1. From bondage to spiritual faith;

2. From spiritual faith to great courage;

3. From courage to liberty;

4. From liberty to abundance;

5. From abundance to complacency;

6. From complacency to apathy;

7. From apathy to dependence;

8. From dependence back into bondage

What stage are we in?

Number 7

No, I do not have an economics degree or an MBA. But the people who continue to pour all our money into a bottomless sinkhole do.

Michelle on January 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM

Zing.

Respect to Malkin, but what credibility does she have regarding economic expertise. I’d rather hear what experts with contrasting views on the subject have to say. Malkin’s an ideologue with a preconceived notions and an agenda…sort of worthless on this subject

Try Sowell and Williams.

Do something! Do something! If you can’t do something smart, do something stupid, but do something! New Gallup polling shows that 53% of Americans favor and 36% oppose Congress’ passing a new $775 billion stimulus package of the type President-elect….

Bush ruined his legacy by rushing to support his uber-liberal economic advisors when they proposed the $700B bail-out of a manufactured crisis.

How could it be a world-ending crisis when a week before not a single red flag was being raised by those all-knowing experts?

While ol’ GW’s RINO ways sure didn’t help the conservative cause, this creeping socialism has been going on since FDR puffed away in the White House….

True.

Another bush economic mess.

Let’s run Jeb for a trifecta.

getalife on January 8, 2009 at 3:59 PM

With the able assistance of Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. Oh yeah, let’s not forget Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton or Jaime Gorelick’s role in this mess either. While Bush may not be totally innocent, he’s not totally to blame either.

No, I do not have an economics degree or an MBA. But the people who continue to pour all our money into a bottomless sinkhole do.

Michelle on January 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM

“If you love America , you throw money in its hole.”

It’s fascinating how people refer to the critics non expertise, where have all those group thinking “experts” led us today.
It’s the just reenacting the saga of ” The emperor has no clothes” and it’s elitism.

…No, I do not have an economics degree or an MBA. But the people who continue to pour all our money into a bottomless sinkhole do.

Michelle on January 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM

Hence, the term “educated idiot”.

My collie says:

CC, you mispelled Ann Coulter’s name in your earlier comment.

My bad — I’m sure Dan Quayle feels my pain.

No, I do not have an economics degree or an MBA. But the people who continue to pour all our money into a bottomless sinkhole do.
Michelle on January 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM

No,Michelle; But you do have common sense and the ability to cut through the clutter and see the truth.

I do have that MBA+ and have done economic analyses for (state) government…..And I completely agree with what you have said throughout this thread.

And after going through a bunch of lousy leftist economics professors, I finally learned to understand it from one of the best… Allen Parkman, who was one of Reagan’s top economic advisers in the first half of his first term. (It was after Allen left the administration that Reagan made most of his economics mistakes.)

Respect to Malkin, but what credibility does she have regarding economic expertise. I’d rather hear what experts with contrasting views on the subject have to say. Malkin’s an ideologue with a preconceived notions and an agenda…sort of worthless on this subject.

“Experts with contrasting views:” Like the Naked Emperor Hank Paulson? Talk about worthless.

At least “free-market ideologues” have rudders.

Judge my credibility by my record. Go through my entire archive on the subprime crisis over the last year. Compare my analyses and predictions about the road Paulson would lead the Chicken Little Congress to his ever-evolving TARP and poo-flinging-against-the-wall approach to “rescuing” the economy.

No, I do not have an economics degree or an MBA. But the people who continue to pour all our money into a bottomless sinkhole do.