tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post986319148960596000..comments2024-03-19T01:52:00.810-05:00Comments on Althouse: "The Obama administration’s ranks are filled with people, fresh from the academy and the think tanks, who talk about the need to manage American decline..."Ann Althousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01630636239933008807noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-66713323914307719332009-12-06T00:35:59.245-06:002009-12-06T00:35:59.245-06:00After reading Kagan's piece, I wonder why you ...After reading Kagan's piece, I wonder why you didn't put the "Obama is like Bush" tag on this post.ambahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12042450225428891273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-83039084399020225232009-12-05T15:08:41.558-06:002009-12-05T15:08:41.558-06:002010, people, in order to stop the decline. After...2010, people, in order to stop the decline. After that... 2012.RebeccaHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15113907852048577121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-41940634778353091272009-12-04T23:31:34.240-06:002009-12-04T23:31:34.240-06:00To MM - I don't think you'd like the clan-...<i>To MM - I don't think you'd like the clan-based world. I am pretty sure my clan has more guns. You may have more food, but we're just gonna take it from you.</i><br /><br />Come now, there is considerable overlap between the "clan" with all the guns and the "clan" that puts food in the mouths of all the parasites. If push comes to shove, the parasites will have a mighty rough go of it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-23784154349436941762009-12-04T23:16:32.373-06:002009-12-04T23:16:32.373-06:00Peter:
The vision was non-partisan, I think.Peter:<br /><br />The vision was non-partisan, I think.I'm Full of Souphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00241724007440718575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-1326628363220544912009-12-04T22:44:57.086-06:002009-12-04T22:44:57.086-06:00Bagaoh20 wrote:
"Can You imagine an America w...Bagaoh20 wrote:<br />"Can You imagine an America which starting 1/1/2010, had the lowest business taxes in the world, construction starting on 200 state-of-the-art nuclear power plants, loser-pays tort reform, real and pervasive alternatives to public education, and part time legislatures in all states and Washington D.C. combined with term limits."<br /><br />And what part of this could not have been done when the GOP held Congress and the White House earlier in the decade?Peter Hohhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06916196998855947137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16527771723930808712009-12-04T21:46:38.181-06:002009-12-04T21:46:38.181-06:00Bagaoh20 wrote:
"Can You imagine an America w...Bagaoh20 wrote:<br />"Can You imagine an America which starting 1/1/2010, had the lowest business taxes in the world, construction starting on 200 state-of-the-art nuclear power plants, loser-pays tort reform, real and pervasive alternatives to public education, and part time legislatures in all states and Washington D.C. combined with term limits. "<br /><br />That is 100% common sense and brilliant at the same time. How come I can't find such smart talk from the talking heads or Congress or a President?I'm Full of Souphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00241724007440718575noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-29247818791255201502009-12-04T21:43:14.349-06:002009-12-04T21:43:14.349-06:00I don't think we should worry that much about ...I don't think we should worry that much about Obama. I wrote this letter on my blog a few days before presidential elections, and so far, the predictions seem to be holding up pretty well:<br />http://hyphenatedamericans.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-can-live-with-obama_02.html<br /><br />Hope and Change, gentlemen....Hyphenated Americanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05180757495695345376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79441444894356387002009-12-04T21:38:24.795-06:002009-12-04T21:38:24.795-06:00Soon we'll clean the environment but not in th...Soon we'll clean the environment but not in the way they envisioned.<br /><br />We'll decline Democ.rat households, one at the time.<br />It's happened before. Read contemporary history for Spain and Chile ...<br /><br />This:<br />Presidential Science Advisor Wants to Reverse American Development<br />http://tinyurl.com/mwfns5<br /><br />I am the de-developer and I am coming for you ...g2loqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05794157084239111436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82717755330132287402009-12-04T20:17:52.627-06:002009-12-04T20:17:52.627-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.DADvocatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04621021178600799126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-81051694727091996852009-12-04T20:17:34.822-06:002009-12-04T20:17:34.822-06:00Our country needs more than anything to get back t...Our country needs more than anything to get back to the natural filter of MERIT in all things.<br /><br />People should be hired paid and promoted based on what they do and nothing else. When they stop doing it, they need to go and convince someone else that they are the best available for a new job. This goes for everyone: auto workers, teachers, politicians, doctors, lawyers and gardeners. Most importantly it goes for those in power, Congressmen, C.E.O.s, loan officers, cops and prostitutes.<br /><br />This is the cancer of our society; failure and mediocrity are not being culled, but promoted.bagoh20https://www.blogger.com/profile/10915174575358413637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-16252433569075163712009-12-04T20:15:31.379-06:002009-12-04T20:15:31.379-06:00of the Bush team's making
