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Re: Dueling budgets: Key takeaways

AspenFreePress — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:24:51 -0000

Leave the sequester alone. Once lobbyists get hold if it, that's the ballgame.
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Re: Sequester Won’t Spur U.S. AAA Rating Downgrade, Fitch Says

AspenFreePress — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:55:23 -0000

Members of Congress are reluctant to vote for cuts that could pose a re-election risk. Maybe mandated cuts are the only real cuts possible. But should there be any cuts? That's the question. After all dollars are just pieces of paper printed by our own government and if I were permitted under law to print my own legal tender one thing would be for certain: I would never go broke. Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: Euro Near 7-Week Low as Italy Sells Bonds Amid Poll Uncertainty

AspenFreePress — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:50:07 -0000

European Central Bank needs to print more euros to spread around Italy, maybe settle the people. This system works fine in U.S. with the Fed and greenbacks.
Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: Immigrant Detainees Set Free Thanks To Sequester Cuts

AspenFreePress — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:45:56 -0000

There are too many people incarcerated in the U.S., more per capita than anywhere in the world, yet we're supposed to be the "land of the free." Locking Americans and illegals up has become a big industry.
Sterling Greenwood/AspenFreePress

Re: Academy Award Ratings Highest Since 2007 | Movies News | Rolling Stone

AspenFreePress — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:13:40 -0000

When Bradley Cooper is considered a "leading man," in any movie, it's a sign Hollywood needs new blood. Best flick of the year, hands down, was "The Paperboy," which wasn't nominated. It got snubbed as did Affleck for best director. Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: GOP govs knock Obama, Hill on sequester

AspenFreePress — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 16:26:39 -0000

The U.S. is like an obese person who wants to lose weight but won't eat less.
Sterling Greenwood/AspenFreePress

Re: Oscar Sound Off: Do the Academy Awards Actually Matter in 2013?

AspenFreePress — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:19:48 -0000

The fact that "The Paperboy" wasn't nominated upsets me.
Sterling Greenwood/AspenFreePress

Re: House Democrats amplify calls for Boehner to take action to avoid sequester

AspenFreePress — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:03:40 -0000

Seems like the GOP would regard these automatic, across the board cuts as a bird's nest on the ground. Sterling Greenwood/AspenFreePress

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AspenFreePress — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:39:36 -0000

Maybe this is why fish are becoming so easy to catch these days. Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: Treasury Secretary nominee Jack Lew to face tough questions at confirmation hearing - Feb. 13, 2013

AspenFreePress — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:15:33 -0000

Citibank must be overjoyed!
Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: Undocumented Immigrant Testifies at Senate Hearing on Immigration Reform | PBS NewsHour

AspenFreePress — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 14:22:20 -0000

I hope they didn't arrest him after he testified.
Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: CPI: Inflation was tame in 2012 - Jan. 16, 2013

AspenFreePress — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:38:40 -0000

Inflation generally generally slows with a sluggish economy. Americans, most of whom are overweight consumers, are into the "gratification now," syndrome and would rather have a fired-up economy than low inflation, even though the latter will inevitably end in a bursting bubble. Americans know their political leaders will accede to printing more money, and spreading it around, if the need arises, in order to stay in office. Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: Here's What Happened the Last Time the U.S. Defaulted on Its Debt

AspenFreePress — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 09:25:02 -0000

Republican politicos love one thing more than the GOP. They love being re-elected. They're not about to shut down the government by refusing to raise the debt limit. After all, the so-called "conservatives," rolled over for Bush's bailouts. Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: U.S. may remove all troops from Afghanistan after 2014

AspenFreePress — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:55 -0000

Yes, no more U.S. soldiers died over there and the "domino theory" was shown to be a hoax, a scare tactic to the effect that the ChiComs would be invading California next.

Re: U.S. may remove all troops from Afghanistan after 2014

AspenFreePress — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:40:35 -0000

Obama brings to mind Dwight Eisenhower, the five-star general who became President. Ike kept the U.S. out of major skirmishes during his two terms and warned of the "military industrial complex." Ike, a hero of World War II, promised to end the Korean conflict if elected President and he did. Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: What 'Lincoln' misses and another Civil War film gets right

AspenFreePress — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:14:02 -0000

I wish there were better western movies, too. Ones comparable to Shane" and "High Noon." Movies are my thing.

Re: What 'Lincoln' misses and another Civil War film gets right

AspenFreePress — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:36:36 -0000

I wish there would be a movie that focused on slavery in the North. It flourished there for about 100 years. There was a slave market on Wall Street and Boston Harbor was the biggest such market in the world. Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: The Fiscal Cliff Deal and the Damage Done

AspenFreePress — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:42:40 -0000

Without huge government spending our economy would crumble seems to be the message of bill's passage. Or at least crumble enough so that members of Congress could lose re-election.
Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: Senate passes package to avert fiscal cliff; House votes next

AspenFreePress — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 23:47:56 -0000

Apparently the House doesn't believe the U.S. economy can stand without huge government spending. Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: Social media: Fiscal cliff deadlock is 'jeopardizing faith in our government'

AspenFreePress — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:19:11 -0000

I have lost faith that politicians will make hard choices now that they can put off until later. Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: With no deal and only hours to go, US economy heads toward 'fiscal cliff'

AspenFreePress — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:11:38 -0000

I don't pay any attention to economists. I don't think they know beans about whether a recession looms for the U.S. They're always forecasting doom except when doom really is around the corner like before the meltdown of 2008.
Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: With no deal and only hours to go, US economy heads toward 'fiscal cliff'

AspenFreePress — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:08:42 -0000

No delay of spending cuts could mean no re-election for some members of Congress. The U.S. is like a fat person who tries to lose weight without lowering calorie consumption. Not now, but will do it later on. Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: A Deal Both Sides Should Hate -- and Support

AspenFreePress — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:56:06 -0000

The House didn't vote on their "fiscal cliff," bill. Boehner just folded without call the roll, figuring he didn't have the vote even though Cantor had claimed the vote was there. No one wants to be on record as voting to raise taxes, even on those who make $1 million annually or more. And the House isn't voting even today supposedly with a midnight deadline looming.
Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: With no deal and only hours to go, US economy heads toward 'fiscal cliff'

AspenFreePress — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:19:51 -0000

We can print all the money money we need in less time than it takes a metro daily to run off a bulldog edition. Bernanke's bucks have become our economy's life blood. Sterling Greenwood/Aspen

Re: McConnell Says He Called Biden to Try to ‘Jump Start’ Talks

AspenFreePress — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 00:28:26 -0000

Members of Congress in both parties dread being recorded as either cutting spending or raising taxes. With the fiscal cliff, tax increases and spending cuts will occur involuntarily.