City Room: Fear Itself, and Other Memories - NYTimes.com

[sploogersmoof]

you appear to be the one in denial. even when reality is biting you on the ass you say it isnt..

[madeconstudent]

will there be bread lines in this depression? I think we can Avoid it. we have an unprecedented level of technology dispersed to even the lower income classes of society. use the internet to organize people, start businesses that normal people actually use, we need to start rethinking how we produce food and shelter

[1911arthur]

Bush and McSame have taken us back to the thrities!

Throw these bums out!

Obama, please save us from disaster and finally get Bin Laden!

They've had 8 years and failed us!

Thanks.

[82Gunney]

Great Reflection of the past..My kids need to see thisVid!! Gunney

[patsagainstrats]

The Treason Times published more front-page stories about Abu Grabass than they did about the Holocaust during WW2.

[patsagainstrats]

Funny, I didn't hear a single person recalling seeing President Franklin Roosevelt--governor of New York at the time--appealing to Americans via television--not commercially available at the time.

Does this mean that Joe Biden is officially full of shit?

[IloveJesusYesId0]

Mccain and Palin call these people "the other america"

They don't think they deserve any help either because they are worthless to capitalism..

[6j6s6a]

Along came President O-bama

A playing with his jism

Grabbed the Constitution, ripped it up

And called it Marx-ism

Obama~~Pelosi~~Reid = The Axis of Taxes

[pokerfaceyes]

Axis of EVIL

[codediporpal]

McCain wanting to keep Bush tax cuts on the wealthy, while we run massive deficits for wars and bailouts is sufficient reason to completely disqualify McCain.

His solution to cut costs? Earmarks!! A whopping 1% of the budget! "Straight talk express" my ass.

[360FlipChip]

the intro spells skeet at first, lol!

[xxx41724172]

You want investment advise? Don't get married. It's a sure way to loose half your income or any business might have broke your tail to start. The divorce rate is 65%. Marriage benefits churches and the legal system.

[killerstrail]

mccain will be way better than obama.

1. He has more expireince

2. He has more accomplishmanets than obama. (when obama was asked about his accomplishments he could not answer.)

3.Biden or palin will make a way better president (Its not about race ass wipes)

4. why should we fuck over one part of america if we all suffer over the economy.

5 If they do not raise taxes now the next generation will have to pick up the remaining pieces.

[isthedealreal]

The squirrels and birds are looking mighty tasty right now...does anyone have any recipes for them? I'm pretty sure I can make a spear out of a tree branch. Practice makes perfect...

[jtbojax]

It is a shame that the elderly are sought for their wisdom but for when the sky is falling.

[Barcodelllllll]

The only thing man learns from history is,he never learns.

[keepitreal78]

sunny5357 : I'm so happy to hear your comments, I hope others see the light! If I can't prove the location of my birth it would be hard to get a job even to protect the President much less be the President! GO McCain & Palin. We need strength and wisdom not someone that somehow made it into government using monies that we can't trace! Our country started to regress after Clinton had his way, why would we want more of the same?

[sploogersmoof]

if we need strength and wisdom then mccain and palin are the complete opposite of what we need. and obama was born in hawaii. are you that stupid? seriously? do you actually care? palin was found guilty of ethics violations, why is this not an issue to you?

[sunny5357]

Abraham Lincoln said:

"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich"

"You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong"

"You can't lift the wage earner by pulling the wage payer down"

"You cannot further the brotherhood of many by inciting class hatred"

"You cannot build character and courage by taking away mens initiative and independence"

Barack Obama doesnt get it. 'Joe the plumber' and many of us do!

[tiffelau168]

Joe the plumber doesn't even pay his taxes, how the hell is he one of us?!

[MirandaEFernando]

tiffelau,

He owes $1200 in back taxes; however, he still does pay his taxes, or else it would be significantly higher.

[manofwhat]

Either JOe normally pays his taxes and owes this small amount or this may be taxes owed only in the last quarter, give the guy a break, once Obama gets in he will have his hooks in Joe all the way up to his ass, like the rest or us.

[sploogersmoof]

81% of the American people will benefit from obamas tax plan and small business's are exempt from that same plan. his hooks will be far away from you ass. although if your rich he is going to tax the fuck out of you.

[pokerfaceyes]

If it's now 81%, why does Obama claim 95%?? Just another Obama LIE. In the end it will be ZERO tax breaks, that is unless you pay NO taxes.

[antoniojosevital]

mpk

[Truthpolice9698]

to the young people it's not just jobs. The Great Depression lead to the rise of NAZI Germany in 1933 and WWII.

60 million people were killed.

Bad economic times lead to war. People fight over resources. Countries take advantage of their neighbors in bad times.

You may hate McCain and the Republicans but he is the best chance you have to avoid a depression.

He wants to cut taxes and increase foreign trade.

Foreign trade keeps countries changing money not bombs.

It's your future.

[sploogersmoof]

you are a fear mongering idiot and he wants to cut tax's for the rich wich just creates wage disparity and a super powerful upper class wich creates totalitarianism.

our best chance to avoid depression? we should be punishing those wall street fucks, not rewarding them. wich is what mccain is doing.

[keepitreal78]

Wall street happened from what Clinton started and what Barack Obama made money from. Can you tell me that the Democrates aren't the reason why America is in this situation?

[sploogersmoof]

actually it started under Reagen. your trying to tell me no republicans voted for this shit?

de regulation is something the republicans love. hell, its something every asshole in Washington loves. dont tell me Clinton started this shit, it goes back to the 80's with Reaganomics.

