steve graves

Friday's Jobs Report: Unemployment Bumps 10%?

Michael,

Exceptionally well said in response to the ridiculous post prior. The whole 'Obama is a socialist' line of argument is an excuse to avoid actually thinking, generally resorted to by those who lack the necessary equipment to do so anyway. Most of the so-called socialistic responses to our financial crisis were initiated during the prior (i.e., Republican) administration, not to mention the fact that socialism and capitalism are shades of a spectrum rather than some sort of isolated ideals. To the simpletons, when the government promotes and protects an industry they refer to this as capitalism but when the government regulates that same industry then their efforts become socialism. All modern democracies are socialistic (on many, many levels) by definition, but I suppose when your psyche is locked in the Cold War and your thought patterns are corroded by Fox News then everything becomes black and white, either/or, good or evil. The government is evil! Corporations are good! Sarah Palin in 2012!

Hey wait a minute, maybe the world really is going to end in 2012. If she's elected, maybe it should.