Dana Perino "Under Strict Instructions...To Not Talk About The Dollar"
By Nicole Belle Monday Mar 10, 2008 1:09pm
Friday's White House Press Briefing included two economic advisers to discuss the volatile economic situation here in the US, though they were careful to not paint to dire a picture. Obviously, with crude oil trading at record levels and OPEC releasing a statement blaming the price on the weakness of the American dollar, the media might be expected to ask a question or two. However, White House Spokesperson Dana Perino was not having any of it.
Q I'd like to follow up on their refusal to talk about the dollar, if I could. I mean, we're in a kind of a bad situation here, when OPEC says the reason for $105 or $106 a barrel of oil is the falling value of the dollar -- and you won't address that issue. Where do we go to find out who is right?
MS. PERINO: Well, as he just said, the Treasury Secretary is where you go to talk about the dollar. It's a longstanding policy that predates this administration, and I'm not going to change it today. But Treasury can talk about it.
Q I don't expect you to change it, but I do expect you to be able to say whether OPEC is completely wrong about this, or whether there is at least something to their claim that the dollar is responsible for the high price of oil right now.
MS. PERINO: Wendell, I'm under strict instructions, and have been from the beginning, to not talk about the dollar, and I'm not going to get fired to satisfy your question.
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This is exactly what happens when you have leadership that doesn't know how to lead. Reich-wingers, are you proud?
The dollar must be involved in an ongoing investigation.
I'm sorry, we only talk about the reality that we create in our own minds....next question!
Boy, Perino looks noticeably older than even a couple months ago. Must be hard to obfuscate and lie like that. At this rate she will be physically a 70 year old and need to retire by the end of the term, if she lasts that long.
She said she's "not going to get fired" for answering to the people of the United States? She should get fired for NOT answering that question!
White House propagandist Tokyo Perino.
self-incriminate much, Dana?
She can't talk about the dollar cuz they ain't ready
to roll out the Amero...........just yet.
LOL.
Pixie @ 2:
tOO FUNNY!
teknikAL @ 4:
Next month she'll be sitting in the front row next to Helen and we won't be able to tell them apart. Well, Dana will be the one throwing softballs....
Ruthless People @ 5:
Or better yet, Tony-o Perino
Perino is just a sock puppet. The scary part would be her making up stuff about the dollar in order to answer a question like that. The dollar would end up in a free fall.
If she had any scruples or morals what-so-ever she would quit! But then again if she had those they wouldn't have hired her.
She'll be working for faux by next year and shortly after will be sexually harassed by KKKarl, Vannity, and O'Racist.
Where does the "policy" stem from? We are acting like it came from GW, but is it from Treasury? If she can't talk about "other departments" then why can she talk freely about Iraq?
now thats just an odd statement.
who would tell her not to talk about the dollar and why?
What is interesting, looking at a graph
the value of the dollar - going down... it parallels exactly opposite
..the value of oil prices going up.
The value of the dollar (-) , the price of oil (+) match and parallel the timeline of the Iraq War policies starting in 2002.
Has Perino talked about Torture lately?
I wonder what Physicians have to say..
http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/torture/face-the-truth.html
Thought for the day ... from history..
Speech, State House of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (1 August 1776)
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." -Sam Adams
In the old days, after giving an answer like that, the only question she would have received from the press from that point forward would have been about the dollar. Those were the good old days.
Is that a prison outfit she's wearing? Looks good on her, she should wear prison gear more often. Hey maybe the whole WH could start wearing prison wear.
Perino didn't know the difference between the Bay of Pigs episode and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Is this really the person people want to explain economic reality?
And which Presidential candidate has been sounding the alarm about the falling value of the dollar? Anyone...anyone...Bueller...
The answer is Ron Paul.
I actually went to Obama's website, and his only mention of inflation was that he wants to index minimum wage to inflation. That doesn't fix the problem. So he isn't going to do anything about inflation. So your dollar will continue to lose its value and the price of oil (as well as other goods and services) will continue to rise. Hope, indeed.
Leslie Hussein @ 8:
Priceless..
Good! That's one less lie that will be coming out of her mouth.
"I'm under strict instructions to obfuscate, confuse, dodge, hide and basically refuse to answer anything of substance."
D.Perino
Pixie @ 2:
Beat me to it. How bout, "there is an ongoing appeal involving the dollar" or "the dollar is subject to the executive privilege" or "we don't discuss specific techniques we use to torture the dollar for the enemy to adjust"
Of course she would get fired that's so obvious what the hell does the White House or it's press secretary know about the dollar. I'll tell not one fucking thing
Is she afraid of being fired or tortured?
