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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	The Obama Economy
	Date:	3/4/2009 9:50:02 AM

After reading this entire thread it is obvious about one thing. Liberals (Hound being the current example) are uniformly pessimistic which is why survey after survey show that conservatives are happier, more optimistic and give more to charity than liberals. It is a proven fact. Of course things have not changed forever. What a lack of understanding of history. Why is it that we always think we live in different times than ever before?!?!? Read a book and you will find we have been here many times and have recovered an equal number. We have had numerous tax and spend presidents like the Messiah and have returned to our senses and we will do so again, the question being how much pain will the current idiots in congress and the white house will inflict on America before we toss their sorry butts out of office. Nothing new with the gloom and doomers, they are always wrong.

As for the Rush Limbaugh spectacle, I assume Hound has probably never listened to him or only for a short time. As he says, you have to listen for 6 weeks to understand his show. He will tell you first and foremost he is a conservative entertainer and commentator. Nothing more and nothing less. He has never been elected to anything and will never run for anything. He doesn't run the Republican party and has no desire to. THE POINT IS THAT OBAMA HIMSELF RAISED RUSH'S PROFILE AND IN THE PROCESS DIMINISHED THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT. The mainstream media is simply playing the part of useful idiots that they are. By the way, I use caps to emphasize my point, not to shout.

Finally, as for the finger pointing comment. There are two important reasons to "point fingers" so to speak. One is to identify exactly what happened so we can correct the problem and hopefully not repeat our mistakes of the past. The second is to hold those elected officials responsible for their actions. Both have merit. The problem is that partisans (be they Dem or Republican) don't want their party to be held accountable and there are usually reasons why one party or the other pursued damaging policies. It is inarguable that the mess we are in today was caused by the excesses of government and its intervention and distortions of the marketplace. The record clearly shows that this was caused primarily by Democrats.

Finally, the prescriptions being tried by Obama and congress have been tried before and failed miserably. They will fail again and until the misery index gets so high that we throw Dems out of control.