Comments on: 2 Weeks 2 Late

By: sarabeth

sarabeth — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:44:31 +0000

Sorry, Reese, but we actually don’t think a single thing you said was worth listening to.

And, by the way, there was no “great conversation” or “whole debate” except in your mind.

The relationship you think you had with Matt, I’m sorry to say, is just a fantasy. (Nullus.)

And, finally, we are realists; that is to say, we know better than to challenge people like you to think.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:07:57 +0000

you had your opinion, I had mine

you have a false equivalency problem there.

By: Reese Badman

Reese Badman — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:05:41 +0000

Thank you for getting exactly where I was sure you would arrive – personal attacks. We were having a great conversation there; you had your opinion, I had mine, and we challenged each other to think in different ways. And your professional, well thought-out response was: “I wonder if/how you walk without falling down”. Great way to move forward. I’ve suddenly realized that this whole debate was a waste of my time, since you clearly haven’t listened to a thing I’ve said. Good luck with your blog.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:57:15 +0000

i wonder if/how you walk without falling down

By: Reese Badman

Reese Badman — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:55:31 +0000

I never said capitalism is what’s failing. Capitalism is the only thing keeping our heads above water! The system I refer to is a system where government can make incredibly dangerous decisions about how much money they take from the American people and what they do with that money. I have NO say in that process. I can call my Senators and Representatives until I’m blue in the face, but if they’ve decided this stimulus is the answer, I’m powerless. They’re not representing us, which is the job we pay them to do in the first place. In what sane world is MORE SPENDING the solution to an economic crisis? Look at your own personal budget – if you don’t have enough money to pay the mortgage, the car payment and buy groceries, you don’t spend MORE MONEY ON CREDIT to fix the problem. And you certainly don’t hand the credit card bill to your kids and ask them to pay it for you when they’re older. That is EXACTLY what this bloated supposed “stimulus” is doing – mortaging our future (and our kids’ futures) to give Americans the illusion of a bolstered economy. If less than 10% of this bill’s spending actually finds its way into our economy in the nexty 12 months, which is the case, how can congress justify the other 90%? If it doesn’t help the majority of Americans NOW, then don’t call it a stimulus. Call it what it is – scaring Americans into allowing government to spend money we don’t have on programs we don’t need.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:40:04 +0000

this are all tired, disproven, thoroughly failed talking points.

but this is the most classic comment ever given the above nonsense:

Don’t punish me and my income for the shortcomings of an inept system.

that system is free market capitalism. if that system is inept, the whole house of cards that supports unlimited perpetual tax cuts comes falling down.

By: Reese Badman

Reese Badman — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:33:17 +0000

Can someone explain to me how tax cuts are EVER a bad idea? The government doesn’t produce anything, they get their money from US. We work, we earn it, and we turn a large portion of our earnings over to the people we elect. When the economy (which is US and OUR SPENDING) turns sour, THE way to turn it around is to let US keep more of our hard earned dollars. The total number of Government employees in the entire country numbers in the thousands, but there are 180 Million working Americans. So I’m supposed to give more of my money to a few thousand buearocrats who have yet to prove to any of us that they know how to spend it wisely??? Tax cuts ALWAYS work, plain and simple. Smaller government is the answer, NOT the increases in government size and spending this ridiculous bill will create. The statement about “the very same policies that threw our economy into a tailspin” for the last eight years is categorically INACCURATE! Spending increased in the last years because of a.) the attacks on 9/11 impacting our economy b.) Spending on 2 critical warfronts to PROTECT US from similar attacks and c.) Government’s insistance that every problem can be solved by the taxpayer blindly giving them more money. In a capitalist Republic (which, last time I checked, we are), more government is NEVER the answer. Put more money in the hands of the people and this thing will turn around. Greed and stupidity are to blame for where we are, and the average American is not the greedy idiot who wrote the checks that put us here. Don’t punish me and my income for the shortcomings of an inept system.