Via IBD Editorials…….

Oh, wait. It’s just the US Democrats setting the world on fire. Another false alarm. We now return to our violin solo. Heh.

Flying Israeli

I will go with my country.

getalife on March 6, 2009 at 11:12 AM

Now if you can only convince your Lightworker to do the same.

If Amnerican don’t like this then they need to get off of their lazy arses and do the work that real Americans need to do.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/23/mica-waxman/

LOL. Thinkprogress? HA HA HA.

Was your link from Daily Kook broken?

The amazing and amusing thing is that Obama is 10 times worse than even the hapless Bush. Sadly for you democrat liberals, the American people won’t stay addicted to hopium forever.

Bush tried to regulate fannie and freddie, but was accused of RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACISM for bringing it up.

So that prevented him from doing anything?

You are so full of crap you should change your screen name to Brown.

FM/FM werer the TOTAL problem, as they had all of those bad loans leveraged throughout the stock market and all the banks who made bad paper leveraged THEIRS with FM/FM.

Pull yous head out of the sand, ostrich boy.

PJ Emeritus on March 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM

I’m not sure what’s accomplished with the name-calling.

Regardless, you’re wrong. But dont believe me; believe Alan Greenspan, Christopher Cox, and John Snow.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/23/mica-waxman/

Also this article might shed some light on the situation for you:

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/53802.html

I’m not saying FM/FM were blameless, but they were clearly not the main problem.

orange on March 6, 2009 at 10:50 AM

Bush tried to regulate fannie and freddie, but was accused of RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACISM for bringing it up. Franklin Raines, (D) for dumbass, directed fannie/freddie employees to make every loan they could to prop up fraudently inflate the stock price.

If President Government would just let free markets BE free markets,the stock market might respond accordingly. and get your hand out of my pockets, there is no free lunch here in America, you have to earn it.

They tried. They had the same problems the DumboCraps are having now – not enough votes to force cloture.

PJ Emeritus on March 6, 2009 at 3:24 PM

What bills are you referring to?

Burning down the house.

Well, look at it this way, ashes make a better foundation than manure.

Cancel the pork-laden “stimulus” bill and use the money to fund a six-month holiday on capital gains taxes and payroll taxes.

Doctor Zero on March 6, 2009 at 4:28 PM

Me likes the way you think, excellent ideas especially the one above. If they were to do it I can honestly say I’d be out spending more money.

So when can you start? ;-)

Abolish collective bargaining for any corporation that receives a bailout. Since government workers generally are not allowed to organize, and Congressmen specifically forbid union activity among their staffers, it follows that a company supported by Congressional expense of tax money should not be forced to deal with union labor. This would have an immediate recovery effect on the U.S. auto industry, a primary recipient of bailout cash, especially since union labor is what got them into a pickle in the first place.

Cancel the pork-laden “stimulus” bill and use the money to fund a six-month holiday on capital gains taxes and payroll taxes. Obama and the Democrats say their top concern is to get the economy moving, right? They should have no problem with announcing their earlier spending plans are no longer realistic, and it would be better to sacrifice some government tax revenue to generate increased economic activity.

Eliminate all welfare programs, dismantle the social services bureaucracy, and instead offer businesses a huge tax break for every unemployed or indigent person they hire. You eliminate all the socialist overhead, stimulate job growth, and reward business for positive-growth activity. Long-term welfare dependents can be relocated to work camps, which they would build as their first order of business. Obviously they have no business taking out mortgages to buy homes, and will not be able to do so much longer in any event, so conscripted labor is the only means they have to repay the taxpayers for bailing them out of the Fannie Mae crisis. Residence in these camps would be strictly voluntary, but no benefits would be paid to anyone who does not reside in them. Businesses would be given tax incentives to recruit from the camps, which meanwhile could get some truly useful public work done – and it would be much easier to provide publicly funded services, such as health and child care, to the indigent if they all live in one place. After all, “it takes a village,” right? I think some of these camps could usefully be located on the Mexican border, and engaged in border security work.

