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What would Margret Thatcher think of Stimulus? #1203851
02/19/09 06:04 PM
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Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 - December 19, 1968 and some of us are old enough to remember him running for President) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.

Norman Thomas said this in a 1944 speech:

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." He went on to say: "I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform."





"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money." - Margaret Thatcher


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Re: What would Margret Thatcher think of Stimulus? [Re: Mira Trapper] #1203906
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"I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democratic Party has adopted our platform."

Times have changed yet further. Or doesn't the fact that the last Republican administration increased government, government spending, and federal deficits as never before count as "socialism"?

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Re: What would Margret Thatcher think of Stimulus? [Re: James] #1203932
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federal deficits as never before


Actually, Obama doubled the national debt, just by his signature on the stimilus bill, which has no precident.

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The only President to pay off the National debt was Andrew Jackson.

The last time the national debt decreased was 1957.

Re: What would Margret Thatcher think of Stimulus? [Re: Tom Dunn] #1203973
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Wrong. The national debt exceeds $10 trillion, and was almost doubled during the Bush presidency.

The current stimulus bill almost doubled the annual deficit for 2009. But there is a difference between the national debt in total, and the amount we're adding to that total through annual deficits.

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Re: What would Margret Thatcher think of Stimulus? [Re: James] #1203995
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Is it possible to pay off 10 trillion dollars?


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Re: What would Margret Thatcher think of Stimulus? [Re: Trapper Knox] #1204034
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We should all be worried about that.

And remember that this deficit wasn't built by any one party.

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Re: What would Margret Thatcher think of Stimulus? [Re: James] #1204264
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Everyone pay's in one way or another until they die, and then thier family takes over.

People think it will end it will not, there's no way it can be stopped. Change is here and we all have to accept it, just like we all accepted everything before it.

No one stopped that and no one is going to stop whats happening now, we all live one day at a time and care nothing about the future cause we cannot do anything about it.


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Re: What would Margret Thatcher think of Stimulus? [Re: GritGuy] #1204323
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We need to forget about Rep. vs Dem and see what's happening to our country but we should've done that much earlier. That's hindsight now...


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Re: What would Margret Thatcher think of Stimulus? [Re: Gary Benson] #1204361
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We "can" do something about it .The question is will we do something about it.I do not think the people of this country are willing to give up what they have now.So their children and grandchildren could live in freedom that this country has not seen for a long while.

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As long as weak little wimps, like john mcain are runnung for the republican party, conservatism is DEAD, the whole party has conformed into a scared little red headed step child, with very few having the balls to stand up for what it really means to be.... RIGHT. just like JOHN WAYNE said.


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Re: What would Margret Thatcher think of Stimulus? [Re: James] #1205547
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It is true that, between 2002 and 2009, the budgets largely shaped by President George Bush will have run cumulative budget deficits of $3.35 trillion. This calculation credits the entire 2009 budget deficit and TARP costs to Bush , even though Obama will have signed most of the discretionary spending bills and overseen much of the TARP spending.

But Obama does not have much high ground. The “stimulus” bill alone will create more debt (approximately $1 trillion including interest costs), than Bush’s first three years of budget deficits combined ($948 billion). And adding the “stimulus” bill to a realistic budget baseline yields a projected 2010-2017 cumulative budget deficit of $8.4 trillion. – 2.5 times the size of President Bush’s deficits over the same 8-year time period.


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We should all be worried about that.

And remember that this deficit wasn't built by any one party.


Indeed!!!!!!!!!!

Neither the Democratic or Republican party are good topics to get me started on!

We can blame Bush, we can blame Obama, but to do so ignores the fact that the total number of elected reps in Congress and the Senate is, IIRC, 535. The number of Presidents is 1!

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I have always thought Margaret Thatcher is very SEXAAAAAAAY !!


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Re: What would Margret Thatcher think of Stimulus? [Re: COYOTEKLLRMILLER] #1206033
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Thing is, Margret Thatcher had it right. Sooner or latter Government sucks the good out of the working folk to the point where the system is the only thing left to be dependent upon. Meanwhile the people become so dependent upon the Government that the system collapses because of the demand being greater then the providers can support. Solution that should have been enacted? Whittle down government size. Fire the Lobbyists the dickens out of Washington? Cut government spending and allow the Capitalist system the ability to correct the markets. Instead Government wanting to make people dependent upon them offered to print more money and borrow more money and pretend that stimulus isn't a synonym for BAILOUT at all costs, while lacing BAILOUTS with more Pork Barrel politics.

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