Why did Obama fail to keep AAA US credit rating

The word is hero. They go above and beyond the call of duty, they stand up and grab the bull by the horns even if its not their fight.

What we don't have as a president is a hero. He talks big, backs up when confronted and talks about eating your peas.
 
Give the tea party what they want.

It's pretty much totally sensible in terms of cutting spending, since entitlements are essentially worthless except for spawning large nurabers of future prisoners/welfare users.
 
I'm not a progressive.

But let's not forget the love Conservatives have of autocrats.

You know, people like Francisco Franco, Ante Pavelic, Augusto Pinochet, and to an extent both Hitler and Mussolini (who had support of the conservatives in Germany and Italy).

Autocracy is generally liked by pragmatists because it WORKS. You don't have to pander to idiots and write pointless and inane policies for them when you have someone leading a country by force of will.
 
You really think any of the nominees from the republican party are gonna defeat him?

Good luck, you're gonna need it.


BTW, it was congress, not Obama who lost our credit rating. It clearly states we need revenues and spending cuts.
 
He should have listened to S&P and raised revenues along with cutting medicare.

If tax revenues are off the table, so should medicare. They won't compromise, neither should Obama.
 
Cut spending enough and you could run a surplus next year. That would obviously improve the credit rating all the same.

The question is, are you willing to cut loose America's worthless underlcass to do it? The sacrifice of the bungled and botched seems a fitting sacrifice in these difficult times.
 
How you think a country should be run /= How a country should be run

McCain/Palin would have been an absolute disaster for this country. Although Obama hasn't delivered, they would have done much worse.
 
Why should Shaquanda get money for making babies and sitting at home? She's obviously less genetically useful. I could understand if you paid her to get sterilized, but giving her brood money and healthcare just creates a society filled with a worthless underclass that doesn't work and goes in and out of prison like a revolving door.
 
To the bolded part, .

To the rest... if we had a strong, courageous, wise leader like Putin we wouldn't have seen our credit rating downgraded, but I disagree with the notion that S&P executives ought to have been strong-armed to make it so. The objectivity of these organizations (or, to avoid an unnecessary sidetrack of an argument, the perceived objectivity of them) is absolutely crucial to their existence, and their existence is more or less what forms the backbone of the wealth of millions, in America and abroad.

I'm not mad at S&P for downgrading us, in other worRAB, I'm mad at our leaders for being unable to carry themselves with competence and dignity.
 
You sound reasonable, however this is what Obama is working with.


People who think corporate jet owners should be able to depreciate their jets over 5 years instead of 7 years for airline companies.

I'd love for the Republicans to find one executive who decides on hiring new workers based on how long they can depreciate their jet for.
 
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