Comments by "" (@A86) on "C-SPAN" channel.

  1. Republicans and Trump supporters sound like SNOWFLAKES over this Correspondent's Dinner! What's wrong, Trump supporters? You sound Triggerered. Need a Safe Space?
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  2. ***** - No he didn't. Why must Republicans lie? But you know what is true? Republicans supported and gave money and weapons to Saddam Hussein back in the 80s and armed the Mujahideen which turned into the Taliban. George W. Bush paid off Taliban leaders to leave our soldiers alone in Afghanistan. In 2011 and 2012 Republican Congressional leaders urged Obama to fund the Free Syrian Army, which later morphed into ISIS. Oops!!!
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  3. This is coming from the NSA, FBI, CIA and ODNI. Hardly "Leftists".
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  4. Lol Screaming about What? What liberals were offended by Michelle Wolf? Liberals are howling with laughter at conservatives crying foul and Huckabee's daddy running in crying and whining about his daughter being made fun of. What happened? I thought you guys were against Political Correctness? Mad that the Manchild-In-Chief, Wicked Witch Conway and Hamplanet Sanders were taken down a notch? Lol! 😁
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  5. Obama @ Republicans: You mad? LOL
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  6. "Market regulation by government protects the big boys from competition" In some cases yes but not all cases. That's about like saying all medicine just worsens a problem. Antitrust laws often don't protect Big Business. As for government protecting corporations Big Business can still form even if a government was absent, such as natural monopolies. One has to wonder though without a government who would print money? Where would the military come from?
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  7. "A.K.A the poor and middle class" We keep getting screwed because we keep allowing the upper classes to shift costs onto us. While we get worked up about their minimal tax hikes (most of their personal money comes from capital gains, not income) they shift tax burdens from tax cuts onto us and funnel the savings into their own pockets while not creating more jobs. I'd be far more concerned about small business than bankers and big corporations.
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  8. I don't see what everyone's getting worked up about. The Public Option wasn't in this bill. It's just a giveaway for the insurance industry. Alan Grayson is putting up the Public Option Act this year to be voted on. That would really be some reform.
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  9. "50% of Americans do not pay any income tax" Go to Google and type in "income tax brackets" and see for yourself. What you said is incorrect. And about the top 1% I was incorrect. The top 5% earns nearly 70% of national income, not just the top 1%. While you're talking about "statist lies" you seem to be bought off by corporatist lies.
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  10. "Who is it that is providing more jobs for people to become taxpayers?" Small businesses employ far more people than large businesses. As for providing jobs it's a two-way street. Without workers there wouldn't be any jobs and thus no revenue or tax dollars. "Business loans aren't a government service" Many business loans and many utilities receive billions in government subsidies every year.
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  11. 1) I thought you claimed there were no non-government studies. Why the change of tune suddenly? 2) Not really. They're corporate studies with their own slants as well. They're trusted by conservatives but not by most other people. 3) Look again sir: (dot) nationalpriorities (dot) org/ images/stories/ chartspage/ discfy04 (dot) gif
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  12. yglesias (dot) thinkprogress (dot) org/ wp - content/ uploads/ 2009/ 02/ nineteenth (dot) png No one in their right mind would argue that living standards in the 19th century were higher than they were after the New Deal. At any point. Our economic production has been higher ever sense and there has been more economic diversification and growth of businesses since 1938. The major staples of the economy used to be controlled by a few companies.
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  13. h t t p (.) org / files/ active / 0 real % 20GDP % 20per % 20capita % 20US (.) gif (put it all together) h t t p / / w w w (.) econbrowser (.) com / archives / 2005 / 08 / productivity _ graph2 (dot) gif
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  14. I still remember how Republicans were pulling their kids out of school claiming the speech was going to be socialist indoctrination. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! That shit was hilarious.
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  15. Their numbers don't match the numbers of this graph from the Office of Management and Budget. Here is the link of where the graph came from: (dot) gpoaccess (dot) gov/ usbudget/ fy05/ browse (dot) html
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  16. I think you're mistaken, the budget for 2008 was $2.9 Trillion. (dot) reuters (dot) com/article/ latestCrisis / idUSN17421953 Respectfully I think you misread the CBO report. It isn't wrong of course, I think you just misread it. For one thing defense is not the only type of military spending.