BobD @ 17
kind of looks like she belongs on the Starship Enterprise with that outfit.
wonder if she's reptilian?
HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=death+of+the+dollar+2&search_...
a year ago
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zmyvEhU-gmw
ONLY AL JAZEERA CAN TALK ABOUT A FALLING DOLLAR!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
MS. PERINO: It’s a longstanding policy that predates this administration, and I’m not going to change it today. But Treasury can talk about it.
Uh-oh ... I can hear the YouTubular firing up ....
Then tell us about the quarter and repeat it four times.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” -Sam Adams
That is fuckin awesome!!!
If she had anything positive to say about the future of the Dollar, this would have gone un-noticed. By this time next year, the Dollar is worthless.
The press secretary's job is to represent the entire mob, not just Tony Soprano personally.
A real reporter would ask her about Petro-dollars ...
Pixie @ 2:
Comes under heading: Things I wish I'd said and may later say not giving Pixie one iota of credit
25 Dale Says: Is she afraid of being fired or tortured?
I'm sure she's into that.
Its part of that whole Ostrich, head in the sand, school of economics, if you talk about the real conditions of the economy then your part of the reason its a disaster if you ignore it or only use Rosy talk then you can wish it better. Kinda like if you don't support the war then you don't support the troops, or there are terrorists every where so be afraid but go shopping.
"I'm not going to talk about something neither I, nor anyone else in the junta, know anything about!"
Perino reminds me of the three monkey's, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil all wrapped into one nice neat little package. There is literally no one in this administration that isn't shitting in their pants at the breath of the dollar drop, and none of them have the balls to do the right thing. That is to shut down the printing presses and take your medicine. The addict doesn't need another financial fix. Oh! I forgot, it's an election year.
No one should be mad at the administration anymore - we know who they are: crooks and liars.
But there is NO EXCUSE fo the press to continuously allow them to stonewall and lie, and then cover for them. The press and our cowardly opposition party is the problem.
BLAME THEM.
A real reporter would ask her about Petro-dollars …
Even the Pedro-dollar is probably worth more now.
My understanding is that oil prices are pegged to the dollar. So the statement by OPEC is fairly transparent.
I'm shocked , she just didn't lie about it nothing ever stopped her before. What a know nothing bitch she is.
38 Andrew Says: Perino reminds me of the three monkey’s, see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil all wrapped into one nice neat little package.
Spank that monkey.
Follow up question should have been: What would you be willing to get fired for?
Any moron can see the high price of oil is a direct consequence of the weak dollar.
Remember that the Euro started out at 1:1 to the dollar. Now it's about $1.55.
Oil is about 65 Euros right now.
lucid fiction @ 26:
She's certainly cold blooded, can she lick her eyeballs? THAT would definitely stop a lot of reporters' questions!
The real question: Why do we care what the press secretary says anyway?
She/they will only do one of two things:
1. Lie
2. Stonewall
It doesn't matter what the administration says. The reporters need to leave the press room and go out and DO SOME REPORTING.
37 Dr. Acula Says: “I’m not going to talk about something neither I, nor anyone else in the junta, know anything about!”
The great white junta?
Pixie @ 2:
Heh.
Control, steer, and spin. If that fails just start shouting over and at your opponents Fox News style.
BobD @ 46:
:lol: THAT is funny. Ever see the teevee miniseries "V"? Mebbe she'll open her jaw and eat a live rat right in front of the WH press lackies.
46 BobD Says: lucid fiction @ 26:
BobD @ 17
kind of looks like she belongs on the Starship Enterprise with that outfit.
wonder if she’s reptilian?
She’s certainly cold blooded, can she lick her eyeballs? THAT would definitely stop a lot of reporters’ questions!
That little cunny could probably lingas herself.
51 Bonkers Hussein
I remember V, it was back when Robert Englund wasn't trying to be a comic.
Is Perino REALLY afraid her boss is going to fire her for leaking information about the dollar to the press?
ChrisM70 @ 47:
And if the "real" reporters didn't show up this admin would still hold the pressers, albeit FEMA style!
And Obama's plan to curb inflation is?
BobD @ 46:
lucid fiction @ 26:
BobD @ 17
kind of looks like she belongs on the Starship Enterprise with that outfit.
wonder if she’s reptilian?
She’s certainly cold blooded, can she lick her eyeballs? THAT would definitely stop a lot of reporters’ questions!
