Comments on: Laid-Back Barack https://barelyablog.com/laid-back-barack/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Andrew T. https://barelyablog.com/laid-back-barack/comment-page-1/#comment-5077 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 04:12:27 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=4995#comment-5077 And so the saga of our Prophetic Motivational Speaker in Chief continues…

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By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/laid-back-barack/comment-page-1/#comment-5074 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 16:08:52 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=4995#comment-5074 The state of the country is usually better when Congress is not in session (or perhaps when the President is out of town) – I think Reason Magazine even quantified this.
The unemployment rate in June 2003 was 6.3 % and when we “had” to pass last
years’ emergency bailout in October, it was 6.6%. It is now 7.6% after the last emergency bailout. Still, Gerald Ford (9%) and Ronald Reagan (10.8%) did not resort to “stimulation” for the crisis. Two quotes come to mind: Mencken: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed …. by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary” and Rahm Emanuel: “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” The Messiah successfully used the crisis to spook the media and the American Sheeple to get his trillion bucks and socialize the economy, now he can relax with his pals and shoot hoops. The REAL crisis occurs when the US Dollar goes belly up next decade as Luo Ping can see.

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By: EN https://barelyablog.com/laid-back-barack/comment-page-1/#comment-5072 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:22:48 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=4995#comment-5072 I was noticing this tonight. One has to wonder if he’s just too stupid or too confident? Either way we’re screwed. I’ve seen this mess coming for over twenty years and yet with each passing year we do something to make the final outcome infinitely worse. The real question is what will he do when he finds out what he’s done? Will he jump Marxist of Facist? It’s not clear to me.

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