It’s Just a Flesh Wound

Actually, thinningtheheard, that was pretty foul and unnecessary, too. It seems ironic that I bring Alessan to task on racism, and you post a racist comment the very next post. Thanks for the support, man. You really made a great impression of "white folks" for people to remember. Bravo...with people like you fanning the flames, racism will never die in this country. Hopefully, kids these days will continue to grow up color-blind and blind to differences in sexual orientation. Only in that can we hope that racsim will ever truly die out.

No amount of Social enginneering an knob turning by the liberal left will solve todays problems. Look to Obama's own backyard to see the failures of the liberal machine of Chicago politics. There message falls apart when the opportunity falls away. That is all they have ever accomplished with the class divisive, run the businnesses off mentallity. What this country needs is MORE millionaires and More 20 Billion Dollar a year industries., NOT Less as they constantly rail against. Let's get some figures on Obama's OWN "vote with Bush" percentage. Let''s add to that obamaq's own "vote with Congress' Liberal leadership" Percentage. AND LET'S get really Real and Factor all the politically convenient "NO VOTE?PRESENT Charade" as YES with CONGRESS AND YES WITH BUSH~! Obama Should Get absolutely NO benefit of the doubt for No Voting! The reason for all that was to avoid his OWN Positions for political convenience!! If he Runs From himself THEN SO SHOULD WE!

alessan, that is by far the most egregious use of political drivel and reverse-racism I have ever read on these boards. You claim the ENTIRE Republican party is racist and hates poor people? And you claim that blue-collar republicans are all racist? What kind of hypocrite are you? Shame on you. Crawl back into the cave you slimed out from, you bigot!!!!

9% of that magical 10% are likely the folks who have made appropriate plans because they know their 401ks will recover because they did their research and dollar-cost average their funds for long-term success, or else have jobs that allow them to weather the bumps in the road. Remember, because we're not all poor or in the top 1% many of us know better than to panic and some of us middle class are in fact not in that bad of a position. You only FEEL the pain if something is HARMING you. While I understand the cynicism of the writer of this blog, the answer really isn't that mysterious.

The recovery will come, but only after the economy strips itself of the excesses. That's the essence of capitalism. It worked for centuries, and it will work now. In this sense what is going on is healthy, and I see good reasons to feel satisfied. At the end, when the unearned fortunes built on the housing bubble get eaten by the inflation and property taxes and all the newly-forged Realtors go broke and return to a productive business - then, hopefully, I will be able to afford to buy a house. And, by the way, foreclosures do not need to be painful - there is plenty of protection for the people who lose their home. They do not starve, and they do not even go to jail for their debt. The ones who really deserve sympathy are the people who bought overpriced homes and now continue to make their payments.

The 10% you are talking about, are the wealthy or near wealthy, and maybe they haven't lost their jobs yet
or money in the 401k plan. If they are retired, their money is safe, not in stocks and spread out in 10 banks
making sure they don't have over $100,000. in any one account. With the infusion of 700 billion into the
banks, the limit is $250,000 per person.

Some rich and middle class using sub prime mortgages were flipping houses and buying second homes, some of the second homes they could not afford. People who lost their job and have a mortgage or high rent and no savings are not happy, Republicans are anti-human being and don't care about working class
people. The working class who are republican, just don't want to be around people of color and they
feel, John MCsame will ensure that, they don't care if they can't have a beer, so long as people of color
are not around them. Even John Murtha has admitted that people in Western, Pa. are racist and so are
the people who stood at the rallies with Palin and McCain, in the small towns they visited in the Midwest or
West. Did you speak to any of them, bet they'll say so long as a White man is in the White house perfectably a republican they are happy, they are part of your 10%..

The recovery will come, but only after the economy strips itself of the excesses. That's the essence of capitalism. It worked for centuries, and it will work now. In this sense what is going on is healthy, and I see good reasons to feel satisfied. At the end, when the unearned fortunes built on the housing bubble get eaten by the inflation and property taxes and all the newly-forged Realtors go broke and return to a productive business - then, hopefully, I will be able to afford to buy a house. And, by the way, foreclosures do not need to be painful - there is plenty of protection for the people who lose their home. They do not starve, and they do not even go to jail for their debt. The ones who really deserve sympathy are the people who bought overpriced homes and now continue to make their payments.

