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Klarissa1 year, 2 months ago
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Goppy1 year, 2 months ago
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Klarissa!
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What are you talking about?!?!
It's a proven fact that our troops support Barack Obama.
Do you think our troops would do that if Democrats didn't put our nation first ?
Actually ... it seems patently obvious that YOU are the one who don't put our nation first.
You and your daughter, redtomato ... have been waging a war against truth, honesty, and righteousness with every hate-filled story you promote.
Our troops have donated to Barack Obama at a rate of 6 to 1 compared to John McCain.
In fact, our troops donate to RON PAUL over John McCain!!!
Why do you think that is, Klarissa?
Because John McCain has fought against the interests of veterans for many, many years.
Even recently ... he voted against expanding education benefits for our American soldiers returning from Iraq.
Democrats fought for this expansion for our soldiers because our current President ... ... ... who YOU support ... ... ... is so dangerous and incompetent, he's forced our troops to remain in Iraq for numerous rotations ... thereby causing many to lose their jobs.
In this video ... there's a number of veterans ... and a number of Right Wing Leaning Americans who POINT OUT how John McCain has been such a thorn in their side.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFM1xqqTX_g
In addition to fighting against our troops ... Johnny has been the ROOT CAUSE of our current economic crisis ... going back to his accepting bribes from Charles Keating ... when the deregulation of the banking industry first occurred.
John is up to his armpits in this economic mess.
And for you to say otherwise ... to support a man who does not have the support of our troops ... ... ... well it only proves that you have made the conscious decision to put our nation LAST ... behind your precious Neo-Conservative Ideology .... with it's Welfare for the Wealthy and Subsidies for Massive Military Contractors.
You know ... it's really sad the way you have become so full of propaganda ... just like redtomato and nixie.
What a trio.
Agents of Disinformation x three.
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Goppy1 year, 2 months ago
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More Extremist Propaganda, OmegaTomato.
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Our troops support Obama 6 to 1 over McCain.
Thus far, they've donated over $60,000 to Obama.
Just $10,000 to McCain.
Considering how the Neo-Cons have kept our troops salaries low .. .. .. this is a testament to their deep passion to rid our nation of the 'rot from within' .... the Neo-Conservative Ideologues.
They say ... 'NEVER AGAIN'.
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Tcaros1 year, 2 months ago
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Hmmmm.... Who is William Frist?
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It is addressed to William Harrison Frist, M.D. was a Republican U.S. senator from Tennessee from 1995 to 2007. He served as Senate majority leader from 2003 to 2007.
He was the SENATE majority leader and a Republican. Did he act on it?
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nostalgia1 year, 2 months ago
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And Obama is trumpeting his letter - he mentioned it in the last debate
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Who was it addressed to?? Chairman Bernanke and Secretary Paulson
Two people who had no power to write legislation
Why wasn't the Obama letter addressed to Harry Reid or Chris Dodd?? Because it was a CYA exercise
If you recall from the last debate Obama also said he went to Wall St and told them they would have to face more regulation
Wow how impressive! Somehow he seems to forget that it was HIS JOB to do that by writing and passing legislation
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wtagg1 year, 2 months ago
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It's funny that we are relying on Paulson and Bernanke quite a bit currently, aren't we?
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So, if the congress is a do-nothing organization, as republicans have frequently accused, wouldn't the fed head and treasury secretary be worthwhile targets of such a letter? If not, what is their purpose?
It seems to me that Obama is attempting to inform/steer organizations without further regulation by dealing with the heads of those organizations. Ironically, that would be a somewhat conservative approach.
McCain seemed to be calling for a regulatory approach. In a word - liberal.
I enjoy the irony.
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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He also said it from the floor of the Senate to everybody. The Democrats attacked the concept that there was a problem. Only after the housing price bubble burst did Obama or any other Democrat say anything. Only after the crash did they even admit there was a problem.
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Smart people Democrats. Deny, deny, crash, oh there is a problem.
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earthlingerer1 year, 2 months ago
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It's wonderful how little a letter says about a bill...
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That bill called for the abolishment of the Federal Housing Finance Board, an entity "created in 1932 to improve the supply of funds to local lenders that, in turn, finance loans for home mortgages."
" The Finance Board ensures that the FHLBanks, which are privately capitalized, government-sponsored enterprises, operate in a safe and sound manner, carry out their housing and community development finance mission, and remain adequately capitalized and able to raise funds in the capital markets."
And... "The Finance Board is an independent regulatory agency of the executive branch of the U.S. Government, with a five-member board. Four board members are appointed by the President for seven-year terms, and the fifth member is the Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or the secretary's designee."
Do you really think the president would sign a bill and fire his friends? Cause if you do, your as stupid as this half-of-the-story submission.
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hyperbola1 year, 2 months ago
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Well, here is Klarissa onceagain trying to bamboozle Americans with an article from the anti-american, israel-first zioncon rag Human thinker. Come off it Klarissa. Why would any patriotic American listen to those whose first loyalty is not to America. You are in over your head and do not even understand how you are fleeced.
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Anti-democratic nature of US capitalism is being exposed
Bretton Woods was the system of global financial management set up at the end of the second World War to ensure the interests of capital did not smother wider social concerns in post-war democracies. It was hated by the US neoliberals - the very people who created the banking crisis.
...The immediate origins of the current meltdown lie in the collapse of the housing bubble supervised by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, which sustained the struggling economy through the Bush years by debt-based consumer spending along with borrowing from abroad. But the roots are deeper. In part they lie in the triumph of financial liberalisation in the past 30 years - that is, freeing the markets as much as possible from government regulation.
...A study by international economists Winfried Ruigrok and Rob van Tulder 15 years ago found that at least 20 companies in the Fortune 100 would not have survived if they had not been saved by their respective governments, and that many of the rest gained substantially by demanding that governments "socialise their losses," as in today's taxpayer-financed bailout. Such government intervention "has been the rule rather than the exception over the past two centuries", they conclude.
... The financial market "underprices risk" and is "systematically inefficient", as economists John Eatwell and Lance Taylor wrote a decade ago, warning of the extreme dangers of financial liberalisation and reviewing the substantial costs already incurred - and proposing solutions, which have been ignored. One factor is failure to calculate the costs to those who do not participate in transactions. These "externalities" can be huge. Ignoring systemic risk leads to more risk-taking than would take place in an efficient economy, even by the narrowest measures.
In a functioning democratic society, a political campaign would address such fundamental issues, looking into root causes and cures, and proposing the means by which people suffering the consequences can take effective control.
http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/10/12/anti-dem...-
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Endoscopy1 year, 2 months ago
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There you go again hyper.
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Thank you for another installment of the ongoing Zionist conspiracy.
The fact that the story is about a published letter by McCain and signed by several Senators means nothing. Seeing the actual letter means nothing. Just the web site it was posted on. What a revelation. The letter is an obvious fake I suppose is what yyper is saying.
Is that right hyper?
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