Charlie Rose

MisterMittster  12/29/2012 03:28 PM Report

Shame on YOU Neil. If your twisted and derainged interpretation of capitalism (look the other way and let em Cheat) carried any water, then you and your kind (Socialists-Eletists) wouldn't be Whining about the sky is falling like a bunch of chicken little deficit hawks.

Now Quit Your Whining! And Go Get A Job! .. for crying out loud

Sincerely,

Your Friend,

Ingleberg Humperdink

NeilMacCallister  12/20/2012 11:25 AM Report

No, "whoever-you-are", ..the larger question is "Why YOU can not use YOUR real name."

Charlie Rose, and Norm Ornstein here, use THEIR real identities. Why do YOU use someone else's?????

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Relatedly, ..Why can't a person advocating socialism, just stand up and declare "I am a Socialist"?????

It must have something to do with shame, don't you think???

MisterMittster  12/18/2012 06:41 PM Report

Hah!

MisterMittster  12/18/2012 06:38 PM Report

Ohhhhhh! Come now, BigDealNeil!

Tis the season to be Jolly!!!

...do you like that? 'BigDealNeil'? I think that's a better name for you than your real name. You should put it on your business cards, it will draw you more business, and ruin your brainwashed belief system. You won't have any more reasons to bark at the night sky like a chained dog.

NeilMacCallister  12/18/2012 03:02 AM Report

You left out our newest of the season's greetings, RemorastilllickingSharks, for this is our 8 years of "JOY, PEACE, HOPE, LOVE ..and GIVE ME YOUR MONEY, MITCH! ..OR I'LL THROW A TRASH CAN THROUGH THE FRONT WINDOW OF YOUR CAPITALIST STORE AND STEAL ALL YOUR INVENTORY!!!"

Go ahead, ..enjoy the "obesity" of your public payola, paychecks, pensions, and president ..and then die off quickly, please???

You are such a HUGE drag on our American economy!!

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/17/2012 04:35 PM Report

"It is a dangerous situation.

The G.O.P. is lost and rudderless, bitter and angry, but it still controls the House and, therefore, retains the ability to do a lot of harm, as it lashes out in the death throes of the conservative dream.

Our best hope is that business interests will use their influence to limit the damage. But the odds are that the next few years will be very, very ugly."

From brother Krug: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/14/opinion/krugman-the-gops-existential-crisis.html?_r=0

Yes, tis' the season of JOY, PEACE, HOPE and . . . LOVE.

(And you thought the obesity rates were high before.)

NeilMacCallister  12/16/2012 11:24 PM Report

Hah!! ..Republicans ask for a Balanced Budget! ..and the Democrats ask to "Burn them at the stake!!"

..and Mr. 'Omen-stein', and 'Charlie Rose and Co.', try to pass off those REPUBLICANS as "The Extremists".

Hah!! ..the "Age of Enlightenment" ..is dead!

MisterMittster  12/16/2012 04:25 PM Report

The next step to truly repairing the economy, (and Charlie Rose may not like this) but, is to jail, Timothy Geitner. Not for taking measures to lessen the catastrophe (which earned him great praise from his rich buddies in the media), but for causing 'the catastrophie' to happen in the first place. Start with Geitner, and then Paulson and on to the CEOs and their goons (lobbyists).

Burn Them at the Stake!!!

MisterMittster  12/16/2012 03:33 PM Report

the budget was balanced and drawing a surplus (no more deficit). Republicans were afraid of paying off the debt (Greenspan said, "not a good thing to resolve America's debt, give it back to the rich". So taxes were cut, then came the war(s), and back came the deficit, but Not the Taxes on the Rich. Why? Because republicans Lie when they pretend to be deficit hawks i.e. care about the deficit and debt ("OHHH! IT's Soooo Important!!!, blah blah blah Look at all those zeros, blah blah blah! We're stealing from our children to pay for the cradle to grave nanny state blah blah blah.) It's a big Bullshit Act! When in actuality the rich are stealing from the middle-class's children up and down the board in every which way (education, health, opportunity, etc. etc. etc.) .

