Comments by "blunty gagnon" (@megagagnon1) on "Peter DeFazio's Reaction to the State of the Union Address" video.

@exenrontexas The federal reserve drained us dry. The bankers will suck the last bits out and jump overboard. Debt will overwhelm us - the laws of gravity still apply. And unlike Greece, there's no one to bail us out. Remember when the captain found out the titanic 5 flooded compartments - and knew that meant sinking was not a matter of if, but when. We're in the same situation. Our national debt equals our GDP, and we have gazillions in unfunded entitlements. We're sunk.
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@scottsway You don't seem to appreciate the simple fact that this republican is sinking like the titanic. Who's on the Supreme Court is practically meaningless comparatively speaking. I guess my teaspoon analogy was too deep for you.
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Why does Thom the progressive seem to support Obama the corporatist? Especially since Obama is a free trade enthusiast and Thom likes tariffs?
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@scottsway Capital flows where there's the greatest potential for profit (except for government money, which flows towards the biggest political donors). Compliance costs for small businesses last year were estimated at $1.7 trillion. That's a low estimate methinks. Compliance costs are the cost associated with complying with govt regulations. Those costs are continuing upward because of SB501 (food nazis), ObamaCare (1099 forms by the millions) etc etc. Good for corps, bad for small bizz.
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@exenrontexas I guess you're oblivious to reality. Not much to discuss here. The Titanic is sinking and you're pointing a finger at Cheney and whining about him busting a chair on the deck.
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@scottsway The dems have been in charge - and did nothing to speak of. Putting a couple of supremes in doesn't change anything - this ship is still sinking fast. Imagine we're the titanic sinking - what you're saying is "at least the democrat captain is using a teaspoon to get some of the seawater out, the republican captain just sat there". Makes as much sense as what you said.
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@exenrontexas 8 billion is peanuts for California. They have $500 billion in public sector employee pension entitlements that they can't pay.
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@scottsway You're calling me stupid and you're the one claiming social security is in good shape? Well moron, there is a surplus of social security funds - in the form of IOU's that are worthless. So how do they actually pay out the SS checks? SS taxes coming in. This year there wasn't enough SS taxes coming in - a deficit. And 10,000 baby boomers a day - every day - for the next 19 years - will be turning 65. You do the math, genius.
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@exenrontexas Without central banking (the fed), Reagan would've been unable to run deficits. And by the way i'm no fan of Reagan.
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