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It’s Just a Flesh Wound

The vast majority of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country. So who are the 10 percent who think everything is A-OK?

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  • Posted By: rugbykorn @ 10/20/2009 10:23:41 AM

    I'm one of the 10%, and the reason i;m satisfied is because I feel that the failed policies of G.W. are being unwound and we are starting the slow climb back to a sound a future. Health care reform, while far from perfect, must be enacted. The fact is its chocking our prosperity by sucking dollars out of the real economy since a large percent of the health care cost is in administrative costs. Oil is another issue that is also sucking dollars out of our economy, although this time its shipping them to Iran and Venezuela, and its not just the oil we buy, if we were to get off of oil and make alternatives profitable we could then work on creating trade policies and diplomatic pushes to export the technology that we create so that other nations (Western Europe, China, India) can obtain energy indepencen. Under the current administraation, i feel these goals are slowly beeing moved forward through increased R&D investment and tax incentives geared toward energy independence. I also believe that we have a coherent policy now in foreign policy in which we will attempt to secure American interests while antagonizing our friends as little as possible.

  • Posted By: rugbykorn @ 10/20/2009 10:23:19 AM

    I'm one of the 10%, and the reason i;m satisfied is because I feel that the failed policies of G.W. are being unwound and we are starting the slow climb back to a sound a future. Health care reform, while far from perfect, must be enacted. The fact is its chocking our prosperity by sucking dollars out of the real economy since a large percent of the health care cost is in administrative costs. Oil is another issue that is also sucking dollars out of our economy, although this time its shipping them to Iran and Venezuela, and its not just the oil we buy, if we were to get off of oil and make alternatives profitable we could then work on creating trade policies and diplomatic pushes to export the technology that we create so that other nations (Western Europe, China, India) can obtain energy indepencen. Under the current administraation, i feel these goals are slowly beeing moved forward through increased R&D investment and tax incentives geared toward energy independence. I also believe that we have a coherent policy now in foreign policy in which we will attempt to secure American interests while antagonizing our friends as little as possible.

  • Posted By: dratman @ 10/20/2009 8:59:47 AM

    Apparently "being satisfied" is mostly about feeling increasingly prosperous. Are even 10% in that category?

  • Posted By: Smarter than you think @ 10/18/2008 2:08:11 AM

    If people were to watch only the liberal media such as ABC,NBC, CBS then yes there is a great crises, But history shows that because of the greatness of America and her citizens we can weather any storm. Just ask those that made it through the great depression. They relied on their own eninuity, hard work and yes living for a while with less and making do with what little thay had. The real winners were those that had stayed out of serious debt and were frugal with their expenditures. I remember that during the Carter presidency their were liberals claiming that it wasn't fair that the poor were not able to afford a home, and that banks were discriminating against poor people by not letting them get mortgages. Thus the bubble began,and was perpetuated during the Clinton reign when he put his cohorts in charge of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Humm, the bubble got bigger, then the predators started circling, because it wasn't fair that poor people couldn't get mortgages.. It seems that Mr. Obama isn't the only one thats Naive (per Mrs. Clinton) but those that believe this ecomomic crises just burst upon us in a year or two, and if it did, lets see, who was in control of the senate for the past two years?

    • Posted By: dratman @ 10/20/2009 8:53:54 AM

      But are you satisfied?

    • Posted By: Mark_W @ 10/20/2008 8:03:25 PM

      "Smarter": Which party held the House of Representatives and the Senate between 1994 and 2006? Which party had complete control by holding the White House, Senate, and House between 2000 and 2006? Hmmm... the same party that has appointed 7 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices?

      Sorry "Smarter", I'm just not willing to somehow blame this mess on the liberals this time. You may think I'm one of them, but I'm actually a relatively conservative Republican myself. I was delighted when the Republicans took over in 2000 -- thinking that we'd finally get back to an era of more limited government with reduced federal spending. Sadly, that was wrong. Once the Republicans got control, they went on a spending spree that would make a drunken Democrat blush -- and massively expanded the government.

      One thing is now clear: The Democrats love to spend money, the Republicans love to spend money. Maybe they spend on different things, but both love to spend that tax money. The Democrats tax now & spend, the Republicans borrow now and spend, depending on future tax increases to pay for it. Sad, sad, sad.