The rich behind the republicans are Lying, Stealing Pigs. So now, we're stuck with a President who opposes 'Right to Work', because of his pig sugar daddys on the left.

NeilMacCallister  12/16/2012 03:28 PM Report

Do the Republicans want to restore math capabilities in the American population?

Spend a million dollars to establish a 'user-free' phone bank to answer students' math questions!

You could call it "Our Republic Counts"!

khanacademy.com is helpful, and interesting, but there is too little context ("continuity" ..hah!) available with the 'pre-recorded' segments, ..too little opportunity to ask follow-up questions, ..and -- perhaps most important -- too little opportunity in our society to 'discuss' some magnificent and inspirational thoughts and ideas which working in the language of math can engender.

(Hah!! ..Paul Ryan would be CRAZY with joy!!! .. :)

Want to create a few thousand jobs TOMORROW? ..and find precious EMPLOYMENT for a few thousand Math graduates???

Find a corporate sponsor for the establishment of a full-scale national 'Hot Line' where L'Hopital's Rule can be shared, discussed, understood, and carried forward to new creations!

America could once again -- IN TRUTH! -- be on the march "FORWARD"!!!

NeilMacCallister  12/16/2012 02:50 PM Report

Please notice, that Norm Ornstein shared not even ONE GOAL of his Democrat Party!

Republicans consistently ask for a Balanced Budget; like the ones Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey produced for President Clinton, and for which Clinton and the Democrats now steal false credit.

All Ornstein wants to do is sell his book (He hopes to make LOTS of MONEY!) by ramping up fear of disaster in our

society.

Did you hear his "plan" for salvation???

"There are trillions of dollars sitting in private accounts" .."Let's form a PUBLIC/private bank, raise our tax talons, and TAKE some of that money!!!"

( .."Ooh! .."Ooh! .."Ooh!" chants the crowd in lock-step!!!)

Then he sets us up to suffer through "4 more years" of Obama-policy failures, by coaxing the voting jury with phrases like "second-term blues", and "intransigent Republicans", rather than just speaking the truth that Socialism doesn't -- and never has -- provided a successful or benevolent society capable of feeding its people.

Evidently, the "Enterprise" of Mr. Ornstein's "American Enterprise Institute" -- is an enterprise to disguise!

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/14/2012 02:02 AM Report

'Taxes are almost a religious thing for many Republicans. Most significant thing is tax rates. Marginal tax rates are all that matters. Taxes are a religious precept.'

So what if you can eliminate the estate tax for a whole lot of people, but only if you let them get gay married?

Blew your mind!

SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/14/2012 01:53 AM Report

We are told the Eye of Newt is to blame.

Newt tribalized the place—nationalizing by tribalizing. Ethics process becomes a weapon, rise of talk radio, partisan media into a tribal media. 'I hate the Congress but my own representative is terrific.' Grover Norquist then thrown into this toxic mix.

Toxic mix or just a witches brew with the Eye of Newt?

Whose magic will win?

MisterMittster  12/13/2012 07:25 PM Report

Just a suggestion, have, Mike Lofgren, on the Charlie Rose Show. He's the real deal; 15 years on the Armed Services Committee and another 15 years on the Budget Committee.

He's been there done that.

MisterMittster  12/13/2012 07:21 PM Report

Many long time insiders of Washington DC Federal government politics are saying they've NEVER seen the 'work' of government So Dysfunctional. I read a book written by an insider Republican entitled, 'The Party is Over' by Mike Lofgrin. The extremist games the current republican party plays to protect their sugar daddys and their own free-loading careers is the real reason the unemployment rate is so high. It's really fascinating the illusions they create to fool the public at large (even the media). It takes a real insider to divulge the truth; the press and celebrity personalities isn't going to do it, they're not capable, it's beyond their comprehension.

