A bridge to nowhere now is more of an issue than repaying the bonds on it forty years from now.

Absurd…this is just criminal…

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8084663&page=1

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D99EB86O3&show_article=1

Shocker…like most of us didn’t know this to begin with. Unemployment is tracking pretty closely to what was expected for the depth of our economic situation and we are no where near the bottom as they like to suggest.

In regard to Feb when Obama warned the Congress to sign the stimulus bill or we would face increasing unemployment, etc…

Well now we know

A) Obama doesn’t know what he is doing in regard to the economy
B) The stimulus was just a scam

Either way it sucks for America and we are long way away from ending the increasing government tyranny threatening our personal freedoms!!!

Wait until inflation hits…don’t think a Zimbabwe type scenario can’t happen here…there is no such thing as TOO BIG TO FAIL.

Take a deep look at Cap & Trade…it is absolutely the biggest tax increase in the history of the world, also it is the biggest scam ever attempted.

Also 85% of ALL the Cap & Trade revenue will be spent back to special interests. That was the deal they had to cut with all the lobbyists to get the support so far. It is the most inefficient tax ever attempted.

Anyway, as time goes by, many out in the Heartland began to believe Rockefeller had organized some Rothschilds-like swindle–when really the Fed has reduced the power of the private banks. Now Ron Paul-bots view Rockefeller (and his children), the Fed, and any govt. banking as part of the Illuminati–along with CBS, viacom, etc. According to more eccentric, tin-foil hat forms of conspiracy-theories, the Rockefellers are taken to be high priests of Lucifer–though I’ve also seen claims that Rockefeller and high-ranking Illuminati are not really humans at all, but aliens (perhaps from Sirius) who can assume human form, and deceive the masses, and are responsible for like nazis, stalinism, Fed reserve, JFK’s death, 9-11, etc. Holy Shapeshifter Batman.

Heck we didn’t start having bubbles and bursts really until the Fed was put in place by Rockefeller and crew.

Look at how the AG goes after the Sheriff in Arizona but not the Black Panthers…this is just a complete political circus.

The overall point is the government really doesn’t very much well all because our system actually encourages political corruption and alas it is that very same thing that keeps getting us into trouble.

Political corruption is killing this country.

Remember they are elected to serve us…not the other way around.

Not entirely correct. The New Deal was brought about by the Depression. FDR and his economic advisers (mostly Keynesians) were reacting to decades of greed and speculation. It’s not perfect (actually probably too pro-business), but an attempt to prevent financiers from looting the public (and the treasury), mainly from buying–or lending– on margin with credit they did not have (not that different than what AIG/JPMorgan/Sachs have done over last 10 years). There may have been some bureaucracy and moves towards govt. intervention, but that’s what the situation demanded.

You continually suggest that laissez-faire will result in economic justice or balance of some sort, but the historical record–including depression– does not justify that assumption. In a mercantile society, OK–Jeffersonville–Smithian econ. may suffice. With a global financial economy the market is about as just and ordered as vegas casinos are.

Maybe google the Glass-Steagall act, which was specifically concerned with protecting individuals’ mortgage funds. Gramm managed to ex that reg, which had been on the books for over 50 years, tho’ Nixon had started with FHLMC (and Reagan helped). ACORN, HUD, all the rest are political moves. ACORN may tamper with votes (then so has GOP, most likely), but that’s not really that relevant.