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Free Republic Poll - Who do you blame most significantly for the downfall in the economy?

Posted on 01/31/2009 9:56:45 PM PST by WheresMyBailout

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To: WheresMyBailout

You guessed it...

Frank Stalone.


41 posted on 01/31/2009 10:39:46 PM PST by Cap74 (God is a Republican, Santa Claus is a Democrat -P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: WheresMyBailout

Wall Street bankers with their credit default swaps and 60-1 leverage-not to mention a compensation system that drove their companies into the ground and then they got a bailout.


42 posted on 01/31/2009 10:42:48 PM PST by bronxboy
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To: WheresMyBailout

Not hard at all.... GOVERNMENT! Government causes nearly all the problems in this country. That is why the Founding Fathers wanted a limited government, to limit the damage it causes. Too simple?


43 posted on 01/31/2009 10:43:44 PM PST by upsdriver
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To: WheresMyBailout

Welcome Newbie.

DEMOCRATS, and their Leftist Syncophant RINO’s, as well assorted allied Socialists and Communists that constitute the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy known as The “In Crowd”.


44 posted on 01/31/2009 10:45:43 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, Call 'em what you will, they ALL have Fairies livin' in their Trees.)
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To: WheresMyBailout

Richard Milhous Obama and his advisors devised the global trade imbalance bubble and began propaganda operations for it. During 1990s, William Jefferson Obama continued to implement that bubble while building Ponzi schemes to support it.


45 posted on 01/31/2009 10:47:32 PM PST by familyop (combat engineer (combat), National Guard, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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Isn’t Jimmy Obama coming to the rescue. Didn’t he mention the malaise yet?


46 posted on 01/31/2009 10:51:00 PM PST by Always Independent
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To: Always Independent

I think that I read tonight that the Obama miracle is being postponed a week or so. There is not a moment to waste though ya know.


47 posted on 01/31/2009 10:54:12 PM PST by TheBigIf
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To: WheresMyBailout

The Jews and the bicycle riders!
Q: Why the bicycle riders?
A: Why the Jews?!


48 posted on 01/31/2009 10:55:29 PM PST by pango
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To: WheresMyBailout

Alan Greenspan


49 posted on 01/31/2009 10:55:38 PM PST by devere
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To: TheBigIf

Of course, he must have one more of his cabinet crooks confirmed first.


50 posted on 01/31/2009 10:55:50 PM PST by Always Independent
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To: mojitojoe

I don’t think they meant for it to go this far. I think they thought it would just get Obama elected and then they could fix it but it got out of hand and out of their control.


51 posted on 01/31/2009 10:57:57 PM PST by beckysueb (Palin/Jindahl in 2012)
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To: WheresMyBailout
Don't forget Janet Reno.

Read this Cato Institute report about the Community Reinvestment Act and you will see who some of the main players are. Carter, Clinton, ACORN, Greenspan, Joseph Kennedy, Janet Reno are only some of the major players. The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act of 1989 is part of the mix, as well as the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, (ECOA), the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA), and the Fair Housing Act (FHA).

from the report: Clinton administration appointees at agencies responsible for enforcing the ECOA and the FHA have also indicated an intensified interest in the issue of lending discrimination. At the Justice Department, Janet Reno appeared at a number of high-profile press conferences announcing fair-lending settlements. At one such press conference in January 1994, announcing a settlement with the First National Bank of Vicksburg and the Blackpipe State Bank, Reno said that "today's actions demonstrate that we will tackle lending discrimination wherever and in whatever form it appears. No loan is exempt, no bank is immune. For those who thumb their nose at us, I promise vigorous enforcement."

52 posted on 01/31/2009 10:58:58 PM PST by smokingfrog (T.A.R.P. = Viagra for politicians and you get screwed.)
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To: beckysueb

A few of us surmised what set it up and how it developed. Interesting reading.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132937/posts?page=51


53 posted on 01/31/2009 11:02:56 PM PST by JSteff (It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and may have doomed us for a generation or more.)
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To: beckysueb

I think this was planned. It has the effect that the demoncrats want. They are planning to use this whole thing to expand the government.


54 posted on 01/31/2009 11:07:14 PM PST by TheBigIf
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To: Always Independent
"Isn’t Jimmy Obama coming to the rescue. Didn’t he mention the malaise yet?"

Heh. The current incarnation of Obama is probably overwhelmed by the flood of funding for business-as-usual, porcine programs from the horde of shrews behind Congress. He won't save the rabble and will be just another disliked "establishment" president before long.

The new depression is what will save us. ...and maybe a world war.


55 posted on 01/31/2009 11:16:21 PM PST by familyop (combat engineer (combat), National Guard, '89-'96, Duncan Hunter or no-vote, http://falconparty.com/)
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To: WheresMyBailout

Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Ted Kennedy, Nazi Pelousey, Dingy Harry Reid, Tom Daschel, John McCain
alan Greenspan, Bernacke, ACORN
Osama Bin Laden, OPEC, Saddam Hussein, Satan


56 posted on 01/31/2009 11:34:58 PM PST by o_zarkman44 (Since when is paying more, but getting less, considered Patriotic?)
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To: JSteff

Very interesting! Thats pretty much what I have been thinking.


57 posted on 01/31/2009 11:36:16 PM PST by beckysueb (Palin/Jindahl in 2012)
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To: WheresMyBailout

This thread might inspire me to start a guillotine-sharpening business. :)


58 posted on 01/31/2009 11:38:57 PM PST by The Duke (I have met the enemy, and he is named 'Apathy'!)
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To: WheresMyBailout
I blame everyone listed. Anyone who is in Washington D.C. and serving as our Congresscritters and Senatemongers for not having the guts to stand up and say its wrong when they know its wrong, or when we tell them we don't want it, and they do nothing about it.

Put real people back in Washington, vote out everybody there, we need new blood, ideas and people.

59 posted on 01/31/2009 11:45:56 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (Sarah Palin in 2012......eat your heart out libs....we have a REAL woman!!!!)
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To: WheresMyBailout
Andrew Jackson. Being the first demonrat and the first president to use the Constitution for toilet paper he is to blame for everything that has gone wrong since.

Seriously, Senator Paul Sarbanes and Representative Michael G. Oxley.

60 posted on 01/31/2009 11:46:15 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Faith Manages.)
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