The immediate resignation of every Democrat member of Congress. Who can doubt the stock market would explode? We’d get up to 12,000 Dow overnight. We are incessantly told by Democrat operatives, and the poor little folks who spend their days posting Twitter messages from party officials on conservative web sites, that Bush is responsible for the current economic mess. Well, we got rid of Bush. Now it’s time to get rid of the party in power during these last two years, when the market began to tank. A simple review of the market history demonstrates that as the number of Democrats in Congress has increased, the market has dropped – it’s almost an exact correlation. So, reducing the number of Democrats to zero should produce a huge market surge. It would not be fair to replace these Democrats with Republicans, since the latter did lose the last elections rather badly, but it occurs to me that we could recruit representatives from the only sector of the government that consistently demonstrates efficiency, resourcefulness, and selfless dedication: the military. We could select retiring military veterans to fill the vacant Democrat seats – maybe a random lottery among retiring vets with either combat or logistics experience. This would get us through to 2010, when we could thank them for helping us get through a crisis and let them stand for re-election.

I’m sure we could think of some more truly “progressive” ideas if we put our heads together!

I guess they should call it the bush global depression.

getalife on March 6, 2009 at 11:10 AM

You criticize a man for digging a hole, but wholeheartedly support a guy who has hired a full fleet of steamshovels to do the same thing on an exponential scale? Where you dropped on your head as a child or is it chemically induced damage?

getalife on March 6, 2009 at 10:52 AM

Might wanna do a little actual research on your FDR there, buddy.

And keep in mind the recession started a year before the banks collapsed.

It’s a bush depression.

getalife on March 6, 2009 at 10:36 AM

It’s still a recession, the current administration’s policies and proposals are quickly driving it to depression.
Have you watched the Dow since Jan. 20?

You are so full of crap you should change your screen name to Brown.

FM/FM werer the TOTAL problem, as they had all of those bad loans leveraged throughout the stock market and all the banks who made bad paper leveraged THEIRS with FM/FM.

Pull yous head out of the sand, ostrich boy.

Obama is capitalizing (oh the irony) on the crisis–doing nothing to correct it and instead taking the opportunity to grow Govt and thus extend the crisis and insure less private affluence for a generation to come.

Hurray for False Prophets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN31-nKndg8

FYI, the economy was growinguntil the DumboCraps gained a majority in Congress, and they even had enough votes to tie up several judicial nominations BEFORE they gained a majority.

You know the self-same people who blocked FM/FM regulation. The same ones who are all the in the top for money personally RECEIVED from FM.FM to do JUST that!

http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2008/07/top-senate-recipients-of-fanni.html

How about the FACT that both former FM/FM CEOs were on the Obama campaign team – you know, AFTER they were dismissed in disgrace from FM/FM?

Keep thumping, the only ones you fool are yourselves, you pathetic twits.

They tried. They had the same problems the DumboCraps are having now – not enough votes to force cloture.

Famous YouTubes abound of Dodd, Waters, Franks and company in committee blocking regulatory oversight, along with a threatened filibuster from the Junior Senator from Illinois – wonder where THAT moron is now?

And keep in mind the recession started a year before the banks collapsed.

It’s a bush depression.

The negativism started when Obama started leading in the polls. It’s why I was able to buy the business I purchased — the prior owner bailed when seeing the darkened horizon.

Wish I’d not been so optimistic the Republicans would hang in there, but so it goes. I may be out of business in another 6 months if this keeps up.

Do you still want our President to fail in a bush depression?

How many Americans do you want to see suffer from this bush depression?

getalife on March 6, 2009 at 11:02 AM

I prefer that he succeeded in leading the country to prosperity, but, in order to do that, he is going to have to either fail at what he intends to do, or “see the light” and do something that will actually help instead.

If you think I’m happy about the financial impact on America’s family you are dead wrong. I’m happy that the market is working as it should.

Darwin at his best. Life lessons at it’s best. The longer Barry & Company pretend to control the markets the more pain will be inflicted on Joe and Jane Smith. You don’t like it? Then tell Barry to back the hell off.