Comments on: Why only 41 percent of Americans approve of Obama’s job performance

By: ZPT

ZPT — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:25:30 +0000

Not to mention, Potato, that not all government spending is “stimulus,” so what you quoted isn’t actually a contradiction. It might be an unrealistic expectation, but it’s not a contradiction.

By: HeadWolf

HeadWolf — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:27:54 +0000

“Jacking Up” taxes on the idle rich will not save the Democrats from a bigger rout than 1994. The Democratic Party is going to be sent into the WILDERNESS for two genertions or more. perhaps the party disapears ……….

By: Potatoe1

Potatoe1 — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:21:39 +0000

My apologies to Mr.James Pethokoukis, The autor of the article I quoted was Douglas Schoen at The Daily Beast.

By: STORYBURNthere

STORYBURNthere — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:21:58 +0000

Obama needs to jack up taxes on the top 2% of wealth BEFORE the November election. That will help the Dems the most

By: Potatoe1

Potatoe1 — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:33:26 +0000

In James Pethokoukis’ article about Obama he states,”They must put forth a set of focused initiatives aimed at reducing the debt, and cutting spending, with an emphasis on tax cuts, fiscal stimulus, and a series of initiatives to stimulate and encourage job creation.”
So to fix the economy you lower your revenue and spend more and that will reduce your debt.
The fact that anyone could write something as silly as that is part of the reason for this countries problems. The fact that people can read stuff like that without laughing is the other part…

By: CDN_finance

CDN_finance — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:10:24 +0000

So to sum up, politicians are not economists and don’t understand a thing about forecasting… fair enough. Economists can’t agree what colour the sky is, so that doesn’t make the politicians job any easier. Politicizing the economy is the worst move period – from both sides – because it essentially GUARANTEES more govt involvement one way or another. As for what really to do regarding the economy… well, there needs to be more debt unwinding from the consumer and corps need to take the plunge on rehiring and take the bottomline hit to grow their top-line potential. Corps have to make the first move – they’re the only ones that can get loans and they are sitting on tonnes of cash… need to show some moxie to be the bigdog, or the govt will just continue to fumblefuk the economy.