:lol: THAT is funny. Ever see the teevee miniseries “V”? Mebbe she’ll open her jaw and eat a live rat right in front of the WH press lackies.
you have to have those SPECIAL sunglasses to seeeeee that.
As the value of a currency declines the cost of imports increases. When demand for imports begins to equal or exceed supply, costs increase dramatically. Nothing complex there. OPEC is correct. But that is nothing compared to what a barrel of oil would cost were it not denominated in dollars.
The American dollar will soon be the american peso once the Euro takes over as the main currencey to which oil is traded by.
Dale @ 54:
No she's afraid her boss will fire for leaking REAL info about the dollar to the press. They already have their approved leaks, Karl is handling that over at FOX for them. The friendlies aren't as reliable as they used to be, so they had to seat Karl to get the job done right! And since FBN is being seen as a complete joke, funnier than their 1/2 hr news hr attempt, Karl is guaranteed a job at FOX till at least November!
Michael @ 56:
Wait until the train wreck has occurred, see how many people were scrunched by it, and if the sc4runchees add up to so many, then say yes it was a train wreck?
I know there are some Obama supporters here. C'mon, what's your guy gonna do to curb inflation?
Jesus people, Ron Paul is the only one even mentioning inflation. You don't want solutions, you want a prom king.
Michael @ 62:
Hope it goes away.
and what is billary's solution?
Wow, she should come back down from the Space Station quick... she's aged a lot up there.
Blame Obama for not having a solution
lucid fiction @ 57:
Haha. Now, that would be "They Live", an equally excellent, but totally other sci-fi experience. Rowdy Roddy Piper's finest hour, bar none.
Save Our Troops @ 45:
I remember when the $US was 1.48 euro.
Of course I also remember when a liter of gas was 0.65 euro. Somewhere pre 2001.
Damn you, Bin Laden!
Got GOLD?
Hey you dumb broad! WE are your employers! WE sign your paycheck! It's OUR tax dollars that you deposit every payday and YES we expect you to do your job and tell us the NEWS from the White House. When the press askes questions, you are supposed to ANSER them. That's your JOB. If you get fired for doing your job right, maybe you're working for the wrong asshole!
19 Michael Says: And which Presidential candidate has been sounding the alarm about the falling value of the dollar? Anyone…anyone…Bueller…
The answer is Ron Paul.
I actually went to Obama’s website, and his only mention of inflation was that he wants to index minimum wage to inflation. That doesn’t fix the problem. So he isn’t going to do anything about inflation. So your dollar will continue to lose its value and the price of oil (as well as other goods and services) will continue to rise. Hope, indeed.
Wow its been along time sence we have heard from the simpleton Pauletts. Oh prey tell, what is the cure for the my dollar? Privatise the Federal government?Eleminate income taxes? Close down the Federal Reserve? What about the trillions we owe?
Michael @ 63:
What's Paul's solution? Lemme guess:
Privatize it all!
(careful though, you and I might be justifiably accused of going OT)
Michael @ 63:
is paul gonna run as an independent????
why dont you paulbots stfu already
CoIntelPro - just asking @ 65:
Start regulating the markets and eliminating the income tax burden for everyone earning less than $125,000 year.
I see, so you're willing to admit that your candidate is basically ignoring the #1 problem facing our economy.
So you poke fun at Ron Paul for wanting to get rid of the Fed? When everyone knows good and well that the printing of fiat money by the Fed is the problem. Forgive this petty Paulbot, as you say, for not understanding. But go ahead, elect your prom king and watch as the wars continue and the debts increase. At least you'll sleep well knowing that a republican didn't get elected.
In case you were wondering (although I can't imagine why you would have doubts at this point), Ms Perino was, of course, lying when she said it had been policy for the WH Spokesperson to not answer these questions since some previous admin.
Here's an example of Ari Fleischer answering the exact same question that Perino refused to answer.
This one took all of one minute to locate using Google. Why Ms Perino didn't do this ....
Someone should have asked her, "What's Richie Rich's dog's name?"
More lame-ass incompetent buck-passing.
Of course the president (and his blow-dried press spokesbimbo) can talk about the damned dollar. Monetary policy is set by agencies that report to the President. The Secretary of the Treasury is a cabinet officer, appointed by the President. The Chairman of the Federal Reserve is appointed by the President. If the dollar was strong instead of collapsing, you can bet Bush would be talking about it.
