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Monday, July 14, 2008

George Will Agrees With Phil Gramm: Americans Are Whining About Economy

About the only part of Phil Gramm’s argument that I’ve taken exception to is the idea that Americans are whiners.  I don’t think Americans are whining so much as they’re being deceived into thinking things are worse than they are. 

If anything Americans are simply naive in that they believe far too much of what they see on television and/or read in newspapers.

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Avatar for Tim

LOL!

Oh yeah, things are great out there, for you maybe, but why not ask someone who just lost their job, along with their health insurance, and can no longer pay their mortgage, and are about to be foreclosed on, how they think things really are.

Talk to a few retirees who have watched their savings shrink dramatically due to the collapse of the stock market.

And just look what is happening to our financial institutions, and the airline industry.

I don’t know what planet you’re living on, but I don’t need anyone telling me how bad things are, I’m living it!!!!

Tim on July 14, 2008 at 01:39 pm

I don’t know what planet you’re living on

I live on the planet Earth, that’ the third one from the Sun.
I have seen better times, also seen worse times.
The best times were when the government stepped aside and let the markets work. The worse times were when the populous elected fools(both Democrat and Republican) to HELP them through a time of personal distress.
Hope we are not on the verge of repeating the Jimmie Carter years.

Eneils Bailey on July 14, 2008 at 03:19 pm

George Will reminds me of William F. Buckley.  He is well grounded in facts.
Glad to see him stand up to the liberal press.


Communism is evil

Chief RZ on July 14, 2008 at 03:27 pm
Avatar for calebpapa

The Bush economy is so bad that it caused me to get laid off from a great job in Nov. 1998, and I am only now recovering financially.  OK, so I realize that I was laid off a year and a half before Bush was even nominated for his first term, but Bush’s financial ineptitude was so overpowering, it could reach years into the past and restore the business cycle that Clinton and Gore so famously broke.

calebpapa on July 14, 2008 at 03:40 pm

Tim - Oh yeah, things are great out there, for you maybe, but why not ask someone who just lost their job...

Yeah! Right on! It’s only honest if you cherry pick and ask the one guy out of 80 who lost his job. Great thinking there!

Talk to a few retirees who have watched their savings shrink dramatically due to the collapse of the stock market.

When did that happen?

I don’t know what planet you’re living on, but I don’t need anyone telling me how bad things are, I’m living it!!!!

You’re living proof that idiots will have a bad life.

likwidshoe on July 14, 2008 at 03:47 pm

All you have to do is turn on the TV and see a bunch of left leaning Malcontents talking about how USA is such a bad place.


Check out:
Goon’s North Dakota Red Neck
Goon’s World

goon on July 14, 2008 at 04:18 pm

collapse of the stock market.

The market hasn’t collapsed. It is reacting to the banking situation which was the result of careless loaning and not the government. Some banks may fold but most will not. Others will grow.

And just look what is happening to our financial institutions, and the airline industry.

The airline industry has been a mess for the past 20 years and yet people continue to fly. Hmmm

I don’t know what planet you’re living on, but I don’t need anyone telling me how bad things are, I’m living it!!!!

And it must be someone elses fault, right?

Blame Clinton, he signed NAFTA which started the ball rolling down hill for most blue collar workers like yourself. You sound like one of those cynics that Obama was preaching about.

Mickey on July 14, 2008 at 04:31 pm

Some banks may fold but most will not. Others will grow.

That’s the beauty of capitalism. I’s a survival of the fittest concept, those not fit fail...it’s almost, umm....Darwinian. The concept of the government funding (via legally stealing from the fittest by calling it a tax) those not fit falls squarely in the center of the ideology of Karl Marx.


"we should select our leaders on principle first, electability second.”

A young man whose wisdom far exceeds his years

Spartacus on July 14, 2008 at 04:52 pm

Talk to a few retirees who have watched their savings shrink dramatically due to the collapse of the stock market.

Obviously you haven’t talked to any retirees.  As someone WHO is a retiree, I can say that my savings having lost some value which will be recovered in the next market upturn are just fine.  Have you ever invested any money in the market, bonds, stocks, etc?


You don’t have to be a moron to be a liberal Democrat but it sure helps.

docdave on July 14, 2008 at 05:05 pm

"Oh yeah, things are great out there, for you maybe, but why not ask someone who just lost their job, along with their health insurance, and can no longer pay their mortgage, and are about to be foreclosed on, how they think things really are.”

Those who are being foreclosed on made REALLY bad choices. Don’t go for a house you can’t afford and you won’t be foreclosed on. It’s really that simple.

“Talk to a few retirees who have watched their savings shrink dramatically due to the collapse of the stock market. “

The stock market hasn’t collapsed. So um...yea…

“And just look what is happening to our financial institutions, and the airline industry.”

The airline industry is hurt by the price of gas and is still affected by 9/11…

“I don’t know what planet you’re living on, but I don’t need anyone telling me how bad things are, I’m living it!!!! “

Then you’re making bad choices.


For the first time in my adult life, I am ashamed of my country.

Kenny on July 14, 2008 at 08:42 pm

The economy would be much better, IF the Dems would quit putting soooo many environmental restrictions on our country!

Zsa Zsa on July 15, 2008 at 08:02 am

Zsa Zsa.  Correct.


Communism is evil

Chief RZ on July 15, 2008 at 09:03 am
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