Thank you tea party patriots!

schuylaar said:
lol..the pubster "crazy" is kicking in..you dem, you!

*schuylaar's shit does not stink nor have corn..you can even feed her strawberries for a week:wink:
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Your sense of smell seems as skewed as your cognition dissonance generation and associated self contradicting points of view.
 
tokeprep said:
You're substantially oversimplifying if you think the repeal of Glass-Stegall was the cause of the financial crisis.
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Then it's a good thing I didn't do that.

AIG, Fannie Mac, Freddie Mae, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and dozens of other players weren't commercial banks, so the repeal of the law was irrelevant to them-
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What got them in trouble was when the SEC loosened their restrictions on leveraging in 2004. This allowed these investment banks to make massive investments on Wall St without the cash to back up these investments. The problem was they invested in credit default swaps which were deregulated in an attachment to the Commodities Futures trading act of 2000 thanks to former senator Phill Gramm. Since no one was regulating these swaps people sold unsafe investments as safe investments. When people realized they were unsafe, everyone panicked to sell them off and the economy crashed. That's what happened to those companies.

For the record, I blame everyone. The financial crisis was the result of national greed: greedy bankers, greedy politicians, greedy Americans making bad decisions. Everyone was guilty.
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All that points to one thing. A lack of regulations.

A moderate recognizes that there is no universal political or economic philosophy that humans can agree to follow. The extremes, such as Marxism and libertarianism, reflect the preferences of relatively small groups, and that's why they are objectionable and impractical.
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Sure, in theory that sounds great. In reality the only moderate solutions to problems I hear involve splitting the difference between what conservatives and liberals suggest. That's not critical thinking nor is it always the best solution. If moderates had original ideas then maybe they'd be taken more seriously.

You're giving FDR the credit when you should be giving it to World War II.
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If war was an automatic win button for economic success, we'd be in a golden age right now. WW2 didn't just accidentally happen. He pushed for it against conservative opposition, then he managed it in a way that brought a generation of economic prosperity. It's you who's not giving him enough credit.

Likewise, the prosperity the United States experienced in the postwar period had a lot more to do with the destruction of most of the world's industrial capacity than it did with policy prescriptions: if all the competition has been destroyed there is no choice except to buy your goods.
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Which doesn't explain why the American economy was still strong in 1965. It's not as if German ceased to exist permanently.

WW2 wasn't something that just happened all of a sudden and the Japanese started dropping bags of money on us. FDR managed that war. He also instituted financial protections that led to America going ~50 without another depression. You can't pretend he had nothing to do with that.
 
Red1966 said:
The left sees the world as they want it to be. When reality smacks them in the face, it's fun to watch.
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the left does that? are you sure?

because last i recall, the greatest reality smackdown of this decade happened about a year ago when dreams of unskewed polls died, drowned by the tears of romney enthusiasts nationwide.

but you go on willfully ignoring reality and then accusing others of doing that.

i will be here to correct the record and turn it against you.
 
schuylaar said:
we live in a society where there are rules and regulations that "we the people vote on" as a whole hence, democracy..if you are unhappy with the current administration, you can do just what the president suggested..VOTE your people in..until then STFU..have a nice day:smile:
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robroy doesn't have any "people" to vote for because teenagers who just read ayn rand are not allowed to run for office.
 
Why are Democrats so obsessed with Ayn Rand all of the sudden? If the government stole everything from her family, then she should be pissed off. There would be something wrong with her if she wasn't.
 
Dan Kone,
For all your political knowledge and insights you seem oblivious to the fact that we live under a "ONE" party system. Under George W Bush the "Democratic" party was dead. The word "Liberal" in fact was a dirty word after Karl Rove got done with it. Under Obama, the Democrats are now declaring the "Republican" party is dead. This works the people up and gets them to empty their wallets for the "ONE" party. In 2012 all the "ONE" party elections cost the USA $8,000,000,000. What did you get for your money? Over 90% of incumbants got re-elected and no change occurred.

Let me tell you the official name of the "ONE" party that you and all of us belong to. It is called the "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT" party. This party is your "DADDY". It owns you, me and everyone else. They have spent all our money past, present and future. You say, "Democrat" and I hear "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT"; you say "Socialism" and I hear "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT", you say Tea Party and I hear "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT"...

Stop using labels; open your eyes and join the rest of us who dread the day the "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT" comes due for payment. Life will suck...
 
rabbogart said:
Dan Kone,
For all your political knowledge and insights you seem oblivious to the fact that we live under a "ONE" party system. Under George W Bush the "Democratic" party was dead. The word "Liberal" in fact was a dirty word after Karl Rove got done with it. Under Obama, the Democrats are now declaring the "Republican" party is dead. This works the people up and gets them to empty their wallets for the "ONE" party. In 2012 all the "ONE" party elections cost the USA $8,000,000,000. What did you get for your money? Over 90% of incumbants got re-elected and no change occurred.

Let me tell you the official name of the "ONE" party that you and all of us belong to. It is called the "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT" party. This party is your "DADDY". It owns you, me and everyone else. They have spent all our money past, present and future. You say, "Democrat" and I hear "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT"; you say "Socialism" and I hear "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT", you say Tea Party and I hear "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT"...

Stop using labels; open your eyes and join the rest of us who dread the day the "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT" comes due for payment. Life will suck...
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only off by about 1300%.
 
rabbogart said:
Dan Kone,
For all your political knowledge and insights you seem oblivious to the fact that we live under a "ONE" party system. Under George W Bush the "Democratic" party was dead. The word "Liberal" in fact was a dirty word after Karl Rove got done with it. Under Obama, the Democrats are now declaring the "Republican" party is dead. This works the people up and gets them to empty their wallets for the "ONE" party. In 2012 all the "ONE" party elections cost the USA $8,000,000,000. What did you get for your money? Over 90% of incumbants got re-elected and no change occurred.

Let me tell you the official name of the "ONE" party that you and all of us belong to. It is called the "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT" party. This party is your "DADDY". It owns you, me and everyone else. They have spent all our money past, present and future. You say, "Democrat" and I hear "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT"; you say "Socialism" and I hear "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT", you say Tea Party and I hear "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT"...

Stop using labels; open your eyes and join the rest of us who dread the day the "222 TRILLION DOLLAR DEBT" comes due for payment. Life will suck...
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In a nutshell, white people can't balance a checkbook.
 
echelon1k1 said:
That's why Columbia is a first world nation.... Woops.... :dunce: How was your day pushing a churro cart?
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My churro cart did 4.385.474.00 COP for lunch today and 3.129.725.00COP for dinner. 7.515.199.00COP. Average for this time in the year. US dollars? About $3955.00. Labor was $100.00 US or close. Food cost, electricity, and rent cost me about $600.00 US.

I am ahead $3200.00 US or so today. How was YOUR day?
 
El Tiberon said:
My churro cart did 4.385.474.00 COP for lunch today and 3.129.725.00COP for dinner. 7.515.199.00COP. Average for this time in the year. US dollars? About $3955.00. Labor was $100.00 US or close. Food cost, electricity, and rent cost me about $600.00 US.

I am ahead $3200.00 US or so today. How was YOUR day?
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You mean the white guy you work for did $3200 in profit today... :dunce: Make me a sandwich, yo...
 
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