1 I can recommend a good DeGreecer.

2

 

This post is extremely racist.

There really is nothing wrong with this economy, at all.

 It's working fine.

 

3 So, Monty, I get the feeling, reading your posts, that things are not going so well.

4 Well the economy is doing just fine for me and Mooshelle!

5 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

6 (Thomas Friedman, please come to the white red courtesy phone).

Fixed, Monty.

7

Remember how the Chevy Cruze was supposed to revitalize GM's commuter-car sector in the same way that the Volt was supposed to stake a claim in the hybrid/electric market?

Have you ever actually driven a Cruze?

I ended up with one as a rental and the lady at the counter handed me the keys to a "brand(!) new(!) Chevy(!) Cruze(!)" like I had just won the lottery.

When I got back that afternoon I asked her if there was some way she could make a notation in her computer to never give me a Cruze ever again.

You would have thought I killed her puppy by the look on her face.

Yes, Government Motors is about as competitive as you would think any government entity in the old Sovet Union would be.

8 I love that kitty pic. Probably because I have a full grown one in my lap, forcing me to hunt and peck on the keys

9 "It's almost as if the government bailout of the UAW was a huge mistake."  (edited for clarity.)

10 The only Friedman worth listening to is Milton. The other one is just a poor man's Harry Reems with a prednisone-bloated face.

11 Testing, one, two, three... hmmm  is this thing on ?

12 Look, we needed to make sure bondholders didn't lose one penny of principal, even though they recklessly lent at margin. Do you realize how much they contribute to Democrat politicians? Come on. What else were we supposed to do? Besides everyone knows the middle class already votes Republican. We needed to gin up the major investment banks and the domestic and overseas hedge funds. If Sally Waitress in Nowhere'sville has to pound sand so be it. We're trying to transform America. It's all for the better. Quit harping on the negative.

13 Signed into law in 2006 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the cap-and-trade regulations are intended to force California to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. It appears Californica has decided that the way to do this is to reduce it's economic and business output to 1990 levels. Unfortunately, they've alreadyl started a trend that may end up at 1970s (or earlier) levels.

14 oh, I forgot, the people writing these reviews are liberals, so if there is no government, then there possibly can not be any stimulative activity.

That, and they have a built-in bias against the idea of shrinking government.  Note they don't even address the possibility of shrinking government commensurate with any decrease in tax revenue- no, their assumption is that all that money is still going to come in, we're just going to ask the "lower and middle classes to cover more of the cost..."

I really hate the liberal mindset.  It is completely foreign, nay, alien to me.

15 14 Signed into law in 2006 by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the cap-and-trade regulations are intended to force California to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. It appears Californica has decided that the way to do this is to reduce it's economic and business output to 1990 levels. Unfortunately, they've alreadyl started a trend that may end up at 1970s (or earlier) levels. Posted by: Raoul Ortega at October 26, 2011 09:10 AM (GUxTi) Irony of ironies; the great-grandchildren of the Oakies returning to Oklahoma!

16

It is completely foreign, nay, alien to me.

I think you're on to something.

They're aliens, come to destroy the world.

They're doing a great job so far I might add...

17 The good news is that Europe is real civilized. Nothing bad happens there when things go wrong.

18 Who still has money is Greek banks?

19 They're aliens, come to destroy the world.

Darn.  Does that mean I have to start listening to Slim Whitman?

20 Who still has money is Greek banks?

Us.  Thanks for asking.

21 Isn't the economy progressing exactly as Obama and his cohorts wanted?

22 That Reuters article about population carefully avoids one variable: whether the young are going to tolerate economic enslavement to the elderly. I suspect you can only push people so far. (OTOH, I'm at a loss as to why we don't have more riots in capitols when people realize what has been done to them.)

I wonder, has anyone ever done any projections of where population would be today if not for the various 20th Century outbreaks of mass homicide: Two World Wars, assorted other wars, the acts of the Soviets, Chinese, and Cambodians, etc. Dozens of millions of people, except for that portion already past their child producing years, whose family lines were cut short.

Despite all of those losses, population grew in the same century at an unprecedented pace. Would those additional people have made little difference? I wonder about this because I feel the conditions are building up towards another era of such murderous madness.

23

Darn.  Does that mean I have to start listening to Slim Whitman?