BTW, OPEC sets world prices, but the cartel does not supply most of America's oil and gas. Your biggest single source isn't Saudi Arabia, it's Canada. The Canadian dollar has gone up about 50% in the past decade.
World price of oil over the past 10 years:
in $US: up 400%
in $Cdn: up 250%
The difference is a tax, paid every time you fill your tank or turn on your furnace - the hidden Bush inflation tax, brought to you by seven years of tax cuts, deficit spending and the $3 trillion war.
Wow... I think Dana just tipped her hand. I think we are headed to martial law and the elections will be canceled. Bush is doing a good job of fooling the public by singing and dancing until the day he is supposedly going to leave office. It is just a charade. Bush will not be leaving anytime soon....
Watching our government handle our economy is a lot like being Willie Wonka surrounded by a bunch of self will run riot delinquents and not being able to save them from their stupidity. “Stop. Don't. Come back. – too late, we all will pay now”
She can't talk about it! LOL!
She's the White House spokesperson! LOL! Oh...just another GOP blonde piece of eyecandy. What's she worried about?!? Get fired? So what...she can be a FOX News anchor! LOL! She's got the qualifications...blonde and brainless.
Of course they don't want to talk about it, we can all smell it, but the administration doesn't want to admit it is THEM with the shit in their pants.
Why?
Oil at $109 per barrel.
Because:
This surge to new records is driven by the speculative and large funds moving money into commodities. It’s primarily a U.S. dollar and inflation play by financial investors, such as the loan outfits (countrywide etc.) who were allowed to go batshit after the Bush Administration lifted the rules governing lending which originally kept them from lending to people who didn’t have at least 10% down, they lowered the bar so far that NO down payment was necessary and the greedy loan companies just went nuts.
Now because of the ineptness of bush and his cronies plus the bullshit war on terruh, we have gas prices soaring, which is now causing everything (groceries, goods, shipping, heating oil etc. ) to skyrocket.
Will Americans finally get pissed enough to start to complain? Or will they keep sitting in their living rooms watching FOX Reality and letting the country crumble into ruins.
Where is the Outrage America?
I commend the WH press staff.
I mean it's really gotta be tough to be heard and to hear the answers...with the sound of all that wind blowing through Dana's head permeating the room.
RayC @ 72:
My God, Ron Paul can't be right, because he's a libertarian. I mean, balance the budget? Spend less money? Stop printing money out of thin air!? That's crazy talk. If you run out of money, you just print more. It doesn't make it worth any less paultards paulistas paulettes paulites paulbots paulwhatevers!
As I recall Ron made a number of suggestions for dealing with this problem. The first was eliminating the military empire and only defending the country instead. That would save about $1 T per year. The next step would be to bring domestic spending under control. The other thing would be to back the dollar with precious metals so that it couldn't be devalued.
I don't really understand how anyone can be so stupid as not to see that when the value of a dollar goes down, the price of oil goes up. It's a pretty simple concept and it's due to the fact that the dollar is just a piece of paper. If the United States ceased to exist, the dollar would be worthless.
As another posted pointed out, look at the price of oil in Euros.
By the way, has any other candidate even MENTIONED THIS ISSUE let alone mad suggestions for dealing with it?
So in one very silent stroke the Federal Reserve Board essentially started the bail out of the Stock market and banking industry. Two hundred billion dollars are delivered to a select few were the Fed is hoping the new program, dubbed the “”Term Securities Lending Facility”” will help. That begs the question that time will tell.
Here, Ladies and Gentleman of America is proof positive of complicit insider money manipulation that has been going on for the longest time. The Fed essentially and instantaneously declaring what one could consider a Title Funding Program for the rich. If done for the middle class or the poor would likely go through endless debate and media confusion, but today, done under the radar, and belligerence of secrecy to and for favorite pals of big money. All will eventually need tax collection in the future. All done in the Quasi Government Institution of the Rockefellers and Vanderbilt’s that also collect and reap the interest on investment that should go to the public but does not.
Is and has been done for almost century. Yes ladies and Gentlemen a Republican run big government agency as corrupt with the full support of all the laws and regulations that are as good if not better than any laws or lack of over sight in elections that prevents a vote, not to count the vote, as in Florida.
Hell, no one counts especially when it comes to counting money that the Federal Reserve dishes out. America you all should be enrage, pounding, and furious beyond all moral values we know, shouting in the streets, and demanding redress of grievances. Your kids and grand kids will pay for this. And you really think the Rich secret trust fund babies will care. I don’t think so.
