USA under Bachmann/Tea Party

So its 31 August, 2011. All the people in USA will be reeling under the pain and disturbance caused by Her Hurricaness Irene who unleashed herself on the east coast of US moving from North Carolina to New Jersey and New York. The Caribbean also suffered widespread damage which by some estimates could be as high as $ 3.1 billion. And between all this mess, deaths, houses being destroyed Michele Bachmann a Presidential nominee for 2012 elections and thought by many to be the frontrunner Republic candidate couldn't keep her out shut. She said that the Hurricane was, well lets hear it in her exact words- " Hurricane Irene is God's way of telling that Washington is spending too much". Really? I mean this is what the standard of a Presidential candidate has become? 

Somehow the tagline here fits - Dumb Blonde

Well you can't really expect anything apart from stupid comments from Bachmann. She is belongs the Republican party and also to the Tea Party faction. Many worldwide would have heard of Tea Party from the debt deal the US passed early this month. They oppose any form of taxation and argue for less government spending. They quite weirdly say that Global Warming is a hoax. Most of them belong to the Republican party and at times even embarrass their own party. John McCain the Republican candidate in 2008 elections blasted the Tea partyers for resisting efforts of John Boehner the current Speaker of the House to reach common ground with the Democrats on raising the debt ceiling. Bachmann very unfortunately seems to be leading the polls and a lot of the media houses believe that she may have enough support to win over Mitt Romney the current frontrunner for being the Republican candidate. I say this is unfortunate simply because she reminds me of the nightmare many had over the possibility of Palin becoming the President. Remember the way she portrayed herself as the Hockey mom and also showed her smartness b saying Africa was a country, dinosaurs existed 4000 years ago and of course how North Korea was an "indispensible American ally"? Well honesty Bachmann doesn't even come close to the standards Palin set in her campaign on how dumb can someone be. But her beliefs have the potential o turn America from Superpower to not even being a power. She said that she'll reduce even further taxes and also cut government spending if she comes to power. Tell me honestly how can a country grow if it reduces its spending and also its coffers are empty courtesy its tax cuts? Bachmann doesn't seem to get this at all.

A legend and an influential man- the World
A stupid overrated man whose work is false- Tea Party

Every person has in some way or the other heard of the Great Depression. It occurred in the 1930's and culminated in the onset of the WWII. The depression led to an economist going by the name John Maynard Keynes publish his monumental work on macroeconomics. Today he is considered to be one of the most influential persons of our time. His theories were put into effect by Roosevelt's New Deal which drastically changed the economic situation. In fact the recent recession of the late 2000's led to a resurgence in Keynesian school. Despite his work being time tested and considered to be a masterpiece the Tea Party as usual thinks of his work as being obscure and a complete false. It says that Keynes was wrong in his assessment.

Its possible what you see in this image according to Palin

It'll be a nightmare if a person belonging to this movement gets elected as the President. Then we can expect economic chaos to be unleashed all across the world. But being an Indian and Asian in general I have to say that if this does happen India stands to benefit from this immensely as China will suffer economically because of the debt bonds of US it owns. India will then accelerate and may play the role what China played during the recession- leading the global economy.

P.S -Here's a link to all the major dumb gaffes of Bachmann- http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/republicans/a/michele-bachmann-quotes.htm

8-2 Manchester United- Arsenal

Yesterday I sat down to watch the Premier League match between Man Utd and Arsenal with couple of my friends and had no idea what I was in store for everybody who was watching. The first half saw some intense moments, some missed shots and even a missed penalty. The score stood at 3-1 during halftime. Pretty brutal but somehow digestible right? I mean Arsenal have been having an extremely bad time with six years being past without any trophy wins. And all the star players leaving- Nasri going to filthy rich Man City and Fabregas going to Barca where he learned it all. So eventhough it was Arsenal trailing 3-1 against United it was believable. But fast forward 45 minutes and you get the shock of your life- score board reads 8 frigging 2! This is totally unbelievable! I mean this is the first time Arsenal has lost by 8 goals since 1896. To lose by 5 goals is ok, 6 is somehow fine but 8 GOALS!

That's history. A big one for the history books.

Ask anyone who saw the match and they'll tell you that it was truly a massacre at Old Trafford. The match saw some incredible performances from United kids. Rooney scored a hattrick. He scored the first two goals from two textbook executed free kicks and was very close to a scoring a third from another free kick and accomplishing a rare feat of hattrick from free kicks! But the best goal undoubtedly was that of Ashley Young. United were leading 1-0 and Young doubled that lead by a goal that was truly magical. Young went on to score even once more in the same fashion.

This match however funny for all the United "fans" signals something far more important, That Arsenal needs to revamp its play this season. A lot of you will say they needed to do that years ago but at least they didn't make headlines for losing 8-2. And  they had Nasri and Fabregas. But this season they need to do something fire or hire or whatever they can and get their play together. Their defence last night was for the lack of a better word shambolic. How awesome the United were last night that bad Arsenal were.

After the match I googled Wenger to find out if there was any fall out on him. He refused to step down as many were calling him to do so. But strangely enough his entry on Wikipedia.org read that he'd been dismissed and said that he'd been one of the greatest managers in the Premier League. Of course this was edited by some Arsenal venting out his anger. But I sincerely hope that sense prevails on Arsenal's Board of directors and don't sack him as it will spell doom for Arsenal. They've lost their star players and to lose someone who has lead Arsenal to a magical unbeaten season in 2003-2004 deserving the title of the Invincibles. Things don't look too rosy for the Gunners and they need Wenger more than anyone else. Surprisingly his rival Sir Alex jumped to his defence. Even Pep did saying that Wenger had done so much for the club.

The next match of Arsenal is against Swansea. They will eventually get over this. But its hard to get over that this match will remain in history books. 8-2 That's something that's etched on everyone's memory.