Wouldn't hurt, might even help.

If hippies at Zucotti Park start releasing doves, you'll need it.

24 btw domenich is wrong, let house prices drop more or we'll never work our way out of this morass.

25 Who still has money is Greek banks?

Us.  Thanks for asking.

Posted by: German and French Tax-Payers at October 26, 2011 09:19 AM (8y9MW)

Spengler in the Asia Times had a great article on this, pointing out the lunacy that German taxpayers don't get a legitimate vote on their taxes being raised to fund the public pensions of Greeks who retire early.  It is the Achilles heel of the entire Eurozone concept.

26 Smelly, old sock

27 Spengler in the Asia Times had a great article on this, pointing out the lunacy that German taxpayers don't get a legitimate vote on their taxes being raised to fund the public pensions of Greeks who retire early. It is the Achilles heel of the entire Eurozone concept. It's the Achilles heel of the West. We are doing the same thing here, all that TARP and stimulus money went to pay off the unions at the state level. I guess theoretically I had some say in that, but my say was no...

28 pointing out the lunacy that German taxpayers don't get a legitimate vote on their taxes being raised to fund the public pensions of Greeks who retire early.

Didn't somebody fight a war about that, oh, around 230+ years ago?  Something about "no taxation without representation."  I'm trying to put my finger on it...

Sometimes it's breathtaking to realize just how exception and visionary the Founding Fathers were.

29 Germany is still trying in vain to save the Euro project:

German parliament passes EFSF motion - source

30 how exception

'how exceptional'

31

other than this daily DOOM post, I read other blogs that indicate that Europe is close to financial collapse.  meanwhile, stock futures are up.  the Nikkei closed at highest ever.

what am I missing?  Are these NYSE & NASDAQ investors so much smarter than I?

32 5 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at October 26, 2011 09:05 AM (8y9MW)

Well done.  I knew I could count on you.

33 We are doing the same thing here, all that TARP and stimulus money went to pay off the unions at the state level. I guess theoretically I had some say in that, but my say was no...

Posted by: blaster at October 26, 2011 09:28 AM (Fw2Gg)

The difference is that German taxpayers can't vote for the Greek government that doles out the goodies, all they can do is vote out the German government that raises the taxes.  Not to minimize our problems, but the Eurozone is fatally flawed.

34

what am I missing?  Are these NYSE & NASDAQ investors so much smarter than I?

Posted by: kelleyosborn1@aol.com at October 26, 2011 09:32 AM (/Sgtl)

I think so because you put your e-mail address in the name field.

35

From the article about Pittsburgh and Harrisburg:  The first is to make your full pension payment each year and tie it to a reasonable rate of return.

Never going to happen.  The political class, on both sides of the aisle, has no incentive at the moment to take seriously the on-coming economic destruction of the pension plans/Social Security crisis. 

I am full of doom and despair about this and I am increasingly convinced that Europe will resort to form in dealing with its problems and that there will be massive generational stress in the US.  I don't see any way out of it.

Go.  Team.  Meteor. 

36 Posted by: Insomniac at October 26, 2011 09:33 AM (DrWcr)

Almost every day.

37 his post is extremely racist.

There really is nothing wrong with this economy, at all.

 It's working fine.

 

Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Elitist at October 26, 2011 08:59 AM (tcSZb)

Except for all of the unexpected economic events that happen on an almost daily basis

38

Morning, all!  Nothing like a plate of hot, fresh DOOM first thing in the morning. 

Speaking of idiots who don't understand the most basic economic principles, it looks like the Occupy Oakland proTEATers just won't go away, eh? 

Riot police in Oakland dispersed hundreds of protesters with tear gas on Tuesday night as crowds tried to re-enter a plaza outside of City Hall that the authorities had cleared of an encampment earlier in the day.

...

By Wednesday morning in downtown Oakland, a dim cloud of gas still hung in the air over Frank Ogawa Plaza, according to images broadcast on CNN. A small number of police in riot gear stood by barricades around the plaza and a handful of protesters held signs nearby.

“It sounded like bombs,” said Joaquin Jutt, 24, a digital animator who was among the protesters on Tuesday night. “There was a stinging and burning in my throat, eyes and nostrils. My eyes burned like there was hot sauce in them.”

