The poor dogs have to be alone all day today, guarding the house. At least they don’t have to go to work.
Posted by pjsauter on September 19, 2008
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The poor dogs have to be alone all day today, guarding the house. At least they don’t have to go to work.
So, OUR representatives are putting together a plan to buy the bad debt that the investing class has accumulated. What a relief. Ordinary folks will be free to be foreclosed and lose their homes but the greedy jerks who bought those loans in hopes of making a killing, will be protected from losing their designer shirts.
This is the Bushco version of socialism. Damn the proletariat!
Except of course it’s our tax money doing this. Perhaps we can give the poor risk taking investing class another tax cut.
–Beyond that, liberals now can point to this huge rescue of Wall Street, and ask, what will we do for “Main Street”? They’ll argue that if we have hundreds of billions of dollars to dole out to Wall Street finance companies that mess up, how come hard working Americans can’t get government health care? They can fill in the blank for any government program that choose.
http://www.amspec.org/blogger.asp?BlogID=14702
McCain’s former economic adviser is ex-Texas Sen. Phil Gramm. On Dec. 15, 2000, hours before Congress was to leave for Christmas recess, Gramm had a 262-page amendment slipped into the appropriations bill. It forbade federal agencies to regulate the financial derivatives that greased the skids for passing along risky mortgage-backed securities to investors.
And that, my friends, is why everything’s falling apart. That is why the taxpayers are now on the hook for the follies of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Bear Stearns and now the insurance giant AIG to the tune of $85 billion.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/mccain_and_the_meltdown.html
If I understand Krugman correctly, both NY senators and Barney Frank are calling for some kind of bushco socialism.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/opinion/19krugman.html?ref=todayspaper
It seems I have started quite a discussion about our notorious Sheriff Fascist Bully Boy (AKA Joe Arpaio, I’m sure you’ve heard of him). Most want him out but there are a few who think his abuses of human rights is okay. Here is the letter I wrote to the listserve. I am just so sick and tired of the sheeple who support this asshole. He is arrogant and doesn’t give a crap about human rights or dignity and uses intimidation tactics against the only publication that will stand up to him in this town. He’s out and I’m gonna help to get him out.
I reiterate, I want to see the same outrage towards the employers who hire illegal immigrants as is shown towards the illegals themselves. You people who support Sheriff Fascist Bully Boy don’t seem to care about the Constitution and our Rights that are being eroded, weekly, in the name of your precious security but if employers here weren’t hiring them they wouldn’t come. We’ve already seen a decrease in illegals because of the lack of jobs because of the economy. Why is it okay for employers to prosper under a capitalist system and not workers?? Again, I am sick of the double standard, it takes 2 to tango. You’re such sticklers about the LAW why don’t you care about enforcing the law that says that employers are not allowed to hired illegal immigrants?? It’s okay to bend or break the law in the name of profit and capitalism but if someone is trying to survive and support their family as a worker in this society you are subject to the full weight of the law. If you want to say that the New Times has been on a witch hunt for Sheriff Fascist Bully Boy, well, then you might want to look at his long history of suppressing human rights and the abuse he allows in his prisons. The New Times has been the only publication willing to stand up to him in this town and I am grateful for it. He has tried to intimidate the owners and journalists of that publication in the most fascist way. That is not the America I grew up in and Sheriff Fascist Bully Boy is about as un American as they come. He should have been run out on a rail years ago. He will be this year.
Comment by Kristapea — September 19, 2008 @ 1:12 am
I’m reposting this on today’s thread because it was the last post on Thursday’s thread and it was too good for anyone to miss.
Krista, if they lock you up for writing this, you’re allowed one phone call. Call me and I will fly to AZ and bust you out.
I won’t even mention how hot you would look in pink underwear and handcuffs. :hubba:
Oops. 😳
Whether it’s disappearing work-based health care, the move from traditional pensions to 401(k)s, the push to privatize Social Security or just making it harder to file for personal bankruptcy, these and other social supports and safety nets that were designed to make Americans more secure have been watered down, abandoned or altered so that individuals bear a greater share of the risk and cost.
