Are the stimulus packages O's WMDs?

WMDs were used to justify the US securing a ME source of oil. This was a political move, everyone knew it, everyone saw it, and Bush et al used WMDs to scare the citizens into supporting this ends.

An economic crisis was used to justify the US social/nationalizing private banks and manufacturing. This is a political move, everyone knows it, everyone sees it, and Obama et al are using the economy to scare the citizens into supporting their ends.

Both Bush and O used the same tactic: fear and exaggeration.

Different ends, perhaps, but the same means, and the media served up a good Bush baste-n-roast for four years running.

This article I posted was ~not~ Obama-friendly. It got me to wondering if the stim packages and O's exaggeration of the economy to justify a socialist run on industry and banking, is going to come back and bite him, same as Bush's run on Iraqi oil bit him.

- Saul

The stimulus package isn't taking lives unnecessarily. And if you're posting anything about Obama, it's not likely to be Obama-friendly anyway.

In a recession, it makes sense to advance programs that will use money to make money. Arguably the plan may have been a little ambitious, but I think the O Administration is on the right track. It may "bite him," but if that's what happens when trying to implement a plan that proposes to benefit as many deserving Americans as possible, I'm sure that's something he can live with.

The stimulus package isn't taking lives unnecessarily. And if you're posting anything about Obama, it's not likely to be Obama-friendly anyway. In a recession, it makes sense to advance programs that will use money to make money. Arguably the plan may have been a little ambitious, but I think the O Administration is on the right track. It may "bite him," but if that's what happens when trying to implement a plan that proposes to benefit as many deserving Americans as possible, I'm sure that's something he can live with.

So you agree that O/W both mislead -- intentionally, to achieve political gains -- but because O is misleading us to out of fiscal aggression (as opposed to W misleading us for physical aggression), it's okay.

Iraq worked, btw. It's a raging success. The US has a secure foothold in the ME oil fields. I can only hope that we'll look back and think the same thing about O's run on the US markets.

Maybe we'll see the same tag-team between the parties.

Bush P/O's the Arabs, so cue Barack Hussein Obama II, who spends his tenure reeling in the Arab support, all the while making a run on the US banks and mfg'g.

Now we have oil AND a ton of control over US industry. It's win-win, but now everyone's ticked because taxes are up near 50%.

Cue in a conservative in 2016, who'll reap the benefits of Arabs who are now our friends (no need to worry about that irritating I-country in now-West Palestine), while reeling in the public's support of our latest tax hikes, fledgling public healthcare, and the US-owned and operated battery-powered USGM Git-er-Done Hybrid SUV, boasting a whopping fifty-eight mpg, thirty-eight percent less pollution, half-ton towing capacity, and a battery that can last almost two hundred miles! Use this year's gov't stimulus vouchers toward one today!

Anyway. As usual, I'm rambling.

- Saul