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Do Facts Matter?
Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time
and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people
all the time."
Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the
Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on election
day, just a few weeks from now.
Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are being
fooled a whole lot of the time.
The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back
into a substantial lead over John McCain-- which is astonishing in
view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing
on this crisis.
It raises the question: Do facts matter? Or is Obama's rhetoric and
the media's spin enough to make facts irrelevant?
Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Senator Christopher
Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years-- including the
present year-- denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big
risks that could lead to a financial crisis.
It was Senator Dodd, Congressman Frank and other liberal Democrats who
for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set up an
agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years
pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting
subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today's financial
crisis.
Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the
Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary
of the Treasury, five years ago.
Yet, today, what are we hearing? That it was the Bush administration
"right-wing ideology" of "de-regulation" that set the stage for the
financial crisis. Do facts matter?
We also hear that it is the free market that is to blame. But the
facts show that it was the government that pressured financial
institutions in general to lend to subprime borrowers, with such
things as the Community Reinvestment Act and, later, threats of legal
action by then Attorney General Janet Reno if the feds did not like
the statistics on who was getting loans and who wasn't.
Is that the free market? Or do facts not matter?
Then there is the question of being against the "greed" of CEOs and
for "the people." Franklin Raines made $90 million while he was head
of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution into crisis.
Who in Congress defended Franklin Raines? Liberal Democrats, including
Maxine Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus, at least one of whom
referred to the "lynching" of Raines, as if it was racist to hold him
to the same standard as white CEOs.
Even after he was deposed as head of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines was
consulted this year by the Obama campaign for his advice on housing!
The Washington Post criticized the McCain campaign for calling Raines
an adviser to Obama, even though that fact was reported in the
Washington Post itself on July 16th. The technicality and the spin
here is that Raines is not officially listed as an adviser. But
someone who advises is an adviser, whether or not his name appears on
a letterhead.
The tie between Barack Obama and Franklin Raines is not all one-way.
Obama has been the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae's financial
contributions, right after Senator Christopher Dodd.
But ties between Obama and Raines? Not if you read the mainstream
media.
Facts don't matter much politically if they are not reported.
The media alone are not alone in keeping the facts from the public.
Republicans, for reasons unknown, don't seem to know what it is to
counter-attack. They deserve to lose.
But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and
cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the
advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years
allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed
their hatred of America.
Thomas Sowell - www.tsowell.com
Ph.D. in Economics, University of Chicago, 1968
A.M. in Economics, Columbia University, 1959
A.B. in Economics, magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1958
http://townhall.com/Columnists/ThomasSowell/
http://TheRealBarackObama.wordpress.com
<T...@g...com> wrote in message
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> Do Facts Matter?
>
> Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time
> and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people
> all the time."
>
> Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the
> Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on election
> day, just a few weeks from now.
>
> Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are being
> fooled a whole lot of the time.
>
> The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back
> into a substantial lead over John McCain-- which is astonishing in
> view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing
> on this crisis.
>
> It raises the question: Do facts matter? Or is Obama's rhetoric and
> the media's spin enough to make facts irrelevant?
>
> Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Senator Christopher
> Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years-- including the
> present year-- denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big
> risks that could lead to a financial crisis.
>
> It was Senator Dodd, Congressman Frank and other liberal Democrats who
> for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set up an
> agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
>
> It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years
> pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting
> subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today's financial
> crisis.
>
> Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the
> Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary
> of the Treasury, five years ago.
>
> Yet, today, what are we hearing? That it was the Bush administration
> "right-wing ideology" of "de-regulation" that set the stage for the
> financial crisis. Do facts matter?
>
> We also hear that it is the free market that is to blame. But the
> facts show that it was the government that pressured financial
> institutions in general to lend to subprime borrowers, with such
> things as the Community Reinvestment Act and, later, threats of legal
> action by then Attorney General Janet Reno if the feds did not like
> the statistics on who was getting loans and who wasn't.
>
> Is that the free market? Or do facts not matter?
