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Defiant1 wrote: <quoted text> Are Americans better off? Obama aides won't say http://news.yahoo.com/americans-better-off-ob... They know that the country is better off but, because of the Republiscum Congress, too many Americans are unemployed or underemployed and Democrats are empathetic - unlike sociopaths Romney/Ryan - to them. Without the Republiscum Congress the unemployment rate would be 6%. The unemployed and the underemployed should blame a Republiscum...Paul Ayn Rand I Hate People Ryan is a good place to start.
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So we are back to are you better off than you were 4 years ago. Ahhh Remember the good old days? Predators that walk amongst us. Paulson admits deregulation has failed us all By MarketWatch WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)-- You know things are very very bad on Wall Street when a guy like Henry Paulson -- Treasury secretary, solid Republican, and former Goldman Sachs CEO -- joins the crowd calling for more regulation over the financial markets. Paulson spared no one in his criticism Thursday of the excesses of deregulation that has now created the worst global financial crisis in a generation, threatening the health of the U.S. economy, the savings of millions of Americans, and the survival of some of the biggest financial institutions in the world. Wall Street and Washington both failed big time, he said. Wall Street invented new ways to make money by selling securities so complicated that no one could really follow which shell the pea was under. Fortunes were made on the paper Wall Street sold. At the same time, Washington's watchdogs were dozing, tranquilized by the false assurance that Wall Street would police its own. It's been obvious for years now that Wall Street could not be trusted, and finally official Washington agrees. The markets need a tougher cop to make sure that money-center banks, investment banks, credit-rating agencies, hedge funds, mortgage brokers and the rest don't let their own greed and arrogance ruin it for the rest of us. "Regulation needs to catch up with innovation," Paulson said, and he was backed up by the rest of President Bush's working group on financial markets, including Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Securities and Exchange Commissioner Chris Cox. Not a commie among them. The housing bubble wasn't a flaw; it was a predictable outcome of a system that rewarded smart people small fortunes for conjuring up ways to persuade people to borrow more than they could ever hope to pay back. All the profits were taken off the table quickly, but the staggering costs are only now being paid by homeowners, shareholders, builders and the rest of society. Paulson's proposals won't necessarily prevent a recurrence, but they are a humble recognition that the centerpiece of two decades of Republican economic policy have failed. -- Rex Nutting, Washington bureau chief Republicans have not strayed from their previous agendas other than to increase the probabilities of failure.
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Are we better off than 4 years ago. Well lets take a look see. 4 years ago there was a storm . If I remember correctly. Storm on the Horizon Cost increases in financing markets due to laissez-faire polices of the Bush administration.{DEREGULATIONS} ! Hedge funds are speculative by definition, are held accredited [e.g. affluent] investors. They are exempt from many of the public disclosures and requirements of federal securities law. Virtually non-entity prior to 2001. Bush administration hedge funds exploded from $250 Billion enterprise to a $2.5 Trillion enterprise. Lax enforcement of SEC regulations allowed “naked short selling” which makes its profit off the Main Street investors. Buy low sell high standard investors philosophy to the markets. Hedge fund with their vast reserves of liquidity could manipulate the prices to markets with no chances of lost. Make a share drop for short sales profits and rise for harvesting profits. Using other people’s monies! Christopher Cox SEC chairman looked the other way. Small businesses suffered when their stocks dropped and they lost the consumers confidence. Driving some into bankruptcy and disseminated the average retail investors. Volatility markets contributed to the tumultuous finish to Bush administration. 2008 with reckless policies and omissions, created the perfect storm. Bush entered office with DOW at 10,587; left office with the Dow at 7,949 producing a negative market loss through out his tenure. Last 17 months stock markets experienced an historical loss of 58%! This was worst than any 17month rolling cycle of the Great Depression. The Perfect Storm 1] Feb. 2008 Fannie Mae reports $3.55 Billion lost for 4th quarter of 2007. 2] March Bear Sterns accepts buy out by J.P. Morgan Chase. This was a $30 Billion bail out transaction by the Fed.’s.[from Fed. Reserves] 3] Carlyle Group defaults on $16.6 Billion debt. 4] Government supports Fannie May and Freddie Mac with $200Billion. 5] April International Monetary Fund projects a $945 Billion loss from the financial crisis. G7 institutes financial regulations. 6] June Home repossessions more than doubles. Two Bear Sterns managers charged with fraud relating to the subprime mortgage market. 7] July price of oil hits all time high at $145 per barrel while gas goes to $4.00 8] Indy Mac collapses, Fannie May and Freddie Mac continue to spiral down. Bush ignores it. 9] Hank Paulson , Secretary of the US Treasury declares in March 2007 “ global economy is more than sound; it’s as strong as I’ve seen it in my business career” 10]September government seizes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. 11]Sept. 17 Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy. Merrill Lynch, on the edge of bankruptcy, is acquired by Bank of America. 12]Sept.17 Government bails out AIG for $85 billion 13] Hank Paulson demands a $700 billion bailout plan to banks. 14] Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs forced to convert to bank holding companies, allowing them to borrow directly from fed discount window. 15] Sept.26 Washington Mutual is seized for its failure. 16] Sept 29 Congress denies bailout funds.{$700 billion} 17] Wachovia on brink of collapse negotiates with Citigroup for take over. 18] Largest bailout in US history is approved. 19] Week of Oct. 6 to 10 DOW drops 2,031 points for record weekly lost of 19.67% 20] Obama elected Nov.4th . Economy shrinks in 3rd and 4th quarter of 2008 by 9%. The Greatest Recession since 1929. Do you enjoy storms? Shall we become storm chasers and do it again and again and again….?
