Shawns reference to the artical below regarding who owns America is well recieved by this conservative. However, who cares whether Pelosi or Obama wins the race to the bully pulpit… either way the markets will crash. What is important is what will America do about it after the collapse. There is a another great depression out there just around the corner and the liberal media is covering it up outright, the conservative media is suspiciously absent. Socialists like Pelosi and Obama are going to kill the free market system and soon folks wont have the luxury of reading comments like this – they will be too busy waiting in bread lines – that is assuming they survive the race riots that certainly will follow an Obama failure. Don’t misunderstand me, I don’t believe that race should be an issue, I just recognize the likely hood that it will occurr.

The only comfort I take from the idea that the world is ‘flat’ and America is owned by foreigners is the possibility that these foreigners will realize that if America fails, they fail. I have no faith though that Obama and Pelosi have what it takes to manipulate this scenario to our favor. On the contrary, they race to push us over the cliffs edge is too tantalizing to them.

Instead of reporting on who wins this race… maybe report on why they are racing and what the consequences are of either one of them winning, or losing, as I look at it.

David Aldridge

I say it again. If you want to stimulate the economy, stop the gov’t from spending. Gov’t stimulus spending just stimulates inflation and wastes resources.

Pelosi, I ask you please….please don’t try to give the USA any of your “solutions”. Your only “solutions” are more debt, more inflation, more subsidies, more redistribution of wealth, more regulation, more govt intervention, and more taxes. These are not answers to a capitalistic society and certainly does not bode well for the stock market. No wonder the companies that have made the USA economically balanced for years have gotten out of dodge. Why would anyone, with the taxes, union control, regulation, and legal risks want to start or invest into a company in the great ol USA?

If only they would give incentive for the investors to invest, owners to take risks, and a risk/reward proposition that was worth investing back into America, capital would come on back, but they just don’t. They just don’t understand. The majority on capital hill are lawyers, and have never took one risk of starting their own company in the USA.

Brian, you have on your show these small business owners (ie. car dealers, house builders) that tell us the problem is a credit freeze, yet you don’t spend time dealing with the real issues to our economy. Are economy does not need easier credit and forced lending by banks to shove people into homes and cars they can’t afford. There is an oversupply of housing and we just have to deal with it.

What our economy needs is solid policy making that provides the incentive for capital to flow back and allows the production and profits to stay here in the US.

You have the platform Brian, and your smart, and you seem to be an honest guy. We all need to understand what is really wrong before we can fix the problem. You can help America understand.

Now, in lottery fashion we randomly pick social security numbers and pay off all of their consumer credit: Boats, cars, student loans, credit cards, gas cards, mall cards. Hey if you owe your bookie we will pay him too!

We keep picking social security numbers until we run out of money.

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Hey I’m right there with you about someone cutting taxes. I don’t are who cuts them, just get them cut. What I am concerned about, whether it be a republican or democrat, is increased excessive gov’t spending. Gov’t can only spend taxpayer’s money since gov’t does earn a living like you do or a business does. So if at the same time we are cutting taxes (a good thing), we are then turning around and increasing deficit spending, we’re still being taxed. How you ask? Because if gov’t doesn’t have the money, it borrows it into existence off the old printing press. More paper money, means inflation, and that means the dollar in your pocket just went down in value. The value that it went down was the amount you’ve been taxed.

I want the politicians to cut taxes, cut spending, balance the budget, and begin repaying the obscene amount of debt it owes. I want it to get out of our daily lives with a tax on everything we do, electricity tax, gasoline tax, telecomm tax, cable tax, income tax, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, social security tax, medicare tax, unemployment tax, tire tax, sales tax, real estate tax, and on it goes. That would be a real stimulus to the economy. Money would be spent/used by individuals efficiently instead of wasted by gov’t. If left to itself, the gov’t would spend itself and all of us into the poor house, see the old Soviet Union. We’re no where near that bad, but we are slowly moving in that direction. We need to go back the other way, toward Thomas Jefferson’s economic ideas.