The problem is that govt has been "spreading the wealth", or, more accurately redistributing income for decades.  Uncle Sam has taken from working people and given to people who do not wish to work, to people who work the system, and to people for whom the system works.  If we want prosperity for more people, and more ...more

What?  BOA is saying someone other than BOA is saying something untrue?   My experience with BOA does not inspire me to believe anything they claim.

Outlaw conglomerates.  Big corporations are sufficiently able to destroy our economy without the further concentration of power and wealth in the hands of those who cannot be satisfied.    I would propose that we consider the advantages of ending most career govt employment.  Govt employees should be public servants...more

Why be surprised?  Of course, lower personal income and more personal spending is bad for the economy's future prospects.  Govt and big business cannot steal all the money from the population and sustain the USA as a free and properous nation.

Does anyone still bellieve the Chinese or the US govt figures anymore?  I don't even believe their downward revisions anymore.  There is too much political pressure to look good manipulating the results.

Need more stimulus?  You are joking.    Reagan talked about "trickle down prosperity".  Now we are experiencing "trickle up poverty".   Until people have more and better paying private sector jobs, we will be looking more and more like Mexico' tremendous concentration of wealth in ever-increasingly few hands.  We ...more

Everything this administration does "for" the economy seems to be aimed for short-term boost at the expense of long-term consequences.  Is the idea simply to get to 2012 before the economy collapses?  The "Tea Baggers" are right.  Fundamental change is necessary.  The status quo will not work and has not worked since g...more

Morgan Freeman's childish name-calling is so idiotic I don't believe this discussion deserves any more of my time.  Good-bye and may God save us from political intolerance like his.

gibbons 70,   Are you saying that people in SC are inferior or racist?  You are a bigot and an idiot.  Well done.  You have proven my point.  Ihear you saying," Let's viciously attack, with no regard for the truth, those with whom we disagree."  We can call them racists and make them call others racist so that they a...more