Chronicle

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

The Foundation

"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." --James Madison

Wall Street "fat cats" just try to make a living

Editorial Exegesis

"The White House thinks it can jawbone banks into lending to people they don't want to lend to. We've been down this road before, and it led all the way to the 2007 financial meltdown. The president on Monday gave a tongue-lashing to the 'fat-cat bankers on Wall Street,' as he called them the day before. He wants them to make more loans to small businesses and consumers to give the economy a boost. But should banks be lending just because a politician tells them to? We tried this before. Indeed, it's the very source of the financial and economic calamity of the past two years. President Obama may think dressing down the top dogs at Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and others is good politics. But it's demoralizing and will only lead to more bank write-offs, more bank failures and less lending. ... In this, President Obama is treading the very same ground as President Clinton and President Bush in pushing banks to make risky loans they shouldn't make. And it will have the same dire results. For those who don't remember, the federal government became more involved than ever in determining how banks make their loans -- and to what customers -- thanks to the creation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac out of the wreckage of the Great Depression. They were followed by the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975, the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 and the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992. Go back to the 1970s and early 1990s you'll see that, just as today, bankers were criticized heavily for their alleged racism and lack of concern for the poor. President after president lambasted them for not lending more to support presidential social policies. By 2000, President Clinton's HUD required half of Fannie Mae's loan originations to go to poor and moderate-income borrowers -- whether they could pay on the loans or not. It marked the triumph of leftist politics over financial common sense. This is how the subprime meltdown, the source of our current financial troubles, came about. Not by 'greedy' banks or by 'deregulation.'" --Investor's Business Daily

Upright

"Every day that President Obama pushes for the government take over of health care he injures families by the thousands across America. Every day that President Obama contemplates the idea of spending trillions more of yours and my tax dollars, the less the chances of his being able to reduce the non-voluntary unemployment/under-employment rates that are now drastically impacting one out of every five families in America." --columnist Kevin McCullough

"As the Democrats inexorably slog toward the finish line, lugging and wrenching their malformed health care bill, the most passionate debate has been on contentious issues like abortion, the public option, and Medicare cuts. Yet the overriding danger of the Senate bill and its House counterpart is the massive government bureaucracies that will emerge as the legislation takes effect. The Democrats' colossal experiment threatens to unleash forces that will ultimately overwhelm the doctor-patient relationship, ration our health care, and stifle innovation and excellence in the medical field. A massive government bureaucracy soon acquires a life of its own, with dominion over its constituency that no politician dares attempt to rein in." --columnist Joseph Smith

"The more the government grabs and spends, the less chance there is that jobs will be created." --Human Events editor Jed Babbin

"From now on, when you hear Obama speak, try replacing 'let me be clear' with 'let me lie to you,' and see if it makes more sense." --columnist Jacob Sullum

"I assume we're supposed to be too dense to remember that [Obama's] stimulus spending to date hasn't created jobs and that most of it hasn't even been used for that purpose. So when this administration says its first priority is reducing debt, understand we are being played -- by consummate cynics." --columnist David Limbaugh

"[I]t just so happens that with the exception of nuclear power -- which most greens still won't support -- global warming fuels nearly every progressive ambition. Wealth transfers from rich to poor nations: Check. The rise of 'global governance' and the decline of American sovereignty: Check. A secular fatwa not only to erode capitalism but to intrude on every aspect of our lives (Greenpeace offers a guide to carbon-neutral sex): Check. Weaning us off of oil (which, don't let the Goregonauts fool you, was a priority back when we were still worried about global cooling): Check. The checks go on for as far as the eye can see, and we will be writing them for years to come." --columnist Jonah Goldberg

"Right now, if you don't like the local grade school, you move to the next town. If you're sick of Massachusetts taxes, you move to New Hampshire. Where do you move to if you don't like 'global governance'? What polling station do you go to to vote it out?" --columnist Mark Steyn

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Dezinformatsia

Bah humbug: "[T]he truth of Christmas is tested in Washington as we move toward some sort of semi-universal health care against the near-unanimous opposition of Republicans. Given the chance to be shepherds or angels, they chose instead to be Herod. Spooked by the victory of Barack Obama, they decided to fight him on all fronts, even though Americans will die as a result." --NPR's Garrison Keillor