hdhouse continues t...<i>of the Bush team's making</i><br /><br />hdhouse continues the echoing of the left, "It's Bush's fault. It's Bush's fault. It's Bush's fault..."<br /><br />Of course, if the left had any substance, they'd figure out how to solve a few problems rather than make empty excuses for failure.DADvocatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04621021178600799126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-52329527768550680972009-12-04T20:05:14.459-06:002009-12-04T20:05:14.459-06:00Can You imagine an America which starting 1/1/2010...Can You imagine an America which starting 1/1/2010, had the lowest business taxes in the world, construction starting on 200 state-of-the-art nuclear power plants, loser-pays tort reform, real and pervasive alternatives to public education, and part time legislatures in all states and Washington D.C. combined with term limits. <br /><br />I know that violates deeply held principles for many including me but, addicts need to give up stuff to live productively again. <br /><br />Imagine how that country would grow, employ, educate, innovate and inspire. We have far too many of our people spending their energies telling the rest of us how to live and too few of us living. We need a vast reduction in the political class's power. With that we can do amazing things. This is my faith or just history and common sense. <br /><br />The decline talked about here seem to me to be the result of those civilizations getting to the point where the political baggage born of long successes finally became too much for the worker bees to carry. That's where we are today.<br /><br />WV: "morter" That's who I'm talking about.bagoh20https://www.blogger.com/profile/10915174575358413637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-91456335511619737762009-12-04T19:46:25.779-06:002009-12-04T19:46:25.779-06:00One in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed...<i>One in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work. One in nine families can't make the minimum payment on their credit cards. One in eight mortgages is in default or foreclosure. One in eight Americans is on food stamps. More than 120,000 families are filing for bankruptcy every month. The economic crisis has wiped more than $5 trillion from pensions and savings, has left family balance sheets upside down, and threatens to put ten million homeowners out on the street or living with family or friends.<br /><br />Something BIG needs to change<br /><br />I'm all for tax cuts and private business incentives, but does anyone really believe that will be enough to bring us back this time</i>?<br /><br />Yes. But only if tax rates are actually cut. None of this one time giving tax refunds to people who don't pay income taxes and calling them tax cuts. That really isn't much different than giving school teachers around the country raises and calling it "jobs saved". <br /><br />The Obama Administration and the Democrats in Congress have done pretty much everything wrong in terms of the economy:<br />- paid off constituencies with "stimulus" money calling it Keynesian stimulus.<br />- supported big companies "too big to fail", that should fail. <br />- raised taxes when they should have been cutting tax rates.<br />- threaten to raise them significantly more, for: ObamaCare; Tax and Bribe (aka Cap and Trade); Death Taxes; War taxes. Worse, all these additional taxes are designed to hit the working rich, who are the ones who create well over half of new jobs coming out of a recession.<br />- increased uncertainty in corporate borrowing and the "rule of law" by favoring unions over secured creditors in automotive bankruptcies. <br />- Raise of minimum wages during recession<br />- ObamaCare also signicantly increases the cost of hiring marginal (i.e. new) workers and the uncertainty thereof.<br /><br />Small business (where the Administration has the lowest experience in our lifetimes, in comparison with other Administrations) need a couple of things in order to invest and hire:<br />- reasonable tax environment so that they can actually keep some of their money, should their investment of time and money be successful,<br />- A stable tax environment<br />- A stable legal environment.Bruce Haydenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10815293023158025662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-24731452272302920852009-12-04T19:28:47.628-06:002009-12-04T19:28:47.628-06:00If government were to get smaller, even slowly, yo...If government were to get smaller, even slowly, you would see a renaissance in our economy that you would not believe. Unfortunately, the rent seekers are firmly entrenched in Washington.Mike Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02762548735851773288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-57062041208889279442009-12-04T19:25:39.600-06:002009-12-04T19:25:39.600-06:00"Washington management is causing the decline..."Washington management is causing the decline."<br /><br />I doubt the unemployed think too much about that when they collect their unemployment and food stamps.Pennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02094488084214911115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-3139036718439648882009-12-04T18:54:44.379-06:002009-12-04T18:54:44.379-06:00Of course it never occurs to Obama that Washington...Of course it never occurs to Obama that Washington management is causing the decline.Jeffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04141857986042882951noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-8644736314347735952009-12-04T18:11:06.501-06:002009-12-04T18:11:06.501-06:00The world will never be at peace until it is a col...The world will never be at peace until it is a cold dead rock in space, and even then only until another world on an arrogant path collides with it, glorifying both their destructions.<br /><br />Nothing about the world is in harmony. All of nature including us is constantly at war driven to change, but without direction. The survivors have only won the day, but it is better than losing it. If you will not fight for what you fight for, then you will be gone or assimilated into the winners' world as they want you.<br /><br />We will never all get along, nor should we until all are in agreement that change is natural but not always better. The only things worth sacrificing all else are FREEDOM, WISDOM and LOVE. Those alone have any hope of standing until that drunken world meets ours.<br /><br />The battles are with those not so focused. They hold other things higher which can never stand; things like: equality, fairness, diversity, control, and most dangerous of all, peace.<br /><br />On guard!bagoh20https://www.blogger.com/profile/10915174575358413637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-79828801885639592542009-12-04T18:06:41.317-06:002009-12-04T18:06:41.317-06:00"Hey! What if we are moving towards a world i..."Hey! What if we are moving towards a world in which no nation dominates any other? Or needs to?"<br /><br />That's sweet. Have the other nations on Earth received this memo?<br /><br />It was delivered in 1951 by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W4_mUBWxwU" rel="nofollow">this guy.</a>Deborah M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04182216254312297935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-37910523622402590622009-12-04T18:01:52.446-06:002009-12-04T18:01:52.446-06:00"We need to manage American decline."
