This is from Think Progress in it's entirety, sorry 'bout that but I'm way busy tonight! I thought it was a good read and lizard never fails to entertain. Such a dumb-ass blonde. Who listens to her anyway?? For your enjoyment I've added a link to her take on the Times Square terrorist. Wow the lizard is ona roll today!
Liz Cheney Perpetuates Greek ‘Bailout’ Myth, Says U.S. Should Adopt Greek-Like Austerity Measures
Conservatives have responded to the massive economic crisis in Greece — which is spreading to the rest of Europe — by trying to score political points against President Obama’s domestic economic policies. This morning on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace and Liz Cheney pushed the myth that the United States was “bailing out” Greece, and Cheney even suggested that America adopt Greek-like austerity measures to counter the budget deficit:
CHENEY: When you look at the question over whether the US tax payer ought to be contributing to bailing out Greece, I think you also got to say wait a second at the same time that we are looking to put $7 billion to bail out Greece… we’ve got the same types of policies being put in place here in the United States that frankly are much more likely to lead us down the path that we see Greece on.
Mara Liasson pushed back, noting that the notion that the U.S. was bailing out Greece was nothing more than a great conservative “talking point.” Watch it:
The U.S. — along with many other countries– is a contributor to the International Monetary Fund, which serves as a lender of last resort to countries in crisis in order to prevent these crises from spreading worldwide. By Cheney’s standard every Administration in the last 60 years since the IMF was created, including the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush administrations, have “bailed out” countries.
Cheney’s suggestion that the United States adopt the kind of “austerity” measures being enacted in Greece, moreover, would lead to absolute economic catastrophe. Greece is expected to experience massive economic contraction and if the U.S. were to follow that approach, it would fall back into a deep recession.
Still, Cheney contends that America’s deficits will lead to a Greek-like tragedy. But as Marshal Auerback notes, the problem isn’t Greece’s debt per say but its inability to service that debt, because it both doesn’t control its currency (the Euro) and because its economy is contracting. The United States is in no danger of defaulting — the American economy is growing and due to fears over the Euro, investors are boosting the value of the dollar.
In fact, what the crisis has actually shown is the failure of conservative approaches to economic crises. Contrary to most conceptions, Germany’s leadership has long adopted a conservative approach to the crisis, resisting economic stimulus or providing economic support to other European countries. As a result, the crisis has gotten worse and now threatens to spread to other Southern European countries, putting the Euro currency and the entire global economy at risk. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has finally awoken to the danger and has now belatedly agreed to a massive bailout for Greece – one that is considerably larger than what would have been needed if she acted sooner.
But conservatives in America are still holding on to their failed economic dogma. As Dave Weigel notes, “Greece is the new France” meaning that “Greece is now the nation whose name Republicans invoke to make the case against Democratic policies.”
Liz Cheney criticizes administration for its "first instinct" to Mirandize Times Square suspect. More of the same bullcrap from Lizard....
CHENEY: When the administration captures a terrorist and their first instinct is to inform him that he’s got the right to remain silent, that is exactly the wrong way to win this war.
The bikini chart is becoming lopsided, and thats a GOOD thing!
Today, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that the U.S. economy added a better than expected 290,000 jobs last month. The BLS also revised the jobs number for both February and March upwards, putting both of those months into the black in terms of job creation. (Due to 805,00 discouraged workers “feeling better about their prospects” and resuming their search for work, the unemployment rate actually ticked up to 9.9 percent.)
Unemployment rate is at 9.9, up from 9.7, so what is going on? The paragraph above explained it but the GOP likes to explain it in different terms. Gov. Pawlenty says the job growth is mostly government jobs. " The idea that government grows the economy when all they really do is extract money from taxpayers, bring it into the bureaucracy and put it back out into the economy on a political agenda is not growth". Typical rethug talking points, so lame...
Sen. McConnell says the stimulus bill did little or nothing to stimulate the private sector, but probably saved state government jobs.