Poor guy: "The president says he thinks the Senate will pass his version of the bill by Christmas. Joe Lieberman says he's not voting for it in it's current form. So is the president's stocking going to be empty on Christmas Day? --NBC's Matt Lauer

More hot air: "Climate change deniers say these e-mails are proof humans aren't causing global warming. U.S. officials say the evidence proves otherwise." --ABC correspondent Bob Woodruff

"This is about life or death -- 192 countries are here in Copenhagen to cut the carbon emissions changing the climate and threatening the very existence of some nations and their people." --ABC's Anne Thompson

More taxes is always the answer: "[W]hy not tax the [bankers'] bonuses? Britain last week announced that they're going to have a big windfall tax, a one-time tax on these big bonuses this year because the banks got so much help. Why not do that?" --ABC's George Stephanopoulos

Bush Bash of the Week: "President Barack Obama had a golden opportunity to become a peacemaker compared to his hawkish predecessor. But he has let that opening evaporate by escalating the war in Afghanistan. Now he is called a 'war president' -- a dubious title that former President George W. Bush personally embraced after starting two devastating wars, one in Afghanistan, the other in Iraq." --White House press corps reporter Helen Thomas

Non Compos Mentis: "There is no liberal media! The media which is, after all, owned by corporations naturally leans to the right." --MSNBC's Keith Olbermann

Uh, that wasn't an error: "An error was edited into Robert Poppiti's column. The list of corrupt politicians should have included the name of former Louisiana Rep. William Jefferson, not William Jefferson Clinton." --News Journal (Wilmington, DE) correction

Newspulper Headlines:

We Blame Global Warming: "New Yorkers Brave Cold to Protest Freeze" --Arutz Sheva (Israel)

Breaking News From 1933: "Climate Change Fears May Worsen Depression" --MSNBC.com

'Poor' Hardest 'Hit': "'World' Coming to End" --New York Post

The Stimulus Is Working: "Hooker Makes 3Q Profit, Sales Up From 2nd Quarter" --Home Furnishings Business

Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out of Control: "Big Bird Gets Talon Caught in DC Metro Escalator" --Associated Press

News You Can Use: "Base Says Grenades Now Safe to Use" --Cape Cod Times (Hyannis, MA)

Bottom Stories of the Day: "Absence of Evidence for a Meteorite Impact Event 13,000 Years Ago" --University of Hawaii at Manoa press release

(Thanks to The Wall Street Journal's James Taranto)

The Demo-gogues

Completely delusional: "Good, solid B-plus. B-plus because of the things that are undone. ... Health care is not yet signed. If I get health care passed, we tip into A-minus." --Barack Obama grading himself on nearly one year of destroying the country

The truth comes out: "We would do almost anything to pass a health care bill." --House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)

How reassuring: "I would say to the senator from Arizona [McCain] that I am in the dark almost as much as he is, and I am in the leadership. Most of us know the fundamentals, but we don't know the important details." --Senate Whip Dick Durbin, the #2 Democrat, on the mystery contents of Harry Reid's health care bill

"Let's be clear" means a lie is coming: "Let's be clear here. Seven presidents have tried to reform a health care system that everyone acknowledges is broken. Seven presidents have failed up until this point. We are now that close to having a bill that does all the things that I said and most experts said needed to be done when we started this process. It is not only deficit neutral, but will actually bring down the deficit according to the Congressional Budget Office." --Barack Obama

Wolf in sheep's clothing? "I'm going to be in a position where I can say what I've wanted to say all along: that I'm ready to vote for health care reform." --Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT), who wants the public option and Medicare expansion out of the bill

Looking in the mirror? "[O]ne of the mistakes that was made over the last eight years is for us to have a triumphant sense about war. There was a tendency to say, 'We can go in. We can kick some tail. This is some glorious exercise.' When in fact, this is a tough business." --Barack Obama, hitting the military in what sounds like a criticism of himself

He ran to take over Wall Street: "I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street." --Barack Obama

