Leftwad Economics & Obama Crack

[d***@rocketmail.com]

Here in the San Francisco area Chairman Obama is so popular you would
think he was a recreational drug. The only things I’ve seen the
locals get as excited about are THC and LSD, and Obama is even more
popular, so I’ve decided to describe the phenomenon as “obama crack.”

Everyone hates Bush, but they love Obama because he offers “hope”
which seems to mean hoping he’ll throw more money at whatever special
interest benefits them personally. Obama represents hope that he’ll
give you free crack so you won’t have to hustle for your own crack.

To illustrate, I fill a ziplock baggie with birdseed and label it
“Obama Crack (Free! Menthol!)” with a sharpie and go down to the duck
pond and proceed to toss birdseed while yelling “get yer free obama
crack!” and all the ducks come running and quack for more crack while
I quack obama quack. The ducks will follow me as long as I keep
throwing crack at them, quacking support for my leadership. They’d
follow me over a cliff, but the metaphor ends there because ducks can
fly.



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“Like various other words in the B vocabulary, duckspeak was
ambivalent in meaning. Provided that the opinions which were quacked
out were orthodox ones, it implied nothing but praise, and when The
Times referred to one of the orators of the Party as a doubleplusgood
duckspeaker it was paying a warm and valued compliment.”
-- 1984

[rand mair fheal]

Everyone hates Bush, but they love Obama because he offers ³hope²
which seems to mean hoping he¹ll throw more money at whatever special

thats a lovely shade of green youre wearing

arf meow arf - cats and dogs living together - who ya goin call
its the end of the world as you know it - filler text goes here
this is how the world ends - not with a whimper but with a bang
this is how the world ends - not with a whimper but with a bang

[zzpat]

Post by d***@rocketmail.com
They’d
follow me over a cliff, but the metaphor ends there because ducks can
fly.

I'm guessing you're a former Bush supporter who followed him into Iraq,
followed him when he said he said we could borrow trillions of dollars
from foreign countries and give you a welfare check (also called a tax
cut), followed him when he said it was ok for the US to torture POWs,
violate the Geneva Conventions and of course violate the War Crimes Act
and the Constitution.

It's amazing what people WERE willing to do when they were given a free
handout isn't it?

Reagan and Bush were the kings of welfare. That's why we have $10.6
trillion of debt.

(We didn't get to $10.6 trillion of debt because we were over taxed.
They lied to you and you fell for it)

[d***@rocketmail.com]

Post by zzpat

  They’d
follow me over a cliff, but the metaphor ends there because ducks can
fly.

I'm guessing you're a former Bush supporter who followed him into Iraq,
followed him when he said he said we could borrow trillions of dollars
from foreign countries and give you a welfare check (also called a tax
cut), followed him when he said it was ok for the US to torture POWs,
violate the Geneva Conventions and of course violate the War Crimes Act
and the Constitution.
It's amazing what people WERE willing to do when they were given a free
handout  isn't it?

I never voted for Bush and called for his impeachment for years, and
this time I voted for the black woman who called for Bush's
impeachment, Cynthia McKinney. I also refused the tax "rebate" and
returned the money, and I intend to do the same with Obama's handout,
which is a form of economic crack.

Obanomics is economic crack and works by tempting people into
accepting what is essentially a welfare check from the government -
either in the form of subsidized goods or outright cash payments as
with the stimulus checks. Now that people have extra money, prices of
most goods and services begin to rise, and people find themselves in
need of another stimulus check, which causes prices to rise, and so
on. The free money you get is crack and in the end you are no better
off than before and you want another dose as soon as possible. The
free money is either borrowed and repaid with high taxes later, or new
dollars are printed to pay for it which causes inflation. Your actual
standard of living does not improve, and actually declines as prices
increase more than the extra purchasing value of the stimulus checks.

[zzpat]

Post by d***@rocketmail.com
The
free money is either borrowed and repaid with high taxes later, or new
dollars are printed to pay for it which causes inflation. Your actual
standard of living does not improve, and actually declines as prices
increase more than the extra purchasing value of the stimulus checks.

Under most situations I'd agree with you (tax cuts and stimulus packages
are a joke) but we don't know what Obama is going to propose yet. What
he said in the campaign was said a long time ago. Things have changed
dramatically since then. It seems probable that the Bush White House
and his cronies are attempting to whitewash the current crisis as best
they can before they leave office so they're not blamed for what's going
to happen, but some of us think (including myself) that our financial
system lay in ruin and our way of life will be changed irrevocably if we
don't fix it.

I've been a fiscal hawk since graduating from college (opposing every
tax cut and every spending program that's not paid for with higher
taxes) but this is an exception. FDR spent whatever he had to spend to
get us out of the Depression. WW2 involved even more spending. After
911, government spending increased by record numbers and in each of the
cases, the recession or depression ended quickly after the big spending
began.

Clearly government can spend our money faster than we can. Some people
will simply take their checks and put then in the banks. Others will pay
off bills. Still others will spend the money on vacations in other
countries etc. None of that will help the economy. But when the
government spends the money, in most cases it's spent here at home and
that's what we need.

Just remember that within months of 911 and all the government spending
that took place because of 911, the recession ended. The problem of
course is stopping the spending once it starts (or stopping tax cuts
after people get used to a welfare check).

[d***@rocketmail.com]

Post by zzpat
Just remember that within months of 911 and all the government spending
that took place because of 911, the recession ended. The problem of
course is stopping the spending once it starts (or stopping tax cuts
after people get used to a welfare check).

So you're saying that Obama should stage a terrorist attack to help
the economy?