Comments on: It’s The Economy Stupid – Nearly 80 Percent Of Americans Say They Don’t Trust The Government

By: Tariq Nawaz

Tariq Nawaz — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 14:22:00 +0000

Very true….

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 17:26:36 +0000

I lost faith in politicians and gov. 40 years ago. I gave up voting in the 80’s as corruption,(local, state, etc) got worse. I’ve lost all hope in America, and all we can do now is brace ourselves for collapse. There are no real leaders today, just useless “patriot” groups going to rallies producing nothing.

By: Lunatic Fringe

Lunatic Fringe — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 06:26:32 +0000

Ok, Mea deal. I read reviews, I’ll order the book. You guarantee the authors accuracy and facts?

By: mea

mea — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 05:14:52 +0000

One more thing, Lunatic Fringe, you sound like a good person who’s heart is in the right place, so please read this article by Walter Williams, a brilliant scholar, who also happens to be a black man.

http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/09/PresidentObamasInauguration.htm

It’s about the Obama/Lincoln comparison.

By: mea

mea — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:43:00 +0000

Dear lunatic fringe,

What you don’t understand is that Obama is precisely like Lincoln, an absolute tyrant who cares nothing for our sacred Constitution. I don’t blame you for not knowing, for you have been thoroughly indoctrinated like most people. But facts being what they are there has been an awakening lately by people who crave the truth.

There have been a few brilliant biographies lately by esteemed historians, such as DiLorenzo (“The Real Lincoln”), but just please read “The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution”, just the chapter on the War for Southern Independence and you’ll get your first accurate picture of Abraham Lincoln.

It is critical that we, as Americans, learn the truth about this episode of our history. Frighteningly we could be close to repeating it, and of course, Obama will have an equally fraudulent excuse for violating the citizens Constitutional rights.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:41:29 +0000

The most amazing part to me is that there are still about 20% who “trust” the government. Those are probably not paying attention to what has been going on lately – or – they are seriously retarded.

By: Megan

Megan — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:50:34 +0000

I subscribe to the FFT newsletter at http://www.forecastfortomorrow.com that guy is calling for a bigger event to come in the next few months. If you look back he has been spot on with things over many years, and someone that should be listened too!

IMHO this greece debt thing and commercial real estate thing could be the next thing to blow up in the US governments face. Time will tell.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 20:28:42 +0000

The Constitutional requirement that money be of only gold & silver would have thwarted all the follies of the idiots in DC and on Wall Street. And so the money printing and financial engineering that got us to this point would not have happened. This simple solution continues to defy Nobel winners and almost all so-called economists – all a bunch of idiots.

By: Lunatic Fringe

Lunatic Fringe — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:05:30 +0000

Thanks for another well written article.

I became a Libertarian years ago, when I realized government, both parties, were morally bankrupt. You see, they could care less about public service. Politics is simply a launch point for accumulating personal wealth and power. Serving the public? That is the farthest thing from their minds. They serve themselves, first and foremost.

They have no personal courage. No integrity. The only politician that has those qualities is Ron Paul.

People with personal courage are rare. Lincoln was one. He could have passed on the slavery issue and taken the easy out like his predecessors. But he manned up, took a very unpopular stand, and we lost some 600k sons. Had he lived, he would have been committed to rebuilding the south. He was a “public servant.”

Obama faced the same dilemma. He could have put banks into receivership, refused bailouts and done the immediately unpopular thing that in the end would have done the greatest good. It would have been harsh and painful but less so than a civil war. Instead he chose the cowards way out, continued to bail out and spend at a time when people are broke. Not only does he lack personal courage, he can’t even prioritize. That he made 5.5 million last year makes me sick. Never has anyone done so much with so little. Obama is a coward. Another in a long line of cowards that enrich themselves dating back to JFK.

When Obama draws comparisons to Lincoln I just want to get sick. Obama couldn’t wipe Abe’s backside on his best day.

Government overstepping its bounds continually is the problem-it is never the solution.

By: D G Bokare

D G Bokare — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:52:44 +0000

I don’t think the politicians have any solution to set right the economy since the speculators at Wall Street are holding the power at Washington. There has to be a nexus between politicians and big capitalists. The economy has gone out of control because of fundamental flaws in the economic theory of capitalism. This was the case of Marxian economics also. Marxian economics collapsed because of these flaws in their economic theory. Largest number of Noble Laureates in Economics are residing in the USA, but none has any medicines for the present irreversible depression. Paul Samuelson has said that the class of present economists is of “kept-men” category who are under obligations of capitalists and industrialists for their scholarships, jobs and research works. In that case how could they tell the truth to the people? God alone save American economy!