Don Polson News & Views: Shredding the constitution, contract law

Some observations from President Obama's press conference : In messages reminiscent of George Orwell's "1984" or "Brave New World," Obama tried to convince us that he'll cut the deficit by growing the deficit, he'll get entitlement programs under control by enrolling more dependants, and he'll grow America's private sector of the economy by ...

[Jerry A]

Another voice of reason - in the wilderness.

[Don Polson]

Jerry A wrote:

Another voice of reason - in the wilderness.

Thank you for your kind words, Jerry.

Don

[anonymous]

Apparently ignorance is bliss to those self-proclaimed "patriots" of the right-wing.
President Bush's illegal spying program targeted all communications in the United States, both domestic and foreign, including all phone traffic and all email traffic. It wasn't just your fantasy "making phone calls to Al Qaeda in Pakistan", Don, getting "wiretapped"....it was everybody. E-V-E-R-Y-B-O-D-Y. Hence the public hue and cry against the secret spying. Except for you supposed right-wing "'patriots", for whom the fear of the bogeyman trumped the protections of the Constitution when it came to the 4th Amendment, just like your fears of the bogeyman trumped the Geneva Convention rules baring torture, and international laws baring invasions of sovereign foreign countries that pose no threat to the USA.

The fact is, the right-wing is about as "patriotic" as Cartman from South Park is 'religious'. That is to say....it ain't.

[barney]

According to Don, he should be receiving a bonus while all of his fellow redbluffdailynews staff are taking pay cuts and losing their jobs. Because Don's contract says so. And he /deserves/ it. LOL!

[Don Polson]

barney wrote:

According to Don, he should be receiving a bonus while all of his fellow redbluffdailynews staff are taking pay cuts and losing their jobs. Because Don's contract says so. And he /deserves/ it. LOL!

What a moron--I get a pittance for the hours I spend writing these columns, for idiots and ignoramuses like this guy and the guy above to spout utter inane fabrications. Not worth my precious time and energy correcting the erroneous statements.

Don

[come the revolution]

Don Polson wrote:

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What a moron--I get a pittance for the hours I spend writing these columns, for idiots and ignoramuses like this guy and the guy above to spout utter inane fabrications. Not worth my precious time and energy correcting the erroneous statements.
Don

Forgive my ignorence Don, but was'nt it Bush and his big business cohort's that dragged the world into this mess, by deregulating the financial institutions.Thus alowing them to sell AAA's that were infact worthless, to foreign banks. Comitting the biggest financial fraud in history.

[Don Polson]

come the revolution wrote:

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Forgive my ignorence Don, but was'nt it Bush and his big business cohort's that dragged the world into this mess, by deregulating the financial institutions.Thus alowing them to sell AAA's that were infact worthless, to foreign banks. Comitting the biggest financial fraud in history.

Sorry to have to disturb your anti-capitalist, Bush-caused-all-the-worlds-woe s-which-never-existed-before-h e-took-office rant, but there were no "toxic assets" before the government regulators/Clinton/Community Reinvestment Act/Fannie/Freddie/Frank/Dodd/ Raines/et al forced banks to lend to unqualified borrowers, flooding the market with excess demand, the ultimate cause of housing bubble, which falling prices were the demise of it all. One sentence summed it up for the ignorant among you.

[come the revolution]

Don Polson wrote:

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Sorry to have to disturb your anti-capitalist, Bush-caused-all-the-worlds-woe s-which-never-existed-before-h e-took-office rant, but there were no "toxic assets" before the government regulators/Clinton/Community Reinvestment Act/Fannie/Freddie/Frank/Dodd/ Raines/et al forced banks to lend to unqualified borrowers, flooding the market with excess demand, the ultimate cause of housing bubble, which falling prices were the demise of it all. One sentence summed it up for the ignorant among you.

It was not an anti capitalist rant,so dont make assumption's about me.
As with most bearded people you talk out of your arse.
Go back and check your facts....you give journalist's a bad name.

[anonymous]

"Journalist"? Man, that's a stretch.'Propagandist' would be more like it.

[Scott]

Don, Keep up the good work. Continue to be another voice of reason in this toxic field of Socialism. Continue to use logic and reason. The Communist's, Progressives', or Liberals don't deal with the truth very well. They have to fabricate everything in order to make themselves feel good. Remember "It depends on what is is!" When they finally wake up and realize that they won't have the right to "Protest", their reason for surviving will be gone. They won't be able to break anything, there won't be anything left for them to steal. All of the jobs will be overseas, because the taxes are too high for businesses to continue. Women will lose their rights and all of their girlfriends will have to wear Burkas and as in Iran, their won't be any homosexuals or activist to deal with "because they don't exist." There will be "One world order" that has its own currency, the United Nations will head the courts, personal property rights are gone and all voices for the good old days when we actually had a Constitution that people held sacred will be an underground movement. How many jobs were lost today? April 15'th. "Tea Party."

[neveragain]

It was GHWBush who screamed "this is a victory for
ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT" the invasion of Iraq-Kuwait
being the cause of GHWBush's celebration. And
it was the republican Kissinger who with the
republican David Rockefeller started the Council of
Foreign Relation whose members are on the
executive lists of all the corporation which are
receiving money from the baiout.

