Magox

I´m not trying to be critical, just stating an observation.

Every once in a while, Booster gets angry and words come flying out of his mouth. Today is one of those days.

Without a doubt, Romney is not a favorite amongst the hard right, but to say that the party is fractured is something that the media likes to portray. Every single GOP poll I see Romney is the clear frontrunner, if it were a truly a fractured party as you say, I believe the polls would indicate otherwise. It would be one thing if it were just one or two polls, but its every damn poll. In some of them he is winning by over a 2 to 1 margin over the runner up. Buf, it isnt a fractured party, its just like what you are seeing with the Democrats, all the Blue Dogs are on the verge of extinction, why? Because this administrations policies are viewed to be too far to the left for the districts where these blue dogs reside. All that is left now are liberals for the most part, you could easily say that the Democratic party is not only fractured, but actually broken, considering the clean break of blue dogs moving now into the private sector simply for being fired not because of what they stood for, but because what Liberal leadership dictated over the past couple years. There is no doubt that many tea partiers are further to the right than your average conservative, but its just like any party, you have your far righties and your far lefties and everything in between. Without a doubt the pendulum had swung much further to the right in 2009 and 2010, but look is on top of the GOP field right now? Is Romney a hard right conservative? Hardly.... Dont fall for what you hear or read, look at things for what they are, the proof is in the puddin.

Is that what you got out of what I wrote?

interesting! actually, not really! Where did the wiener thread go?

Although I do disagree with the political economic perspective from most liberals, I am a bit empathetic with Wieners tragic downfall. He was a liberal stalwart, an intelligent, loud voice that stood up for progressive values, I have to admit, he rarely lost an argument. This is a tremendous blow not just for the wiener family and his constituents who I am sure were proud of their local national hero, but a big blow for progressives throughout the nation. The way I see it is he had no other choice but to step down. The circus that surrounded was frenetic, the distraction that he caused democrats over the past few weeks got them off the message of ¨Those republicans want to take away your medicare¨, which unsurprisingly appeared to had been gaining traction. Without a doubt, he had lost his aura, which at the end of the day, that is what Anthony wiener was about. Without that allure he had, he was no longer ¨Anthony Wiener¨, which means that he couldnt effectively serve (in the eyes of progressives) congress in the way that he had. Im a bit mixed about this, In regards to having one less liberal loud mouth, sure Im ok with that, but to have someone who arguably was the top if not one of the top progressive voices tragically lose his political career over his narcissistic behaviour is a bit sad to say the least.

everything isnt black or white, there are many shades of grey in between. Monetary hawks and righty propogandists will blame the falling dollar and loose monetary policy while others will blame demand for higher prices. I believe the truth lies somewhere in the middle. In any case, demand will continue to rise for quite some time and loose monetary policy will remain as well...So, we better get use to it and not trust in the Ben Bernankes characterization of this phenomena as being ´transitory¨

I´m not talking about that, I´m talking about her level of intelligence. Certain areas or topics I´ll give you a listen, but in others not so much, specially the ones where you are already fixed in your views, such as rednecks, religion and Sarah Palin.

Now Im offended

There is a difference between being ignorance and being stupid. Is or was she pretty ignorant about matters that were important for being auditioned at the POTUS level? Absolutely. Is she as dumb as her caricature has made her out to be? absolutely not.

It´s a bit humorous to see the same folks chime in at every opportunity they can get, just to say ¨Sarah Palin is dumb¨, even when the article or link suggests otherwise. Lets be real here folks, she is no dummy, she´s able to get you yahoos to remain fixated over her while making gobs of money. The reality is that she is an intelligent, yet very divisive woman who knows how to play the media like a champ. In regards to her political career, my guess is she´ll never hold office ever again, she has made herself into the caricature she has become. You can call her what you want, but she is no dummy.

Sorry, but Obama has almost nothing to do with the fed printing money. In regards to spending, hmmm, yeah it does add to the debt, but I would estimate that it is playing a very small role in the dollars decline. I´d rate Fed policy and the trade defecit as the two largest factors for the Dollars decline. There is one area that you could point to that could carry some credence and that would be his oil moratoria he has imposed, but even that probably has had a negligible effect on the value of oil, max i´d say a couple dollars. Obama isn´t to blame for the high price of oil, but he´s certainly not really doing anything about it either, if anything making slightly worse.

Oil is priced in dollars? Nooooooo? It is? Ok, now that we have established that, what does that have to do with what I just said?

I´m in Bolivia now mudafuka, and about ready to head off to Santa Cruz, the land of amazonian women and really cold beer.

