Why I blame Obama 100% for this mess?

Quote from Ricter:

He's trying to look at the bigger issue, to take into account the 30 years of crap the middle class in this country has been getting.
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Really? 30 years of "crap"?

How about Medicare, Medicade, Earned Income Tax Credit, tax credits for kids, education, housing, $20 co-pay for the doctor, etc... The fact is, the middle class is the most heavily subsidized segment of the population. If you tally all the benefits, in the form of transfer payments and tax write-offs for the middle class, it almost is equal to all income tax payments. That's why "millionaires and billionaires" starts at $200,000 and will likely drop further....its where the money is. :D
 
I believe it was Will Rogers who said, "Be grateful you do not get all of the government you pay for." I am happy to see Obama go on vacation. I only get concerned when he gets back to work.
 
Quote from nutmeg:

And guess what, those that did the sabotaging are still out there free to do more damage,
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I really don't think that will happen again. We lived through a "perfect storm".

Circumstances are different, no easy credit, no shadow banks, no one is in line to replay the Mozillo play book. Arrogance left with Cayne and Fuld.

(Jamie Dimon for president, boyaah!)


If we fired everyone, all the experience would be lost and the system would work itself back to make the same mistake over.
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It was not about arrogance... it was about getting profits and bonuses based on originating as many loans as possible.

so to keep the bonuses going... they start accepting lies, stupidity and fraud. And they they start becoming part of it... then encouraging it.
 
How did I know I was going to see a couple of comebacks, re my statement about 30 years of declining middle-class fortunes (well documented), that would say, "things aren't all that bad"? Oh, cynicism, that's how.
 
Quote from Free Thinker:

obama said i will come and do what i think needs to be done. when he got there he found you had a pitbull in the basement named repub. repub said nobody is getting by me. obama is afraid of dogs. all he can do is say "nice doggy,can we get along? let me pet you. every time he sticks his hand out repub growls at him. obama doesnt really know what to do but he continues to try making friends with a trained attack dog. so far he is getting nowhere.
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If I remember correctly, there was a huge chain around the dogs neck that had him tied to the wall for the first year or so. Obama was taunting the dog and making faces while screaming obamacare and taking the dogs food out of his bowl and throwing it in the garbage telling him it was for his own good. The dog broke the chains and NOW Obama wants to be friends with it after getting it all riled up.
 
(somewhere on the net)

OK, folks—circle up.

I’ve heard rumors that people in the tribe aren’t happy with my leadership. Specifically, that people aren’t happy with my plan to discover which mushrooms are edible and which mushrooms are deadly poisonous.

But listen up: This plan is bigger than you or me. It’s bigger than who dies eating poisonous mushrooms and who doesn’t. This is about the culinary future of humanity, people.

You’re right, we do have fire, language, and symbolic art—the human race is doing pretty well. But I think it’s clear that we’re never going to reach our full potential until our dietary repertoire includes mushrooms. Somebody has got to step up to the plate and start eating random mushrooms. If we do this—if this tribe discovers which mushrooms are not poisonous—history will look upon us as heroes, my friends.

I never said this would be easy. There are literally thousands of different mushrooms in the forest, and so far we have discovered—let me check—zero edible mushrooms. Compare that to the seventy-three mushrooms that we have confirmed are deadly. I wonn’t sugarcoat it: Those are not good numbers.

But while the costs may be high, the potential benefits are enormous. Imagine eating a mushroom right off the ground—just popping it in your mouth. Or sucking on a cold mushroom on a hot summer day! The possibilities are endless—and delicious.

How do I know edible mushrooms exist, and that they aren’t all poisonous? That’s a good question—a fair question. To be honest, there is a chance that all mushrooms are poisonous. But hold on—hold on! Hear me out. I’ve just got this feeling deep in my gut that not only do edible mushrooms exist, but they are so delicious as to render all other foods obsolete. I could be wrong about this, but all I ask is that you trust me on this one.

This is exciting, people! This is a time of discovery. Who knows, maybe this blue mushroom is edible. Or this huge purple one with white dots all over it. Or this black, noxious-smelling mushroom.

It’s a mystery.

If the black one is edible I’ll name it whatever you folks want. Just go ahead and shout out some ideas.

Non-Poisonous Mushroom Number One? No, not that. Try to be creative.

Rocky Road? Hmm. That’s close, but not quite.

OK, OK, enough shouting out, let’s just go with Porcini. See? That’s a great name for a mushroom.

Alright, so that one didn’t turn out to be edible. But let’s keep our heads up, and maybe give Warren’s family some space to grieve. I’m sorry you all had to see that. But he fell as a soldier, a soldier in this war against mushroom-edibility uncertainty. And are we going to let his death be in vain? Are we going to give up on the battle he died fighting?

While I understand your hesitancy, let me assure you that the answer is a resounding no.

Now let’s get out there and eat some goddamn mushrooms and hope they’re edible!
 
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