Sometimes things don’t quite work out as they are expected to. If you have ever been passed over for a job, or missed out on something that seemed like a sure thing then this list might cheer you up a little. Here are ten people who came very close to the highest office in the land. Some of them missed it by only a few weeks or a few votes. This list excludes people who eventually become president. How different do you think things would have been if some of these men had become president?
In 1948 just about everybody thought Thomas Dewey was going to be elected president. Harry Truman was losing popularity and most people felt that the Democratic vote was going to be split between two third party candidates, Henry Wallace and Strom Thurmond. Dewey was told that all he had to do was not make any major mistakes. Truman, however, wasn’t going to give up. He ran a very vigorous campaign and attacked Dewey on all fronts. In spite of this, many media outlets still did not think it was enough. Early returns from the election led the Chicago Tribune to print their infamous “Dewey Defeats Truman” headline. However, as the night went on it became clear that Truman had won the election thanks to swing voters in a few select states. Dewey may have lost the election, but thanks to his infamous headline he is one of the most famous runners-up in history.
Rockefeller was a politician who very much wanted to be president, and in September 1975 he almost got his chance. During that month there were two assassination attempts on president Gerald Ford. The first by “Squeaky” Fromme is the most famous, although her gun was loaded improperly and was therefore harmless. Seventeen days later, however, Ford was shot at by Sara Jane Moore but the bullet was deflected. Nelson Rockefeller was Ford’s vice president by special appointment. Had the assassination attempts been successful, Rockefeller would have been the second president in a row to reach the office without having to win an election.
Very few events better illustrate the rise of Theodore Roosevelt than the Vice Presidency of William McKinley. Garret Hobart had been one of the most powerful vice presidents in history. He worked very closely with the president, and no doubt could have taken over as president if he needed to. Unfortunately in 1899 Hobart died. Around that same time Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, was wreaking havoc on the corrupt political machines. Those in power thought that the best way to keep him quiet would be to make him Vice President. At the time the VP had very few duties. McKinley and Roosevelt won the election easily. Then around six months later McKinley was assassinated and Roosevelt became president. Today Roosevelt is on Mt. Rushmore and remembered as one of the greats. However, it took a few deaths for him to get there. And although Hobart was a well liked public figure, he is mostly forgotten today.
Had Spiro Agnew been able to keep his hands clean, he would have become president. He was Vice President under Richard Nixon in both his first and second term. About a year into his second term it came out that Agnew had been taking bribes in all of his elected offices. These bribes totaled more than $100,000 dollars, which was a great sum in the 1960s. Agnew was forced to resign, and Nixon, who didn’t get along with Agnew, couldn’t have been happier. Nixon, of course, would be out of office due to a scandal in less than a year, but it was Gerald Ford, and not Spiro Agnew, who ended up in the White House.
Hamlin was Lincoln’s vice president during his first term. He was a popular and experienced politician in his day, but his party saw things differently. They felt that adding a southerner to the 1864 ticket would add more appeal. So for the presidential race they kicked out Hamlin and brought in Andrew Johnson. Lincoln and Johnson easily won the election. However, barely a month after the new term began Lincoln was shot and Johnson took over. His presidency is now infamous for being one of the worst in history. It is probably fair to say that if Hamlin had won, he would have made a far better president than Johnson.
Although most one vote margin victory stories are either completely false or exaggerated, this one is absolutely true. In 1868 Benjamin Wade came within one vote of becoming president. Wade was President pro Tempore at the time President Andrew Johnson was being impeached. Wade was next in line to get the job because Johnson had no vice president. His presidency would have lasted around five months until the upcoming elections and would have been the one of the shortest terms in history. However, the vote in the Senate was one short of the needed 2/3 majority and Johnson was allowed to stay in office.
