Comments on: The S(pl)urge: Of Course It’s Working

By: SZ

SZ — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:22:26 +0000

As I recall from reading the news recently, Iraq Oil Surplus was estimated at 70 $ Billion this year and Iraq Government was at loss of ways to pass these fortunes to the citizens an that Maliki was handing out cash. This probably has more to do with quelling Iraqi based rebellion although the Saudi Mujahedeen are sure to be well supplied for a long time.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:33:00 +0000

Waaaay back when, circa February 2003, I distinctly recall making the suggestion on a local online ranting forum that the problems in Iraq could be best addressed not by pricey military adventure, but by simply paying *each and every* Iraqi citizen $10k and tell them to deal with Saddam Hussein themselves. “Glad” is note quite the sensation I feel at reading that finally we get around to trying this approach.

With a population of 27Million, this would amount to a $270Billion expense. Much cheaper than the war, at current tallies:
http://zfacts.com/p/447.html

By: Jeff Bartlett

Jeff Bartlett — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:35:48 +0000

Wow, that was one of the best articles I have read in awhile and certainly a some good ideas. The only problem I see is when you give the guy the new car, college and all that and he still is hooked on the powder.

And with illegal aliens, if we were paying them directly, don’t you think even more would try and make it to the USA???

I do agree, however, that Obama could out the government and walk to the white house, but why start playing dirty when its a cake walk as is? Unless the Cheney gang stages some terrorist act within the USA to scare people into voting McCain, Obama will have a new address come the new year.

You can’t just print money and expect inflation not to have an effect, Giorgio! Although I am sure they are less than truthful in the amounts in circulation, I doubt that they are printing it like some nations have done….

By: Mary Ann Schallert

Mary Ann Schallert — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:32:02 +0000

Sure, Bush/Cheney and co. use our money as they see fit. But not to take proper care of our wounded soldiers, not to screen for and treat PTSD, not to make sure more of our poor children have access to health care, not to build or re-build US crumbling infrastructure such as unsafe bridges…. I could go on and on. Sure, lets pay everyone in the world and not ever take care of our own, Why are most Americans still sitting on their hands while they do this? Why is our Congress asleep at the wheel? Stupid, really stupid.

By: Max Shields

Max Shields — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:20:45 +0000

Good points Beverly. Makes you wonder about the sagacity and depth of critical thinking Mr. Bills brings to his subject. Most of his post has been well document and redundantly stated here.

Max

By: Beverly

Beverly — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 01:21:01 +0000

Don’t get carried away commending Obama for “taking the high ground.”

Obama is an expert at saying all the right things but his actions (or inaction) speak much louder. He loves to crow about the mess that is Iraq and how he would not have voted for the war but has voted to continue funding it the last 4 times such a vote has come up.

Obama continues to backpeddle and parse words on when he would withdraw troops. Most telling, he mentions withdrawing combat troops – the majority of troops in Iraq are noncombat. Now he talks up moving said troops from Iraq to Afghanistan, another quamire without a clear directive. Plus, he’s still wagging a hawkish finger a Iran. AND, like a true Kennedy Camelot clone, he’s talking smack about Latin America. So much for that token diplomacy he alluded to in the primaries.

Disregard any “comendable comments” from the forked tongued one. Imperialism under President Obama will differ little from the current occupant – he’ll just be more charmingly cunning when he twists the knife.

By: bozhidar balkas

bozhidar balkas — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:28:49 +0000

we’l have house of horrors w. us for at least 2 decades. so, whether it may be surge/splurge, uncle sam obtains important real estate.
for now just palstn, iq, and afgh’n.
later it’l be syria, lebanon, jordan (in case abdullah had other thoughts) and onto ‘stans, outer mongolia, and past the chinese wall.
plutos love this planet, especially once socialism is destroyed.
but to obtain the choice parts of the globe, plutos will have to ante up megabucks to the uncle.
the choicest parts wil be siberia and lands around the poles. darkies will obtain or keep ovens where even tomatoes may evaporate in a few hours or minutes.
as the uncle said, U’r with us or against us. probably 99.99% of the world plutos r w. the uncle.
and that’s the only people that matter as far as uncle is concerned.
actually, dear uncle wants most darkies to be against him. and, do i need to tell u why?
there is no way the plutos will feed 7bn ‘lazy’, ‘stupid’, ‘uneducated’ people.
the planet surely will not be able to support that many people. in a cent or so, much of the planet may be uninhabitable and much more needy.
these analyses, folks, explains miltaristic frenzy.
or we cd say that ants have always known that basics never change.
ants have been on this planet for ca bn yrs but still toil/die/r eaten/stepped on/hated.
thank u

By: Deadbeat

Deadbeat — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:21:44 +0000

Giving direct stipends to people is clearly a much smarter and more humane economic policy than throwing people into prison. And Giorgio is correct that doing so is less inflationary. The real truth is what causes inflation is the concentration of wealth and power. Economic like to indoctrinate people into believing that when workers get raises that they cause inflation which go to show how Economics is not a science at all but really all about politics.

By: Giorgio

Giorgio — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:16:55 +0000

“Instead of vilifying, chasing down and prosecuting illegal aliens, why not just pay them to stay home?”

EXACTLY! Since the Federal Reserve Bank is so adept at printing dollars out of thin air, instead of bailing out the fat cats, post $300/month to the billions of poverty stricken in the world and voilà! poverty is eradicated from this global village with just a fick of a finger! And it will be far less inflationary!

May be GW Bush and his henchmen should be taught th merits of LATERAL THINKING, instead of sticking to the Stone Age’s long stale tactic of BULLDOZER thinking…

This with the added benefit that the money will make the world go round much faster and to the benefit of far many more people….

But of course, they TOO STUPID to twig at such an idea!