Village Idiots

Who cares about climate facts: "It is said that the science around climate change is not as certain as its proponents allege. It doesn't need to be. What is beyond debate, however, is that there is a huge amount of scientific support for the view that the climate is changing and as a result of human activity. Therefore, even purely as a matter of precaution, given the seriousness of the consequences if such a view is correct, and the time it will take for action to take effect, we should act. Not to do so would be grossly irresponsible." --former British Prime Minister Tony Blair

"Some of the models suggest that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire north polar ice cap during some of the summer months will be completely ice-free within the next five to seven years." --Al Bore, citing a scientist who later said he didn't know where Gore got that information

Consensus? "[E]verybody agrees that the recession is over." --White House economic adviser Larry Summers

But is it really? "Of course not. For the people on Main Street and throughout this country, they are still suffering, the unemployment rate is still 10 percent." --White House economic adviser Christina Romer

Confessions: "At 71, my mind is so old, I can't remember if I have Alzheimer's, or ... what's the other one?" --CNN founder Ted Turner

Hollywonks: "[Greed and imperialism (read: capitalism)] tends to destroy the environment and so on. And here they are doing the same thing on another pristine planet that we've done here on earth. So it's a way, sort of looking back at ourselves from this other world and seeing what we're doing here." --director James Cameron on his epic sci-fi flick "Avatar" due out Friday

Short Cuts

"[T]he world is waiting for some non-toxic smoke to come out of the chimney atop the meeting hall in Copenhagen to announce a global agreement on greenhouse gases." --political analyst Rich Galen

"The climate treaty negotiations inside Copenhagen's Bella Center at the United Nations Climate Change Conference ground to a halt yesterday when the G-77, the largest group of developing nations, walked out. These poorer nations demanded that richer nations sign a treaty that includes a large transfer of wealth to the developing world to compensate for the developed world's historical contribution to global warming. The G-77 countries ended their walkout after less than two hours, perhaps because global warming has had no apparent impact on December Copenhagen temperatures." --The Heritage Foundation's "Morning Bell"

"Copenhagen is having its coldest December in history. If the scientists were all that smart they would have scheduled the conference in August." --comedian Argus Hamilton

"Barack Obama's vibe used to be a cross between JFK and Beatlemania. Now it's fading into 'Oh, him again?' ... An American president is almost by definition overexposed. But Obama has jammed a full term's worth of exposure into a mere 11 months. Michelle Obama notoriously said during the campaign, 'Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.' What she really meant, apparently, was that Barack would never again allow us to turn on the TV without seeing or hearing Barack." --National Review editor Rich Lowry

"The squealing Obammyboppers of the media seem to have gotten more muted since those inaugural specials hit the newsstands back in late January. His numbers have fallen further faster than those of any other president -- because of where he fell from: As Evan Thomas of Newsweek drooled a mere six months ago, Obama was 'standing above the country ... above the world. He's sort of God.' That's a long drop." --columnist Mark Steyn



Comments

David Benton

I must take exception with the Psalms 109:8 bumper sticker offered by The Patriot Shop. I consider President Obama the worst president since Jimmy Carter. I believe he is taking this nation down a very dangerous road from which we may never recover. However, you have taken Psalm 109:8 out of context and are actually calling for his death rather than his removal from office. This is unacceptable. God has placed him in power at this time and God will remove him once his purpose is served. Please consider the entire passage of scripture and not just verse 8 taken alone. Thank you.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 11:53:28 AM

Editor's Reply:

Notably, we did stop with verse 8. Yes, the verse is "out of context" in an effort to be humorous (though we're serious about his removal from office). But David sure didn't have a problem pleading with God for the things mentioned in the rest of the Psalm and it made it into Scripture. That said, if we meant all of that for Obama, we probably would have made the sticker cite something like Psalm 109:8-16.