Michael @ 76:
Nah. I just wanna make fun of his ears and that racist mag he used to publish. I also don't wanna haveta buy a steamroller so that I have to fix my own potholes.
Seriously, though, one issue is not enough to make me vote for Paul. I dig his stance on the occupation and the Constitution, but I differ on too many other things to vote for him. And yes, though it may seem close-minded, I am already 90% on-guard the second I see an (R) after anyone's name. (btw, my favorite candidates have long been out of the race)
Democracy and open government... it's why I love this country.
My god there are a lot of sexist assholes on this thread. Could we tone down the hostility, boys?
Chris @ 85:
I need to be specific here -- the price of oil in dollars goes up.
Hussein AND Proud @ 84:
She's full of sh*t.
She's poorly educated.
But she's very smart, especially in the sense of being able to think fast.
(If you require all posts to be negative, feel free to read that last sentence as suggesting that you need to be quick-thinking to come up with so many lies so quickly.)
BadKitty @ 88:
In my defense I made one non-gender specific crack about eating rats. I just think it would be refreshing to see the press corps trample each other in fear (or maybe some would lick their chops in envy. Dunno!).
:)
show of hands: who EVER thought that they would miss Tony Snow?
or Scott McClellan? or even Ari Shapiro, who was, at least, GOOD at
being a professional liar..
BadKitty @ 88:
Such hostility from someone asking for less hostility.
So when did Iraq, Iran, and North Korea start trading commodities in euros instead of dollars? Before or after Bush? Is that why they're the "Axis of Evil".
Everytime this comes up, everytime everyone cracks a pantload over it, and everytime everyone takes their eyes off the ball.
BOOKMARK THE FOLLOWING SITE AND CHECK IT EVERY TWO WEEKS:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h3/Current/
Look at the second column. It is for NON-BORROWED RESERVES, in aggregate for the country. A year ago up to November it bounced around in the low 40 billion dollars area. In December it declined, in January it plummeted, and as of FEB 27, it was NEGATIVE $17 billion.
This means, in a deep and fundamental way, the USA is INSOLVENT.
Yet: there is money...
This means the Feds are buying the bad debt as it comes up and are flooding the world with worthless dollars. A recipe for utter disaster.
This month $110 billion ARMs come up for reset. If a sort of small percentage of them come up as bad loans, (say, 10%) That will kick the reserves down to NEGATIVE $28 billion because there's nothing left: the cupboard is bare.
Stick a fork in America. she's done for.
29 Dale Says:
Then tell us about the quarter and repeat it four times.
Ha-larious !
Dana is out of her league. Shes a good liar but no where near as good as Fleisher,Scotty or Snowjob. She personifies the arrogance,incompetence and stupidity of BushCo in general. In other news , CNN is all Spitzer all day . They even had shrink on to dissect why they do the things they do. Not a word about President Fucktards latest anti soldier veto on Saturday.
BangKokBob @ 83 has it right.
First - understand that oil is traded on a commodities market. OPEC no longer sets the price of oil.
Second - the stock markets have been tanking recently, so big investors are pulling money out of the market & pouring $$$ into "hard assets" - gold, oil, grain futures - and all the commodities markets have soared.
Copper's increased 500% in the last few years.
Wheat has quintupled since last summer.
And oil - already more than 3 times as expensive as when Bush took office - is only *beginning* to surge in price.
We're over the edge.
BadKitty...I made ONE blonde comment.
The fact is...Dana is dumb as a rock, and I'd be criticising her even if she were male.
The fact that she's a walking, talking blonde joke really isn't MY fault.
That's it, that Falling Dollar guy must be working for the enemy.
And anyone caught talking about that Falling Dollar guy should be guantanamo-ed for he/she is knowingly/unknowingly abetting and aiding the terrorist, our enemy.
We must quarantined all those who has been in contact with the Falling Dollar guy. So that its infectious disease does not spread. Its our way to keep the public safe from terrorist, our enemy.
Wait a minute, who is that Falling Dollar guy ?! Oh yea, its the son of that Iraq War guy.
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I hear that Dana was gonna be replaced by a tree stump...but upon a background check they discovered the tree stump was overqualified.
A coupla years ago, when the dollar was already beginning to slide, and Bush was asked about it, he said, "We believe in a strong US dollar."
There you have it.
"We believe in a strong US dollar."
Of course, GW hasn't a clue what a "strong" dollar means .. but it sounded good.