>
> Then there is the question of being against the "greed" of CEOs and
> for "the people." Franklin Raines made $90 million while he was head
> of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution into crisis.
>
> Who in Congress defended Franklin Raines? Liberal Democrats, including
> Maxine Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus, at least one of whom
> referred to the "lynching" of Raines, as if it was racist to hold him
> to the same standard as white CEOs.
>
> Even after he was deposed as head of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines was
> consulted this year by the Obama campaign for his advice on housing!
>
> The Washington Post criticized the McCain campaign for calling Raines
> an adviser to Obama, even though that fact was reported in the
> Washington Post itself on July 16th. The technicality and the spin
> here is that Raines is not officially listed as an adviser. But
> someone who advises is an adviser, whether or not his name appears on
> a letterhead.
>
> The tie between Barack Obama and Franklin Raines is not all one-way.
> Obama has been the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae's financial
> contributions, right after Senator Christopher Dodd.
>
> But ties between Obama and Raines? Not if you read the mainstream
> media.
>
> Facts don't matter much politically if they are not reported.
>
> The media alone are not alone in keeping the facts from the public.
> Republicans, for reasons unknown, don't seem to know what it is to
> counter-attack. They deserve to lose.
>
> But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and
> cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the
> advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years
> allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed
> their hatred of America.
>
> Thomas Sowell - www.tsowell.com
> Ph.D. in Economics, University of Chicago, 1968
> A.M. in Economics, Columbia University, 1959
> A.B. in Economics, magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1958
>
> http://townhall.com/Columnists/ThomasSowell/
>
> http://TheRealBarackObama.wordpress.com
Your spin doesn't hold water. If this mess is all Democrats fault, why
didn't Bush
administration reversed it when he had Republican control of both Houses of
Congress. You people don't have a leg to stand on. Just take what's coming
and shut up.
The Bush White House lack of regulation or enforcement of it is the major
cause of this mess, along with the greed of Wall Street.
On Oct 5, 10:43 pm, "Titix" <n...@s...com> wrote:
> <T...@g...com> wrote in message
>
> news:f2de55f2-1c81-4b27-b875-a0fcea06972f@k13g2000hs
e.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
>
>
> > Do Facts Matter?
>
> > Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time
> > and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the people
> > all the time."
>
> > Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the
> > Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on election
> > day, just a few weeks from now.
>
> > Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are being
> > fooled a whole lot of the time.
>
> > The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back
> > into a substantial lead over John McCain-- which is astonishing in
> > view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing
> > on this crisis.
>
> > It raises the question: Do facts matter? Or is Obama's rhetoric and
> > the media's spin enough to make facts irrelevant?
>
> > Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Senator Christopher
> > Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years-- including the
> > present year-- denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big
> > risks that could lead to a financial crisis.
>
> > It was Senator Dodd, Congressman Frank and other liberal Democrats who
> > for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set up an
> > agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
>
> > It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years
> > pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting
> > subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today's financial
> > crisis.
>
> > Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the
> > Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's Secretary
> > of the Treasury, five years ago.
>
> > Yet, today, what are we hearing? That it was the Bush administration
> > "right-wing ideology" of "de-regulation" that set the stage for the
> > financial crisis. Do facts matter?
>
> > We also hear that it is the free market that is to blame. But the
> > facts show that it was the government that pressured financial
> > institutions in general to lend to subprime borrowers, with such
> > things as the Community Reinvestment Act and, later, threats of legal
> > action by then Attorney General Janet Reno if the feds did not like
> > the statistics on who was getting loans and who wasn't.
>
> > Is that the free market? Or do facts not matter?
>
> > Then there is the question of being against the "greed" of CEOs and
> > for "the people." Franklin Raines made $90 million while he was head
> > of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution into crisis.
>
> > Who in Congress defended Franklin Raines? Liberal Democrats, including
> > Maxine Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus, at least one of whom
> > referred to the "lynching" of Raines, as if it was racist to hold him
> > to the same standard as white CEOs.
