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You gave McCain the keys to the economy, didn’t you?
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I wouldn’t.
grr now i know who stole my car!
I wanted too but the democrats stole them.
They also stole my correct use of grammar.
and that makes any sense HOW??
I don’t think it was that difficult to understand what he meant. Basically Lallz is saying that he would have given the keys to McCain, but the democrats stole them.
Where you been, eddie? We’ve missed you!
Seconded
I had a death in the family and had to come back to the States for a bit. Even though I haven’t been posting, I have been trying to keep up the goings on here!
I’m so sorry to hear that eddie, but we’re glad to see you again!
seconded, Sorry for your loss. we missed you.
Thirded. Real sorry to have to meet again after those circumstances. Hopefully we can help your mood.
Welcome back Eddiespaghetti.
yay! eddie! it seemed like ages…
Nice to see you Eddie! Sorry for your trouble…
Welcome back! Commisserations for your loss.
*hugs eddie* Glad to have you back!
Allow me to join the chorus. Welcome back, Ed!
Thanks y’all!
My sympathies to you and yours over the loss, Eddie.
These aren’t political toons anymore. At least label them as liberal cartoons.
This is especially a funny one because Obama is advocating a turn to socialism, if not outright communism, to improve our economy. And you people are supporting it. Hilarious. I serve the Soviet Union, General Secretary Obama!
2 things wrong with this theory:
1) you really have proven yourself to be a closed minded idiot
2) these PICTURES are not cartoons, genius
I’m a close minded idiot for learning my lessons from history? Taking money and giving it to the proletariat is the same thing Lenin told the Russian people he would do in World War I. Obama is basically saying the exact same things are wrong with our government that Marx said was wrong with every capitalist government. You can’t see that because you’re too because cheering when Obama says “CHANGE!”, because you’re a close-minded idiot.
Yes, I apologize. I used the wrong word. I was thinking of that website that died a few years back, political toons. Of course, “bob”, I’d rather get a word wrong than get an entire line of thought wrong. But it’s ok Comrade, we’ll all be a part of the revolution soon. Popular front!
Your strawman is funny.
Obama is supporting welfare, not communism. Taxing the rich a bit more and the poor a bit less (along with many other policies) is just making sure that the poor have the ability to live in situations that wouldn’t be described as squalor.
If you earn more money (gross) you will still earn more money (net). Obama won’t change that, no Democrat will.
Obviously, you haven’t been listening to the Barack Hussein Obama I have. At best, his policies are clones of the ones Jimmy Carter used to wreck the economy in the late 1970’s. At worst, they’re far too close to those advocated by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in the 1910’s.
This is not merely taxation. It is reallocation of wealth.
If the Democrats actually said what they truly want, NOBODY would vote for them.
Any particular reason you would need to waste time by typing Obama’s full name?
But regardless, Obama supports increasing taxes on the rich. Which I also support.
Obama supports universal health care. Which I also support.
Obama supports environmental standards for industries. Which I also support.
In fact, I support most (but not all) of his stated policies.
I don’t believe in communism. It is at best a pipe dream, and
it is at worst an open invitation for dictatorship/corruption by the rich and squalor for the majority.
Obama doesn’t support true universal health care. He’s about universalizing health *insurance*. He’s he’s lousy at this whole Socialism bit.
I find it funny that welfare for the many (to wit, the poor) is bad nasty communism, but welfare for the few (to wit, multibillion dollar companies) is just support the healthy free market.
You guys are still operating under the assumption that republicans as a whole agree with this stupid bailout (oh, I’m sorry, RESCUE). WE DON’T. It’s an awful idea, and it’s going to take the country down with it. Let the damn bank go under and reform as something better, as things have been doing since the dawn of time. I can say that I’m going to get a list of everyone from my state who voted for this stupid thing and am going to campaign against them every chance I get……….
Again, not this particular bailout per se, but corporate welfare has been a staple of Republican Canon for years now (just not on such a grand and vulgar level).
Bail out that the republicans tried to prevent several times, but the
Democrates had to go with that stupid subprime lending and lets
give everyone a loan. Even those that can’t afford it and will default
on their payments and eventually file for bankruptcy.
