Day: August 3, 2010

2010 Anal-Ocity #26

Just when I thought most of the stupid, moronic and worthless mind dribble was finished for the year……I should have known….nothing is that simple…..thank God or there would be no need for my Anal-Ocity award…..

Once again one of the Tea Party’s darlings has made a complete ass of herself…..this after she basically ran away from a press date in Nevada……

Nevada GOP Senate candidate Sharron Angle gave a revealing interview Monday to Fox News’ Carl Cameron, in which she said that her campaign wanted the press “to be our friend.”

“We wanted them to ask the questions we want to answer, so that they report the news the way we want it reported.”

Angle added that she would like it if the press would allow her to plug her Web site and solicit donations on the air.

In other words she does NOT want to be asked any hard or revealing questions….she wants to set the agenda for the media…..not bad……what questions does she really want to be asked…. and who is the ever present ‘we’?

It Is Always Supply Side Economics

The College of Political Knowledge

Professor’s Classroom

Subject:  Economics

Federal Budget Deficit Series

Paper #5

Tax cuts pay for themselves……tax cuts are budget neutral…..tax revenues will go up with tax cuts……Repubs have been selling this snake oil for decades.  First of all….tax cuts DO NOT pay for themselves!

Since the days of Reagan and his “voodoo” economics, that is what Bush called his proposals, the GOP has been living and dying by the theories of supply side economics.  Today is NO different.  Just look at the GOP’s new “Road Map for America’s Future” and if you read it and understand it you will find it full of supply side issues.

But first what is supply side economics?  Glad you asked and I will try to be a simple as possible for this theory.  For decades the Repubs have been living and dying by the supply side theory….the problem is that it does NOT work the way they promise it will and yet the people buy it hook, line and sinker every time it is offered as an alternative.

I know….what the Hell is supply side economics?

It is fairly simple……government gives aid to business through reduced regs, tax write offs, subsidies and more government contracts…now to pay for these benefits the government will make higher taxes on the working poor, lower social security benefits, less job training, lower welfare benefits and less aid to education….the theory being that this will somehow “trickle down” to Main Street as better working conditions, higher pay and better benefits…….it has been supposedly trickling down since Reagan and so far it has NOT made it to Main Street that is still waiting with open arms.

RE-READ the above paragraph!

Now look at the Repubs new “Road Map” it is choke full of supply side rhetoric….and there you have it….the Repubs are still living and dying by the BS that is supply side economics…..

Lastly, Repubs keep saying jobs, jobs, jobs and that the extension of tax cuts will help small business create more and more jobs…..(thinking)……..we have tax cuts now and small business is NOT creating jobs……why would an extension help them do so?