I’m glad my “silly post” (on Facebook) has inspired an intelligent (for the most part) debate! Okay, so firstly, none of us are as qualified as Sarah Palin. It’s egotistical and arrogant to even compare. She runs the largest state in the nation. She runs it with budget surpluses. She gives tax money back to her fellow Alaskans every year. Until you or I do anything close to the job she’s done with Alaska… it’s truly silly to compare us to her.
Moving on… I’m a little confused… Ben, you’re probably busy with more important things (like becoming a father, which is awesome), but I need help understanding a couple of points. First off, please explain to me the “dire situation [of] the last 8 years of Bush-madness.” This is an oft-repeated phrase across the liberal-dominated media of MSNBC, CNN, CBS, etc… and was a mantra of Obama’s campaign. But I’m still baffled by the statement. You also mentioned that “capitalist programs have failed and put people in dire situations.” I’ll admit that horribly misguided government policies helped cause this recession we see ourselves in at the moment. But I will deny you the pleasure of blaming it all on Bush. In fact, the trigger of this recession can be traced back to the failed economic policies of the Carter administration and expanded during the Clinton years. By making it illegal NOT to loan money to sub-prime borrowers, the US Government – led by the DEMOCRAT party – forced the private sector to engage in a business they would have never initiated under their own powers. The entire sub-prime mortgage crisis was completely a US Government blunder. Inspired with good motives – helping those who could not afford mortgages get loans anyways – the outcomes of these policies are only now starting to be realized. Bush – following the economic success modeled during the Reagan years – led the United States out of a minor recession in 2000, navigated the terribly murky economic waters after 9/11, and made economic policies that resulted in the US leading its peer group (Canada, EU, Japan) in “real GDP growth, investment, industrial production, employment” (wikipedia). When it came to regulating the “evil” lenders, Bush’s administration tried SEVENTEEN times to bring these lenders under control, but he and his colleagues were blocked every time. (more…)
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Mr. Fratto sees a double standard at play. “We would never have used a formula like ’save or create,’” he tells me. “To begin with, the number is pure fiction — the administration has no way to measure how many jobs are actually being ’saved.’ And if we had tried to use something this flimsy, the press would never have let us get away with it.”
Of course, the inability to measure Mr. Obama’s jobs formula is part of its attraction. Never mind that no one — not the Labor Department, not the Treasury, not the Bureau of Labor Statistics — actually measures “jobs saved.” As the New York Times delicately reports, Mr. Obama’s jobs claims are “based on macroeconomic estimates, not an actual counting of jobs.” Nice work if you can get away with it.
Sarah Palin hits FOXNEWS tonight for the big 'Told Ya So' interview, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
As President Obama vows to spend the 'stimulus' faster, Governor Palin tells host Sean Hannity: 'You gotta quit digging that hole!'
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HANNITY: What do you make of – look at the state of the economy now...
PALIN: Well, when you consider that the federal government is about eleven trillion dollars in debt, and we’re borrowing more to spend more.. it defies any sensible economic policy that any of us ever learned through college. It defies economy practices and principles that tell ya ‘you gotta quit digging that hole when you are in that financial hole’ (more...)
“The White House estimates that the government will rack up an unprecedented $1.8 trillion budget deficit this year – more than four times last year’s all-time high.”
“But this and other big government spending programs are turning out to have the opposite effect. Rates for mortgages and U.S. Treasury debt are now marching higher as nervous bond investors fret about a resurgence of inflation.”
“When there are few clouds in the sky, temperatures typically are warmer, Spencer said, and when it is cloudy outside, conditions typically are cooler.
Is it possible then, Spencer asked, that decreasing clouds in recent decades caused the warmings recorded on Earth?
Spencer said he asked the IPCC about this and was surprised to learn that the organization had not researched this point and had assumed that cloud cover does not change over time but is fairly consistent.”
I’m glad my “silly post” (on Facebook) has inspired an intelligent (for the most part) debate! Okay, so firstly, none of us are as qualified as Sarah Palin. It’s egotistical and arrogant to even compare. She runs the largest state in the nation. She runs it with budget surpluses. She gives tax money back to her fellow Alaskans every year. Until you or I do anything close to the job she’s done with Alaska… it’s truly silly to compare us to her. 
From DrudgeReport.com:
Global Warming Hoax
