Comments on: “Holy Jeez”

By: TomPaine

TomPaine — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:54:04 +0000

Quote: “read and research to come up with hypothesizes, not listen to the talking heads especially the ones in washington trying to get elected again! A lot of the spending FDR did was crap and didn’t help but actually hurt. Can you spend your child into prosperity???? Nope you need to show them the pitfall and potential in life and then show them a path to take advantage of the potential out there to have a good life. Government can’t spend us better, just make opportunities abound. The government spending more and more and they get that money from taxing the people does not help all the people. More money individuals have the better.”

Apparently, you have limited your research to the fiction of Amity Shales!

By: RickMassimo

RickMassimo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:01:34 +0000

Nah; she wrote it herself. She couldn’t get through two paragraphs without complaining about the evil media.

In her op-ed. In the Washington Post.

You can’t fake that level of entitlement.

By: sad4america

sad4america — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:53:03 +0000

No hoover put through tariffs on imports from other countries and they retaliated in kind. it stifled growth and isolated countries to their own. FDR then came in and said that the rich had too much money and he was a champion on the working class and used the power of the government to get in and set wages and pay and fix the prices and production of many many things. We are doing some of those things now, which is scary. I read and research to come up with hypothesizes, not listen to the talking heads especially the ones in washington trying to get elected again! A lot of the spending FDR did was crap and didn’t help but actually hurt. Can you spend your child into prosperity???? Nope you need to show them the pitfall and potential in life and then show them a path to take advantage of the potential out there to have a good life. Government can’t spend us better, just make opportunities abound. The government spending more and more and they get that money from taxing the people does not help all the people. More money individuals have the better.

By: Clovis

Clovis — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:11:01 +0000

“criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing” -aristotle

quote of the day…wanna know where i saw this? hahaha, ashton kutcher tweeted it on twitter.

This from kinseygirl. In other words, Simple Sarah is stealing quotes from Ashton Kutcher tweets, without attribution, as if she heard Aristotle say it herself.

Also featured on something called Knotty Musings. I cannot find the original, and suspect it is just another old Greek myth, like Perseus and them. You ’spose it was created by Ashton Kutcher? Somebody spot the origins of this quote; I have to go up into the hills right now.

Be back.

By: dopeyo

dopeyo — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:28:45 +0000

dear sad4merica:

you’ve got your talking points upside-down. according to the wingnut gospel,

1. FDR caused the great depression.

2. all those banks that went out of business under the hoover admin, that was FDR’s fault, too. just like last fall’s bank failures are the fault of obama.

3. reducing federal spending at the urging of the republicans in ‘37 of course had nothing to do with prolonging the depression.

keep that weak sh*t outta here.

By: puravida

puravida — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:40:28 +0000

Sarah Palin, stupid or ignorant?

I don’t know, and I don’t care.

By: mgardener

mgardener — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:32:32 +0000

The OpEd was not edited, it had to have been written or re written.

Find out who this “editor” works for and you will see who is behind Palin.

By: sad4america

sad4america — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:29:27 +0000

The private sector didn’t take money, money was given, sometime nearly forced upon the private sector. Sure some were more willing receivers than others but the decision to do so was solely in the hands of our elected and appointed officials, who swore to do what is best for the country?? yep.

I do have to agree that this is close but not as bad as the federal government’s reach into the private sector under FDR in the great Depression. The great point can be made though that all that government intervention sure didn’t help anything, but it did put a lot of people out of business and prolong the depression. I don’t think it will be that bad this time, I surely hope it isn’t

By: dejadejavu

dejadejavu — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:24:49 +0000

Sarah Palin comes to politics with total commitment to superstitious beliefs that are incoherent and full of hypocrisy, so it is hardly surprising.

By: Knut

Knut — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:11:25 +0000

You can at least conclude one thing from her farrago of misunderstanding: she must have written it herself. Most op-eds by politicians are done by their speech writers.