  • Posted By: a Rocket Scientist @ 10/20/2009 6:35:29 AM

    Do these 10 percenters live in caves without TV, magazines, newspapers....

    ...no, they work for companies like newsweek.

  • Posted By: ReefBreak @ 10/25/2008 12:28:46 PM

    Steve,

    I think you missed an important group of Bush supporters - as follows:

    In 1999 - when Bush was being selected by the 'powers that be' to run for president, oil was trading for ~$10 / bbl. It costs about $7
    to pump it out of the ground and transport it to a refinery here in the US. So profits were thin in the oil patch.

    Bush's financial backers said "We'll finance your run for the Whitehouse, but you've GOT TO GET THE PRICE OF OIL UP!"

    On that account, Bush has been the best in history at inflating that asset class. Just think in your life if you had an investment
    that increased by a factor of 10-15 times in 8 years - would you be happy? YOU BETCHA !

    Further, people of relatively modest means can own oil wells. There are many small drilling companies where you can put up $50,000 or more
    and own a share of a $3-5 million syndication of a small group of wells - usually 5 - 10.

    I have participated in these investments, and while i'm not a Bush supporter, I do think he has done a masterful job of increasing the
    price of crude oil.

    ReefBreak




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  • Posted By: bighappy @ 10/18/2008 5:37:46 PM

    Why not to be satisfied?
    I was very diissatisfied few years ago, when foolish people like crazy chased extremely overpriced houses and hired pens assured us that it is because US experiences shortage of houses. Why should I be unhappy now, when all those morons are out of business and foreclosed properties are more than affordable now?
    I was very dissatisfied when oil price was sky high, all those terrorists and leftist dictators got ptofit from it, and our liberals prevented from drilling our own oil. Now oil price is much lower and keeps going down, and even Obama made some drilling concessions.
    I was very dissatisfied that 4 and even 8 years ago americans new that Bush Jr was an idiot and still kepr nominating and electing him, because it was american traditions (envy to smarts?) to elect regular morons except desperate times. Now I an satisfied that at least in 4 years we will have smart President.

  • Posted By: thehappyamerican @ 10/18/2008 4:55:20 PM

    Despite the lowest public approval in history the US Congress has a small percent who do approve of the em!
    They approve of the Fanny/Freddy monster (the Frank N Schumer monster), and the DNC leaders ongoing Americans Suck First campaign! They approve of ACORN in voter fraud and the Frank N Schumer Monster , too!

    That 10% are happy! And Bitterly Clinging to the DNC and socialists, and 60's radicals bomb makers who'ved moved up to massive voter fraud and high finance scandals!
    They probably got large posters on their walls of Charles Manson, and Karl Marx!

  • Posted By: Robert Bornhorst @ 10/18/2008 4:48:33 PM

    With three quarters of the world cooking over an open fire, it's easy to lose perspective about life in America. My stucco McMansion was seized by the bank, I can't afford to lease that new BMW right now, I miss going out to eat at Outback, etc. How on earth did an entire generation survive the Great Depression? Have we all become professional victims, blaming the President for our meaningless lives? Get off your fat ass and start helping yourself instead of worrying about how satisfied you should be.

  • Posted By: hmswhata @ 10/18/2008 4:28:50 PM

    You see them everyday on tv, thier the ones that Sara Palin brings to the table. These are people who vote against thier own interest,buy into fear tactics,and blame everyone else for poor shape of the country. They fail to face the facts, it was thier party that ran up the debt, let the jobs go overseas, was not prepared for katrina, forced gas prices up by way of a war that interupted supply, and told people just go shopping while the economy collasped.Thier political believes are based on one liners from the profits,Rush,Sean,and Bill..They think every question has only a yes or no answer and every issue is black or white. I do just have one question for them ,if thier politians were the best then why didn t they bring us to the highest point in the history of our country instead of leaving us at the lowest.

