Bush got one huge thing right: That tax cuts–more resources in the hands of private citizens rather than in the wasteful mitts of government bureacrats–are what really stimulates an economy. Lower taxes = higher tax revenue, because that increased economic activity, even at lower tax rates, results in more transactions and employment to be taxed. It’s called the Laffer Curve. Yes, it’s counter-intuitive, but it’s true. Record revenues tumbled in during the Bush years of tax cuts for everyone (which were mischaracterized as “tax cuts for the rich”).

And spending on the Iraq war was only a small fraction of spending on Medicaid for the same period. I agree that it was mostly wasted, we should have just brutally blasted any opposition to bits, avoided nation building and altruistic crap over there, we should have taken the oil(which despite refusing to do so, we were nonetheless and still are accused of doing), and we should have come home. But no, we act as if playing nicey-nicey with atavistic Muslim savages, and allowing them to write into their new “constitution” a theocratic Islamic imperative, is going to result in anything but total disaster. Watch.

Who cares what Wall Street pays their chiefs? It is only because big government do-gooders like Bush and Obama who are in bed with them all, that Wall Street can be bailed out and run scams which pass all the losses onto the taxpayers and allow the fatcats to make off with all gains. Besides, Wall Street throws far more support and funding to liberals like Obama and kerry than it does to less-liberal big government RINOs like Bush and McCain. Check the facts.

I highly recommend Peter Shweizer’s “Architects of Ruin” which explains how the egalitarian altruists of government, such as Barney Frank, Obama, Chris Dodd, et. al., are behind the entire high-finance catastrophe.

You think socialism actually works? Look at the train wreck of entitlements all of those programs you listed ARE.

We are utterly bankrupt becasue of altruistic social benefit programs like those you mentioned, and now insane people like you are pushing MORE free lunches onto our grandchildren’s already ridiculous debt burden. We are BANKRUPT. Kaput. All because Marxists like Obama(Obama was suing CITIBank back in 1994 as ACORN’s lawyer) started suing and shaking down banks to force them to make loans to deadbeat minorities decades ago, and as the train wreck chugged along, all financial and lending standards were destroyed–just so egalitarian delusions of houses for everybody could be chased.

Go ahead, blame Wall Street, blame capitalism, and destroy free markets until you are BEGGING us to bring back free enterprise and to get rid of government central planning so that we can all prosper again.

You WILL beg, after your socialism fails even worse than it already has, and it WILL. Socialism never works. Centrally-planned economies DO NOT WORK. Only freedom works. Not coercion, not state-forced wealth redistribution schemes, not thugs siezing private earnings at gunpoint and destroying incentives for production…only liberty, only capitalism can save this train wreck of a nation–you WILL realize this before you finish this life.

Leftists like you want to force people to produce at gunpoint for those who do not produce. It does not work! Look at the fruits of these free lunch and free house and free/mandated medical services schemes–higher prices and lower supply, lower quality. Get a clue.

Read Atlas Shrugged, maybe it will get you started on the right path to understanding.

And stick to making awesome rock and roll, otherwise, at least until you learn something about economics and why electing an anti-American racist was the wrong thing to do.

Loving “Under Construction”, and eagerly waiting for more music and *gasp* a TOUR !!!

Glad you’re well, and I’m glad your Band is Back. I missed it.
Cheers Scott

Cam Traviss

Cheers!