Dead-O-Heads & Freepers; World-Class SUCKERS!

[Mr. Shaman]

Pretty amazing.

In the past, you folks (typically) tried to come-off as civil-society's-outlaws/rednecks/Independents; John Wayne's best & brightest.

You used to abhor "entitled"-rich-kids/frat-boys/The Bankers (i.e. the moneyed-people who've always justified rippin'-off the Middle Class); much like the outlaws o' the Roaring Twenties.

Somehow, those same people have turned you into their needy/clinging "kept-women". Every time they screw-you-over, you apologize for them...like some Jr. High chickie who gets slapped-around by her boyfriend, but knows he really does it 'cause he loves her so much...and, when he gets enough money, he'll marry her.

How long's it gonna be, before you folks (finally) realize that...swapping your backbones for hormone-replacement-therapy...probably (just) seemed like a pretty-good-idea at-the-time??? ​

"When I first began writing for The Times, I was naïve about many things. But my biggest misconception was this: I actually believed that influential people could be moved by evidence, that they would change their views if events completely refuted their beliefs.

And to be fair, it does happen now and then. I’ve been highly critical of Alan Greenspan over the years (since long before it was fashionable), but give the former Fed chairman credit: he has admitted that he was wrong about the ability of financial markets to police themselves.

Let’s recall how we got into our current mess.

America emerged from the Great Depression with a tightly regulated banking system. The regulations worked: the nation was spared major financial crises for almost four decades after World War II. But as the memory of the Depression faded, bankers began to chafe at the restrictions they faced. And politicians, increasingly under the influence of free-market ideology, showed a growing willingness to give bankers what they wanted.

The first big wave of deregulation took place under Ronald Reagan — and quickly led to disaster, in the form of the savings-and-loan crisis of the 1980s. Taxpayers ended up paying more than 2 percent of G.D.P., the equivalent of around $300 billion today, to clean up the mess.

But the proponents of deregulation were undaunted, and in the decade leading up to the current crisis politicians in both parties bought into the notion that New Deal-era restrictions on bankers were nothing but pointless red tape. In a memorable 2003 incident, top bank regulators staged a photo-op in which they used garden shears and a chainsaw to cut up stacks of paper representing regulations.

And the bankers — liberated both by legislation that removed traditional restrictions and by the hands-off attitude of regulators who didn’t believe in regulation — responded by dramatically loosening lending standards. The result was a credit boom and a monstrous real estate bubble, followed by the worst economic slump since the Great Depression. Ironically, the effort to contain the crisis required government intervention on a much larger scale than would have been needed to prevent the crisis in the first place: government rescues of troubled institutions, large-scale lending by the Federal Reserve to the private sector, and so on.

Oh, and conservatives simply ignore the catastrophe in commercial real estate: in their universe the only bad loans were those made to poor people and members of minority groups, because bad loans to developers of shopping malls and office towers don’t fit the narrative.

In part, the prevalence of this narrative reflects the principle enunciated by Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

.....And, you Dead-O-Heads & Freepers SURELY aren't gonna expect them to understand.

Hell....they might NEVER invite you to the Country Club, if you do THAT!!!

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[Mr. Shaman]

"The dread in the land today isn't just a fear of losing your job -- or of your spouse, sister, father or child losing his or hers. It's a fear that America has been hollowed out, that we don't have a sustainable path back to mass prosperity, let alone to economic preeminence. A poll taken last month for the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) shows that 44 percent of Americans considered China to be the world's leading economic power, while just 27 percent thought the United States still held that throne. Such fears can only be intensified by public policies that fail to champion America's national interests by fostering the flight of investment abroad.

The problem is that America's economic elites have thrived on the financialization and globalization of the economy that have caused the income$ of the vast majority of their fellow Americans to stagnate or decline. The insecurity that haunts their compatriots is alien to them. Fully 85 percent of Americans in that CFR-sponsored poll said that protecting U.S. jobs should be a top foreign policy priority, but when the pollsters asked that question of the council's own members, just 21 percent said that protecting American jobs should be a top concern.