  • Posted By: winstonNOTneville @ 10/17/2008 4:38:13 AM

    Dear alfacanguro -- Boy, your a tolerant little fella aren't you? Bet you were a joy to your teachers throughout school. Hey, let's talk about your education. Where did you go to school? Where do you get your so called facts? The TV? Wow. . . toting the company lines for the democrats but you have no clue you are the new socialist party. Wake up!! I am serious! Read this http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29022 for truth about economics -- One day you will see suddenly the wealth of socialism that Obama brings and you will understand that life demands hard choices regarding our allies and enemies. Educated??--who would want to run in that crowd of dummies with Obama's terrorist professor friend anyhow--that is not educated but elitism--if that is what intellectual is I want no part of it. Give me leaders who have integrity & wisdom. Hope you stop sucking your thumb soon.

    • Posted By: alfacanguro @ 10/18/2008 4:01:05 PM

      It seems I've hit a nerve called "truth" here. So let me ask you: Why do you still support W? What makes you think he has any integrity or wisdom? Have you no common sense, or is that lack of "elitist" education hindering you from rational thought? You accuse Obama and the Democrats of threatening to bring about socialism, but what has the Bush administration wrought after 8 years of fiscally irresponsible government? You betcha! Nationalization of financial institutions, and bailouts for the auto industry. Yes, communism has arrived in America on the Republicans watch. BTW, you're way off target if you believe I have any party affiliation, least of all with the democrats.

  • Posted By: alexin007 @ 10/18/2008 3:16:33 PM

    Ok lets make a list:
    halliburton employees.
    ceo's of failed companies.
    all the soldiers in iraq and their families.
    the prisioners in guantanamo bay.
    news people.
    fox channel ceo.
    repo men (of course)
    reo workers
    vandals on empty houses
    drug traffickers
    doctors and psychologists
    homeless, the ones that had been for more than 10 years.
    taxi drivers (at least in NY)
    pawn shop owners.
    auction house owners
    collection agencies
    99 cents store owners
    there you go, I am sure there must be more out there, but that accounts for a good percentage. just count the numbers and you are going to hit at least four million in the list above.
    Oh, I forgot:
    the deaf, the blind, the mentally impaired (there are many out there unaccounted for), and of course the plain ignorant that do not even watch the news.
    what about the Amish? that could be too!
    great article by the way, I love the tone and the analysis.

  • Posted By: Shrek101 @ 10/18/2008 2:41:18 PM

    The 10% are hiding in a cave in Alabama. They are hiding so that the truth will not be encountered , and they can keep the view "pure" from outside influences. They also are hiding because a huge crowd of people keep throwing stones at them, and it's not safe to venture outside.

  • Posted By: Nowforthetruth @ 10/13/2008 8:34:19 PM

    Biggest one day increase in the Dow in market's history. However:

    "The Dow's lone decliner was General Electric (GE, Fortune 500), which reported weak quarterly earnings late Friday. It was also among the 18 components of the S&P 500 that didn't join the rally.???"

    http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/13/markets/markets_newyork/?postversion=2008101318

    Another reason might be that, having provided a soapbox for socialist through its NBC division, the market no longer trusts GE with investment capital, Buffet notwithstanding.

    • Posted By: neos @ 10/13/2008 9:16:29 PM

      Another distraction i see. You must be one of the 10% who think the country is doing just hunky-dory. You see that is what this article you didn't read was about. You know, how the country is in desparate times. Now what were you talking about.....

      • Posted By: careerdaytrader @ 10/14/2008 10:16:59 AM

        I'm HAPPY so many idiots are losing their jobs and hurting. They deserve it for thinking some moron like Obama who wants to tax the SMART and give it to the DUMB. Karma is a bitch, I'm laughing all the way to my offshore bank! America as we know or knew it is dead.

        • Posted By: Kyon @ 10/14/2008 6:40:05 PM

          guess what buddy? I have a 175 IQ am currently going to school to be a mechanical engineer, worked through high school 30-35 hour work weeks with full time schooling so I could pay my own way to Japan at just over 19, and guess what? Im an Obama supporter

          • Posted By: DWPitts @ 10/18/2008 1:40:53 PM

            Don't worry with him, he's just a selfish hack pissing all over everybody to make up for some undisclosed feeling of inadequacy. Must be a really bad one, too. Or a really small one, lol.

            Earlier on in this discussion, he was ranting on about the Swiss Banking laws and anonymous accounts(BEFORE the Swiss opened them in the 1990s). At best his information on how to backdoor launder money is 10-15 years old. So anybody foolish enough to follow him (if he is serious) is eventually going to federal prison for money laundering. Great American there.

