A myriad of rambling thoughts and ideas from an old broad who has been there, done that, bought the T-shirt and threw it away a long time ago. However, this old broad still has a lot to say. Here we go...
Monday, August 29, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
WISDOM AND POLLS
Well...I go to play trivia with Jimmy (my son) every Wednesday. It's a lot of fun and gets the old broad out of the house. One of the weekly categories is "the weekly news." This time the question was "In a nationwide poll, which entity, higher than the President, polled only 52% in popularity?"
Jimmy stabbed at an answer. Nobody got it. The answer was "God." Of course, in my inimitable fashion, I responded "OH MY 48%!!!"
However, that tells you exactly what polls can tell you. NOTHING!!
Any poll that says "The American people care about the deficit" is complete crap. We did this crap before...during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. We listened to the deficit hawks. Hoover did this before Roosevelt. Remember Hoovervilles? If you're too young, read about it.
We need some balls and some deficit spending. Yup. Spend, spend, spend. Get people to work building roads, high speed rails and high speed internet in rural areas of this country. We need our President and our administration to counter the idiots in the Tea Party and put some real macro economics into place. Fix the roads and the bridges and the tunnels and the phones...put people to work with good wages. I'll bet that would poll pretty well.
Every real economist will tell you it's what is needed. Even the conservatives if they freaking wake up. Because even when the rich people and the corporations get everything they want, if people who are supposed to buy their shit don't buy their shit, THEY WON'T BUY THEIR SHIT AND THEY WON'T GET RICHER.
DUH. POLL THAT.
Politics of conservatism is a bunch of lies. Put people to work. Poll that!!
Jimmy stabbed at an answer. Nobody got it. The answer was "God." Of course, in my inimitable fashion, I responded "OH MY 48%!!!"
However, that tells you exactly what polls can tell you. NOTHING!!
Any poll that says "The American people care about the deficit" is complete crap. We did this crap before...during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. We listened to the deficit hawks. Hoover did this before Roosevelt. Remember Hoovervilles? If you're too young, read about it.
We need some balls and some deficit spending. Yup. Spend, spend, spend. Get people to work building roads, high speed rails and high speed internet in rural areas of this country. We need our President and our administration to counter the idiots in the Tea Party and put some real macro economics into place. Fix the roads and the bridges and the tunnels and the phones...put people to work with good wages. I'll bet that would poll pretty well.
Every real economist will tell you it's what is needed. Even the conservatives if they freaking wake up. Because even when the rich people and the corporations get everything they want, if people who are supposed to buy their shit don't buy their shit, THEY WON'T BUY THEIR SHIT AND THEY WON'T GET RICHER.
DUH. POLL THAT.
Politics of conservatism is a bunch of lies. Put people to work. Poll that!!
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