Last week the American people witnessed two important speeches about the direction of our country. The first, as I alluded to in my O-Bingo post, was President Obama's Address to the Nation. The speech was big. It was bold. It was... all hot and nasty?
Whoa.
The second, contrary to what the media says, was not the wooden, lackluster Republican response given by Louisiana Gov. Kenneth Jindal, which was pretty much panned by pundits of all political stripes. For those who’ve followed Jindal’s career and know his impressive talents, this dud was disappointing.
No, the other important speech of the week was given on Saturday by Rush Limbaugh at CPAC. Surprisingly, it was carried live and commercial-free by CNN, Fox News and C-SPAN. Say what you will about the controversial, influential and popular radio host – if you’re still in that bubble we call college, you may have only heard your professors' reproach – he gave one heck of a stemwinder. The theme:
"I want everyone in this room and every one of you around the country to succeed. I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed."
My advice: watch both, in their entirety. You'll see two very different visions of human nature, the role of government, and the future of America.
Update: Newly-appointed RNC Chairmen Michael Steele ain't too happy with Rush. “Rush Limbaugh is an entertainer,” Steele said. “Rush Limbaugh, his whole thing is entertainment. Yes it’s incendiary, yes it’s ugly.” Not only that, but it just came to my attention that comedian DL Hughley has his own show on CNN! He sure has come a long way since Inspector Gadget, Scary Movie 3 and Soul Plane.
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Watched whole thing. It was hard to hear anything Rush said between the frantic applause. (Life...HAaaaaahh... Liberty...w00tw00t...and the pursuit (hurray) of (get some!) happiness (jizzinmypants))
Limbaugh and conservatives like him are nothing if not persistent; for better or worse his message hasn't changed since I can remember. I guess my one (hopefully centrist) question is: "How would Mark Cooper survive on tax cuts alone?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/us/01survival.html?_r=1&em
Whether it's 39% of $12, 26% of $12 or 0% of $12, it's still $12. If I were him (thankfully I'm not, yet) I'd be pretty psyched about my extended COBRA coverage and unemployment check.
seriously? someone has to do it! america is stuck in the rut of being a service nation, fueling itself and the floors don't mop themselves (yet). i say good for him, and maybe he should have saved while he had the "executive job". if he was an illegal you'd be saying "he took an American's job!". now that he has that job, we look down on him for working?
maybe it's the ludicrous spending by the gov. causing inflation that makes it so a janitor can't get by that is the problem? Yes, in your econ26 text you learned that issuing an enourmous amount of t-bills is a tool to battle inflation (less cash in the system), but when the government wastes it out the other side in spending and in the process artificially inflates prices of non-descretionary items (hi gov alternative energy spending and gov subsidies raising price of corn) then we have systemic problems. when does any expert advice on any level, individual or corporate, suggest spending more than you have in assets is a good thing? we may have technical "deflation" now in a temporary shrinkage of M3 due to the poor stock markets, but when those hit rock bottom and we are still issuing t-bills to cover extraneous spending you'll be right, $12 won't be worth the paper it's printed on.
For a second I thought you meant Mark Cooper from Hangin' with Mr. Cooper. I was all, "From TGIF to cleaning urinals? Man, things are baad."
And while the economy is in a dire state, the big question is: how do we turn things around? Obama, like FDR, argues for massive gov't spending and higher taxes on society's most productive people. Limbaugh, like Reagan, argued the opposite.
Historically, what worked? I'll leave that up to you.
Scos, I applaud your ability to keep politics light and pragmatic. I wish I could say the same for Anonymous. While I'm sure I know you and probably like you, I wish you'd have the decency to avoid doing the following:
1) Be anonymous. It's annoying and pretty cowardly, especially when spouting rhetoric
2) Be condescending. The use of "seriously?" not only is of poor taste, but poor punctuation
3) Assume I would think any way about groups of people, custodians, "illegals" or otherwise
4) Quote econ 26 (I didn't take it)
all my anonymous are lame.
Anyway, I'm glad scos is here so BK can stop getting his panties in a bundle every time I make a reference/joke about obama (its topical, not lefty propoganda).
One of the many reasons I don't care for Limbaugh is that he ALWAYS prefers to light fires rather than put them out. He refuses to step into the arena and actually be held accountablie, and his party lets him do it. Obama, meanwhile, is inside the burning house trying to rescue everyone and put it out. You've got to respect a guy who puts his ideas out there and on the line and has the guts to see them put into practice...right, anonymous? Has the guts to actually be identified with his own ideas?
oye,
market is crashing again because of AMDALs uncertainty and lack of consensus.
hopefully sully will be given control of it soon so he can land it safely. hell, he's been everywhere lately, why not?
CHANGE! (Bmar just got laid)
It is a system similar to bells ringing and angels receiving their wings.
I agree (not that anyone cares) with Bmar here though, "One of the many reasons I don't care for Limbaugh is that he ALWAYS prefers to light fires rather than put them out". Lets get some solutions...
Speaking of tremendous character and the burning house metaphor - hi Mr. Liddy. It takes HUGE stones to leave retirement and take captain of the already sinking Titanic (for zero pay - until retention bonuses come around).
I think anonymous is off their rocker (does Cam follow this blog?) but Scos could have dove into the issues a little more in his post:
Reagan: After cutting taxes and pulling out of the 1982 recession, which saw unemployment at 10.8% (we're going there by the end of the year folks - forget Dodd and Frank's "worst case" stress testing, it will be much worse - read The Black Swan, roughly page 160, about modifying predictions), GDP rose at an annual rate of 3.4% for the remainder of Reagan's terms. Reagan was a big follower of Arthur Laffer. Art was on Bloomberg Radio Saturday and if you can find the podcast, I suggest listening to it (I can't find it, so here is a similar video of him on Bloomberg a few weeks back:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aVgsSAFUudjc). Art has a lot of great ideas that no one is listening to.
I'm not an FDR buff, but here's how I have his score card.
Good: SEC, WPA
Bad: FDIC (Some of you will balk here but it would have been created anyway, just privately, in which case Sheila Bear might currently not have to be apologizing for special assessments - further straining banks. See: her speech from yesterday and OK IBA pres. Roger Beverage's comments), Social Security, NLRB
FDR was great in that he allowed us to spend until we bridged the gap to WWII, but I'm pretty sure it was WWII and not the spending that pulled us out of the economic doldrums. So the question is, what is this century's WWII?
Limbaugh sucks
Change
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