We’ll always be a AAA country, because we’ve always been a AAA country
That is the logic of our esteemed president, Barack Obama.
This is why we elect leaders, so that during tough times we have someone in a position of authority who is not afraid to look us straight in the eye and read hollow mantras from a teleprompter. Obama is not in denial, he is just looking to impose a positive outlook onto the gloomy future at which we all seem to be staring.
The President strode into the press conference to reassure the markets after the downgrade in the credit rating of the United States by the S&P. Unfortunately, the market was not paying close enough attention to understand what the President was doing. During the press conference, the DOW plunged anther 300 points to end the day over 600 points lower.
It seems that just saying “We’ve always been and always will be a AAA country” does not have the logical fortitude that financiers are looking for.
Perhaps those dimwits who don’t care for what Obama has to say will listen to Warren Buffett who insists that the United States should have a AAAA rating. After all, he has no interest in seeing the stock market recover from a near-historic crash. He’s just telling it like he sees it.
this is such garbage, not even worth reading…. Im not a supporter of obama and I don’t hate him either… but trashing the president every chance we get does’nt make matters better….bias garbage
perhaps you should pay attention to the name of the column. you should find all your answers there. i would go on, but you probably wouldnt be able to figure it out anyways.
It’s not ‘trashing’ the President. It’s pointing out sarcastically the logical fallacy he used to try and ‘pump up’ the economy. Just because he’s President doesn’t make him immune to criticism, as a matter of fact it makes him more susceptible to it do to his position and exposure. Don’t get all bent out of shape when someone points out the President is indeed reading hollow mantras as he is doing in this case.
Obama wants what his puppet masters tell him to want – the destruction of this country. Watch what happens as we plunge into a great depression – which Obama assured us was over 6 months ago when it was just a recession – the Federal Reserve will unleash Quantitative Easing 3 which will make everyone think the economy is on the up and up and start investing again. Then all that ‘fake money’ will crash again and destroy us even more. Then the bankers and fortune 500 swoop in and gobble up everything for pennies on the dollar, just like they did with the last great depression, which was engineered in the same way. Meanwhile a control grid of fear peppered with a police-state mentality is being installed a little bit more every year, so if we ever do get the balls to revolt, we will all be labeled domestic terrorists and thrown into FEMA camps. I work as a manager in sales, I never finished college, and I have no political background, but I can see plain as day what is going on. Why can’t the rest of you?
Damn I need to get my tin-foil hat back out so the government can’t lift thoughts out of my brain.
No pics no proof.
Honestly, until I see evidence of this(including it happening in the last depression), I tend to try and avoid conspiracy theories. Those who just look at the basic facts and go with their thoughts end up on making up things(see: Zeitgiest).
“I work as a manager in sales, I never finished college”
I really try to avoid ad hominem, but that explains a lot.
Ellen, pointing out when the leader of the USA makes an absolutely absurd statement all the while proposing no solution to the situation is hardly trashing him. His words speak for themselves as they are patently ridiculous. By the way, we did not achieve a AAA rating until AFTER World War I…so we have not “always” been a AAA rated country. Part of the problem we have in this country is that we seem to think that we are the USA and we have always been here, we always will be, and we can do anything. As a historian, I can assure you that is the kind of thinking that goeth before a fall.
The Sarcasm Society is surprised? Really? …Like this is not common! Case in point,from our former fear-mongering leader: “In my job you have to keep saying things over and over again until they finally believe it” ~W.
So, do we believe? I believe in the Tooth Fairy… but I bought gold anyway :-\
If there were people who believed this country deserved an AAA rating, the stock market would be doing just fine.
Arseholes, Alcoholics and Abusers?? Damn right!! The American Way!!
What’s worse is that even the current rating is still too high according to those nasty Austrian School economists. It’s like Christina Romer said on Real Time with Bill Maher: “Policy would be better if we listened to the experts.”
Logical fallacies make the best arguments.
Yeah but Christina Romer is calling for an even bigger and more expensive TARP. She says we didn’t go big enough. That kind of ‘expertise’ I can do without.
That’s what I tried to convey. ;)