Hey Joaquin, you know what will make that burning go away? 

Water. 

(Story is from the NYT, but safelinked to WZ)

39

hahaha!  ok, back to plain Kelley in Virginia now.

why is our stock market continuing to climb?

40

why is our stock market continuing to climb?

Posted by: kelley in virginia at October 26, 2011 09:36 AM (/Sgtl)

The stocks are shares of ownership in a going concern with physical assets.  That value is more stable than the dollar.  Don't think of it as the stock market going up, but as the value of the dollar going down.

41

Hey, do you remember when the Tea Party was chased from the public square by tear gas because they hated the police??  Yeah, me neither...

 

But these community organizers are JUST LIKE the Tea Party...

42 why is our stock market continuing to climb?

Insanity?

Honestly, people are so used to doom and gloom, that even the only moderately good news that's been coming out (It was a "good thing" that Coca-Cola only missed their 'expected' target by 1¢) is enough to get people (who are looking for good news anyway) to buy.

That's just a guess, of course.

43 The difference is that German taxpayers can't vote for the Greek government that doles out the goodies, all they can do is vote out the German government that raises the taxes. Not to minimize our problems, but the Eurozone is fatally flawed. =-=--= I didn't get to vote on the San Francisco government or Michigan or Wisconsin or any other place that got bailed out.

44

The sidebar item Scott Johnson blah, blah, has a link to a great Orwell essay on clarity of language.   But since I am a simple moron, who never had a link to attach when one of you clever people were explaining TinyURL, you need to go dig it up yourself.  Or take the time to explain yet again how the created tinyurl is converted to a red passage of words like you people do. 

45

Hey Joaquin, you know what will make that burning go away? 

Water. 

So will staying away from Frank Ogawa Plaza.

46

why is our stock market continuing to climb?

 

Because the banksters are borrowing all that newly printed money from the government at zero interest and pumping the stock market with it?

47 From Big Peace:

26-Oct-11 World View — Wednesday’s Much-Hyped EU Finance Ministers’ Meeting Is Canceled

48 Burp!  There will be hell to pay when he gets  home....

The food discussion began when Leno asked Obama about his Monday night run to RoscoeÂ’s House of Chicken and Waffles in Los Angeles, where the president ordered the Country Boy Special of wings and waffles.

“Outstanding chicken,” Obama said — and not necessarily the kind of food the first lady would object to.

In fact, the president told a few out-of-school things about Mrs. ObamaÂ’s diet.

“Here’s the secret,” Obama said. “Michelle, she’s done a great job with this healthy eating and let’s move and get exercise. But Michelle, as quiet as this is kept, she loves french fries. She loves pizza. She loves chicken.”

http://tinyurl.com/4xctnvc

49 the Nikkei closed at highest ever.

Huh? The Nikkei's high was over 35,000 around 1990. It's now under 9,000.

50 If the Chinese housing bubble bursts will it just need to burst again in 15 minutes?

51

Hey Joaquin, you know what will make that burning go away? 

Water. 

(Story is from the NYT, but safelinked to WZ)

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at October 26, 2011 09:35 AM (4df7R)

I thought you were supposed to use tomato sauce.  ;-)

52

Despite the "DOOM", I am optimistic. America's best days are before it, beginning on 20 January 2013.

The maladministration of the SCOAMF will be over.

A Republican Congress will have more freedom of action to correct the deviations from the Constitution that have built up since Wilson.

The American Public has been chastened by reality and shown the result of socialism and Keynesianism and found it wanting. 

The anti-growth agenda of the enronmental extremists has lost its steam.

The nation's capability to produce useable energy is pent up and will provide a bonanza of beneficial outcomes when released.  

Likewise, businesses will thrive an environment that see less regulation and more stability.

Many of the problems are not caused by the government not doing enough, but by the things that it does.  The solution is for the governemnt to not do those things.  

When America is allowed to operate as it was designed it is a powerful, profuse instrument.  When in the hands of economic retards and criminals such as the progressives are, its like having a rabid monkey in the cockpit of a F-16. 

53 Yen is at record high.

54 Posted by: Tami-Cardinals! at October 26, 2011 09:41 AM (X6akg)

So now will she tell Vanity Fair (or whoever it was she whined to about Paula Dean) that she wishes she'd never married Barack?

