Re: What the Hell has happened to this group???

orion.osiris@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Apr 14, 9:35 pm, orion.osi...@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Apr 14, 5:41 pm, dagmargoodb...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Apr 13, 5:54 pm, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:15:39 GMT, James Arthur wrote:
Rich Grise wrote:

Well, I'm still here, but, being "only" a tech, haven't contributed much
in electronics; but I still find it kinda fun to talk
politics/warmingism/misc sometimes. FWIW, I've noticed the same
phenomenon: you just have to sharpen up your nitwit filter a bit. ;-)
Welcome Back!
Rich

Politics? Well today, after mastering the word "concern,"
our Prez ran on to boldly declare our opposition to the
the rise of privacy [sic] in Africa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X6OOyEq85s
@ 00:48
Hmmm, good show. Hadn't realized that was a problem.

Bad font on the teleprompter?
Note his head swinging from side to side. He never looks ahead, only
in two specific directions, about equal angles off center. Two
teleprompters?

I watched again and you're right--I hadn't noticed that. He also
swings and tilts his head while staring at a fixed point, the way
newscasters are trained to.

Who is pulling this guy's strings anyhow?

Rahm, Nanzi, and Reid?
Alternatively, who isn't? He looks harried and tired; overwhelmed.
Cheers,
James Arthur

I've noticed a lot of verbal slips lately that weren't there before. I
saw the guy speak live in Berlin last July from about 60ft away and he
was totally on the button and very, very with it. Perhaps it's the
sleepless nights over the economy - now it's HIS pigeon?

I should add that though impressed with his *delivery* I was not the
least moved by the *content* - he was obviously just parroting a
script - but doing so most articulately.

Oh sure, his delivery *is* inspiring, and he spouts admirable goals--
who doesn't want more jobs and prosperity?--it's the logic that
terrifies.

Like "people have decided to pare their unnecessaries, therefore
the government must spend borrowed money on nonsense."

Huh?

Or declaring the greatest threat to the government's budget to
be the rising cost of health care, ergo government needs to
<do something>.

Huh?

I mean, obviously, that's an implicit admission that government
is already heavily involved, paying huge bounties, and that it's
breaking them. Ergo, they need to take on more!

They're driving the healthcare bubble! They always have, just like
they drove the housing bubble, and the college tuition bubble.
They're the cause! Everything they subsidize goes up in price, and
down in performance.


"We need fairness," so we're going to ask you to buy houses for
other people, at inflated unrealistic prices, with borrowed
money. Yes we can!

"I absolutely agree that our long-term deficit is a major
problem that we have to fix," (*)

by spending more and more!


"We can't afford eight more years of the same failed policies," so
we're going to save companies that've been screwing up for decades.

"We're going to create the new, innovative jobs of the future,"
by subsidizing the failed industries of the past!

The spendingist guy in the entire history of the planet, who's just
told us massive borrowing was needed to spur consumption, exhorts:

"We must lay a new foundation for growth and prosperity – a
foundation that will move us from an era of borrow and spend to
one where we save and invest; where we consume less at home..." (*)

(*) actual quotes


Stay tuned for the next episode of "As The Founding Fathers Turned."

Cheers,
James Arthur
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