Marshall was Vice President under Woodrow Wilson, and he probably had a legitimate reason to become president. In 1919 Wilson suffered a debilitating stroke which left him unable to carry out his duties as president. Marshall, though, had one major obstacle standing in his way to the presidency. This obstacle was the president’s wife, Edith Wilson. She was going to make sure that her husband finished his term in office, and did so by taking on many of the executive duties herself. She also kept the knowledge of Wilson’s condition a secret. Marshall reportedly never found out the true extent of the president’s stroke until his last day in office. Many go so far as to say that Edith Wilson was the first woman president, but no matter what her real standing was she was certainly closer to the office than Marshall.
Wallace was the Vice President during Franklin Roosevelt’s third term. During this time he showed himself to be quite a radical, at least according to the controlling Democrats at the time. He was a civil rights advocate who was interested in Buddhism. He was also a strong supporter of Russia thanks to a trip he took in 1944 where the real Russia was hidden from him. Also in 1944 rumors were beginning to surface about the health of FDR. Many insiders were worried that he would not survive another term if elected. Leading democrats were worried about Wallace becoming president, so they kicked him off the 1944 Presidential ticket and replaced him with Harry S. Truman. 82 days after the start of the term FDR died and Truman took over. Wallace missed being president by about three months.
In 1876 Tilden won the popular vote over his opponent Rutherford B. Hayes by around 200,000 and was one vote shy in the electoral college. The problem arose when three southern states (South Carolina, Florida, and Louisiana) turned in two sets of votes. This led to a scandal that revealed heavy fraud in the voting process in these three states. Eventually a 15 member commission was set up to decide the winner. They voted along party lines and awarded the victory to Hayes. This gave him an Electoral College victory of one vote. Tilden lived out the rest of his life quietly and never ran for office again.
Today Al Gore has many awards including an Oscar, Grammy, and Nobel Peace Prize to his name, but the ultimate prize eluded him several times. Al Gore came very close to the presidency several times while serving as Vice President under Bill Clinton. In 1994 alone there were three attempts on Clinton’s life. In 1999 Clinton was impeached, but he was kept in office. Then in 2000 Gore got his own chance to run for president. The 2000 election turned out to be one of the most controversial in history. Gore got over 500,000 more popular votes than opponent George W. Bush, but highly scrutinized votes in Florida eventually swung the election in Bush’s favor. Today Al Gore seems to be a happy person who is proud of his accomplishments, but he will undoubtedly never forget how close he was to being president nearly a half dozen times.
@Mark(120): No tax money should be used for propaganda.
I thought Ron Paul would have been a better choice for America, he has warned about the FED.
US Strategy of Total Energy Control over the European Union and Eurasia
Nabucco Turkey EU and Obama Geopolitics
Until now the main gas supply for Nabucco should be Azerbaijan, source of large oil reserves to fill another Anglo-American-backed pipeline run by a British Petroleum consortium to bring Baku oil from the Caspian Sea to the west independent of Russia. That Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline was the real reason Washington backed the 2004 Georgian “Rose Revolution” that put the erratic dictator Mikhail Saakashvili into power, pushing out veteran Soviet-era fox Edouard Shevardnadze, who had become too friendly with Moscow for the likes of Bush-Cheney oil geopolitics. This was the reason Georgia invaded South Ossetia.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14412
Secret dealings with Iran, Central America drug dealing running, spying on allies with trojan horse software, banking scandals, corruption in the Justice Department, investigative journalists “committing suicide…
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/673.html
probably JFK. Although I think he’s a bit overrated… But then again, Clinton got a BJ in the Oval Office… not bad.
Asian Tv
Asian Entertainment News
Is there a branch of the US government
that carries out assassinations?
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/672.html
I F___ING HATE AL GORE! Just look at that fat, soulless face, I bet there’s pus instead of blood in his veins!
That’s a very cool piece. Thanks.
http://thecentersquare.wordpress.com/
amusing list
@Seriously (110)
I can guarantee you that McCain wouldn’t have been stupid enough to think the way to pull a country out of economic problems is to spend it into oblivion, making it not only a problem for our generation, but now for our grandchildren as well.