“What’s happening on Wall Street occurs alongside a very substantial slow-moving crisis for American families,” said Jacob Hacker, a political science professor at the University of California at Berkeley. “More and more financial responsibility and risk have moved from the broad shoulders of government and corporations onto the backs of America workers and their families.”
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/52752.html
I seem to remember that investors were given much a lower tax rate on capital gains because they took the risk. So, as workers now take the risks, logically capital gains should be highly taxed and labor should get a huge tax break.
KP, count me in for that bail money!
Sounds like a Melanie song.
I got a brand new pair of handcuffs, you go a brand new key.
Why don’t we wear our pink panties and try them out to see?
La la la la la la….
Happy birthday, emoticons!
And there are still way too many people who don’t get the joke, even with smilies.
So, this’ll make you think twice before you choose your security questions. The “Palin Hacker” didn’t have to work too hard.
From Obama:
The economy hit a new low this week, and in every part of the country, people like you are feeling it.
The recent financial disasters — from the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the historic drop in the stock market — are not just a string of bad luck. They are the result of years of bad decisions made in favor of big corporate special interests instead of America’s working families.
More than 600,000 Americans have lost their jobs since January. Home foreclosures are skyrocketing, and home values are plunging. Gas prices are at an all-time high, and we’re still spending more than $10 billion every month on a war in Iraq that should never have been waged.
John McCain’s campaign is doing everything it can to focus attention on false personal attacks and distractions — but there’s too much at stake for that kind of politics.
For eight years, Bush-McCain economic policies have favored reckless deregulation and huge tax loopholes for big corporations. Now, as these corporations crumble, American taxpayers are facing costly bailouts.
More of the same failed ideas are not going to solve our economic problems.
I’m calling for a $1,000 tax break for middle-class families — not just because they need help dealing with the rising costs of gas, food, and health care, but also because our economy needs to be reinvigorated from the bottom up, not the top down.
I’m proposing a second stimulus package to save over one million jobs and provide immediate relief to struggling families.
And I’ll end the “anything goes” culture on Wall Street with real regulation. We can see clearly that our economy is stronger when we protect investments and pensions, and avoid devastating bankruptcies and bailouts.
This is no ordinary time, and it shouldn’t be an ordinary election. Help keep the discussion focused on the issues.
Please watch the video and share it with your friends today:
http://my.barackobama.com/economyvideo
I can’t watch the video. Spyware Doctor has saved me, it said.
The Employee’s Free Choice act is legislation to make it easier to form a union. Here’s a cute video and a petition to sign in support.
Of course, if you’re getting a government bailout of your investments, you won’t want to foster unions, they’re such a drag on your profits.
— Treasury Secretary Paulson says “hundreds of billions” of dollars are needed to resolve U.S. financial crisis.
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😀 You know, I am a little scared, I have to admit. Thanks for the bail offer, I may need to take you up on it. Here’s the response from one of the neighbors. He completely misses the point.
Wow.
There’s no show today is there. I thought I heard Sam say no show.
Okay, here’s my response.
And you should add, “by the way, Brian, if I was under 30 – or even under 40 – I’d be serving my country in Iraq with all the other patriots, since the real enemies are the terrorists over there that attacked us, and not our neighbors to the south. They can’t be the enemy, since, as our brave President has said, we’re fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them here. I hope if you’re eligible to serve and haven’t already, you’ll be down at the recruiting office bright and early in the morning. And if you’ve already enlisted, you ought to be begging to be sent over for another tour (and another one after that) until the job is done. If you’re too old to serve, I hope you’re kids are over there right now. And if you don’t have any kids – what are ya, queer or something?”
Sincerely,
A. Patriot
Good response, KP. Brian’s real problem is racism. There are many illegals in this country. Brian seems only able to recognize Mexicans. He also seems able only to make ad hominem attacks, rather than addressing the problem.
