The GOP calls Obama a socialist, it doesn't make it any more true.
You're right, but we were not talking about that.
But it will make it harder for SS to remain secure.
True, if those cuts stay in place forever. There is a reason they are set to expire.
Yeah, austerity is working well. Anyway, so I guess banks and car companies can get bail out (the banks got hundreds of billions of dollars with no repercussions, car manufacturing workers had to increase productivity and take pay cuts) but public servants have to tighten their belts.
The US in now were close to austerity. The banks got money to make sure they did not crumble and take everything with them. The auto industry got help but did have to low pay for some workers simply to insure they would not fall right back down.
Or you know, maybe the US should not have gone in the first place. Poppy production has risen since the US invasion, thousands of civilian deaths and a new generation of kids growing up seeing their country being destroyed. America should stop meddling in other people's affairs. It is due to American involvement that Afghanistan is in this predicament in the first place. And guess what, drone strikes just piss people off more.
If we were talking about Iraq I would agree with you. When it comes to Afghanistan the group the ruling Taliban was protecting pulled us in there by destroying a couple of buildings.
A problem is the definition of free market. After how much government interference does a market become 'not free'.
At the point were private ownership has no meaning.
Yup, stimulus that involves huge tax breaks. But hey, demand has nothing to do with discretionary income, am I right?
Might be if I know what you were talking about.
Well, real wages have fallen since 1971 or so.
So one single metric means we have gone backwards?
"Democrats are always right because reality" isn't a sentence, let alone an argument.
Good think no one here made that argument.
