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[beachFool]

30ashopper, its useless to try and educate the uneducatable and inform those who are set on remaining uninformed but I admire you for the attempt.
Oh, and Buz there are still a good many fiscal conservatives around. Despite Obama and his administration's policies, they haven't gone out of style just yet.

I see a fiscal conservative every morning when I shave.

There way too many fiscal conservatives in name only, as an example the "Pledge to America" increases the debt.

By the way, "uneducatable" is not a word...unless you are makin' up words like Shakespeare and Palin.

 

[Andy A]

I see a fiscal conservative every morning when I shave.

There way too many fiscal conservatives in name only, as an example the "Pledge to America" increases the debt.

By the way, "uneducatable" is not a word...unless you are makin' up words like Shakespeare and Palin.

I'll make up any word I like simply because it is my perogative to do so. Shakespeare and Palin and Obama are no better than I am. Just much better known, but I'm working on it

 

[Bob]

I see a fiscal conservative every morning when I shave.

There way too many fiscal conservatives in name only, as an example the "Pledge to America" increases the debt.

By the way, "uneducatable" is not a word...unless you are makin' up words like Shakespeare and Palin.

okiebonics

 

[Bob]

I never said that. What are the long term negative effects on the debt we took on, and does that out weight the short term positive effects the welfare generated?



Was it entirly the fault of the private sector, or does government policy share the blame? I think the banks should take some blame, and the people involved in the housing bubble should take some blame, but remember, one of the reasons the banks were able to hand out all those loans - government guarantees that insured the banks wouldn't lose any money. ;-)

Now today, we have even bigger "too big to fail" banks, monopolies in investment, and private businesses deemed to important to fail under government control. Our situation is worse.

(I also might point out that the vast majority of the policies that played a role in all of this were, ehm, policies promoted by democrats. ;-))

so the feds offered the crack and the crack pipe absolving wall street et al?

 

[30ashopper]

so the feds offered the crack and the crack pipe absolving wall street et al?

Nope, nobody involved should be absolved of whatever they did wrong.