Isn’t the point that Brown, unlike Obama, was in power (as chancellor) during the bubble years, and thus responsible for the crash?

Lib-

Have you ever had a song that really resonated with you, because a few key lines matched up with something in your own life? That’s how this video is for me. Since Obama has only been in office two months, the full thing doesn’t apply to him. But parts of it really express my anger at the direction he’s taking our country.

It’s the line about having “run out of our money” that matter, as he’s attempting to treble our national debt. And the section about sailing into the storm with the ship already pressed deep into the waterline, while he continues to spend and spend. A few other sections, as well.

I know you’re all cool detachment and everything, but you don’t find the proposed orgy of spending AT ALL troubling?

I very much appreciate you playing devil’s advocate, btw.

Hard to answer that - yes, I find it troubling, but broadly speaking I think it’s a necessary evil considering how badly we managed to screw up the economy. I’m more of a Keynesian than I’d like to admit, I guess - hire people to dig holes, at least it will create demand for shovels.
Another reason it *could* be troubling isn’t just the spending itself but the expansion of the role of the federal government. Frankly I’m not all that troubled by that, either. We have a loooooooooooooong way to go before we become any kind of a European “nanny state,” no matter how loudly people shout it.

Actually this video made me wish Republicans would have said this to President Bush those many years ago. Granted Obama’s plan isn’t any better but that’s no excuse for the massive spending that went on during the Bush Administration

gman-

Completely in agreement. I’m a conservative before I’m a Republican. The Republican abandonment of their own principles was appalling. But Obama is taking spending to new heights of badness.