55

How can these two things possibly co-exist?  From NBC Chicago:

"We don't want any violence here," said an Occupy (Chicago) protester named Storm (MWR - Why am I not surprised his/her name is "Storm?"  Dirty hippy.). "It's not what we're about, it's not what we're here to do. We're looking for a nice, calm interaction."

Now contrast that with the closing sentence of the article:

After City Hall, protesters will stage a march around the Loop at 5 p.m. during rush hour.

Because NOTHING says "calm interaction" like a herd of filthy hippies getting in the way of traffic at rush hour in Chicago.

56 Go.  Team.  Meteor. 

Pfffffft.

57 Because NOTHING says "calm interaction" like a herd of filthy hippies getting in the way of traffic at rush hour in Chicago.

Need a feed for that ..

58 So now will she tell Vanity Fair (or whoever it was she whined to about Paula Dean) that she wishes she'd never married Barack?

He'll have his pick of sofas, there are probably a lot of nice ones in the White House.

59

Test

 

 http://tinyurl.com/3lsd2mm

60 The American Public has been chastened by reality and shown the result of socialism and Keynesianism and found it wanting.

Right.  Chastened by reality.  Found the results of socialism and Keynesianism wanting.  Maybe for 20 years.  Tops.

People are the same today as they were yesterday, and they'll be the same tomorrow.  The vast majority of Americans distrust politicians in general, but trust 'their' congressman.  They're low information (as in, "Oh, its' election day?  I wonder who's on the ballot?" low information) voters who vote for party, and not for a set of principles.  They don't want to make choices that will inconvenience themselves.  If the choices they do make help their posterity, so much the better, but it's not (for most of them) a priority.

But I'm a cynic.

61 Finally, I got it to work. About time.

62 In fact, the president told a few out-of-school things about Mrs. ObamaÂ’s diet.

And yet when Paula Deen spills the very same beans, the FLOTUS threatens to sue her.

Could these people be bigger assholes?

63

After City Hall, protesters will stage a march around the Loop at 5 p.m. during rush hour.

Because NOTHING says "calm interaction" like a herd of filthy hippies getting in the way of traffic at rush hour in Chicago.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at October 26, 2011 09:44 AM (4df7R)

Because traffic in and around Chicago isn't enough of a mess during rush hour. We need useless scum bags making the situation worse. It's time to take out the trash

64

When America is allowed to operate as it was designed it is a powerful, profuse instrument.  When in the hands of economic retards and criminals such as the progressives are, its like having a rabid monkey in the cockpit of a F-16. 

Posted by: Minuteman at October 26, 2011 09:43 AM (CGxxU)

If we're lucky, we can get a monkey that's had its shots in the cockpit next time. 

65

43 why is our stock market continuing to climb?

Insanity?

Honestly, people are so used to doom and gloom, that even the only moderately good news that's been coming out (It was a "good thing" that Coca-Cola only missed their 'expected' target by 1¢) is enough to get people (who are looking for good news anyway) to buy.

That's just a guess, of course.

Relative safe harbor for Euros to and Asians to park cash away from their respective governments and currency difficulties. If Monty is right re China, and I hold the same opinion, you should see a large flight of capital out of China into any respectable reserve currency (dollar, pound or franc). I think you are seeing Euro cash moving into US Stocks. Just my two cents. My real concern is if the Euro decide to return to national currencies then there would be an exodus of Euro cash heading back into Europe. Especially true of Germany. and Netherlands. Not so much Italy and France. Springtime for Hitler and Germany, winter for Italy and France.

66 Because traffic in and around Chicago isn't enough of a mess during rush hour. We need useless scum bags making the situation worse. It's time to take out the trash

Aren't y'all supposed to be having Weather today, too?

67 Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I am comforted that SCOAMF is able to go on TV and practice his comedy act.  I mean it was classic comedy... dumping on the ole' lady and all.  Hell, if it wasn't for the fact that I haven't eaten in three days, I would have been in stitches on the floor.  The guy is a regular hoot, I tell ya.

68 Uh, OK, Monty, you jut keep throwing out links, and we'll keep noticing things like ... The whole point of the "Larry Summers is an economic criminal" screed is that he didn't give the socialist answer to every question.