I think Senator McCain has secured two votes, one from Joe the Plumber and one from Joe SixPack.
The rest of us who care about the economy, who prioritize energy independence, health care reform and education and who feel a physical sense of ailment and sickness at the memory of the last eight years need to cast our votes in favor of an intelligent, eloquent, caring and compassionate man, the "cool hand at the tiller" who even McCain feels we need. That "cool hand" is certainly not Senator McCain.
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Our politics suck in America. Basically all we do is have adult temper tantrums, and engage in the proverbial toddler sticking out our tongues saying " my daddy is better than your daddy"

Its really nonsense. every four years we get to "vent" about how ###### up things are and how bad the candidates are. (as if one of us REALLY can fix anything).

we ALL play passenger driver, second string quarterback

its symptomatic of a helpless people "looking" for a savior and while "looking" lashing out for their problems encountered from those who "rule"

truth is....everybody inately looks for a saviour to protect them from mis-fortune.

and when mis-fortune befalls us we say its "those guys fault".
i guess when it all boils down ALL of us are subject to a higher power. both visible and invisible.

to us...........are expectation is that the government IS supposed to protect us...militarily, financially, educationally, healthily (if thats a word), and otherwise. (and i agree)

yet we say "less government" lol! lol! WHAT A CROCK
john mccain is crazy. he says let the person decide on their healthcare.

yes.......BUT the government ought to either provide free healthcare across the board or make it very affordable.

yes these things are government's responsibility.

so n fact we do need government. not less.

when people say less........they stuff like religion, morals, etc.

but hell.everything else? "you betcha" (sarah pitbull palin)

but seriously.......our political process sucks!!

A vote for Obama is a vote for ACORN, not "change" likely to generate improvements! ACORN needs a President in the Oval Office sympathetic to ACORENs' radical agenda. Obama's denials befor the American people is a lie!
Obama speaks in many lies.
His campaign is the ame Americans suck First campaign the DNC and new media have used for decades.
The 10% who alone find the DNC led Congress doing a ggod job ARE happy when they hear how Americans Suck and AMreica sucks!
Americans don't suck! America is a great country!
Bill Ayres has always held a goal to bring all the violence around the world onto the streets of America to punish Americans...because he believes Americans Suck! He want s more government controls imposed on you and for you to be beat in the street!
The history of the Weather Underground is easy to research!

No one reading this, or even older than most of the posters, has a clue what hardship is. If you remember what nursing home from hell you deposited the old geezers, drop by with some donuts and half-off flowers and ask them what a real depression was like.

Ask them what ration books and living without such things as coffee, nylon, oil and meat was like. Ask them what the A meant on the windshield of the car. Or even go back to 1979 and why having an odd or even license plate was important. Ask them about having to buy war bonds to fund World War 2.

Wow, another store selling overpriced crap closed, big deal. Milk is on sale now for $2 a gallon and gas will drop below $3 by Sunday. The "market", which has been perverted into nothing more than a legalized casino, is probably going to be in the 9,500 to 9,750 in 10 days. If you had invested 5 years ago in any of the Market indexes, and not traded on the 1/4 point like Gordon Gekko, you would still have gains of 5% to 25%.

We got rid of some of the car dealerships, another big deal. How many cars do we actually need to buy? We have an insane surplus of cars in America. I have 5 gas stations, 3 Starbucks and 8 burger and chicken joints within 1 mile of my house. Do I really need that much cholesterol and fat that close that I can drive to it.

We are going to spend record amounts on Coffee, Movies and Cell Phones this year. Billions of Dollars in the year of the meltdown. If you add gift cards, we are spending more on buying crap that ever before. Retail sales do not include gift cards, which increase store sales upwards of 10%.

And we still get sold a bill of goods about Senator Government, I mean Obama.

Mencken was right, no one ever went broke underestimating the inteligence of the American consumer...or the American voter.