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From: olivier.strauch@gmail.com

Subject: Let’s cut all taxes..are you the biggest moron to ever live?

Date: February 12, 2009 2:11:07 PM EST

To: REDSTATE


Seriously. Your answer to the devastation caused by the dogma of rightwing deregulation of everything is.. to cut 100% of federal taxes?

So how do we pay for your favorite President Bush’s most brilliant achievement – the war in Iraq? Shall our troops eat dust and drink happy thoughts, and shoot magic bullets filled with your pee and propelled by wingnut farts? How about Afghanistan? How about border guards, customs, INS, the FBI, the CIA, Guantanamo, federal prisons, airport security, and all the other things even disphits [yeah, he really wrote it that way] as braindead s you agree government needs to do?

Seriously – you are a f***ing [profanity edited by Erick] over the top, blue-ribbon winning, one in a million tool.

Please never, ever reproduce.


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'fess up, Robert Gibbs

NickDeringer (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 3:16PM EST (link)

This really is you isn’t it?

This deserves an "LOL" because i giggled hard.

yambles (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 3:42PM EST (link)

n/t

-Relieving oppression on a daily basis-

 
 

Is the any money in the StimPack...

stang (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 3:19PM EST (link)

for the treatment of mental health issues? Specifically neurotic projection?

This is a far greater mental health problem than I think any of us recognize.

“Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.”

Carl Ransom Rogers

“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence.”

John Locke

 

I'll give this to him: at least he's got some ideas...

Crowe (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 3:31PM EST (link)

Most folks like this would just spew bile and tell you, in colorful language, how unintelligent you are. This guy actually offers alternatives: “Shall our troops eat dust and drink happy thoughts, and shoot magic bullets filled with your pee and propelled by wingnut farts?”

Of course, his alternatives would work as well as the stimulus will “stimulate,” but he observes one of Morton Blackwell’s Laws of the Public Policy Process: “You can’t beat a plan with no plan.”

Bravo, Oliver Strauch.

Now, perhaps, take some lessons in economics, then come back and try again.

“We sleep soundly in our beds only because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence upon those who would do us harm Dear Leader Obama gives us leave to do so.”

 

Wouldn't a $400B bump allow total suspension of the income tax?

H (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 3:51PM EST (link)

…now that would be a stimulus package.

 

The question I always ask

bnb614 Thursday, February 12th at 3:59PM EST (link)

braindead people like him who follow the Obama mantra that tax cuts and deregulation got us into “this mess.”

Please name one piece of deregulation Bush signed that caused “this mess.”

That should bring on silence, because they won’t dare bring up Barney Frank being asleep at his oversight position of Fred/Fan.

or tax cuts, for that matter

kweiss01 Thursday, February 12th at 4:24PM EST (link)

Bush era tax cuts certainly didn’t cause the housing boom and bust, nor the resultant banking crisis. I do think an argument can be made that some regulators were asleep at the wheel when they allowed mortgages to be bundled and resold in such a way that no one knew the quality of what they were buying – even the rating agencies were fooled. However, I don’t know how directly Bush can be blamed for that. If anything, I’d say that the crisis was triggered by failures of monetary policy (i.e. interest rates set artififically low and sparking the housing boom) and regulatory policy (see above) combined with the darling of the Democrats in Congress – Fannie and Freddie and other banking policies which pushed loans out to folks who really couldn’t afford them. Yet the proposed “solution” is on the fiscal side — this so-called stimulus.

It just doesn’t make sense. But of course, it doesn’t have to make sense because what this “stimulus” package is really about is funneling cash to Democratic interest groups and pork projects.

As an aside, GW Bush dramatically increased government spending and the size of government, so if the Dems really think that all his policies are bad, why is Congress expanding the spending?

 
 

Give Olivier a year or so,

johnt Thursday, February 12th at 4:01PM EST (link)

he may be singing a different tune, he may even have a Bush bumper sticker, or he may have been lobotomized.

