Compromise? Never!

[Haruo]

I'll be interested to see how many of the House GOP members really mean what they've been saying about the critical nature of the issue the government shut down over just now.

I think the Senate bill will pass the House, I'm just interested in seeing how many members want to be seen as never giving in or giving up.

[Haruo]

[Haruo]

[KeithE]

Well they did compromise to a degree but in actuality just kicked the can down the road.

I agree with most of what David Walker said during the last 2/3 of Copper Anderson You Tube at .

His book is quite good.

BTW, he was a finalist for Rocky Anderson VP slot. Rocky and most Independents is looking pretty good right now.

OTOH, please note that if the annual deficit goes down as much as it did last FY (from $1.1T in FY12 to $642B in FY13), the debt problem may be mitigated substantially. Stimulus spending does work. David Walker pointed out that the US is the only country in the world that has a debt ceiling.

[William Thornton]

[KeithE]

[Haruo]

Well then, I'll ask, Keith.

Can you identify any other factors besides the stimulus spending that may have cooperated in reducing the deficit?

It's a reasonable question even if it only took a minute or two to come up with.

[KeithE]

[Sandy]

"Extremely weak recovery" is just a subjective, flat statement. Compared to what? The depth of the Bush Recession that we are recovering from, which was the worst since the Great Depression itself? The recovery under Roosevelt following the Great Depression, which was also caused by Republican economic policy? The recovery from the Reagan Second Term-Bush I Recession under Clinton? If you have investments that are connected to the stock market, this recovery has been relatively quick, and quite strong. But all that aside, the stimulus worked about as well as expectations said it would.

Of course, when the GOP contributes to the spending of over $20 billion in two weeks on absolutely nothing except shutting down the government, can you take anything they say about deficits and government spending seriously?