tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458599711183107879.post527116736136630365..comments2023-05-10T09:36:05.759-06:00Comments on A.E.Jones: Post Address PostAshley Arnoldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00501879889469846277noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458599711183107879.post-33003940714185234272010-01-28T19:43:10.721-07:002010-01-28T19:43:10.721-07:00Oh goodness, I smell a couple of staunch republica...Oh goodness, I smell a couple of staunch republicans here. haha. I applaud your awareness and concern, though. Good ideas.Ryan Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02402552952321737784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458599711183107879.post-58151178312768873042010-01-27T23:13:30.350-07:002010-01-27T23:13:30.350-07:00Way to get on top of it fast! I was surprised to s...Way to get on top of it fast! I was surprised to see you already had a response to it! It was spicy here in DC. We had 30 Poli Sci students and advocates of all types in a room reacting to everything. <br /><br />I agree with pretty much everything you said! I was very sick of the empty pathos and ethos rhetoric, but that goes as expected. Gov. McDonnell's GOP response held about the same amount of it, too. Sometimes they ended up blaming the other party for the exact same general talking points. Either side was 90% rhetoric, and 10% actual partisan ideas. <br /><br />Furthermore, I thought it was ridiculous how Pres. Obama went from saying he walked into $1 trillion debt forced from the previous year alone and the only responsible thing to do was spend another $1 trillion in his first year to somehow fix it through quoting immeasurable facts of job creation and unemployment rates. And he said it all in almost the same breath, yet as if they were completely unrelated. I don't believe that you can accurately predict the influence any policy will have on job creations and unemployment, nor that you can claim credit for immeasurable success.<br /><br />I agree as well, though, that education needs money and reform. But, I find it disconcerting that the $30 billion the government used to bail out banks, upon being paid back, will be used on something else. What if we used all the money we got paid back to pay off the deficit it created? I'm realizing more and more that once the government has let go of money they irresponsibly decide to never take it back. Hence the need to keep government spending low from the beginning and not work in hindsight. <br /><br />Anyway, those are my simple-reaction, two cents from the nation's capital :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com