1% of GDP will be paid in bonuses to a few thousand people who work for banks

[Stinky The Clown]

Peter Morici, economist, Univ of MD on Shultz' show at about the 0:24 mark.

He had NO kind words for either Geithner or Summers and said they are providing a great deal of BAD advice to the President.

1% of GDP

Roll that on your tongue. Chew on it. 1% of GDP in bonuses.

And how many are jobless? 20 million?

1 percent of GDP.

Wow ....

[valerief]

1. We are but the sweat under their soles. nt

[barbtries]

2. it's an obscenity

i don't know how they sleep. can they really believe they've "earned" it??

[redqueen]

5. They don't think they have to earn it.

I get the impression they think they're better than us.

Look how they scam us, and we take it and take it. This is why Straussians view plebes as sheep to be sheared. I hate that I can even understand their perspective... seeing what they're getting at doesn't mean I think it's right or tolerable... but it sucks even just having that vile shit in my head.

[JuniperLea]

3. Peter Morici has been on a roll lately...

He's been bashing Obama's figures on jobs saved, jobs created, etc.

Google his name... he is spouting stuff every week or so.

Couldn't find him in OpenSecrets.org though...

[Stinky The Clown]

4. He self describes as being a fiscal conservative

To be honest, I never heard of him before tonight. It was the fact posted in the OP that caught my attention.

[JuniperLea]

8. Didn't Bush/Cheney say the same thing?

I'm a fiscal conservative... but I'm a social liberal progressive tree hugging hippie freak of a lefty!

I'm probably just uber paranoid... especially about people who hang with Lou Dobbs and things of this nature.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. I wasn't endorsing him.

I cited a fact that I took to be true. "True" either is or isn't.

[JuniperLea]

11. Oh jeez...

I'm not criticizing you... I was just having a discussion... in fact, I was more critical of myself... fuck me.

[Stinky The Clown]

12. I'm sorry .....

..... really. Sometimes words without inflection get misread.

Shultz gets guests we don't see on other shows. He gives the right leaners ample opportunity to talk. I guess that's really okay, but it makes it easy for the stealthers to get by.

[JuniperLea]

13. No worries... Yep... hard to know the players...

And the lies can be so candy coated it's hard to separate them.

Granny always said the Devil mixed lies with truths to confuse us. (I only believe in Earth-bound Devils... like the last administration.)

[iceman66]

6. He's a regular on Lou Dobbs.

Not exactly a flaming liberal.

Doesn't mean he's WRONG in this particular instance!!!

[iceman66]

7. The sooner Obama gets rid of Summers and Geithner,

the sooner we'll see a REAL recovery.

Is Geither even a Democrat? I know Bernanke isn't, and they seem to be cut from the same cloth.

[JuniperLea]

9. We need to reinstate Glass-Steagall...

Or it can all go to hell again in a heartbeat.