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[razorjak]

So Chimpy McFuckstick doesn't think we're heading into a recession.

He thinks it's "patentedly" unfair if the telecom companies are actually held accountable for their illegal actions.

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I can't even go on. My brain wants to implode from listening to that dipshit.

Comments

[geekalpha.livejournal.com]

" Address the point SIR."

Your affectation of smarmy politeness doesn't impress me.

You're high-handed Coultier-style of discourse is fundamentally insulting, and I am predisposed to lack respect for you based on our previous engagement. If I recall you promised me a dismissive "Good day to you, sir!" which I kind of hoped was permanent.

As for the rest, post graphs all you like. The fact is that
1. The hobby of blowing shit up overseas costs money.

2. Deposing Saddam Hussien eliminated exactly zero clear and present threats to the United States.

3. The case for invasion of Iraq, sold to the American public and the world, was entirely fabricated.

4. Efforts in Iraq distracted from useful efforts against Al Queda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, resulting in the current resurgence of Taliban, which has the local commander begging NATO hat-in-hand for more troops (which the US cannot provide due to Iraq)

5. The budget surplus in 2000 was squandered on tax-cuts, which was not a terrible decision at the time, except that it completely shirks that responsibility of our government to reduce the national debt. And, before you start, the preposterous "it will pay for itself" story is bullshit and has been debunked thoroughly

6. After lying to the American people to go in to Iraq, billions of dollars out of an already deficit budget were dumped into Iraq, doing it on the cheap. This of course backfires, so every year a do-or-die budget request gets made begging for billions more "or you are not supporting the troops."

7. Every year for 5 years, we were told that it was getting better in Iraq and we were almost there, but all the statistics no matter how they were manipulated spelled "bloodbath." The surge was too little, too late. But most importantly? Iraq was a waste of effort to begin with, except as a means to forward a domestic agenda of Conservative power, so claims can be made of war-time powers. Because, having tanks rolling around the desert looks a lot more like a war than the in-the-shadows fearmongering horseshit that is the War on Terra(tm).

8. Having been lied to for 5 years, the administration has no credibility, and neither due Coultier-esque talking-point jingoists smuggly waving the flag and using the troops as a shield for their irrational rhetoric.

9. Having burdened the country with this enormous expense of an unnecessary invasion, and a completely mismanaged and seemingly perpetual occupation, now you have the gall to blame poor people for having TVs.

First of all, that $608 billion in entitlements doesn't go to Catrina victims in FEMA trailers, it goes to retired people. Secondly, a simple review of US demographics will demonstrate that not only was an increase in SS outlays completely predictable due to aging baby-boomers, but we are only just getting started.

You blame welfare, but invoke Social Security. You raid the social security insurance payment as "just a tax" but refuse to pay benefits that people have been paying into for their entire lives. And you know, that you don't like SS is fine with me. What is dishonest, is that you equate SS to low-income housing and welfare which is a lie.

You are saying "war war war support the war!" But you are not serving and you will not spend a dime to support it yourself. Instead, you want you way and you will just blame the poor (inaccurately) and threaten the old to try to divert the discussion from the fact that the Bush administration has been entirely dishonest and irresponsible across the board.

No amount of flag-waving, fear-mongering, blaming Bill Clinton, quoting irrelevant bullshit, and painting a pretty face on the economy sucking is going to get your credibility back.