McCain also wouldn’t have raped the Constitution by going on a big Socialist power grab.
If you honestly think Obama has done anything good for the country, then good luck with your life because you’re obviously delusional, with no knowledge of history, political science, or US law.
interesting
@lostatsea1 (35): I’ve watched this and while it blew me away, I’m also skeptical of some of the things they had to say. There isn’t a lot of backup to these ideas as there are only two speakers in a 3.5 hour documentary?
@lostatsea1 (36): Moreso, watch a documentary called The Oil Factor and learn about Peak Oil and its eventual effect on the world.
@mitchsn (41): Its amazing to me that there are people that think global warming is some kind of conspiracy theory. Yes, Al Gore has taken advantage of it but that doesn’t make it any less true.
@Jstar (47): No Child Left Behind is a fabulous program if you like failures of large government programs. NCLB is just another layer of bureaucracy added to a place where the federal government shouldn’t be sticking their noses. NCLB focuses on reading and math and leaves all the other subjects in the dust. History, science, geography, etc are all ‘left behind’. NCLB focusing on MORE standardized testing instead of focusing on the quality of the education. You want a source, how about The National Assessment of Educational Progress Report. That should keep you busy for a while.
@rushfan (71): Please don’t take his comments and group them in with ‘all lefties’. I’m a lefty and I can even the how ridiculous the statements about Gore being able to fix everything are. He’s just another rich, white politicians trying to remain a rich, white politician.
@ringtailroxy (75): Amen! Legalize it now!
@Regret (98): This is an ignorant statement. Neither Obama, McCain, Nader, GWB, or for sure Sarah Palin, have any clue as to how to fix the situation we are in right now. We would be in the same situation we are now, not any better or worse. Republicans opposed the bailout (but voted for it anyways), democrats were in favor of the bailout, but under-funded it. Guess what folks, the bailout needed to be about 3 times as big as it was to have any effect on helping us. Read anything by Joseph Stiglitz and see how we should have been bailed out.
@rushfan (99): freedocumentaries.org
@faketree78(133):Thank you for The Oil Factor, I have known about peak oil, but one thig that is not mentioned is that Afghanistan is a major source of opiates with its cash potential. Hemp should be legalized.
Free Energy – Pentagon Conspiracy to Cover up.
http://www.topdocumentaryfilms.com is also a great site.
@Regret (98): “I really wish Obama was on this list. We’d be much better off now.”
With a mechanical mouthpiece of the Bush regime?!?!?
As a resident of Arizona he is the one major politician of our state that had the least news coverage, unless the story was to underline his latest “good idea Mr Bush” actions he had taken.
Can’t see how four more years of republican puppetry would do our country any good.
Don’t get me started on Palin.
Sure there were other candidates in the running, but somehow I can’t even remember who they were, now.
And to those that want to slam the O’bama, we gave Bush EIGHT whole years to screw up the country…That included a RE-ELECTION.
And out of those 8 years, it took at least 5 years before majority of Americans finally understood what a mistake had been made.
How about we check things out in a year, before we decide whether O’bama is a mistake.
They were all Born to lose
Cool list!
@faketree78(133) oops I hadn’t watched the whole doc at my last post, they did mention the poppy harvests!
Al gore is an idiot, he thinks he invented the Internet… Go George bush!
How about we ask our grandchildren if Obama was a mistake. They will be the ones paying his debt. He’ll go down as the man who killed America as we know it.
Ok, seriously, and as a self described liberal, I think we were no worse off with bush than we would have been with gore. Have fun everybody.
@lostatsea1 (121): You’re rather naive and impressionable I think. All governments do it, that’s what I’m saying. The fact that you also believe almost every conspiracy theory under the sun about the US’s recent foreign policy supports my hypothesis. The world isn’t perfect. The US could be doing a lot worse than what they are now.