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OregonSUX wrote: <quoted text> Republiscum are hugely embarrassed by Clint Eastwooding. He was not a random speaker. He was the GREAT SURPRISE speaker intended to set a grand (Bwahahahahahaha) tone for gutter trash Romney to prop himself up with. Romney is still gutter trash and always will be and Clint will NEVER live this thing down. The best he can do is turn it into senior camp. C'mon Troll, quit posting more talking points and make an attempt at answering the question. All you do is post your DNC talking points and avoid anything that you don't like or agree with. You are more proof of how scared the DNC is that the "Anointed One" is going to lose and how they are desperately they are trying to do anything but talk about Obumblers record. "Should we talk about important issues such as unemployment, the economy or the national debt?" "No, those are losing issues for us fellow DNC Troll, let's try to side track the gullible voters with issues such as Romneys religion, they way he treated his dog, or if Ryan really ran a marathon or not. That's how we will win this time around." "That sounds great. How is Oregon this time of year?"
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OregonSUX wrote: <quoted text> Romney should release his tax returns to prove that he did not commit felonies or felony and voter fraud and fraud just in general and lying to the American public whom he despises. Obama should release his college transcripts to prove he didn't falsely claim to be a foreign exchange student and didn't use that to con his way through college. If the Obama campaign can try and use a ridiculous issue to try and distract voters, than Romney should to.
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OregonSUX wrote: <quoted text> They know that the country is better off but, because of the Republiscum Congress, too many Americans are unemployed or underemployed and Democrats are empathetic - unlike sociopaths Romney/Ryan - to them. Without the Republiscum Congress the unemployment rate would be 6%. The unemployed and the underemployed should blame a Republiscum...Paul Ayn Rand I Hate People Ryan is a good place to start. Didn't the dems and Obumbler control both houses of congress for two years? And what did they accomplish? Nothing, other than wasting 1 trillion on 'stimulus' and rushing through a 2500 page health care bill that they didn't even read before ramming down the countries throat. So don't blame the other side for your own failures.
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OregonSUX wrote: <quoted text> They know that the country is better off but, because of the Republiscum Congress, too many Americans are unemployed or underemployed and Democrats are empathetic - unlike sociopaths Romney/Ryan - to them. Without the Republiscum Congress the unemployment rate would be 6%. The unemployed and the underemployed should blame a Republiscum...Paul Ayn Rand I Hate People Ryan is a good place to start. Obama has the full support of the growing EBT Community, Section 8'ers and LaRazaRacists around America. Join the Progressive Movement......PAY UP SUCKERS! Sell your worthless kids into tax slavery to Big Brother/Big Union/Big Government. Prove that you just don't care in November...Vote OBAMA!
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Seth Adams wrote: <quoted text> Obama has the full support of the growing EBT Community, Section 8'ers and LaRazaRacists around America. Join the Progressive Movement......PAY UP SUCKERS! Sell your worthless kids into tax slavery to Big Brother/Big Union/Big Government. Prove that you just don't care in November...Vote OBAMA! The above group of worthless drones expect that their worthless offspring can live off of the dwindling number of taxpayers in this country. Of course most Obamanoids think that Obama is going to make their worthless little lives better, but in reality, they are helping Obama to fulfill "Dreams From My Father". Obama is nothing more than the offspring of a communist and a commie loving mommy, who wants to see all of us living in a Kenyan style slum. Sometimes it's a lot more important to put petty political party differences aside and look at the big picture, but most Obummer supporters are either mentally lazy and/or mentally deficient. People should ask themselves why 23 million jobs are lost and why we now have a 16 trillion dollar national debt after being promised hope and change. Obama is nothing more than Bush on steroids. Bush was no conservative and his actions proved it. Continuing to just point fingers at Bush is for the retarded. What has Obama done?.