Good going there! The Democrats really called that one!
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want a Republican in office, in the beginning
I was all for Obama, I was brainwashed like everyone else, however,
getting down and really digging into what he stands for. He is a socialist
at best, a communist at worst.
I must have misunderstood what I was reading. But nonetheless, I support most of his policies, just a matter of striking health policy off that list.
as opposed to taking money from the poor and working and giving it to the rich, which is’ i don’t know, MR. Finance Expert, you tell us — “FREE MARKET?”
Then what do you call Welfare, Unemployment Insurance, Disability Insurance, and Social Security?
Last time I looked, all those GAVE money to the poor and working. Ang guess who pays for all of those: the rich.
You might want to try learning economics 101 before you throw around THAT paintbrush.
Kettle:
You’re black.
Yours affectionately,
Pot
Don’t bother, John. If they think taxing the rich does anything but hurt the poor, they’ve already bought into the class-envy thing hook line and sinker. If people want to help the poor then cut taxes on the rich so they can hire the poor and redistribute their own wealth in a mutually beneficial manner instead of trying to play Robin Hood.
Yes, because those who are wealthy would never just pocket the extra income and get wealthier!
If you raise taxes they hide the money away so they don’t have to pay for it. Then everyone loses.
And if you lower taxes they’ll magically stop doing that? wtf?
Yes, they will. There are far better ways to make your money grow if you’re not busy hiding it from the tax man.
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Here’s a hypothetical:
Say I’m a millionaire, I’m not working to earn an income, all my money is coming from investments. Say (at random) I have $1000 a month to throw around (not a realistic number, just going for easy math here). The tax rate will say is at 25%, so I’m paying $250 in taxes (because you only pay on *income* – my millions are untouchable and for teh example we’ll just say they’re sheltered away somewhere). You cry “That’s not fair! You’re not paying your fair share!” and the Obama Money Fairy floats down and increases my taxes to 50%.
Now my income hasn’t changed, it’s still $1000. I take half of that and put it in a tax-free fund (like an IRA or something). So now I’m *still* only gonna pay 50% of my taxable earnings (the $500 that’s left) so I’m not paying a dime more than I was at $250. But I only have $250 dollars play money instead of $750 to throw around, so I’ll not be going to McDonald’s as much, or hiring a new guy to cut the lawn or whatever.
Therefore, you attempted to make me pay “my fair share”, and instead cut the profits of McDonald’s and snubbed some poor guy that’s gotta find a lawnmowing job elsewhere. Nice goin’, jerks. Picking on the little guy like that who you’re supposed to care so much for.
You can’t use an argument like this to sway the people who are arguing with you. It’s like talking about quantum physics to a first grader. You have to speak on their level. “Your guy bad. My guy good.”
….the people HERE who are arguing with you. Sorry, it’s 4AM here and I’m tired
But why would you hide money where it isn’t useful to you? I men, I understand that you don’t want to be giving more to the government.
The millionaire that you are has grown accustomed to the lifestyle that $750 a week gives. You are going to find it easier to drop to $500 than $250.
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I can perhaps see some more merit in the numbers when they get unrealistically big, rather than unrealistically small. But even so, if you earn $1,000,000 a week, you are quite possibly accustomed to a lifestyle that $250,000 (Net) may not be enough.
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Also the money that you are no longer paying tax on, is also out of the effective money supply, keeping down inflation.
If a person has a lot of money, hiding some for retirement or whatever isn’t going to be a big deal to them. They still have a lot of money, but now they’re building even more by investing it where no one can touch it.
People who acquire large sums of money are (usually) capable of choosing when and where is a wise time to spend it. The neccessities would be covered first and the extraneous stuff would be cut back on. Extraneous things are things like salaries, consumer goods and services that aren’t *needs*, etc. When those are cut, especially with large sums of oney involved, it’s the people that got fired and the folks unable to sell their wares/services that get hurt.
The money that’s out of the money supply *should* help keep inflation down, but to keep enough in circulation they print more and it causes inflation. 8/
So what do you call what’s happening now? Where the Administration is taking the “proletariat’s” money and giving it to the rich?
Hey. Guess what?
You need to shut up.