[MirandaEFernando]

sploogersmoof,

No one is rewarding the Wall St bankers. I'm not sure if you're considering the $700 bil. a reward, if you are, I would like you to know that it is a credit line. Considering the punishment of Wall St as an immunity to a depression is very ignorant. What we must do is restore confidence by removing the toxic assests from the balance sheets.

McCain isnt cutting taxes for the rich, he is cutting the capital gains tax, which Obama wants to raise.

[sploogersmoof]

if we are going to bail out wall street, take it out of THERE pockets. those bankers are billionaires. they can afford to fix there own damn problems wich there actions caused.

mccain is cutting taxes for the rich. go look up his tax plan, the richer you are the more of a cut you get. id rather obamas taxing and spending over mccains dont tax and spend any day.

[pokerfaceyes]

McCain's tax plan has flaws, BUT he does NOT plan on raising anyones taxes, that includes you. Obama will spread the wealth, because he believes he can run your life better than you, and he owes people like Acorn everything he is. Taxpayers will cover his tab. Acorn is just one of many groups he owes. Obama is in bed with the hard left.

[sploogersmoof]

do you even know what ACORN is? i dont give a shit about who he knows, mccain knows arms dealers, thats more dangerous then fucking ACORN. FDR was more of a socialist then obama. my god, you are an idiot.

as for taxes, look at the economy, the deficit, the crumbling healthcare system, the rising poverty levels, and the general shittyness of the world right now. to fix this, somebodys taxes will need to be raised. we are in DEBT right now. we cant afford to cut taxes dumbass.

[pokerfaceyes]

Do you know who Acorn is? If your answer is yes, and you do not believe his ties to them matters, then you don't have a clue. Obama is a RADICAL, a know NOTHING, A LIAR, and on, and on, his goal is get into the White House and CONTROL this GREAT Nation he will put us into a place we do not want to go. Welfare will become BIGGER than ever before. Jobs will leave and go somewhere they can make profits, he will create the next great depression. Ronald Reagan made it work, and so will McCain. U FOOL

[CityzenJane]

Tell us what YOU know about Acorn, and please provide references from neutral sources.

[sploogersmoof]

Ronald Reagen sold weapons to terrorists(iran contra affair) and his policy's helped create the situation that led to a recession in the late 80's.

as for obamas ties to acorn, he represented them in a court case when he was a lawyer. thats it. as for radical, hardly. as for wellfare, god forbid poor people eat.

[pokerfaceyes]

STOP with Reagan, he was the BEST President this country ever had, and many American's agree with my statement. Most American's. Obama and Acorn? His ties are much DEEPER than that. Just because he LIED about their relationship does not mean he states the truth. Look at the money he has sent their way. He trained them to do what they are doing today in elections. Come on, that has all been proven. Denial leaves you grasping at false truths. You are better than that, America is better than that.

[sploogersmoof]

i will not stop with Reagen, his foreign policy caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in south america and his policy's of deregulation have screwed us over. i thought selling weapons to terrorists is bad? i guess it only is if a democrat does it..

he didnt lie about there relationship, independent sources found that one out. the only formal ties he has ever had with acorn are 1 court case. the fedral government gives money to acorn also, in case you missed that.

[hwy9nightkid]

Reagan was terrible man. I don't speak about the man, but as a President I didn't agree with any of his moves. He's lucky, thats it.

[pokerfaceyes]

What planet are you from? You need to smack yourself for your reasoning.

[whizbang47]

Well I'm certain that no matter what facts are revealed, Nazis will always love "Dutch" Reagan for his memorial speech at that SS graveyard in Bitburg.

[hwy9nightkid]

your a Reagan bot, just like all the other people who loved him.

Show me I'm wrong, please..but you can't you just love the guy. That's fine, but it hardly means I have to.

[radnips]

Um, McCain wants resources for the rich only, you know, because the middle class are people who make $5 million/year.

Someone interview some rich who lived through the Great Depression and find out how many months they had to cut off their world cruising and European vacations.

[Truthpolice9698]

TheIronTroll

I am a economist. Yes if the Obama tax hikes and foreign trade restrictions are put in place you will see 10-15% unemployment.

Obama's tax on small business will kill the best part of our economy.

Econ 101 cut taxes when times are bad and increase foreign trade.

The stock market is falling like a rock because people are scrambling to get their assets out of the United States before the take over.

I cannot emphasis enough the danger young people are in. You will be destroyed.

[radnips]

Econ 101: Jobs aren't created and then consumers come. Consumers demand products, factories expand and THEN jobs are created. Name one factory that's opened with no demand.

Cut taxes for the MIDDLE CLASS to create consumers. The middle class does not include someone making $5 million a year, like McCain thinks.

[MirandaEFernando]

radnips,

It's relative, if jobs are created, the people that have filled in those positions now have cash to spend and purchse goods.

[Truthpolice9698]

Obama is going to do the exact things Herbert Hoover did. In 1929, September, the stock market crashed. Hoover raised taxes on the wealthy. Then in 1931 he passed higher taxes on foreign goods. Smoot-Hawley.

These are the exact plans Obama has for America. More taxes and more protectionist trade policies.

You would think people would realize this. McCain even said it in the debate. But no one cares.

Fools doomed to relive history.

[Coldham21]

YOu

[clipusontum]

The Great Depression. It affected everyone who lived during the Great Depression, not just in New York City :(.

[dustynbones]

The Trillion Dollar give away to Corporations is extortion & theft.

The 10's of Billions of Dollars the Government give away in sweat heart deals is theft.

[TheIronTroll]

I really don't think that the US, let alone the rest of the world, is heading for a Depression anymore. More importantly, neither do economists. Recession, yes, and that's scary, but this sort of coverage is a bit counterproductive.

[motionpicturesstudio]

yay first comment