Think Foreward

david

you missed my point which was that your comment was sufficiently negative to cause some reaction from more optimistic people without providing a link (not a cut and paste blog) to your previous blog outlining what you considered to be solutions to the republican's total screw up of the last 8 years.  you seemed to insinuate that i should have been looking throughout your blogs for this "solution" blog which was unknown to me.  now... i'm not going to argue a moot point with you so let's just let it be.  i think we all want the same thing... a healthy economy and a successful foreign policy. 

GOP version of Budget

-YT

response

Capt: Thanks for the link. I agree republicans have not come up with any consytructive ideas either.

AF: You asked what my solutions are and I provided a link to it and if on internet you don't want to click , to get your answer then that is not what you are seeking but an argument instead. Out of respect to the author of this blog I am not going to paste my blog here. If you want answer to your question do this: CLICK ! 

Others: As I said unfortunately many are seeing this through republican/democrat glasses and following one thought or another instead of looking at this independently.

We shall see the results of this borrow and spend trillions policy in few years and then we have these records to look back on and see who was right and who was wrong!

I sure hope that I am wrong because If I happen to be right the consequences that I see will be disasterous.

David

Thanks for your blog, and allow me interject with this blog I did back in Feb.

//iranian.com/main/news/2009/02/10/republ...

-YT

david

thanks for the blog.  sarcastically linking a blog from march 4th was nice.  it would have been nicer if you'd posted it along with your original comment.  i'm not going to follow you around looking for your "solutions".  but your "The A Fish" was clever... obviously class isn't your strong suit... but hey... whatever floats your boat.

Party of NO

Has become party of [No Ideas]. I know I know we hear that all the time lately. [Well we don't know what to do but we hope you fail...blah blah blah.....]

For all the nay sayer's there is one suggestion, Either come up with a workable plan, that is better than Obama's or shut the hell up. Nothing is going to be solved by juts winning and complaining.

With all due respect to all the Republicans, What is your solution?

Or is it that are you just going to sit there and regurgitate your new leader's[Rush The Limbaugh Fat Head] and pray[nAzar be emame Reza] so that Obama fails?

-YT

Amazing

That some see the world with republican or democrat glasses as if all those INDEPENDENTS had no voice. In fact it was us independents who have been making the difference in the past few elections and it was so many of us who campaigned for Obama vs. Clinton or McCain.

So both sides take off those donkey vs.elephant glasses and address subjects instead of labeling others and making a political or economic conversation personal. 

As for The A. FISH and your "BS" remarks, read my blogs and you find your answer including a direct letter to the president:

//iranian.com/main/blog/david-et/mr-obama-tear-down-wall 

Mr Hosseini,from Amirhosseini!!

Jaanaa sokhan az zabaan e maa miguee!

Happy Nowruz to you & your family.

Ebi aka Haaji

Mr. Sexy X baby joon you might not listen, but Repubs DO :)

They repeat it all. "Empty Suit" or "suite" as you say, that was All Mr. Skinny Rush. The telepromptor obsessions. All Rush. 

Mr. Kar Shenas MRX Joon, do you know how many years it took to destroy the US Economy like this? Do you think it will be fixed fast? Probably if Sarah Palin and John MACcain were here. But since they aren't, it means mock Obama, Mock his idea of "new industries" why? No good reason. The same ghor and chert o pert.  

Finally Mr. x, who loves "harf e moft", I ask you, what do you mean by lower standard of living? Honestly.... the Obama haters are the people who usually say "the homeless in america are all rich by comparison to the fiji and thailand bums. the homeless here this and that".

You sound so sad and angry Mr. X. I hope by "not here to see it" you don't mean the worst of the worst. It's not worth it baby. Obama has come, he will go. you will survive. Don't worry. If Sarah is surviving, so can you!

who said it was my idea

I don't listen to limbaugh. News that china is putting pressure on U.S by threating to dump the dollar is all over the place including on all the major news organizations. Of course this is not the first time china has been threatening U.S and perhaps sooner or later they will do such thing once they become confident enough that they don't need U.S.............

I never said Mccain and palin had a solution  but then again they are not in charge are they? Furthermore you can't just print worthless money to get out of this mess....

