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This week I received an e-mail from Sen. Mark Udall touting his cosponsorship of the Credit Card Act. Unlike Mr. Udall, I work hard to pay my bills at the end of the month. I don’t have the luxury of rolling over my debt month after month thinking it is OK like he has done for years in the Congress and Senate.
The C.C.A. bill will make it so credit card companies will have to “immediately freeze interest rates.” I wonder if Mr. Udall knows if Congress immediately would freeze spending and tax increases more people would have more money at the end of the month to pay their bills. Udall is concerned interst rates 20 percent on credit cards, maybe he could tell us what percent goverment spending went up in the last 14 months.
In describing this bill, he uses phrases like “hikes under the wire” and “game the system.” Well, he should know all about gaming the system and hikes under the wire, as that is what he has done in Congress for years. It is so maddening that Udall is so concerned about a small profit a private company can make and he cares less that he has given this nation trillions of dollars in nation-killing debt.
If Udall is so concerned about us having some money at the end of the month to pay bills, he could start with closing down his useless Senate offices and firing his useless staff who occupy these buildings west of Golden. For years, Democrats have said “this is Bush’s economy,” but now we can say this is Udall’s economy. He needs to man up and own this economy from the record unemployment to the record foreclosures.
Do you really think he would be man enough to own this, when he’s not man enough to have town- hall meetings on the Western Slope. The Western Slope really got shafted with the election of Udall and Salazar. Hopefully, in 2010 we can get rid of Salazar, but we will have to live for many years with Udall and his nation killing debt.
SCOTT BOOHER
Clifton
16 Responses to “Udall needs to own this economy”
Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 8:04 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Letter writer: “Do you really think he would be man enough to own this, when he’s not man enough to have town- hall meetings on the Western Slope.”
Perhaps if attendees at such meetings were there to listen instead of hear themselves talk, such meetings would have had a purpose. However, given that the President came to Grand Junction and was asked the same question three times in indicative that some in the audience were all too occupied with their flapping jaws to even consider using their ears and brains. Some have apparently never learned that if someone is asked a question, it is only simple courtesy to listen to what the responder has to say, and that is true whether one agrees with the other person or not.
Also, how quickly those such as the letter writer are willing to shirk the responsibility they have for the messes they all too frequently create.
Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
There is no acceptable excuse for failure to hold a Town Hall Meeting. NO excuse whatsoever. His pay should be docked.
Posted November 2nd, 2009 at 9:01 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Out of all the letter writer MR. Booher said all Mr. Laitries can come up with is some snarkey comment about not listening at town halls? I can take from that that Mr Laitres is more than happy with the totaly enept Senator he elected. A senator that is more concerned about a private business profit and less concerned with the trillions of debt he has voted for and will vote for with the health care. To bad ignorant people like Laitres vote.
Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 6:03 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
“Enept”? goldfinger, I believe you were looking for “inept”. Too bad ignorant people like you try to write!
Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 9:30 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
RL says, “Perhaps if attendees at such meetings were there to listen instead of hear themselves talk, such meetings would have had a purpose.”
Such meetings have a dual purpose, but the most important is for POLITICIANS to listen to the concerns of their CONSTITUENTS. We hear blatant propaganda from the politicians ad nauseum. Obama’s speeches are so predictable almost anyone could write one for him. As a matter of fact, we hear the same standard rhetoric blindly repeated by Obama loyalists right here in this forum. RL’s “for the messes they all too frequently create” is nothing but the same old “we inherited” theme.
White House Communications Director (and self-described Mao fan), Anita Dunn, is on record describing the strategy, saying:
“Very rarely did we communicate through the press anything that we didn’t absolutely control”
That way, of course, they never have to answer those pesky questions that force reality from the rhetoric. They don’t have to deal with those pesky people who WANT to hear the reality, not the carefully worded rhetoric.
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
- Joseph Goebbels
Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 10:22 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
FF - as usual finds irrelevant reasons to make a swipe at any poster. goldfinger ignore FF as his agenda fogs his logic leaving him with nothing to support his positions but sarcastically putting down anyone that doesn’t support whatever his agenda is in any way he can.
Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 10:34 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
- Joseph Goebbels
The lie the psuedo-conservatives would have us believe is that Obama administration inherited a balanced budget free from the corrupt deregulated corporate interest that really control propaganda machines like Fox News, and this broken economic condition is seperate from what states will experience in the aftermath.
