'New' FCC, Same Regulatory Rubber Stamp For CenturyLink > Um...

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The same decisions? I could argue indepth with you, but since your argument presupposes perfect symmetry between both presidents' decision making, it stands to reason that one difference brings down your whole argument. So I suppose Obama's increased federal funding for stem-cell research is enough to prove you wrong.

I'm more interested in rating him when his 4 year term is near its end. By then we'll see how well his economic stimulus spending worked out (another fiscal policy Bush would have differed significantly on), and whether the newly appointed FCC head will have changed the course of broadband investment in America.

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You need to spend to get out of a recession. This includes borrowing money, however much is necessary.

Most people's gut reaction in a time of economic hardship is to start hoarding and saving as much as possible, but from society's standpoint that is economic suicide.

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You can not borrow your way out of debt. Yeah, money for Chinese steel, greedy and corrupt state union workers and pregnancy testing is doing wonders for the economy.

All Obama is doing is stimulating the Chinese economy on the credit of Joe Taxpayer. The guy is a total disaster that will DOUBLE our national debt over the next decade so sayith the CBO. And as big of a tard Bush was, Obama QUADRUPLED his reckless deficit spending to unbelievable and unsustainable levels. His reckless spending will have us paying a trillion a year just servicing his massive debt. And now he wants to raise taxes on everyone including current healthcare benefits to pay for his disastrous healthcare scheme and cost every family $200 a year with idiotic cap and trade bullshit. Great, just what is needed during a recession, a massive tax increase and inflation. So much for what little pork spending is staying in the US. More and more of Americans' hard earned money is stolen by corrupt government whores...of course they have nothing left to spend on themselves and the economy stalled.

2012 can not come soon enough. We must follow Europe's lead and oust the liberal fascists from power. March these socialist do gooder fools and corporate ass licking neocon douchebags into the sea and get someone who doesn't have their head in their ass and will finally tell every bloodsucking leech NO, WE ARE NOT GOING TO KEEP GIVING YOU STUFF, JOE TAXPAYER IS NOT A G-D ATM AND WE HAVE NO MONEY!
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if he didnt bail out those blood sucking companies which i hope burn in hell, then they would probably continue extorting. they have the ability to kill the country monetarily and i think what we had and have was/is nothing compared to what wall street and big business was gonna do to the country if they didn't get bailed out. remember, with the power vested in those companies, they have the ability to squish all our nads and fallopian thingies.. all they would have to do is drive down market prices and what is happening now and what happened during the end of last year would like an economic boom.

obama aint dumb, he knows if he hadn't given the "monies" then we would be much worse off than we are now.

oh.. and we weren't really that good off before shit crashed.. what i've learned is nobody was ever worth what they thought they were worth and what we thought they were worth.. a lot of millionaires have no money left.. everything was based off credit and a false sense of net-worth. it's true.
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and if those big ass companies like GM and all the other bailed out companies DIED, the american economy would die too. what happened was nothing compared to what would've happened if the banks and all those other companies weren't bailed out.

i posted something and it didn't go through.

a) a lot of people had millions in the market and it's gone.
b) the wealthy cant be stopped from gaining more money (legally or illegally)
c) most people are not as wealthy as you think, those sheets of paper disappear in these times. you're talking about the super rich, i'm talking about ordinary rich people who are dried up right now because of the times.

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Sheets of paper are meaningless. Real value is extremely hard to quantify at the Wall Street level, and is more perception than anything else. Most people (and corporations) aren't insured with tangible goods with real monetary value, like gold or platinum.

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No, we are going the route Japan did during the 80's, which was to rescue corporations instead of letting the free market take its course, which ended up in a massive recession for Japan.

And that's the point. Borrow all the money you want, but the idiots who fucked things up are still employed.

Btw, I will argue that the keynesian model didn't work. I firmly believe we exited the great depression due to increased production during world war 2 and the fact that enough people died that people could take enough of the current available jobs.

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