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Bernard Forand wrote: Are we better off than 4 years ago. Well lets take a look see. 4 years ago there was a storm . If I remember correctly. Storm on the Horizon Cost increases in financing markets due to laissez-faire polices of the Bush administration.{DEREGULATIONS} ! Hedge funds are speculative by definition, are held accredited [e.g. affluent] investors. They are exempt from many of the public disclosures and requirements of federal securities law. Virtually non-entity prior to 2001. Bush administration hedge funds exploded from $250 Billion enterprise to a $2.5 Trillion enterprise. Lax enforcement of SEC regulations allowed “naked short selling” which makes its profit off the Main Street investors. Buy low sell high standard investors philosophy to the markets. Hedge fund with their vast reserves of liquidity could manipulate the prices to markets with no chances of lost. Make a share drop for short sales profits and rise for harvesting profits. Using other people’s monies! Christopher Cox SEC chairman looked the other way. Small businesses suffered when their stocks dropped and they lost the consumers confidence. Driving some into bankruptcy and disseminated the average retail investors. Volatility markets contributed to the tumultuous finish to Bush administration. 2008 with reckless policies and omissions, created the perfect storm. Bush entered office with DOW at 10,587; left office with the Dow at 7,949 producing a negative market loss through out his tenure. Last 17 months stock markets experienced an historical loss of 58%! This was worst than any 17month rolling cycle of the Great Depression. The Perfect Storm 1] Feb. 2008 Fannie Mae reports $3.55 Billion lost for 4th quarter of 2007. 2] March Bear Sterns accepts buy out by J.P. Morgan Chase. This was a $30 Billion bail out transaction by the Fed.’s.[from Fed. Reserves] 3] Carlyle Group defaults on $16.6 Billion debt. 4] Government supports Fannie May and Freddie Mac with $200Billion. 5] April International Monetary Fund projects a $945 Billion loss from the financial crisis. G7 institutes financial regulations. 6] June Home repossessions more than doubles. Two Bear Sterns managers charged with fraud relating to the subprime mortgage market. 7] July price of oil hits all time high at $145 per barrel while gas goes to $4.00 8] Indy Mac collapses, Fannie May and Freddie Mac continue to spiral down. Bush ignores it. 9] Hank Paulson , Secretary of the US Treasury declares in March 2007 “ global economy is more than sound; it’s as strong as I’ve seen it in my business career” 10]September government seizes Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. 11]Sept. 17 Lehman Brothers declares bankruptcy. Merrill Lynch, on the edge of bankruptcy, is acquired by Bank of America. 12]Sept.17 Government bails out AIG for $85 billion 13] Hank Paulson demands a $700 billion bailout plan to banks. 14] Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs forced to convert to bank holding companies, allowing them to borrow directly from fed discount window. 15] Sept.26 Washington Mutual is seized for its failure. 16] Sept 29 Congress denies bailout funds.{$700 billion} 17] Wachovia on brink of collapse negotiates with Citigroup for take over. 18] Largest bailout in US history is approved. 19] Week of Oct. 6 to 10 DOW drops 2,031 points for record weekly lost of 19.67% 20] Obama elected Nov.4th . Economy shrinks in 3rd and 4th quarter of 2008 by 9%. The Greatest Recession since 1929. Do you enjoy storms? Shall we become storm chasers and do it again and again and again….? Thanks for the history lesson. Too bad your wife banishes you to your computer, so she doesn't have to put up with hours upon hours of endless oral masturbation.
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Bernard Forand wrote: So we are back to are you better off than you were 4 years ago. Ahhh Remember the good old days? Predators that walk amongst us. Paulson admits deregulation has failed us all The Republiscums have been trying to crush the USA for 30 years. It started with Reagan who turned us from the world's largest creditor into the world's largest debtor. It went rogue with GW Bush who tried to push us into another Great Depression. Romney is threatening to put it on STEROIDS. The America-hating Romney wants to have UNLIMITED military spending, kill Medicare, kill public education, kill SS, kill every middle class safety net in order to destroy the USA once and for all. This is Romney's MO. That unlimited military spending + tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy = crushing debt. This is what he has done to companies his entire life. This is what he plans to do to the USA which he calls a company. He will extract the cash for himself and his buddies in the form of ZERO taxes and he will crush the rest of us with the debt he piles on.
