Palin talks tough to kids on quantitative easing

[sabra]

Source: Reuters

Now that the midterm elections are history, Sarah Palin is setting her sights and rhetorical skills on the Federal Reserve and its easy money policy.

On Twitter, the former Alaska governor and possible 2012 presidential contender said she would begin a round of discussions at school events to teach children about quantitative easing to prepare them for the results of the Fed’s plan to boost the sluggish U.S. economy.

“Today:trade speech;tmrw school event 2 start discussing QuantitativeEasing w kids around US so they prepare 4 Feds experiment w their future,” Palin tweeted.

More than a few kids may be baffled by quantitative easing.

Read more: http://blogs.reuters.com/frontrow/2010/11/08/palin-talks-tough-to-kids-on-quantitative-easing/

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[activa8tr]

1. I doubt she knows what she is talking about! n/t

[yurbud]

40. I'm not sure anyone knows much about quantitative easing except Bernanke and the hedge funds and

banks he'll be printing money for.

I get the impression that the financial sector is realizing they have played out all their ponzi schemes and now the only way they can stay afloat is with ever more complicated bailouts from the government.

They are like a glutton choking on their own vomit who tries to fix it by eating more and more.

Hopefully, they will be dead soon.

[nykym]

2. It is all

just to get the anger started at an early age.

[704wipes]

3. The sludge continues easing out of her brain too

Why does she want to squawk at little kiddies over this? Good God.

[CTyankee]

36. Her handlers prolly thought she should start throwing around relatively obscure terms

to show that she has smarts. But it's laughably obvious that couldn't have dreamed that one up herself...what an embarrassing idiot she is...

[karynnj]

37. What I worry about is that her handlers have translated this to simple terms

She will speak of just printing more money and say that make all money worth less. Given her proclivity to demagoguery I would expect illusions of Russians needing baskets of money to buy simple things. She is already speaking of inflation.

What is odd is that the President does not and can not control what the head of the federal Reserve does. Something that Palin seems not to understand.

The governors on the board are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate and serve 14 year terms - and can't be fired. The head (chair) is nominated from among those on the board by the president and confirmed by the Senate and serve 4 year terms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairman_of_the_Federal_Reserve Bernanke was renominated and approved in 2009 - so he is in control and can't be fired for another 3 years.

[CTyankee]

39. We Dems have to do a better job of educating people. Our message simply must get out.

Put pressure on the news media, even tho some of us are a little weary of doing so. What media outlets we have access to, we must access, and not just diss them all. Fox News is dismissable, Chris Matthews is not, IMO, wrong tho he may be on some things...

[tanyev]

4. She'd better wear short sleeves.

I don't think there's enough room on just her hands for those crib notes.

[nolabear]

5. Paul/Palin? Palin/Paul? I can't think of any other reason for this.

Wonder how old those schoolkids are, and what she's really up to.

[COLGATE4]

6. She wouldn't know what Quantitative Easing is if it came up

and bit her on the ass. Stupid twit!!!

[Po_d Mainiac]

8. Most Americans have no clue what QE means

And it's gonna leave toothmarks.

[jaxx]

7. Will parents be able to opt their kids out of those propaganda sessions?

Good grief if the President can't talk to school kids without approval why would a certified nut be able to?

[karynnj]

38. Good point

If it is high school, I hope the school's economics teacher will be called on to try to correct anything wrong this demagogue says.

[Frisbee]

9. So if Obama tells kids to study hard and stay in school...

it's indoctrination, but she can go spot right-wing talking points (that I am sure if pressed, she couldn't begin to explain in any kind of detail). And I am sure the same M$M that was all over Obama will conveniently ignore this. This country has gone so far to the right that I don't see it ever coming back. We are fucked.