>
> > Even after he was deposed as head of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines was
> > consulted this year by the Obama campaign for his advice on housing!
>
> > The Washington Post criticized the McCain campaign for calling Raines
> > an adviser to Obama, even though that fact was reported in the
> > Washington Post itself on July 16th. The technicality and the spin
> > here is that Raines is not officially listed as an adviser. But
> > someone who advises is an adviser, whether or not his name appears on
> > a letterhead.
>
> > The tie between Barack Obama and Franklin Raines is not all one-way.
> > Obama has been the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae's financial
> > contributions, right after Senator Christopher Dodd.
>
> > But ties between Obama and Raines? Not if you read the mainstream
> > media.
>
> > Facts don't matter much politically if they are not reported.
>
> > The media alone are not alone in keeping the facts from the public.
> > Republicans, for reasons unknown, don't seem to know what it is to
> > counter-attack. They deserve to lose.
>
> > But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and
> > cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the
> > advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years
> > allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed
> > their hatred of America.
>
> > Thomas Sowell -www.tsowell.com
> > Ph.D. in Economics, University of Chicago, 1968
> > A.M. in Economics, Columbia University, 1959
> > A.B. in Economics, magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1958
>
> >http://townhall.com/Columnists/ThomasSowell/
>
> >http://TheRealBarackObama.wordpress.com
>
> Your spin doesn't hold water. If this mess is all Democrats fault, why
> didn't Bush
> administration reversed it when he had Republican control of both Houses of
> Congress. You people don't have a leg to stand on. Just take what's coming
> and shut up.
>
> The Bush White House lack of regulation or enforcement of it is the major
> cause of this mess, along with the greed of Wall Street.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
The whole Bush administration has been totally corrupt, but of course
we expect that from the Bush Crime Family!
John W. McSame has no plan whatsoever to ever remove our troops from
Iraq.
Voting for John W. McSame is like giving George Dumbya Douche a 3rd
term.
John W. McSame is a warmonger.
Sara Pain is a bimbo.
John W. McSame and Sarah Falin think Iraq was responsible for 9/11
Sarah Falin is not qualified to be President of the USA, let alone be
mayor of a city of 7000 people.
John W. McSame and Sarah Falin are against finding Bin Laden, the man
who was responsible for 9/11
Sarah Falin thinks seeing Russia from land there in Alaska makes her a
foreign policy expert!
John W. McSame is no Maverick. He votes with Bush 95% of the time.
My Friends, That is NOT change!
***********
From: MACK DADDY <p...@m...com>
>John W. McSame is a warmonger.
>
>
>Sara Pain is a bimbo.
Obama's a Chicago Nigger
Nomen Nescio/robby allen wrote on 10/6/08 3:40 AM:
> Obama's a Chicago Nigger
Awwwww robby......you're just jealous that Obama has a newer Benson than
yours........
Titix wrote:
> <T...@g...com> wrote in message
> news:f2de55f2-1c81-4b27-b875-a0fcea06972f@k13g2000hs
e.googlegroups.com...
>> Do Facts Matter?
>>
>> Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time
>> and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the
>> people all the time."
>>
>> Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the
>> Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on election
>> day, just a few weeks from now.
>>
>> Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are
>> being fooled a whole lot of the time.
>>
>> The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back
>> into a substantial lead over John McCain-- which is astonishing in
>> view of which man and which party has had the most to do with
>> bringing on this crisis.
>>
>> It raises the question: Do facts matter? Or is Obama's rhetoric and
>> the media's spin enough to make facts irrelevant?
>>
>> Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Senator Christopher
>> Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years-- including the
>> present year-- denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big
>> risks that could lead to a financial crisis.
>>
>> It was Senator Dodd, Congressman Frank and other liberal Democrats
>> who for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set
>> up an agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
>>
>> It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years
>> pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting
>> subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today's financial
>> crisis.
>>
>> Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the
>> Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's
>> Secretary of the Treasury, five years ago.
>>
>> Yet, today, what are we hearing? That it was the Bush administration
>> "right-wing ideology" of "de-regulation" that set the stage for the
>> financial crisis. Do facts matter?
>>
>> We also hear that it is the free market that is to blame. But the
>> facts show that it was the government that pressured financial
>> institutions in general to lend to subprime borrowers, with such
>> things as the Community Reinvestment Act and, later, threats of legal
>> action by then Attorney General Janet Reno if the feds did not like
>> the statistics on who was getting loans and who wasn't.
>>
>> Is that the free market? Or do facts not matter?
>>
>> Then there is the question of being against the "greed" of CEOs and
>> for "the people." Franklin Raines made $90 million while he was head
>> of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution into crisis.
>>
>> Who in Congress defended Franklin Raines? Liberal Democrats,
>> including Maxine Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus, at least
>> one of whom referred to the "lynching" of Raines, as if it was
>> racist to hold him to the same standard as white CEOs.
>>
>> Even after he was deposed as head of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines was
>> consulted this year by the Obama campaign for his advice on housing!
>>
>> The Washington Post criticized the McCain campaign for calling Raines
>> an adviser to Obama, even though that fact was reported in the
>> Washington Post itself on July 16th. The technicality and the spin
>> here is that Raines is not officially listed as an adviser. But
>> someone who advises is an adviser, whether or not his name appears on
>> a letterhead.
>>
>> The tie between Barack Obama and Franklin Raines is not all one-way.
>> Obama has been the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae's financial
>> contributions, right after Senator Christopher Dodd.
>>
>> But ties between Obama and Raines? Not if you read the mainstream
>> media.
>>
>> Facts don't matter much politically if they are not reported.
>>
>> The media alone are not alone in keeping the facts from the public.
>> Republicans, for reasons unknown, don't seem to know what it is to
>> counter-attack. They deserve to lose.
>>
>> But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and
>> cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the
>> advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years
>> allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed
>> their hatred of America.
>>
>> Thomas Sowell - www.tsowell.com
>> Ph.D. in Economics, University of Chicago, 1968
>> A.M. in Economics, Columbia University, 1959
>> A.B. in Economics, magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1958
>>
>> http://townhall.com/Columnists/ThomasSowell/
>>
>> http://TheRealBarackObama.wordpress.com
>
> Your spin doesn't hold water. If this mess is all Democrats fault, why
> didn't Bush
> administration reversed it when he had Republican control of both
> Houses of Congress. You people don't have a leg to stand on. Just
> take what's coming and shut up.
>
> The Bush White House lack of regulation or enforcement of it is the
> major cause of this mess, along with the greed of Wall Street.
>
You happen to be 100% right imho, and it is the OP who has it largely wrong.
Your point about the Republicans being 100% in charge of both the executive
branch and the congress for 6 of the past 8 years is irrefutable and he
seems to conveniently overlook that little thing.
Unfortunately for the OP, facts DO matter. It's just that he's looking at
the wrong ones.
The Republican propensity toward reducing government regulation is at the
deepest heart of this matter. For those of you who didn't watch it last
night, spend 12 minutes watching this 60 Minutes segment on the Wall Street
mess: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4502673n You'll learn that
it's not the sub-prime mortgages per se that caused the downfall, but that,
without due regulation, Wall Street took these mortgages, turned them into
investment securities and then sold those along with what appeared to be a
type of "insurance policy" to the banks called "credit default swaps". And
there lies the flaw. Under insurance regulations, insurance policies must be
backed with real money called "capital reserves". But these policies weren't
labeled "insurance", but "swaps" and therefore were not regulated under
Republican administration law. They were not backed up with money (capital
reserves). When the securities failed, the "swaps" couldn't cover all the
losses. And the system came tumbling down.
If you really want to know, take the time to watch the story. Your eyes will
be opened, it will be clear to you that much of this is due to the
Republican policy of deregulation (pay attention to how many times the word
"regulation" appears in the story), and Wall Street greed, NOT due to the
social policy issues of the Democrats, or even the sub-prime mortgages
themselves, as this OP wants you to believe.
i think it is evil that lurks in many people hearts that pushes them
towards liars like the democrats...i disagree that they are "fooled" .
they are just evil people who want bad things to happen...that is all.
" BARACK OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST "
On Oct 6, 10:15 am, "Carl" <c...@N...net> wrote:
> Titix wrote:
> > <T...@g...com> wrote in message
> >news:f2de55f2-1c81-4b27-b875-a0fcea06972f@k13g2000h
se.googlegroups.com...
> >> Do Facts Matter?
>
> >> Abraham Lincoln said, "You can fool all the people some of the time
> >> and some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all the
> >> people all the time."
>
> >> Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the
> >> Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on election
> >> day, just a few weeks from now.
>
> >> Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are
> >> being fooled a whole lot of the time.
>
> >> The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back
> >> into a substantial lead over John McCain-- which is astonishing in
> >> view of which man and which party has had the most to do with
> >> bringing on this crisis.
>
> >> It raises the question: Do facts matter? Or is Obama's rhetoric and
> >> the media's spin enough to make facts irrelevant?
>
> >> Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Senator Christopher
> >> Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years-- including the
> >> present year-- denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big
> >> risks that could lead to a financial crisis.
>
> >> It was Senator Dodd, Congressman Frank and other liberal Democrats
> >> who for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set
> >> up an agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
>
> >> It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years
> >> pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting
> >> subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today's financial
> >> crisis.
>
> >> Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the Chairman of the
> >> Council of Economic Advisers to the President. So did Bush's
> >> Secretary of the Treasury, five years ago.
>
> >> Yet, today, what are we hearing? That it was the Bush administration
> >> "right-wing ideology" of "de-regulation" that set the stage for the
> >> financial crisis. Do facts matter?
>
> >> We also hear that it is the free market that is to blame. But the
> >> facts show that it was the government that pressured financial
> >> institutions in general to lend to subprime borrowers, with such
> >> things as the Community Reinvestment Act and, later, threats of legal
> >> action by then Attorney General Janet Reno if the feds did not like
> >> the statistics on who was getting loans and who wasn't.
>
> >> Is that the free market? Or do facts not matter?
>
> >> Then there is the question of being against the "greed" of CEOs and
> >> for "the people." Franklin Raines made $90 million while he was head
> >> of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution into crisis.
>
> >> Who in Congress defended Franklin Raines? Liberal Democrats,
> >> including Maxine Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus, at least
> >> one of whom referred to the "lynching" of Raines, as if it was
> >> racist to hold him to the same standard as white CEOs.
>
> >> Even after he was deposed as head of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines was
> >> consulted this year by the Obama campaign for his advice on housing!
>
> >> The Washington Post criticized the McCain campaign for calling Raines
> >> an adviser to Obama, even though that fact was reported in the
> >> Washington Post itself on July 16th. The technicality and the spin
> >> here is that Raines is not officially listed as an adviser. But
> >> someone who advises is an adviser, whether or not his name appears on
> >> a letterhead.
>
> >> The tie between Barack Obama and Franklin Raines is not all one-way.
> >> Obama has been the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae's financial
> >> contributions, right after Senator Christopher Dodd.
>
> >> But ties between Obama and Raines? Not if you read the mainstream
> >> media.
>
> >> Facts don't matter much politically if they are not reported.
>
> >> The media alone are not alone in keeping the facts from the public.
> >> Republicans, for reasons unknown, don't seem to know what it is to
> >> counter-attack. They deserve to lose.
>
> >> But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and
> >> cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the
> >> advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years
> >> allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed
> >> their hatred of America.
>
> >> Thomas Sowell -www.tsowell.com
> >> Ph.D. in Economics, University of Chicago, 1968
> >> A.M. in Economics, Columbia University, 1959
> >> A.B. in Economics, magna cum laude, Harvard College, 1958
>
> >>http://townhall.com/Columnists/ThomasSowell/
>
> >>http://TheRealBarackObama.wordpress.com
>
> > Your spin doesn't hold water. If this mess is all Democrats fault, why
> > didn't Bush
> > administration reversed it when he had Republican control of both
> > Houses of Congress. You people don't have a leg to stand on. Just
> > take what's coming and shut up.
>
> > The Bush White House lack of regulation or enforcement of it is the
> > major cause of this mess, along with the greed of Wall Street.
>
> You happen to be 100% right imho, and it is the OP who has it largely wrong.
> Your point about the Republicans being 100% in charge of both the executive
> branch and the congress for 6 of the past 8 years is irrefutable and he
> seems to conveniently overlook that little thing.
>
> Unfortunately for the OP, facts DO matter. It's just that he's looking at
> the wrong ones.
>
> The Republican propensity toward reducing government regulation is at the
> deepest heart of this matter. For those of you who didn't watch it last
> night, spend 12 minutes watching this 60 Minutes segment on the Wall Street
> mess:http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4502673n
You'll learn that
> it's not the sub-prime mortgages per se that caused the downfall, but that,
> without due regulation, Wall Street took these mortgages, turned them into
> investment securities and then sold those along with what appeared to be a
> type of "insurance policy" to the banks called "credit default swaps". And
> there lies the flaw. Under insurance regulations, insurance policies must be
> backed with real money called "capital reserves". But these policies weren't
> labeled "insurance", but "swaps" and therefore were not regulated under
> Republican administration law. They were not backed up with money (capital
> reserves). When the securities failed, the "swaps" couldn't cover all the
> losses. And the system came tumbling down.
>
> If you really want to know, take the time to watch the story. Your eyes will
> be opened, it will be clear to you that much of this is due to the
> Republican policy of deregulation (pay attention to how many times the word
> "regulation" appears in the story), and Wall Street greed, NOT due to the
> social policy issues of the Democrats, or even the sub-prime mortgages
> themselves, as this OP wants you to believe.- Hide quoted text -
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The Republitards never admit that all the speculators helped cause the
problem too, by driving up the prices. Impeach all Republitards!
John W. McSame has no plan whatsoever to ever remove our troops from
Iraq.
Voting for John W. McSame is like giving George Dumbya Douche a 3rd
term.
John W. McSame is a warmonger.
Sara Pain is a bimbo.
John W. McSame and Sarah Falin think Iraq was responsible for 9/11
Sarah Falin is not qualified to be President of the USA, let alone be
mayor of a city of 7000 people.
John W. McSame and Sarah Falin are against finding Bin Laden, the man
who was responsible for 9/11
Sarah Falin thinks seeing Russia from land there in Alaska makes her a
foreign policy expert!
John W. McSame is no Maverick. He votes with Bush 95% of the time.
My Friends, That is NOT change!
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obama worked for and hung around with a terrorist convicted of multiple
bombings. that is a fact, not a democrat party "talking point"......
obama snuck a meeting with the head of "american hezbollah", at first
denied it, then said the guy had nothig to do with hezbollah- the agen
then met with the real laeder of hezbollah in lebanon a month later.
obama recieved financial favors from a syrian terrorist, tony rezko, who
has since been arrested.
at a party with tony rezko, obama "gave a toast " to a mr.auchi who was
amember of saddam hussiens socialst baath party in iraq. auchi was
arrested for stealing over 600 millio dollars from iraq's electric power
company and funneling some of the money to rezko..
obama was caught taking $30,000 dollars from two palistinian brothers
last week and forced to give back the money.
obam's father, grandfather and great-grandfather al lived in iran at one
time or another.
saudi arabia pressured people who had connections to harvard to write
letters asking barack hussien obama t be admitted to harvard...
islama obama is a moslem sleeper agent and cannot be trusted with the
presidency.
" BARACK OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST "
I sent a copy of your bullshit hate email to the Black Panthers along
with
your name and address.
Think the 101st airborne is trouble? Expect to have a multicultural
experience on the way to work or during a ?????
Got insurance? Glad i'm not you & i have full health insurance!!!!
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