What a !@#$ doofus!!!

What's the rate of return on investment in the Quagmire in Iraq Georgie Boy? And how long are those jobs going to last? Where's the money coming from to pay those salaries, extract material from the ground, and ship all that stuff to Iraq? What sort of long-term community-building jobs is your !@#$ war creating? What sort of warped family values are you trying to push?

If it is such !@#$ great idea, why not fund it by selling stock -- not insured by the Federal government -- instead of borrowing from the future???!!!

PRESIDENT JACKASS... and that is an offense to all four-legged jackasses.

(My apologies to the readers. It is sometimes difficult to suppress hateful speech.)

Too dim to understand Bastiat's broken window fallacy (and many other things). What do the French know anyway?

Just goes to show that some really messed up clocks are not right even once a day.

I feel like that guy from Hogan's Heroes who was always asking: What is this man doing here?!!

Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling.

Not only is there the general applicability of Bastiat's broken window fallacy, but this also is arguably the worst time for this sort of military drain on resources.  Wars always tend to have an inflationary pressure.  This might be just what the doctor ordered if you're in a deflationary period such as the great depression.  But when the U.S. is potentially facing the dreaded stagflation, this is adding greatly to the problem.

Printing money to build things, blow things up and pay people to do things that don't contribute to the rest of the economy, causes upward pricing pressure on all other goods and services.  The money ends up in the economy but the products are stuck, destroyed or used in a war zone.  So at home you have more money chasing after fewer goods... inflation.

Hopefully McCain, who admits he doesn't know anything about economics, won't plan on asking Bush for tutoring help.

One of the horsemen of economic apocalypse has made it's ghostly appearance on the New York Times front page.

Once the fed goes too low it blows its insurance policy.  Can't go too near zero (because there is no negative interest rate), it destroys the currency.  

So no more stimulation is possible through lowering.  If inflation doesn't slow look out.  Time to stock a cave and get in.

They will be called "bush bunkers", in the same way groups of shacks were called "hoovervilles" during the great depression.  

  Just kidding Barack or Hillary will save us with renewable energy revolution.  Green jobs for all.

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