America Is "Nation Of Whiners"

LaWood · Post by **LaWood** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:15 pm

"In an interview with the Washington Times, McCain's top economic adviser Phil Gramm tells America to suck it up and stop complaining about the economy:

"You've heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession," he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal immigration, housing and credit problems and record oil prices. "We may have a recession; we haven't had one yet."

"We have sort of become a nation of whiners," he said. "You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline" despite a major export boom that is the primary reason that growth continues in the economy, he said.

Dollar at all-time low
Record oil prices
Record deficits
Record "current account imbalances"
First time as debtor nation
-0 savings rate
17th among industrialized nations in education

Oh here comes Mr Phil to give us that economic spanking we so richly deserve. Oh suck it up indeed. Suck it up like Larry Craig. Oh spank me Phil, spank me.

Post by **Dardedar** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:06 pm

DAR
What a surreal picture. Bush has kind of a Will Ferrell look about him. That is, he looks like Will Ferrell when Will Ferrell does his really stupid looking face. Especially reminds me of when he played "Bobbie Ricky" in Talladega Nights. We really must play the prayer scene from that movie at a meeting. Priceless.

Oh my, wonders of the internet. I found the clip in a snap. To set the right tone, we will definitely start the next meeting with this clip.

D.

LaWood · Post by **LaWood** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 6:56 pm

Bush has kind of a Will Ferrell look about him.

Only dumber.

Doug · Post by **Doug** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 8:29 pm

LaWood wrote: Only dumber.

DOUG
And it's not acting...

Betsy · Post by **Betsy** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:38 pm

this might not really go here, but it wasn't worth starting a whole new thread - let's just call this one: McCain is old and stupid:

CNN- It turns out that John McCain made an off-the-mark error when he launched at Barack Obama this week over Iran’s missile tests.

In a statement criticizing Obama’s positions on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the organization claiming credit for the missile launches, McCain wrote, “This is the same organization that I voted to condemn as a terrorist organization when an amendment was on the floor of the United States Senate. Senator Obama refused to vote.”

The problem with the critique? McCain also missed that vote on the Kyl-Lieberman amendment on September 26, 2007. Records show that Obama was in New Hampshire and McCain was in New York instead of being in the Senate chamber for the vote in question.

LaWood · Post by **LaWood** » Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:18 pm

McCain is old and stupid:

I suppose now that I'm closer to pushing up daises doing ageism bothers me more so than it once did. Nevertheless, old is factual in a relative way. Stupid is an opinion.

If you're fortunate you too will be old someday. In fact an increasingly large number of our population will be old someday. George Burns was celebrated for his age as were many national figures.

Ageism was pointed out to me by an older, very intelligent woman who experienced it when she returned to university teaching. The students would ridicule her dress and hair style and the way she insisted upon correct grammar as being a sign of "being old." Manners are timeless.

Barbara Fitzpatrick · Post by **Barbara Fitzpatrick** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:32 pm

It's not so much that he's old - that untreated PTSD is what's doing it.

Betsy · Post by **Betsy** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 6:00 pm

and hey, he's trying to get with the times. Just this past week he said he's learning to use the Internet!

Betsy · Post by **Betsy** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:20 am

So Phil Gramm quits the campaign -- isn't it something that it took a gaffe for him to quit, and not all of his sketchy political activities - lobbying, Enron, etc.