69 Perry's first paid TV ad....airing in Iowa

http://tinyurl.com/3rcpduy

70 Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

71 I didn't get to vote on the San Francisco government or Michigan or Wisconsin or any other place that got bailed out.

Posted by: blaster at October 26, 2011 09:39 AM (Fw2Gg)

No, but you got to vote for the congress that appropriated the bailout money and taxed (borrowed) to pay for it, since it is in the same country.

72

Obama's got his priorities straight.  He's focused like a laser on jobs.

NBA jobs.

Hey, Obama, you know what's really heartbreaking?  Unemployment above 9%, REAL unemployment near or above 20%, and anyone in their right mind still believing you give a damn.

(Link to WaPo, h/t WZ)

73 The China article is scary, what would an oil shock do to China right now? 

74 All well and good, and thank you for posting this interesting information...

But what of the OWS drumming situation? It has been hours since your latest update of that critical situation?

Certainly important developments have transpired that require your attention and publishing.

MORE OWS DRUMMING UPDATES!

please.

75 74

Obama's got his priorities straight.  He's focused like a laser on jobs.

NBA jobs.

Hey, Obama, you know what's really heartbreaking?  Unemployment above 9%, REAL unemployment near or above 20%, and anyone in their right mind still believing you give a damn.

(Link to WaPo, h/t WZ)

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit at October 26, 2011 09:52 AM (4df7R)

This lockout of multimillionaire basketball players is just like slavery, you racists!!!!1!1!!11!

76 I hear that train a-coming, coming round the bend....

77 Sub-tard, you are right - the money has to go somewhere and the pre-programmed churn on Wall Street is fairly safe.

78 Perry's first paid TV ad....airing in Iowa http://tinyurl.com/3rcpduy Posted by: Tami-Cardinals! at October 26, 2011 09:50 I like it, gets to the point quickly.

79 But I'm a cynic.
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at October 26, 2011 09:47 AM

The really disgusting thing is: you're right.

I love it when people start yapping about how "things will be right" in 2013. Of course there's a good chance we'll still have the stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure in office and will definitely have a lot of the same greedy, self-absorbed, lazy  seat-warming felons in Congress.

Yeah, it'd be nice to think things will change automatically, but short of total vindication for those who believe the Mayan calendar means the world will end in '12, I ain't seein' it.

And the stock market is "up" because the Germans are "leveraging" what little money they have left to keep the worthless EU afloat.

Deck chairs. Titanic.

DOOM.

80

The most compelling reason to support Perry IMO is that the left wants to destroy him. 

81

On Pittsburgh.

Yeah, there is no hope. There are no Republicans on county council and all the main positions like Treasurer, Country exec, etc are held by union owned democrats.

Fortunately for us in Allegheny county, the city and county finances are separate.

The surrounding areas of Allegheny county are fairly republican.

They keep trying to merge the cities finances under the claim that it will consolidate services and save money, we claim that they should go fuck themselves.

So far, we've managed to keep the finances separate.

82 DOOM.

Posted by: MrScribbler at October 26, 2011 09:57 AM (YjjrR)

It's always darkest right before the meteorite hits...

83 Aren't y'all supposed to be having Weather today, too?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) is tired beyond tired of the trolls at October 26, 2011 09:50 AM (8y9MW)

Slight chance of rain. And it takes just one drop of rain to bring Chicago traffic to a complete halt too.

84 "Italy Government Close to Collapse".

Must be a Wednesday.

85

The most compelling reason to support Perry IMO is that the left wants to destroy him. 

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at October 26, 2011 09:59 AM (jx2j9)

The left (media, Democrats, unions) want to destroy every candidate. They are staying away from Mittens until after the primaries.

86 I pulled this from zerohedge, but hell - if accurate:

Merkel: No one should take another 50 years of peace in Europe for Granted

87 Merkel: No one should take another 50 years of peace in Europe for Granted

Posted by: Jean at October 26, 2011 10:02 AM (WkuV6)

Yep, I'd say it is closer than that, 2016?

88

The left (media, Democrats, unions) want to destroy every candidate. They are staying away from Mittens until after the primaries.

Posted by: The Robot Devil at October 26, 2011 10:01 AM (136wp)

This.  McCain was the media darling until the general.