John Demaree

Obommunism.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 11:54:14 AM


Jim Foy

If in fact bankers are wary about lending, there are two good reasons that have nothing to do with cats, fat or otherwise. One is uncertainty about the next governmental folly, whatever it may be. The other is that federal borrowing is crowding out commercial lending. Lendable capital is not infinite.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 11:55:01 AM


Mike

Obama said the other day that they were on "the precipice of health reform." He does not realize how truly he spoke:

From Merriam-Webster

1 : a very steep or overhanging place

2 : a hazardous situation

Posted December 16, 2009 at 12:03:13 PM


Hans Schmidt

Great work America.

I was getting worried there about my beautiful old country.

But it looks like with grass roots efforts, blogging, tea-partying we, the People, have accomplished more than we thought might have been possible.

ObamaCare is going in the toilet.

ObamaMania is now a joke.

Obama makes one foolish gaffe after another (747 + fighter jet over NYC; "precipice;" "it's not FedEx, UPS, it's the Post Office that's in trouble;" etc etc)--we couldn't have written a better script.

He hasn't taken questions since he said the Cambridge, Harvard police acted stupidly; i.e., ad-libbing without a teleprompter spells disaster).

AND even the Weather-gods got involved and gave Copenhagen its coldest December when the Whole World showed up to discuss Global Warming.

As Mark Steyn quoted Evan Thomas of Newsweek that "[Obama] is sort of God," well, the Real God stepped in and said, "I don't think so. That's MY department. Let there be snow."

No, Obama, you weren't born in a manger; and you weren't born on Krypton; in fact, you weren't even born in the USA.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 12:06:53 PM


Sam in NC

The push for banks to lend is just too rich! Don't these lefties know that is exactly what caused the financial meltdown? Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, Carter and Clinton forced lending institutions to lend to questionable borrowers. Hence the subprime mortgage disaster. To continue doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome is the definition of insanity. Is any thinking person surprised by this?

Posted December 16, 2009 at 12:07:13 PM


Ti Wade

I have never been as involved in politics as i should be, but this newsletter is awesome. It gives me insight that I otherwise wouldnt get. This is a must have...

Posted December 16, 2009 at 12:17:45 PM


Lee McNary

Politicians are 100% focused on their own careers while Statesmen, almost extinct, are focused on the needs of the country.

We need a movement that demands a number of fundamental reversals in recent trends (led by a Statesman to be identified later) but the very first objective of the movement should be to end the political career of any legislator who votes for health care reform in its current design, contrary to the overwhelming will of the people.

Voted out in the next election, impeached, it doesn't matter how, so long as it's done completely.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 12:35:59 PM


HAMBONE

How in the world can the leader of a nation stand on the evening news and proclaim, "The Nation wants it."(healthcare reform) when said plan/plans show a national approval rating below 50%???? Somebody please explain to me why this lie, as well as several more direct lies haven't led to direct legal action against BHO and the Senate/House Healthcronies?

Posted December 16, 2009 at 1:17:57 PM


larry perkins

A recent "Investor's Business Daily" article provided very interesting statistics from a survey by the United Nations International Health Organization.

Percentage of men and women who survived a cancer five years after diagnosis:

U.S. 65%

England 46%

Canada 42%

Percentage of patients diagnosed with diabetes who received treatment within six months:

U.S. 93%

England 15%

Canada 43%

Percentage of seniors needing hip replacement who received it within six months:

U.S. 90%

England 15%

Canada 43%

Percentage referred to a medical specialist who see one within one month:

U.S. 77%

England 40%

Canada 43%

Number of MRI scanners (a prime diagnostic tool) per million people:

U.S. 71

England 14

Canada 18

Percentage of seniors (65+), with low income, who say they are in "excellent health":

U.S. 12%

England 2%

Canada 6%

I don't know about you, but I don't want "Universal Healthcare" comparable to England or Canada .

Moreover, it was Sen. Harry Reid who said, "Elderly Americans must learn to accept the inconveniences of old age."

Posted December 16, 2009 at 1:31:11 PM


Thomas Burnickas

HBO, that is Barrack Hussaein Obama, is a great salesman. (I do not mean to slander salesmen.)

Nothing this person has said prior to election, except for changing our country has come about. There is no tranparency. Wilson was right, YOU LIE.

I can't really blame BHO, its the dopes in Congress that are the fault. Time to vote them ALL out, and start anew.

