Posted on 11/27/2008 4:36:04 AM PST by Joiseydude
Remember during the campaign how this whole economic mess, according to the Obama camp, was the fault of the Bush administration and the past 8 years? They had all those excellent slogans… we can’t afford four more years of the same… remember? I don’t want to say that a lot of people bought that crap, but anytime you tried to talk about actual economic history and how this mess evolved, most people glazed over and muttered “past 8 years… more of same… must change.”
Well, just this Sunday while enjoying a piping hot cup of joe and a danish, I was reading through the Sunday papers. Being desirous of news from all sides, I always start with the New York Times. Eventually I finish up with Guns & Ammo. The Times had a story on the front page entitled Citigroup Pays for a Rush to Risk.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Is the New York Times now suggesting that the Democrats might have had something to do with our current economic troubles? I mention this only because the Dems (to their credit) made piles of hay off the economic crisis leading up to election day… it was those damn Republicans and their addiction to deregulation. What a load of crap.
They get to write the first draft of history. Maybe its time for a re-write.
2004 Video: Democrats Defend Fannie/Freddie from Regulation:
"We've been through nearly a dozen hearings where frankly we were trying to fix something that wasn't broke. Mr. Chairman we do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac and in particular at Fannie Mae under the outstanding leadership of Mr. Frank Raines."-Rep. Maxine Waters, 2004
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL36nwCSYUM
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History of Fannie Mae scandal
Associated Press, December 7, 2006
"Fannie Mae announces its long-awaited restatement, erasing $6.3 billion in profit from 2001 through June 30, 2004."
http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2006/12/07/history_of_fannie_mae_scandal/?page=1
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Guilty Party: ACORN, Obama, and the mortgage mess
Mona Charen, September 30, 2008
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Mzk4MmVkNzA1NGQ2NGRkZjQ2YjNmYjdlODZkMmQ4N2I=
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An ACORN Falls from the Tree: A congressional outrage
Ken Blackwell, September 29, 2008
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2Y5MTc0ZTAyMmE1Mjk3NGE3OWRiY2FkMjZlN2YxYzc=
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Inside Obama’s Acorn:
By their fruits ye shall know them
Stanley Kurtz, May 29, 2008
"What if Barack Obama’s most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you’d know what I was talking about. Acorn is at least as radical as these better-known groups, arguably more so. Yet because Acorn works locally, in carefully selected urban areas, its national profile is lower. Acorn likes it that way. And so, I’d wager, does Barack Obama."
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI
How does it go? “The saddest words of tongue or pen are those that say it might have been.” The extremely sad fact of the matter is/was that when the Republicans had their chance to run the country they did a poor job. Think Reagan and his tax increases and 55 mph speed limit. Think Bush and his “No child left behind” or his drug prescription plan or his extremely large fiscal deficits. As you sow, so shall ye reap.
“Cloward-Piven Strategy” seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.
The strategy of forcing political change through orchestrated crisis
http://frontpage.americandaughter.com/?p=1878
It will take much to fix what they are about to do to this country. My hope is we are in it for only four years. I can take it in the short term, I fear for my children and my children's children....
One years in the making.
Forcing financial institutions to make bad loans using ACORN,political correctness,the race card,and a feckless President Bush made said institutions cover their loses by bundling bad paper with good and then selling them for a profit to corrupt GSEs like Fannie and Freddie (government sponsored enterprises)where from the beginning the taxpayer was the collaterall.
From Jimmy Carter to Barney Frank,it has been a well played leftist silent coup intended to enslave Americans to socialist tyranny by putting government in control of the once free markets—or the economy,if you wish—control the money and you control those who rely on it—Leninism 101.
When the GOP let the above happen by abandoning their conservative base they abandoned America and the US Constitution as well because they wanted to be “popular” with the MSN and Hollywood.Sick,shallow and seditious became the Republican paradign.
Now only a “popular” uprising supported by the only constitutional right left with bite—the 2nd—may save the America that counts.
Bush's shilling for (and McCain's voting for) a massive bailout did nothing but cement the image of the GOP as being the really big government party.
I believe Soros and his billions had something to do with the stock market melt down. It’s not that hard to do with that much money. Bob Brinker has been talking about slash and burn tactics that hedge funds have been employing.
My sister, who is a "bush lied, people died, lefty was putting this mess 100% on Bush until I asked her do you think the situation would have been different if Kerry were in the White House? She could not honestly answer no.
Economic problems of this magnitude are not possible without a failure of leadership from both parties.
No,Bush and the RHINOs only enabled the Left’s takeover of the American economy.