And guess what else? If not for human nature, socialism and communism would be really good things. If people weren’t super greedy, and these concepts could work, then we would be alot better off. True communism and socialism make it so that no one is poor, and no one has power over other people. Everything is done by consensus, like in democracy, just with less stupid politics.
Of course, due to natural human greed for money and power, and ignorant fools like you, such concepts don’t work. SO THERE
Or, perhaps, YOU are close-minded for not respecting or looking into DoctorWorm’s opinion? Ah, conundrums.
ICE CREAM, MANDRAKE! CHILDREN’S ICE CREAM!
Obama=Osama just change 1 letter and u get it!
Wow, that is -so- original! Did you come up with that yourself? I’ve -never- heard that before!
For real. Look, I dont like Obama and Im pretty incapable of pretending I do, however to even consider him being anything to do with terrorist organisations is ridiculous. Also, travel a bit, Osama is actually a pretty common name in the middle east, and contrary to what you might believe, not every middle eastern is a terrorist. And guess what, the name Hussein doesnt equal terrorist either, my high school math teacher was called Mrs. Hussein, and while I suppose she might be working for terrorist organizations now, I sincerely doubt it. And just to throw this out there, the name Abraham is also common in muslim cultures after the prophet, and who else do we know with that name? Ah yes, Abraham Lincon. So please, PLEASE stop making stupid assumptions of people based solely on their names.
*applauds* Well said!
“Oh nooo.. the black man has an unusual name. I’m so scared, I better not vote for him.” – Just about everyone I know 65 or older.
seriously! i used to work with this woman who was against obama based purely on the name. she was super liberal, but like 70 years old, and she didn’t think he was bad, or a terrorist, or unqualified, but she said his name wasn’t….”American” enough…
WTF
The more anecdotes I hear about the stupidty of people to go along with my own, the more I consider justifying become a serial killer… Then I realize I am too apathetic but never know when I might hear one stupid thing too many. I guess I will see you on the news then or I won’t. Maybe I will just play a game instead.
High school math teachers ARE terrorists
but not geography teachers. they’re cool!
for extremely small values of “cool”.
Cool relative to other teachers.
Mine was a jerk. Got fired for handling the girls.
True that!
All I ever hear them preaching are the tenets of al-Jibra.
Yeah, in that weird language of theirs!
Seriously. All they’re ever doing is telling me to find some sign. I don’t know what’s on the sign, and I don’t want to know. Creepy terrorists.
Well, I for one welcome our new Muslim overlords.
The least I can hope for is that Caliph Obama will order a genocide of all those who are found to be as stupid as Alex, insh’Allah.
*sigh* what a wankstain. I don’t care for Obama either, but seriously, your parents must be so proud of you /sarcasm/
Finally Alex-X-X, someone agrees with me about Obama’s name. I think it speaks for itself!! Everyone in this country should be trying their hardest to keep that man out of office instead of trying to get him in.
Yes, you probably wrote that half breed muslin sign too. Stupidity never ceases to amaze me.
Methinks deb is a troll. I find it hard to believe that anyone really that stupid could type so legibly.
Are you serious? “Obama’s name is so close to Osama that he must be a terrorist!”
Has anyone ever told you that you’re retarded? Like, clinically, don’t eat any more lead paint, got hit in the face with a brick retarded?
Oh, to make it clear, I am. *brickbrickbrick*
I’m trying to keep him out of office, but I wouldn’t equate his name with being a terrorist. That’s like saying someone named Ivan is automatically considered a communist.
You mean they’re not? Damn it, exactly what stereotypes can I cling to now?!
well, if you ever met me, i’m pretty sure i could kill all the queer stereotypes for you, so you can’t count those….
*grin*
in bed…
Well, Jane, you can always live up to the typical “American Abroad”. I’m giving it a hell of a go in Australia, but I think I’m losing ground.
I laugh at all the liberal douchebags making things on this site.
Look, I realize I’m feeding a troll by responding here, but there is no reason to start calling names just because you disagree with something. That speaks to a lack of intelligence and lack of ability to form a coherent argument in your favor. So laugh all you want, but leave the insults for the playground. Geez.
hear hear.
Terrorist fist jab for Froofrou.