Boehner slobbered as he said the president promised that 90% of the jobs saved or created would be private sector jobs, he also thinks most of the "so-called" jobs are government jobs.
Gov. Barbour bellows "we need private sector jobs", state government has benefited from the stimulus because it's poured in billions of dollars.
and last but not least, Eric Can't Cantor says "we've got to start focusing not just on jobs but on private sector jobs" DUH...
Aren't the rethug talking points sooooo boring?? Shouldn't the GOP be excited at these new numbers? They would be if we had a republican in the White House, now wouldn't they?
In actuality, and what the GOP decides to ignore, is that of the 290,000 jobs created in April, 231,000
of them were in the private sector! The private sector has added 523,000 new jobs in 2010. This includes 44,000 manufacturing jobs, the biggest number since August 1998! So folks, April was the strongest month for jobs growth since March, 2006.
Now GOP'ers, I'm not an economist but I can read a bikini chart, can you??
Unemployment rate is at 9.9, up from 9.7, so what is going on? The paragraph above explained it but the GOP likes to explain it in different terms. Gov. Pawlenty says the job growth is mostly government jobs. " The idea that government grows the economy when all they really do is extract money from taxpayers, bring it into the bureaucracy and put it back out into the economy on a political agenda is not growth". Typical rethug talking points, so lame...
Sen. McConnell says the stimulus bill did little or nothing to stimulate the private sector, but probably saved state government jobs.
Boehner slobbered as he said the president promised that 90% of the jobs saved or created would be private sector jobs, he also thinks most of the "so-called" jobs are government jobs.
Gov. Barbour bellows "we need private sector jobs", state government has benefited from the stimulus because it's poured in billions of dollars.
and last but not least, Eric Can't Cantor says "we've got to start focusing not just on jobs but on private sector jobs" DUH...
Aren't the rethug talking points sooooo boring?? Shouldn't the GOP be excited at these new numbers? They would be if we had a republican in the White House, now wouldn't they?
In actuality, and what the GOP decides to ignore, is that of the 290,000 jobs created in April, 231,000
of them were in the private sector! The private sector has added 523,000 new jobs in 2010. This includes 44,000 manufacturing jobs, the biggest number since August 1998! So folks, April was the strongest month for jobs growth since March, 2006.
Now GOP'ers, I'm not an economist but I can read a bikini chart, can you??
disgusting, blatantly racist and simply outrageous....
Anyway, this paper has chosen to do a pictorial of the last 6 presidents including the Obamas. These are before and afters BUT all presidents and wives have real pictures except of course for the Obamas. Phillip Sciarello, publisher and part owner defended the decision to publish the photos of the Obamas as Sanford and Son characters. I find it in poor taste, as well as highly offensive and probably racist too!
What is wrong with ignorant people?? Didn't they learn from the other offensive pictures from past newspapers??
The controversy prompted the Brookhaven town board to remove one of the Messenger's sister publications, the Brookhaven Review, as an official newspaper, meaning it will no longer publish town government legal notices.
"The reference to racial stereotypes is where the line was crossed," Brookhaven Supervisor Mark Lesko told Newsday in Wednesday's editions. Lesko, a Democrat, did not immediately return a call for comment.
A Suffolk County legislator, DuWayne Gregory of Amityville, said he will propose a resolution to drop the Messenger as an official county paper at next week's meeting of the Legislature.
Hazel N. Dukes, president of the state NAACP conference, said in a statement Wednesday that the county should immediately pull advertising from any publication that ran the photo.
"It is simply shocking and outrageous that such a blatantly racist ad would run in any paper, much less an official paper of Suffolk County," Dukes said. "New Yorkers of all races and ethnicity are disgusted by it and reject it."
Tracey Edwards, the NAACP's Long Island regional director, described the portrayal of the Obamas as "despicable and disrespectful. If this was intended as satire, it misses the mark."
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