@ringtailroxy (75): And Herman Goring used morphine, ergo morphine is bad and we should ban it.
Your logic there is an association fallacy. Just because old George did or used something, doesn’t mean that that something is a good thing, or even acceptable.
@deeeziner (134): Where’s the logic there? You re-elected him ergo he must have been bad?
Wow
@Jay (139): Learn some proper economics before you comment on economic matters. The economic difference between political parties – especially in a two party system – are non-existant. At least, for the average – or less-than-average as you seem to be – tax-payer. The Republicans might give X more money whereas the Democrats would support Y more. Who cares? The difference to a jackass like you is either that Obama is black, or that you’re too stupid to think about what your party is telling you.
I’m not a Democrat, I’m not a dirty, hippy liberal. I’m Australian, and when I vote, I’m going to vote independent, not even Labour – Australia’s Democrat equivalent.
Economically, all modern governments are Keynesian, look it up, it might help cure the debilitating Uninformus in Extremeus you seem to be suffering from. Don’t worry, it’s only contagious if you feel the need to share your point of view and the only symptoms are an inability to think impartially – there are reports of this being present beforehand, studies are being undertaken to investigate a possible corrolation – and bigotry. The treatment – which only has a low chance of success – is reading and thinking.
Dr Mark,
Solving all your ultra-conservative ailments in time for dinner.
I think america would have benefited from a president called Hannibal
@Mark(141): The NAU and SPP are fact not fiction, false flag operations and wet work ditto. 9/11 a clever pretext to curtail freedom and increase profits for Haliburton etal.
National Security Alert
http://www.citizeninvestigationteam.com
Bush makes you shudder? We have an idiot now in the WH who is spending us into BANKRUPTCY, a VP who has said more stupid irresponsible nonsense things (What’s that Internet number again?) than Bush and Quayle put together and you shudder for Bush? Get a grip.
@Mark(141): Naive! I’m 61 yrs old and have spent years researching these topics, I suppose you think the MK ultra project was also false? The Canadian govt. just settled a class action lawsuit over those experiments or the agent orange & purple tests over CFB Gagetown in the 60s.
http://www.monarchnewphoenix.com
@RLB(147) Obama is a puppet of the global elite who are raping your wealth, who gets the bailout..the banks. The same trick as in 1929. Remember Bush made it illegal for States to deny loans to people who had no hope of repayment.
Strom Thurmond
I wish my name was half this EPIC!
During the 1950s and 1960s Dr. Saul Krugman of New York
University conducted studies of hepatitis at the Willowbrook
State School, an institution for the severely mentally
retarded. Krugman and his staff systematically infected
newly arrived children between the ages of three and eleven
with strains of the virus obtained from the feces of
Willowbrook hepatitis patients.
A Nation Betrayed by Carol Rutz
@Mark(141) These are also fake!!
Dick Cheney’s “Executive Assassination Ring”.
Was British Weapons Expert Dr. David Kelly a Target ?
By Tom Burghardt
URL of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14423
or..
Dr. Gerald Bull spent his life researching, reinventing and creating new methods of missile launching. His munitions science eventually lead to his murder.
modern-canadian-history.suite101.com/…/dr_gerald_bull_missile_scientist
@RLB (147): Wow, you really aren’t all that intelligent, are you? Learn some economics before you spew out the old party lines. Here’s a link, just to give you the most basic possible clue as to why you’re being a *****er :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics
@lostatsea1 (148): You’re either a naive idealist, or extremely gullible.
“…Obama is a puppet of the global elite who are raping your wealth, who gets the bailout..the banks. The same trick as in 1929. Remember Bush made it illegal for States to deny loans to people who had no hope of repayment.”
Wow! And I say that with a real sense of excitement. I’ve never had a chance to talk with someone who actually, truly believe in the NWO.
The CIA killed JFK.
