Buying 50 million votes

the budget deficit ran up to $2.48

Nope, not even close. The figure you cite is an estimate, over 9 years. Obama's nearly topped that in 9 months. It's stunning, really.

-- Cheers, James Arthur

And how would have McCain handled Bush's disaster ??

Bush gave Billions to banks that did not share as requested, (but not required).

don

You mean Barney Frank's disaster, in league with those of Mr. Obama's advisors who helped cause it? I neither know nor care.

You assume it's been handled. It hasn't. You seem to think the money was spent to some good or effective purpose. It wasn't.

The money's being wasted, dissipated, used for handouts, like the one of this thread. And junk mortgages. Maybe you'd like to defend it, since I believe it was you who posted a link about the FHA:

Huh?

What you don't understand is: Obama's making it worse. It won't hit for a while--phase delay & all that.

Can the economy possibly stagger to its feet despite Obama? That isn't at all clear. Maybe. Certainly the few industries he favors will have a nice time, for a while. But the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money (Margret Thatcher). And it could get ugly.

Is this the time to throw another 2 trillion on the pile, in the name of covering but a fraction of the few who don't have health care insurance, while rationing care and raising the rates for everyone else?

Don't answer yet--Mr. Obama stands eager to heap not only the 2, but

14 trillion extra beyond even that on national debt over the next years, with no prospect of paying it off.

It's quite incredible. It's as if he wants us to fail.

-- Cheers, James Arthur

You call it whinge we say whine, however this is just normal political discourse. It's rallying the troops to get the money into the peoples hands rather than under government productless control. The good ole USA is still the strongest economic and military power in the world, and we CAN DO. However, if the government continues to take more and more of the economy it may not last. Even with that said, technology moves so fast I believe the rest of the world will catch up. Mike

Oh shit. You figured out he is a demoncrat and NEEDS someone to rescue? He can't become king any other way.