They were doing a little montage of the major points of every presidential term. We happened to catch the 70s and 80s. The bias was ridiculous.

During Carter's segment they kept talking about his strong religious faith and the way he truly cared about world peace. The Carter Malaise was portrayed as a public reaction from whiny voters who didn't understand what he was trying to do. The overall gist was that Carter was a nice guy who got stuck in a bad situation.

Then we got to Reagan. David Gergen was tapped as an expert historian, so right away I knew it would be trouble. They instantly accused him of using "conservative rhetoric." Then they focused on the Iran-Contra affair and labored to make it look like Reagan had a huge mistake there. And then they explained how he used a "weird" strategy against the Russians, and of course the Soviet union fell because JFK stood up to them. (No joke - the exact line was that the fall of USSR resulted from the combined efforts of all presidents for 30 years)

Anyway, they then accused his tax cuts of creating the deficit in the 90s. His "obsession" with smaller government created the mess that Clinton inherited. That was the message from the History Channel.

   The Obama administration is insuring we can afford it. They are counting on inflation. $37,000 will get you a candy bar when they are finished. We can afford a candy bar now can't we? 

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

He is everywhere telling Americans how the surge should have taken place earlier..... yata yata yata

What did the general ever do?????

What war did he ever win??

Now he is warning the guy he voted for to go slow with his socialist program? Go figure?

Go Away General!

Give us all a Break!

Why no NB posts on the Tea Parties?

jessieH                    I have noticed the govt. keeps trying to push cap & trade. Well, cap cap & trade could be a good thing, if WE use it on our elected officials. Cap their saleries & make it retroactive. Trade in these buffoons for someone with a brain.  Let's put them on the same playing field that WE're on. Put them on social security, & abolish their retirement perks. Or, WE can put them in debtors prison, untill the budget is balanced.

All the fooferaw in the whole country won't get Washington to do the ONE thing proven to work.  It's too late now isn't?

Stop spending!  Cut all spending to a minimum, all of it. Quit printing more money.  Get the federalis to quit loaning money to deadbeats with no intention of paying it back. Hell, they're talking about starting that up again.  So we can once again put folks in houses thay have no business owning and no intention or way in hell of paying for.  If they start this up again, we really do need to storm Washington and throw these bastards out. Every last one of them, up to and including obami. 

The $11.4 trillion debt represents a transfer of wealth that liberals are prepared to TAKE from the nation as a whole.  Here is a thought people should keep in mind as you see Obama so effortlessly will rack up debt in the coming years.  The threat of hyperinflation from the Fed printing money won’t materialize due to all the
wealth destruction that has occured. I was looking over the estimated losses to the US.
Let’s look at some facts:

US-originated assets’ total loan losses and securities writedowns
are expected to reach about $3.6 trillion. The US banking sector is
exposed to half of this figure, or about $1.8 trillion (i.e. $1.1
trillion loan losses + $700bn writedowns).

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=financial_crisis_33&scale=2#financial_crisis_33

I speculate that the Fed could in theory print $3.6 trillion in bank notes with zero inflation based on the wealth destroyed because it would be replacing that which was destroyed (from our 401ks). From this point of view Obama has absolutely no incentive to bring the economy out of a recession, for him it's actually better to go deeper into a Depression.  Biden now claims they misread the seriousness of the economic situation, in other words he admits they well clueless.  Combined with Rahm Emanuels comments on exploiting a crisis, I submit the liberals having screwed up the economy through their incompetence are now prepared to exploit the misery by implimenting all their favorite programs by printing money under the guise of riding to the rescue of the victims.

I submit the following: Whether by design or incompetence the Fed printing $3.6 trillion is a wealth transfer via a stealth tax upon society. The $10 trillion planned in deficit spending (over and above current taxation) by Obama is the cost of the liberal’s Equality of
Outcome by leveling the wealth of all American’s whose Net Assets are
above the poverty line.

Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.

Here's a pretty good putdown of the goofy 'FBI/IRS investigation' rumors that some of our trolls have been spamming us with:

FBI Shoots Down Liberal Bloggers on Palin 'Investigation': http://www.americanthinker.com/blog

From the LA Times, link embedded:  "Reporting from Washington -- A day after Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin resigned, a federal official in her home state dismissed one potential explanation for her sudden and unexpected resignation: a rumored FBI investigation into the former Wasilla mayor on public corruption charges."

"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it". That being said, it was over 2,000 years ago, in 63 BC, Cicero said this,

 "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."

Yet another example of "self-evident truths" which liberals tend to ignore.

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within."-Cicero

People have become so desensitized when it comes to talking about millions, billions, now trillions of dollars in unfunded Government liabilities (SS, Medicare, Medicaid, etc...).  Recently in USA Today they posted a figure of about $59.1 Trillion and counting. 

Just how much money is it?

In January of 2006, NASA launched the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto.  It was the fastest spacecraft ever launched.  Speeding past the moons orbit in about 9 hours (remember most Apollo missions took over 3 days to reach the same distance),  it received a boost in speed going around the planet Jupiter back in 2007 and is now travelling towards Pluto at over 45,000 miles per hour.  New Horizons will not arrive until July of 2015.   So, for a quick recap, it was launched over 3-1/2 years ago, is travelling at 45,000 miles per hour, and won't reach Pluto for another 6 years. 

So what does this have to do with the $59.1 Trillion in unfunded Government liabilities?  Well, if you could convert that to $1 bills and could string them end-to-end, they would reach all the way to Pluto...

and back...

Now that, should scare the hell out of just about everyone!