Comments on: Stick it to the Bush http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2009/04/17/stick-it-to-the-bush/ Serving California State University, Fresno since 1922. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:24:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: FYI http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2009/04/17/stick-it-to-the-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-36976 FYI Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:21:25 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/?p=12411#comment-36976 the middle class does not exist anymore!!! the middle class does not exist anymore!!!

]]> By: FYI http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2009/04/17/stick-it-to-the-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-47349 FYI Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:21:00 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/?p=12411#comment-47349 the middle class does not exist anymore!!! the middle class does not exist anymore!!!

]]> By: junior http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2009/04/17/stick-it-to-the-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-36966 junior Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:37:17 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/?p=12411#comment-36966 Suppose I'm poor, but my family is well off. Do I cease to be in the middle class? Suppose I’m poor, but my family is well off. Do I cease to be in the middle class?

]]> By: junior http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2009/04/17/stick-it-to-the-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-47348 junior Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:37:00 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/?p=12411#comment-47348 Suppose I'm poor, but my family is well off. Do I cease to be in the middle class? Suppose I’m poor, but my family is well off. Do I cease to be in the middle class?

]]> By: whatever http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2009/04/17/stick-it-to-the-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-36965 whatever Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:28:39 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/?p=12411#comment-36965 Haha everyone thinks they are MIDDLE CLASS. Haha everyone thinks they are MIDDLE CLASS.

]]> By: whatever http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2009/04/17/stick-it-to-the-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-47347 whatever Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:28:00 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/?p=12411#comment-47347 Haha everyone thinks they are MIDDLE CLASS. Haha everyone thinks they are MIDDLE CLASS.

]]> By: Craig Magie http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2009/04/17/stick-it-to-the-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-36963 Craig Magie Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:21:35 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/?p=12411#comment-36963 I find it interesting that Obama is being criticized for "out-of-control spending" as he tries to bring the country out of a recession, while many of the same people said nothing when the Bush administration spent trillions of dollars in Iraq (and in fact largely supported that war). So it is OK to expand government spending to kill people, but not to try and stimulate the economy in a time of legitimate crisis? Now I do not agree with everything Obama has done, but using the government to inject demand into the economy seems necessary at this time. A couple of misconceptions in your column: 1) Obama is not increasing taxes on the middle class, but only on the wealthy (who disproportionately benefited from the Bush taxation policies). If anything is "crushing the american dream", it is the out-of-control greed of corporate America, particularly in the financial sector, that got us into this mess in the first place. 2) Obama does spend more time in front of the camera than Bush did. This is not to avoid work, but to explain what he is doing to the American people, something I would have thought would be viewed as a positive. Obama has been anything but lazy in the first part of his term, indeed some would argue he has tried to do too much. To imply that he is spending too much time blaming Bush and not enough time on the job at hand is disingenuous. I find it interesting that Obama is being criticized for “out-of-control spending” as he tries to bring the country out of a recession, while many of the same people said nothing when the Bush administration spent trillions of dollars in Iraq (and in fact largely supported that war). So it is OK to expand government spending to kill people, but not to try and stimulate the economy in a time of legitimate crisis? Now I do not agree with everything Obama has done, but using the government to inject demand into the economy seems necessary at this time.

A couple of misconceptions in your column: 1) Obama is not increasing taxes on the middle class, but only on the wealthy (who disproportionately benefited from the Bush taxation policies). If anything is “crushing the american dream”, it is the out-of-control greed of corporate America, particularly in the financial sector, that got us into this mess in the first place. 2) Obama does spend more time in front of the camera than Bush did. This is not to avoid work, but to explain what he is doing to the American people, something I would have thought would be viewed as a positive. Obama has been anything but lazy in the first part of his term, indeed some would argue he has tried to do too much. To imply that he is spending too much time blaming Bush and not enough time on the job at hand is disingenuous.

]]> By: Craig Magie http://collegian.csufresno.edu/2009/04/17/stick-it-to-the-bush/comment-page-1/#comment-47346 Craig Magie Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:21:00 +0000 http://collegian.csufresno.edu/?p=12411#comment-47346 I find it interesting that Obama is being criticized for "out-of-control spending" as he tries to bring the country out of a recession, while many of the same people said nothing when the Bush administration spent trillions of dollars in Iraq (and in fact largely supported that war). So it is OK to expand government spending to kill people, but not to try and stimulate the economy in a time of legitimate crisis? Now I do not agree with everything Obama has done, but using the government to inject demand into the economy seems necessary at this time. A couple of misconceptions in your column: 1) Obama is not increasing taxes on the middle class, but only on the wealthy (who disproportionately benefited from the Bush taxation policies). If anything is "crushing the american dream", it is the out-of-control greed of corporate America, particularly in the financial sector, that got us into this mess in the first place. 2) Obama does spend more time in front of the camera than Bush did. This is not to avoid work, but to explain what he is doing to the American people, something I would have thought would be viewed as a positive. Obama has been anything but lazy in the first part of his term, indeed some would argue he has tried to do too much. To imply that he is spending too much time blaming Bush and not enough time on the job at hand is disingenuous. I find it interesting that Obama is being criticized for “out-of-control spending” as he tries to bring the country out of a recession, while many of the same people said nothing when the Bush administration spent trillions of dollars in Iraq (and in fact largely supported that war). So it is OK to expand government spending to kill people, but not to try and stimulate the economy in a time of legitimate crisis? Now I do not agree with everything Obama has done, but using the government to inject demand into the economy seems necessary at this time.

A couple of misconceptions in your column: 1) Obama is not increasing taxes on the middle class, but only on the wealthy (who disproportionately benefited from the Bush taxation policies). If anything is “crushing the american dream”, it is the out-of-control greed of corporate America, particularly in the financial sector, that got us into this mess in the first place. 2) Obama does spend more time in front of the camera than Bush did. This is not to avoid work, but to explain what he is doing to the American people, something I would have thought would be viewed as a positive. Obama has been anything but lazy in the first part of his term, indeed some would argue he has tried to do too much. To imply that he is spending too much time blaming Bush and not enough time on the job at hand is disingenuous.

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