[RB Native]

Don Polson lives in a black and white fantasy world populated by straw men and built on a shaky foundation of hyperbole. A world where even the mere suggestion that Republicans are also culpable in the financial mess is considered an "anti-capitalist rant". Don is too prejudice to even make sense anymore.(note: I did not say racist so don't get all defensive)

[Don Polson]

RB Native wrote:

Don Polson lives in a black and white fantasy world populated by straw men and built on a shaky foundation of hyperbole. A world where even the mere suggestion that Republicans are also culpable in the financial mess is considered an "anti-capitalist rant". Don is too prejudice to even make sense anymore.(note: I did not say racist so don't get all defensive)

Read my columns--I stated that Reps took donations from Fan/Fred. That doesn't change the fact, the fact, the fact that Bush tried mightily to enact regulation (yes, he tried to increase regulation) of Fan/Fred. McCain tried also in the Senate, but Dems, Dems, Dems stopped it with the 60 vote obstruction. Obama took the most money for the time served of any, any, any person in Congress, and supported efforts to prevent any tighter oversight of Fan/Fred. From the rotten loans, backed up by Fan/Fred, flowed the entire financial fiasco. O rightly puts blame on America but conveniently ignores the real cause--the liar loans, which pushed the RE values beyond the market prices, which then took down the house of cards the Dems built.

Yes, it is an anti-capitalist wave to say that the whole financial mess is the result of free market financing, when the financing market hasn't been free for decades. It quit being free when the Clinton admin'n started forcing banks to loan to unqualified borrowers.

Don't bash the supposedly free market when it was gov't regs that got us into this.

Not one single fact in my column on in my comments has thus far been refuted.

[RB Native]

Yes thank you for reminding me of another of your frequent fallacies. That of oversimplification.
To say the the liberal lending policies advocated by democrats is the sole cause of (or even the most significant) is wrong. Both Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner and FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair have stated their belief that the CRA was not to blame for the crisis. And they are not liberals. I agree it was a factor but not the root. The problem is much more complex and can be blamed on Democrats and Republicans as well as private firms and foriegn entities. It is convenient for you to place all the blame in a certain direction but that doesn't resemble the truth. All that bieng said I do think those liberal lending practices were a big mistake in that they were underegulated along with lots of other financial markets.

[neveragain]

Shabby loan qualifying was not forced on banks.
Subprime loans standard were forgottten for
those banks greedy enough to participate--
Bankof America, Wachovia,CitiBank---Wells Fargo
chose not to enter the subprime "no paper loan'
fiasco.With all the uproar over bonuses paid to
bank executives the fact that GWBush Sec. of Treas.
Henry Paulson got a bonus from Goldman Sach
which received $12.9B bailout from AIG and $10B
from the US stimulus package.

[Scott]

neveragain wrote:

Shabby loan qualifying was not forced on banks.
Subprime loans standard were forgottten for
those banks greedy enough to participate--
Bankof America, Wachovia,CitiBank---Wells Fargo
chose not to enter the subprime "no paper loan'
fiasco.With all the uproar over bonuses paid to
bank executives the fact that GWBush Sec. of Treas.
Henry Paulson got a bonus from Goldman Sach
which received $12.9B bailout from AIG and $10B
from the US stimulus package.

Then why did everyone that you mentioned, take part in the Bailout? They too paid out bonus' and sent money to foreign investors and banks from Bailout money! All of whom contributed to all parties. Both Dems and Republicans who voted for the bailouts and stimulus without reading the bill should all be fired for their incompetence and dereliction of duty to the country.

[Katn]

I think that all left and right wingers need to read the Obama deception. . .find out who the real enemy is.

[Katn]

neveragain wrote:

It was GHWBush who screamed "this is a victory for
ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT" the invasion of Iraq-Kuwait
being the cause of GHWBush's celebration. And
it was the republican Kissinger who with the
republican David Rockefeller started the Council of
Foreign Relation whose members are on the
executive lists of all the corporation which are
receiving money from the baiout.

Thanks for posting this...Americans need to take notice that both sides of the aisle are corrupt

[Don Polson]

RB Native wrote:

Yes thank you for reminding me of another of your frequent fallacies. That of oversimplification.
To say the the liberal lending policies advocated by democrats is the sole cause of (or even the most significant) is wrong. Both Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner and FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair have stated their belief that the CRA was not to blame for the crisis. And they are not liberals. I agree it was a factor but not the root. The problem is much more complex and can be blamed on Democrats and Republicans as well as private firms and foriegn entities. It is convenient for you to place all the blame in a certain direction but that doesn't resemble the truth. All that bieng said I do think those liberal lending practices were a big mistake in that they were underegulated along with lots of other financial markets.

No--forced by Clinton admin. Fed banks had no choice. What is your problem with historical reality. Obama's ACORN ispired lending programs flooded Chicago n'hoods with the wonderful "home ownership" programs and guess where the first n'hoods of forclosed homes were?

Don

[Don Polson]

neveragain wrote:

Shabby loan qualifying was not forced on banks.
Subprime loans standard were forgottten for
those banks greedy enough to participate--
Bankof America, Wachovia,CitiBank---Wells Fargo
chose not to enter the subprime "no paper loan'
fiasco.With all the uproar over bonuses paid to
bank executives the fact that GWBush Sec. of Treas.
Henry Paulson got a bonus from Goldman Sach
which received $12.9B bailout from AIG and $10B
from the US stimulus package.

Tell us why the entire fiasco is centered in a few counties in a few states (30 or so in 50). And tell us why the lowest unemployment rates are the REP states of Utah and Texas.