Thread: Who's fault is the deepening RECESSION

Originally Posted by grandma

When you say ticket, are you meaning if the Republican nominee would add an Independent as his side-kick?
- or conservatives splitting the vote as mentioned & handing the opposition the win?

Sorry, I meant ballot.

Tom,

I agree with you and the last election showed it. The GOP could not have done worse in running McCain and Palin. If the GOP does not want to win they should not run anybody. A crusty old career politician and dim wit don't win elections after the Bush legacy. Same old same old.

My point is McCain might as well been a third party candidate running with Palin. What were they thinking.

Shame on you 'grunt' my gal Palin is no dim wit - she has thrown off the McCain chains and will rise to the surface and you'll be Allah damn proud when she knocks Barry off his rocking horse.

Originally Posted by Show-me

Here is another good quote from Ben. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."

The man was brilliant.

Ben Franklin never said such a thing. That quote is attributed to author James Bovard, in his 1994 book, ""Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty."

My Ben Franklin quote page is corrupt. Damn internet! Left wing conspiracy.

I stand corrected, good quote tho.

http://jpetrie.myweb.uga.edu/poor_richard.html

• Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
  
  • Widely attributed to Franklin on the internet, sometimes without the second sentence. It is not found in any of his known writings, and the word "lunch" is not known to have appeared anywhere in english literature until the 1820s, decades after his death. The phrasing itself has a very modern tone and the second sentence especially might not even be as old as the internet. Some of these observations are made in response to a query at Google Answers.
    A far rarer but somewhat more credible variation also occurs: "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner." Web searches on these lines uncovers the earliest definite citations for such a statement credit libertarian author James Bovard with a similar one in the Sacramento Bee (1994):

"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."This statement also definitely occurs in the "Conclusion" (p. 333) of his book Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (1994) ISBN 0312123337

This is a graph of the US debt and as a percentage of GDP. I won't vote at all, but let people interpret the data as it stands. You decide on your own. Recessions are caused by severe swings in the market system, collapsing economies are caused by other things.

The Poll left out a big choice...and that is ,both the Republicans and Democrats' ....so I cannot vote. Sorry...also...recessions are somewhat cyclical...probably based on studpid decisions by all politicians and consumers........etc. It's not so easy as everyone thinks.

Originally Posted by mick504

The Poll left out a big choice...and that is ,both the Republicans and Democrats' ....so I cannot vote. Sorry...also...recessions are somewhat cyclical...probably based on studpid decisions by all politicians and consumers........etc. It's not so easy as everyone thinks.

Mick504 you can vote for both or one or all three in this Poll, voting for Reps and Dems splits the blame!! Seems to be some confusion about how you are allowed to vote in a Multiple Choice Poll, sorry.