Conservative double standard

[Straight Shooter]

How many white thugs do you see in 5 points or Mid Town? Have you ever been to Atlanta or ridden on MARTA?

We aren't talking about 5 points or midtown, he's talking about Atlanta. Blacks are the largest demographic in Atlanta according to 2010 census with 54% followed by Whites who make up 38.4%. We can disagree about it be racist but it definitely is a reckless and violent thing to say.

 

[Trident1]

We aren't talking about 5 points or midtown, he's talking about Atlanta.

That is Atlanta.............the metro area. That's what this guy was referring to.
You know Oakland City, West End, East Point, 5 Points, Peachtree Center, Midtown etc.

 

[Ike Stain]

Free market capitalists??? What is "free-market capitalist" about either Clinton, Obama, Bush or HW Bush (etc.)? Printing money to bail out failed banks and corporations is now free-market? Keynesian economic policy is now free-market?

Obama's neither socialist nor free-market capitalist. He's a corporatist who was bought by Wall Street and the Joint Chiefs. Just like nearly every other president from the last 100 years. Claiming that either he or this economy is free-market is fucking absurd.

What free-market has "open" trade with Mexico and China, yet dictates the minimal wage in Haiti and tells them who they can accept oil from? The US economy is as rigged, manipulated and adjusted as a Rube Goldberg device.

Correction accepted.

The markets aren't in fact free, they're manipulated by the insiders and the people with all the capital, but the term is certainly used by these corporatists— specifically the ones who claim that free markets are the solution to everything, but neither enforce regulation, nor shirk from corporate socialism (i.e. bailouts).

I guess I use term "Free Market Capitalists" with some degree of irony and because I feel that's how they self-identify.

 

[Ike Stain]

Milton Friedman believed that there should be some oversight and gov't regulation.................now had everyone taken that to heart this crisis might have been averted.

You fuckin' commie!

 

[LaLiLuLeLohan]

He wasn't talking about white thugs, one nickname he goes by is Mighty Whitey. In my opinion, he basically advocated murder in the streets of Atlanta. It's a reckless statement. You're not seriously comparing Boortz to those comedians are you?

Since when is defending yourself from a violent carjacker, "murder?" The dead thug rhetoric is windbag jargon, but he wasn't advocated patrolling the streets and shooting people who wear their jeans hanging low. I didn't read anything that advocated offensive violence.

And I'm not comparing Boortz to anybody. I'm saying that using "yo" to paint a description of "urban thugs" is hardly some racist rhetoric. It's no different than adding "Yeehaw" and "get r' done" if you were to talk about the problem with rednecks and hillbillies. It's cheap and hacky, but it doesn't condemn a race.

I don't know jack shit about Boortz, but from the quote selected in that awful article you posted, a see a bunch of overreacting and bellyaching. He might be the biggest racist on the planet, but it's no evident in the link you provided.

 

[LaLiLuLeLohan]

Correction accepted.

The markets aren't in fact free, they're manipulated by the insiders and the people with all the capital, but the term is certainly used by these corporatists— specifically the ones who claim that free markets are the solution to everything, but neither enforce regulation, nor shirk from corporate socialism (i.e. bailouts).

I guess I use term "Free Market Capitalists" with some degree of irony and because I feel that's how they self-identify.

That makes sense. Thomas Woods had a funny line about the corporations championing the "free market" in America, giving millions to Obama, Hillary, Romney and McCain over the last four years, yet not giving Ron Paul's campaign a dime. Corporate welfare, bailouts and uneven regulating have turned this country into something unrecognizable compared to the BS we're fed since chuldhood.

The thought of a true free market systems scares them more than anything and they're willing to do whatever it takes to ensure the US and world never has one. Unfortunately, the government's willing to help them in their mission.

 

[Hot Mega]

The funniest conservative double standard I've seen recently was then POTUS candidate John McCain railing against socialism while collecting a social security check every month.:1orglaugh


de Gaulle of that McCain

 

[Straight Shooter]

The funniest conservative double standard I've seen recently was then POTUS candidate John McCain railing against socialism while collecting a social security check every month.:1orglaugh


de Gaulle of that McCain

Or better yet when the GOP was calling for the repeal of Obama's health care plan while at the same they were using their government health care plan for themselves. So apparently it's good enough for them but not good enough for the rest of country? hypocrites.

