tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post6213815913778198420..comments2024-02-14T11:00:03.180-05:00Comments on Tom McLaughlin: Country Mice and City MiceTom McLaughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07691546351143209227noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-1518194366188904962010-11-10T20:29:18.713-05:002010-11-10T20:29:18.713-05:00Wow Tom, Your group of Liberal "Seminar Poste...Wow Tom, Your group of Liberal "Seminar Posters" are growing and getting more and more ad-homonym. I wonder if they have weekly meetings to go over what they each will say at the die hard chapter of "S.D.S."<br /><br />I'll leave my name out of this post for fear of getting put on their "OBAMA watch list"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-30529118698620489662010-11-10T08:30:06.253-05:002010-11-10T08:30:06.253-05:00Here is a great letter I saw yesterday in the Bost...Here is a great letter I saw yesterday in the Boston Globe:<br /><br />America, what were you thinking?<br />• November 9, 2010 <br /><br />LET ME see if I understand this: Less than two years ago our free market system was about to collapse; real estate values were plunging; two wars were raging; and an earthquake and oil spill would soon cripple hundreds of thousands in Haiti and along the Gulf states, so you voted for a new group to get us out of that mess.<br /><br />Now, 19 months later, stocks have increased in value over 75 percent, unemployment has started going down, real estate values have stabilized, and the government is trying to tackle a health care system that you yourself said needed fixing . . . while finally getting out of one war and working to control and end the other one.<br /><br />And your response is to vote out this group, vote in a bunch of inexperienced politicians who promised you whatever you asked for, dreamt of, or just plain wanted to hear, and let them join with the same group that got us into the wars, almost destroyed the economy, forced up unemployment, and took a surplus and turned it into the largest deficit ever? What part of this do I have wrong? And now, what do you expect?<br /><br />They say the Founding Fathers wanted to create the Senate in order to stop the idiotic stuff that comes from the House. I hope they were right. Welcome to a world of unintended consequences.<br /><br />Peter Van Winkle, Sandwich, N.H.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-60921436681954610392010-11-09T15:28:34.346-05:002010-11-09T15:28:34.346-05:00firagrocI'm not sure how Tom would classify me...firagrocI'm not sure how Tom would classify me. I live very much in the country, I think the welfare system is WAY out of control, and I don't want the government to take care of me (I prefer to live off the grid as much as possible).<br /><br />I have some conservative leanings - I support gun rights, the death penalty and a small government. <br /><br />I have some liberal leanings - don't care who maries who, I think people should smoke whatever they want without it being illegal, and I think corporations get away with murder (pollution, working financial tricks, etc)<br /><br /> I also think that most of what Tom has to say about politics is utter horse crap. <br /><br />Go figure.Peternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20524196.post-15940454375926306582010-11-09T14:17:56.476-05:002010-11-09T14:17:56.476-05:00The following is from Media Matters. (I'm ass...The following is from Media Matters. (I'm assuming that Tom is not a complete ignoramus, but that instead he is simply a man who has no qualms about distorting reality, but he needs constant correcting nevertheless)<br /><br /><br /><br />Fox Nation falsely attributes entire FY09 deficit to Obama<br /><br /><br />The Fox Nation falsely attributed the entire fiscal year 2009 deficit to President Obama, using the headline "Obama Triples Budget Deficit to $1.4 Trillion" to link to an Associated Press article reporting on the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) most recent budget review estimate. In fact, only a small portion of the fiscal year 2009 deficit is due to Obama's policies; in January, before he took office or signed any legislation, CBO projected that, based on policies set under President Bush and economic conditions at the time, the deficit for fiscal year 2009 would reach $1.2 trillion.Ricknoreply@blogger.com