Quote Originally Posted by VanChilds View Post
Kirk there is no way to know what Sen. McCain would have done and there were other options besides the tremendous amount of spending we have seen. Most of the people I have spoken to that attended the events didn't really take issue with the taxes as much as the budget and bailouts. These are philisophical differences between you and them and although you claim omnipotence it doesn't make them wrong or their opinions any less valid than yours.
McCain wouldn't have done anything different to Obama. The stimulus would have been tilted more to tax cuts than government spending on things like infrastructure, which means that the stimulus would have been less effective than the Obama version will be. There really weren't any other options available except not to spend any money at all and you just have to look at how well that worked out for Hoover in the same situation to see not spending money wasn't an option. I'm not omnipotent and their opinions are worth far less than mine. They don't have coherent opinions or even understand what they're arguing about. Things they belive as articles of faith, eg. tax cuts pay for themselves and increase revenues, are total nonsense. They really are a bunch of clueless dummies, and you don't need to be omnipotent or even Infallible to know that, you just need to look at the facts and the evidence. Once you do that you can't disagree with me because the facts and the evidence are all on my side.

The bailouts happened under Bush, who guaranteed over ten trillion worth of debt before he left office. Bush also signed the first stimulus bill. So Obama is only continuing Bush's policies.