http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
What bubble do you live in ??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
What bubble do you live in ??
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Yes, you keep repeating it without rhyme or reason, therefore I do not know your opinion.You've known my opinion for more than a week
Irrelevant Cigar, there was a dotcom bubble during Clinton's admin. which spurred economic growth and the bubble burst at the end.
Quite trying to divert from your erroneous suggestion that Clinton's economic policies were pristine when he benefited from something he had no control over.
It's ok if you disagree with me. I can't force you to be right.
@ It's the Welfare State, StupidIf you doubt there's an American welfare state, you should read the new study by demographer Nicholas Eberstadt, whose blizzard of numbers demonstrates otherwise. A welfare state transfers income from some people to other people to improve the recipients' well-being. In 1935, these transfers were less than 3 percent of the economy; now they're almost 20 percent. That's $7,200 a year for every American, calculates Eberstadt. He says that nearly 40 percent of these transfers aim to relieve poverty (through Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment insurance and the like), while most of the rest goes to the elderly (mainly through Social Security and Medicare).
By all means, let's avoid the "fiscal cliff": the $500 billion in tax increases and federal spending cuts scheduled for early 2013 that, if they occurred, might trigger a recession. But let's recognize that we still need to bring the budget into long-term balance. This can't be done only by higher taxes on the rich, which seem inevitable. Nor can it be done by deep cuts in defense and domestic "discretionary" programs (from highways to schools), which are already happening. It requires controlling the welfare state. In 2011, "payments for individuals," including health care, constituted 65 percent of federal spending, up from 21 percent in 1955. That's the welfare state.
Yet, the subject is virtually taboo....
The very thing liberals think they won for, the welfare state, is the biggest problem driving us over the cliff.
I love how this says people have already decided who to blame no matter what happens.
Obama could go on national TV and say he wants the Fiscal Cliff to happen and refuse to sign anything put before him and people still blame the GOP. Something is seriously wrong with this survey or the American people.
Deal, no deal, doesn't matter. Chris's reference is the bottom line. Simply too much check writing to the point that taxation of anyone or everyone cannot pay for it. I really favor giving these Democrat demagogues their soak the rich tax hikes because two things are going to happen: (1), they won't collect near as much as they think they're going to, and (2), it won't amount to a drop in the bucket against the ObamaDeficits.
Giving them their tax hikes takes away their smoke screen. What are they going to hide behind once this is gone?
As for the American people, they've degenerated into a bunch of entitlement-dependent, mal-educated fools who can only learn the lesson the hard way that money doesn't grow on government trees and you can't borrow your way to economic recovery or prosperity.
Conservatives and the Republicans need to get out of the way and simply let the hard lesson that must be experienced, happen. Give Nancy back the gavel and go home. Leave your phone number and tell them to call when they're ready to wise up. Until then, you're wasting your time and just giving the ObamaDemagogues a convenient distraction and scapegoat.