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2010-04-18 Economy

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Posted by Fred 2010-04-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 He is clueless about our passion for freedom in this country? Many good people have died in the name of freedom (ours and others) over the past several centuries.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-04-18 08:34|| 2010-04-18 08:34|| Front Page Top

#2 "Let 'em eat cake!"
Right, Barry?

Posted by tu3031 2010-04-18 11:08|| 2010-04-18 11:08|| Front Page Top

#3 As the Associated Press reported Thursday, the president said he was "amused" by the Tea Party faithful gathering in cities across America to protest soaring government spending, ballooning debt and the explosion in taxes that will be needed to pay for it all.

Wonder how "amused" he is with his recent drop in the polls and the pending conservative victory in the upcoming November election?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-18 11:17|| 2010-04-18 11:17|| Front Page Top

#4 US History is not required course unless Jeff Foxworthy is in front of the class.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-04-18 12:08|| 2010-04-18 12:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Wonder how "amused" he is with his recent drop in the polls and the pending conservative victory in the upcoming November election?

Very amused---with peple who think ballots still mean anything.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-04-18 12:21|| 2010-04-18 12:21|| Front Page Top

#6 "You would think they'd be saying thank you," he said

Funny. Didn't King George say the same thing?

Posted by SteveS 2010-04-18 12:38|| 2010-04-18 12:38|| Front Page Top

#7
Count De Monet - Sir, the peasants are revolting!
King Louis - You said it. They stink on ice.

-- History of the World, Part I

Posted by DMFD 2010-04-18 13:08|| 2010-04-18 13:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Didn't King George say the same thing?

No, but Marie Antoinette did. I think she got a haircut or something.

Posted by Frozen Al 2010-04-18 14:55|| 2010-04-18 14:55|| Front Page Top

#9 No, but Marie Antoinette did. I think she got a haircut or something.

True a haircut. Of course what she was doing is pointing out that there was no bread due to price controls, while the uncontrolled price of cake allowed allowed a surfeit of flour into the fancy confectionary industry. Cake was relatively cheap.

Posted by Shipman 2010-04-18 15:19|| 2010-04-18 15:19|| Front Page Top

#10 I think cake was also a colloquial name for a low-quality bread.

Posted by Eric Jablow 2010-04-18 15:23|| 2010-04-18 15:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Brioche, I think it was, specifically. Brioche is like stale, tasteless cake. Bread is superior, IMO. And to split hairs further, Marie Antionette didn't say 'let them eat cake' anyway.

Posted by Bulldog 2010-04-18 18:49|| 2010-04-18 18:49|| Front Page Top

#12 And to split hairs further, Marie Antionette didn't say 'let them eat cake' anyway.

Wasn't it the mistress of Louis XIV, Madame la Pompadour?

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-18 19:06|| 2010-04-18 19:06|| Front Page Top

#13 It will be interesting to see how quickly they try to progress through the Cap and Trade then VAT wickets.

Following their trail William Tecumseh Sherman style will be difficult. The meme is always that cutting taxes is too expensive. In actuallity the expense is the government spending.

Posted by Super Hose 2010-04-18 20:33|| 2010-04-18 20:33|| Front Page Top

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