# Katie Couric and faux news **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [February 11, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214 "2010-02-11T16:27:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/21 "2010-02-12T08:21:01Z")
Has he tried NOT PRINTING AND SPENDING us into oblivion? ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/22 "2010-02-12T08:22:12Z")
So your solution was to do nothing? Let the financial markets collapse? Yep, I’m sure everything would just fix itself. Hello 20% unemployment :tup: It’s easy to say what NOT to do. But what would you do instead, smart guy? ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/23 "2010-02-12T08:22:53Z")
> [@Fry](#): > > lol very tired, and cranky. Obviously. But I still say the tea baggers are just a bunch of goofballs. 😛 > > And yeah there will be 8 years of Obama, be it for better or worse. The economy ought to be in the upswing right about election time, which will seal it for him. Looks like congress will be way less blue though. :tup: The economy may _look_ better on the surface but I think people are FINALLY waking up to the future as far as debt/spending goes. We will see, maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/24 "2010-02-12T08:24:51Z")
> [@Joe](#): > > So your solution was to do nothing? Let the financial markets collapse? Yep, I’m sure everything would just fix itself. Hello 20% unemployment :tup: > > It’s easy to say what NOT to do. But what would you do instead, smart guy? Did I say do nothing? CUT SPENDING, apparently that is nothing to you. Unemployment is already higher than 20%. Edit: There are obviously a ton of other things I would do too. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/25 "2010-02-12T08:29:05Z")
Cut spending on what? Spending = jobs. Your way to stimulate the economy is to circulate LESS money through it? Putting people out of work by cutting spending = increasing spending on welfare and medicaid. What are you going to cut? Defense? Social Security? Corporate grants and incentives? People say it’s so easy to cut spending until they have to pick what to cut. And I’m talking official unemployment, the figure that just went under 10%. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:33am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/26 "2010-02-12T08:33:37Z")
I would cut everything you mentioned except SS for obvious reasons. 10% according the people stealing our money. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:37am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/27 "2010-02-12T08:37:07Z")
You would be run out of town in about two hours. The American public is so easily swayed by BS, do you really think they’d stand for “You know who made our country vulnerable to TERRORISTS, got you laid off, put your company out of business, then got your medical and unemployment cut? THIS GUY! Because GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRATS want to pay off their bonds!!!” You’d be hung from the washington monument. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/28 "2010-02-12T08:39:38Z")
Who will be hanging when a loaf of bread costs $9999999? ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/29 "2010-02-12T08:43:59Z")
You think the American public wants to hear about the future? You saw how well “Who will be hanging when your checkup costs $999999999” went. People only care about now. Anyone who tries to implement legitimate long term planning gets politically murdered by lobbying and media manipulation. I can see it now, you’d be branded an ivory tower whackjob out of touch with Americans in 0.2 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/30 "2010-02-12T08:45:10Z")
^Well like I said to Fry, I think people may be catching on. You may be right though.:gotme: ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/31 "2010-02-12T08:46:07Z")
ANYWAY… The news cast was faker than faux. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 8:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/32 "2010-02-12T08:47:30Z")
It would be horrible in A LOT of ways, but the government would get much more done if they had indefinite appointments like the Supreme Court and were free to do what they thought was best long-term instead of what they could sell the public on in the next election. ---
**Author:** ![glitch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/0ea827/32.png) [@glitch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/glitch)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 9:00am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/33 "2010-02-12T09:00:29Z")
:bigtup: :bigtup: To a political thread created by BED that wasn’t copied and pasted from an email. :bigtdown: :bigtdown: To it still being retarded. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 9:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/34 "2010-02-12T09:29:16Z")
As usual, thanks for your brilliant contribution glitch.:tup: ---
**Author:** ![theblue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/theblue/32/5074_2.png) [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 9:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/35 "2010-02-12T09:47:29Z")
the tea party can’t tell you what the tea party is about… they’re just an angry mob that is fixated on Obama being the Devil. You can’t just go around saying “stop spending” like you have found some obvious solution everybody in Washington never thought of. and how many Republicans show up at ribbon cutting events that where funded by stimulus money 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/blue_eyed_devil/32/7292_2.png) [@Blue\_Eyed\_Devil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Blue_Eyed_Devil)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 9:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/36 "2010-02-12T09:52:57Z")
Oh I hear ya, I don’t discriminate, everyone in DC is a crook. ---
**Author:** ![speedster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@speedster](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/speedster)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/37 "2010-02-12T13:36:18Z")
> [@RedGoober4Life](#): > > He won by 5%. Great displeasure? 5% in a democratic state is great displeasur. ---
**Author:** ![Joe](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/joe/32/7219_2.png) [@Joe](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Joe)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 1:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/38 "2010-02-12T13:39:00Z")
Want your business to be more successful? Cut your expenses by 50% with no adverse effects. ---
**Author:** ![Penfold](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/penfold/32/5007_2.png) [@Penfold](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Penfold)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 4:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214/39 "2010-02-12T16:10:49Z")
> [@Joe](#): > > Want your business to be more successful? Cut your expenses by 50% with no adverse effects. You act as if the economy gets it’s capital from government spending. :biglaugh: The economy is still fundamentally in horrible shape AND we are in more debt. Government jobs and spending programs are not in place to fix the economy they are in place to keep the public happy and so politicians look like they are “doing something.” [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/katie-couric-and-faux-news/79214.md?page=1)