89

So are you saying the Hillary is not the smartest woman on the planet?

90 Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at October 26, 2011 09:59 AM (jx2j9)

Hmmm... isn't this, more or less, the exact strategy some advocated for Perry to "navigate" this mess?  And the other is (functionally) to throw a number of primary voters under the bus as crazy?

91 The left (media, Democrats, unions) want to destroy every candidate. They are staying away from Mittens until after the primaries. Posted by: The Robot Devil at October 26, 2011 10:01 AM I think the current machine (Gov. MSM) believes that Mitt will Neutralize the Tea Party. Right now he just seems to be ignoring it.

92 Perry's first paid TV ad....airing in Iowa

http://tinyurl.com/3rcpduy
Posted by: Tami-Cardinals! at October 26, 2011 09:50

I like it, gets to the point quickly.

"...and reduce dependence on oil from countries that hate America."

Uh oh, SCOAMF isn't going to like Perry being so clear.

93 When the feeling's gone and you can't go on Monty, you know that's a lyric from a Partridge Family song, Right?

94

DOOMed, in so many words.  Or to put it another way, all you little people out there – yeah, you know who you are – well, this whole economic fiasco – itÂ’s your fault.  And give me some campaign money.

95

"There's a certain decorum with which you treat the dead, even if it's somebody who has done terrible things," Obama said. Still, Qaddafi's death "sends a strong message around the world to dictators that people long to be free."

So are you saying the Hillary is not the smartest woman on the planet?

So, dumping someone in the middle of the ocean is decorous?

96

93 The left (media, Democrats, unions) want to destroy every candidate. They are staying away from Mittens until after the primaries.

Posted by: The Robot Devil at October 26, 2011 10:01 AM

I think the current machine (Gov. MSM) believes that Mitt will Neutralize the Tea Party. Right now he just seems to be ignoring it.

Willard has ignored it at his own peril. He has his 25% RINO box perfectly built. Teh only problem is the 2010 election was all TEA party, and will decide this election as well. Too bad for Willard.

97 Hussein, I've been a little dismayed at Jennifer Rubin's take on Perry.
wondering if she hangs out with liberals at the psot too much or she's already picked romney.

98 I think the current machine (Gov. MSM) believes that Mitt will Neutralize the Tea Party. Right now he just seems to be ignoring it.

Willard has ignored it at his own peril. He has his 25% RINO box perfectly built. Teh only problem is the 2010 election was all TEA party, and will decide this election as well. Too bad for Willard.

Posted by: Sub-Tard at October 26, 2011 10:11 AM (0M3AQ)

If Mittens gets the nod, the pull-through candidates for the Senate/House have to be from Tea Partiers. Organize locally folks...

99

The most compelling reason to support Perry IMO is that the left wants to destroy him. 

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at October 26, 2011 09:59 AM (jx2j9)

And the establishment right, I might add.  Perry is getting teh Fred and Sarah treatment full on.  Also, beware of link above.  It goes to Huff and Puff.

100

So, is Mittens a conservative who pretended to be a liberal to get elected in Massachusetts? Or is he a liberal pretending to be a conservative to get nominated by the Republican Party?

We really don't know, do we?

101 Cloudy with a chance of Armageddon -- hmmm, that's a pretty good description of my attitude these days.
 
Coffee usually helps though.
 
The stock market seems very volatile, with 2-3 hundred point swings common every day. The invisible herd doesn't seem to know which way to go. Moo.

102 "...and reduce dependence on oil from countries that hate America."

So, I guess Perry intends to turn ON the address check for his campaign contribution website.

103 So, I guess Perry intends to turn ON the address check for his campaign contribution website.

Posted by: Jean at October 26, 2011 10:26 AM (WkuV6)

I thought it worked much better for me with the address check "unexpectedly" left in the OFF position!

104 Good morning, folks.  I've been posting on a dead thread.  Frustrating.  I will re-post two of them here:

>>Tell me folks from MA, how can anyone this stupid get elected in MA?

Mr. Y-not just returned from a business trip in Boston (recall, we lived there for about two and a half years during the first Gulf War so we know it pretty well).  He reported a very odd phenomenon: lots of regular folks (cabbies, hotel and restaurant employees, passersby) were openly bitching about Obama.  That included ethnic types (although he didn't specify if he meant immigrants or African Americans).  I guess they blame him for the downturn. 

