Little piece of wisdom from a Minneapolis Star Tribune reader

[liberalgoliath]

I was reading comments on the article describing Norm Coleman's newest shenanigans to try and pry his Senate seat from the evident winner, Al Franken.

As usual, I perused the readers' comments and stumbled upon this true gem of a post (by Slinger2):

the recession of 1872, the mini depression of 1893 the great depression of 1929. Then moving up

Comments

[rubygloomrox]

Thank you! I'm so sick of hearing these people who supported borrow and spend for the past 8 (at least) years bitching and whining about people who want to tax and spend. And then there is the difference between spending and investing that folks need to get clear on as well. I'm sick of all this stimulus talk without addressing what needs to happen with taxes. I don't want to hear anymore about penalizing the rich. When we don't have those taxes, we all suffer. All of us, and even eventually the rich will feel it.

[liberalgoliath]

Our taxes are among the lowest in the civilized world, especially on the rich. And, yet, people cry about having their money taken away. Well, guess what, you pay to live in the state, to have law and order, infrastructure and not to have the hungry, the sick, the deseased, and the dead laying in the streets.

Stimulus Plan sounds like a far more responsible plan than the one Bush pushed through. At least, we're investing money in our infrastructure (something that needs to be done anyways) and creating jobs (for someone who will work on these infrastructure projects)

[rubygloomrox]

For the most part, I like the stimulus plan. I just wish we could start talking about taxes.