We now must obey the Left and thank the ‘moderate” Right for the current mess.
One may say Bush is the last Tsar and it is 1917 in the nascent Soviet America.
Which economic troubles, The Great Democratic Crash of 08 or the Great Democratic Depression 08-xx ?
What does she know about anything? I'm surprised she could even read this statement that someone else prepared.
She's so stupid...
when you stand next to her you hear the ocean!
when she heard it was chilly outside she went and got a bowl.
she thinks Fleetwood Mac is a new hamburger at McDonalds!
I always felt that "Evil Daddy Warbucks", aka Soros, had a lot to do with the dollar devaluing problems, and other things, so why not tank the market on purpose.
It is interesting that the problems didn't get out of control until the Dims controlled Congress...hmmm...
“I believe Soros and his billions had something to do with the stock market melt down. It’s not that hard to do with that much money. Bob Brinker has been talking about slash and burn tactics that hedge funds have been employing.”
I agree. Shorting stocks started this, escalating with 9/11. I’d include ME types looking to finance further terror, too. Money as a weapon. Stocks and mortgages as ammo. Financial instuments and practices that had previously been illegal, the footsoldiers and drones.
Business for these types, the dem and the minions has been outstanding this autumn.
Remember how the high cost of oil/gas put the kibosh on the economy right after the dems took control of Congress? It was a guarantee that there would be no movement on drilling our own oil and gas for at least 2 years.
Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and CRA we know about.
Chuck Schumer's letter regarding Indymac Bank.
Harry Reid's pronouncement about "the very large insurance company" about to go belly up.
I suspect she and many of the demonRat leadership knew full well that Fannie Mae was failing. They played dumb to deliberately sabotage the U.S. economy. Waters is way out on the commie left.
Maxine Waters and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, have both given their endorsements to the Revolutionary Communist Party front movement "World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime".
Click on the WCW link just below and see: "Endorsers of the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include". Conyers' endorsement appears right after Ward Churchill's. Al Sharpton's, Maxine Waters and Jesse Jackson Jr's are further down the list:
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
Fact: World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party. (scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization --rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)
*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration
*Organizes college and high-school students
*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :
"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning. And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":
http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm
From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
"Throughout its history, one of RCP's [Revolutionary Communist Party] principal objectives has been to foment civil unrest in the United States. The most notable example of such efforts occurred on April 29, 1992, when RCP members looted and trashed the downtown and government districts of Los Angeles, triggering the infamous Rodney King riots. During the days immediately preceding the violence, RCP -- which maintained close ties to the L.A. gangs known as the Crips and the Bloods -- had circulated throughout South Central Los Angeles a leaflet featuring a statement by RCP National Spokesman Carl Dix, titled 'It's Right To Rebel' -- a quote popularized by Mao Zedong.
Encouraged by Dix, RCP activists helped lead the riots that would leave 58 people dead, more than 2,300 people injured, some 5,300 buildings burned, and $1 billion in property damaged or destroyed. On the ten-year anniversary of the rioting, RCP member Joseph Veale fondly recalled the violence as 'the most beautiful, the most heroic civil action in the history of the United States.'"
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6197
"The RCP upheld the 1992 sometimes-violent unrest in Los Angeles and nationally as a 'rebellion' in the aftermath of the Rodney King verdicts. Then-LAPD chief Daryl Gates alleged that the RCP was involved in the 'riots'. Los Angeles has long been one of the RCP's larger and more active branches. William 'Mobile' Shaw was a local leader who recently passed and received public commendation from the party."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Communist_Party%2C_USA
Maxine Waters on the Los Angeles riots of 1992 (Rodney King riots):
"[Maxine] Waters has been criticized for her comments regarding the Los Angeles riots of 1992. In defense of the people that looted stores and damaged property, Waters said 'If you call it a riot it sounds like it was just a bunch of crazy people who went out and did bad things for no reason. I maintain it was somewhat understandable, if not acceptable. So I call it a rebellion.'[5] She also said it was 'a spontaneous reaction to a lot of injustice' and 'The anger in my district is righteous. I'm just as angry as they are.' She responded to the mass looting of Korean-owned stores by saying: 'There were mothers who took this as an opportunity to take some milk, to take some bread, to take some shoes. They are not crooks. Everybody in the street was not a thug or a hood.'"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Waters#Los_Angeles_riots_of_1992
Marx the socialist inspiration,Trotsky the intellectual revolutionary,Lenin the charismatic demagogue and Stalin the pragmatic and ruthless enslaver. I only pray a Russian Reagan will cause OUR socialist downfall--and not take 70 years doing it!
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