:mad:

/rant off

[Yeahyeah]

10. It's when you quit screwing mooses and switch to Todd.

[handmade34]

11. the truth is difficult to find these days

Ben Bernanke says this in defense of 'Quantitative Easing':
"Financial markets do not lack capital, but the capital lacks confidence in the real economy"

No, capital doesn't lack confidence; it just is playing games with the American People in order to line its pockets!

[bossy22]

12. does she even know what QE is?

she probably thinks it means queen elizabeth

[Justitia]

23. She didn't know South Africa was a country!

Or who was on what side during WWI or WWII.

Or why there are "two" Koreas.

I'm thinking advanced monetary policy is a bit out of her (hamster)wheel-house.

[DimplesinMI]

13. I doubt that she even....

finished or passed Statistics in her many college travels. For that instance, where is her actual degree?

[rug]

14. she probably thinks quantitative easing has something to do with pants making her ass look fat.

[donco6]

15. What school would have her?

Seriously.

[No Elephants]

33. Apparently, many schools would have her, but none wanted to keep her for very long.

[donco6]

35. LOL!

:rofl:

[No Elephants]

34. Apparently, many schools would have her, but none wanted to keep her for very long.

[BrownieGman]

16. She wasRight

She was Right to quit , and get away from that Gov-office...
---full of Folks say'n she Dint'look preg-Not...where was
"Loyalty",,when a "MoMa Grizley" a'
protecton her "Younguns...?" 

[awoke_in_2003]

17. "On Twitter"....

and the media takes this woman seriously? Twitter, a great site to be a twit on.

[Marnie]

18. She better stick to elementary level kids

Becasue there are going to be middle school and high schoolers who are way smarter than her.
Is she allowing the students to have Q&A.

[Jefferson23]

19. I would love to know who her handler is for this. Ladies and gents, Sarah Palin the

intellectual, LOL.

If she runs for president, the comedy will be funnier than when she ran with McDope.

Someone call Tina Fey, get your QE on!

[prolesunited]

21. I would love to see her debate Obama

Can you imagine?

[Jefferson23]

26. Haha, hilarious would be an understatement, yep.

[lunasun]

27. be careful what you wish for.......

A couple of winks and nods and a catchy slogan in a bad economy and the public will declare her winner of the debate over that boring elitist!
Stupid is here and in living rooms everywhere and they vote!
The tea party was mocked and now they are in congress
Idiocracy is around the corner

[prolesunited]

20. Somebody taught her a new concept

and now she wants to show off. She picked school kids because adults might ask her questions she can't answer. It's easier to baffle kids with bullshit.

[Justitia]

22. LOL! As if she has any idea what QE is! I so want to hear her advanced theories on monetary policy

Like Marcel Marceau w/his hands tied behind his back.

[Cass]

24. I don't want this twit spewing propaganda to my child about anything. nt

[groundloop]

25. WHY IS THE MEDIA PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO THIS PERSON !?!?!?!?

WHY DO I HAVE TO KEEP HEARING HER NAME? SHE RAN AWAY FROM HER JOB AS GOVERNOR, SHE LOST AN ELECTION, THE MEDIA SHOULD JUST LET HER GO AWAY!!!

:mad:

[Javaman]

28. I LIKE TYPING IN ALL CAPS! NT

[woo me with science]

29. I JUST LOOKED UP "QUANTITATIVE EASING"!

:rofl:

[Mz Pip]

30. someone stole her Twitter password

Someone with a very bizarre sense of humor

[lumberjack_jeff]

31. ROFL

Seriously. Big belly laugh.

i thnk mama griz is best 4 tch quantitativeeasing 2 kids

The stupid! It burns the flesh!

[Brother Buzz]

32. This is not from the Onion and it's not the 1st of April.

:shrug:

[Gin]

41. she is name dropping trying to contradict the image that she is not informed

when she runs for pres... put her in a debate and she will be a huge embarrassment.

[activa8tr]

42. She talks to kids about this? If she talked to any economist about this, they ..

would see that she doesn't have the slightest idea what the heck she is talking about.

So she does this for a news headline, from her twitter account.