cry babies
July 12th, 2008 |McCain economic adviser Phil Gramm, and Fox News commenter Fred Barns, both state that Americans are "whiners" because they recognize how poorly the US economy is performing.
Meanwhile, the second largest bank failure in the history of the country took place yesterday.
It’s real easy to call your fellow citizens whiners when you’re rich enough to be unaffected by an economic downturn. Too bad average Americans are not as lucky.
But McCain is someone that I would like to have at my dinner table or sit next to at the bar, so I think I’ll vote for him. His wife is a beer baron but he’s just a regular guy. Did you know he’s a former POW?
5 Responses to “cry babies”
Phil Gramm is correct for once. Yes, the economy is in the shitter and people are recognizing this. People are huge f-ing whiners these days. People throw a shit fit when they don’t get their way. I know this first hand from working in government. It’s not going to get any better, either.
What never fails to amaze me during election season is how the people on the left focus on out of context (not that this one is) comments from the GOP but ignore those from the DFL. You can’t have it both ways. In 1996 military service didn’t matter (GOP candidate had it DFL did not), then in 2004 when the DFL candidate had a military background and the GOP did not it mattered again. How convenient.
You can’t have it both ways.
Sure I can.
Ok. You can since you run the TDF pool, but no one else.
Well, how poorly is the economy doing, really? Certainly we haven’t had the two consecutive quarters of economic contraction that would constitute a recession, though that’s certainly not the impression you’d get from reading the papers and listening to political candidates.
Yeah, it sucks if you’ve got one of those subprime ARMS and didn’t figure out that “adjustable” meant that the interest rate was, well, “adjustable.” It’s not exactly peachy, either, if you’re buying gas or trying to sell a home.
On the other hand, if you’ve got 29 lbs. of Japanese steel, or 2.3 lbs of French graphite epoxy, at your disposal, a lot of that goes away as you get your endorphin high, don’t it?
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