Re: P.S.

TB — 10/15/2011 9:25:55 PM (archived)

"Profit" has a meaning. It means there's more wealth at the end than you started with. Even somebody selling the cheesiest consumer product has to make more money than they burn.

I am no more in favor of Republican excess spending than I am Democratic, and I think my record clearly shows that.

The one take-home fact that is continually evaded around here is that we ran a damn good country for many years on much, much less government spending and power. Even after the Great Society kicked in.

That trillion-dollar deficits are considered routine now should have people of all political persuasions crapping themselves. Wall Street? If you confiscated every dollar of the annual profits of the entire financial sector and applied it to the deficit for this year, we would still be $900 billion in the hole.

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Military advisors into Uganda - TB - 10/14/2011 8:46:15 PM
- Re: Military advisors into Uganda - ER - 10/15/2011 2:34:23 PM
  - Re: Military advisors into Uganda - TB - 10/15/2011 2:42:22 PM
    - Ah, yes. Can't beat me on the facts. So shoot the messenger. 8) - ER - 10/15/2011 2:44:14 PM
      - "Ah, yes. Can’t beat me on the facts. So shoot the messenger." - TB - 10/15/2011 2:59:43 PM
        
        Re: "Ah, yes. Can’t beat me on the facts. So shoot the messenger." - ER - 10/15/2011 4:27:49 PM
        
        That song lyric is almost fifty years old. - TB - 10/15/2011 5:00:33 PM
        
        Yeah, and it was prophetic, wasn't it? - ER - 10/15/2011 5:54:58 PM
        
        By the way, who the heck do you think "people like me" actually are? - TB - 10/15/2011 6:16:35 PM
        
        Re: By the way, who the heck do you think "people like me" actually are? - ER - 10/15/2011 6:50:50 PM
        
        You didn't pay much. - TB - 10/15/2011 7:12:44 PM
        
        Re: You didn't pay much. - ER - 10/15/2011 7:24:40 PM
        
        I sympathize. - TB - 10/15/2011 7:42:35 PM
        
        Re: I sympathize. - ER - 10/15/2011 8:09:59 PM
        
        Of course it's not your fault. - TB - 10/15/2011 6:58:16 PM
        
        Re: Yeah, and it was prophetic, wasn't it? - TB - 10/15/2011 6:06:10 PM
        
        Re: Yeah, and it was prophetic, wasn't it? - ER - 10/15/2011 6:19:30 PM
        
        P.S. - TB - 10/15/2011 6:17:53 PM
        
        Re: P.S. - ER - 10/15/2011 8:16:26 PM
        
        Re: P.S. - TB - 10/15/2011 9:25:55 PM
        
        Re: P.S. - TB - 10/15/2011 9:28:27 PM
        
        Re: P.S. - ER - 10/15/2011 9:35:03 PM
        
        Re: P.S. - TB - 10/15/2011 9:53:39 PM
- Re: Military advisors into Uganda - ER - 10/14/2011 10:56:09 PM
  - Re: Military advisors into Uganda - FrankC - 10/15/2011 12:27:04 AM
- Re: Military advisors into Uganda - bowser - 10/14/2011 9:06:08 PM
  - Re: Military advisors into Uganda - TB - 10/14/2011 10:44:02 PM
    - Re: Military advisors into Uganda - FrankC - 10/14/2011 10:47:51 PM

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