            The old way was to transfer into an anonymous Swiss account, change over dollars for swiss francs, and move to a third country in francs. The money trail ended with the 1st Swiss transfer. Poor fellow either doesn't know, (or never did), the Swiss no longer maintain anonymous accounts and reveal account holder names, and money trails, upon request of the US government. Depending on the mechanism he used for his Swiss transfers makes him liable too, because if he went electronic, the trail still resides on SWIFT computers in either Holland or Virginia.

            If he is still doing it, it's only a matter of time...the money trail stays in the computers for at least 30 years (given the bank archival laws) if he landed in any of the industrialized countries..I guess he could always run to Nigeria to escape the archival laws. But is that a better place to invest than here? Really? And given his bent, I'm sure they will eventually figure him out, too.

            And just how exactly, is the commission of felonies a good thing that every honest American needs to pursue? Some people, I swear. Does this behavior sound familiar? "It's my or else you will force me to committ felonies. Nah Nanny. Nah."

            Viva Viagra! Or is that it Extenze? lol.

      • Posted By: Braes @ 10/13/2008 10:37:54 PM

        He has posted it in other threads, where it also is a solid fart. I hear that the Roveshop has paid bloggers selling spam, sans can.
        Canned Spam should sue for defamation.

  • Posted By: Rodrunyan @ 10/14/2008 3:22:13 PM

    Your article assumes that the 10% who are NOT dissatisfied are so because they are satisfied or happy with the Bush administration? But that may not be the case. I would be part of the 86% who are not satisfied, but it would be due to the increasing influence of liberals like Pelosi and Reid, who will soon have an inexperienced Barack Obama as President, someone who they can easily influence; someone who shares many of their socialistic views. THAT is scary. And THAT is why I am dissatisfied with the direction of the country.

    • Posted By: careerdaytrader @ 10/14/2008 3:28:07 PM

      I 100% agree.

      The only GOOD news is when he raises taxes those of us with businesses, money and investments will be forced to go offshore. We will contribute LESS to this economy, our money and jobs will flow overseas and the MORONS who elected Obama to STEAL from US and give to THEM will get what they deserve!

      Millions of Job Losses - Ain't Karma a Bitch you Thieves!
      Houses in Foreclosure - Great for some of us who wish to buy ocean front property but don't want to pay the $4-5 Million it USED to cost. Now great ocean front homes are available for $1.5-2 Million. Don't say every recession isn't GREAT NEWS to some of us who PLANNED and worked hard to be on top.

      Obama Supporters will get what they DESERVE - Ultimately NOTHING and an economy WORSE than it is now.

      • Posted By: DWPitts @ 10/18/2008 12:47:04 PM

        You are an anti-American greed merchant DayTraitor. Take your toys and leave. Just don't be surprised when we tell you, you no longer have free access to the markets you failed to support when you had the chance. Waaaaaaa. Waaaaa. Waaaaaa. Bitch all you want, this is America after all.

        Besides, there is a near zero length value chain coming off of Day Trading. I suspect the amount of real damage you could do to America is almost nothing. Go on then and have your tantrum.

        You are but a tempest in a teacup, inflating the stock prices to make your shortfall profits off of intraday irregularities. Shooting those intraday gaps doesn't benefit the companies you exploit. In essense, nobody really needs you here. We need an economy based on businesses that provide value chains of benefits into the American consumers. Day trading has NEVER provided any such benefit to the American economy. You are a wart on the side of a bag, attached to the American economy.

        In short, BYE BYE, and don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out..

      • Posted By: rangerone314 @ 10/15/2008 8:23:45 AM

        Is Pres Bush a socialist for pushing a bail-out plan for Wall St on Congress?

        If privatizing profit and socializing losses is not socialism, I'm not sure what is. Take from the middle class and give to the rich.

        Some people need to be lined up against a wall and executed, like they do in some countries.

        • Posted By: careerdaytrader @ 10/15/2008 10:12:07 AM

          I am against the bail out too. Let the people who DID this PAY for it. I'm against welfare for the rich, middle class AND POOR. We would have had a 1 to 3 year recession, it would have been pretty bad but we would have made it through it but who knows now what the hell will happen. At least a 6 mo to 1 year recession that will likely be a tad more mild.

