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elliemae
2010 Apr 10, 6:31am
More importantly, am I awesome? At least that's quantifiable. (hint, the answer is "hell yes.")
RayAmerica
2010 Apr 11, 9:24am
More importantly, am I awesome? At least that’s quantifiable. (hint, the answer is “hell yes.â€)
Self delusion is considered to be a sure sign of mental illness. I'm not in any way saying that applies to you ellie.
elliemae
2010 Apr 11, 9:31am
Other people think I'm awesome, so your statement certainly doesn't apply to me. But thanks for playing, rayray.
RayAmerica
2010 Apr 12, 6:30am
Other people think I’m awesome, so your statement certainly doesn’t apply to me.
I've noticed you don't pay much attention to factual information. I have no idea how that relates to your claim of being "awesome." For some strange reason they seem to be related, but it's only a wild guess on my part.
Done!
2010 Apr 12, 7:37am
If this administrations order of business was to give every person in the world that is not a Liberal Democrat, a mental wedgie. Then yes I'm satisfied. The Democrats have proved every Republican that I've heard utter the words... "The Damn Democrats just wants to get in there and tax us all to death and spend like a drunken Sailor!" right.
I used to just listen to this rhetoric and let it flow in one ear and out the next, just considering the source.
I mean I did consider my self a Democrat until January 2000, when Crybaby Greenhouse Gore, started the Bastardization of America's Democratic process. They were the one to kick Pandroa's terd.
The Democrats have managed to make me definately "Not one Party" so by default that makes me the other. If you ask them...
I assume you're talking about the United States federal government.
The short answer is yes.
The long answer really depends on what you're comparing to. Is the US federal government doing a worse job than European, Asian, or African governments? Are we comparing it to the US government from a different era?
Most of us enjoy relative prosperity, which is far more than you can say for 90% of the people on this planet. There are definitely better governed nations, but you'd have to be pretty crazy to think that it was bad here.
If you think more, even larger government, more looting of Americans, more inflation, more police-state measures, more unnecessary war, more deficit spending, more entitlements, more government takeover of private industry, more bailouts, more taxes, more "pork" projects and more centralization of power are good things, then yes, government is doing a good job.
And maybe you have no clue what unintended consequences are.
Todays book for my intentionally illerate 'friends' - Empire of Debt, William Bonner
Hahahahahaha.
RayAmerica
2010 Apr 13, 3:49am
Empire of Debt, William Bonner
Abe ... great book. Too bad they won't read it. Bonner's take on Thomas Freidman was so funny I read that section twice.
I've noticed a weird indifference among a lot of Americans when it comes to the subject of our government. Maybe they're just highly insulated, or perhaps they just don't want to look like a member of some Glenn Beck personality cult - for which they could be forgiven - but given some of the highlights of our Federal governments portfolio: our phony economy/financial collapse/wealth transfer, glaring SEC failures, our ongoing trade deficits/tariff policy, our insane and quasi-theocratic foreign policy, our failed drug war, our little problem with crony capitalism, our corrupt congress, skyrocketing unemployment and inevitable stagflation, Bush Doctrine and the reverberations from eight years of unprecedented malfeasance, environmental abuses, our Military industrial complex/DOD spending, etc. etc., it's really hard to understand how anyone could be so insouciant or forgiving. Is it fucking Beirut? No - but the Gulliver-sized pile of bullshit preventing what looks like a pretty good system on paper from being a reality is pretty hard to get around.
As for most of us enjoying relative prosperity - 'relative' as a qualifier renders this remark equivocal at best; poverty is not a subjective phenomenon, and the rate of poverty in this country far exceeds prosperity by any measure, unless we discount the massive amounts of personal and public debt created to fund our ersatz wealth this past decade. I guess I could compile a nice nerdy digest of charts and links referring to things like personal bankruptcy rates, savings rates, wage/salary erosion and unemployment/underemployment to help aid my point, but I'm too lazy.
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Just a simple question: Is government doing a good job?