Is austerity a good idea now? Only if you're blind...

[francoHFW]

And Woods is a RW hack, like all your sources...

 

[eflatminor]

The 550k+ gov't jobs cut ARE MAINLY TEACHERS, FIREMEN, POLICE- BY pubs. I'm against it- we should cut the debt and deficit AFTER the recovery. The 4.1 trillion over ten years by Obama was twice what Pubs could handle.

This mess was caused by Pubs. People who listen to them are whacked...

So when you said spending was cut, you lied...got it.

 

[francoHFW]

So cutting 550k teachers didn't save money. I'm not surprised....just cut demand...

 

[Avorysuds]

Soo, still no links showing a single cut... Awesome.

 

[francoHFW]

I was talking about Germany making I,G,S, I, and P cut spending, and into recession. Try and follow...

 

[francoHFW]

Find job cut links yourself, ya lazy a-hole dupe. I'm not your mother...lol

 

[francoHFW]

Do you ever watch a real news program? Jeebus...

 

[thereisnospoon]

The economic problem lately, is: following stimuli that ran out in 2010 but did avert a full blown SECOND Pub Great Depression, conservative fear mongering about the big "debt crisis", "common sense", and their mythic ability of "jobs, jobs, jobs" brought conservative electoral gains- austerity and spending cuts, and double dip recesions and fears, especially in Ireland,Greece, Spain, the Uk, and the USA now. And yes, the resemblances all over ARE REAL, and you can LEARN from them...

How 'bout some real jobs bills, party of NO!- The French may help all of us out of this. Sweden has the most successful recovery, dittoheads, so cut the crappe about EU Socialists- which you ALSO don't understand LOL.

When government spends less and more importantly within it's means, it's ALWAYS a good thing.
The US federal government spends entirely too much on poorly mismanaged, over employed, and unnecessary things.
For example...There is no need for a federal dept of education or housing dept. These things can be handled at the state level.
Same goes for unemployment insurance. State issue.
The federal government.....Duties. To provide for a common defense. To PROMOTE..Not provide...Promote the general welfare of the people. That means, to make sure their rights are not usurped, are treated unfairly under the law.
Also, to provide a forum( Courts) where the people may seek redress.
Infrastructure( Roads, air travel/cargo system, rails) to prevent a hodgepodge of state to state regulations, a single set of rules governing interstate commerce.
Common currency. Regulate commerce and industry to protect the rights of the people.
Other than these things, the federal government has no business meddling in anything else.
There is no need for a department of agriculture. Again, the states can handle this. The only federal regulations should be on safety and purity of the food supply.
This falls under "common defense" and providing FOR the general welfare.
The federal government should not be spending billions to subsidize farmers nor should it tell farmers what crops to plant.
Washington is bloated and elitist. Out of touch.
Don't bother responding. I already know what you will post. Save the keystrokes.

 

[thereisnospoon]

The UK is back in recession. They put the conservatives in power and went the austerity route.

Whether or not austerity is a good idea in the long run may be worthy of discussion, but what is inarguable is,

austerity is not a plan for job creation, as the GOP persists in lying about.

Because those social safety nets Western Europe is infamous for are burying their economies.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Hasn't worked for other countries and won't work here.

The right doesn't like it but if we had not invested in our own country's future we would be in a lot worse shape than we are now. It also served to stabilize the world economy.

The countries who decided to go the route of austerity are really hurting and the frightening part of that is that we cannot stop their free fall this time.

We already know that making the rich richer only serves to make the rich richer. They need to carry their fair share of the road and we need to create jobs - something that giving our money to the 1% has not accomplished in ten years (!) and is not going to suddenly accomplish now.

 

[thereisnospoon]

I want to know how anyone can say that in tough times, when your mired in debt, the answer is to go even further into debt. Do these people conduct their personal affairs in this manner?

They want to gamble but call it an "investment." They also push the idea that if you don't overspend that you are for no Government and no spending...

Franco is one of the Keynesians who think government can spend it's way out of recession and tax the people into prosperity.

 

[Avorysuds]

I was talking about Germany making I,G,S, I, and P cut spending, and into recession. Try and follow...

Right, so do you have any links of the cuts in spending there because it has been showen a few times now that they spent more..

Try and follow.

 

[Avorysuds]

Hasn't worked for other countries and won't work here.

The right doesn't like it but if we had not invested in our own country's future we would be in a lot worse shape than we are now. It also served to stabilize the world economy.

The countries who decided to go the route of austerity are really hurting and the frightening part of that is that we cannot stop their free fall this time.

We already know that making the rich richer only serves to make the rich richer. They need to carry their fair share of the road and we need to create jobs - something that giving our money to the 1% has not accomplished in ten years (!) and is not going to suddenly accomplish now.

