i like how reasonable you are right from the start here. it truly is the mark of a rational thinker.
"rawn pawl or you're
blind and you need to
wake up and
open your eyes!"
rawn pawl is not an economist. austrian economics have zero track record of success, anywhere. ever. he predicted financial collapse for 30 years and then we had one. that does not make him a smart man, that simply means that the sun came up, like we all knew it was going to.
rawn pawl has no solution to fix anything. his solution is to "let the markets clear". that means let it all burn down so we can rebuild from the ashes.
that's a solution in the same way
my lai was a solution: it became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it.
not exactly a plan that your average american would endorse.
i fail to see what is government-centric about requiring americans who can afford health insurance to buy it from a
private, for profit insurer. maybe you can tell me what i am missing here. i mean, you have already established that i am as blind as a deer in the headlights because i don't support rawn pawl with all my heart, like you do.
this is pure lies. pure lies. damned lies.
your claim: obama tripled the deficit
truth value of your claim: stinky turd floating in dirty toilet
reality: obama inherited a $1.5 trillion annual deficit. the most recent annual deficit was $1.1 trillion.
conclusion: obama has lowered the deficit.
if your beef is with the deficit, than obama is certainly not "the worst ever". the guy right before him took a projected surplus and turned it into a $1.5 trillion annual deficit. if deficits are your worry, than george w bush, pappa bush, and especially reagan should rank much lower on your list of shitty presidents.
i don't understand how anyone can say the stimulus failed. we were losing about 800k jobs a month until the stimulus was implemented and we turned it around and starting adding jobs. the stimulus was implemented after february 2009. look what happens to jobs right after that point:
why, we start to add more and more jobs! what a failure! of course, this success of keynesian economics is more success than austrian economics has ever had, ever, in the history of mankind.
as far as the rise in gas prices? only a dummy would blame that on the president. the fact is that gas prices have doubled because obama took office with the economy on shambles. note what happens to the price of gas when the economy absolutely blows to smitherines in october of 2008:
so let's be honest here, jpill.
talking about honesty, obama's DOE has a better rate of success investing in green energy than bain capital has. so, you'd be hard pressed to call that failed policy.
overly broad and vague, misleading, and just impossible to respond to.
what did you want to see? a rawn pawl-esque slashing of the social safety net? get specific here.
hey dude, not sure if you've been paying attention, say, these last 20 fucking years or so, but you may have noticed that premiums tripled in the 20 years before obama came into office.
your premiums, if they are on par with the national average, have gone up slower than any time in recent history.
not only that, but if your insurer spent too much on administrative nonsense instead of actual health care, they were forced by law to send you a rebate check. millions of americans got those checks, saving them billions of dollars. all part of that "government-centric" reform as you called it.
so again, if your beef is with rising premiums, than obama is the last president you can fault. your premiums went up way more under his predecessors than they have under obama.
empirically, you have just destroyed your own claims, jpill.
to me, it all just sounds like rawn pawl butthurt.