Finally I don't care, lower standard of living, hyper inflation and all that will hit the future generations. luckily I won't be around. Now you guys can go back and praise the messiah.....

Thanks to Bush

Obama and his supporters will have to suffer for a long time.

The words on the streets are that the Republicans have no clue as to what to do and their plan is to just push all the US financial problems to Obama in the next coming years. 

For me, makes no difference. When US does well, our Toman decreases, and when US doesn't do well, our Toman decreases. All I have to say is good luck Democratic Party members. You got a lot to deal with in the next 4 (8) years. The Republicans ruined the economy of the world, and killed millions of people. Too much damage for this president to fix quickly.

It takes a village

I don’t know what Republicans would have done if they were still in the office, we saw 8 years of their rule. As far as I know the main root of the current crisis can be summed up in one word: greed, the first of the seven deadly sins. It’s just greed and concentrated power. For years, obscene profits were not enough. Profits must be enormous, obscene and astronomical. And so financial institutions overreached and failed and took the rest of us with them.

In our previous financial crises there was a difference between Wall Street and Main Street. Wall Street was populated by rich people in top hats and striped pants who dealt in stocks, bonds, futures, derivatives and others things that few ordinary people really understood. Little did we know that most people on Wall Street didn’t really understand them either. When there was a collapse on Wall Street, some of these rich people would jump out of windows, but as long as they didn’t fall on any of us, things were OK on Main Street.

Today, unfortunately, Wall Street and Main Street are pretty much the same street.
As Warren Buffet puts it;  ‘They say in the stock market, buy stock in a business that’s so good that an idiot can run it because sooner or later one will,” Buffet said, “Well, the United States is a little like that. We can take a little mismanagement from time to time." I sure hope Mr. Buffet is right.  Until then, we need to get rid of this Vegas mentality in all of us - and I mean all of us. Since we have become so economically interconnected, what happens in our own Vegas no longer stays in our own Vegas -- it affects everyone. Knowing that, are we ready to turn off some lights in our homes? Is it possible for Americans to forfeit McMansion dreams, drive smaller cars, take public transit, embrace water restrictions, or live in more sustainable geographies? Can we stop needlessly spending beyond our means? In other words, will we finally accept the public policy and lifestyle changes that the real world now requires? Or will "Viva Las Vegas" always be America's motto? 

MRX has learned well

These are the same exact lines as Rush Limbaugh. I would congratulate you MR. sexy X however these are not your ideas. I really think Sarah Palin would have fixed everything by now. I really think John McCain had the brains and experience from Vietnam solve these problems.Oh WELL.

Not that it matters, but those "young people" who should be worried are not. Know why? Because There are wars, politicians acting like a-holes, lying cheating and stealing since 9-11. We spend 2 billion, 4 billion on Afghanestan and Iraq wars. What the hell should young people care about? THAT? This is nothing.

MRX

well i seriously doubt he had any idea back when he started that things were going to be this bad.  i seriously doubt that ANYONE would have signed up for this cluster "mess".  and i seriously doubt that mccain would have nor would he have chosen the girl wonder for his running mate. 

marge.  forget the economy and cancer... i'm pissed that no one gives the common cold credit anymore.  do ya think she could handle that?  :-) 

david.  tell us what you DO want or expect.  we've been listening to all that BS you listed for the last 8 years!!!!  did you think mcclueless would be doing better?  exactly what... and i mean exactly since you seem to have better insight into each and every crisis obama is facing right now... exactly what should he be doing?

regarding the economy... what?

regarding foreign policy... what?

regarding social reform failures in the us... what?

and give us the list in terms of priority in which he should be accomplishing all of these miracles... or are you simply expecting them all to happen RIGHT NOW?  i hear a whoooooole lot of negativism but not much in the way of alternatives.   this is your chance...:-)

Didn't he sign up for this?

No one forced obama to get into white house. he signed up for that. Obama reminds me of a person who talks well and fudges his resume very well, but once interview is over and he get's the job, his incompetence starts showing immideatley. All he is doing is printing worthless money. It's reaching to a point now that the chinese want to dump the dollar  and European socilaists are telling him stop spending money!   Man is over rated empty suite. Personaly I don't care, but If I were a young person I would be worried of what i will be inheritating. 