We never landed on the moon (or didn’t do it in 1969 anyways).
Them Jews caused WWII.
Hitler is still alive?
George Dubblya actually ordered the attacks on the WTC.
You wouldn’t happen to also believe that a few million years ago an evil alien overlord killed heaps of aliens with H-bombs, would you?
Refer to my link in 152, then start reading a bit more, and do it impartially. Once you learn some real economics, maybe you’ll stop being a moron. And maybe pigs will fly. But I guess they already do, don’t they? It’s all just a government cover-up, right? And I’m working with them, face it, I’m not even really Australian. I’m actually a Muslim with a huge beard, 12 wives and a lot of explosives. I’m just waiting for Obama Hussein to give me the all clear then I’m going to come and blow you up. We need to get rid of the trouble-makers after all…
@Mark(153) Where in any of my posts did I mention Jews? How old are you anyway? You seem overly belligerent and cocky, grow up and respond with something to back up your claims.
Trickle down economics only allows the rich to get richer. I suppose you believe cave dwelling terrorists managed to outwit Norad or they knew the top secret war game being played that day? Please! Have you even taken the time to watch any of the links?
Have you ever noticed that all Bush fans are dumb rednecks?
Bush did keep us safe during a dangerously tumultuous time in our nation at least. But it’s a damn good thing Gore didn’t become President. He’s just as dumb as Bush, global warming is turning out to be a complete hoax.
@lostatsea1 (154):
“…Where in any of my posts did I mention Jews?…”
I never said you mentioned Jews in your posts, I just gave examples of claims on par with yours. If you don’t want to be pigeon-holed with the conspiracy nutters, don’t act like one. All you ever post is “Look at what the government is doing!!!!” If you think the government is that bad, why don’t *you* prove it instead of just sending me off to links that are, frankly, disgraceful factless wastes of my time.
“…How old are you anyway? You seem overly belligerent and cocky, grow up…”
Congratulations, you have cleverly deduced that I am a teenager and have effectively nullified anything I have to say. But what about conspiracy theorists? Isn’t there a stereotype there as well? Do I get to discount everything you say because your crazy? Then why should it matter that I’m young? Doesn’t mental function decrease with age? Does that mean that when I’m 40 I’m perfect but the second I hit 41 I’m “too old”? Ageism is crap.
“…Trickle down economics only allows the rich to get richer…”
Yes, it does and I would be very worried about that if:
a) It existed
and
b) It was actually happening
How is the US Government’s economic policy “trickle-down”? It’s only a piece of rhetoric anyway, I really don’t see how people can actually believe politicians period, let alone when they say crap like that.
“…I suppose you believe cave dwelling terrorists managed to outwit Norad…”
Heaven forbid! Criminals outwitting the authorities, no! That’s never happened before, if only there was a precedent for that sort of thing. Oh, wait… I vaguely remember some guy… Dillinger was it? I guess that was the government too? They just wanted to steal all our moneys and make it look like a crime. Boy! I can’t wait to hear your explaination for this one. You’d be great fun at parties!
“…or they knew the top secret war game being played that day?…”
Wow, you’re right. How could a coincidence happen. That is absolutely amazing! The government must have dont it. Thank you, so much, for opening my eyes to the truth that has been hidden from me for all of these years. My eyes have been clouded by facts, but they crumble in the face of such brilliant rhetoric as yours…
Maybe we should start a cult, or better yet, attempt a coup. You’re the perfect cult-of-personality leader, you’re purely rhetorical and live your live believing in completely fictional concepts. Of course, if we want to be really famous, we’ll have to think of a minority to persecute… Hmm… Shall I round up our paramilitary forces or will you? Should they be the pink-shirts, or the yellow-shirts?
Heil mein Fuhrer!
@Mark(157) Factless!! How can you state a fact when you don’t take the time to watch or research? It was the US govt that setup al Qaeda to fight the Russians in Afghanistan. 9/11 movement comprises Physics Professors, Scientists, Pilots, Architects, Engineers and demo experts, I suppose these are all ‘nutters’.