          • Posted By: summer4077 @ 10/15/2008 10:53:24 AM

            Lol aren't you one of the people who did this?

            • Posted By: earth3650yahoo @ 10/15/2008 11:44:18 PM

              It's just enough to get them through until January 20, 2009. They will all go on vacation and eventually work for the private sector---the finance industry in some form or fashion. LOL!
              Whoever comes into office had better have some quick feet! This whole mess is going to be tossed ASAP into the next guy's lap!

  • Posted By: icurlamer @ 10/14/2008 3:47:23 PM

    keeping Bush's tax cuts would only harm US,just like it has been doing for last 8 years,The big companies are still leaveing and we are loseing jobs overseas and are deficits are growing larger and larger,just like everytime a republican gets in the big house

    • Posted By: mere55555 @ 10/15/2008 1:01:40 AM

      Oh yeah- it's a crazy concept that businesses create jobs. Why don't we let the people that have delayed gratification keep over 50% of what they have worked so hard for. Is it the governments job to provide for people that will not help themselves? That's some a very smart move. There is a reason that some people are poor and will remain that way. You need to realize that working and creating a life that is not out of government support will turn this country in the right direction - not ANOTHER HANDOUT!!!!

      • Posted By: DWPitts @ 10/18/2008 12:30:28 PM

        And its even more of a fact, that markets create businesses, and people are the heart and soul of markets, not businesses. This is why the old, golden rule was: "The customer is always right".

        You should have learned that somewhere along the line, and you would better understand the massive buyers remorse you see all around you today. See, without that ethic, business is no better than bad government. What keeps things efficient, and stable, is being in service to someone. You ideologists sought to have people bow down to you. Big mistake homie.

        I know its going to be hard to do, but you are going to have to face it; Ronnie was wrong, dead wrong. It's always people who matter most, not abstractions. LOL. Welcome to the reality-based 21st Century.

    • Posted By: DWPitts @ 10/18/2008 12:09:37 PM

      Haven't you noticed that every time the US government concedes to businesses demands, they go ahead and take the benefit, and then either: a) turn right around and make new threats; or, b) take the money and run. Sounds like a professional baseball player don't it. "My 250mil seems so paltry now..."

      Here's a little fact that debases this BS, the number #1 and #2 economies in the world, before Ronald Reagen took over and started espousing this "let businesses make all decisions BS", were first, the domestic US economy, and second, the expenditures of the US government.

      So, here's what we do. Tell these businesses threatening us, to *** off and leave. ???Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out???. Just one thing: YOU can no longer sell goods and services to either the US domestic or government sector markets, period. Screw you fratboy, they are OUR markets, not yours.

      Two, we have enough demand from the US government alone for goods and services to create new businesses that will not be so greedy (especially if we grow a pair and kick the scumbags out).

      Three, given that for private business to succeed in the US, US consumers (they are the market you balloons) must have disposable income to participate in the markets. They need decent paying jobs. So, any business owner that doesn't want his employees to stay competitive, can move his ass to Ireland and compete for their market (which is about 5% of the US domestic market). SEE, your business isn???t so viable without US market share.

      Four, cancel the $750B corporate welfare, and: a) create the underlying enterprises needed to manufacture/manage/fund/maintain the goods we need in this society (30%); b) use the 40% to repair our infrastructures; c) use the last 30% to address our healthcare and education issues; and finally, d) make ALL lobbying illegal and return to competitve bidding as the manner to let out work.

      Between the money spent on Iraq and that spent bailing out greed, there was enough to rebuild (infrastructure, systems, programs, etc.) from the ground up.

      These republican windbags claiming we can't survive without them are full of it. All they have done is sell the country out for 30 pieces of silver. The sooner they are gone, the better. Americans know how to build stuff, all kinds of stuff. WE DO NOT NEED THEM!

      Watch how fast this gets fixed. Remember something the next time republicans claim government is evil: The US government is us. They are shitting on us, every time they spew on the government. Sure, we need to fix it, as it has sustained damage over the last 30 years (much of the callous disregard and cynicism has been created by their relentless BS propaganda).

      Their 15 minutes are up...time to start fixing the damage.

  • Posted By: traceyjo @ 10/15/2008 12:06:29 AM

    i am one of the 22 million that are ok with president bush. he didn't do this to america. this has been building for years...back to the 90's when the republicans wanted regulation but the dems didn't. look where that got us? don't push this on our president.

