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Would you rather have your "bailout" tax dollars go to:

Fat cat wall street investors who played it fast and loose by overleveraging, overrating "toxic" securities, taking irresponsible risks with captial, and prolific short selling.
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Ordinary homeowners who entered into predatory and subprime mortgage structures with good intentions, but without understanding the potential pitfalls.
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No votes
Real estate speculators who entered into mortgages with no intention of paying them and whose veracity artifically inflated house prices creating a "bubble" in the market
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No votes
 
Total votes: 1

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Just interested...
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Option 4

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There was supposed to be a fourth option, but it didn't take. It is:

Option 4: None. Let them all rot; only a free market can sort them out.


If you want to choose this option, just do it in a post. Sorry about that.
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Lame

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No options make any sense at all. Was that your intent?
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Knun vs. Carrot

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My intention was, indeed, to confuse anyone with an IQ lower than that of a carrot.
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Let the market take care of of the problem.

Am I alone in thinking that we, the United States, are being taken over by an unknown group?

The last administration gave me doubt as to their understanding of the U.S. Constitution but this new one seems to leave no doubt as to their lack of understanding this document.

I am not very learned in the document that guides this country but to see our intelligent leaders seeming dumber than I is very scary.

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1 For Option #4

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Duly noted, thank you for participating.

Unless I've missed your point, that's one mark for Option 4, right?
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Re: Knun vs. Carrot

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critter wrote:My intention was, indeed, to confuse anyone with an IQ lower than that of a carrot.
thanks, i needed that.

count me in on four.
let the whole rotten mess puff out.

the sky won't fall, the rocks won't tumble down...
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2 for Option 4

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Right, that's two for Option 4
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Sorry that I was not clear in choosing option #4 so please add my choice to the total.

Thanks.

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choices

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I choose option 4, for purely social reasons...and I didn't inhale. Ok, I did inhale. I love being social. :D
Shhh...........Ok now bite me!
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3 for Option 4

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Cool, thanks CLD.

That's 3 votes for Option 4.

Very interesting results so far.
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Face the facts...

During the Bush administration, the US acted out of pride, rather than out of conscience or common sense. The result has been devastating. The US may very well collapse as a result, and we have the ignorant, warmongering Bush supporters to thank.


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Jim wrote:
"I am not very learned in the document that guides this country"

Jim,
I am sorry, but with all due respect, it shows.

If you have time to poke around here, perhaps that time would be better spent learning more about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist,
the American State Papers, et.

Your lack of understanding is readily apparent, but you honestly makes up for your ignorance. What you are feeling is not fear, it is anxiety. Anxiety is a fear of the 'unknown', an inability to understand the basis of your concern. It is natural and can be cured by learning more about what it is you think you fear.

In simple terms, it's your weakness, not theirs. Get over it or shut up!

The library is open today, and all of the above documents are available online. Or you can drop my my place and you can read my copies.

I like you, Jim. I respect you as a person, but when it comes to understanding politics, you aren't very well informed. Toss your pride and get back in the game.


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With Corrections

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Jim wrote:
"I am not very learned in the document that guides this country"


Jim,
I am sorry, but with all due respect, it shows.

If you have time to poke around here, perhaps that time would be better spent learning more about the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Federalist, the American State Papers, etc.

Your lack of understanding is readily apparent, but your honesty makes up for your ignorance. What you are feeling is not fear, it is anxiety. Anxiety is a fear of the 'unknown', an inability to understand the basis of your concern. It is natural and can be cured by learning more about what it is you think you fear.

In simple terms, it's your weakness, not theirs. Get over it or shut up!

The library is open today, and all of the above documents are available online. Or you can drop my my place and you can read my copies.

I like you, Jim. I respect you as a person, but when it comes to understanding politics, you aren't very well informed. Toss your pride and get back in the game.


Brad

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too little coffee makes Brad something, something, something. Thus the retake with corrections.
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Metaphor, Anyone?

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Metaphor, anyone?

When a ship begins taking on water, those aboard have few choices. You can do nothing, while others attempt to save your ass, you can abandon ship, as the republicans have chosen to do, or you can grab a bucket, and commence to bailing. Although, I don't look forward to such an enterprise, I will go down with the ship before I consider either of the other options. Bitching about the efforts of others is cowardly, and unproductive. Jumping ship, as the republicans have chosen to do, is even more deplorable.

Until the waterline drops to a level allowing us to address the source of the leak, I suggest we all grab a bucket.


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Knun,

get your shit together, fool.

According to the experts, (not some lame brained jackass spewing bullshit, like yourself) the current recession began back in December of 2007-Jan 2008, back when Bush still had over a year in office. The election was nearly a year away.

But of course, dishonest scumbags like yourself (knun) want to blame it on the new guy. What a fucking dishonest coward you truly are!

By the way,
you and your low-life redneck cronies robbed this country of our former greatness when you insisted on defending and supporting the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States.

And you blame Obama?
What a coward!

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Mr. Lazarus:

Please, I consider myself a low-life redneck and since I was not a supporter of the Bush administration what would make you think I supported Clinton's?

President Obama is now at the helm of the ship of state and he ran a campaign saying the he could solve the problems of this country. What happens now is his burden or his glory. I am surprised to find some of those who were his supporters seem to be questioning his ability to live up to his promises.

There are many points that I disagree with President Obama but there are others where I agree with his stance. I will give My support to those points where I agree with the president but reserve my right as a U.S. citizen to object to those I disagree with.

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Post by pippinwhitepaws »

http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive ... etail/1502

if you can make it through the academic introduction...good listen

it appears most of the issues gw bush faced...are the same confronting president obama...shouldn't they be new issues?
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Brad going off half cocked as usual.

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Brad,

I made one post here which said the options for the poll were all lame.

That's it.

Somehow you came up with something else from that.

Fine, I'll respond to your attack.

I've never once said the problems of the economy were Obama's fault. They are not.

Since this started with the housing market you would have to go back to the other socialist, the peanut farmer, to see the origins of this debacle. Then add a bit of Reagan, a lot of Clinton and some Bush 1 and 2. That's the origin. But the blame game is meaningless. Obama ran knowing full well what had been done and it's his job to fix. It's the job he was elected to do.

Obama has a job to do and he is fucking it up right from the start.

What of his promisses about the war Brad? Remember the Warmonger montra? What now? You call me a coward. You are a simple tool.
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