Who knew McCain single-handedly controlled the housing market and the stock market?
it was part of the evil Bush bailout bill duh
$700 billion and no one can even say definitely it will help. That means the door is left open for them to ask for more! I’m confused that “the maverick” McCain went along with it too, but both sides went for it in all it’s pork infused glory.
If McCain is supposedly Teh Maverick (TM) against pork barrel spending, why did he vote for this bill with a roughly $150 billion addition of useless crap? The election is more important than standing up to that crap. Anyone who had voted against it would have been seen as someone who didn’t want to save the economy. Pathetic.
The American people are the ones who lost with this bill. Rammed through on a Friday with the hope that most people would forget it by Monday and go back to sniping over Obama and McCain.
I disagree, anyone who voted against it, and I know where to get a list of names, is a hero in my book. Where are our representatives and who is protecting us from this growing government?
several of the ones voting for it did it with the public statement of “I think this is wrong, but I’m voting for it because I pretty much have no other choice as something must be done now and this has been the best we’ve done after all this time.”
Not sure it will save them when this thing flops, but we can only hope for the best I guess… Market still has not recovered losses but maybe with time. (Who’s to say that wouldn’t have happened anyway though)
The thing that irritates me about people screaming about the market is that it always tends to correct itself. I refuse to be flamed for not being an expert, because I’ll admit that I’m not, but has there ever been a time in recent (last 30-50 years) where the market hasn’t roared back strong? Just because it goes down doesn’t mean the world is ending. If we didn’t have a free market and allow it to go down now and then, we would have a problem.
Otherwise you’d never be able to buy low and sell high. Time to buy folks!
Just wish I could tell for sure when it was going to actually hit bottom!
As long as you buy cheaper then you sell, you win.
You might not get the best deal, but buying now, selling in a year or so is likely* to get a nice profit.
*Don’t blame me if it doesn’t happen.
You gotta have the money to buy though, a lot of people are barely scraping by.
The only problem I could see with the recent dive is that people who were going to retire real soon, like in the next 6 months to a year or people who were living off investments already. Otherwise I agree with you! What goes up must come down.
The only problem I could see with the recent dive is that people who were going to retire real soon, like in the next 6 months to a year or people who were living off investments already >> “will suffer losses”
(I mean all of us know where to get the names of course… not just me)
See, that’s why we need more Jews and Muslims in D.C.: kosher/halaal diets forbid pork.
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(I still want the superpower to command the truth, though)
They have a lasso for that I hear.
Wonder Woman is into bondage. Good times.
and has his finger on the button to start the next nuclear war to boot!
and he has a cancer-face…
oh snap that was mean….
i normally try not to be mean…..
cancer-face is the name i call him in my head…not publicly…
i apologize…
Auto-type strikes again, revealing the innermost thoughts of posters when they least expect it!
Hmmm, I read it more as “If you put McCain in the white house, here’s what will happen.”
is it just me or is it that this site appears to be getting less and less funny?
It’ll ease up after the election. Right now its flooded with morons who think they are funny when they are really just rehashing the same 3 lols over and over again.
true
Four if you count Pope Benedict = Emperor Palpatine.
Pope benedict is running for president?
Emperor Popeatine has been left alone for a while now. Other than that touchdown lol.
Don’t forget the occassional Obama has big ears and Obama chuckles at foolish white racists.
VERY occasional
all politics aside, I think this is another solution for making a door. Enter in from the inside passenger and driver door, exit out the back. No need to hire mexicans.
That’s how they’re getting the Mexicans inside! Clever!
Wow…considering the Democrats are the ones responsible for the Fannie/Freddie crisis, I find this pretty stupid.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/easescredit.asp
You might as well have captioned the picture with “This is Bush’s fault”….it made that much sense.
“the Democrats are the ones responsible for the Fannie/Freddie crisis”
Oversimplification win!
While an oversimplification, the Democrats had a huge hand in starting this mess.
More important than who started it, is the fact that neither party managed to do anything to stop it before it was too late.
Well, that would be in part because our friend Slick Willy managed to do an end run on Congress with the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac rewrite of the rules.
well, kinda…except that Congress was GOP controlled from 1994 until 2006.
