It Is Us (an army of clueless, disconnected, ignorant Americans)

The Washington Times ^ | 7/30/2010 | Ted Nugent

[MNJohnnie]

Completely Wrong.

You need to learn the history of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The meltdown was caused by stupid regulatory policy. When attempts were made to reform the policy Democrats in the US Congress, like Barney Frank, blocked the reforms for political reasons.

The US Government, not Wall Street, is the problem. Notice that the current 0bama "fiscal reform" bill does not fix this derivitives problem? Because the powers that be in DC do not want this direviatives scam fixed. There is too much money to be made using it.

[Servant of the Cross]

The American public, collectively speaking, is shallow and can not handle two thoughts simultaneously. It judges and votes on impressions gathered from a few fleeting observations and on good/ugly looks.

American Idol Elects a President. Blame government schools.

[ldish]

the Community Reinvestment Act along with the still fraudulent Freddie and Fannie POS shops with the help of a democrat controlled congress gave loans to those who could not afford them and end the end what you say is correct - it came apart...redistribution...it was just very timely suspect that someone (soros) and others chose to withdraw billions from the market in one day just before the election to be on Bush's watch and assure the one's crowning

[Outlaw Woman]

later ping

[The Working Man]

“You can’t educate a mindless leftist zombie. “

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A few years ago I would have argued with you. Today, Yes, I agree with you. Some of the “smartest” people I have known have been liberals. They were smartest only in their own minds. They had and still have this mental block that absolutely refuses to acknowledge any facts that contradict their world view.

[Soothesayer]

I used to be the “innocent idealist” breed of leftist. THEY can be rehabilitated, though the scars may last forever.

Then there is the other kind, the hard left breed. They are beyond hope. We would have better luck rehabilitating a pedophile or a Taliban commander.

[Nuc 1.1]

Only taxpayers and veterans vote, in the next Republic.

In the end the outcome will be the same.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

“Completely Wrong.

You need to learn the history of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The meltdown was caused by stupid regulatory policy.”

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Oh stop, no one is completely wrong ever. Remove your hand from the big on/off knife switch in your head and the world will become a whole lot more comprehensible to you.

Now, tell me how those bad loans got bundled together with good loans and then insured so that they were rated AAA. Who came up with that bit of connivance? Anyone with an ounce of analytical ability looks upon AIG’s malfeasance in agreeing to insure those crap bundles with anger and disbelief.

This has NOTHING to do with regulation and A WHOLE LOT to do with a sociopathological ethical framework in the boardrooms of America, period. NOBODY made waves, nobody did what a handful of men did at Lexington and Concord. I think that the Wharton School of Economics and their ilk need to be taken behind the woodshed and encouraged to open a Department of Heroism and Righteousness among all that moldering brick and ivy.

You want a whipping boy, smack AIG around the block. Why that company’s board of directors isn’t looking over their shoulder on the evening commute is beyond me.

Life should be made as dangerous for them as their actions have made it for millions of Americans, including patriots such as yourself.