Posted on 01/31/2009 9:56:45 PM PST by WheresMyBailout
I'll list some names but it is by no means exclusive. It would be interesting if you could post a brief rationale by your post. The option of nobody also exists and the option of a class of people exists:
Fed Chiefs:
Alan Greenspan
Ben Bernanke
Paul Volcker
Speakers of the House:
Newt Gingrich
Denny Hastert
Nancy Pelosi
Senate Banking Committee Chairmen:
Al D'Amato
Phil Gramm
Paul Sarbanes
Richard Shelby
Chris Dodd
House Financial Services Committee Chairmen:
Jim Leach
Mike Oxley
Barney Frank
Presidents:
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
George H. W. Bush
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Treasury Secretaries:
Robert Rubin
Lawrence Summers
Paul O'Neill
John Snow
Henry Paulson
Tim Geithner
Defense Secretaries:
William Perry
William Cohen
Donald Rumsfeld
Robert Gates
Failed Presidential Candidates:
Bob Dole
Al Gore
John Kerry
John McCain
Others:
Tom Bliley
Judd Gregg
Ken Lay (Enron)
Jeffrey Skilling (Enron)
Bernard Madoff
Dick Fuld (Lehman)
Angelo Mozilo (Countrywide)
Jon Corzine (former CEO of Goldman, along with Rubin and Paulson)
Franklin Raines (Fannie Mae)
Daniel Mudd (Fannie Mae)
Martin Sullivan (AIG)
Robert Willumstad (AIG)
Maurice Greenberg (AIG)
Classes of People:
Nobody
OPEC
A particular country
A particular religious group
A particular ethnic group
A particular profession
....may they, all rot in h3!! 
Clinton really push the hell out of CRA...
also....
Barney Frank, Chris Dodd and a host of others [like Waters and Meeks]that flatly stated there was no problem with Freddie or Fannie!!!!
Jail them all NOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think this was designed to usher in the one world government.
If you really want to go back to the guy who started this whole thing rolling then Senator Francis T. Maloney is a very good candidate Sarbanes and Oxley were only following his lead.
CEOs playing with other people’s money (OPM). IMO, nobody forced banks to lend to NINJAs. They could have refused and reduced their activity rather than self-immolate. The cause was lack of accountability resulting from underwriting by originators contractually remote from the ultimate purchases of the derivatives. The fix? None. There will always be greater fools. As for the economy cut corporate tax rates.
'Can't blame Peter Schiff: he got it five-stars right!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I0QN-FYkpw
The American electorate
Cna’t get behind a world war, with those pinheads in control they’d start up the draft and I got two teenage sons that I would trust their lives with them for a moment. And I still want to see Bama’s selective service number before I let my sons go.
That’s my thinking too .... all the others contributed but the master manipulator was Soros pulling the strings.
JP Morgan circa 1910.
Historically they have been, but I think we're going to need some new-fangled ones with higher bandwidth.
My father, a Conservative Republican, and veteran of WWII still sings FDR’s praises. Dad is 92 years old, and credits the CCC camps with saving him as a youth. It doesn’t matter thaty FDR destroyed the private sector with confiscatory taxation...for many people who lived through it you will her the same refrain— that FDR gave the people hope.
FDR and all freeloaders since.
FDR gave them hope...help me out here, AdvisorB. I’ve heard that word before but can’t remember from whom. (sarcasm)
Peter Schiff is not responsible. He, just like his collegues had no idea what banks and investment brokerages were in trouble. We didn’t know until they were closed down on a Friday by the government.
There was a lot of behind the scenes dealing going on and the average investor got screwed by a government cover up.
He is being targeted by the other investment gurus who were wrong. They don’t want the public to lose confidence in their abilities.
So they bash the messinger Schiff, who has been absolutely right in predicting the crisis. Schiff, like everyone else, has his ideas about how to SAVE our economy. But because he was right on about the crisis, and pointed fingers at Fanny and Freddy, government, and some other irresponsible brokerages, the government is trying to do damage control by character assasination.
There was another thread blamng Schiff. Saying his investors lost 40%. Find me an investment guru wHo DIDN’T LOSE close to that same amount. When the government and their cronies start pointing fingers of blame, look back at the finger. You will find the problem.
FDR: For the New Deal that created amongst other things Social Security, one of the biggest drains on the treasury.
LBJ: For the so-called “Great Society” that created the welfare state.
The authors of the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act that flooded the country with a poorer, lower skilled, population.
The authors of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986. This amnesty expanded the problems caused by the 1965 act.
Bill Clinton and George W. Bush: For pushing (through Fannie and Freddie) the lowering of lending standards to boost minority home ownership.
Barney Frank: For covering up the problems with Fannie and Freddie, and now claiming that he can provide the solution.
Acorn et al: For shaking down the government and the banks, and now claiming the banks (that implemented Acorns preferred policies) are at solely fault.
The financial companies, hedge funds, etc.: For failure to understand their own products. For (after years of talking of “market discipline” when closing, “restructuring,” or off-shoring large chunks of viable enterprises) running to the government like little children.
This is not meant to be a full and complete list ;)
You said — “Classes of People:”
Ummm.., the American people (in general), in terms of greed... LOL...
[If it’s too good to be true.... :-) ... ]
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Of course without the American people, none of it would have happened...
The Queeah
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