@lostatsea1 (158): Some real biologists, with pretty pieces of paper with fancy seals on them on their walls, believe that the narrow Christian definition of “God” created us in his image. Doesn’t mean I have to believe it.
People with degrees can be crazy as well. My father is an engineer. Don’t assume.
@Mark(159) ‘People with degrees can be crazy as well. My father is an engineer.’ By that I take it you feel your father is crazy!! If he is indeed an engineer ask him how 210,000 tons of structural steel melted from a low temperature fire in less than an hour, or how this structure fell at free fall speed.
@lostatsea1 (160): From the large, flying contraption that hit it at several hundred km/hr. I know it sounds crazy, but I find that pretty easy to believe.
@Mark(161) Towers were designed for impact from jetliners also allowance for sway of 18ft. do research before replying!
@lostatsea1 (162): Yes, and buildings are made to be resistant to fire and earthquakes. It doesn’t mean that they won’t fall down if they are exposed to extreme enough conditions.
Frankly, the burden of proof – and I don’t use that term lightly – is on you here. The engineering community agrees with me.
*You* do some research and then come back and make some sense.
@Mark(163):
I have never believed the NIST or FEMA explanations of why these buildings fell. 200,000 tons of structural steel supported 60% of the buildings structure(this is a huge heat sink) kerosene(jet fuel) and office furniture can not cause a structural failure in less than an hour. The outer shell supported a mere 40% of the structure so would necessitate a cutting of the inner supports which would then collapse the outer shell inwards. This was an incredibly well done demolition from the top down with charges placed in lower columns before the planes actually hit the structures, this was testified by the fire dept. and first responders. http://www.AETRUTH911.com are a group of Architects and Engineers who query the govt. report. I have worked with steel all my life and can honestly say that too many questions exist on what actually happened. As this was the impetus for the war in Afghanistan we Canadians may be embroiled in an illegal war!! Building 7 fell at free fall speed and cotained all Enron records also CIA and FBI offices..Larry Silverstein gained 8 billion in insurance claims this after he knew it would cost billions to remove asbestos from these same towers. I always follow the money, who stood to gain from the towers destruction?? who could use the attack to further their aims?? If you recall the day before Rumsfeld admitted to a missing 2.3 trillion from the pentagon!! Do some research as I have and something smells. This issue has been raised in tha Japanese Parliament and in the Italian govt. this has also been raised in Canada but was quickly hushed up! Please do some probing, I wish I was wrong but I am troubled by how quickly the debris was removed from the crime scene. Nano particles of thermite were recovered from the pyroclastic dust cloud which show an advanced explosive which was not manufactured by some cave dwelling anarchists. An Italian politician felt so strongly that he made a documentary called Zero. The Canadian Action Party are pursuing what they feel is one of the most important issues that affect us today. 9/11 spelled the end of freedom, the repeal of the Patriot Act, Posse Comitatus, infringement of the 2nd ammendment and stricter border control. Most insidious is the inclusion of RFIDs in drivers licences and passports, all this came about after 9/11. As in network…I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it!! Please remember the poor souls hanging out of the hole that the plane created gasping for air…how did puny humans survive this inferno but 200,000 tons of structural steel perish?? The black smoke billowing from the tower shows an oxygen starved fire..one burning at a lower temperature than one with adequate oxygen..another reason the people were tempting death to get air. Its hard to grasp but the signs are there..all it takes is to ask… what if?? Obviously the floors did not collapse on impact otherwise those people could not have reached the outer shell. The truth will come out. Most of the fuel was burned at impact!