It has worked many times in the US. hell, the 1920's prove that alone.

What % should the rich pay and how much more revenue would that bring in every year, do that or shut your dumb ass mouth.

 

[thereisnospoon]

The economic problem lately, is: following stimuli that ran out in 2010 but did avert a full blown SECOND Pub Great Depression, conservative fear mongering about the big "debt crisis", "common sense", and their mythic ability of "jobs, jobs, jobs" brought conservative electoral gains- austerity and spending cuts, and double dip recesions and fears, especially in Ireland,Greece, Spain, the Uk, and the USA now. And yes, the resemblances all over ARE REAL, and you can LEARN from them...

How 'bout some real jobs bills, party of NO!- The French may help all of us out of this. Sweden has the most successful recovery, dittoheads, so cut the crappe about EU Socialists- which you ALSO don't understand LOL.

Can someone translate this from Retard into English?

Ya know, I just got done cleaning my computer from the last time I sprayed it with Sprite.

Thanks a lot.

Almost made me spit up beer

 

[thereisnospoon]

I want to know how anyone can say that in tough times, when your mired in debt, the answer is to go even further into debt. Do these people conduct their personal affairs in this manner?

The Republicans are claiming they'll get us out of debt with an economic plan that will demand sacrifice from virtually everyone...

...except the Rich. Instead, the Rich get substantial benefits from the GOP plans.

WTF?

Was it not Obama who'd been quoted at least 750,000 times about "shared sacrifice"?

 

[thereisnospoon]

Hasn't worked for other countries and won't work here.

The right doesn't like it but if we had not invested in our own country's future we would be in a lot worse shape than we are now. It also served to stabilize the world economy.

The countries who decided to go the route of austerity are really hurting and the frightening part of that is that we cannot stop their free fall this time.

We already know that making the rich richer only serves to make the rich richer. They need to carry their fair share of the road and we need to create jobs - something that giving our money to the 1% has not accomplished in ten years (!) and is not going to suddenly accomplish now.

Stop the Obama class envy bullshit....It doesn't wash.

 

[Avorysuds]

Hasn't worked for other countries and won't work here.

The right doesn't like it but if we had not invested in our own country's future we would be in a lot worse shape than we are now. It also served to stabilize the world economy.

The countries who decided to go the route of austerity are really hurting and the frightening part of that is that we cannot stop their free fall this time.

We already know that making the rich richer only serves to make the rich richer. They need to carry their fair share of the road and we need to create jobs - something that giving our money to the 1% has not accomplished in ten years (!) and is not going to suddenly accomplish now.

One more thing. The countries that decided to do austerity are not hurting because of Austerity, they are hurting because they had to many unaffordable programs like Healthcare, welfare and retiring way to early. They didn't care about the price tag for to long and when the bills started rollin in they had 1 option... And of course your dumb ass finds a way to blame the fix that only happened after the crash.

It's like some people want to be mentally retarded.

 

[eflatminor]

I was talking about Germany making I,G,S, I, and P cut spending, and into recession. Try and follow...

The hell you were.

The economic problem lately, is: following stimuli that ran out in 2010 but did avert a full blown SECOND Pub Great Depression, conservative fear mongering about the big "debt crisis", "common sense", and their mythic ability of "jobs, jobs, jobs" brought conservative electoral gains- austerity and spending cuts, and double dip recesions and fears, especially in Ireland,Greece, Spain, the Uk, and the USA now. And yes, the resemblances all over ARE REAL, and you can LEARN from them...

Your words my man.

Deflection, outright lies, and ad hominem attacks in nearly every post...all emotion, no logic or reason. Who argues like that?

 

[eflatminor]

So cutting 550k teachers...

Link?

Oh sorry, just another lie. How's that working out for ya?

 

[francoHFW]

I was talking about Germany making I,G,S, I, and P cut spending, and into recession. Try and follow...

The hell you were.

The economic problem lately, is: following stimuli that ran out in 2010 but did avert a full blown SECOND Pub Great Depression, conservative fear mongering about the big "debt crisis", "common sense", and their mythic ability of "jobs, jobs, jobs" brought conservative electoral gains- austerity and spending cuts, and double dip recesions and fears, especially in Ireland,Greece, Spain, the Uk, and the USA now. And yes, the resemblances all over ARE REAL, and you can LEARN from them...

Your words my man.

Deflection, outright lies, an ad hominem attack in nearly every post...all emotion, no logic or reason. Who argues like that?

Go back, and you'll see I was talking about several countries, only referring to "PUBS re the WORLD Depression they started, AGAIN!!