Thomas from Taxachusetts,(Don't worry, you all will

be taxed sooon enough. GOD BLESS AMERICA

Posted December 16, 2009 at 1:42:59 PM


Rev Bobby Stubblefield

I want to say the Patriot Post is one of the most informing papers i have ever read ijust wish we hade more people the believe like everyone there. keep up the good work.i am a veteran of the korean war. I fear for my Country if God does not see fit to bring a spiritual awakening i think we are in for a bad time Rev Bobby Stubblefield

Posted December 16, 2009 at 1:53:18 PM


Richard J. Abbate

I have just made a modest donation to support the work of your organization. I wish I could do more. I regret that the days when I could have made a donation at the level of Corps Command are over, at least for now! Being unemployed, and in the midst of a divorce not of my wishing, has made my ability to make such a donation impossible at present. I am happy to share your e-publication with over 100 friends, family and associates. So far no one has asked me to stop sending it, except for those who have subscribed directly as a result of my making them aware of it. You are doing the work of those who went before, in the 1770, the early 1800's and beyond, in help Patriots to get the vital information we need to fight for our Constitution and against the 'new' tyranny! Thank you for all you do in this regard. Richard

Posted December 16, 2009 at 1:56:03 PM


Bill

Let's see if I have this right. This whole thing got started when a large part of the local population, Royalists excluded, were unhappy over the imposition of a new tax. Now, here we are more than a couple centuries down the line, enlightened and technologically advanced with the elected representatives of the people about to ram through a disastrous bureaucratic monster a large part of the population, Democrats and liberals excluded, is unhappy over. All the while Executive Branch lackeys called czars, and federal entities (can you say, EPA) are unilaterally imposing regulations resulting in higher costs to all us peasants with the concomitant result that the words innovation, enterprise, and initiative will become archaic.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 2:02:40 PM


Kelly Williams

Do we have any leaders left? I mean real Leaders, not people looking to enrich their bank accounts. I would like to hear about anyone that could stand up and do the job we need done in DC. Working for the country first and foremost as a servant of the people. Thank you for all you are doing with the Patriot Post. Great work!

Posted December 16, 2009 at 2:05:58 PM


Bill

With a grateful tip of the hat to reader Larry Perkins for his Harry Reid quote, elderly Americans must learn to accept the inconveniences of old age.

I'm only 85, but when I get to be elderly I'm going to go live with ol' Harry, and let him accept the sight, sound, and smell of my inconveniences.

Apologies for the re-post. Using the Refresh button was the culprit.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 2:45:06 PM


Bob Mullins

Rewind and listen to Jimmy Carter's speach from 1977 about energy, climate, and dependance of foreign oil, that was to have been not available after another 5 or 7 years as I recall. Same BS speach that Maobama gave at the Home Depot...yet we still listen and swallow all the lies and hidden BS administration after administration...are there NO TRUTHFUL Patriots anywhere to be found?...where is the grease for guillotines to be set up on day in the Mall in DC?

Posted December 16, 2009 at 2:48:09 PM


Bob Mullins

"As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully.

In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight."

--Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

Posted December 16, 2009 at 2:51:17 PM


George

In today's Chronical you quoted Obama as saying; ""Let's be clear" means a lie is coming: "Let's be clear here. Seven presidents have tried to reform a health care system that everyone acknowledges is broken. Seven presidents have failed up until this point. We are now that close to having a bill that does all the things that I said and most experts said needed to be done when we started this process. It is not only deficit neutral, but will actually bring down the deficit according to the Congressional Budget Office." --Barack Obama"

He referred to the "Commercial" Budget Office.

This, once again, proves that he cannot speak without his Teleprompter and that he really doesn't know what he is talking about.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 2:51:27 PM


Bob Mullins

Constitution?....we don't need no gosh darn Constitution!

"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.

" --Thomas Jefferson

Posted December 16, 2009 at 2:54:14 PM


Andy Watkins

"An American president is almost by definition overexposed. But Obama has jammed a full term's worth of exposure into a mere 11 months. Michelle Obama notoriously said during the campaign, 'Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.' What she really meant, apparently, was that Barack would never again allow us to turn on the TV without seeing or hearing Barack." --National Review editor Rich Lowry."