 

[UrMaSucksDonkey]

Fuck neocons fuck them up there tight bong holes

 

[Ike Stain]

Every time I hear the Republican candidates speak I can't help thinking "Where were these fiscal conservatives when Bush the Younger was aggressively bankrupting the country?"

Just sayin'

 

[Hot Mega]

Now for Reagan's numbers;

Unemployment: Jan 1981 - 7.5 pct. / June '83 - 10.1 pct. Change = 35%

National Debt: '81 - $998B / '83 1.377T....Change = 38%

Where's the outrage????

 

[CunningLinguist]

It's funny to me how republicans and political conservatives are also the people who are usually defending and/or preaching religion. They use the same tactics of solipsistic ignorance in both instances.

 

[monicasilver]

For gods sake, David Vitter was calling prostitutes form the Senate floor. I don't remember the GOP calling for him to resign. What hypocrisy, if you're a Republican who called for Weiner to resign than also be consistent in your criticism when it comes to Vitter.

Just read this --- Since when did calling prostitutes become a bad thing?

 

[Hot Mega]

Now for Reagan's numbers;

Unemployment: Jan 1981 - 7.5 pct. / June '83 - 10.1 pct. Change = 35%

National Debt: '81 - $998B / '83 1.377T....Change = 38%

Where's the outrage????

Two months ago it was 9.1, last month it was 9.2...now back to 9.1...

Like I said, in spite of nominal ticks up and down...it's down overall a whole point off of last year...meaning trending down. I thought the economy would be moving steadily in the right direction late summer early fall...

Thanks tea baggers for causing a sell off in the market of all the gains from '10.. Just think where we'd be without 'em. But I suppose they had to do something to make sure they could either stop an improving economy or be able to claim they did something to improve it once it inevitably does....baggers...

Unemployment rate dips to 9.1%, economy adds 117K jobs

Washington— Hiring picked up slightly in July and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.1 percent, an optimistic sign after the worst day on Wall Street in nearly three years.

Employers added 117,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said Friday. That's better than the past two months, which were also revised higher.

The mild improvement may ease investors' concerns after the Dow Jones industrial average plummeted more than 500 points over concerns that the U.S. may be entering another recession.

Businesses added 154,000 jobs across many industries. Governments cut 37,000 jobs last month. Still, 23,000 of those losses were almost entirely because of the shutdown of Minnesota's state government.

Link....
http://detnews.com/article/20110805/BIZ/108050398/

 

[Legzman]

I see nothing wrong with this Bolling guy

 

[PlumpRump]

:1orglaugh He called it the hizzouse.

From "Bolling's Greatest Hits," this one is by far my favorite:

Promoting the May 23, 2011, edition of his Fox Business show, Follow the Money, Bolling wrote on his Twitter feed: "Obama chugging 40's in IRE while tornadoes ravage MO."

:rofl2:

If he was indeed chugging 40's, I'd be willing to bet that he was far more concerned about Hurricanes (

), than tornadoes.

 

[Hot Mega]

What means 'long'?? So, let's assume for Bull Shit's sake....Bachmann gets elected in '12 and O has completely obliterated the economy and merely hands her what GWB handed him...

We know from history that it took Reagan nearly his entire first term to get the economy back to signs of stability...

Is she saying she could out-perform that?

Point is, at some point someone has to deconstruct the lip service that these people freely pay...

Bachmann: Improving economy 'won't take that long'

NEWTON, Iowa (AP) — Michele Bachmann declared Friday "it won't take that long" for her to start turning the ailing economy around as president as she competed against other GOP presidential rivals to build support ahead of a key GOP straw poll in Iowa next week.

Bachmann told reporters after a campaign event in Newton that the economy would start to improve almost immediately after she becomes president because she would immediately implement conservative economic policies to slash the nation's debt, rule out tax increases and cut regulations.

"It won't take that long if we send signals to the marketplace," she said, standing by an earlier comment that the improvement would begin within the first quarter.

Speaking to a crowd of more than 60 in the parking lot of a Pizza Ranch, Bachmann said Friday's economic report indicating that 117,000 jobs were created last month showed the economy remained too weak. She also said this week's plunge of the stock market was proof that an agreement to raise the nation's debt ceiling and cut spending that she voted against was "a stinky deal."

Slink...
http://news.yahoo.com/bachmann-improving-economy-wont-long-195053090.html