Perry Criticism Pushes Bernanke Further Into Political Limelight

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Perry should first criticize the quadrillion $ created...
...ex nihilo by the private banks, quadrillion $ that private banks have loosed in casino actions in 2008...
Perry should NEVER criticize the trillion $ created by the fed for saving the private banks in 2008...
Neither the quadrillion $ nor the trillion $ created hyper-inflation, because the only way to create hyper-inflation is:
when the FED inflate financial costs 400% as Adolph Volcker did from 4.5% in 1977 to 19% in 1981: Adolph forced US supermarkets to rise the Consumer Price Index in 1983, and US industries to fire millions peoples in 1984...
Rate rises make the CPI to rise (stepwise, forever) 2 years later, and the employment rate to fall (stepwise, forever) 3 years later. Monetarists are all liars!
Now USA has only 58% remaining jobs, forever, because Alan Greenspan inflated financial costs 500% from 2004 to 2007, creating the crash 2008.
Next crash will reduce employment under 50%, and then only, majority votes will perhaps throw out the republicans plutocrats from the government!

Jean-Francois Morf 2:58PM August 25, 2011

What hasn't Obama done for the rich republican cry babies. He'll get re-elected for that alone. He is the funnel for public tolerance of the rich republican cry babies out there.... Wah... wah..... let me keep my lollipops..... wah.... i don't want to give back what we've worked so hard for to take.... like affordable health care, pensions, decent wages... wah... i like making 30 times what my workers make... wah... wah... my great grandpa would be proud of me.... wah... he paid 90% tax and was still rich while this country led the industrial revolution. they built bridges, dams, etc.. now we watch them all fall apart but look how rich i am.... wah... wah... take more away from everyone else.... wah... wah.... don't tax me like the old days... wah... i like paying less tax than the middle class.... wah.... wah..... i'm too big to fail so I get my bailout welfare check.... how do you like that free market capitalism system... the cost of living skyrockets and I get to pay my workers wages from over 10 years ago.... and they get to foot the bill for high medical costs, etc... I can't wait until I'm 66 so I can draw the social security check that I don't even contribute to for my income is way over 100k and they don't make me pay... ah... and I work real hard. my job requires me to say the word no... that's all i need to do.... wah... wah....
socialism is what the bailouts were. and those bailout recipients are the first ones to collect on social security when eligible even though they never paid social security tax on income above 100k per year. hey, they jacked up the price of college enough now so it's affordable by even less people even though it was free when they went in the 60's and 70's.....
it's de-regulation from a republican controlled senate, house, and president that allowed the financial industry to screw everyone but the upper class......
regan unleashed the beast by allowing that Merrill Lynch guy to be his right hand and selling this country into the stock market. we are forced to be gamblers........ the stock market is the only thing keeping this country afloat... it's just another vehicle used by the rich to take everyone elses money. it's never an even playing field... no one can afford the expensive high frequency trading servers that they rent........ how can we have pride in a country that only can stay afloat through deceit and exploitation.........

thomas of NE 1:31PM August 25, 2011

Do we need another Pres. from Texas.
Nothing against most Texans but they sure do breed wackos.
Rick Perry needs to go back to school for a major in common sense and not his kind of evangelical religion.
Really, where do they find these guys?

ticktacto 5:53PM August 22, 2011

Aug. 2010-July 2011 is considered the worst one-year drought in recorded Texas history according to State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M. Aug. 2010-July 2011 is the driest 12-month period in at least 116 years.
Ironically Ricky is running around the country looking for a new job, peremtorily telling everyone Global Warming is a hoax. While Texas withers. He is looking out for número UNO and catering to the cult of stupidity. I guess his solution is to get the hell out of Dodge while the getting is good.

blueOak of CO 2:16PM August 21, 2011

Ever since gaining control of the house the dumruplicans have done nothing but try to subvert and sabotage our government. That is the definition of a terrorist. Now it looks like they have kicked us into another recession. Their stupidity defies description. When I witness their attacks on science, the EPA, educators, planned parenthood, health reform, etc... I am reminded of the Catholic church in the dark ages and it's attemts to suppress knowledge and free thinking. Or even of the way communist China trys to dictate the news it's people can read on the Internet. Right wing tyrants never change.

blue oak of CO 9:08PM August 20, 2011

Former Treasury official Bruce Bartlett labeled newly-minted Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry "an idiot" Friday.
Bartlett, who served at Treasury under former President George H.W. Bush and as a domestic policy adviser to the late President
I couldn't have expressed it any better myself.

burr oak of CO 1:52PM August 19, 2011

So Perry calling Bernanke a traitor makes policy personal, but no mention of calling Republicans terrorists as a member of Congress and the VP have done? Thanks for keeping your reputation as anti-conservative up to date, USNews.

Jsmith of VA 11:55AM August 19, 2011

We sure can't afford to put another dummy from texas in the white house. What's in the water down there? why are they breeding nothing but village idiots ?

oak of CO 7:59PM August 18, 2011