Your publication's words, reprinted.

Wasn't it our reveared President, Ronald Reagan, who was refered to as the "Great Communicator"?

Could it be that President Obama is trying also to keep the American public well informed and not do so many things behind his back, as President George W. Bush did? Ie: The real reasons for the outrageously expensive ground war in Iraq?

Posted December 16, 2009 at 2:58:08 PM


Robert A. Holloway

What is the rush to get the Health Care Bill passed

before Christmas? So Barack Obama can say "Seven

Presidents before me could not do what I only took one year to do. Am I not omnipotent?"

Posted December 16, 2009 at 3:08:08 PM


Ron - Fort Worth

I'm surprised that your Hollywonk excerpt from James Cameron failed to point out the hypocrisy of his statement. He has profited handsomely from his artistic endeavors, not to mention the carbon footprint left from the creation of his latest cinematic fairytale.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 3:33:38 PM


Barb

Thank you Mark Steyn for stressing the obvious. Re: Obama------No, he most certainly IS NOT GOD!

Posted December 16, 2009 at 3:45:22 PM


Rich V

Garrison Keillor certainly is a piece of work. Does he not realize that the opposition to the current health care reform proposal is not solely and unanimously republican, rather it is bipartisan in nature and becoming ever-closer to unanimous?

Garrison also writes in his latest column that "As long as any sort of reform is going to be attacked as socialistic, why not go ahead and be socialistic, just as Social Security is. It is Big Government and runs pretty well...".

Has he had his head in the sand for the last thirty years? Social Security "runs pretty well"? I don't know about the rest of the readers, but when I hear that a program is headed for insolvency, I wouldn't consider it to be running "pretty well".

I'm sorry, but who listens to such drivel? Not I, for one.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 5:02:27 PM


Paul Rodriguez

A mantra for Bankers: "I've been called worse by better."

Posted December 16, 2009 at 5:24:47 PM


Elton Kennedy

Some high ranking Arab has said that Obama hss been decieving the Arabian people. That's nothing new. He's been deceiving the American people for 2 years now.one before the election and nearly another since the election.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 5:47:58 PM


Duke of Earl

Obama is correct in calling the bankers 'Fat Cats.' However, his comment stopped short of calling them what they truly are - Prima Donnas or Divas, if you will.

The executives of all of the banks that received TARP monies failed in their primary duty leading to the collapse in 2008-2009 and continuing. Their primary duty was to safeguard the deposits of their customers and the investments of their shareholders. They did niether in the name of making a fast and large profit. I like large profits. It makes thing much easier to invest in other profitable ventures.

But, when these same people beg and cry for help from the government of an alleged conservative and take the money likw the spolied brats they are: they must suffer the consequences of a socialist president calling them 'Fat Cats.'

I am a capitalist; I have always been a capitalist and I shall always be a capitalist. However, NONE, ZERO, of these bankers can ever be called capitalists. They and their efforts to make large profits failed and they should be forced to suffer the consequences. All of these banks - Citicorp, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, etc. should have been liquidated and their assets divided among the surviving banks that did not need help. This should have been started by an alleged conservative president; but he didn't have the courage to follow through on his conservative, capitalist beliefs.

These bankers have no excuse for not following the demands of the president who calls for them to lend additional monies to small business. The Socialist-in-Chief did not order them to make bad loans; just more loans (presumably to qualified borrowers). These bankers did not object when President Clinton and his people required them to make more loans to unqualified borrowers; so why cry foul now?

America needs to wake up and swallow their bitter medicine. I have been taking that medicine for nearly twelve months now. That is how long I have been out of work.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 5:57:40 PM


Hugh Kizer

Maybe if Al Gore stopped flying around the world in his private plane and moved from his large estate and gave up his chauffeur and drove himself like the rest of the working poor. But then he wouldn't be able to tell us how great he is. Did I mention he invented the internet? Tell a big enough lie often enough and people will eventually believe.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 7:29:05 PM


Roxana

RE loaning money to bad risks:

Right now, the banks don't want to loan to people who are underwater, but are good risks!

