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Who said unions represent the "everyday man"? Public employee unions are by and large upper middle class to border line wealthy. Collective Bargaining has allowed them to get gold plated health insurance, fabulous retirements, and life-time employment regardless of job performance -and all on the public dime. The days of union pipefitters, plumbers, welders, tool makers, and machinists are long, long gone. Today's union employees drive Volvos and eat brie.

You're wrong. You must get to them before they get pregnant. And to do that you must stop the "hook-up" culture, the swingers, and other assorted libertine behaviors. And no laws, no politicians can do that. A total re-evaluation of marriage, sexuality and family is in order. Obviously the churches and parents have failed miserably as a group.

The US was perfectly able to absorb the losses of 1929. It wouldn't have been pleasant, but Hoover couldn't keep his hands off. Beginning with Hoover in 1929 and continuing through Truman, the federal government did the Keynsain thing for 20 years - and it was a disaster. The Depression began in 1932 and continued until Truman dispensed with much of the New Deal in 1948-49. The standard of lving of Americans didn't reach the pre-1929 levels until 1953.

Nope. Rates are so low because the Federal Reserve sets them as such. And Bernecke has two reasons for keeping them in negative territory (rates go negative when they fall below inflation): one it profits the federal government at a time when the federal government is borrowing in the trillions; secondly, over 30% of our GDP is being spent by the federal govenment. Credit is tight because the federal government spent and borrowed at that exists. As a consequence Bernecke has kept rates so low in order to encourage more economic activty. He is now finding out that there is more to the eocnomy than low interest rates.

Perhaps we should also brand promescuity and tax accordingly. Promiscuous people cost this nation over $85 billion due to treating STDs, AIDS, HIV, abortion, and not to mention illegitimacy. And since Jeff Carter hasn't a problem with making personal health information available to the public (make no mistake that insurance companies as well as the government will make this information available to employers, schools, and credit agencies), I propose we also enact laws that curtail promiscuity. As I stated above, people with lose morals cost this nation pletny. That means that both men and women as well as gays and straights must provide the government with deatiled information about thier intimate life.

We should also remember that Reid hasn't sent Obama a signed budget in the 3 years he's been in office. We've had nothing but contiuing resolutions on spendng.

A economic pundit by the name of Nuttig began spreading his absurd bit of disinformation. He used a rather juevinille statistical slieght of hand. Nuttig took the last half of Bush's 2008-09 spending and made this the new baseline. Bush borrowed $180 billion for Stimulus I, and an additional $400 billion for TARP I. Add this the 2008 budget that Bush signed and you've got the con. Obama can now argue that there has been little spending increases under his watch, despite the fact that he's borrowed over $5 trillion in just 39 months.

Ah yes, the gutter snipes are out in full force.

The truth is slowing coming out that the President wasn't in the Situation Room. He was golfing. The photos of him in the Situation Room were doctored and photoshopped. The entire op apparently occured without the President's knowledge until after the raid was complete.