Stupid Republicans
By Capt. Fogg
If we think the very rich are indeed different from you and me, it may not be much of a complement to them.
The talk around the Yacht Club these days involves a lot of snickering about Barak Obama and what "that man" will do to the economy. No, I'm not joking, but then neither are they. Perhaps Malcom Gladwell is right that material success has as much or more to do with circumstances than with talent or intelligence. Take the fellow with a yacht worth far, far more than than Joe the Plumber will make in his lifetime; a fellow who thinks that we're seeing a "slowdown" that will "bounce back" shortly and a slowdown that has nothing to do with George Bush, a Republican congress, deregulation or the idea that debt has no consequences if you cut taxes and pour money down a hole. I have as much faith in his genius as he has in the notion that America's success has been the result of its Christian piety.
Obama, of course, will raise taxes. That's axiomatic because he's a Democrat. Raising taxes will harm the economy, they say, even though it would be as fair to say that a bullet will harm a dead horse and the economy has done better under Democrats since WWII. Supply-side economics will work eventually and even if it doesn't, even if the "slowdown" becomes a full blown depression, we have to keep making it easy for the Great Gatsby to keep the twin Diesels fed. Did I mention that Obama is going to ruin the economy by raising my taxes?
(Cross-posted from Human Voices.)
If we think the very rich are indeed different from you and me, it may not be much of a complement to them.
The talk around the Yacht Club these days involves a lot of snickering about Barak Obama and what "that man" will do to the economy. No, I'm not joking, but then neither are they. Perhaps Malcom Gladwell is right that material success has as much or more to do with circumstances than with talent or intelligence. Take the fellow with a yacht worth far, far more than than Joe the Plumber will make in his lifetime; a fellow who thinks that we're seeing a "slowdown" that will "bounce back" shortly and a slowdown that has nothing to do with George Bush, a Republican congress, deregulation or the idea that debt has no consequences if you cut taxes and pour money down a hole. I have as much faith in his genius as he has in the notion that America's success has been the result of its Christian piety.
Obama, of course, will raise taxes. That's axiomatic because he's a Democrat. Raising taxes will harm the economy, they say, even though it would be as fair to say that a bullet will harm a dead horse and the economy has done better under Democrats since WWII. Supply-side economics will work eventually and even if it doesn't, even if the "slowdown" becomes a full blown depression, we have to keep making it easy for the Great Gatsby to keep the twin Diesels fed. Did I mention that Obama is going to ruin the economy by raising my taxes?
(Cross-posted from Human Voices.)
Labels: Barack Obama, economic royalists, economics, taxes
posted by Capt. Fogg at
10:13 AM
14 Comments:
What's your take on Barney Frank insisting that money be lent to people who can't pay the money back? (Yes, I know, that's a bit hyperbolic.) I'm not disputing that everything else you say is not correct. Rather, I'm asking whether you will acknowledge that policies Democrats tended to favor have contributed to this abysmal economy as well.
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Anonymous, at 12:52 PM
Anonymous,
Name one.
Go on.
I'd be happy to debate this with you.
Clinton raised taxes. Booming economy.
Bush lowers taxes three times, bombing economy.
It's about time to admit it, after thirty years of Reganomics and nearly forty years (including Nixon) of Miltonian monetarisms: It's possible to have taxes TOO low.
But go ahead: humour me with a Democratic "policy" that has affected the economy anywhere near noticeably during this debacle.
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Carl, at 3:09 PM
Thank you Carl. Blaming this on the Democrats is part of the same mentality that blamed Obama for high gas prices.
I'm old enough to remember a top bracket tax rate over 80% and those were good years.
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Capt. Fogg, at 3:14 PM
You didn't even come close to answering my question. I'm conceding that you're correct on EVERY SINGLE POINT, but also asking, DO YOU THINK THAT THE UNINTENDED POLICY OF BAD LOANS TO PEOPLE WHO DID NOT HAVE THE MEANS TO AFFORD TO PAY THEM BACK CONTRIBUTED IN ANY WAY TO THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS? Will it help you if I say George Bush and the Republicans are 100% at fault for that policy? Does your answer change if I suggest that Barney Frank and some of his fellow Democrats are 49.9% responsible for that policy?
By the way, it was CLINTON who cut capital gains taxes to 15%.
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QueersOnTheRise, at 4:50 PM
Yeah, Queers on the Rise is a fake.
