Beat me to it Buzz.

Carl

Carl read this 2009 United States federal budget - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Then tell us how it was Obama budget when he was not even president elect when the 2009 budget was approved by the House. A big chunk of that was Tarp money from 2008. Yes the final bill was signed by Obama in March but the initial bill was Bush and it would have been almost a trillion dollar deficit with the loss of tax revenue.

This is nothing more than the greatest example-to-date of the growing arrogance of Richard and the rest of our management. I get it we're running the best airline in the country and the performance is second-to-none -- but more and more it seems we're just getting more full of ourselves. The unnecessary comment to inject personal politics into this airline is pure arrogance.

Really dude...Wikipedia?

Face palm.

Carl

Did you even listen to your own highly edited YouTube video ace? If you had, you wouldn't have posted it. :rolleyes:

Carl

Carl,

The face palm is your demonstrably incorrect assertion that the debt has tripled under Obama. Whether the subject is ALPA, DPA, economics or politics your posts' content and reality don't usually jib.

Facts are stubborn things ace. The budget deficit tripled under Obama's administration. Yes he inherited problems, no question about that. But Obama took an on budget deficit of 400billion and total of about 800 billion (inclusive of Bush's emergency bank bailouts), and raised that number to over 1.4 trillion by more emergency spending and a no budget operation of continuing resolutions. That's a fact. Anyone can check for themselves.

Carl

The US dollar is still the worlds currency despite all that. When times are bad countries buy US dollars.

It's a fiat currency just like every other currency on the world. Debt is meaningless in a fiat world, in fact in reality debt = money. The more debt, the more money there is, same as mining it from the ground.

The overall big picture when dealing with fiat currency is inflation, which has been very controlled despite the printing presses rolling almost nonstop for over a decade.

So to folks that point out our deficit I simply say, who cares? It's a meaningless number nowadays.

I know a minute is a long time to foucus, but if you go to :38 of the video the VP of the United States of America states on Meet the Press that, "With respect to 9/11 of course you've had the story that has been public out there that checks, alleged that Muhammed Atta, the lead attacker, met in Prague with a senior level Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attack."

God help us.

Carl