Dont get me started. THe rest of the world is tacking to the right but here in south america the march to the left continues. Having said that, there is a possibility that this guy wont be a Chavez or Evo Morales type of socialista, but more like a Lula lefty. Peru´s economy is thriving, and this peruvian politico is a lifetimer who most likely understands that he better not try to nationalize every damn thing because it may !@#$ up the economy. We´re hoping that he models himself more like Lula da silva rather than the idiot here in Bolivia.

Not that i really care about this topic, even though I do have to admit it does amuse me. But I believe there are some things that may come to light that he may have done something illegal. Like using federal resources to further his endevour with this chick, that would be a felony, he also may have shown his private body parts to an under age chick, that would be another no no. Honestly, at first I didnt think it was that big of a deal, but it seems like every day something new bares itself (sorry for the pun), I just dont see how he can stick around in office, and expect to get the respect that he did. He should just call it quits.

I believe this is an important point to note. All bond increases and decreases are not made equal. If a bond is rising in value, there are many plausible reasons for its increase same vice versa. In other words, you can´t rationally point to the bond market and say ´Hey, the 10 year bond is gaining value, Ahaaa that means the market is pointing to deflation!´ Or ´Look, the 30 year is dropping lock a rock, Hyper inflation is coming´ A bond increase can be due to a slowing economy, deflationary pressures or just a store of value when people become afraid. A bond decrease can be due to higher inflation, healthy economic growth, or fears of sovereign debt default. Also, I personally dont put much weight into the Fed´s preferred gauges of inflation like our lil buddy TPS does, every day average people look at what they are paying at the pump, grocery store, health care costs, store etc. These are the gauges that most people care about, not some calculated gauge that places much of its weighting on rental prices/wage inflation and other metrics used by todays economists. Sorry TPS, inflation is already here and its only going to get worse. Even though I do believe you may see it cool off in the short term. .

when will TPS ever learn? If you go back to the trading posts, I got out when it was at 4%. TBT that is. Another great call Also, This backs up the point that I have been making for a couple years now, which is that we will be experiencing STAGflation, of course TPS, I know this is too complicated of an issue for you to comprehend. SO let me spell it for you really easy, It means, high commodity inflation coupled with slow economic growth. Hmmm, Oil at $100 with many other commodities sky high CHECK Growth pretty darn slow CHECK awww TPS We are seeing inlfation you big dildo

Ok kiddies, repeat after me: "As much as I dislike Obama, I realize he isnt to blame for the high price of gasoline."´ Now that, that has been said.... Cutting the national debt isnt quite as easy as many retards may believe. You can{t just cut all spending with a hatchet. I know many of you would love see his happen, but the reality is if you do so, then the economy falls even deeper into a hole, and guess what kiddies? The economy slows down even further, possibly into a recession, and then tax revenues sharply fall even further from where they are and the national debt outlook worsens. Its easy for the right to criticize the president and liberals for all our woes, politically speaking, they should, afterall, we saw the liberals do the exact same thing when bush was at the helm, they blamed him for every single thing, so yeah, its politics, thats how things work. But from a practical standpoint, its a delicate issue, cutting spending and at the same time trying to promote economic growth. These two in most cases do not go hand in hand. I guess the point that I am trying to make is that it is a complicated issue and dilemma we face, and it has to be done in a very thoughtful and deliberative process, and not carried out by the ones you love to follow on tv or radio where their simple solution is to cut everything in sight. Yeah, it sounds nice, if you{re a moron, but I mean you do realize these people are NOT economists, they are in fact ENTERTAINERS, and if you believe following the advice of one these yahoos is THE answer to our problems, then it just speaks volumes of who you are. For the record, I am for cutting spending, but mainly should be targetted with our longterm spending issues. Ok this computer here in Peru sucks balls, everything is out of wack on the keyboard. I{m out.

Yikes!

Jewish support is important for the president, not just for the obvious financial reasons, but also in actual tangible votes, such as in the state of Florida which will most likely go down to the wire in the 2012 elections.

You're a dipshit, now go back to the commode and flush yourself deep down.

Everything is all well and good until they aren't. Meaning, that sure the bond markets aren't signaling any sort of threat (at this point), but these things can turn on a dime, we've seen it play out time and time again, not just in the debt markets but almost in all spectrums of the capital markets. No one is suggesting that we cut benefits TODAY, but put in place a sustainable long-term solution that suffices the bond markets. As I said before and I always say, It's all good until it isn't.

I dont know what most people will think, but it wont affect anything. The only reason why they were put in place is because at one point in time they were necessary, what most people seem to forget or probably never knew is that the oil industry bled money for over a decade which is why our oil infrastructure (pipelines and rigs) and refineries has some serious deficiencies because of lack of investment in the prior decade. I can tell you that no one was sympathetic with them then, but now that they are in the right industry and money is flowing out of every orifice, people want to ignorantly blame the oil industry for rising gas prices. Oil prices are gonna remain high for a very long time, there is no more need for these subsidies. The need has run its course.