Comments on: The Tattlesnake – Six Neocon Whoppers: Myth, Truth and Proof Edition

By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:45:16 +0000

Grim, maybe I’ll do that after I finish the piece I’m working on. And I still haven’t forgotten about the post on socialist Norway, which I know you’ll love.

By: grimgold

grimgold — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:47:21 +0000

RS, please consider writing a real piece on some topic that you think will better the country if enacted.
I know it’s easier to sit back and critique the work of others than to create your own stuff, but you can certainly do it.
Tell me, what exactly should Congress should do precisely (besides recess) that would improve this country.
1000 words or more.

By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:23:49 +0000

Grim, I’ll answer your third comment after I’ve done a little research.

As far as the ‘funny stuff,’ it just comes to me like gas or a belch. Sometimes I have to rewrite it a tad so that it makes sense, but it just flows out like a head in a toilet during a frat party.

By: grimgold

grimgold — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:23:44 +0000

RS, read your Feb 7 comment in response to me.
Tell me something, do you have to try to come up with such funny stuff, or are you one of the lucky ones who’s writing simply flows out of the pen?
Grinny

By: grimgold

grimgold — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:25:26 +0000

RS, thanks for the non-hateful response. You are right on to be worried about the economy.
So am I.
I wish, however, that our Congress would do the same. Their pork additions show their true colors as far as I’m concerned. We desperately need term limits.

It’s just fact that Hoover raised taxes (I think in 1930) and also at that time the Smoot-Hawley act was passed by Congress raising tariffs by 50%. This caused that recession to slide into the Great Depression.
This time there is no rising of taxes, though govt spending is going to go up, causing a deepening national debt and inflation, and the ‘buy American’ proposition (which would be equivalent to Smoot-Hawley) isn’t going to fly.
In spite of the fact it isn’t a quick fix, which is what O is looking for (understandably), I think we should turn the work of GW around and decrease the amount of govt by at least 40%, the amount he increased it.
I think we need to go to a non-inflating dollar.
I think we need to go from taxing people when the earn money to taxing them when they spend it.
We need uniformity, transparency, and the vigorous pulling of ALL past pork projects like extracting rotten teeth (such as the 25 million spent to look for the ivory-billed woodpecker in Florida, for example). The fed govt should get entirely out of things they’ve failed at, such as farmer influencing, welfare, and the building of Florida dikes to hold back Katrina water.
I could go on but then I’ll be anti-spammed.
BTW, I did this on word, then posted it so if it didn’t fly I’d not lose my writing. I suggest you do the same.
Grimmy

By: RS Janes

RS Janes — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:56:03 +0000

Grim, if the government doesn’t take over the businesses you mention, we’re going to have taxpayer money paying to keep them in business without any control over what they do. That, based on their track record, seems an insane investment to me.

OTOH, if we don’t bail them out, the economy, both domestic and international, collapes completely and we have the Great Depression times ten. Do you want to live in that world?

BTW, I didn’t distort anything Rush said. In another post, you claimed he never said “I hope he fails.” I was just proving that he actually did say those words. He also said this to Sean Hannity:

“This is the conversation that took place on air between the two Titans of conservative broadcasting, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity:

“Hannity: ‘So do you want [Obama] to succeed?’

“Limbaugh: ‘I’m so glad you asked me this question … No! I want him to fail.’”
– Ed Pilkington, “I Hope He Fails,” The Guardian (UK), Feb. 2, 2009.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/02/barack-obama-right-wing-pundits

It’s good for Limbaugh and the GOP if Obama fails, so why wouldn’t he want him to fail? Rush has never been a man who put his country first before his career and the Republican Party.

BTW, I haven’t been posting replies to your other comments because my comments were blocked as spam. I guess that must have been fixed.

By: grimgold

grimgold — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:28:03 +0000

Why are you so hell bent on distorting the All Knowing All Seeing All Loving (He Who’s City I’m Not Worthy To Walk In) Rush Limbaugh?
What he really said was “What (Obama’s) talking about is the absorbtion of as much of the private sector by the U.S. govt as possible…I hope he fails.”
He doesn’t hope O fails, but that this Marxist socialist trend fails.
I agree. I don’t hope O fails as president but that this policy of govt takeover and growth by him fails. In his pushing for more fed govt, take over of autos, banks, health care, brokage institutions, etc., I hope Obama fails.
Grim