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What Was So Bad About What Phil Gramm Said?

By Rob on July 10, 2008 at 04:57 pm
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I, personally, think the former Senator was exactly right.  Here’s his statement that has everyone all in a tizzy:

“You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession,” he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal immigration, housing and credit problems and record oil prices. “We may have a recession; we haven’t had one yet.”

“We have sort of become a nation of whiners,” he said. “You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline” despite a major export boom that is the primary reason that growth continues in the economy, he said.

“We’ve never been more dominant; we’ve never had more natural advantages than we have today,” he said. “We have benefited greatly” from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

Mr. Gramm said the constant drubbing of the media on the economy’s problems is one reason people have lost confidence.

It’s not surprising to me that the liberals and the media (I repeat myself) would react with shock, scorn and derision at anyone expressing optimism about the economy.  After all, it is an election year, and the liberal recipe for electoral success lays with convincing voters that they’re a bunch of acted-upon victims toiling in circumstances near economic collapse.

After all, how else can a voter justify supporting a big-government politician who wants to raise taxes and increase the size and scope of government unless they’re convinced that they’re a victim and need a big-government politician to save them?

The truth is that we are in one of the most prosperous periods in our nation’s history.  The media won’t report it because good, optimistic news doesn’t sell.  And liberals won’t talk about it because it’s contrary to political agenda.  But it is true none-the-less, and Republicans (I’m looking at you, Senator McCain) would do well to mimic Gramm and talk about it more.

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Avatar for robert108

My only objection is that it’s the Dems/lefties who are the whiners; the rest of the country doesn’t deserve to be lumped in with them.
If the Dems/lefties don’t keep trying to produce dissatisfaction, they can’t win anything.  It’s their only “hope”.

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robert108 on July 10, 2008 at 05:13 pm
atease

I agree 108, as long as you add John McCain in with the whiners.  His whining about Phil’s remarks is as irritating as what we hear from the left.

atease

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atease on July 10, 2008 at 05:34 pm
WOOF

countries are now delinking from the greenback. Meanwhile, the dollar plunge has translated into a net transfer of trillions in wealth from the U.S. to the rest of the world. The result has been the largest decline in America’s global economic influence since the 1970s.

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What has spared Wall Street more pain is the Fed’s decision to open the discount window wider and to more borrowers. The easy-money experiment has merely hit consumers and the already struggling economy with a commodity price wallop, while inspiring a global flight from dollar assets. It’s time to start acting to repair the damage.

WSJ Socialists, In Better Times, 6/5/08,

WOOF on July 10, 2008 at 05:41 pm
goon

I don’t really have a problem with Gramm sayhing that. Of course the empty suit had to chime in and use it as an opportunity to make some fancy speech.

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goon on July 10, 2008 at 07:15 pm
Kevin

He right when he said this, too!

“Has anyone ever noticed that we live in the only country in the world where all the poor people are fat?”

Kevin on July 10, 2008 at 07:45 pm
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atease: True that!

I’m glad to see Woof has just spoken up for the whiners...he’s so dependable that way.

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robert108 on July 10, 2008 at 08:56 pm
Carrick

WOOF quotes “WSJ Socialists, In Better Times, 6/5/08”.

HAHAHHAAHAHAHAHA.

LMAO.

GASP!

Thanks, WOOF.

Carrick on July 10, 2008 at 09:25 pm
Avatar for Paul

I think what was so bad is that Gramm has correctly pointed out that this is a nation of whiners.  The left whines about doom and gloom, the right whines about government and the left, and neither side actually does anything.  And to forestall accusations of ‘pots and kettles’, I’m just as bad, and I suspect most if not all of the commenters here are the same.

Paul on July 11, 2008 at 07:34 am
Avatar for Hawk

You guys are such hypocrites.  If the exact same statement was made by somebody in the Obama capaign you would use it to prove he is not patriotic.

Hawk on July 11, 2008 at 11:10 am
Avatar for watashiwa

I second that emotion, Hawk.

watashiwa on July 11, 2008 at 11:41 am
Avatar for dannyboy

Just like Obama was exactly right when he said that bitter people cling to religion and guns.

dannyboy on July 11, 2008 at 11:58 am
Bat One

You guys are such hypocrites.  If the exact same statement was made by somebody in the Obama capaign you would use it to prove he is not patriotic.

Hawk,

Both your premise and your conclusion are wrong, based on hypothesis on the one hand and hyperbole on the other.

If the exact same statement was made by someone in the Obama camp it would prove that at least one person in the Obama camp knew what he was talking about, for a change, and that perhaps the Democrats’ boy candidate had decided to stop pandering to the economics illiterate whiners and start telling the truth for a real “Change”.

Phil Gramm, McCain’s chief economic policy advisor and spokesman is a former economics professor with a PhD. from Georgia, and a former Democrat Congressman who switched to the GOP when the Dems headed too far to the Leftist fringes.

“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on July 11, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Avatar for robert108

Hawk: The truth is the truth, no matter who says it.  It’s just that Obama doesn’t say the truth very often.
Like Bat said, if Obama had said that, it would show that he knew something about economics and reality.

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robert108 on July 11, 2008 at 12:26 pm
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Just like Obama was exactly right when he said that bitter people cling to religion and guns.

He told the truth about how he regards the average American, that’s for sure.

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robert108 on July 11, 2008 at 01:10 pm
dragon poker

My only objection is that it’s the Dems/lefties who are the whiners; the rest of the country doesn’t deserve to be lumped in with them.

Wasnt Gramm whining about whiners? This is a stupid childrens game, but leave it to bobbie to once again point out his own intellectual dishonesty. Dont you know that you whine here every day bobbie? What a hypocritical moron. bobbie, when you shit your pants(daily I assume), your the only one who doesnt think it stinks.

dragon poker on July 11, 2008 at 02:27 pm
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Gramm said what I’ve thought and said for twenty years. Most Americans whine and they whine all the time. If your life is lousy it was your own creation. Create a different life.

Tommyp on July 11, 2008 at 06:23 pm
Carrick

Hawk:

If the exact same statement was made by somebody in the Obama capaign you would use it to prove he is not patriotic.

Get real. Like a leftie would ever say that things are better than people think.  You guys revel in telling us how much worse they actually are, and that’s generally how you stay competitive in elections....

What a fantasy notion that is, somebody on the Obama campaign making such a statement.

Carrick on July 12, 2008 at 08:42 am
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