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Seth Adams wrote: <quoted text> Obama has the full support of the growing EBT Community, Section 8'ers and LaRazaRacists around America. Join the Progressive Movement......PAY UP SUCKERS! Sell your worthless kids into tax slavery to Big Brother/Big Union/Big Government. Prove that you just don't care in November...Vote OBAMA! Romney, America-hater, has the support of: KKK Racists Bigots Women-haters Senior-haters Uneducated white men in flyover country America-haters
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Defiant1 wrote: <quoted text> The above group of worthless drones expect that their worthless offspring can live off of the dwindling number of taxpayers in this country. Of course most Obamanoids think that Obama is going to make their worthless little lives better, but in reality, they are helping Obama to fulfill "Dreams From My Father". Obama is nothing more than the offspring of a communist and a commie loving mommy, who wants to see all of us living in a Kenyan style slum. Sometimes it's a lot more important to put petty political party differences aside and look at the big picture, but most Obummer supporters are either mentally lazy and/or mentally deficient. People should ask themselves why 23 million jobs are lost and why we now have a 16 trillion dollar national debt after being promised hope and change. Obama is nothing more than Bush on steroids. Bush was no conservative and his actions proved it. Continuing to just point fingers at Bush is for the retarded. What has Obama done?. People should ask themselves why Romney, pathological liar, lies about the unemployed which is 12 million not 23 million in a country of 315 million. People should ask themselves why they support a probable FELON and definite PATHOLOGICAL LIAR who says that YOU are not worthy of seeing their tax returns because you are a peasant. Republiscum = Peasants
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OregonSUX wrote: <quoted text> People should ask themselves why Romney, pathological liar, lies about the unemployed which is 12 million not 23 million in a country of 315 million. People should ask themselves why they support a probable FELON and definite PATHOLOGICAL LIAR who says that YOU are not worthy of seeing their tax returns because you are a peasant. Republiscum = Peasants "Republiscum = Peasants" I thought you said that "republiscums" were all weathy men? Make up your mind troll.
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NRH Man wrote: <quoted text> "Republiscum = Peasants" I thought you said that "republiscums" were all weathy men? Make up your mind troll. Hmm, let's see. Wealthy people like Clinton, Kerry, Pelosi, Rockefeller, Harmon, Lautenberg. Oh, that's right, they're Democrats.
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Defiant1 wrote: <quoted text> Hmm, let's see. Wealthy people like Clinton, Kerry, Pelosi, Rockefeller, Harmon, Lautenberg. Oh, that's right, they're Democrats. The party of the working man, supposedly.
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NRH Man wrote: <quoted text> The party of the working man, supposedly. Sure, if you're a union worker or union thug. Everyone else can have food stamps. Unreal… Obama Administration Is Pushing Food Stamps in Latest Ad Campaign:“They Make You Look Good” http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/06/obama...
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NRH Man wrote: <quoted text> "Republiscum = Peasants" I thought you said that "republiscums" were all weathy men? Make up your mind troll. Pay attention you idiot! GOPOX = 17 billionaires aka your lord and masters Republiscum mob = sheeple, peasants, serfs aka you You Republiscum peasants do not run the party. You are not part of the party. The party is made up of billionaires who can, with Citizens United, contribute as much as they like to buy whom they like. You are just expected to fall in line, STFU, bow to your lord and masters and vote accordingly and always against the interests of the USA. This has been the case for at least 30 years and your serfdom is ever more apparent in your fear, anger and shrinking bank account.
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Defiant1 wrote: <quoted text> Hmm, let's see. Wealthy people like Clinton, Kerry, Pelosi, Rockefeller, Harmon, Lautenberg. Oh, that's right, they're Democrats. Yes, the Democratic party is a big tent. It includes all facets of American society from the billionaire to the poorest of the poor. The Democratic party IS America. The GOPOX is 17 billionaires out to pay ZERO taxes and screw the USA.
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NRH Man wrote: <quoted text> Obama should release his college transcripts to prove he didn't falsely claim to be a foreign exchange student and didn't use that to con his way through college. If the Obama campaign can try and use a ridiculous issue to try and distract voters, than Romney should to. Where are Romney's college transcripts? Where is Romney's father's birth certificate to prove he was no an illegal alien? Where, most importantly, are Romney's TAX RETURNS to prove that he did not: - commit multiple FELONIES - commit tax evasion - commit Voter Fraud Eh? Grampy Ann admitted that there is ammunition for Democrats in their tax returns so where are they? Romney: pathological liar, secretive and deceitful
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OregonSUX wrote: <quoted text> Pay attention you idiot! GOPOX = 17 billionaires aka your lord and masters Republiscum mob = sheeple, peasants, serfs aka you You Republiscum peasants do not run the party. You are not part of the party. The party is made up of billionaires who can, with Citizens United, contribute as much as they like to buy whom they like. You are just expected to fall in line, STFU, bow to your lord and masters and vote accordingly and always against the interests of the USA. This has been the case for at least 30 years and your serfdom is ever more apparent in your fear, anger and shrinking bank account. "This has been the case for at least 30 years and your serfdom is ever more apparent in your fear, anger and shrinking bank account." So, re-electing Obama will make our bank accounts grow?.
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