Posted on 02/24/2010 2:15:58 PM PST by OneVike
What I am submitting for your consideration is an article you can read here at Post Scripts titled, People Most Responsible for Recession. This article is actually an older article that ran last year January 30, 2009 on TIMES ONLINE business page called, "The 10 People Most Responsible for the Recession". Along with this out of date and proven wrong article, my editor at Post Scripts, Jack Lee, also used information gleaned from yesterdays NY Times article about "Greenspan Bemoaning the Crisis, but Who Is to Blame?", to basically attack everyone but the true culprits that have caused the economic mess we are in. In an earlier Front Page post, the same editor Jack Lee, put up two graphs comparing the unemployment in America from 2000 to 2010, without explaining the context nor what the historic reference to the truth is. (Below I am posting the graphs) Unfortunately, the casual reader will come away from this with the idea that George Bush really screwed the great economy left for him by Bill Clinton.
So in order to set things straight I went back to FrreeRepublic's archives to see what many here had to say about the premise of the article. However, it seems that it was not posted it, or the title was changed title and I could not find it. Instead I found an article written by fellow freeper Brilliant, that he titled "Who is to blame for the recession? Government." With his permission I submitted it for a rebuttal as to whom is truly guilty for the recession, and they posted it as a Front Page article. That is until the editor saw it and decided to take it down. He says it was not posted, but he lied because I saw it posted at 6:30 this morning and sent the link to Brilliant to see. Well then he insults Brilliant by posting it as an un-formatted copy of the article in the comment section with my personal editors notes mixed in with his article so it's not just difficult to even read, but it's just plain confusing as a comment. Which only makes a Freeper look unintelligent to anyone who would read the comment. which just makes me feel as if he is purposely insulting all freepers by doing so.
Many here know that I write both political articles and the Sunday messages for Post Scripts, but lately I have been having big disagreements with the editor of the site, Jack Lee. Especially with his ongoing campaign to blame George Bush, the Republicans, and greedy capitalists for all our economic problems. All the while he rarely if ever even eludes to the considerable problems caused by the liberals in Congress now, during Bush's two terms, and by Clintons 8 years in office. While I agree that some blame can be laid at the feet of Bush and the Republicans, I blame 90% of all our current troubles on the Liberals like Dodd, Frank, and other Democrat obstructionists in Congress who stood in the way of reform along with Clinton and Obama.
You can read the article here "People Most Responsible for Recession", and the way they put Brilliant's article in unformatted form in the comment section so no one would bother reading it, and thus the lie stands as Post Scripts opinion of who is to blame for the recession. If you want, I would appreciate a comment to let them know how you feel for the slight they basically give all freepers, especially since they know that I, a regular writer of their site am also a freeper. Either way you can see what I am up against by writing for them and the away many so-called moderate Republicans, as I accuse Jack Lee of being, seem to have more energy to attack Republicans capitalists then they do for attacking the real culprits, Liberal democrat policies.
Here are the two graphs he posted without comment. You tell me what the unspoken inference is? I advised him to also put up a graph of what the unemployment was in "2006", before the Democrats took back congress, but of course he refused.
I need some of you to help set the record straight with my editor at Posts Scripts. You will see in this article what it is I mean. I guess I am hoping for a truth brigade to send Mr. Jack Lee an avalanch of facts for him to mull over.
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Sic your snow dog on ‘im.
Every person that ever voted for the Community Reinvestment Act and the amendments that followed!
Now there is an idea....
Housing prices were inflated. By speculation. By higher tax appraisals as a backend way to raise property taxes. And by the Democrat scheme to shoehorn lowincome buyers into homes beyond their means.
Barney Frank’s willful negligence in dismissingBush’s calls to look into Fannie and Freddie added to financial problems.
Yes, and along with the constant regulations pushed by liberals through the years. They have been attempting to kill the golden goose for decades and they finally did.
All in the name of destroying the middle class.
Sorry, but I do not have a “great economic mind”
Wish I could help OV!
Yep and the uneducated americans that bought it all from the Nazi media and Clintons war room... Bastards all of them.. America You been had.
Yup. It's all here: "Why the Mortgage Crisis Happened"
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/what_really_happened_in_the_mo.html
I love the comic with the game of clue inference, Great.
I never quite figured out the HTML for links.
btt
It’s the Communist reinvestement act...
Thanks OneVike! I’ll take a look and learn.
Thanks for the ping!
Along with this out of date and proven wrong article, my editor at Post Scripts, Jack Lee, also used information gleaned from yesterdays NY Times article about "Greenspan Bemoaning the Crisis, but Who Is to Blame?", to basically attack everyone but the true culprits that have caused the economic mess we are in. In an earlier Front Page post, the same editor Jack Lee, put up two graphs comparing the unemployment in America from 2000 to 2010, without explaining the context nor what the historic reference to the truth is. (Below I am posting the graphs) Unfortunately, the casual reader will come away from this with the idea that George Bush really screwed the great economy left for him by Bill Clinton.
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