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Submitted by adracer1 on Thu, 2008-09-25 05:38.
If you're scared say you're scared. All this "Woe is me" talk. "Gotta put the campaign on hold", "the boogyman is gonna get us".
I smell a rat and it smells a lot like "Little Miss Piggy" himself, Karl Rove.
C'mon America, let's play the game head on and may the best candidate win.
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McCain demonstrated great leadership on postponing the debate. What was there to debate Obama on national security anyway? He has no policy on national security except appeasement and weakness. What a dweeb.
McCain has a day job and that is being a senator. He has spent his life dedicated to duty to this nation. Debates can be rescheduled, but he is exercising genuine concern and responsibility by focusing on the financial responsibility facing congress. He needs to be there and will not vote "Present" as some politicians do when the going gets rough.
And remember, congress is the only body that can fix the problem. They wrote the present laws that lowered banking rules to allow marginal lenders to borrow money. Now we all are facing a problem that they created.
Congress has to do a short term fix and a long term fix. Short term is to stabilize our banks. Many jobs will be lost if they fail. The long term fix is to clean up those lax laws and loopholes that are creating our financial mess.
The Senate Finance Committee and the House Banking wrote the laws and have oversight. They should be spanked and made to clean up our laws.
Even the president has to obey the laws as we all do. He can't change them and has to manage under any laws congress writes.
I'll depend on McCain to lead the way in congress, but we have two losers, Reid and Pelosi who are in charge. They may cry "We lost" as they did when the surge started. Sorry attitude for national leaders.
He hasn't made a roll call since April. Has missed 300+ votes this year. He is ahead of the Senator who had the stroke and was thought to be brain dead. Why wasn't he doing something before this mess?
America First. You sound like a windowlicker w/ mooseknuckles. We wouldn't be in this fix had it not been for the bleeding heart liberals who manipulated Congress to allow Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to accept as stated by Ms. Coulsen, "accept welfare payments and unemployment benefits to qualify for loans" that they knew they could not afford.
One other way to bail out America is to draw the line and say enough is enough for the hungry lazy masses who make up the slothful nonworking class who demand to live as average working families. CUT CUT CUT.
By postponing the useless commentary of Obama in Foreign Policy, McCain is going back to Washington to show Piglosi and her liberal hers of Democrats some real LEADERSHIP in America and attempt to be American sans bi-partisan politics. Oh well gotta go put out some real fires...
Freddie bite me. The thread is about McCain "stopping his campaign". Hope you man a hoseline better than you read.
America First. You sound like a windowlicker w/ mooseknuckles. We wouldn't be in this fix had it not been for the bleeding heart liberals who manipulated Congress to allow Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae to accept as stated by Ms. Coulsen, "accept welfare payments and unemployment benefits to qualify for loans" that they knew they could not afford.
Hey Freddiefiredog, I don't know a lot when it comes to wall street and all that is going on now, but I am indeed interested in what you said here. If this is true, it disgusts me. Can you point me to a source so I can read more and get some specifics. My dad in New England is already voting for McCain (they are Clinton lovers), but I would like to send him this info.
Question, why is it that as soon as the dems took control of Congress, everything started going down hill quickly?
Shh! You'll wake up those windowlickers and I'll never get them back to sleep...LOL
Read drudgereport.com and get some meaningful scoop on everyday work behind your back by the Dems. Ann Coulter is a grassroots writer who shoots straight, with withering accuracy. I am Freddiefiredog and I approve this message. Oh excuse me.. Freddie-Fire-Dog. HA!
HA! Thanks so much! I'm off to Drudge.
Do you like Neal Boortz? I looked tonight at his site but I feel like I have to dig around a lot to find out the specifics of what Frannie and Freddie have been up to. Anyway, Boortz is another straight shooter, and when I do get to listen to his show (not often) I am amazed at what is not reported in the main stream media.
My husband reads Neal's News daily and told me of this picture he saw today: SUV with a sticker that reads, "I'm a Republican because everyone can't be on welfare." I'm sure the guy has been threatened by strange motorists over that one! HA!
http://boortz.com/nuze/200809/09232008.html
last night. (He still has that "deer in the headlights" look that he had when he found out he'd won the presidential election eight years ago.) One thing I didn't hear him say was how this bailout is going to help ME, your everyday, average American who doesn't have much money invested, who pays my mortgage every month when it's due, and who is struggling to make ends meet on two (well, now it's down to about 1.5) incomes.
I know I should probably know this, but I'm having trouble figuring out how this bailout will trickle down to help ME and other people like me. My hubby has a small, one-person business, and I work a full-time job with benefits. We don't have money invested in stocks or bonds, except a small 401k and a company retirement plan. My husband's work has fallen off drastically in the last three months. Though my income doesn't change, his has dropped while the cost of living continues to go up. Will this bailout boost the economy all the way down to the bottom of the ladder, or will it only affect those huge financial companies?
And, I heard this morning that the safety built into the bailout plan that would prevent the execs of these financial giants from sustaining a windfall due to the bailout has been dropped. I have a problem with my tax dollars going to bail out huge companies that made some bad decisions, and then, as a perk, the execs who helped make those decisions are going to benefit financially.