SWoods @ 80:
I too doubt there will be elections this year. Bush has been setting the table for this since his 911. They are more desperate now then ever too. They can see the legal walls closing in on them and have probably figured out the outcome by now too.Will the military and law enforcement back President Petulant Peckerhead ? Or will it take a good old fashioned revolution to wipe these shitstains from office. Should get interesting. I hope it works out well for USA. If i were American though ? I wouldn't take a deep breath until i was sure these assholes are gone for good.
Col Kilgore @ 97:
Nonsense. When the "league" is the current WH Press Corps, she'll do just fine, thanks. (Helen Thomas is the only one to get in her face and, sadly, Thomas went over the top and was easily blocked.) For example, what are the odds of someone pointing out that Fleischer answered the exact same question a few years ago? Zero. So, as I just wrote: she'll be fine.
1- I apologize for calling you all assholes, but really, does every thread have to dissolve into a misogynistic rant?
2 - Feel free to insult Dana all you wish. Just lay off the rest of us women.
3 - Ron Paul? Oh please. Is he still running? I think it's time to let it go.
4 - MountainMan23 is right. We're in deep doo-doo.
Col Kilgore @ 104:
+1 (on the "deep breath until" bit)
85 Chris Says: RayC @ 72:
19 Michael Says: And which Presidential candidate has been sounding the alarm about the falling value of the dollar? Anyone…anyone…Bueller…
The answer is Ron Paul.
I actually went to Obama’s website, and his only mention of inflation was that he wants to index minimum wage to inflation. That doesn’t fix the problem. So he isn’t going to do anything about inflation. So your dollar will continue to lose its value and the price of oil (as well as other goods and services) will continue to rise. Hope, indeed.
Wow its been along time sence we have heard from the simpleton Pauletts. Oh prey tell, what is the cure for the my dollar? Privatise the Federal government?Eleminate income taxes? Close down the Federal Reserve? What about the trillions we owe?
My God, Ron Paul can’t be right, because he’s a libertarian. I mean, balance the budget? Spend less money? Stop printing money out of thin air!? That’s crazy talk. If you run out of money, you just print more. It doesn’t make it worth any less paultards paulistas paulettes paulites paulbots paulwhatevers!
As I recall Ron made a number of suggestions for dealing with this problem. The first was eliminating the military empire and only defending the country instead. That would save about $1 T per year. The next step would be to bring domestic spending under control. The other thing would be to back the dollar with precious metals so that it couldn’t be devalued.
I don’t really understand how anyone can be so stupid as not to see that when the value of a dollar goes down, the price of oil goes up. It’s a pretty simple concept and it’s due to the fact that the dollar is just a piece of paper. If the United States ceased to exist, the dollar would be worthless.
As another posted pointed out, look at the price of oil in Euros.
By the way, has any other candidate even MENTIONED THIS ISSUE let alone mad suggestions for dealing with it?
I blame the schools for you not knowing this already but here goes, under Franklin Roosevelt the capitalism was for the first time well regulated. This led to the largest expansion of middle class wealth in the history of the world. Truman continued this regulation and the middle class continued to expand. With Eisenhower we had a huge investment in the infrastructure and wealth from top to bottom continued to expand. Under Kennedy and Johnson the economy grew and the programs of the "great society" cut poverty in half. Nixon even proposed single payer health care. Carter recognized the looming energy crunch and put forth programs that would have, if instituted, today the US would be energy independent. All this time it was Libertarians fought every inch against every successful program that made the US an economic superpower. Even using the racist to push States Rights. Then came Regan doing his best to chop every regulation he could get his hands on. Bush 1 continued to chop and chip away, Clinton being a moderate Republican chopped more and more then came W who has done more damage than even Regan could had dreamed of. Now we are back at 1929 all over again and Ron Paul's solution is to do even more damage to the regulations and turn everything over to the ruling super rich.
Dana Perino is yummy... she may be a shill, but she's a yummy shill.
BadKitty @ 107:
If it helps, I think your criticism was fair. Notice that even the folks that made shot back didn't REALLY go after you. Very often we posters tend to go for the quick quip and going after the obvious, like gender, is easiest. I, for one, try not to go down the gender route, not even to lay down a compliment. (not even trying to say I am perfect; I just try)
And yes, we can bicker all day about how and who and what, but we are, ALL of us, in a deep pile of excrement.
That's right, Dana. When something is unpleasant, ignore it and it may go away.
At the rate the dollar is disappearing, it will be gone soon and you won't have to talk about it.
that's right, folks, a fundamental policy that directly affects every single American, currently in a negative way, and there was ONE single presidential candidate who was trying to educate the people on how this whole problem came about, and why it's getting worse.
and guess what happened? the whiny, control-freak liberals wouldn't listen because the guy believes abortion should be a state issue, and the neocons wouldn't listen because the guy wouldn't jump on the warmonger bandwagon.
always remember, liberals care about liberals and nothing else, and neocons are insane.
those of us who supported Ron Paul were right, and the rest of you were and will always be wrong.
BadKitty @ 107:
I checked back on my comments. I don't think I said anything sexist. So, I'm in the clear.
I did, however, make reference to Richie Rich's dog, but no seemed to pick up on that.
Actually, I'm in the clear of being a SEXIST asshole, but not simply an asshole.
Methinks Perino needs to learn how to use the google.
that’s right, folks, a fundamental policy that directly affects every single American, currently in a negative way, and there was ONE single presidential candidate who was trying to educate the people on how this whole problem came about, and why it’s getting worse.
and guess what happened? the whiny, control-freak liberals wouldn’t listen because the guy believes abortion should be a state issue, and the neocons wouldn’t listen because the guy wouldn’t jump on the warmonger bandwagon.
always remember, liberals care about liberals and nothing else, and neocons are insane.
those of us who supported Ron Paul were right, and the rest of you were and will always be wrong.
Let me repeat: I blame the schools for you not knowing this already but here goes, under Franklin Roosevelt the capitalism was for the first time well regulated. This led to the largest expansion of middle class wealth in the history of the world. Truman continued this regulation and the middle class continued to expand. With Eisenhower we had a huge investment in the infrastructure and wealth from top to bottom continued to expand. Under Kennedy and Johnson the economy grew and the programs of the “great society” cut poverty in half. Nixon even proposed single payer health care. Carter recognized the looming energy crunch and put forth programs that would have, if instituted, today the US would be energy independent. All this time it was Libertarians fought every inch against every successful program that made the US an economic superpower. Even using the racist to push States Rights. Then came Regan doing his best to chop every regulation he could get his hands on. Bush 1 continued to chop and chip away, Clinton being a moderate Republican chopped more and more then came W who has done more damage than even Regan could had dreamed of. Now we are back at 1929 all over again and Ron Paul’s solution is to do even more damage to the regulations and turn everything over to the ruling super rich.
Dollar? Whats that?
OnlyOneCandidate @ 113:
Speaking for liberals as a liberal, the very point of being a liberal is trying to make things better for everyone or at the very least let everyone choose for themselves. We don't need Daddy to tell us what to do all of the time (like Bushies). Yes, it's often akin to herding cats, but please, get it straight on at least that one point or at least provide some data for your rather cranky hypothesis.
BTW, if your guy is such a winner, ask him to be an Independent if he wants people like me to listen. He lies down with dogs, he going to come up with fleas, amigo. Joining the repug party is a real turn-off to this particular 'liberal'; trust is more than halved by that party affiliation alone. Hey, I liked him in the debates; it was fun watching him tweak people's noses and thoroughly thrash the other jingoistic (right word? anyway...) candidates sharing the stage.
Peace.
I wonder if they have ever thought of letting her work topless?
Dana ain't yummy....she's poopie...
natisman @ 120:
I think we should let BadKitty field this one...
natisman Says: I wonder if they have ever thought of letting her work topless?
Well...she already works brainless.
Bonkers Hussein @ 122:
Oh c'mon. This administration is full of boobs.
I remember when a dollar was worth a dollar.
Aaah...the good old days.
Dale @ 124:
GAWD. Image of topless Cheney, Chimpy, Molluskey, and Condi dancing in a line and jiggling their money-makers flashed through my head...
[applies cold towel to forehead in anticipation of revulsion induced migraine...]
"Ms. Perino. If you can't talk about the dollar, can you shake your money-maker?"
That might work.
Ron Paul wants to privitize everything, which means the richer will get richer.
Puh-LEEEZ!! See Ray C @ 109; he puts it into perspective.
So, what's with the "Logan's Run" jumpsuit? Clearly, she knows something we don't.
So, Dana has a "gag" order...or is that a gag on order...or she's been ordered to wear a gag?
MountainMan23 @ 104:
Of course he believes in a strong US dollar, it says right on the currency that God will bring the dollar back: "In God We Trust".
Bonkers Hussein @ 122:
natisman @ 120:
I wonder if they have ever thought of letting her work topless?
I think we should let BadKitty field this one…
Oh c’mon. This administration is full of boobs.
Sexist pigs - stop with the tit for tat. Er.......
I'd sell your heart to the junk-man baby for a buck, for a buck!
If you're looking for someone To pull you out of that ditch You're out of luck, you're out of luck
The ship is sinking, the ship is sinking, the ship is sinking
There's a leak, there's a leak In the boiler room,
The poor, the lame, the blind
Who are the ones left in charge?
Killers, thieves and Lawyers
God's away, God's away, God's away
On Business. Business.
God's away, God's away, God's away
On Business. Business.
Hussein AND Proud Says: I remember when a dollar was worth a dollar.
Aaah…the good old days.
You mean the good old days like say...1913? Your dollar is currently worth 4 cents what it did in 1913 (the year the Federal Reserve was founded)
RP fo life
Matt Hussein in Texas @ 132:
I'll be visiting the liberal oasis of Texas in less than a day:
SxSW music festival! Huevos rancheros, music, and fine piss-water Lone Star for four days! Plane leaves in the mornin'.
and now Admiral Fallon has been forced out at CENTCOM...
Bombing Iran will do WONDERS for the dollar.
here we go, boys
As for the real reasons oil prices are out of control, nobody seems to be talking/writing about this...
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/06/business/06oil.php?page=1
Flaming contradiction #1: Bush says "America's got to change its habits; we've got to get off oil", yet he's begging OPEC to give us more.
Flaming contradiction #2: Bush is frustrated that OPEC will not increase production, as though that's the reason oil prices are so high. Yet, "most energy analysts agree there is no shortage of oil. Commercial oil inventories are high, and refiners are not lacking oil."
"The market continues to be well supplied," Rex Tillerson, the chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobil, said at a conference in New York. "There has been no interruption of supplies."
That's from the Chief f'ing Executive Officer of Exxon/Mobil, in case anyone missed that.
Lots of reasons people dislike Ron Paul... have a few myself.... but the thing he was smeared for the most, his supposed "nuttiness" regarding the fundamentals of currency... that's one thing he is dead right about. People need to take the economy seriously, it's as much a security matter as terrorists, I'd say more so.
The dollar, your dollar, my dollar, the world's dollar; strictly VERBOTEN. Move along now sheeple; it's none of your business. (Gestapo orders.)
lilysmom Says: and now Admiral Fallon has been forced out at CENTCOM…
Bombing Iran will do WONDERS for the dollar.
here we go, boys
I'm less concerned with bombing than I am about a coup, and I mean a coup in the United States.
Literally every major senior command position in the military has Bush apologists in it now.
These FUCKS may really be thinking about doing it.
My guess is, she was already composing her resignation letter in her head while she was answering that question. At least one of the lines will read: "..and a potential job as a pundit on FOX is not worth SIX bleeding ulcers. Therefore, as I already have five..."
The fembots need a new model, no not Hillary Clinton, yuck!
132 Matt Hussein in Texas Says: Bonkers Hussein @ 122:
natisman @ 120:
I wonder if they have ever thought of letting her work topless?
I think we should let BadKitty field this one…
Oh c’mon. This administration is full of boobs.
Sexist pigs - stop with the tit for tat. Er…….
Your attempts to be tittilating was asinine.
How bout monopoly money... Can poor poor put upon Dana talk about that...
It's beginning to amount to about the same thing anyway...............JD
Of course, she does lie almost as much as Dana does, but lying isn't everything!
These pigs hide behind a little girl. NOBODY is going to get aggressive to get solid answers from this little wench.
The repugs knew exactly what they were doing...stick a little cute, soft blonde out in front of the mean old news corp that asks questions. They'll get nothing from her.....
Pigs!!
She has been ORDERED to not talk about the dollar. By ignoring these unpleasantries, maybe they will go away. Our president and his administration are hiding their heads in the sand as the country falls to pieces around them. Criminals all!
Other verboten topics;
Iraq
the housing collapse
Recession
Gas prices
Dead soldiers
Katrina
New Orleans
Unemployment
The environment
NAFTA
9/11
Osama Bin Forgotten
The Gulf Coast
Enron
Larry Craig
GITMO
Abu Ghraib
NSA Spying
Mark Foley
and on and on and on...
more at my blog...
Bonkers Hussein @ 135:
Welcome to our town! I hope you enjoy your stay!
I just wanted to say...Dana may not know my name...but she knows where I bury my bone.
My goodness...can you guys get off Dana please.
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