I don’t think that was the issue though. From what I read, Clinton didn’t want to take the rule changes to Congress because he knew they would be vetoed. So he somehow (and I wish I knew more on this) by passed Congress completely.
I really am going to need citation on that, especially since you have ground the point home that Congress is the real end all of policy.
Click on my name for the link. The reference is about 2/3 of the way down. There are other references as well. I was trying to find one that wouldn’t be called biased, but the NY Times has archived references as well.
For those that don’t want to click, here ya go:
The culprits in all of this are the executives and board members of Fannie Mae for buying unsecured and risky loans, the Federal Reserve for putting up interest rates too far and too quickly, and the banks for what almost amounts to pyramid selling of bad debt based on fools’ mortgages. Fannie Mae’s structural flaws were an accident waiting tohappen.
But there is another culprit. The Clinton administration, in pressuring Fannie Mae, created the policy of lending initially good and then bad money to people who were themselves bad credit risks. This was done for good political – not to say politically correct – reasons: the targeted extension of home ownership to minority groups. But this social engineering has been achieved at a heavy cost, not least to those who have lost their houses and taxpayers who may now have to pick up the cost of an emergency package. People awarded such loans may well be forgiven for thinking they are now worse off than they were in 1999.
The lesson of all of this is not that Wall Street is greedy, nor even that banks should be limited in onselling debt, although periodically this is true. The main lesson is that banking and credit should be run on sound banking principles rather than as a political project. For where politicians become involved in banking, as in the case of the Democrats and Fannie Mae, only incompetence, pork-barrelling and corruption will follow.
In bed… Damn.
So you can rightly assume that the bailout will just be another fiasco. I initially thought the plan had merit, but have since reconsidered. This is going to prove to be a catasrophy of epic proportions. In fact, California is already saying they will need $7 billion to help shore up it’s defict and other states are sure to follow.
Seems like 7 is the lucky number! I agree that this bailout thing should not have passed. The market is down again today, no one has any confidence in this thing.
I require 700,000 to be bailed out of my miserable life. I am just going with the rule of 7 but making it cheaper on the tax payer.
BUTTTTT CLINNNTTTOOONNNNNNNNNNNNN
(I’d rather not think about Clinton’s butt, thank you very much.)
Which one? Oh! you mean both.. I agree with your there..
the problem here is that McCain let Sarah behind the wheel and she kept winking.
Because Obama was in the middle of the road- or at least pretending to be.
you know, with all the mudslinging on both sides no one seems to really clarify. what exactly is so terrible about republicans or democrats? even my family (center-lefts) bash on the Reps all the time, don’t ever clarify exactly what’s so terrible about them…
The way i see it, it seems that each side just has different interests in what’s best for our country, and have different methods. and when one advocates for one idea, then the other side slings as much crap at it as possible, while refusing to recognize any positive to it. makes no sense to me.
It’s because most Americans just see it as yet another thing where they get to choose a “team” to root for, and every other team is just a bunch of useless morons. Being reasonable and fair-minded is not acceptable in politics, apparently.
it seems that once again, it’s fans that seem to ruin it. people who close their mind off and swallow anything fed to them by those they look up to, without stopping and thinking what it’s really all about.
wow, McCain isnt even President, we dont even know if he will be President. you know what? just go back to the Bush jokes until we have a new President, please.
Well, I WAS gonna give em to McCain, but Obama went and took em, and now look what happened.
Nationwide still covers it, right?
Yep, but the deductible is $700 Billion..
Bring lube.
Yay for the liberals who “fixed” our economy. And by fixed, I mean castrated.
Liberals? Like Bush, who made the bailout plan, or McCain, who backed it, or the Republicans in congress who deregulated everything, leading to the mess in the first place? Like the fall of the Berlin Wall did for authoritarian communism, this crisis proves the ideology of pure free market, deregulated capitalism is broken. We are seeing the end result of a class war perpetrated by the rich against the poor.
Seth, reference above. It was our buddy Slick Willy who started the whole thing. Besides, the bill that was passed came from the Senate, not Bush. He may have started the ball rolling, but it wasn’t his plan that was passed.
YEA!! GO OBAMA!!!