proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

That is absolutely d********g,Peter even for you!!!

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Isn't it funny how this slime ball is always whining about being personally denigrated, and then comes up with this s**t all the time?
I've been watching him for a while now, and I'm pretty sure I have him figured out.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Funny thing about those guys named Peter S, isn't it? Maybe there is some t***h to those theories about alien lizard brain implants.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

He's just a nasty, bitter, h**eful old man with nothing better to do. Claims to be an Internet debater since 2000, and thinks he's good at it.
I look for patterns, and he follows all of them. He ain't good. He ain't real. He's just a keyboard commando trying to justify his own existence in his own mind.
A pathetic person, really.

EconomistDon

Amazing how this all goes over your head.

First, the large increase in national debt during Reagan's tenure happened for the same reason that debt rose during Obama's tenure --- RECESSION. The recession during the early 1980s was the worst since the Great Depression, due to high energy prices, double-digit inflation, and unprecedented foreign competition. The 2009-10 recession was nearly as bad as the early 1980s recession due to a collapse in America's financial system. When business and jobs collapse that severely, federal revenues dry up. Workers and business both stop paying taxes because there is no work. At the same time, federal outlays increase dramatically for unemployment insurance payments, welfare, and food stamps. When federal income drops and federal outgo rises, debt rises --- get it?

Supply-side economics works to reverse this situation. The goal is to get business healthy again through lower taxes and reduced onerous regulations. When business becomes healthy, it grows, creating new jobs. That means more workers paying taxes and businesses paying more taxes due to increased profits. And with more people working, government dependency on unemployment insurance, welfare, and food stamps drops. Now federal revenues rise due to tax payments from more workers and more businesses, at the same time that federal outlays decline. The deficit drops.

That is your economics lesson for today. Now stop throwing insults. You are embarrassing yourself.

Coos Bay Tom Loc: coos bay oregon

knock it off about Archies grandchildren. Not cool. He loves his kids and is a good family man despite political diffrences. He doesn't agree with me on most stuff but never has he said a bad word against my family.

bylm1-Bernie

Pete, you had better read up a bit on f*****m. If you think it is right wing, you are nuts. Or maybe I should say, just misinformed. Check it out.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Thanks Tom. I appreciate that.
And I would never say a bad word against your, or even Pete's family.
I think he does it out of anger with some hatred thrown in thinking he's pushing a hot button, and looking for a reaction.
It doesn't work, because I see right through it, and I know different.

We don't have to agree on politics to be friends. That is a fact.
Not so with this one, though. It's sad.

old marine Loc: America home of the brave

You accuse Archie of "channeling" someone, THEN in the next breath YOU are channeling President Trump.

So I got a question. Which foot did you put in your mouth, the left or right one?

old marine Loc: America home of the brave

I agree, a coward always strikes the innocent when they are afraid of the strong. IF you are afraid of the father, don't take your cowardness out on his innocent children or grandchildren.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

Old Marine, this guy threw out an attack on you on a thread once that DID push a hot button with me. I don't know if you saw it, and ignored it, or missed it, but I had to walk away for a while to keep from lashing out harshly. That pissed me off worse than anything he's ever said about me!
Peter is one nasty dude!

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

And, he has some goose-stepping comrades on this forum. I'm with you, archie, I've had to rein in the anger on many occasions. I think PeterS has posted more ad hominem attacks on members here than any of the others.

PeterS

1) I never once spoke to or with Hitler. In the day Hitler would have had a Marxist executed as he didn't have much appreciation for either Socialism or C*******m and ironically, as you, only had disgust for Marxists, be they of the c****e pinko variety or not. This from Wikapedia: His writings and methods were often adapted to need and circumstance, although there were some steady themes, including anti-semitism, anti-c*******m, anti-parliamentarianism, German Lebensraum ("living space"), belief in the superiority of an "Aryan race" and an extreme form of German Nationalism. Hitler personally claimed he was fighting against Jewish Marxism.[1]

So do you know of anyone who was anti-c*******t and anti-Marxist who was then a c****e pinko or even a socialist? Again, you have no understanding of origins of political ideology so you should refrain from any discussion as it just makes you appear ignorant. Hell, you didn't even think conservatism was an ideology did you.

2) I can be a Marxist or I can be a F*****t but I can't be both. Again, I invite you to read something about political ideologies. It's clear you know nothing and you might find it fascinating as it gives you a good education in history too. For your information, the term Left/Right comes from the French revolution as those who supported the King stood to his right and those who supported revolution stood to the left. It's the split between liberty and authority and individualism and collectivism that created the two ideologies and why today the left is progressive and the right regressive and wants to maintain the traditional status-quo.

If you look at our own revolution the same could apply there as those who supported the King were the conservative Tories--traditionally conservatives today--and those on the left were the radical progressives of the time who favored the desolation of the binding of American and England as one. Read the Declaration of Independence and you are reading one of the most radical and progressive documents of it's time which is why I am always amazed at your hatred for progressiveness since it gave you the country that you are living in and a country you claimed to love. Your love of authoritarianism today (Donald Trump and Putin) comes from your desire for the authority placed in the king of days past. Again, if you understood ideology you would understand yourself better and why you do or don't believe one way or another. After all, there are liberals who are theists and personally I think have a much clearly image of Christ and his teachings than you do. At least they seem to be able to follow them far better than anything you've been able to display...

3) Archie is the one who thought if funny my concern over all children playing in coal dust laced with heavy metals since he uses it to make his driveway and his children and grandchildren play in it all the time. What he doesn't understand is that the reason he's backwards could well be because of heavy metal contamination and he is exposing his children and grandchildren to the same. If you think that is f*****m to worry about having our children exposed to heavy metals then it's clear you don't know what f*****m is or you don't know what Archie and I are talking about. Wh**ever it is, perhaps you should butt out of this conversation and move on because your comments don't apply and only make you look foolish than you already are.

archie bunker Loc: Texas

You're talking out of your ass again peter

old marine Loc: America home of the brave

I saw it and didn't like it. I don't mind a lot of things but there are lines one should never cross.