    • Posted By: summer4077 @ 10/15/2008 10:50:55 AM

      You're very mistaken. Republicans are traditionally pro-corporate American and want DEregulation and lower taxes (Bush). Dems are traditionally big government and higher taxes (Clinton). Politics is cyclical. We get sick of high taxes so we kick Dems out. Then we run up debt to our eyeballs under Republicans and kick them out. Then back to higher taxes and more regulation. Then back to low taxes and less regulation. It's all a game.

      • Posted By: DWPitts @ 10/18/2008 8:59:03 AM

        Anybody who now claims the Republicans were all about regulation in the 1990's really was asleep at the wheel or didn't bother reading Newt Gingrich's Contract on America, lol.

        It's still available online for your reading pleasure if you really want to identify what led to this crash. Guess not huh? That would be an Inconvenient Truth, lol.

        My impersonation of a typical wingnut during the years 1990-2008:

        ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...Huh? Bill Clinton is evil..ZZZZZZZZZZ..Abortion sucks, death penalty good...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ....we are the party of life, when does the war start.......ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ..Anything anybody says or does, its all Bill Clinton's fault. That's what personal responsibility means, BLAME Clinton.....ZZZZZZZZZZZZ.. hillary Clinton wears pantsuits, OMG!...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ...Bill Clinton got a blowjob, OMG, how disgusting..ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ..Blowjobs are bad and only evil doers get those.ZZZZZZZZZZZ THOSE ONES are to blame for hurricanes..ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ....THOSE ONES shouldn't get house loans, they scream when we rape them...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ....Bill Clinton is a THAT ONE. ..ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ..George Bush loves me, ahhhh...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZGeorge Bush is a great American hero and has promised to fill in my 1040 for me next year, yeah! Im gonna be rich...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZWho the #!$% is George Soros, I thought it was Bill Clinton's fault?..ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ What???? OMG! What happened, how is THAT ONE ahead in the polls????? OMG! This is horrible....BUT, but, but, if the THOSE ONES get control, they are so going to make us pay for all the horrible *** we have done to them for the past 300 hundred years.....HELP HELP...I need more sleep...ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

        Pathetic, really.....

      • Posted By: bscottparker @ 10/15/2008 2:48:40 PM

        Summer4077- You could spend your entire life debating with these people. They don't use google, they don't research to find their own answers, they simply swallow the Bill O'Reilly and Hannity talking points of the day and spew them on these sites unthinkingly. Theirs is not a fact-based reality, but a faith-based one. They don't know history, and don't have a passing interest in learning it. They feel safest being told what to think by people (who have nothing in common with them). They feel safest knowing they're "right," and woe unto him or her who confronts those beliefs, which are held no less unswervingly than religious beliefs. Which makes sense, since like religion, the notion that "conservatives always knows best" could survive today's world only if its followers are completely cut off from reality...

        • Posted By: Pocolodi @ 10/15/2008 8:47:24 PM

          Don't hold your breath, dip. Blame democrats Barney Frank and Chris Dodd for the mess we're in.

          But.... let's have it your way.... Obama said yesterday that spreading around the wealth was best for everyone! (yes, he said that, and yes, it's a fact) Socialism here we come!

          • Posted By: fleepwood @ 10/16/2008 3:59:14 PM

            Your'e right. McCain wants to buy mortgages of default homeowners that were stupid enough to get in over their heads and negotiate a new deal where they get to stay in their homes at current market value. This at the cost of 300 billion to all tax payers! Socialism indeed!

    • Posted By: GoSarah @ 10/15/2008 2:19:55 PM

      That's right, Traceyjo...absolutely.

  • Posted By: mere55555 @ 10/15/2008 12:18:28 AM

    OK -so when are we going to blame the people i.e. Charlie Rangel and others that pushed and pushed for the fact that minorities were not able to purchase homes - which he stated was a "right". Now we are blaming the elected officials (republicans) that were forced to side with this idiotic view. Why is it that no DEMOCRAT CAN EVER ADMITT A MAJOR MISTAKE????? THEY ARE SO BITTER AND AND LOVE TO PLACE BLAME ON EVERYONE ELSE BUT THEIR POLICIES???