“a man’s admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him”. Tocqueville

 

BWAHAHA... Olivier.Strauch@gmail.com, I have a new person to Spam, now...

DONTREADONME (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 4:03PM EST (link)

Send enlargement and male performance enhancements, STAT. BWAHAHAHAHA

 

If I read it correctly, he is down with Gitmo

Alberta (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 4:13PM EST (link)

I like his list of stuff everyone agrees government should do.

border guards, customs, INS, the FBI, the CIA, Guantanamo, federal prisons, airport security

Not to blow homeslices dome, but all those things could be run privately

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.
Abraham Lincoln

Private CIA?? INS??

franimal Thursday, February 12th at 5:15PM EST (link)

Of course, because the current privatization of previous military operations (KBR/Blackwater) has gone swimmingly well.

 
 

wait don't tell me....

Jack (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 4:48PM EST (link)

uhhh uhhhh he is a dimocrat?

Jack

“If at age 20 you are conservative you have no heart. It at age 30 you are liberal you have no brains.” Sir Winston Churchill

 

Oliver, DO NOT smoke the imported stuff before blogging! nt

olsmithie (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 5:01PM EST (link)

Later on this evening, our Mr. Strauch shall receive one first-class polite (yet snarkified) reply from this RS member.

Kenny Solomon (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 5:22PM EST (link)

Will post it here as a comment when completed later this evening.

First however, I must relax my mind, prepare and partake of a nice Southern dinner (Chicken fried steak, biscuits and gravy, collared greens, grilled corn and of course, sweet tea), peruse RedState a tad and then compose.

I sense a semi-masterpiece, not worthy of IowaHawk of course, but a solid work nonetheless.

Cheers !

 

you do realise

JHancock (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 5:41PM EST (link)

That the war doesn’t even add up to 15% of Federal spending??? Iraq is 7%, total defense spending, including coast guard and first responders/medical for national emergencies it’s 22%. We could easily pay for this war, new infrastructure, all the bailouts, better schools, and a dozen other wars if we got rid of

1) Social Security-21% of budget, and not the job of government to plan your retirement

2) Medicaid&Medicare-21% and should be up to an individual to decide whether to buy medical risk protection (i.e. insurance) or to risk out of pocket expenses, or the possibility of not affording the best care.

4) Welfare-9% for anybody who is not actively job seeking recently unemployed, or working at least 40h a week this shouldn’t happen. Welfare should be a safety net and income bridge, not a long-term financial strategy. Anyone on it for more than a year should be given something to do for 8 hours day-even a disabled person can write “thank you tax payers” 10,000 times a day on a chalkboard.

 

Why is it liberals can never see past their nose

nivlem (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 5:58PM EST (link)

Do they really think after President Obama and the Democrat congress is done
ruining our economy there will not be anyone left to pay their taxes on the
rich?
That by the time they are done dragging everyone down and there
are no longer “evil corporations” making enough money to support their
high taxes or increase jobs, that not even the middle class will have jobs to
pay thier taxes?
That President Bush never spent as much money protecting our country in the
“War on Terror” as would have resulted in economic losses had we had another 9-11 type attack on America??
That entepreneurs will not work for no incentives, which usually comes in the
reward of a larger income to take care of their families?
Do they choose to ignore these things, or are they so blind they cannot see?

How can you expect them to see

Bill S (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 6:26PM EST (link)

with their heads up their nether-regions?

(you serve ‘em up, I hit ‘em)

“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins

 
 

Genius olivier.stretch asks Q. "So how do we pay"

6eorge Jetson (Diary) Thursday, February 12th at 6:26PM EST (link)

A. the same way we’re going to pay for the stimulus

i.e., the US will pay for it in real terms, by borrowing money, to be paid off with some combination of

a) the future efforts of others via future taxes, and/or
b) the present value of existing financial claims (e.g. a account balance) on real assets (e.g. a house) by printing more money (and causing inflation)

One big difference, smarty pants, is that Obama and his Democrats Droogs just dipped into those funding sources, in a way that will purchase a lot of stuff that folks don’t value very highly.