Posts tagged Ben Bernanke
Posts tagged Ben Bernanke
Introducing Print Money Ben Bernanke.
Yes, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is a meme. And it’s spectacular.
(Source: cognitivedissonance)
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I would just say very generally, I think people are quite unhappy with the state of the economy and what’s happening. They blame, with some justification, the problems in the financial sector for getting us into this mess, and they’re dissatisfied with the policy response here in Washington. And at some level, I can’t blame them. Certainly, 9 percent unemployment and very slow growth is not a good situation.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, saying the Occupy Wall Street protesters just might have a legitimate reason to be pissed off. Bernanke is alternately Captain Obvious and Captain Obfuscation. Pretty sure this is Captain Obvious commenting here…
Let me make one thing clear, Mr. Bernanke. There’s no “some justification” about it. The “problems in the financial sector” share the majority of the blame for the current state of the economy. Deregulation run amok coupled with unrestrained greed and over-leveraged financial institutions, topped off with more than a dash of unmitigated risky speculation, have sold my future and the futures of other Americans straight down the river.
So no. You can’t blame us for being just a titch pissed off.
(Source: thinkprogress.org)
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It is quite epic:
Just to recap, in less than two months Rick Perry has:
- Suggested that maybe Ben Bernanke should be lynched.
- Declined to back off his contention that Social Security is an unconstitutional Ponzi scheme.
- Called climate change a “contrived phony mess” that was cooked up by scientists who have “manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling in to their projects.”
- Pissed off the conservative base by defending his decision to (in Michele Bachmann’s immortal words) give “government injections” to “innocent little 12-year-old girls.” Said Perry condescendingly: “What I don’t get is what parents don’t understand about an opt out.”
- Further pissed off the conservative base by suggesting that if you disagree with his policy on in-state tuition for illegal immigrants, “I don’t think you have a heart.”
- Mangled a prepackaged debate attack on Mitt Romney so badly, and then followed up with a statement on Pakistan so inscrutable, that even his supporters started to wonder if he has a three-digit IQ.
- Proposed that U.S. troops should be used to fight Mexican drug lords. In Mexico.
- Had to defend himself against revelations that his family leases a hunting spot called “Niggerhead.”
Should we start taking bets on how much longer Rick Perry lasts? I think he’ll hold out until the first primaries, personally. What’s shocking to me is the defense of the Perry family from supporters. From the original Washington Post article:
“It’s just a name,” said Haskell County Judge David Davis, sitting in his courtroom and looking at a window. “Like those are vertical blinds. It’s just what it was called. There was no significance other than as a hunting deal.”
If Perry continues, I have a feeling he’ll be just a name shortly as well - some failed governor that flamed out spectacularly while running for the presidential nomination.
