George’s Must-Reads: Turning Point?

Not really sure what your point was in your post “John Tully’ but I am pretty sick and tired of those who are misrepresenting what the stimulus and corresponding reforms (health and financial) will do to make our country mnore stable for the long run. Why don’t you people who are so prone to “criticize” the President instead excorciate the “party of NO and Obstruction” when they hamstring the legislation that would help create jobs and a better balanced playing field for the middle class? Why is it that the middle class and blue collar people always have a “penchant” for “voting against themselves”? You don’t think it has anything to do with “shallowness or lack of intelligence” …do you? Or is it because that their minds are just too bound by tradition and thinking in the past and not being able to recognize the future? Or is it because their minds are “coonstricted” by religious dogma so much that they only “headbob” to what their preachers say? I am curious, because right now I see the “right wing” trying to desperately lead us “back into the past”…where our nation definitely should not go.

cndfox—so anyone who disagrees with you is just not too bright ? Maybe we can see past the glow of obamas words and choose to live in the real world. Signature by signature he is hurting the WORKING man and you keep issuing him a free pass. Don’t worry tho.. November is coming but 2012 cant come fast enough !

That’s nothing but campaign rhetoric, and I found it offensive for him to do that, while purporting to be talking to the American people. The media should be charging the Dem party for campaign advertising, for that time slot.

“sparko”…I cannot help it IF you do not “get” what I am saying. I just figure you are one of those who “are the main part” of the problem. It is not about “agreeing” with me at all. It is about your (and those that are like you) inability to look at issues in a ‘big picture way” without the shallowness of your “soundbite arguments and attitudes”. THAT is what I mean when I refer to an electorate that has gotten “dumbed down”. And unfortunatelty the “cynical right’s leaders” know how to take advantage of that. That is why the middle class and blue collar people have the “consistent tendency” to “vote against themselves”. They are just too blind to see WHO the GOP and conservatives truly represent (i.e. for your benefit: the “Very Rich”). NOT you or me.

So which is it, George? Does Obama “own” this economy” like you claimed he did after the so called stimulus? Obama is at a turning point, alright: Independants like myself voted for him, but now we’re turning our backs on him in droves. I’m voting for Republicans this November.

If you posters are so smart why don’t you STOP trying to preach to the unconverted and give that “wisdom” to Obama… judging by his poll numbers, he seems to need it.
That is unless you are ALREADY working FOR him! Cough!

Tax cuts are folly. We have too much debt, and cuts will solve nothing, nor will they create any jobs. Jobs will only be created by increasing taxes, on goods manufactured off shore, and imported into the country. That will force manufacturers, to either abandon the market (good riddance), or return to manufacturing in America, which is essential to our survival.
To say that winding down the war in Iraq, was necessary to paying attention to our economy, is an admission of ineptitude.
Good paying jobs, are gone, and will not return. Jobs for men, will continue to shrink, and the pay for those jobs that are left, will be minimal. High unemployment, will be the standard.
Social media have become the most intrusive thing into human privacy, in history. Even the media, has taken to only accepting feedback on Facebook, Twitter, and the like, rather than a simple text. That’s simply ridiculous. I refuse to do that.

“catman”…oh, I get it. But I choose to look at the big picture” not a convoluted, constricted narrow one, filled with negativity, fear mongering and conspiracy theories that people like you constantly “harp” on all the time. Unlike you I understand how many people were uninsured (and how that number was constantly growing). Unlike you I understand how wide the “gap between rich and poor has grown”. And unlike you I understood how and why those things happened. Conservative GOP control who catered to only one element of society. The wealthy. And the author you quoted…I have never read him and never intend to. My ideas come from a belief in fairness for a balanced playing field and just plain old “common sense”. And most important of all …a sense of “humanity”.

“catman” I want you to understand this…I am not being “derisive” or “condenscending”, but if you really want to “change” your plight you have to “follow the money trail” far beyond the unions, state and federal gov’t. Those are the “soundbite punching bags” of the very rich conservative oligarchy (and GOP) who control you and me. You unfortunately “fall” for it. I DON’T! Gotta go. Don’t want to miss the start of college football tonite.