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  17. Just for future reference it's hypocritical to talk about my bias when you yourself used "liberal", "left wing", "anti-capitalist" and "Keynesian" as slurs. That kind of thing tends to just get you into arguments instead of helping to make a point. That's why I refrained from using your ideological leaning as a slur word.
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  18. I didn't mean the term as a slur. Sorry if you took it that way. I meant the term descriptively. I didn't say you called ME those terms as slurs you just threw them out as slurs in general.
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  19. 1) You claimed there are no non-governmental studies. Then you claimed you used independent studies. Contradict yourself much? 2) CATO isn't trusted by most non-conservatives either. The WHO is trustworthy and neutral. 3) Foreign debt under Carter: $0.9 Trillion Foreign debt under Reagan: $3 Trillion Foreign debt under Clinton: $5 Trillion Foreign debt under Bush: $10.4 Trillion Budget deficit under Bush: +$9 Trillion The last 3 presidents all decreased social services spending.
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  20. Exactly. If it's about country first they should be more concerned about the country working rather than trying to "prove" their ideology. I couldn't stand Bush and his ideology but I hoped things would work out for the best. I didn't want him to fail because I knew that would hurt me.
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  21. @jimistreets - Corporations do not feed the world, most people are employed in small businesses. What corporations produce we can thank the employees for. This computer was created by scientists, technicians and employees. Not CEOs or shareholders. "Tax cuts have spurred HUGE economic growth" No they haven't: (dot) huppi (dot) com / kangaroo / L - taxgrowth (dot) htm (dot) cbpp (dot) org / cms / ? fa = view & id = 692
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  22. I see it but I don't really see anything to back up the information. This is from the Office of Management and Budget: (dot) nationalpriorities (dot) org/ images/ stories/ chartspage/ discfy04 (dot) gif
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  23. Who gives a shit about North Korea? They're a pissant country that poses no real threat to the US. Their weapons can't even reach us and half their shit doesn't work.
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  24. @billabong24041 - By more "democratic" I don't mean mob rule or majoritarianism. I mean our government should be able to just be bought off by the highest bidder and completely ignore the taxpayers and the public.
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  25. The danger with a private military is they derive a profit from war which means they have a vested interesting in making sure wars continue. They have a vested interested in making sure as many wars as possible are going on at all times. If there is peace they don't make a profit.
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  26. 1) Whom in the staff claims it didn't work? 2) If it didn't why did the US economy take off during and after it? (a lot of New Deal policies continued until the Reagan Era): upload (dot) wikimedia (dot) org/ wikipedia/commons/d/da/ Gdp20 - 40 (dot) jpg As you can see economic production and growth went up during and after it.
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  27. 1) I don't remember that. I remember reading about him not doing much of anything to stave off Depression. 2) What do mean about Reagan? He massively increased the size of the government. Government spending was far higher in 1988 than it was in 1979. What's worse is that he cut taxes (and thus decreased tax revenues) but increased spending which caused a budget deficit and lead to him massively increasing foreign borrowing to offset the debt. Also wages haven't raised for most of us since 1984.
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  28. You mean like Trump trying to find out the identity of everyone who protested his Inauguration or conservatives demanding that students who attend Parkland rallies be punished by their schools? Or demanding that every show that makes fun of Trump be taken off the air?
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  29. What conservative comedians have had their rights taken away?
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  30. What do you mean? Krugman is a big critic of the Democrats and their opposition to public healthcare and he's opposed to the Democrats' protection of tariffs and trade barriers. Yeah, he's a liberal. Your point? Milton Friedman was a Republican. Both of them still have good advice on topics regardless.
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  31. 1) The "free market" has never existed. The US has always had state-protected corporate mercantilism. 2) The general consensus on Reagan is that he actually did relatively little. His biggest accomplishment was bringing down inflation. Other than that he ran up our foreign deficit to $3 Trillion (it had been $0.9 Trillion under Carter), racked up a huge budget deficit and increased wasteful government spending. Wages haven't really changed either.
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  32. I absolutely hate the mandates but they aren't to buy government health insurance. There is no government health insurance in the bill anymore. This was paid for by the insurance industry by way of Max Baucus, Olympia Snowe and Harry Reid. It's basically like if you had to buy McDonald's or Burger King at least once a week or else face a fine.
