tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post5309611902257712500..comments2024-03-26T17:44:07.430-04:00Comments on Viking Pundit: Erichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15911276942829790135noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-62427626467957305602009-03-15T21:24:00.000-04:002009-03-15T21:24:00.000-04:00Wait! I had more to say!If Americans had to pay f...Wait! I had more to say!<BR/><BR/>If Americans had to pay for the government they got, they would scream like banshees at the Porkulus bill. Borrowing from China has become the lie we all tell ourselves.<BR/><BR/>Honestly, I wish somebody would focus on just that one truth, that we can't keep borrowing our way to prosperity.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15911276942829790135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-63670555190283647632009-03-15T21:21:00.000-04:002009-03-15T21:21:00.000-04:00Well, honestly, no I can't name a party leader who...Well, honestly, no I can't name a party leader who has articulated a clear alternative. Which is why the GOP is a walking-dead party.<BR/><BR/>Eric Cantor was on "Meet the Press" this morning and he was pitiful in apologizing for overspending when the Republicans controlled Congress. He agreed with John McCain who said the GOP spent like "drunken sailors." It's too late, baby, it's too late.<Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15911276942829790135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-37024966763798774982009-03-15T19:25:00.000-04:002009-03-15T19:25:00.000-04:00I was somewhat unclear. We know that other econom...I was somewhat unclear. We know that other economic ideas exist. I'm a liberal and I think we should raise Social Security eligibility to 67 immediately.<BR/><BR/>What I should have asked is: could you identify a prominent Republican leader and his alternate, workable solution? McConnell is "blasting" earmarks on TV while grabbing them with both hands. Boehner's "plan" is to throw taxpayers aAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-28875799152879473512009-03-14T20:35:00.000-04:002009-03-14T20:35:00.000-04:00OK, I'll give it a shot:Cancel all spending from t...OK, I'll give it a shot:<BR/><BR/>Cancel all spending from the massive Porkulus bill scheduled for 2010 or later.<BR/><BR/>Cancel the slow-motion bailout of AIG and the banks which isn't working anyway. Let them go into chapter 11 and restructure. Instead, put the money into shoring up the FDIC so regular Americans can have their saving protected.<BR/><BR/>Lower corporate taxes which are now Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4053585.post-62241959411027445302009-03-14T14:07:00.000-04:002009-03-14T14:07:00.000-04:00China owned $60 billion in U.S. Treasuries as of D...China owned $60 billion in U.S. Treasuries as of December 31, 2000. It owns more than a trillion today. Gosh... that could almost pay for a war!<BR/><BR/>Mortgaging the country over the past eight years didn't much trouble the economic enablers of the right. But Chinese fundraising drove them berserk in 1997.<BR/><BR/>Still, instant outrage is better than none. So Obama sucks; what's the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com