Comments on: Dear Leader really does think we’re stupid! http://lonelyconservative.com/2009/07/dear-leader-really-does-think-were-stupid/ Observations from a conservative in a blue state. With a little help from my friends! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:59:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Maggie Thorntonhttp://lonelyconservative.com/2009/07/dear-leader-really-does-think-were-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-9927 Maggie Thornton Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:59:47 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=7761#comment-9927 For starters, I completely disagree with Brian, but that's just my opinion. If we forget that Dems were in control for two years before Obama, and if we forget that Bush desperately needed their help to make the war work and so vetoed nothing, and if we forget that we would not have had a housing bubble had the Dems not corrupted Fannie and Freddie...then maybe I can agree. But we cannot forget the housing bubble because that is the root of the problem. Nothing in TARP or the Stimulus is working...nothing. Without housing, the banking meltdown would perhaps not have happened. For starters, I completely disagree with Brian, but that’s just my opinion.

If we forget that Dems were in control for two years before Obama, and if we forget that Bush desperately needed their help to make the war work and so vetoed nothing, and if we forget that we would not have had a housing bubble had the Dems not corrupted Fannie and Freddie…then maybe I can agree.

But we cannot forget the housing bubble because that is the root of the problem. Nothing in TARP or the Stimulus is working…nothing.

Without housing, the banking meltdown would perhaps not have happened.

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]]> By: Lonely Conservativehttp://lonelyconservative.com/2009/07/dear-leader-really-does-think-were-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-9924 Lonely Conservative Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:32:39 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=7761#comment-9924 Sam, I don't know how I could do that. Unless you want to be a contributor. Sam, I don’t know how I could do that. Unless you want to be a contributor.

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]]> By: sam adamshttp://lonelyconservative.com/2009/07/dear-leader-really-does-think-were-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-9916 sam adams Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:14:27 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=7761#comment-9916 That's: would NOT be here in the first place. LC: can we get an edit feature going? That’s: would NOT be here in the first place.

LC: can we get an edit feature going?

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]]> By: sam adamshttp://lonelyconservative.com/2009/07/dear-leader-really-does-think-were-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-9915 sam adams Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:13:16 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=7761#comment-9915 Brian, What you say is reasoned and makes sense. However, I CANNOT see the current level of spending and gov't intervention being justified by "the last 25 years" of whatever. I take that back. If our public schools, institutions of higher learning and the MSM didn't put such drizzle in people's heads we would be here in the first place. I used to say I'd like to shake the hand of whomever invented spandex that's been changed to I'd like to slap the snot out whomever dreamed up political correctness. Brian,

What you say is reasoned and makes sense.
However, I CANNOT see the current level of spending and gov’t intervention being justified by “the last 25 years” of whatever.

I take that back. If our public schools, institutions of higher learning and the MSM didn’t put such drizzle in people’s heads we would be here in the first place.

I used to say I’d like to shake the hand of whomever invented spandex that’s been changed to I’d like to slap the snot out whomever dreamed up political correctness.

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]]> By: Lonely Conservativehttp://lonelyconservative.com/2009/07/dear-leader-really-does-think-were-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-9914 Lonely Conservative Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:25:51 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=7761#comment-9914 I'll check into that tomorrow. I haven't seen it but I think I know where it may be coming from. I’ll check into that tomorrow. I haven’t seen it but I think I know where it may be coming from.

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]]> By: Angrywhitemanhttp://lonelyconservative.com/2009/07/dear-leader-really-does-think-were-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-9913 Angrywhiteman Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:12:56 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=7761#comment-9913 Am I the only one getting adds that take up the entire page just after opening Lonelyconcervative?? Am I the only one getting adds that take up the entire page just after opening Lonelyconcervative??

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]]> By: Brianhttp://lonelyconservative.com/2009/07/dear-leader-really-does-think-were-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-9909 Brian Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:22:15 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=7761#comment-9909 To put it simply, you shouldn't expect to unwind 25 years of out-of-balance financial malarky in 2. It will probably take 4-6. So we are a good third, or even further, of the way thru. Banks are recovering, but a lot are simply sitting on the money as prospects for investing right now don't look so profitable in the near term. The loss of jobs has hurt state revenues so they are sitting on the stimulus money right now rather than just going out and burning it. Houses are still too expensive and salaries and wages are for most Americans still too low. The people at the top are still getting well compensated for the most part. Only some things have changed, but not our need for instant gratification or our dependency on the credit driven consumer culture. I would suggest that the obama stimulus provides aholding pattern for us to gather our thoughts and to seriously consider what will be the wisest investments for the future, then we will have to go back to building things again. To put it simply, you shouldn’t expect to unwind 25 years of out-of-balance financial malarky in 2. It will probably take 4-6. So we are a good third, or even further, of the way thru. Banks are recovering, but a lot are simply sitting on the money as prospects for investing right now don’t look so profitable in the near term. The loss of jobs has hurt state revenues so they are sitting on the stimulus money right now rather than just going out and burning it. Houses are still too expensive and salaries and wages are for most Americans still too low. The people at the top are still getting well compensated for the most part. Only some things have changed, but not our need for instant gratification or our dependency on the credit driven consumer culture. I would suggest that the obama stimulus provides aholding pattern for us to gather our thoughts and to seriously consider what will be the wisest investments for the future, then we will have to go back to building things again.

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]]> By: Sam Adamshttp://lonelyconservative.com/2009/07/dear-leader-really-does-think-were-stupid/comment-page-1/#comment-9905 Sam Adams Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:55:21 +0000 http://www.lonelyconservative.com/?p=7761#comment-9905 Glenn Beck routinely make jokes about things being such that upon hearing about them "blood will squirt out of your eyes." The day this actually happens is getting closer and closer.......... :( Glenn Beck routinely make jokes about things being such that upon hearing about them “blood will squirt out of your eyes.”

The day this actually happens is getting closer and closer………. :(

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