I particularly take issue with “Unlike Mr. Udall, I work hard to pay my bills at the end of the month.” How the letter writer know how hard Senator Udall works? The letter writer has much more control over personal finances than a Senator will have over the federal budget.
Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 11:19 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
davinci: “The lie the pseudo-conservatives would have us believe is that Obama administration inherited a balanced budget”
Nonsense. Davinci just made this up. No one is claiming that Obama inherited a balanced budget.
What pseudo-liberal-wingnuts want us to IGNORE is that Obama is making the deficit problem many, many, many, many times worse. What pseudo-liberal wing nuts refuse to admit is that Obama’s own budget takes the deficit from a record high of less than 500 billion to an average trillion a year for the next ten years.
What pseudo-liberal-wing nuts want US to IGNORE is that those huge deficit projections are understated because they are based on overly optimistic economic assumptions AND because we are about to get a health care bill which will increase them even further.
What pseudo-liberal-wing nuts want us to believe is that those out of control deficits are caused by the economy inherited by Obama. What they fail to explain, either because they are deceitful or just plain ignorant, is why those deficits are rising above the trillion dollar level at the end of the 10 year period. Perhaps they are planning to keep blaming Bush for their disastrous economic agenda well beyond the year 2019.
Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 11:33 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
davinci says, “The lie the psuedo-conservatives would have us believe is that Obama administration inherited a balanced budget free from the corrupt deregulated corporate interest that really control propaganda machines like Fox News”
As opposed to Leftists in Centrist garb who would have us believe that Obama would or is doing anything different.
The Obama Administration is hip deep in Corporate cronies including his own private propaganda machine - most of the Media itself - GE NBC Universal, CNBC, MSNBC, GE Universal Studios
GE for example -
GE’s CEO Jeffrey Immelt sits on Obama’s Economic Advisory council.
GE was fined $50 Million by the SEC for investor fraud
GE owns or controls a major chunk of Mainstream Media
GE has interests in almost EVERY sector of the global economy.
GE received 139 BILLION in loan guarantees from Stimulus money
GE stands to make BILLIONS through Cap ‘n Trade and Health Care
“General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt says that the Obama administration, for which General Electic was a top donor, is an “opportunity of a lifetime” because “capitalism will be ‘reset.’”
GE Capital
GE Aviation Financial Services, GE Commercial Finance, GE Energy Financial Services, GE Money, & GE Treasury
GE Technology Infrastructure
GE Aviation, GE Enterprise Solutions, GE Healthcare, & GE Transportation
GE Energy Infrastructure
GE Energy, GE Oil & Gas, GE Water & Process Technologies Ionics, Inc.
GE Consumer & Industrial [1] Appliances, Lighting, Consumer Electronics, & Electrical Distribution
GE NBC Universal, CNBC, MSNBC
GE Universal Studios
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_General_Electric
Immelt (remember he’s the GE CEO who sits on Obama’s Economic Advisory Board) also said:
“we are going through more than a cycle. The global economy, and capitalism, will be ‘reset’ in several important ways. The interaction between government and business will change forever. In a reset economy, the government will be a regulator; and also an industry policy champion, a financier, and a key partner.”
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&refer=home&sid=ajYCLEW617S4
“It should be considered significant good news for GE (GE) that Siemens (SI) says its revenue from global stimulus packages would be huge. According to Reuters, the conglomerate claims that it expects new orders due to efforts to improve the economy to be close to $31 billion. Much of this money will be spent on so-called “green” initiatives.”
http://247wallst.com/2009/06/22/good-news-for-ge-ge-siemens-see-stimulus-revenue/
And then there’s Al Gore and his private corporate interests that DEPEND on the public buying into his fear mongering approach to Climate and oppressive taxation.
No matter what was “inherited”, the only thing that’s important NOW is what’s being DONE about it. Playing the blame game is just a cliche distraction.
Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 12:14 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
goldfinger: “I can take from that that Mr Laitres is more than happy with the totaly enept Senator he elected. A senator that is more concerned about a private business profit and less concerned with the trillions of debt he has voted for and will vote for with the health care. To bad ignorant people like Laitres vote.”
While goldfinger may be afraid of the English language and might therefore assume that othres are, the word ‘ignorant’ is not one to fear, nor are such as parochial, immature. Rather, mature individuals welcome them as a trigger to question whether one has considered all facets of a question. It is only those who do not want to do so, assuming that they are always right and can’t be wrong, that are afraid of doing so. And, as a consequence, they are the ones that never really mature, either intellectually or emotionally and what creates a ‘true believer’.
