Comments on: Step 1: Use a Crisis…

By: HiItsNino

HiItsNino — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 22:29:42 +0000

Yeah, these politicians have the scientists in their pockets. In fact, its a myth that carbon increases heat, too. The melting continental shelf in Antarctica is done with trick photography. Those balloon experiments and such are all fake as well. Its all done just to deceive you. Keep you under control. The war on terror is real though.

By: od

od — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:00:50 +0000

I've been saying for years that this is what our politician's interest in global warming is all about.

I think the point is that every politician has been using this on almost every issue - from global warming to Al Quayda to bank failure.

By: rodney dill

rodney dill — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:11:52 +0000

1: Use a crisis real or imagined to scare the public. Step 2. Ask for both a larger and more intrusive government to address the crisis.

I've been saying for years that this is what our politician's interest in global warming is all about.

By: HiItsNino

HiItsNino — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:44:12 +0000

Government grows and grows under republican leadership and no one says a word. A Democrat gets in office and suddenly its an outrage.

Sadly, the government that grows under republican leadership usually involves invading your privacy, building more weapons that are not really needed, and other things that there is nothing to show for when they leave the country a mess.

Democrats expand government by building bridges, infrastructure projects, and things that benefit us all years after they leave office and that is supposed to be a bad thing?

By: Drew

Drew — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:29:38 +0000

"Obama also promised action to address the economy’s ills beyond the package, such as tackling a potential wave of home foreclosures, preventing the failure of financial institutions, rewriting financial regulations and keeping accountable the “Wall Street wrongdoers” who engage in risky investing."

Did he promise to punish government officials who threatened to bring criminal redlining charges against lenders if they didn't underwrite crappy, excuse me, "sub-prime," mortgages in the name of "affordable housing?"

Did he promise to hold Barney Frank or Chris Dodd accountable for vociferously and publicly denouncing regulatory reforms for Fannie Mae?

Is he going to reinstate Glass Steagal?

No?

Then he has no credibility. Just a garden variety demogogue playing politics at the expense of society and facilitated by public ignorance about what really happened.

By: Big Stimulus

Big Stimulus — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:25:45 +0000