tabs  12/13/2012 03:58 PM Report

Now Mr Rose what don't people get, people from Warren Buffet right on down to yourself think that 18% to 21% of spending to GDP is sustainable, because that was the norm for the last 30 or 40 years. The fly in that ointment is that the Social Security Trust Fund and attending SS Pay Roll taxes have been put into the General Account for the last 44 years. this in affect has hidden the TRUE AMOUNT of US debt by making it into an ACCOUNTS PAYABLE. The true deficit spending over those 44 years is another 16 plus TRILLION USD's. So in affect that 18% of spending to GDP is in itself an UNSUSTAINABLE amount. Let us look at a more realistic level and that is around 15% of GDP, and to rectify Americas 44 year spending binge, spending to GDP might even have to be pushed down to 12%. The long and short of it is that America has been spending its future for decades, and the irony of it is that the biggest government spending President since LBJ comes along right after the system goes broke. Yet he isn't smart enough to realize that he is the SAP that is going to catch the blame in the history books as the other Presidents are long gone and it is on his watch that it all crumbed.

tabs  12/13/2012 03:31 PM Report

Mr Ornstein seemed full of omission in his talking points. Mr Ornstein presented a full litany of Republican or conservative divisive behaviors but failed to mention a single instance where the Democrats were being equally divisive. Doesn't Nancy Pelosi's statement upon becoming House Minority Leader count as being divisive? Where she loudly and proudly proclaimed that, "She was there to counteract George Bush's radical policies." Well Ms Pelosi who is there to counteract your radical "astroturf" misstatements? AND now her, "There will be no deal on the "fiscal cliff" unless tax rates on the "RICH" are raised." From which President Obama has stiffened his backbone and adopted it as his own mantra (Senator Graham recently said, "That President Obama is afraid of his own party). Here one wonders if Senator Grahams use of the word "party" is really a euphemism for Nancy Pelosi?

Secondly Mr Ornstein stated that the US had a 90% tax rate after WW2 and that didn't stop the economy from booming. This analogy is like comparing a Goldfish to an Elephant. In 1945 the world economy was devasted by 6 years of war which destroyed nearly all of the US competitors industrial capacity, which means the world needed rebuilding and the US economy was the only surviving economy from which it could begin, the GI's were returning home and were starting families that needed everything from soap to houses,and there was 15 years of pent up demand for consumer goods due to the Depression and WW2 rationing. So there was no stopping that economy. Today there is little demand as the US consumer is saturated with a glut of consumer goods, there is a high unemployment rate and consumer and government debt levels are sky high, which in of itself causes an increasing drag on the economy. So until Mr Ornstein can rectify his omissions his credibhility is in the crapper.

Ellen_Dibble  12/13/2012 03:22 PM Report

If the "size of government" is "the size of the entitlements," or "the size of the national debt" (i.e., war one, war two, cost of the 2008/09 crash of the entire economy which we can't afford to discard wholesale), then... If "size of government" means the size of my taxes next year, that's something else. I think you have to sever the parties from their funders in order to get at the actual underlying philosophies. I'm thinking maybe the Enterprise Institute achieves that better than Heritage.

charliesheep  12/13/2012 12:26 PM Report

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REMant  12/13/2012 11:28 AM Report

I've read some of this tripe in The Post. First of all, the politics of extremism collided with the Constitution in the 1790s - there is nothing new about it. Secondly, it's certainly not all the fault of the Jeffersonian contingent. The Constitution, itself, reflects the contest between Federalist big government and Anti-Federalist limited government and states' rights, which began during the Revolution. "Nationalists" have been in and out of office from the beginning, but with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act and the 16th Amendment creating the Federal income tax in the Wilson admin, they have clearly been in the ascendant. You will hardly find anyone in Washington, who does not in some manner benefit from advancing their agenda, including Mr Ornstein. You can see the result all around us. AEI, interested only in military spending and mercantilism, and believing no less in a free lunch, are no more genuinely Liberal than their Brookings compatriots. Years ago, seeing him on The News Hour, where he's since become a fixture in their attempt to paper over real policy differences, I mentioned Ornstein to a friend on the Heritage Foundation board, who declared him an idiot. I'm inclined to agree, and I resent his attempt to shift the blame. There's no reason to make a budget deal, or lessen Republican ideals to be a "big tent" party.

BTW, we aren't going to be transforming anything, either, and if all that corporate hoard were spent, it would merely raise prices.