Comments on: I Have Absolute Moral Authority And I Say The Government Should Pull Out Of The Stimulus Bill

By: TheBigHenry

TheBigHenry — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:29:37 +0000

“If you look at the facts, not only did his cuts not produce a trickle down effect, but moreover it gave many larger companies the capital they needed to move jobs and manufacturing off shore.”

Truth is not assertion, Mr. Chuckles, and assertion is not proof.

By: Mr. Chuckles

Mr. Chuckles — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:32:15 +0000

What’s hypocritical about your argument is that the tax cut bonanza that Bush gave to BIG business (I have a small one, threfore a small tax cut…) is essentially government spending, but you fail to mention anything about it. The taxes were already levied and collected, hence the fat surplus that he inherited in 2000. Prince Spendalot chose to give it all back to big business with the logic that those businesses would create more jobs. Giving $600 checks to the general populace was a joke at best. If you look at the facts, not only did his cuts not produce a trickle down effect, but moreover it gave many larger companies the capital they needed to move jobs and manufacturing off shore. Hypocrisy is calling out the dems for their stimulus plan (which is considerably less than the 1.35 trillion dollar “cut” from Bush) and not citing Bush for doing worse. And let’s not even get into the whole boondoggle stimulus that he rammed through before he left office – have you gotten any mortgage relief yet? Bottom line: Yes, porky spending from the dems is criminal. It’s also criminal when repubs do it, but they get a free pass from folks like you and your faithful because it’s under the guise of “free enterprise”. Well, as a “free enterpriser” myself I have yet to feel any substantial effects from the Bushco cut of 2001 or the blank check that he wrote to bankers in the fall under the bullshit guise of mortgage relief.

BTW – unless you were sticking plates in your lip in Botswana or something for the last eight years, government got BIGGER during spendalot’s rule. Yes, conservative faithful, bigger than under that socialist Clinton…

By: Mile High Mike

Mile High Mike — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:45:08 +0000

Other reasons that Dr. Melissa has Absolute Moral Authority:

4. She’s a DIRECT business owner, Doctor, and homeowner. This is a much better moral basis than Soldier-by-proxy Cindy Sheehan.

5. She actually can make a cogent argument without resorting to either lawlessness or Ad Hominem attacks.

6. She’s much better looking (I suspect even if she’s mean and drunk)

By: Dr. Melissa Clouthier

Dr. Melissa Clouthier — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:49:58 +0000

Mr. Chuckles,

If you could demonstrate how this bill would help the little guy, you’d have a little more moral authority calling me a hypocrite.

Like many Republicans, I don’t question the need for some sort of intervention. But my solution wouldn’t include making the government huge.

The fact is, the rich survive no matter. Putting pressure on businesses results in lost jobs because payroll is often the biggest cost to a business. Look at GM. The state intervention involves, guess what? Cutting jobs.

By: Mr. Chuckles

Mr. Chuckles — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:15:58 +0000

Yes, because stimulating the economy for the average person is just wrong. It was okay when Bushie gave a 1.35 TRILLION dollar tax cut to the super wealthy in 2001. Nevermind that the “trickle down” effect that you all try to constantly sell never happened (just do a brief search of job creation under Bushco’s eight years if you don’t believe me). We can’t have any stimulus plan approved by a dem, right? As I have said before, you are a HUGE hypocrite.

By: TheBigHenry

TheBigHenry — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:25:20 +0000

I have absolute moral authority too. And I think both Maureen Dowd’s and Cindy Sheehan’s fathers should have pulled out of Dowd’s and Sheehan’s respective mothers sooner than they did.