It’s Just a Flesh Wound

Just because the liberal media is talking about nothing but "market failures" and Bush does not mean that every person in America necessarily has to succumb to group think. As always, America will weather this period of financial crisis and in time, the markets will all be up once more.

Posted By: GoSarah @ 10/15/2008 2:14:46 PM
Comment: George Bush has kept us safe and has not brought failure or damage on us! What are you referring to?

9-11, katrina(bush administration done nothing), wall street greed allowed, voting fraud......

what the hell planet are you living on?

Just because the liberal media is talking about nothing but "market failures" and Bush does not mean that every person in America necessarily has to succumb to group think. As always, America will weather this period of financial crisis and in time, the markets will all be up once more.

How does one get polled? Who are the people polled? Why don't they ever poll me and my friends, relatives, etc.? People are dissatisfied because they watch and believe the nightly news. The media lies to us about everything and especially about our president. If he has done one tenth of what they say, he should be impeached. Oh, that's right, he hasn't done anything except try to keep us all safe from terrorists. Things have been just fine for the last eight years and yes please Lord, more of the same. If the terrorist-loving muslim takes office we are doomed.

I am a single mother and I work up to three jobs at a time. But at the end of the day I know I am in the situation I am in because of my own choices. I work to pay off the debt that I 'allowed' my sons father to rack up by trusting him. I work to give my son a good life, and to teach him that working hard and fulfilling your obligations is the right thing to do. Am I tired all the time? Yes. But ultimately I am satisfied with the society that we live in that allows me to make my own mistakes and rectify them on my own. But if bail outs and 'rewards' start kicking up for people who made even more/bigger stupid mistakes than I did and then started crying about them rather than being proactive and finding their own solution... My satisfication level with this country will decrease rapidly!

jobs are fast disappearing even if you wanted to work your butt off.this i society has to change a little give opportunity for social mobility trough a great education system.scandinavian countries have done it,not everybody has the same opportunities.you cannot really say that everybody is self made,depends on what kind of family and environment you are born into makes a huge difference

Uumn, what did he say?

Intellectually dishonest, cognitively impaired and just plain stupid people. That's who they are.

Regardless of whether it was a Republican or Democrat... if you were to draw a diagram in representation of the U.S. economy the majority of the money flow would be going outside the economy with very little coming in. It's like spending money you don't have. The economy was getting better during Clinton's run in office. Once Bush came in and the war started, it all went down hill. Despite anyone's opinion, he's going down as possibly the worst president in American history. As far as the housing market is concerned as it relates to the economy goes back to Wallstreet. They were basically left alone at the helm with politicians shouting deregulate. People are greedy, period. Everyone and their mother all of a sudden wanted to sell mortgage loans and were aloud to sell HORRIBLE loans to nearly anyone who wanted one and some even lied about how the loan was structured because it was too damn easy. Meanwhile, they tax the crap out the middle working class and give all the tax breaks to the rich, wealthy and the corporations. BUT, let some take some responsibility for going out and buying new cars etc. accumulating more debt for themselves instead of INVESTING that money when they knew good and well in 3 to 5 years that mortgage loan was going to jump up. However, when your B.S. lender tells you at the time of purchase it's going to jump 1 to 2 hundred dollars and it jumps more like 4 to 6 hundred dollars because bankers and developers destroyed the balance of supply and demand, you now have a home you paid half a mill. for that is only worth $300K. You can't refinance, you can't sell it AND you can't afford it. NOW you're poor. And due to the law the bank says, "Tough luck. Oh and by they way, we still expect you to pay interest and principle on the $200K that just somehow disappeared and is well... no longer there!"

Psychology Definition:
Availability Heuristic- a mental short cut that involves using what is most easily remembered or brought to the mind in order to reach a conclusion. Often ignores relevant information, for example: If I were to ask which is more likely to write poetry for recreation: a truck Driver, or a Yale Professor, the average response is a Yale Professor, despite the fact that there are thousands more truck drivers than Yale Professors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic

Despite the fact that the standard of living has stagnated in growth, it is still at the historical high.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/156921

Those random people that were interviewed just couldn???t explain it. They couldn???t explain that even though our President reportedly sucks, the Economy is in a recession (and going to get worse), crime is on the rise, the war in Iraq is failing, Government is inept and the whole world is burning to a crisp, that life was just fine. That somehow they had a job, a family, and that they were happy.

It is not A-OK. It is the fault of the left wing congress headed by Nancy Pelosi.

I can name some of the satisfied, bankruptcy lawyers, bankers advising the government on TARP, therapists, job/career counselors, real estate auctioneers, loan sharks, the NRA, the military industrial complex, Dick Cheney.

SoulEspresso must be one of the 10%.
The banks have never been forced to do much of anything, much less give loans to people who couldn't afford them. They are suppossed to treat everyone the same but they still get to set the bar for who gets what. Problem is they got to set the bar, without government oversight. Remember, Ronald Reagan deregulated the banks and the financial industry during his wonder years. By the way, did you get any of that 'trickle down' money? Only thing that trickled down to me was the bill for the corporate excesses.

Right on.... Future President. It would be a crazy notion that people actually made mistakes and that they could not blame everyone else for mistakes. IT'S CALLED ACCOUNTIBLITY AND WE SHOULD START BEATING INTO PEOPLES HEADS. It's like a child that cannot ever admitt their mistakes.

People who don't think things are better in the US than almost anywhere else in the whole world ... haven't been anywhere else. Americans are terribly undertravelled. I'd rather live here when we're at our worst than live anywhere else, period.

Plus the media's been telling us we're in a disaster, so more and more of us are wondering if we are.