Posted on 10/09/2011 4:02:47 PM PDT by Razzz42
Anybody who stands with the scum protesting Wall Street are too stupid to be taken seriously and would have happily stood with the nazis in 1930s Germany.
Just listen to the “protesters” on videos and read their interviews. These people are escapees from the planet Bizarro. To stand with them is to forgo your investment in sanity and humanity.
If you are going to stand with the protesters/flea baggers, better watch where you are standing. You may be standing in filth.
They are simply liberals, anti-constitutionalists, nothing more and deserve to be ignored and allowed to wallow in their own excrement.
The crime in student loans lies less with the bankers than with the college administrators. Between Pell Grants, similar state level grants, so called work study, and student loans the colleges have been able to raise tuition levels to places they could never have gone if college tuition were actually paid by the student/family and not by a third party, be it govt or bank. Two generations ago my college tuition at Fordham College was $1800 a year for tuition. Today it is 23,500.That is double the $11,000 the BLS says should be for that $1,800 in 1969. No college could get away with this gouge if the freight were paid by the consumer and the colleges have taken full advantage.
He’s right about Bernanke.
/snicker
I'm finding that history is indeed repeating itself.
Use your favorite search engine to look for "Brechung der Zinsknechtschaft", or "manifesto on breaking the shackles of interest". It was written by Gottfried Feder.
It calls for the nationalization of banks, and abolishing the assessment of interest on loans. Sound familiar?
Feder is also known for something else: Along with three other guys, he founded the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ("German worker's party", or DAP) in 1919. You may not have heard of them, but you may have heard of the name they later adopted: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
A certain paper-hanger joined with Feder that same year. He would go on to be somewhat... infamous. Feder's economic views has been credited for his opposition to "Jewish finance capitalism".
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it. -- George Santayana.
Lee Addler, if YOU get the protesters then you are warped and in need of psychiatric help.
Students were mislead when taking student loans? How? If they were too stupid to understand the concept of repaying a loan, they shouldn't have went to an expensive school in the first place. Community College would have been a great start.
You also claimed you have to pay for the care of your Mother? That is how life happens sometimes - family takes care of family.
What's that you say? Oh, I see. You want the 1% to pay for the care of YOUR dear old Mom.
Now I see why you get along with the moochers occupying Wall Street
Slacker. Whiner. Parasite.
Standing with the commies.
“It’s time to reset and start over.”
What’s that supposed to mean?
Other than that, I do not stand with the smelly, parasite, lowlife's who are currently infested the nation.
Does not suprise me he is blaming the banks for making the loans, not considering the feds were coercing the banks into approving these loans.
So the people the received the funds for these loans, spent it and now cannot pay it back, have no responsibility. Welcome to the left.
When the first ones on trial are Slick Willie Clinton, Bwany Frank, and Chris Dodd then I’ll look at the bankers but it was these a$$hats that started and promoted this collapse. The bankers may have wanted it but they couldn’t do anything without help from the top levels of the government.
I do agree that these students were sold radically overpriced, useless educations, except those expecting to work on collective farms, but the curricula was NOT determined by the bankers, and the option to refuse to lend was not granted by the Federal government, so who is the criminal and in conspiracy again?
It might be hard to put bankers in the cells filled to capacity with DemoRat politicians, Federal bureaucrats, and conniving students, never intending to pay.
The way I read it, he was complaining that the current yield on low-risk investments is effectively 0%, and that his mother can no longer live on the earnings on her savings.
I'm rather annoyed about that myself.
I Stand With The Protesters
I don't think I can do that, in part because of the odor but also because of the risk of communicable disease.
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