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  33. Apparently you never heard of the 1982 recession (the second worst in the 20th century) or the 1987 small recession. The 1982 recession didn't fully stop until 1985. The 90s business cycle was much stronger. "tax revenue doubled" I don't know where you got that from. Reagan had a total of -0.6% growth in tax revenue. "Who made the computer you are using" Engineers, technicians, etc. "whom you are callling vampires" I'm calling the practices of CEOs and shareholders vampirical.
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  34. I'm sure you're probably a very miserable human being. Only the most ignorant and miserable of people go around attacking complete strangers simply because of their skin color. You're no better than the thugs you extrapolate onto all black people.
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  35. (dot) cbpp (dot) org/ images/ cms/ 9 - 27 - 06tax-f3 - rev (dot) jpg
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  36. "Total Real Per-Capita Revenue Growth in 22 Quarters after the Last Business Cycle Peak 2001-2007: 1.7% Average for All Previous Post-World War II Business Cycles: 12.0% 1990s Business Cycle (Following Tax Increases): 16.2%" (dot) mass (dot) gov/ bb/ h1/fy10h1/ img10/ wordimgs/ 06 - graph11 (dot) gif
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  37. "Democrats are tax and spend. Republicans are borrow and spend. Enough of the wasteful spending from both parties" Agree 100%.
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  38. Ted Yoho assumed his wife's and daughters' gender.
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  39. "[joblessness during] the first five years of the New Deal, from 25 percent when FDR took office to 14.3 percent in 1937. Then, however, joblessness rose, hitting 19.1 percent in 1938 before dropping back to 14.6 percent in 1940 and 9.9 percent in 1941." "A 23.7 percent increase in federal spending in 1933 was followed by a 10.8 percent increase in GDP in 1934, for example, while a 34.2 percent increase in 1934 was followed by an 8.9 percent GDP increase in 1935."
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  40. Lol, oh no. Not the "Japan's lost decade" myth. Now you're really grasping for straws: mediamatters (dot) org/ research/ 200812220005 "Japan's monetary and fiscal stimulus did help to lift the economy. After a recession in 1993-94, GDP was growing at an annual rate of around 2.5% by 1995" This is THE ECONOMISTS stating this.
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  41. "the only president to spend trillions has been Obama" Bush spent $2.8 Trillion in 2008 alone. He spent a total of $11.5 Trillion in his 8 years in office.
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  42. While Fannie and Freddie did play a big part in this mess the majority of the bad loans were the deregulated loans. The CRA loans only account for 23% of the bad loans that led to the crash of the housing market.
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  43. There is no private sector without consumers and workers just like there is no government without tax payers. Neither inherently exist in and of themselves. Labor/production and consumption is the end-all-be-all ultimately when you get down to the root of things. I have no reason to believe the information presented is invalid. As for unemployment during the Great Depression it came to its lowest level when spending was most active. It rose when FDR stopped spending for a bit.
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  44. Reagan was in the pocket of corporate America, bankers and the military-industrial complex like the rest. I think Eisenhower was the last truly unowned President.
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  45. "the matter are the people in this country" 6 out of 10 Americans support the public option. And where do you get this notion that the public option will still be put in? The Dems abandoned it which is one of the primary reasons they Democrats' approval rating is now as low as the Republicans' approval rating.
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  46. Link please. No source seems to confirm this claim.
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  47. @soulfullyanointed - If you had clicked on the link: (dot) traigerlaw (dot) com / publications / traiger _ hinckley _ llp _ cra _ foreclosure _ study _1 - 7 - 08 (dot) pdf
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  48. The Economist I meant. As for unemployment the U.S. unemployment rate was 14.3 percent in 1937 and 19 percent in 1938, compared to 24.9 percent in 1933. Lol. 3) I think I trust the CBPP and the CBO over John Stossel.
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  49. @WilhelmHelmut - What? Lemme guess - you also think we shouldn't teach evolution in school?
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  50. Republicans and Trump supporters sound like SNOWFLAKES over this Correspondent's Dinner! What's wrong, Trump supporters? You sound Triggerered. Need a Safe Space?
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