don’t play well in countries where politics has been developed into an art form, a rather useless art form, but still…

how ’bout cancelling the debt? It is not spent yet. Eventhe Tarp and the Stimulaus have funds left. Can’t some GoP sen or cong introduce a bill to cancel it? Or if it is allocated, do one oft hosereverse thinsthatthe govt does,.
i.e. a bill to de-allocate and return to the treasury those funds as exist in tarpand stim bills.
I think a lot of the GOP likes the power they are seeing and the full-employment of being a party out of power. Therefrore guarenteed elections for both sides. GOP always it seems can snatch defeat out of sure victory.

if someday the Chinese intervene in the US to implement governmental restraint?

Since they have meddled EXTENSIVELY in American electoral politics, in funding Clinton’s 1996 election, and (one has to believe) all the Democrat candidates since then, including Bambi, it serves them right if a Dem President + House + Senate runs the dollar into oblivion and wrecks the Chinese economy on the way down.

Not that I want that to happen. But the Chinese have some gall making objections at this stage of the game.

doing the job of the US mainstream media?

know that spending in the U.S. is totally out of control. Even thought they really know what Obamacare/Obamatopia is about and applaud; the core need to be repaid of debt makes them the capitalist that Barney Frank is not.

If and or when we default, the Chinese will propose as collateral, that they take Taiwan and select American properties in addition to incrementally infusing the U.S. with fifty million Chinese “immigrants” some to take positions of policy makers, to work and boost productivity. Obama says “great idea”!

That’s Axelrod , Emanuel. and The O.,with various other Dems, and a hapless & dishonest media.
Foreign affairs and policy are far more complicated than a domestic program driven by power and backed by news organizations.
Interestingly even there the Three Mouseketeers have bumbled and made a total mess, embarrassing in their overreach and clumsiness.

Wake up kids, there’s a world out there, one that doesn’t give a rat’s ass what the NY Times thinks. They’re so far in over their heads it’s terrifying.

agent. Last year I found out premiums are lower for individuals in KS and MO than the normal employee’s share of group policies through an employer. You could give them a $500 a month raise and let them buy their own insurance. This puts them in charge of their own lives and saves you a lot of headaches.

Unless you’re a government contractor or supplier I can’t see how you could think a third “stimulus” would do you any good. Government spending cannot stimulate an economy. It can only stimulate government. Think about it. If a government could spend money and grow the economy, no country on Earth would ever have a bad economy. All government funds must first be taken from the people, or borrowed and put the people in debt. All government spending, whether called “stimulus” or anything else, just substitutes a politician’s decision on how it is spent for that of the population from whom the funds were taken.

There is no reason to think we need to reinvent the wheel on economics. This has all been done before. Centuries of history show thrifty government results in prosperity and domestic happiness. Profligate government results in poverty and misery. The larger the government, the less room for human freedom. and vice versa. All Americans used to understand this before the advent of socialist education and the purposeful dumbing down of our progeny.

When the economy is going to hell overnight they better be ready to lend money. They do every day.
All the nonsense about firing, bonuses etc is political and just answers to peoples anger. It does nothing but give us something to relate to. We don’t understand derivative swaps.
I would be more than happy to jump into the next tax bracket. Bring it on. In the meantime, I pay my share.
The Pelosi plan of requiring health insurance, like auto insurance is a compromise and a bad one. The thing is we already pay for all of the uninsured and the cost are extraordinary. I can’t wait to hear your response but the best health care system in the world is single payer. It would/could never happen here, but politicians and economist on both sides tend to agree. Even a tiered system with a private option and single payer would be better than the nonsense we have now.

All of these things need to be used to make the best bill.

It is a zero sum game.

One person gets a job and the money has to be extracted from the economy somewhere else to pay for it. Creating or “saving” government jobs is a recipe for long term stagnation. We need to get on a growth footing by stimulating our private sector economy. Cut spending, dammit.

That is all.