Yesterday, I was in a supermarket in Greenport, Long Island, where I had the unfortunate luck to continually run into the same man who was loudly proclaiming to a friend his outrage at the undocumented Mexicans who do much of the poorly paid, labor intensive jobs around here. When he got to the cash register I was right behind him. The cashier was a young boy who may have been Mexican. There this SOB starting yelling about the diseases Mexicans might be bringing in while this kid looked very sad. But of course a 50 year old bully would take no notice of his affect on a kid. :barf:
Excellent addendum, PJ.
Next show on Monday
Yesterday’s VOD
Hope it works, I made it up.
If it doesn’t, try this one.
I was gonna ask K-pea for a list of the internment camps just in case.
Think the stock market is scary these days? Read this article.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6893
The hosts on CNBC say they have received many, many emails saying this is socialim. One of them replied “Do you follow your ideology all the way to Armegeddon?” Apparently the answer is: Ideology be damned! Ideology is for the little folks. The big guys need more money.
The only time socialism is bad is when it benefits those in need.
McCain says it’s Obama’s fault because the problem started is DC and Obama has been in DC. McInane, apparently, was somewhere else. Perhaps Alzheimer Land.
McSame’ economic policy is Keating 5 once again:
Yeah, Sue, ad hominem attacks are all repugs can do when they are losing. It’s so pathetic. And it doesn’t matter what kinds of facts you put in front of them, they refuse to accept it. Thick skulls, small brains.
Yeah, that’s good PJ and if Iraq comes up in the conversation I will use it. But so far it’s all about local issues. It’s good that the neighbors are talking. If not for the listserve nobody would be talking at all and most people are pretty reasonable. There are only 2 who seem to not care about the facts or their rights. They get pretty emotional too.
Hey, the security of the
FatherHomeland trumps all other issues. They hate us for our freedom to wear pink panties, you know.Is it too late to move to VT to vote for this woman?
Man, I think I’m coming down with something. My head has felt buzzy all day long which would be fine if I had smoked something. :bong: But I haven’t. Anyone have a good recipe for chicken soup?
I was looking at this recipe yesterday just in case I needed it.
Ultimate Flu-Busting Chicken Soup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOWQvrgdZRE&feature=related
No other politician has the balls to do so, even though you’d think that dyke Napolitano would have them.
Wow. I must have missed this part the first time I read the post. Does this guy have issues with women in charge or what? Good thing he doesn’t work in my office. He wouldn’t last two days.
Or maybe he has fantasies about getting pegged by Napolitano, and this is how he processes those dreaded desires.
Yeah, Kevin, I’m glad this guy is showing his true colors to the neighborhood because there are a lot of gay people here. A LOT!
He did apologize for the attack on me, though.
Oooh, thanks Vern. I’m glad I didn’t go canvas for Obama yesterday like I was gonna because I think I’d be full on sick today. It’s still damned hot and walking around for 5 hours in the heat would have put me under. But I really need the money. They’re paying $10/hr and you just show up with id. So maybe I’ll go tomorrow or Sunday.
HA!! Jeff Farias just banned dumb ass Joe from Tempe because he kept calling Mexicans “wet backs”. :fist: Good riddance! :sammy:
Aw, poor Joe. He’s kinda like a sick, twisted version of Brian from Everett.
Not nearly as funny as Brian, though. But Repugs rarely are.
This denizen of Santa Cruz used to sneak in on numerous talk shows around here. I used to see his van in my ‘hood now and then. I lost track of him when AAR started up here but he did sneak in on their shows occasionally.
The screeners could never always catch him.
Puh-leeze. If Stephen King had actually shot John Lennon, he would have written at least three or four books about it by now. You don’t sit on a story like that. :smack:
Especially if you’re Stephen King and you write so much stuff that you need psuedonyms. He’s the Robert Pollard of literature.
:rofl2: