Please step out of your bunker and try reading a book about economics some time.
China is considering getting away from US dollars and buying more into Euros. They’re not alone in this. And this is not a “new international currency,” dumbass.
Can you begin to understand why Americans don’t take Republicans seriously any longer? It’s plain ignorance, for starters. Keep up the good work.
Obviously, this is good news for John McCain.
Jaim,
Your ignorance is only surpassed by your arrogance. China is trying to manuever the US away from a position where the US can screw China by inflating her debts away. China is trying tp play a delicate game to keep her sizable US debt holdings worth as much as possible. It would indeed be ironic if the chicoms helped keep us honest.
Where do you suppose Obama is going to come up with tax revenue to pay for progressive powergrab? There aren’t enough 250 plus taxpayers to do it. Anyone notice the highly progressive tobacco tax recently levied. That will sure to be dodged by folks of moderate means and go straight to those evil rich people to pay.
China is trying to manuever the US away from a position where the US can screw China by inflating her debts away.
Wouldn’t you if you were China?
Your arrogance is only surpassed by your ignorance.
Anyone notice the highly progressive tobacco tax recently levied.
Sure did. I’m 17 days smoke-free.
AO: “Why do you suppose China is floating the idea of a new international currency?”
This is flat out wrong. This is complete shit.
Yet you continue to talk on the subject as if you were an expert.
Please stop.
Why do you suppose China is floating the idea of a new international currency?
New international currency.
New international reservecurrency.
Not the same, you know?
Amused Observer = dumbass, by objective standards.
Duros,
Congratulations on losing your addiction. Nice of the Feds to force you to do the right thing. What about your diet? Are you eating healthy too? Maybe you won’t be able to afford food that isn’t politically correct. But the important thing is control, you weren’t deemed able to make decisions on your own regarding health issues. The decision was made for you. Kind of like when you were a kid. Say when the feds and the states finally choke off the cash cow of taxes they have been collecting since colonial times do you think they’ll be willing to forgo that money? I wonder if they’ll try taxing something else to make up for it.
You guys don’t seem to grasp the advantage a nation has when it’s currency is the defacto standard.
CS. maybe the world ought to use the currency of the soundest banking system in the world, Canada’s.
Quaker, you’re a nit picky little pacifist.
The concensus seems to be Obama Inflation good, tax the rich good, government management of large industries good, government management of banking good.
Do you supoose they will run these operations as well as say Amtrack or the Post Office? Or Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
may
So if we do have a nice bout of inflation do you suppose that your wages will rise right along with inflation? Or will those wages lag in an uncertain economy. If that happens it will be just like a big tax hike, not on our quarter million plus club, but on the lowest earners in society, Funny how that works.
i
AO: “CS. maybe the world ought to use the currency of the soundest banking system in the world, Canada’s.”
Not big enough.
But China’s decision to invest in Euros more is wise.
“So if we do have a nice bout of inflation do you suppose that your wages will rise right along with inflation? Or will those wages lag in an uncertain economy. If that happens it will be just like a big tax hike, not on our quarter million plus club, but on the lowest earners in society, Funny how that works.”
Or we do nothing, then the bottom run loses even more as the will lose their jobs and have less savings because they don’t have as much disposable income. Funny how that works.
Or we can cut taxes and hope enough of the rich are dumb enough to take a risk in an uncertainly economy to start the economy going. But that’s worse than nothing, as that’s using the tools that got us into this mess to try and fix the problem.
Maybe the lesson we should learn is to not let the people who help create this mess back in power?
While it won’t go down well with this crowd I’d suggest studying the University of Chicago’ economic theories and the Austrian school of economics. I realize this is probably futile to suggest any of this but maybe somebody out there in Ollie Land might get it. I wonder if it would help to point out that that two of the sanest economists out there are both black. Tom Sowell and Walter Williams.
“I’d suggest studying the University of Chicago’ economic theories”
Um, Milton Friedman and Allen Greenspan are economic laughing-stocks these days in light of the global meltdown. The Chicago School notion of hyper-deregulation has been proven to be both false and idiotic.
Took too many stupid pills today, didn’t you Amused Observer?
Amused Observer: “While it won’t go down well with this crowd I’d suggest studying the University of Chicago’ economic theories and the Austrian school of economics.”
Is that the economic theory that the Republicans have been using for the past 8 years?
Is so, why should we listen to it now? (Other than to learn what not to do.)
If not, how is is different? And why didn’t you argue against the Republican policies of the past 8 years previously?
Jaim,
A bit snarky this morning. You remind me of a young poorly trained pup, full of vim and vigor, aimlessly snapping and barking at any little thing that catches his attention. No focus just an annoying yip yip yip. Eventually young pups like you grow up to be ill trained dogs that accidently get left behind when the family pulls up stakes and moves cross country,
Economics is in the end, the study of human foibles bucking hard against mathmatical certainies. Sort of like a greek tragedy combined with the math homework that you didn’t get done because it was too hard, and besides you can copy off the paper of the smart homely girl who sits in front of you. Pretty predictable results.
You would be better served actually studying different schools of economic thought and follow the real word results of different theories put into practice. Pay close attention to gross manipulations done in the name of short term political gain by at best, clueless,at worst, criminally corrupt politicians.
Enjoy that good feeling of paying ever more taxes to prop up the poor decision making of an aging boomer population desperate not to lose the retirement dreams that cold hard math have shown to be a bit delusionary at best. Sucka!
While it won’t go down well with this crowd I’d suggest studying the University of Chicago’ economic theories and the Austrian school of economics.
In the words of Bugs Bunny, “I like him. He’s silly.”
Ah yes, if only we had a flourishing economy like Chile’s in the 1970s. Sorry about all those people who went missing. Dunno where they could have got to. Oh, and the 400% inflation and 60% unemployment.
Pay close attention to gross manipulations done in the name of short term political gain by at best, clueless,at worst, criminally corrupt politicians.
Oh, I totally agree! Britain in the ’80’s. Peru, Indonesia, Venezuela, Poland, Russia, Brazil, South Africa. All examples of gross manipulations and “shocks” designed to stun the population into submission for the benefit of the rich, the corrupt, and foreign multinational corporations.
Friedman and the Chicago school have done more damage to the world than all modern warfare to date.
You should probably shut up now.
But the important thing is control, you weren’t deemed able to make decisions on your own regarding health issues. The decision was made for you.
Bullshit. I could have decided to continue to smoke. I chose not to. I also understand that the increased taxes go to pay for SCHIP, which I think is worthwhile.
You don’t though, I guess. Little kids should pay for their own health insurance, the deadbeats.
Let me put it this way, Amused Observer — I had to move abroad to find a job under the Bush II/Republican economy of 2006-2008. I had a job, but it didn’t pay very well.
You telling me that voting in Obama was a bad idea makes me grin. Because honestly, I don’t know how I can make this any clearer — I’d be happy to pay higher taxes if it meant I’d make more money while living in America. That’s kind of a happy trade-off for reality-oriented adults.
Hyper-deregulation/Chicago School economics destroyed the American economy. I’m not saying Obama’s approach has been perfect so far (he should let the American auto industry die) but at least he’s acting in the country’s interest. You can’t say that about Dick Cheney’s presidency.
AO: “You would be better served actually studying different schools of economic thought and follow the real word results of different theories put into practice.”
Jesus Christ! We’ve seen the real world results of the economic theory you are pushing. It’s not pretty.
Yet you think it’s better to continue that failure than admit it was wrong.
Well,
It’s a shame you couldn’t get a job here in the states. I see from your website that you’re teaching english in Korea. That doesn’t automatically mean you were trained as an educator here in the states.
Different countries must have different realities. I ran a crew buiding a few houses in Japan just as thier economy went belly up 10 or 15 years back. One of the guys I built for was an American. He was around 40 and he was bummed. Building a house in Japan meant he was admitting defeat and never going back home. “They’ll proably bury me in the fucking back yard” He hated it there because he’d been seduced by the money teaching English in Japan and he felt he’d wasted his youth there and wasn’t really qualified to do anything else and couldn’t make any decent money at home.
My boy went to China following his first hitch in the service. I don’t know what Korea is like but in China it’s extremely easy for a round eye to get a job teaching English. The pay is low but it’s damn easy to get a job. He ended up quitting working for the school system that hired him. He started a private tutoring service which was highly profitable compared to his old job there. It would have been a meager wage here but was much more lucrative than his original position. He had many adventures in China, I was quite proud of him for having the guts to go have is China adventure.
Anybody would probably trade higher taxes for being able to participate in our economy rather than Korea’s but for the rest of us able to make our way here higher taxes are not that good a deal. What was it you were educated to do that you couldn’t make a go of it here in America?
Governments tend to be very poor stewards of the money that is entrusted to them. I believe it was Will Rogers who observed
“It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for”
j
So your point is what, exactly?
Bush and the Republicans ruined the American economy between 2001-2009. Even if you factor in 9/11, Bush had at least six years to leave the economy in as good a shape as he found it.
His policies failed. Republican policies failed. “Chicago School” economics failed. The job market in America is terrible right now in all fields, and I make more here than I could in the States.
High taxes aren’t much of an issue if you can’t find a decent-paying job to begin with.
Besides, wing-nuts don’t run around on shooting sprees either, which is kind of a bonus.
Duros,
“Friedman and the Chicago school have done more damage to the world than all modern warfare to date.
You should probably shut up now.”
Wow, where did you learn about world history?
You are either insane or smoking something quite powerful besides the tobacco you quit. It’s ironic that you suddenly decided on your own to quit demon tobacco, that higher taxes had nothing to do with it but you think the taxes are worthwhile as long as someone else is paying them.
Friedman and the Chicago school have proven that completely deregulated markets will eventually collapse and require government to step in and fix them. What’s funny is that Chicago School = Accidental Socialism, but Socialism nonetheless.
Markets need to be healthy, and they require reasonable government regulation. Adults know this. Wing-nuts, not so much.
AO: “Wow, where did you learn about world history?”
Does the word, ‘Pinochet’ mean anything to you?
Sure it does. To AO, it means hero.