What if Al Gore Had Been President Instead

[marine4003]

Two real good posts...I'm glad I'm not charged with trying to fix this countries woes right now...I know of no answers except one...we need to stop the bleeding of money...bring all the boys home...cut off all the billion dollar payments to other countries, and lets get our own country on course... once the deficit is zero, then we can take a look around the world and see who we want to "help."

WHAT??Stop spending ?? what are you ??a communist? sheesh.

To spend over your limit,is The American Way..get with it man.

[longfisher]

You got it exactly right, BFB. And, you, or really just about anyone outside of a home for the retarded, are surely smarter than Palin.

In today's America, that makes you electable, my friend.

LongFisher

[Zummie]

[marine4003]

The political system seems mostly about blame shifting. And, with elections every two years and the benefits enjoyed by patrons of the majority party there's a lot a stake in being blamed by the voters.

So, each of us is then obligated to come up with some formula to assign blame to one party or the other. My personal formula works like this, the party in power is responsible absolutely if it controls the Congress and the Presidency.

If that's not true then the President gets the blame for things that happen on his watch as long as he gets a brief honeymoon period of perhaps a year or 18 months to try to get control of the organs of government. If he can't get control of the government by then and fix whatever kind of mess he's inherited then he's got the problem and the credit or blame goes to him.

But I don't blame any president for crises that existed before they were inaugurated. Here's a couple of examples. I don't blame Bush for the comparatively light recession he inherited from the Clinton-Gore years. After all, that recession passed during his administration and an objective person would give him credit for that. I do.

I don't blame Obama, as many do, for the crises he inherited from Bush, some of the worst I've seen passed on to other presidents in my lifetime. But I do blame him for actions he took early in his presidency which, to my mind at least, inflamed and compounded the problem (the bailout of GM comes to mind along with the "surge" into Afghanistan).

He's also going to get my blame if he can't reform immigration and protect the borders, an issue that's become incredibly important what with the narco-state wars going on in Mexico which have the potential to spill over into the U.S. in a massive way (drug corridors don't stop at the border).

Lastly, I'll blame him if he can't resurrect the U.S. economy by 2012.

But perhaps the most important concept is that virtually all of our presidents are blame-worthy as Heck as often their actions more closely hew to gains in short-term political advantage rather than they seem aligned with the long-term interests of the country. It's the frequency of elections and the patronage with which I started this post that's the cause of this.

longturd

As of today the debt is 67% of GDP..and climbing..reserect it..shit man..stick a fork in it..its done. many economists predict total collapse of the economy when it hits 75%...He's spending us into a china owned country.

[scattered_grass]

As of today the debt is 67% of GDP..and climbing..reserect it..shit man..stick a fork in it..its done. many economists predict total collapse of the economy when it hits 75%...He's spending us into a china owned country.

longwinded ass and longturd..