What I find interesting in such as goldfinger is that the “national debt” we are just now seeing, is really money that has already been spent but is just now showing up on the balance sheet. It never ceases to fascinate some of us that it is those same people who did not want the ‘pay as you go’ approach when they were the ones responsible for not doing so, are the very same who now yell the loudest that we need to do so. Each generation defines itself by how well it meets its obligatons, not only to the present but the future as well. Some contribute while others take. Mine, it is quite sad to say, has shown iteself to be a ‘taker’, living off of the contributions of the past, spending whatever it has made and, in the process, managed to mortgate the future as well. That, I would submit, can be characterized as a “locust generation.”
Naturally, they are not the only ones to blame as that is how that generation was largely raised. But, at some point, they should have stopped to consider what it was they were really doing, something which they apparently neglected to do. It would be too much to expect for them to do so now.
Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 12:34 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
JMH: “State control over the Press is one.”
What ‘control over the press’ is JMH talking about or, does he confuse criticism of ‘the press’ tantamount to controlling it? The poster should “look again” if he believes that the press is controlled by government in this country, quite to the contrary. It is controlled by moneyed interests, i.e. the plutocrats.
If the poster would care to look to Germany and the role of the press in the rise of fascism, he might note that they were not really “seized” by fascists, most of them surrendered to the NAZI ideology long before that party came into power. It was only the few remaining dissenting voices that were silenced, and only because, by that point they could be.
Like any individual or organization, we are quite often our own worst enemy, such is the case with today’s press, and media in general. They “dropped the ball” a long time ago by losing themselves in themselves and their own interests, as well as pandering to the public. That needs to be recognized first, by the press itself, and by the public.
In a recent opinion article, one individual flatly stated that those who would wish to become real journalists should drop journalism as an academic subject and concentrate instead on the subject areas upon which they want to ‘report.’ The individual was right as I have met those who who were aspiring teachers that, when asked what they were studying, responded that they were learning “how to teach” and with little if anything about what they would teach. That is true of journalism as well.
Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 6:10 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
At LEAST learn how to spell, punctuate, and use proper grammar if you wish to be taken seriously in any written debate!
Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 7:48 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
fastfreddie,
at least those here who are engaging in the debate in spite of spelling grammar and punctuation are contributing more than your one liners from the peanut gallery notice i am not using proper grammar spelling or puncuation myself why you ask. because we still have this first amendement right called free speech and we are equal under the law to exercise that right i would rather be uneducated or self educated if you will and know i have the right to say what i please no matter the format spelling or grammar it is the fact you fail to recognize everyone has value and you want disregard what a person says because they dont fit your agenda and this one line statement is the best you can come up with instead of any substance
Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 9:40 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
fastfreddie,
Far be it from me to point out you have just as many grammatical errors in your one liners if not more than those you wish to attack for the same thing. Perhaps you should learn to proof read yourself before you make such snide comments. I feel like a teacher here having to correct you mistakes but none the less I will point them out for everyone to see. Here are a just a few examples of your fine grammar:
“Enept”? This is a sentence fragment, who are you directing it toward? How about - Goldfinger, you have a mis-spelling in your post. The word you used should be spelled inept instead of inept.
goldfinger, I believe you were looking for “inept”. Too bad ignorant people like you try to write! Goldfinger should be capalized, it is the start of a new sentence. Also the word inept is not a physical, tangable substance it is a word or an idea thus you need to state “I believe you were looking for word “inept” which is the correct spelling.”
At LEAST learn how to spell, punctuate, and use proper grammar if you wish to be taken seriously in any written debate! Fastfreddie to whom are you directing this toward? Without stating the name at the first part of teh sentence the reader is lost thus this is poor grammar as it would be better for you to state - Goldfinger, at LEAST learn how to spell, punctuate, and use proper grammar if you wish to be taken seriously in any written debate!
You see how easy it is to pick someone apart?
Posted November 4th, 2009 at 2:33 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
What is it? Do you think you are George Will or something?
Posted November 4th, 2009 at 8:10 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
FF - I think he is pointing out that anyone can fire off one liners. They take little thought and don’t require addressing the point the writer is trying to make. Not that you don’t have the right to do it.
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