I..."We need to manage American decline."<br /><br />I know it feels just plain wrong to speak these words, but if we are honest with ourselves and care for our country, we will not continue to ignore that our middle class is disappearing.<br /><br />One in five Americans is unemployed, underemployed or just plain out of work. One in nine families can't make the minimum payment on their credit cards. One in eight mortgages is in default or foreclosure. One in eight Americans is on food stamps. More than 120,000 families are filing for bankruptcy every month. The economic crisis has wiped more than $5 trillion from pensions and savings, has left family balance sheets upside down, and threatens to put ten million homeowners out on the street or living with family or friends.<br /><br />Something BIG needs to change <br /><br />I'm all for tax cuts and private business incentives, but does anyone really believe that will be enough to bring us back this time?Pennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02094488084214911115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-11712600401937086062009-12-04T17:59:02.103-06:002009-12-04T17:59:02.103-06:00We can't revise The Sacred Parchment! We can&#...<i>We can't revise The Sacred Parchment! We can't stop helping 3rd Worlders who demand the US fix theie messes! Free Trade is a holy, inviolate part of American exceptionalism - even if we lose all our industry, it is a sacred principle!! If we stop wars of choice - we will be weak. We can't be weak!!</i><br /><br />This. <br /><br />LOL.garage mahalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06485491995866513686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-46545807119611166352009-12-04T17:18:40.427-06:002009-12-04T17:18:40.427-06:00Plus when has titus ever flushed a tank...
That&#...Plus when has titus ever flushed a tank...<br /><br />That's something he hangs on to-and erh, saves for the memories.Chennaul https://www.blogger.com/profile/09259086579871139667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-54464842666812281882009-12-04T17:17:27.461-06:002009-12-04T17:17:27.461-06:00Dude.
You could at least try to-
save.
Gucci, P...Dude.<br /><br />You could at least try to-<br /><br />save.<br /><br />Gucci, Prada-merde I guess the "girls" in the gay world care about that crap.<br /><br />Carry on.Chennaul https://www.blogger.com/profile/09259086579871139667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-18904855970759123632009-12-04T17:15:42.089-06:002009-12-04T17:15:42.089-06:00Titus said...
I say to all those "think tank...<i>Titus said... <br />I say to all those "think tank" wimps, get a real job!</i><br /><br />I'm not a huge fan of Titus's lifestyle :)<br /><br />But I suspect that Titus is a fan of private sector initiative and growth and thinks that those Government drones should get out of the way and let the private sector grow jobs. What is needed is for government to not muck with things, allow investors and business owners to feel safe investing and the economy will start growing. It is the fear of uncertainity that is killing the economy.The Drill SGThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16394309533144027391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-10279225417191405992009-12-04T17:12:52.060-06:002009-12-04T17:12:52.060-06:00I hate my job though.
I could go on in consulting...I hate my job though.<br /><br />I could go on in consulting and make more money but I would be doing the same shit.<br /><br />It is boring as hell.<br /><br />OMG Amanda Knox is guilty of murder-how sad.Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14679688453189712869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6329595.post-82288107113456497242009-12-04T17:10:38.451-06:002009-12-04T17:10:38.451-06:00I work in Biotech and we are booming.
Added 500 p...I work in Biotech and we are booming.<br /><br />Added 500 plus jobs this year and adding another 1000 next year in my company. Job security here folks.<br /><br />We also make a product that actually saves peoples lives. That is pretty cool.<br /><br />I also make over 200k and I am under 40. That's cool too.Titushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14679688453189712869noreply@blogger.com