That's Fox and Limbaugh propaganda. The Dems do not control Congress. It takes 60 votes in the Senate to stop a filibuster, but the Dems only had 51 votes. That's why for the last two years virtually none of the Dem's bills got through. Therefore, no one can pin the collapse of the economy on the Dems. The Repubs did it all by themselves.
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this country is turning into a socialist dump
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That's Fox and Limbaugh propaganda. The Dems do not control Congress. It takes 60 votes in the Senate to stop a filibuster, but the Dems only had 51 votes. That's why for the last two years virtually none of the Dem's bills got through. Therefore, no one can pin the collapse of the economy on the Dems. The Repubs did it all by themselves.
Sorry, but that is just not even close to the right answer.......way too over simplified (as all those democrat majority committe heads had all those hearings (banking, mortgage industry, fannie & freddie, etc) and did not do jack. Face it, BOTH parties have blood on their hands.........LOTS OF IT!!! :eek:Quote from jamis359:
The Repubs did it all by themselves.
I'm sure you're not trying to suggest that the anti-free market bailout trend has anything to do with the recent election. Was the bi-partisan bailout package of Fannie/Freddie/AIG/ etc etc conceived and executed by the President-elect?Quote from TGregg:
Did you miss the recent election?
I don't believe you meant this. You're not one of these right-wing whack-jobs who just tell the biggest lie they can and pretend that it's the truth.
Isn't most of GM's debt in the form of health-care obligations to current and former employees?
In that case, an 'indirect bailout' in the form of nationalized health-care seems to be a highly plausible third-option.
Free-Market Capitalism is on the ropes across the globe, and I'd strongly recommend picking up a history book on the Bolshevik Revolution before anyone goes around celebrating that fact.
In that case, an 'indirect bailout' in the form of nationalized health-care seems to be a highly plausible third-option.
Free-Market Capitalism is on the ropes across the globe, and I'd strongly recommend picking up a history book on the Bolshevik Revolution before anyone goes around celebrating that fact.
I guess the lot of you is still living in the States, paying your taxes and enjoying life never even having thought of leaving the country.
Can't be that bad then.
If it all was so terrible and the grass is so much greener on the other side of the street (Europe, Asia, South America), why not pack up your stuff and setup shop somewhere else?
Can't be that bad then.
If it all was so terrible and the grass is so much greener on the other side of the street (Europe, Asia, South America), why not pack up your stuff and setup shop somewhere else?
"America has become a second-rate power"
- Gordon Gekko, "Wall Street"
- Gordon Gekko, "Wall Street"
OMFG :eek:Quote from sellingrich:
Come Jan 20th, I ain't gonna have to pay for my gas or my mortgage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI
The best thing that can happen is to oust the executives at the failed Wall Street firms.
The world is looking at Wall Street right now as Socialism Street. As long as the ones sitting at the top of the de-facto failed companies are allowed to stay no one will take Wall Street seriously as a center of capitalism.
The gov't cleaned out the execs of AIG - why did it stop short on these other failures?
The world is looking at Wall Street right now as Socialism Street. As long as the ones sitting at the top of the de-facto failed companies are allowed to stay no one will take Wall Street seriously as a center of capitalism.
The gov't cleaned out the execs of AIG - why did it stop short on these other failures?