Thursday, March 22, 2012
Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, March 22, 2012
Romney.
(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)
It's a disaster, folks.
As regular readers know, my... er... disappointment with my fellow citizens often verges upon contempt.
How can people be so stupid I constantly ask myself?
How can they let themselves be manipulated so?
Well... human nature is what it is.
Heck... even with all I know, the constant onslaught of "Romney is the inevitable candidate" gets to me. I lose hope. I grow depressed.
But, folks... pulling myself together I'll say it again... It Ain't Over Till It's Over!
Don't let the media deceive you. Anything could still happen. Romney still needs to get 1144 delegates to win.
Anyway... beyond the horse race... our national decline continues.
Those of you who read my newsbites and commentary regularly... there's no denying we're a nation in decline.
If Barack Hussein Obama is re-elected president... game over.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/phony-fiscal-hawkery/2012/03/21/gIQAd6h1RS_blog.html
* JUST READ IT.
* I'M HEART-SICK TO HAVE TO POINT OUT AGAIN AND AGAIN WHAT A PHONY PAUL RYAN IS.
* FOLKS... TURNING AWAY FROM REALITY IS WHAT CLUELESS LIBERALS DO; IT'S NOT WHAT WE MUST DO.
http://nbcpolitics.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/21/10798301-romney-credits-bush-wall-st-bailout-for-avoiding-depression
* LET'S SUBTITLE THIS ONE "THAT FUCKING ASSHOLE, ROMNEY!"
Mitt Romney offered an unprompted defense of the 2008 Wall Street bailout on Wednesday, crediting President George W. Bush and the preceding administration for averting an economic depression.
* THIS IS THE GUY REPUBLICANS ARE PINNING THEIR HOPES ON...
(*BITING MY LIP TILL IT BLEEDS*)
Answering a question during a campaign event in Maryland, Romney both condemned the 2009 bailout of troubled automakers engineered by President Obama while praising the Troubled Asset Relief Program authorized in fall of 2008 to prop up the financial services industry.
* YEA! HE'S ONLY 50% IRRESPONSIBLE SOCIALIST!
(*SMIRK*)
"There was a fear that the whole economic system of America would collapse -- that all of our banks, or virtually all, would go out of business," Romney said.
* NO! NO THERE WASN'T! THERE WAS A FEAR-MONGERING... WHICH IS A FAR DIFFERENT THING THAN A LEGITIMATE FEAR. THERE WAS SELF-INTEREST AND INSIDER DEALINGS. THE BAILOUTS WERE A FRAUD AND A SCAM - A PAY-OFF TO THE INSIDERS FROM THE INSIDERS.
"In that circumstance, President Bush and Hank Paulson said we've got to do something to show we're not going to let the whole system go out of business. I think they were right. I know some people disagree with me. I think they were right to do that."
(*THROWING UP MY HANDS IN DISGUST*)
"I keep hearing the president [Obama] say that he's responsible for keeping America from going into a Great Depression," Romney said. "No, no, no. That was President George W. Bush and [then Treasury Secretary] Hank Paulson that stepped in and kept that from happening."
* JEEZUS, FOLKS...
(*TEARS LITERALLY STREAMING DOWN MY CHEEKS*)
http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/101946/mitt-romney-massachusetts-governor-gas-prices-renewable-energy
As he campaigns for president, Mitt Romney is ratcheting up his attacks on Barack Obama over high gas prices...
* AS WELL HE SHOULD! BUT... (FUNNY HOW THERE'S USUALLY A "BUT" WHEN DEALING WITH MR. ETCH-A-SKETCH...)
Curiously overlooked, though, is just what a shift this rhetoric is from the approach that Romney took on the issue of gas prices while governor of Massachusetts.
* OH, JEEZ... HERE IT COMES...
Befitting his [self-described] profile as a "moderate Republican" who "cared" about the environment, Governor Romney responded to price spikes by describing them as the natural result of global market pressures and by calling for increases in fuel efficiency — the same approach that he now derides Obama for taking as president.
At moments, Romney went so far as to make high gas prices out to be a welcome reality for the foreseeable future, one that people needed to learn to live with.
(*SIGH*)
When lieutenant governor Kerry Healey, a fellow Republican, called for suspending the state’s 23.5 cent gas tax during a price spike in May 2006, Romney rejected the idea, saying it would only further drive up gasoline consumption. “I don’t think that now is the time, and I’m not sure there will be the right time, for us to encourage the use of more gasoline,” Romney said, according to the Quincy Patriot Ledger’s report at the time. “I’m very much in favor of people recognizing that these high gasoline prices are probably here to stay.”
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Romney’s response to high gas prices while governor fit into his broader effort to promote “smart growth” policies in Massachusetts...under the command of Doug Foy, a prominent local environmentalist who was known to commute to work 20 miles by bike.
Together, Romney and Foy...put forward a sweeping “Climate Protection Plan” in 2004, which included, among many other things, calls for more car-pooling, public transit and tax breaks for motorists who bought hybrid vehicles. Clean energy was the future, Romney declared at a conference in 2005: “This is an industry that is going to be explosive in its growth in the next decade.”
During the gas price spike following Hurricane Katrina in September 2005, Romney resorted to the tactic adopted by countless other elected executives, including Obama: declaring that his administration would investigate any allegations of price gouging. But at other times, he was fearless about pushing policies that would increase prices at the pump.
Just a few months into his first term in 2003, his administration pushed for expanding a fee on wholesale fuel deliveries that resulted in a two-cent per-gallon price increase at the pump.
The Democratic National Committee recently tried to draw attention to the 2003 fee increase. But oddly, the candidate has not been challenged about his overall approach to high gas prices while governor and its inconsistency with his current attacks on Obama.
(*HEADACHE*)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303812904577295930047604846.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Total student debt outstanding appears to have surpassed $1 trillion late last year, said officials at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a federal agency created in the wake of the financial crisis. That would be roughly 16% higher than an estimate earlier this year by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
* AND "KIDS" ARE PAYING MORE AND GETTING LESS EVERY YEAR WHILE RACKING UP THESE INCREASINGLY UNSUPPORTABLE DEBTS. COLLEGE IS A SCAM FOR FAR, FAR TOO MANY, AND HUGELY WASTEFUL FOR ALMOST ALL.
[I]nterest costs on older loans are climbing as borrowers fall behind on payments, reflecting mounting financial strains, bureau officials said. New York Fed data show that as many as one in four student borrowers who have begun repaying their education debts are behind on payments.
(*PURSED LIPS*)
Economists say college is an increasingly good investment because of the widening pay gap between jobs that require a degree and those that don't.
* TWO PROBLEMS WITH THAT: 1) I'VE READ STUDIES CREDIBLY CRITIQUING THE METHODOLOGY OF THE RESEARCH SUPPOSEDLY DEMONSTRATING THIS "WIDENING PAY GAP"; AND 2) THE "DEGREE REQUIREMENT" MORE OFTEN THAN NOT IS TOTALLY ARTIFICIAL AND HAS LITTLE TO DO - AND SOMETIMES NOTHING - WITH PREPARING ONE FOR THE JOB "REQUIRING" A DEGREE.
* IN OTHER WORDS, FOLKS... THE GAME IS RIGGED - IT'S EXTORTION BY "REGULATION."
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