And again you are wrong. How sad.

Here is a link to a conference of top scientists of AGW alarmists on "crazy" ideas how to work around the worst effects of climate change: Blue-sky thinking about climate. It was in 2004. The key quote is:

On your other stupid comment of the day: scientist are working every day to be able to get earlier warning of earthquakes and to be able to accurately predict the effect and behaviour of tornados and earthquakes. Since many of these scientists are working for government organisations (e.g. universities) or (the horror) the UN, you might even call these scientists a part of a "global bureaucracy". When it comes to stop (instead of preventing harm from) such phenomena, it is surely easier to stop a phenomena that is caused by our own actions (i.e. Global Warming), than something that is caused by the movements of the earth crust.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/12/tea-party-debate-health-care_n_959354.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-usmvYOPfco

Not much of a criticizme, just old talking points.

Without the stimulus-spending that Obama initiated between 1 - 3.5 million more people would be out of job today. (According to independent analysis, CBO). That would be a real drag on the economy.

Also, of course you will have to do more stimulus to the economy to be able to pay of debt in the future, since it is the tax money from people actually working that will pay this debt. It is a total waste to let people be unemployed, so you invest to get people working. (You just have to make sure that the stimulus actually create jobs). This is especially true since people like yourself reject the filthy rich should pay more taxes (you know, as much as they did under Clinton and less than they did under Reagan).

A lot of the competition in the solar segment is from chinese companies run on government subsidies. China invest so heavily because they know coal is not going to cover their energy needs in the future. Beside China has often used the strategy to lose money for a while, drive out the competition and then get to set monopoly prices afterwards. Its what China for instance did to get control of the rare earths marked, i.e. metals needed to get all those electronic gadgets to work. China are now making a killing in profit from these metals after undercutting the price for years making companies in the western world go bankrupt, and it is going to take years before other countries can again build up the expertise and infrastructure to mine these metals. It would be sad if China would succesed in doing somehting similar the field of solar energy.

The big oil companies are getting 18 billion tax payers money in subsidies. Big oil with its record profits made from speculating in not building enough refining capacity. Is that what you call a level playing field?

Good post by Klein: how our debt happened.

It is also worth to note that the downgrade is not because of any near term debt problem in the US. The reason given by S&P is that the disfunctional political system in the US at the moment (i.e. the extreme elements taken over the republican party) makes S&P believe that the long term debt problem (i.e. the next decades) will not be dealt with properly. Like this statement:

A last point is how misinformed people in general is on this topic about the US economy and debt (just read some of the slashdot posts here getting modded up). It seems to be the medias responsibility to be fair and balanced and actually call out republicans talking nonsense about what the debt problem is.

People who don't support "half of what the federal government does" usually don't have half a clue about what the government actually do for them.

Best example is the so-called tea-baggers with their keep your government hands off my medicare, showning how propaganda that "everything bad is caused by the government" makes people happy about the service provided by the same government go out and vote to end those services.

So in your world view, McCarthey was correct in destroying innocent lifes, installing a culture of fear in Hollywood so that they would not make critical films about the current administration, making it hard for people with different political views to get a decent jobs and being able to bully people in general without having to prove anything? All this because there were some soviet spyes (what a shocker that is!) during the cold war?

How should one put it? "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"

Wasn't it the brilliant republican mind Dick C. that stated back in 2001:

Got to wonder what could have been achieved had there been a bit more focus on renewable energy 10 years ago.

Thinking it through, there is probably a fair amount of plasticizer in the polypropylene utilised so that the Tg is probably at a significantly lower temperature. But then when considering the lifetime of the money you have to look at how long time it takes for the plasticizer to diffuse out or breakdown thereby making the polypropylene brittle at common winter temperatures.

Actually Polypropylene has a glass transition temperature (Tg) around 0C so the grandparent has a valid point:

List of Tg for some common plastics

Another sad story:

For Want of a Dentist

Basically a young boy dies a painful death because his parents could not afford $ 80,- of dental treatment that was not covered by Medicaid. The bacteria spread to brain, the 12-year old gets treatment worth more than $ 250 000,- before he dies. How does tax payers save money by not allowing everyone proper health care (including dental health)? That is health care before people get seriously sick and end up in the emergency room. And I have not even included in the calculation what this young boy could have given back to the society by working and paying taxes and maybe being an entrepeneur...

Hopefully this prediction will happen one day:

Reaganomics Finally Trickles Down To Area Man

What Obama is saying is that you have to educate people to the jobs of the future instead of bank tellers. Obama is basically just stating an obvious fact and faux news misrepresents it to help the republican party. The US is facing a lot of problems these days, and this smearing instead of having honest discussions to find solutions is a big part of it.