Maybe I'm not seeing the whole picture. If so, could someone please explain it to me? I'm not extremely welll-versed on financial matters, and maybe I'm missing something.
We are now watching Dave Ramsey on MSNBC when the commies aren't on and also a good show to watch is Mad Money with that highly excitable guy with a brain Cramer.1 From what we've gathered and my friends and family have deciphered, this bailout is necessary to stop us from rewriting the Grapes of Wrath without Henry Fonda.
In all actuality, there will be displaced jobs which flow or flush down more aporably said, and then there would be mass unemployment and a deescalation of the money markets that a lot of folks have placed in it their who retirement nestegg.
What is not being discussed to loudly is why we should have to pay other people's bills who gain credit and then default. They should be prosecuted for FRAUD. It is kind of like stealing like them Court Clerks down there...
People like you and your husband and a lot of us are plugging away in the American Dream of prospering in the exchange of labor. It is not the concept adhered by all...God bless you, and keep using coupons and reading the shopping papers and be survivors.
Most of us have had reduced income in small business because of the economy. The economy is weaker because the stock market is weaker and people are in a conserve income mode and a slow spending mode. We are buying the basics and leaving off the wants.
This has caused a general slowdown in the general economy which are small businesses in the Yellow Page type businesses. If people feel the economy is weak, it will become weak. If they feel it is strong, it will be because evryone spends more. A self fulfilling prophecy.
As for the present problem, we have different opinions on the causes of the banking dilemma and lots of people are pointing fingers. But we have a problem and we must have a solution.
I don't like government in private business, but as we have seen from the Chrysler Corp. bailout, having the government back the loans did get Chrysler back on track. Chrysler paid back those loans at no cost to the taxpayers.
Congress will have to debate the present plan, but we will need for the government to again help some of those huge businesses with guaranteed loans. They need the capital to remain solvent until they can again become profitable. Assuming that the plan works, as with Chrysler, they will be able to pay back those loans at no cost to the taxpayers.
So why should we care? The stability of the whole economy is at stake. If those huge businesses go under, thousands will become unemployed and the ripple effect from companies that do business with them will suffer. There may be even more of the related smaller businesses to go under. This would impact even the small businesses locally. Many predict a recession.
In my opinion, congress made the mess we're in by passing laws to ease banking laws and making banks make marginal loans with high default rates. It is past time for congress to help out with a structured loan plan and also tighten up those "easy" loan laws. The banks must be able to get back into good business practices without the fear of being charged by breaking those "easy"loan laws.
If those banks can get back on their feet, become profitable again, our whole economy will be able to improve. That will put dollars back into our small businesses everywhere including Beaufort.
Yes, of course I believe that McCain is going back to help this bailout process. Congress agreed to the plan before he got there and he's missed almost every single vote or roll call this entire year, that's fantastically amazing leadership he's showing there. Beyond his stellar record, of literally not having a record this year, he's suspending his campaign to deal with this issue? Really? He can't deal with more than one thing at a time? Oh, and if he has to go back to Washington for his photo op why doesn't his phenomenal vice presidential pick run the campaign in his place? Oh that's right, they won't let her talk to the press till after the election because she never knows what she is talking about and gives very vague non-answers that make her sound– unqualified.
Oh, and by the way, "We do not support government bailouts of private institutions." http://www.gop.com/2008Platform/Economy.htm
Who really owns those financial institutions the American tax payer is being asked to bail out. Wall Street is no more concerned about America than Hugo Chavez. It is an immoral corrupt insider trading cesspool.
In my opinion this so called American institution is anything but. It is a make money at any cost ponzie scheme. Unless you are a big player, like China who can arbitrarily affect market prices with a public statement or a supplier like Saudi who can invest or short the market and profit by manipulating oil prices. It is an uneven and unfair game for the US to become a stock holder in a buy out that can only be described as a fast tract toward socialism.
My answer, let China bail it out, they have used slave labor to destroy our middle class, the real engine of our economic success. Much like those high minded enablers who have encouraged illegal alien labor, the other destroyer of our middle class wages.
If anyone wants to bail out our enemies on wall street lets start with all those who do nothing more than play monopoly with our money and collect their ill gotten gain.
Like my father said, don't trust anyone who doesn't have calloused hands. They might be lawyers or politicians. A plague on both of their houses, all those that sold hard working Americans down the river of socialism, we are here, you can stop working now. The destruction of a free country by the numbers 1] freedom 2]apathy 3] entitlements 4] dependence.
Those corporations are listed on the stock exchanges which means that anyone who has bought stocks own shares of them. Nearly all retirement funds like 401ks, IRAS, Roth IRAs, Kehoughs, annuities and mutual funds have shares and depend on the dividends, or shared profits and the appreciating values of the shares to provide retirement money for people retiring.
Even life insurance and health insurance companies invest to provide a diversified financial structure.
Of course it is possible for wealthy foreigners to buy a lot of stocks. But we all will suffer if some of those large stock companies go under.