    • Posted By: careerdaytrader @ 10/15/2008 10:07:47 AM

      Democrats are TOO DUMB to even realize it was THEIR party that brought America down. Luckily those who work hard, start their own businesses have OPTIONS. Setup offshore companies, put your money in Swiss banks and convert currency to the CHF and also invest in currencies and other non US assets.

      Let the MORON Democrats destroy America. If we're smart it won't hurt us hard working, smart and wealth individuals at all and in fact it will help us. We can buy ocean front property 50% off the prices of a few years ago. It also creates very volatile markets that any smart trader can triple their money every few years. Thanks Moron Democrats for creating a catastrophe that at least causes market volatility that some of us can really CASH IN on.

      • Posted By: DWPitts @ 10/18/2008 8:27:27 AM

        You do realize the Swiss Banking laws have changed and the accounts are no longer anonymous right? And given the Patriotic Act, each offshore transfer of very small amounts trigger reporting of the currency movement? So, better be careful laundering money through Switzewerland there pal.

        You do realize you are advising people to commit felonies right? What you just proposed is in violation of the money laundering laws, and the Swiss banks no longer shield the conversion to francs you are advising. Hmmmm, why am I not surpirsed that this how republican self-governance works, committing felonies to become and stay rich.

        How novel and noveau riche of you DayTrader, lol. Yes, very patriotic...

      • Posted By: summer4077 @ 10/15/2008 10:49:15 AM

        I realize I'm taking the bait because you're most likely a troll, but Republicans have been in control of Congress for the majority of the past 20 years. Dems took over in 2006, after most of the bad loans and corrupt corporations were getting ready to collapse.

        • Posted By: Pocolodi @ 10/15/2008 8:41:52 PM

          Bullsh!t "summer." What happened to the "we're going to change things in hours" democratic congress nonsense that they talked about two years ago?

      • Posted By: MVillegas @ 10/15/2008 3:51:21 PM

        You are so right! I mean really I don't know why democrates don't get on board. The game goes spend the banks money, pocket your own money then let the poor slob making 30 grand a year pick up the tab by increasing their taxes

    • Posted By: MVillegas @ 10/15/2008 4:08:11 PM

      First off minorities are not the only ones losing their homes, nor can they not afford to buy homes. I agree that people not reading the fine print when they got into these mortgages but if you have lenders out there like coutrywide promising to get someone with not so perfect credit into a 350,000 home for 1,000 a month you think people aren't going to flock, it's a lenders responsibility to advise people especially uneducated people in plain english all aspects of their loan, oh yeah it's called the fair lending laws. As far as not accepting blame I love the way Bush waited until the end of his term to admit that our country is in trouble, maybe if he would have polished up Clinton's budget issues instead of driving us deeper into debt with this war then there would be no blame to push around. It's the little people that work their asses off to help the rich get richer so it wouldn't hurt to throw a dog a bone once in a while, but oh yeah that's not the republican way is it.

  • Posted By: carolc3 @ 10/18/2008 6:57:05 AM

    I have been an educator for 17 years. I have always believed that all children can learn to read and function in today's changing world. The same problems that I have seen with struggling readers in K-12 have only manifested themselves with comments from both sides quoting one or two articles or repeating what was told to them without actually taking the time to do independent research. We need to make informed decisions. Not decisions that have been formed for us. Take advantage of the Internet. Read some peer reviewed journals of passed historical events. Educate yourselves to the point that your decisions are driven by your own kowledge. That way you have only yourself to blame. We are becoming a country of sheep. Data (and two many articles to quote) has shown that exchange students no longer flock to our University systems as in the past. I won't tell you where they are going. Research it for yourselves. I will say that where they are being educated probably defines "foreign countries" as more than those you see from your front yard.

  • Posted By: garcilaso @ 10/18/2008 4:57:54 AM

    But of course there are people very satisfied with Bush. I know a few of them. They are totally impervious to the suffering and problems that Bush brought upon them and our nation and there is a reason for that. At least 2000 families became rich at Bush's expenses and politics. So, if I made some four millions dollars in the eight years, how can I be unhappy with Bush. There are plenty of Americans who, thank to Bush, became super rich, and that is all that matters to them. Let me give you just one example. The Black Water owner. Do I need to say more?

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