To respond to the single substantive point in this entire pointless waste of hard drive space, what were the dates in which this ball field and museum were built? Are these not profit generating enterprises financed by a committee of private investors and subsidized by a city bond which earns interest for Akron?

Screaming "wake up" while perhaps cathartic for the screamer – has really become overused, by everyone.

Wasn't it the late Irving Kristol who said he was liberal until he was "mugged by reality." That pretty much describes me.

But then, conservatives knew that a leftist-run administration….whether it was led by that insane piece of crap named algore, or that American-military bashing, lying piece of cowardly snot from Massachussets, would not only have spent more widly than Bush…and would have surrendered to the the jihadist-lovers in Congress, leaving saddam in power.

Hey unrevrum, you've had your head stuffed up that dark place since the first time you ever posted on a forum, and nothing has changed.

Are you better off having a million dollars in the bank, or being a million dollars in debt ?

We currently pay over $400 billion in interest on the debt that accumulates from those deficits. That $400 billion could pay for a number of things, including universal health care coverage, in addition to many other things. Instead, we are talking about jacking taxes up even higher, crippling our businesses further, and ultimately heaping ever more costs on the average person to do it. Or, if we didn't have all the debt, future taxes could be far lower, putting more money in everyone's pockets.

Second, when we run deficits, we are either 1) printing money, which devalues the dollar, weakening everyone's purchasing power, or 2) we borrow the money, as we've been doing from China. That puts us in China's debt, and debts have to be repaid. Who repays those debts ? Ta-da, the TAXPAYER.

Third, and most important of all, future generations will have to pay for OUR debt. That is massively irresponsible, and will ruin the prospects of our children.

I really can't believe you don't understand this. You shouldn't even be writing a political blog if you don't. Akron University has a pretty decent Macroeconomics 101 course. Take it.

I support Obama because, though handed a very difficult situation, he is setting forth reality-based solutions to destructive policies long in need of change. It would not have mattered one iota who was elected president last November…..the financial disaster left from Bush/Cheney would still have been….a financial disaster.

And I'm still waiting….for a coherent answer to how the deficit increases affects the average citizen. I'm a patient man.

wouldn't it be more correct to say Not Reverend?

Once again I have to do the googling for you.

That Obama quote must have come from one of the other Obama's. There have to be three or four of them at least, they contradict each other so often.

Bingo. Just right. See my next post.

Soooo, you support Obama, the biggest deficit spender of them all…… why exactly ???? I didn't hear an answer to that.

Bush doubled the national debt, adding more debt than all other presidents combined. Now, THAT was preposterous. Conservative response? Crickets. It's like the North Pole thing….fiscal-scold conservatives go dark during Republican presidencies.

The End.

Obviously this is a "do as I say, not as I do" moment of spectacular irony.

ooo… brb.. gotta see what the dailykos tells me i should think today…

But I suppose serious and hard working fiscal conservatives do need their sleep during Republican administrations. You know, they work so hard during Democratic presidents….they must be plum tuckered out when a Republican is president.

Right now we can see just what you said about both parties with the debate over health care reform. There is no reform being suggested, however, although that is what they keep talking about. Take Medicare as a beautiful example. Somehow money is to be saved by cutting out all the waste in Medicare. Wouldn't that be about as good with a one or two page law aimed at cutting out that waste? Do we have to succumb to government control of health care just to cut out that waste and corruption? The whole thing is aimed at nothing but eventually getting to single payer health care just as Barney Frank and Barack Obama admit. They don't have the votes now but they think if they work their way into it slowly they will have the votes in the future, if they can just keep control of the government.