Politics & Investing

Re: Pelosi promised lower gas prices 4/24/06

EagleTed — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:19:06 GMT

It's odd how much good press Pelosi gets. Apparently, a Dem woman can lie and do nothing about America's problems with the applause of the media.

Same old double standard.

Re: Pelosi promised lower gas prices 4/24/06

Don Basore — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:40:37 GMT

If Alaska was the size of a basketball, Anwar would be the size of the hole, where one installs the needle valve to put air in the basketball.

Re: Pelosi promised lower gas prices 4/24/06

EagleTed — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:58:59 GMT

Don Basore:
Ted , It was also in 1998 when then President Clinton vetoed drilling for oil in Anwar. Saying that it would be a decade before this oil would come to the consumers of the USA. That 10 year projection for the future, happens to be NOW !

In other words, the GOP controlled Congress attempted to head off this atrocious jump in oil prices while the Dems do nothing but dither and investigate steroids in baseball.

Re: Pelosi promised lower gas prices 4/24/06

Don Basore — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:23:39 GMT

Ted , It was also in 1998 when then President Clinton vetoed drilling for oil in Anwar. Saying that it would be a decade before this oil would come to the consumers of the USA. That 10 year projection for the future, happens to be NOW !

Re: Pelosi promised lower gas prices 4/24/06

Mr. Purrington — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:21:57 GMT

Your post about Ms. Pelosi is accurate.

I recall when George H.W. Bush (the father) was running for President he wagged his forefinger into the camera and said to the American people: "Read my lips, No New Taxes."

Then, after the election, President Bush teamed up with Tip O'neill and Ted Kennedy and.......well, you guess what he did.

In the words of Michael Corleone to Senator Geary:

"Senator, we are all part of the same hypocrisy."

Thank you

Mr. Purrington

Re: Pelosi promised lower gas prices 4/24/06

EagleTed — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:29:40 GMT

Don Basore:
When she was voted in , oil was only $58.00 a barrel.

Hard to spin, but the Left tries.

Mostly by diverting, but spin is spin.

jon,

pudman — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:41:09 GMT

"my Pelosi"? Guess I'll park it next to my Maserati and my Zamboni. Bring back the Black Panthers!

Re: Pelosi promised lower gas prices 4/24/06

Don Basore — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:04:28 GMT

When she was voted in , oil was only $58.00 a barrel.

Re: Pelosi promised lower gas prices 4/24/06

def — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:53:27 GMT

My response was to point out that the recovery by the "police state" was very different from our recovery.

Thank goodness we got a president that did take action.

The GNP was 34% higher in 1936 than in 1932 and 58% higher in 1940 on the eve of war. That is, the economy grew 58% from 1932 to 1940 in 8 years of peacetime, and then grew 56% from 1940 to 1945 in 5 years of wartime. However, the economic recovery did not absorb all the unemployment Roosevelt inherited. Unemployment fell dramatically in Roosevelt's first term, from 25% when he took office to 14.3% in 1937. Afterward, however, it increased to 19.0% in 1938 ('a depression within a depression'), 17.2% in 1939 because of various added taxation (Undistributed profits tax in Mar. 1936, and the Social Security Payroll Tax 1937, plus the effects of the Wagner Act; the Fair Labor Standards Act and a blizzard of other federal regulations), and stayed high until it almost vanished during World War II when the previously unemployed were conscripted, taking them out of the potential labor supply number.^[52]

He did take actions - it did make a difference. I had a relative in CCC and I've met other folks that were in the CCC too.

FDR ran on balanced budget and made to cuts toward that - but did completely abandon the goal so that recovery could be supported via government spending.

Re: Pelosi promised lower gas prices 4/24/06

Maxim — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:42:42 GMT

Sorry, now I get it. You were just trying to divert from the promises of your Pelosi.

pudoxysendef

Maxim — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:41:46 GMT

Huh?

Re: jonmaxapple,

pudman — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:21:36 GMT

My apologies for misspelling "Germanofascist". I certainly didn't mean it as slight against your political affiliation . Mea culpa.

jonmaxapple,

pudman — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:17:00 GMT

I see your knowledge of history is commensurate with your literacy skills. A fine and insightful post that I'm sure accurately reflects conventional thinking at Bellevue. But what role did The Islamofascist play in WW 2? Or are we talking about The Germanotfascist?

Re: Pelosi promised lower gas prices 4/24/06

def — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:06:48 GMT

Now Maxim,

That's a very interesting viewpoint.

I'll bet No One will concur!

Let's watch...

Re: Pelosi promised lower gas prices 4/24/06

Maxim — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:01:46 GMT

Roosevelt got us into WW2 and killed millions of Americans and multi millions of civilians to get us out of the depression.