29 Replies to “How much bigger can it grow?”

  1. A lefty hourno’s impartial view of things…….
    Co-host Terry Moran: “Senator No Surrender. He’s the most controversial newcomer to Capitol Hill with a radical pedigree….Even the most conservative Republicans balk at his proposals for slashing government….”
    Correspondent Bill Weir: “While the President argues for a budget scalpel, Rand Paul would use a chainsaw, shutting down the Departments of Energy and Education. He would kill the Consumer Product Safety Commission, shrink the Pentagon and cut off all foreign aid. And while the most fiscally conservative Republicans were proposing $50 billion in cuts, he wanted to slash $500 billion….[to Rand Paul] Does the richest nation in the history of nations have a responsibility to take care of its weakest?”
    — ABC’s Nightline, February 23.

  4. larger than any YEAR of George Bush’s presidency.
    Obozo . . daddy gave him the family credit card & he’s going to town on other people’s money.

  8. Robert, that’s a good analogy. Remember Obama taking the keys away in ’08 because the Republicans had driven the car into the ditch? Most people thought he was talking about keeping the car on the road. Turns out he was saying he could outdo their crash.

  9. BO and the kids managed to do in one month what Dr. Evil (GWB) couldn’t do in an entire year in 2007. Impressive.
    Someone in the comments said America would become synonymous with collapse. Next winter it’ll be “We had so much snow despite AGW, that the cottage roof went all American on me”.

  10. As the car plummets over the cliff, Obama will be at the wheel yelling…
    “Winning!”

  12. It will go on until every inner-city minority has a house, a car and a substantial and regular welfare check to assure that the American Dream is shared equally among all it’s lazy wankers who envy and hate the more productive and prosperous members of society.
    They have no such problem in Haiti where the lazy non-productive have won the day and now prevail as the culture of the Haitian people. There are no prosperous people left to envy so everyone is happy. Detroit shares that structure. It’s the coming thing. Watch for it in your community. And you can blame a community organizer for it.

  13. sasquatch, thanks for the info on Rand Paul. What the US needs is a lot more senators like him. Get the government dealing with essential issues only; like defense.

  14. This is like that ‘feel good” leftie “Thelma & Lou” moment and the audience is in a trance watching their smiles at each other as the canyon floor comes up at them. Tea party to have an impact on the landscape? I don’t see it. It could be a long game but come on…enough..walk away…shut it down.

  15. Read articles like the Privateer that cover the total indifference of the US government to the unreal spending and debt creation that grows by the minute.
    The US Congress reconvened on February 28, facing a one-week deadline to come up with some kind of
    spending arrangement which would keep the US government “funded” beyond a cut off date of March 4.
    A bill was hastily cobbled together and shot through the House and Senate to arrive on Mr Obama’s desk on March 2. He immediately signed it into law. This bill mandates government spending cuts of $US 4 Billion, officially enough to keep the US government operating for two weeks – until March 18.
    This year, the official budget for the US government is $US 3,700 Billion. That means that the government will spend $US 10.13 Billion every day – weekends and holidays included. The latest official figure for the fiscal 2011 deficit is $US 1,650 Billion. The US Treasury will borrow nearly 45 cents of every Dollar it spends – a total of $US 4.52 Billion every day – weekends and holidays included.

  17. “Is this what it feels like when a car is racing towards the end of a cliff and both the driver and the passenger have their feet on the gas pedal?”
    Hey, as suicide pacts go, at least it’s well lit.

  18. Nationalize Soros. Then nationalize Mickey Moore. That’ll help and they will do less damage. Win-win.

  19. Infinity squared nailed it. Two more things: get gold (and/or silver); get a gun. It’s gonna be brutal.

  21. When you make your monthly deficit the same as the yearly one was, just a few years ago, that’s progress! Isn’t it?

  23. sycro – the nice thing is that the ending sort of leaves you hanging (as it were). I figure they landed on a ledge or a big thing or twigs or something and anyway everything wound up being okay, and that’s how our economy’s going to turn out too. It’s all good.

  26. This is why there will be civil war South of the Border before the end of the year. I hope y’all are prepared up there in the Great White North, ’cause I expect you will have an influx of our finest from such great metropolises as New York, Bawston, Chicago, Detroit, and Seattle when TSHTF and those venues are no longer livable. Who’s got dibs on Chuckie Schumer?

  27. Canadians on the whole think we are better off than the Americans. Our economy is fundamentally weaker and the per capita debt, ‘all in’ is as large. International finance is out of control with a number of countries on the brink of default. (espeically EU & Japan) Cheap money, guaranteed by taxpayers, chases economic expansion which is unsustainable. Artifically low interest rates are maintained because governments cannot afford to pay more. Inevitablly investors will abandon the latest farce referred to as deleveraging.

  28. I would like to be smug about their situation, but since we are joined at the hip, when they crash we will be in their trunk.

  29. For DaveW:
    Can you name one that IS private sector?
    And for your CLV comment, the first stage choice was NOT driven by any Senators or Representatives. It is simply the safest 1st stage option out there, by a considerable margin.
    And no, I DO NOT have stock in ATK, nor do I live in Utah, nor did I work for MSFC.

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