I guess we''l have to agree to disagree over George Bush and who is to blame over the current mess. I tend to believe Schumer, Dodd, Frank and the biggest idiot in Washington (Maxine Waters) are more to blame than anyone. Carter and Clinton to be sure, but I find it hard to blame Clinton - as much as I dislike him - for wanting Americans to own homes. He didn't make a single (god or bad) loan to anyone, didn't put a gun to anyone's head to make them lie about their income and didn't force a single lender to lower their lending standards and give huge sums of money to anyone who fogged a mirror.
For the record, Bush didn't either.
The difference between Bush and Dodd, Frank and Waters is that he and several GOP congressman went to the above mentioned Dems and told them "we have a problem brewing." Barney and Ms. Waters held hearings, noted the "outstanding leadership of Mr. Franklin Raines" at FannieMae, and basically said they were picking on Mr. Raines because he was a black man.
So, I guess we can blame Bush for not wanting to go down the "race card path." Who can blame him? Who would have come to his rescue? Who would have thrown a black leader of a business under the bus? CNBC and O-lberman? Chris
"It's my job to make sure this Presidency is a success" Matthews? Katie
"I will destroy Sarah Palin" Couric? Charlie Gibson? Gibson doesn't even gate the date right half the time. Brian Williams? Wolf Blizter? Charlie Rose? NPR? ....
No sir, picking a fight with Maxine Waters and Congress against Franklin Raines was a losing proposition, especially with a presidential campaign coming up. Looking back, knowing what we know now (the Repubs lost the election anyway) I guess Bush himself should have gone to Capitol Hill and started a race war. But it still begs the question: who would have listened to him? Your "fair and balanced" news agencies, who have made it their sole mission in life to destroy any Republican that doesn't toe the Dem party line? If we want to save America, atleast three things must happen:
We must demand the return of fair, unbiased, professional reporting.
We must regain control of our "higher institutions of learning."
We must eliminate the Fed Reserve system.
As long as the news media are nothing more than lap-dogs for the Democratic Party and our professors get their classical training from Marx and Mao Tse-tung, we are doomed. I absolutely welcome these bankruptcies newspapers are facing. It tickles me to no end. I grin from ear to ear when I hear of another leftist publication failing, and I still have friends who are in the industry. From 1977 to 1982 I wrote for the Hanford (CA) Sentinel and the Visalia (CA) Times Delta. I got out of the business because I was tired of the liberal slant our editors had
back then. I was sick of listening to them and dealing with them. That was almost 30 years ago. The level of biased reporting has increased 1,000% since then. It's become laughable.
A high school classmate and fellow editor of our HS newspaper is now an editor for the Portland Oregonian (Alex Pulaski). He emailed me the other day and told me he was worried about his job. I told him it was his fault. Why? Because liberal policies have lowered academic standards, they've removed discipline from schools and their editorial staffs have defended (endorsed) incredibly liberal politicians who have allowed tens of millions of illegal immigrants to flood our country. This has created tens of millions of people who not only
don't want to read,
they can't read. And their biased reporting has caused millions of conservatives (who can read) to cancel their subscriptions.
Pure genius.
The irony is that no one is watching O-lberman. His ratings are lower than Sesame Street's (and his audience is half as smart). No one watches Couric. No one is reading newspapers. There is a reason more people watch and trust Fox News. There is a reason they are profitable and the others aren't. There is a reason Dems are trying to silence Rush, Hannity, Glenn Beck and Fox News. There is a reason no one listens to NPR. It's the left that's trying to indoctrinate, trying to brainwash, trying to use Hitler-esque tactics. Trying to force us to watch and listen to one train of thought.
So we are stuck in a nasty fight. The Constitution vs. socialist thought. Freedom of speech vs. forced speech (the "fairness" doctrine). Free market principles - which I'll be the first to admit shrunk terribly under Bush - vs. government created and regulated "markets."
The democrats are declaring war on investors and producers of income in this country and the stock market is crumbling because of it. In the last two years, ever since the Dems regained control of Congress, our economy has gone into the toilet. And since we can no longer count on the news media to report the truth and can't count on an educated, diligent electorate,
we must start voting with our money. Every day.
Socialist/fascists like Obama have shown they can use the media to help win elections. They have them in their pocket. They will, eventually, silence conservative speech. But the current state of economic affairs show that producers still run the world. They will withdraw capital from the system as a way of showing their discontent with policy. They will protect their investments. So the next step is direct confiscation of their wealth. That's the last step. It's over at that point.
Producers are tired of paying for those who won't. Not those who can't, I have no problem helping those who can't, but there are too many who won't. Did you know that 40,000 (out of 8.3 million) New Yorkers pay 60% of the taxes in NY?
There's a sign that sits on the Baltimore Ravens desk on NFL draft day. It says
"Those who won't are no better than those who can't."
I say they're worse.
Anyway, I guess I will try to leave these threads alone and go back to merrily gathering SS tips 
