on the flip side, corporate profits have been doing better than inflation for a long time, because they have been accumulating a larger share of the wealth generated by those at the bottom, which used to go into worker salaries. there’s the “redistribution of wealth” for you.

the gap between the rich and poor has been increasing for decades; if giving the rich more money necessarily improves the economy and creates good jobs, then why has our economy been getting worse (for the average person) for decades?

the biggest improvement occurred under bill clinton, where arguably the government favored working people over the wealthy – a tiny little bit more than usual. Bush2 changed that, the economy tanked, and yet there are people here who want more “supply-side,” give-aways to the rich.

I always knew he was just another pol, but as an English major, all that lofty HopeNChange stuff is often just rhetoric.

I’m reading that if you add up all the miscellaneous pieces of this continual…..give us the monoey or we’ll have a catastrophe…..we’ve basically spent $9.7 TRILLION on bailouts.

And that’s not even including the $10 trillion Dubya left us with.

It’s just STUNNING, really, where our country has come to.

I gave up paying any attention whatsoever to Matthews 2 years ago. Don’t know, don’t care , if he’s tingling.

My take is that a very large number of people thought Obama really was going to be ‘different’. I didn’t drink the koolaid, and knew that I would fundamentally disagree with his foundational philosophies, but even I thought he’d be a little different from the typical Washington pol, maybe, but he’s shaping up to be the biggest Washington pol ever.

Is Matthews’ leg still tingling?

And eating grass. My God, don’t touch those “sea kittens.” PETA wouldn’t like it.

Hello? What about the bridge to get to the future? You know, the one we’d all like to have? As for food? I’ll eat what I damn well please, thank you very much.

But when it comes to energy? We should rely on enemies to fuel our cars and heat our houses. Yet, they hate us and would kill us in a New York miniute [and have]. Drill at home? Perish the thought.

This is the whacked out logic guiding this whole argument: Pie in the Sky; Obama Save Us; there is a magic unicorn for each and every citizen.

Pardon me while I gag. I’m beyond disgusted with the hippy-dippy train of thought.

As for your “Smoking Gun” article:

“When the time comes, lock and load.”

Frankly, I’m with New Hampshire in this matter: Live Free or Die.

Those are American words. Read ‘em and weep.

And one more thing. Without a middle class? We have no frigging democracy.

Latte liberals in the Philly burbs who voted for PIT0 don’t want their hard earned bucks appropriated for pork, however. This porkulus is NOT playing well with Indies.

XCLUSIVE: Partisan dirt-digger joins WH office
Resume lacks legal training

Jon Ward (Contact)
Monday, February 9, 2009

Amid the furor over controversies regarding Cabinet-nominee tax problems and the seismic battle over a nearly trillion-dollar economic rescue bill, President Obama made a little-noticed appointment that is now generating intrigue.

Shauna Daly, a 29-year-old Democratic operative, was named last month to the new job of White House counsel research director. Though she is inside one of the most powerful legal offices in the land, Miss Daly holds no law degree and doesn’t list any legal training on her resume.

Her sole experience has been as an opposition researcher for Democratic political campaigns: She helped dig up dirt on rivals, or on her own nominee to prepare for attacks.

-rest of story at source.

washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/09/exclusive-partisan-dirt-digger-joins-wh-counsels-o/

He survived cancer, a brain tumor I think.