[nina0113]

Well, it ended the uncertainty all right - we ARE going down the sh!tter.

[Snickering Hound]

Rino twins from Maine and their monkey strike again!

[WOBBLY BOB]

Congress’ Financial Mess (Walter Williams)

http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/articles/09/CongressFinancialMess.htm

Professor David Henderson, research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, writes about regulation in “Are We Ailing From Too Much Deregulation?” in Cato Policy Report (November/December 2008). The Federal Register, which lists new regulations, annually averaged 72,844 pages between 1977 and 1980. During the Reagan years, the average fell to 54,335. During the Bush I years, they rose to 59,527, to 71,590 during the Clinton years and rose to a record of 75,526 during the Bush II years. Employees in government regulatory agencies grew from 146,139 in 1980 to 238,351 in 2007, a 63 percent increase. In the banking and finance industries, regulatory spending between 1980 and 2007 almost tripled, rising from $725 million to $2.07 billion. So here’s my question: What are we to make of congressmen, talking heads and news media people who tell us the financial meltdown is a result of deregulation and free markets? Are they ignorant, stupid or venal?

[Tzimisce]

Fascism is here.

2012 is going to be the NASTIEST election in history with Obama using this law to go after political rivals.

THANK YOU MODERATES (you know who you are and there are a bunch of you running around on this board.)

[Waco]

Hurry now, rebuild the barn after the horse is gone. New set of regs needed which will hastily be ignored. See??? I’ve seen this sh-t before.

[opentalk]

More big government under the name of reform, It will hurt community banks because of the increase in regulation. Freddie and Fannie are not in the bill or addressed.

[La Enchiladita]

Punish, punish, punish: that is the Comrade O-Kenya Agenda. America must be punished for being the most successful, free-est nation on the face of the earth. Punish and then control the sheepish masses.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Brown, Snowe and Collins. The usual RINOs sell us out once again. We need to pass NOTHING until the Republicans retake all of the US legislature. Any corrections to any deficiences we have as a nation can wait until then. Anything passed by Pelosi and Read will advance communism in sheep’s clothing.

[April Lexington]

Meanwhile... the Dow loses 379 points today and unemployment claims are UNEXPECTEDLY up this week. Baci il mio asino, mia Presidente!