I am glad you don’t only blame Dems for the mortgage crisis – as I just mentioned to Ben many had dirty hands.

I am a bit curious about this statement though:

“Do I blame the continued lack of recovery on Ds or Obama? Yes, because markets and business owners are ALL looking for some stability, are horrified at government takeovers and bailouts ( I was against the Bush one!) and are scared of new mandates, new regulations and new taxes which will all cut into their already thin margins.”

All of the leading economic indicators suggest that in fact we are in recovery already – so you are essentially blaming Obama for something that does not even exist. Employment is unfortunately a trailing indicator – so even though the economy is improving it will still take a while unti we see significant job growth – but we are getting there. I know this does not really help much for someone in your situation – but indeed it looks like the economy has turned.

You state: “BTW…you never retorted about the fact that I brought up about Joe Biden and his wife giving $368 dollars to charity….when they raked in over $360,000 in one year. That, from the man who says it is my duty to pay more taxes! …..Do you see the injustice? the cowardice? the hypocrisy? PLEASE RETORT!”

It indeed seems skimpy – and if it is accurate it seems hypocritical. It seems *so* low it almost seems like it might be inaccurate – but who knows. Also note that he could be doing some charitable pro-bono work, which would not be rreported – or may even not be repoorting some. But – I don’t know.

– hippieprof

Lots of hands were dirty in the mortgage crisis – including Democrats and including Bush’s.

– hippieprof

I can see you have gotten together quite the debate going!

RE: when you said “I am curious, though, how you can blame this economic downturn on liberals? When Bush took over the economy was thriving – and the policies of his administration directly resulted in the steep economic decline.”

I tend not to give credit or blame to any President for economics…good or bad. There are so many forces at work. And, my term, or at least I thought it was my term that day months ago – obamanated- was a rib at two things
A) corporate America and the whole “job elmination” process that I have been through a number of times at different places – which is just the nature of the beast and
B) the fact that my job was in a creative field which relied heavily on companies which do work in the real estate market. …..the policies (noted above) going back to Jimmy Carter….created the seeds of the bad events that caused the housing and real estate market to downturn. There was plenty of R and D blame to go around, but – at least- during the Bush administration there was an effort, led by Rs to bring some sanity to the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac debacle. And Barney Frank and Chris Dodd declared all was right with those worlds, which was a lie.

Finally, I have a sense of humor so I got a kick out of that name.

Do I blame my singular job loss on Ds or Obama? No, lots of forces are at work with one person.

Do I blame the continued lack of recovery on Ds or Obama? Yes, because markets and business owners are ALL looking for some stability, are horrified at government takeovers and bailouts ( I was against the Bush one!) and are scared of new mandates, new regulations and new taxes which will all cut into their already thin margins.
You DO think it is okay for a business person – who invests time, money and passion into a risky investment…to make a margin? Don’t you?

America is wonderful. Capitalism is the greatest manna from heaven, but you know what, competition is tough, and it is worldwide and consumers have and make choices………….and many government policies and bureaucrats…have NO idea!

Do I want to be employed? You bet! Have I invested in that? Yes, including investing in a small new business for me, by myself, which likely will not Break Even (please tell me you know what I mean) in maybe two years…and will MAYBE return me to the kind of compensation I was making…….in about three plus years!

And when I make money…I spend money and I invest it….and that means a lot more people make money…etc. Right now…..that ain’t happening.

BTW…you never retorted about the fact that I brought up about Joe Biden and his wife giving $368 dollars to charity….when they raked in over $360,000 in one year. That, from the man who says it is my duty to pay more taxes! …..Do you see the injustice? the cowardice? the hypocrisy? PLEASE RETORT!

on my way to create my signs for the 9-12 event tomorrow! I will be the one with the funny signs with a message!

I was reminded of this when former Senator Dave Durenberger (R MN) participated in Tim Walz’s (D MN) town meeting.
Their positions were virtually identical — Durenberger was considered a moderate when he was in office.

http://rightamerican.wordpress.com/gse-meltdown-time-line/

Read it if you will, but if you do, you will see why you will have to reclassify your statement as rhetoric at best.

Back in 1995 the Republican Party won control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 1954.

The Republicans had an opportunity advance their brand of conservative policy making but blew it. Their time was short-lived.

Thing is, the Republican party was then and remains now populated with too many left-leaning moderates. I think they call them R.I.N.O.s

First – I am sincerely sorry to hear about your employment situation. Please understand that whatever opinionated partisan bickering I do in no means suggests that I am not understanding about all of the economic pain that is out there.

Yes – I am tenured at a private university – so my job security is relatively good. I don’t have complete security – private universities are losing students in this economy and eventually that will result in some job losses – but I am personally thankful that we are far from that point. I do recognize how very lucky I am.

As you know, employment is a trailing economic indicator – and I am indeed hoping that it will turn around soon.

I am curious, though, how you can blame this economic downturn on liberals? When Bush took over the economy was thriving – and the policies of his administration directly resulted in the steep economic decline.

– hippieprof

Having been “Obamanated” is the reason I can engage in blogwhoring for most of the day which was religiously reserved for off-hours. Not anymore.

Isn’t this change thing just fricking awesome?

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