“I haven’t read all the comments yet, but I wonder when we’ll see all of Eric the Trader’s financial and personal info splashed on national tv?
4shoes”

see what I mean?

CKNEEPAD, KNEEPAD and MSKNEEPAD

Matthews is a poor, poor excuse for a journalist.”

True, but he’s an excellent assistant for the Tingler.

Rumor is The Tingly Bobblehead will be doing infomercials for kneepads soon.

The thing about CNBC is, it’s a business channel, and it’s going to fast lose it’s viewers and then advertisers if it’s ideologically redesigned into a business channel that hates capitalism.

So people like Matthews can rail at people like Santelli, but right now CNBC is the No. 1 business channel, ahead of Fox Business News. If the NBC brass tries to remake CNBC into a business version of the Matthews-Olbermann-Madow-Shuster network, they will lose their ratings and their ad revenue. We’ll see in the upcoming weeks how important that is to Jeff Immelt and his underlings.

Whatever Chris. You’re a shill and a wimp.

WTF? The guy is doing a important job. I hope he calms down and doesn’t lose it.

Thanks, I’m not looking for help, I’m just angry. I’ll get myself out of this somehow. I’m aggravated at being guilty-by-association.

“Remember after 9/11 and the Prez said go shopping?
Bingo! That along with tax cuts IS what got us out of the Dot com recession and prevented a 9/11 depression”

““I want them to get the fishmarket to hire me”

You want the government to “force” a privet fish market to hire you, regardless if anyone is actually buying fish?
DSchoen on February 21, 2009 at 3:11 PM

Yes, but the stock market only fell about 500 points then. I suppose I should have said, “I don’t know how the *government* can stimulate the economy.”

No, I wasn’t think of government coercion so much as government encouragement. Tax breaks for new hires, for example. Low-interest, government-backed small business loans for startups who qualify financially.

Yeah, I went shopping, which helped us get out of the last two recessions, and apparently increased the level of individual debt in the country.

Lastly, Chris’ use of the Prodigal Son bothered me to no end. The father in the parable was dispensing HIS OWN charity toward his son. He did not go to his neighbors and demand THEY pay for the party (and then crow about his compassion as if he’d paid for it).
jeanneb on February 21, 2009 at 7:27 AM

During the campiagn Obama used the bibilical “I am my brother’s keeper”

Well I am sure many of us would disagree with this and the trap is we don’t consider everyone in the country, over who we don’t by law have any control, as someone that is entitled to our unconditional charity and love.

The idea that complete strangers whom we never met are in the same category as a son whom we have raised and so take some responsibility for their future is a terrible comparison but convienant for liberals.

The debate is where does your personal responsiblity end and society’s charity begin?

Can you say Moral Hazard?

Uhm, buy spending money? Ya know that thing the Dems ridiculed Bush about for the last 2 years..

Remember after 9/11 and the Prez said go shopping?
Bingo! That along with tax cuts IS what got us out of the Dot com recession and prevented a 9/11 depression.
Seriously, who doesn’t know this?

“But I do know that what is needed is to get companies *hiring* people again”

Same as above, Companies more people when they need more people to meet their needs.

“I don’t want the government to hand me a fish, I want them to get the fishmarket to hire me.”

“I want them to get the fishmarket to hire me”

You want the government to “force” a privet fish market to hire you, regardless if anyone is actually buying fish?

Gully Foyle on February 21, 2009 at 1:52 PM

I’m sorry to read about your situation. And I’d like to be able to help honest homeowners who are in trouble and I understand that there are many people who are in that situation. I just don’t think government spending is going to solve the problem, and it could create new ones for the economy.
I do think your attitude is a healthy one, regarding enabling the fishmarket to hire you. I hope things work out for you soon.

Did people who voted FOR Obama get some “Special Memo” with real details the rest of us haven’t gotten?

Gully Foyle on

February 21, 2009 at 1:52 PM

Do you go to church? Let’s get through this situation without undermining the fabric that defines us.

Am I a bad person or a deadbeat because I wanted a house in my middle age? Am I a bad person or a deadbeat because I didn’t anticipate my employer making bad decisions, or the price of gas tripling in a matter of months? I hold a definite responsibility for my current situation, I’ve made some bad decisions, but I don’t believe buying a home was one of them.

I feel bad about missing that payment. But what isn’t being said in all of this is that a lot of those ‘deadbeats’ people complain about didn’t buy the home as I did, to live in. They bought it to “flip it”, and make a profit on the rising market. That’s where I would bet the vast majority of these ‘toxic assets’ are coming from.

I’m in a tight spot right now, with any opportunity to climb out of it dwindling by the day. But, if I ever do make it back out, I’m determined to stick it to anyone who lumps me with those house flippers.

I’m angered at being identified as a bad person because I had the gall to pursue the American dream.

I don’t know how to stimulate the economy. But I do know that what is needed is to get companies *hiring* people again. I don’t want the government to hand me a fish, I want them to get the fishmarket to hire me.

I apologize for my rant.

Rule 12.

I’m thinking we on the conservative side need to start using the same playbook.

I know, I know. What a shock!!!