The moral world that we see in that poll is the moral world of Charles Dickens. Of the elite of his day, he wrote in "Bleak House," "there is much good in it. . . ." But, he continued, "it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller's cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air."

America, at the end of this dreadful decade."

Do you "GET IT", YET.....teabaggers???????

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[bododie]

I'm sure Tiger gets it. Lol. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

I'm sure Tiger gets it. Lol. Couldn't have happened to a more deserving guy.

Another teabaggin' soap-opera fan pipes-up.


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[bododie]

Lol. Don't ya' just love it? You don't get to do anything about it either.

Just keep smokin' the "mexican" that you can afford and be happy.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Lol. Don't ya' just love it? You don't get to do anything about it either.

You....makin' a fool o' yourself?

That's TRUE!!

 

[bododie]

This coming from a middle aged black man who uses crayons? Of course, I guess it's normal in your "society". Just as complaining about those who have because they did something for it is. "it's the song that never ends....."

 

[Mr. Shaman]

It's sooooooooooooooooooooo nice to have an ally!!!!!!

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"Thomas Frank writes an excellent article about the possible rise of the teabaggers. Paul Ryan, the man who takes more money than anybody from big business is trying to be their golden boy and he's using an ideology that is based on crony corporatism embedded with language that actually opposes the fundamental root of their philosophy.

They paint themselves as anti-corporatists and want to destroy the government for the benefit of the corporations they are supposed to hate. And if that doesn't work, then kill more government and give more tax breaks to the rich and make sure you hate brown people enough. It's all this twisted logic, but they make it work because of the influence of the right-wing media machine led by FOX News and have been making it work since the '80s in one form or another."

UPPA U.S., SUCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mr. Shaman]

C'MON, Joe!! Give us a DUHHHHHHHHHHH.....

 

[Mr. Shaman]

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[Mr. Shaman]

BREAK OUT THE MILLERS, TEA-BAGGERS!!!!!

Your BUD$, on Wall $treet are doin' GREAT!!!!!​

"Bonu$e$ on Wall $treet rose 17 percent last year to $20.3 billion even as the industry faced a public backlash over pay practices.

The rise in payout$, reported by New York State's comptroller, came at a time when Wall Street was recovering from the financial crisis of 2008, which forced a taxpayer re$cue of the indu$try that, in turn, stoked widespread anger across the United States.

Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said on Tuesday profit for all of Wall Street could top $55 billion for 2009, nearly triple the previous record year."

Yeah!! Hard-Workin' those Wall $treet $weat$hop$ really PAY$ OFF!!!

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ooooooooooooooooooooooo.....that mean ol' Al Greenspan is TALKIN'-'bout your boy$!!!!!! ​

"Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said on Tuesday the U.S. economic recovery was "extremely unbalanced," driven largely by high earner$ benefiting from recovering $tock market$ and large corporation$."

HERETIC!!!!!!!!!!!!​

"Small businesses and the jobless are still suffering from the aftermath of a credit crunch that was "by far the greatest financial crisis, globally, ever" -- including the 1930s Great Depression, said Greenspan in an address to a Credit Union National Association conference.

"It's really an extraordinarily unbalanced system because we're dealing with small businesses who are doing badly, small banks in trouble, and of course there is an extraordinarily large proportion of the unemployed in this country who have been out of work for more than six months and many more than a year," said Greenspan, who headed the Fed from 1987 to 2006."

CLASS WARFARE!!! CLASS WARFARE!!! CLASS WARFARE!!! CLASS WARFARE!!!​

 

[Mr. Shaman]

It's TIME you faced-the-FACTS, Teabaggers & other-such aberrations of the The Republican Party:

YA' BEEN SUCKERED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hell, even your REPS didn't believe the B.S. they were selling you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Like assur says: It's Called CHANGE.

You can Thank the Progressives later.....we'll understand.

It's 2010, and time to get-back to the job of washing-our-hands of another Bush economic-debacle.

The Apocalypse has been side-tracked, once again. It's gonna be a GREAT Future!!!! Hell, we're still America. We can't avoid it.​