If a real socialist ever came to power, he wouldn’t even comprehend it.

It was way better than doing nothing (the Republican plan).

Since Krugman loudly criticized the stimulus package as being inadequate at the time, this of course completely misrepresents what he said. He never, in fact, claimed that the stimulus would work, except in the most depressed, crossed-fingers, hope-against-hope way.

So if you’re going to blast Krugman, you’ll have to do it on the basis on what he gets wrong in the future, as the result he predicted–e.g., slowing the slide, not a recovery–was exactly what he did say.

We have infrastructure and nature that BEGS for Government works projects. MORE people working for the Government = more Government working for the people.
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Get help real soon bj.

Damn right! Bring on some more of that FREE MONEY!!!!!

Obama’s not spending the money fast enough!

National Debt:

01/21/2009 $10,625,053,544,309.79

07/02/2009 $11,489,560,999,310.74

We have infrastructure and nature that BEGS for Government works projects. MORE people working for the Government = more Government working for the people.

Owing to the extensive use of machinery, and to the division of labour, the work of the proletarians has lost all individual character, and, consequently, all charm for the workman. He becomes an appendage of the machine, and it is only the most simple, most monotonous, and most easily acquired knack, that is required of him. Hence, the cost of production of a workman is restricted, almost entirely, to the means of subsistence that he requires for maintenance, and for the propagation of his race.

GET THOSE EVIL RICH OIL COMPANIES NEXT!

In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

When, therefore, capital is converted into common property, into the property of all members of society, personal property is not thereby transformed into social property. It is only the social character of the property that is changed. It loses its class character.

You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society.

Control of AIG
Control of the Banks
Control of Auto Makers

What’s next?

Control of Health Insurance Co’s (or elimination thereof)

Control of Power Co’s.

The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from the bourgeoisie, to centralise all instruments of production in the hands of the State, i.e., of the proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the total productive forces as rapidly as possible.

Good reminder Steven… One that many wingnuts choose to either forget, or ignore… As I recall, we came very close to electing a Communist Party member as President in that time period…
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Obama is close to Full Marxist mode.

Thanks Chas for pointing out the similarity between the present pending Greatest Depression, and the Depression of the 1930’s.

Browder drew 80,000 votes in ‘36 and even less, 47,000 votes in ‘40 … proof that even in those Great Depression and pre-WW II years, America wasn’t buying a no-work, borrow, borrow, “here’s free stimulus giveaway money” governmental philosophy.

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That is exactly the philosophy of the current Administration.

Thanks Chas for pointing out the similarity.

Soundly whipped by Franklin D. Roosevelt both times, Browder drew 80,000 votes in ‘36 and even less, 47,000 votes in ‘40 … proof that even in those Great Depression and pre-WW II years, America wasn’t buying a no-work, borrow, borrow, “here’s free stimulus giveaway money” governmental philosophy.

I have suggested before the new unwanted, unneeded downtown ice hockey arena be named THE EARL W. BROWDER FLAT-OUT TAXPAYER FINANCED WHITE ELEPHANT ARENA.

It’s my understanding the arena’s special interest supporters return to Wichita on nights of the Full Moon to meet on the top floor of one of downtown’s vacant office buildings to drink beer, smoke cigars and laugh at Wichita taxpayers far below who mistakenly financed the 1/2 billion dollar downtown arena.

I think that’s gotta be one of the biggest problems, is the dwindling of industries here, because of the outsourcing to other countries. People selling our jobs down the river, so they can live the high life, is what it sounds like. More like astronomically high life.

Well, nothings changed, our government and politicians are bought and sold by private industry, so they can have the politicians they’ve paid for in office to pass whatever laws will benefit their corporations the most.

Or so it seems, I have not freakin idea what I’m talking about. Seems like a tangled web.

It seems like the Stimulus package was just spent, without even trying to create someway of making new industries, or creating a renewable source of money, energy, or anything.

It was like a short term spending splurge. Without any investments. Where the hell are the investments at. Did they really spend this money without investing it into anything. It seems like lunacy to not create renewable sources of income, employment, energy, or anything that would continue to pay off dividends for years to come. Seems like all it did, was quickly put money into the pockets of people, who are just excited to see money from the government.

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That is until now. Compare communism to what Obama wants to do. Name the differences. You won’t find many.

This money did nothing because the only payrolls that were expanded were in the government.

StevenD that is your answer. The solution Obama chose cost us jobs and put us much deeper in debt.

Tell us something productive he has done to improve the economy one iota. Before your start with ‘he came into a Bush recession’, I’ll give you that – now what has HE done to make things better.