Meet Barack Hussein Mugabe

[rmsharpe]

Originally posted by DirtyMartini
they're both black and he doesn't like either of them

If there was a white leader who was as stupid as this, I'd post him first. However, no such leader today exists.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Arrian




You're blind, however, if you can't see how "Barack Hussein Mugabe" is a smear.

-Arrian

I agree

One thing to take Barrack to task

Another to take Mugambe to task

But when equating them as one, it is clearly smear


Gramps

[rmsharpe]

Originally posted by Arrian
Seems to be...

It's really a fairly nasty smear, considering what Mugabe's been up to.

As for the policy, blech. Not impressed.

-Arrian

How is it a smear? I'm not tarnishing his personality or his (non-political) beliefs, but openly criticizing one of the Anointed One's* ridiculous policy proposal.

I don't recall any condemnation of the "smears" of people who sponsored legislative acts that you believed that resembled those of a totalitarian state.

(*A criticism of the media hype surrounding Obama's candidacy, and perhaps a little for his ego...)

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by rmsharpe

If there was a white leader who was as stupid as this, I'd post him first. However, no such leader today exists.

Really? Not even the leaders of South America/etc?

JM

[DirtyMartini]

If there was a white leader who was as stupid as this, I'd post him first. However, no such leader today exists

Whatever lets you sleep at night

[Imran Siddiqui]

Will a windfall profit tax is a horrible idea, it's a far cry from going in and seizing their profits like a Mugabe or Chavez.

[rmsharpe]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
Really? Not even the leaders of South America/etc?

JM

Chavez's tyranny is in its diapers and his economic policies, while stupid, haven't raised inflation to 8-digit figures.

[Imran Siddiqui]

What about Argentina's mega inflation in the late 90s?

[ramseya]

Please can this go back on track or someone could change the post title and delete the stupid Mugabe references? This is really an important issue.

I am bothered by this greatly. First of all, what the hell is a windfall profit? That terms makes no sense to me as a profit is a profit, and it sets a dangerous precedence for the future. The situation behind the original windfall profits tax was different; in that case, an actual embargo by OPEC was allowing American oil companies to charge artificially high prices. The tax in that case made a little more sense than now where high demand is motivating inflation. Oil companies, as price takers in an open, non-OPEC manipulated market, are doing nothing wrong with their 8 cents on the dollar profits.

this is actual scary for the future of American capitalism.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by rmsharpe

Chavez's tyranny is in its diapers and his economic policies, while stupid, haven't raised inflation to 8-digit figures.

And you think that this will raise our inflation to 8-digit figures?

JM

[rmsharpe]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Will a windfall profit tax is a horrible idea, it's a far cry from going in and seizing their profits like a Mugabe or Chavez.

How are they a far cry from each other? How is it that they're not almost exactly alike?

I'll grant you the land seizures were probably extrajudicial (which wouldn't matter in Zimbabwe's case since ZANU runs everything) but how is raiding Exxon and Chevron not just a repeat of such events?

[rmsharpe]

Originally posted by Jon Miller


And you think that this will raise our inflation to 8-digit figures?

JM

No, but I think it'll bring us back to Carter years of double digit inflation, high unemployment, and no GDP growth. Obama isn't talking about seizing every profitable industry yet.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by ramseya
Please can this go back on track or someone could change the post title and delete the stupid Mugabe references? This is really an important issue.

I am bothered by this greatly. First of all, what the hell is a windfall profit? That terms makes no sense to me as a profit is a profit, and it sets a dangerous precedence for the future. The situation behind the original windfall profits tax was different; in that case, an actual embargo by OPEC was allowing American oil companies to charge artificially high prices. The tax in that case made a little more sense than now where high demand is motivating inflation. Oil companies, as price takers in an open, non-OPEC manipulated market, are doing nothing wrong with their 8 cents on the dollar profits.

this is actual scary for the future of American capitalism.

Why not just PM the thread starter?

In the OP it states a clear title?

tsk tsk tsk


or maybe start a new thread and ask a mod to close this one?


/me wonders if the starter got the response they wanted?

[DirtyMartini]

Originally posted by ramseya
Please can this go back on track or someone could change the post title and delete the stupid Mugabe references? This is really an important issue.

I am bothered by this greatly. First of all, what the hell is a windfall profit? That terms makes no sense to me as a profit is a profit, and it sets a dangerous precedence for the future. The situation behind the original windfall profits tax was different; in that case, an actual embargo by OPEC was allowing American oil companies to charge artificially high prices. The tax in that case made a little more sense than now where high demand is motivating inflation. Oil companies, as price takers in an open, non-OPEC manipulated market, are doing nothing wrong with their 8 cents on the dollar profits.

this is actual scary for the future of American capitalism.

I think there's been little debate on the issue because most of us agree that it's a pretty bad idea. Moreover, I'm not concerned about it because I think it's empty rhetoric. It makes me (further) doubt Obama's sincerity, but I mainly see it as a way for him to try to beef up his progressive image as he otherwise continues to drift toward the center.

[rmsharpe]

Originally posted by Grandpa Troll
* Grandpa Troll wonders if the starter got the response they wanted?

Have all of the Obama zombies repudiated his stupidity yet? If not, then I haven't gotten what I wanted.