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Originally posted by Flatfish
Originally posted by Phoenix
Originally posted by WeRpeons
Wow, SWAT teams filling us full of holes over unpaid student loans huh? With that kind of imagination you might should consider writing novels or something. Surely you don't seriously think that's where we're going, I hope.
Yup,
Swat on Student Loan
Has it become illegal to attend college without a giant bank account? Kenneth Wright of Stockton, California was almost knocked down by a S.W.A.T. team breaking down his door one morning. He says they then handcuffed him and put him in the back of a police car.
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No joke!
Originally posted by WeRpeons
reply to post by Phoenix
If your memory doesn't serve you right, Bush pushed for the bail outs of the banks before Obama came into office. Obama just did the dirty work for him. There's plenty of finger pointing to go around. To blame just Obama for this economic mess is really being highly selective. It's really laughable when you want to defend Republicans over Democrats because both administrations spent billions of dollars and wasted tax payers dollars. This country has over spent well before Obama got into office, and he's just doing the same incompetent policies his predecessors did before him.
This country isn't going anywhere if all we do is cover one eye and look the other way.
Originally posted by gimme_some_truth
Originally posted by hillynilly
Ending Gitmo
Ending the wars in iraq, afghanistan,
Isn't Gitmo still open?
And he ended combat missions in Iraq but not Afghanistan. Plus we still have troops in both.
Just for what that is worth.
I support Ron Paul, but I don't agree with every one of his policies. I do agree that in order to get this economy back on track, instead of cutting back policies that affect working Americans, we need to start pulling our troops out of foreign countries and cut our military budget in half. Ron Paul's foreign policy alone would save trillions of dollars, but than again, the system is in place. Who ever becomes our next president is just a pawn among the power elite.
Originally posted by WeRpeons
reply to post by jerryznv
Do I feel Obama has made matters worse? I don't know, because Bush left office before we had a chance to see him bail out the banks and do the dirty work. Remember, he had a press conference stating he agreed to bail out the banks. So I can't really make a judgement on that.
All I know is this economy wasn't put into dire straights just by Obama. He probably is contributing to it. The question is, how do you balance the checkbook when the financial hole is so deep you would have to cut every program that benefits the working class and even than, that's just a drop in the bucket? When you have corporations paying 1% of taxes and allowing them to send their manufacturing facilities overseas and into Mexico for lower wages, you're setting the economy up for disaster. Until politicians can work for us instead of the corporate elite, nobody you elect into office even in 2012 will be able to fix the mess were in. So who's fooling who?
I support Ron Paul, but I don't agree with every one of his policies. I do agree that in order to get this economy back on track, instead of cutting back policies that affect working Americans, we need to start pulling our troops out of foreign countries and cut our military budget in half. Ron Paul's foreign policy alone would save trillions of dollars, but than again, the system is in place. Who ever becomes our next president is just a pawn among the power elite.
It just makes no sense in blaming a pawn.
Originally posted by WeRpeons
reply to post by Phoenix
You're complaining about policies that were started by both the Clinton and Bush administration. To say you supported the Iraq war but you're now complaining about the spending going on in the Obama administration is really laughable.
With the billions of dollars spent on a war that was based upon false pretenses, not to mention the mission being changed (3) time to justify it, and now you're saying Bush is old news? We're still in two wars he started and Obama is still continuing it! What about the trillions of dollars that went missing during the Bush administration? Or the money that was politically spent to support Cheney's Halliburton? What about the S&L scandal that was tied in with the Bush's, or the Enron Scandal? What about the continued deregulation of the banking industry that was started by Clinton and extended further by the Bush Administration. Which caused the predatory loan practices of the banks which caused the current economic crisis we're in now.
If your memory doesn't serve you right, Bush pushed for the bail outs of the banks before Obama came into office. Obama just did the dirty work for him. There's plenty of finger pointing to go around. To blame just Obama for this economic mess is really being highly selective. It's really laughable when you want to defend Republicans over Democrats because both administrations spent billions of dollars and wasted tax payers dollars. This country has over spent well before Obama got into office, and he's just doing the same incompetent policies his predecessors did before him.
This country isn't going anywhere if all we do is cover one eye and look the other way.
Originally posted by Phoenix
Arrest the banksters who did the deed and reaped the benefit of TARP which no common man saw any light of day. Including politicians who helped finagle the deal on the American public.