Now he was traveling with LDS folks, and visiting primarily with them, so there was definitely some pro-Romney support in that group (business types, wealthy folks), but he said amongst the regular folks there was a sense that Romney was the devil they knew.  They didn't like him, but felt he'd be better than Obama.

He didn't hear the other candidates discussed.  I hope Perry gets a lot of media time to sell his economic plan.  I'm glad he did very well on O'Reilly (although I wish less time was spent by BO'R trying to get Perry to say something nasty about Mitt) because, although we loathe him, he has a big audience. 

But Romney (and Obama) having the media and chattering classes on his side is undoubtedly an advantage.  It leaves virtually no oxygen left for the other candidates.  And, of course, he is rarely asked any sort of difficult question. 

I will risk the teasing of the Palin supporters and admit that I think it would be good to have her endorse Perry at this point.  He needs the boost.  It could hurt him in the general, but he needs some game-changers on media coverage. 

---

Re Rick's ad:

Wow - I watched Perry's ad.  I love it! 

He looks terrific, he speaks clearly, the message is simple.  Love it. 

Very rarely do we get to see the candidates in this short ads.  Usually we are "treated" to melodramatic voice overs and clips from media reports.  I loved the visuals and script of this ad.  Even the music was good. 

105 I love the kitteh, btw.  Nothing cuter than a meezer. 

106 4 Well the economy is doing just fine for me and Mooshelle!
Posted by: Barky O at October 26, 2011 09:04 AM

It's been simply awful for me.  I've been unemployed for three years now!  It really slowed progress on my mansion in California. 

Vote for me!  I feel the pain of the little people! 

107 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

108 I'm glad someone is finally writing about CA and its impending CARB restrictions on energy use. It's going to be Armageddon, to use an overused word.

Edison is already warning us in commercials that "officials" have the right to call a Flex Alert, or energy reduction, when they feel energy use is too high.  I can't wait to see what happens when liberals get their air conditioning turned off by The Man the next 100-degree day.

We are doomed.

109 Argentina economic propaganda timed for re-election of Mrs. Kirchner.

American voters should take notice. IMF bails-out a bankrupted nation, and all productivity flees that nation, legally or illegally. Campaign funding makes certain that the politician who will enforce a repatriation of all future export corporate profits (only ones making any profit?) is the landslide victor in election. Not that repatriated export corporate profits will be invested anywhere except in providing IMF (or the Federal Reserve) with bonuses.

Financial Times - Oct-20
ArgentinaÂ’s recovery
Cristina Fernández will likely secure a second presidential term, largely due to the country’s economic recovery after a $100bn debt default

Financial Times - Oct-24
Fernández wins re-election in Argentina
ArgentinaÂ’s populist president cruised to a landslide election victory on the back of a booming economy to secure a new four-year term

Bloomberg News - Oct-26
Argentina ordered oil, gas and mining companies such as Xstrata Plc to repatriate all future export revenue as the government struggles to stem accelerating capital flight from South AmericaÂ’s second-biggest economy.


//Capital Flight

<sup>The Argentine economic crisis of 2001 was in part the result of massive capital flight, induced by fears that Argentina would default on its external debt (the situation was made worse by the fact that Argentina had an artificially low fixed exchange rate and was dependent on large levels of reserve currency). This was also seen in Venezuela in the early 1980s with one year's total export income leaving through illegal capital flight.     In the last quarter of the 20th century, capital flight was observed from countries that offer low or negative real interest rate (like Russia and Argentina) to countries that offer higher real interest rate (like the People's Republic of China).     A 2006 article in The Washington Post gave several examples of private capital leaving France in response to the country's wealth tax. The article also stated, "Eric Pinchet, author of a French tax guide, estimates the wealth tax earns the government about $2.6 billion a year but has cost the country more than $125 billion in capital flight since 1998."

[Obama and Democrats stay stuck on stupid demanding another wealth tax in order to keep squandering US tax funds on their own personal/political gratifications.]</sup>

110
wondering if she hangs out with liberals at the psot too much or she's already picked romney.

She's just a delusional lib who believes she's a conservative since she's right of the SCFOAMF.

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