KaskadskyjKozak

so, folks shouldn't try to tell the market who is boss yet they should tell the banksters threatening to sink our economy that they won't be bailed out. Did I get this right? Doesn't it strike you as contradictory? Dude - they're the best friends that all of the private entities that bought bonds issued by the PIIGS ever had! These "eternal foes of the market" like bondholders so much they're willing to inflict the liabilities for every penny of losses on the said bonds on the public. The public in any country that defaults is going to suffer, but they'll suffer quite a bit more if their governments foolishly commit them to repaying debts that are beyond their capacity to repay under any terms. Defaulting on sovereign debt is disastrous. Committing to an impossible repayment regime and then defaulting is worse. Europe is going to have to default one way or another. Outright or by devaluing the Euro via inflation. Ditto for Japan. The combination of exploding public sector debts and spending obligations and an imploding birth-rate means that people who have lent them money are going to take some losses, they're going to have work more, and longer, and live with less in retirement. There's no escape from this. Dude, it's all because the rich aren't paying their fair share! Just tax them and everything can be paid off!

"fascistic moron" is not describing a behavior. It is a noun-phrase. Nice try though.

AD HOMINEM! AD HOMINEM!

I'll take that as a "I have no constructive opinion but will wail about the outcome" response. The status quo will always be flawed. There is no such thing as perfection. Any solution will have pros and cons. This provides a perfect, perpetual backdrop for whiners like j_b to simply, well, whine.

Did she own a K-Mart pup tent?

Your disdain for the mentally challenged is sure, well, EVIL.

LOL. Support everything libtard or you are EVIL.

Dude - I had TTK up to a trifecta of self-responses and you broke-it. No hat-trick today. Thanks!

Poor, brown-skinned kittens.

Assuming their parents actually can't afford to buy them lunch. I mean fuck, at $7 a pack, how can you afford cigarettes AND lunches?

No more free meals for you, eh Prole?

with a supermajority in the Senate no less...

When you gonna be a spokesman for ED? In your case, that would be congenital ED.

Well, I'm not retarded enough to pursue an education I can't afford to pay off with gainful employment later on. The little wavy Down's Syndrome emoticon guy is a nice touch. "Let me be the bridge to an America that only the unknowing call myth. Let me be the bridge to a time of tranquillity, faith, and confidence in action" - Prole

Well, I'm not retarded enough to pursue an education I can't afford to pay off with gainful employment later on.

Or currently-implemented policies through the present, dipshit. Your "example" has no details, and is laughable for many reasons, not the least of which is the tie-in to the 50's. Isn't that the fatal bullet that killed off Dole (Clinton's build a bridge to the 21st century, rather than looking back at the 50's)

Well, as far as the Keynesian approaches favored by most progressives, Kojak, that would be pretty simple: The Golden Age of Capitalism Back to the Future: the 50's baby. Who is the REGRESSIVE now.

"coherent industrial policies, strong social welfare programs", etc don't create jobs. Tell us exactly, concretely what YOU advocate to reemploy or fully employ the un and underemployed, Prole. Where is YOUR track record of success, Prole? Tell us how your specific, concrete plans to reemploy the un and underemployed have been proven by history to actually work.

Yeah, right, keep "thinking big" while the Titanic sinks.

You must be a regressive corporate shill!! You and your ilk's risky Monte Carlo schemes! While I agree with that the cause of the recent downturn was due to the financial sector waving their arms around and stuffing their pockets while we suffered; we still have to deal with the outfall on the state and local scale. And I would much rather see structural changes made than having services cut back. Prole's example is a good one - how about we make some of the structural changes rather than cut the legs off of the underprivileged by eliminating their health care? You sound too reasonable. :-)

You must be a regressive corporate shill!! You and your ilk's risky Monte Carlo schemes!

He's too busy saving the world to tie in.

What victory? Damn you ARE a dip shit. Try to pay attention.

Tell them they can whine endlessly on the bullshit forum of a climbing website?

He's not very industrious.