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QueersOnTheRise, at 4:52 PM
You call it a question, I call it an incoherent rant. 100% - 26.754% -- who gives a damn? Supply side economics has failed every test. The idea that debt doesn't matter and that lowering taxes on the investor class brings prosperity doesn't work.
I don't give a damn whether or not some Democrat did this or that any more than whether Charles Manson had a softer side. The economic policies championed by the Republican party for the last several decades are failures. The fathers of Supply Side economics are conceding failure and even Greenspan admits that markets are not self regulating, but what do they know? We should all be listening to some arrogant schmuck who's obviously had a few too many beers.
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Capt. Fogg, at 10:40 AM
Thanks for the answer. Anywhere between 26.754% and 100% Barney Frank's fault - I can deal with that answer. And thank-you, as always, for not going on any kind of a rant at all -- you arrogant, schlepping kike!
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Anonymous, at 3:24 PM
Normally I would remove such a post, but you're such a fine example of the kind of ignorant subhuman trash that populates the Republican party that you only lend strength to my argument.
I hope you lost your ass in the Bush Depression and they're repossessing your trailer and that's why you're drunk, raving and belligerent and looking for a scapegoat, but if you must attempt German at least look up Schleppen. Your German is as non-existent as your knowledge of -- why anything else.
Are you just trying to sound erudite and pretend it's really not that you get all your opinions by sticking your tongue up Rush's infected rectum like some shit sucking hummingbird?
Your obsession with Barney Frank as a cause of the global recession is idiotic and demented. Are you sure it isn't just that the Jews are controlling the international banking system once again?
As to the idiotic religious slur - that's why I'm leaving your comment in place so that readers can put you in the proper perspective. I'd be happy to discuss it with you in person, du nichtsnutzige, Hahnsaugende Schwulle. Du kannst mich mal am Judischen Arsch lecken and es ist mir ganz scheißegal wass du glaubst.
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Capt. Fogg, at 5:58 PM
Jews in control - like Geithner? I'm not a Republican. My house is worth $600,000+ -- i.e. one hell of a trailer. I don't drink alcohol.
But, you've fallen into my trap -- you're ranting in German again -- that's the way you show off when you're in a rage.
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Anonymous, at 6:08 PM
DO YOU THINK THAT THE UNINTENDED POLICY OF BAD LOANS TO PEOPLE WHO DID NOT HAVE THE MEANS TO AFFORD TO PAY THEM BACK CONTRIBUTED IN ANY WAY TO THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS?
Of course it does.
You can thank Ronald Reagan for that.
You assume that people had no intention of paying them back. I maintain that a tiny handful of people might have that intent, but the vast, VAST, majority of them would pay it back in a heartbeat, but for the fact that their income has not nearly kept pace with the world around them.
And that's forced them to use their houses in a grand shell game, devised and implemented by Reagan and his cronies twenty eight years ago.
Now, I repeat my challenge. Name one
And keep your Nazi tongue civil, son. A $600K home wouldn't even be a proper outhouse to me.
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Carl, at 9:55 PM
Rage? You called me a Kike and threw in some inapposite German word you didn't actually understand: hence the equally vulgar German response. You impress easily if you think it's difficult to call you a cock sucker. But then you're impressed too easily with your angry middle-class self aren't you? None of this is about the economy or about Barney Frank or Barney Rubble. It's about you being a helpless, hapless, pathetic nobody making trouble by calling people kikes where you know I won't have the chance to smash your skull in.
In fact if anyone has been trapped, it's you with your risible bragging about your half million dollar hovel. You've done it before using the same words.
You couldn't trap a mouse, it would outwit you every time.
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Capt. Fogg, at 10:59 PM
Actually, schlepping is more of a Yiddish word - roughly meaning to lug something around or drag yourself all over the place.
"I schlepped all over Manhattan looking for fresh fish."
I doubt an arrogant kike would schlep anywhere. He'd send some underling to do his schlepping for him. :)
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rockync, at 1:22 AM
Anon, since you don't like the Captain's German, try this in French: C'est toujours les plus cons qui se prennent pas pour de la petite merde.
Talkin' about you, anon.
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(O)CT(O)PUS, at 2:32 AM
Yes, I know what it means in Yiddish, but it still makes no sense in his context. I wouldn't call him a "dragging" moron, for instance, although I can only guess how he dresses when he leaves his $600K house on a Friday night.
I forgot to mention, by the way, that Tim Geithner is Episcopalian.
This guy has been around under various pseudonyms but it's obvious that he spends a lot of time thinking about Gays and Jews and being sorry for himself.
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Capt. Fogg, at 10:35 AM
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