That Reagan/Carter analogy is a terrible one, and the reason why I think you are so off-base here.
What you don’t seem to fully grasp is that unlike when Reagan took over, this Great Recession is a changing of the guard for the United States economy as we know it. The glory days of mass consumption, filling your basements with goods from Walmart, not saving money for retirement and spending beyond one’s means are greatly diminished.
During Reagan’s Presidency, the world was just entering the Internet Age and there was a whole host of possibilities to trigger economic growth.
Today that is not the case, and we are scrambling to come up with a new trigger to be the engine of our economy in the coming decades. It will hopefully be a new “Green Economy.”
That is, unless the Christian Right have their way because they believe that it’s God’s intent to have the sky over Los Angeles be filled with toxins 360 days a year.
You are compares apples to oranges. Today’s world is nothing like when Reagan took office.
“CGar…so there was a bidding war of sorts for Adelphi????”
Apparently, Dave. Only $25k over final ask, but that’s how I read it. From the A&H photos, you can really see how much work needs to be done, and I imagine it looked even worse when you saw it in person.
benson- then I suggest you look at what it is Congress does- it writes laws. If you think the Federal reserve is the only arbiter of of money policy, you are not understanding that Congress does indeed write and pass legislation that protected the economy of the excesses and bad practices that bought us into our present mess.
“benson- you’r simply playing with words- just because unemployment is part of a stimulus package, no one ever expects it to stimulate anything. I know- what I get in unemployment is barely enough to live on- and I get the max. So let’s not play word games.
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Once again: simply quoting President Obama. He is the one who called it a stimulus package.
“but people routinely go into their doctor’s office and demand a 400 dollar prescription for the latest and greatest antibiotic. No different from a dozen other common conditions that can be diagnosed and treated clinically without the need for exessive sonograms, CT scans or MRI’s”-
exactly. It is a vicious cycle. People are bombarded with ads and info ‘ask your doctor’, medical businesses make big profits on testing and drugs and encourage MDs to order tests and prescribe….and then when any talk of reform or regulation – public is bombarded with (mis)info scaring them that gov’t is going to ration their medical care(as if insurance companies don’t anyway). Or limit their Medicare.
DIbS that quote is played out. Just put it on a t-shirt and be done with it
Legion,
That Reagan/Carter analogy is a terrible one, and the reason why I think you are so off-base here.
What you don’t seem to fully grasp is that unlike when Reagan took over, this Great Recession is a changing of the guard for the United States economy as we know it. The glory days of mass consumption, filling your basements with goods from Walmart, not saving money for retirement and spending beyond one’s means are greatly diminished.
During Reagan’s Presidency, the world was just entering the Internet Age and there was a whole host of possibilities to trigger economic growth.
Today that is not the case, and we are scrambling to come up with a new trigger to be the engine of our economy in the coming decades. It will hopefully be a new “Green Economy.”
That is, unless the Christian Right have their way because they believe that it’s God’s intent to have the sky over Los Angeles be filled with toxins 360 days a year.
You are compares apples to oranges. Today’s world is nothing like when Reagan took office.
“CGar…so there was a bidding war of sorts for Adelphi????”
Apparently, Dave. Only $25k over final ask, but that’s how I read it. From the A&H photos, you can really see how much work needs to be done, and I imagine it looked even worse when you saw it in person.
benson- then I suggest you look at what it is Congress does- it writes laws. If you think the Federal reserve is the only arbiter of of money policy, you are not understanding that Congress does indeed write and pass legislation that protected the economy of the excesses and bad practices that bought us into our present mess.
gotta go make some money to pay some taxes,
I’ll be back in 20. 😉
Posted by: Legion at February 1, 2010 12:00 PM
I have to make more money so that more of it can be taken away for entitlements and the support of the new socialism.
Remember, the thing about socialism is that eventually you run out of other peoples’ money.
“benson- you’r simply playing with words- just because unemployment is part of a stimulus package, no one ever expects it to stimulate anything. I know- what I get in unemployment is barely enough to live on- and I get the max. So let’s not play word games.
”
Once again: simply quoting President Obama. He is the one who called it a stimulus package.
gotta run too
Legion, with the knee anthroscopy example- don’t you blame doctors for that?
“but people routinely go into their doctor’s office and demand a 400 dollar prescription for the latest and greatest antibiotic. No different from a dozen other common conditions that can be diagnosed and treated clinically without the need for exessive sonograms, CT scans or MRI’s”-
exactly. It is a vicious cycle. People are bombarded with ads and info ‘ask your doctor’, medical businesses make big profits on testing and drugs and encourage MDs to order tests and prescribe….and then when any talk of reform or regulation – public is bombarded with (mis)info scaring them that gov’t is going to ration their medical care(as if insurance companies don’t anyway). Or limit their Medicare.