What the democrats and President Obama must do

[grimmyx]

What the democrats and President Obama need to do to save the American economy

Comments

[ddstory]

Cough...

[htpcl]

You always beat me to it. How do you do that...

[ddstory]

Talent.

[telemann]

Here, you need something for that.

[underlankers]

The military is only one of four things that have to be addressed. We've seen that gutting social spending and increasing military spending is a disaster, inverting that just changes the disaster and not the actual problem. All of them have to be addressed at once.

[rick_day]

Specifically, the DOD budget. More specifically black ops.

Who needs an intelligence community when we have google earth, twitter, facebook and /b/?

[meus_ovatio]

If he doesn't do it, you'll still just vote for him right?

[telemann]

What's the alternative?

[meus_ovatio]

I dunno. I was just asking, since these missives are entirely pointless because the Democrats know you'll vote for them anyway. That's sort of how it works. Like with the GOP and abortion or whatever. They don't care. Vote for us, because you hate the other side.

[telemann]

There was a very cool piece I read the other day that talked about the history of liberals in the Democratic party and how few of them are really around anymore-- particularly the ones with the late 1960s/early 1970s variation of liberalism, but meanwhile, conservatism from that same period has plenty of standard bearers in the Republican party, and the moderate and liberal wing of the Republicans are pretty much extinct. So it's harder now for progressives in the Democratic party to run a real challenge to a more moderate one: i.e. you'd never have another situation where a Robert Kennedy could basically prevent the sitting president from seeking another term from his own party (cf. Lyndon Johnson to Barak Obama).

[rasilio]

I'm not sure where you are getting your talking points, however you might want to go take some basic math classes

[grimmyx]

I don't use talking points. This is all my own opinion. Don't be confused. I don't think government spending doesn't need to be cut. I'm saying ALL Americans need to pay. Corporations as well Such as G.E. who paid no taxes last year. I say pass the hat and EVERYONE pays.

[rick_day]

Not so much a solution as it is a call for fairness, eh?

I didn't read your comments as a quick fix like the above poster seemed to. Also don't you agree using the so-called 'war' over the past 10 years is a poor excuse for explaining why the deficit is so high?

[grimmyx]

The war is a huge factor in the deficit. It's on par with saying hanging the poor out to dry will fix everything.

[gunslnger]

Summary: blah blah blah, whine whine whine, they must cater to me and my silly notions, blah blah, I know they won't and I'll vote for them anyways.

[ddstory]

Well done armchair warrior. Stay true to yourself.

[gunslnger]

It was a better comment than yours at least.

[ddstory]

Obviously you're the only one who thinks that.