Give him a carrot

I think as long as he is with us give him a carrot otherwise show him the stick

David - it's not that I disagree with you

But you do know that we don't live in the utopia that you're talking about right? There is no such thing has solid economics. We live in a corporate machine and you should know this. Personally, I'd love to see all of these bastards go down like Arnold at the end of the Terminator (I hope Niki is reading this, that's for you!). But sadly, if people, rich, aristocratic people lose too much work, unlike the poor stupid people (like me!), then the economy here will go bust. Wall street and any profit you made from it was fake, just as fake as whatever you'd make on a slot machine. I hate it all, but this IS America. The rest is just theory. Not practice. 

valid ideas

That is RIGHT ... give him some time and remeber not a "jeek" came out of anyone(!) during the previous 8 years... now every-every-every-thing needs to be fixed YESTERDAY!
If YOU have any valid ideas that can mend the system better and sooner PROPOSE IT(through the correct channels)... I assure you they will consider it and try to use it!
Unless you are only concerned about you and yours...

crush: well it can work for a short while

We have been after quick fixes for a long time which has brought us to the mess that we are in and its not the first time after all

..from the last real estate bubble and saving and loan crisis

...to the bigger internet bubble

...to the this even bigger mortgage bubble that already has burst in our faces

....and now creating the mother of all bubbles in the name of stimulus and bail outs...

...but they all work for a while... may be we can even survive them during OUR life time and leave the mess to our children who will have nothing left to bubble on !!

Think of our over-indebted, over-leveraged, savings-less consumer economy in terms of a patient that’s ill…

if you give a broken down worn out patient, dose after dose of every stimulant you know – adrenaline one hour, ecstasy the next followed by a six pack of Red Bull – there’s always the chance the patient will get up , bounce and even dance around for a while, but at the end of the artificially induced frivolity, s/he will be more broken and worn out than ever before if s/he survives it all.

....might as well we too enjoy the whatever left over of this borrowed green hoping that its left over's trickle on us while the same elite on top suck up most of it

....Bad Bad Bush

...long live Obama

...blah blah

.... and they lived happily

....until the hell broke lose

...and then it was too late

.... police state was declared to stop the riots

.... and they lost their freedoms after they lost their financial independence to the elite

....change it will be

...give it more time

...lets be "patient"

...I know I hear you

....they have us addicted to the life style

...It is hard to face reality

...might as well stay in our glasshouses

...the sense of withdrawal from all this STUFF we have bought on credit   

...STUFF that gives us doses of happiness and if not! there is always Prozac to swallow on

...After all what's another trillion?!

.... see the guy on the left facing all that is being borrowed 

//startswithabang.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/one-trillion-dollars.jpg  

....Yes its only 60 days!

...Give it more time! 

....It will kick in

...Ah Relax

....we have again become "comfortably numb"

David Jan it dependz

Are you employed? Can you re-pay it? If our debt explodes too much, we can just invade China. We're not too far away. Afghanestan is practically neighbors on the Bush Geography map.

Thank you for making sense!!!

It's really hard to see the folks who were completely quiet during the first 4 years of Bush and voted for him again to continue robbing this country blind, destroying America's reputation and safety for years  while taking vacations back to his ranch every other week, are now so critical of Obama!!!  They pretend to support the America's elected president out of respect for democracy, but in reality, all they're doing is following their new party's leader Rush Limbaugh.

IRANdokht

Wrong is wrong

in 60 days or 60 years or 600 years

Creating trillions of dollars out of thin air and trickling it it from top to public, only delays the collapse unless there is a fundamental change  and is wrong now or later ! 

Obama is borrowing trillions in OUR name and our children's names and feeding it to the top and we have to pay for it for many years to come !

Then how about I take your credit cards and spend them in 60 days and if anyone questions me , I tell them to give me a break. Once your money is gone and you are indebted, it is way too late!! 

//www.southparkstudios.com/clips/collections/...

I disagree

Sarah Palin would have had us out of this economic tsunami AND she would have cured Alzheimer's and Cancer. 

hear hear...

glad to hear this from such a respected gentleman as yourself. 

Mr Hosseini I agree with you

We need to give him a chance to work this situation out. McCain was too old and clueless about economy and we are lucky we got President Obama. Lets support him.