@Mark(163):”In the debate over the collapses of the Twin Towers on 9/11, the shaking of the earth that accompanied these collapses has played an important role. This shaking registered clearly on seismographs. Less clear, however, are its causes and the times it began. The National Institute of Standards and Technology emphasizes the role of the debris from the collapsing buildings in producing the seismic signals. In assessing NIST’s hypothesis I focus on the collapse of the South Tower and attempt to determine the time the collapse began, the time the debris from the Tower struck the ground, and the temporal relation of these events to the shaking of the earth that accompanied the collapse. I consider both the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory’s seismic evidence and the evidence provided by a less studied form of seismic instrument, the video camera. I also draw on witness testimony. I conclude that key statements by NIST are false. Major shaking of the earth, and corresponding seismic signals, started well before the debris hit the ground. In fact, it seems certain that the shaking of the earth started before visible signs of building collapse. This evidence is incompatible with the official NIST hypothesis of the cause of the collapse of the Towers.”
http://www.ae911truth.org
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/674.html
http://www.journalof911studies.com/volume/2008/Ryan_NIST_and_Nano-1.pdf
there was a MAD comic i once read that had a Star Wars themed Question and Answers.a funny one i read was,
Q:who did Obi-One say was more machine than man?
A:Al Gore!HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
Did Gore put on a few pounds or is it just me?
@lostatsea1 (164): I feel really sorry for you. Good luck with the rest of your life, you’re going to need it.
@Mark(170):Baa! Bleat bleat I hope your happy as a sheep!
In 2008, the Fed got really generous with
tax payers money.
Half a trillion went to foreign banks.
But when asked, Fed Chairman was a little
hazy on the details.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/675.html
Global Power and Global Government: Evolution and Revolution of the Central Banking System
Part 1
By Andrew Gavin Marshall
URL of this article: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14464
“The Financial Services Modernization Act.’
“The Commodity Futures Modernization Act.”
Goldman Sachs wrote them…
Clinton teed them up and Bush & Co. knocked them down the fairway.
Now Goldman owns the new president too.
The bankrupting of America (and the world) on the behalf of a handful of New York investment bankers.
Kleptocracy – government of the thieves, by the thieves, for the thieves.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/674.html
@lostatsea1 (171): I sure am. If by sheep you mean an entity capable of thought that is. Unlike you, who’s only able to feel moral outrage about, well, everything you see that doesn’t agree with your sense of “right”, no matter how unfounded or ridiculous that “offense” may be.
Grow a back-bone and start thinking for yourself. I don’t implicitly believe the government like you think I do. I do however, implicitly believe rational logic and the conclusions it draws. Unlike you, who only believe anything that morally offends you, or maybe just anything anti-government. Anarchist?
Hey Mark, raising taxes and raising minimum wage doesn’t help the unemployment rate at a time like this. So get off your high horse and learn some economics yourself.
And don’t worry Mark they do have a cure for liberalism and it’s common sense.
And even if Keynesian policies are the norm, there are varying degrees. No Republican ever wants absolutely no government involvement. They just favor less than their democratic counterparts. There are people besides you who know what’s going on.
@Jay (176): I know economics, unlike you. Raising minimum wages might not help unemployment right now, but nothing is going to. Likewise, do you think that taxing the people less and letting huge companies that employ thousands is a better option?
@Jay (177): If you knew me at all you’d know that I’m not a liberal. I’m on the fence. I’ll vote for whoever’s best for me next election, not the party that I prefer “because”, unlike you.
@Jay (178): “Even if”, it is, there are no if’s or but’s. Of course Republicans want to make you think that they differ from Democrats economically, but the fact of the matter is that the difference is tiny. I agree with you that you won’t find many – if any – who promote fully free-market economics.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/671.html
The new high tech/high speed transactions
giving big banks an overwhelming trading advantage
over retail investors, they’re also creating
a false impression about the health of the stock
market.
These new high tech trading tools have rendered
liquidity calculations (a very important barometer
of market health) totally bogus. The consequences
of this will become apparent when the bottom
falls out of the market suddenly and dramatically
for real.