How is this helping our economy?

Posted December 16, 2009 at 8:23:39 PM


Howard

Don't underestimate BHO. Many people underestimated Adolph also. So far the only major diffference between BHO and Adolph, he hasn't put people in concentration camps YET. And don't forget many of Adolph's supporters ended up in his camps.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 9:07:07 PM


sheila crone

Please, only a fool would think and much less say that obama is above our country/world as God. That's just stupid. But, it has come about that "stupid" describes the o. voter.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 9:56:15 PM


sheila crone

To Andy W.: You can't seriously say that the little o tells the truth and functions in transparency. Find another reason to defend him, but please don't insult the rest of us by claiming that the egomaniac is truthful.

Posted December 16, 2009 at 10:01:55 PM


HAMBONE

Posted by Mr. Andy Watkins: "Wasn't it our reveared President, Ronald Reagan, who was refered to as the "Great Communicator"?

Could it be that President Obama is trying also to keep the American public well informed and not do so many things behind his back, as President George W. Bush did? Ie: The real reasons for the outrageously expensive ground war in Iraq?

Posted December 16, 2009 at 2:58:08 PM"

When the president is constantly on all major media outlets spewing forth half truths fairytales and outright lies it is NOT "informing". It's called propaganda as in creating the BIG LIE. See Hitler's rules for controlling the masses for more on that subject.

Posted December 17, 2009 at 1:08:31 PM


Tony B

I love this publication and am grateful to be able to take some of this information and educate myself through research. I am not as old or as wise as many out there, but I think I can do a better job than those in our government. I feel our government has taken a wrong turn when our representatives became professionals. What happened to the day when our reps. were statesmen? What happened to the day they were rubbing elbows with us in the fields, tending to their crops or their livestock? Then when the time came to do their duty, they traveled to Washington, discussed what needed to be discussed and went home. I know there is much more to government these days, but why can't a businessman, lawyer or other such person take time out of their schedule fulfill a duty for a few years and return to what they know when it's over. Now they'd be a little more concerned about the decisions they make when their government perks run out and they have to live with the decisions they made. Woe to the banker who forced lending in Congress to have to return and pratice what he preached. Or the lawyer who puts limits on what I am allowed to do to but criminals away.

I see the bad things coming everyday as times get harder and people make reckless decisions that go against the law. People are desperate. They aren't concerned about who they hurt. It hurts more when the judicial system handcuffs me at my job. Making it ever harder to enforce the laws I am sworn to protect.

I love my country. I love it enough that I obliged my country and did my civic duty. I now protect the streets while our soldiers are away fighting for our freedom. My job is to make sure they have a home and family to come home to.

I don't feel our government has our best interest in mind. I hope for a brighter future. I also hope that 2010 elections will bring a change. Keep up the good fight.

Posted December 17, 2009 at 1:23:19 PM


Bruce

Two things people don't miss, Obama, and the telepromptor , I wish they would both go the way of the 45 record player! Also what does Obama (or Al Gore know about CO2? Nothing, is right! CO2 is a good gas, w/out it plants do not live or they do NOT produce O2 and that we live off of! This is NOT a question of global warming etc it is a matter of getting this country into a "new world Order" and I reject this order! Al Gore go back to where you came from and Obama go back to Kenya! You are fired!!!

Posted December 17, 2009 at 3:11:18 PM


B. Lee Pemberton

I can't find any other means of contacting you: what has happened to my Founders Quote Daily? Have not received any for several days!

This is most often my first read of the day!

Thanks for all that you do for our America, and a very Merry Christimas to all there. You are a daily blessing!

Posted December 18, 2009 at 9:34:44 AM


Gregg keyes

Eventually, and probably sooner than we would like. We are going to have to take the blame and ask ourselves, as a populace: Why do we keep electing dimwits, kooks and do nothings to political office?

Like my father said many years ago. What this country needs is a good benevolent dictator for about 5 years. I'm ready for the military to run this country, at least they have experience in getting things done, and I think there would be a lot less BS!

Gregg Keyes

Posted December 18, 2009 at 4:36:20 PM


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