AveMaria22's Blog

Was that a Rangel wrangle at the ends? lol

AveMarie:

I agree with your statement; "I hear two presidential contenders arguing about something that neither are experts about. I do not understand why they don't EACH say,"

They should be saying; I'm not the President at this time and not in the position of authority to render a solution to this issue nor give a hypothetical response to something involving another administration's duty...

I would NOT vote for McCain simply on his statement that he would cut Soc. Sec. Can't do that in mid stream to the people. Not a populist solution to a deep problem. Congress has looked the other way too long. then we end up with seismic problems which we, the People, have to pay for NOT they.

I was watching a town meeting on Mccain a day or so ago and he said nothing about cutting Social Security. He said they need to fix it because right now it's broke.

To be blunt, I want to know how the heck we got here and WHO put us here, and what, specifically we need to do to fix it and how long will it take to bring us up to speed. I want to know who to kick in the adz.

Yes, Reddog...but how the dickens do we do that? Where do we start? They ALL lie to get into office.

CC I agree partly with your statement. But I think that those most responsible for this mess are those who done risky business due to greed. The housing issue is a prime example of just that. Many lenders gave not just one, but two or more loans to people that had either, bad credit, no credit or they simply didn't check it. They also gave these same people loans without proper income verification. I work with a man who not only bought one $500K but another as well. He makes less then $90K, yet his income was verified only once. I know because they have to send me the papers to verify it. Now, I hold not only the lenders responsible for him losing his second home, but him as well. He should have known that he could barely afford the first house, let alone the second. But I hold the lenders in mostly responsible because they should have known he could barely afford his first home, let alone his second. Now, some will say he didn't understand the paper work, but that is a cop out, it's his responsibility as a buyer to KNOW what he is signing. All bought because of greed and thinking they would be able to make a huge profit. These houses were bought only one year ago. NOW he has not only lost one, but is most likely fighting to keep his other one from going under as well because of the mortgage going up and his income went drastically down.
The market is run partly on greed, its how people make more money. But that greed can also be their downfall, such as we are seeing now. This will not be fixed over night, it will take years to undo what has been done in the past 8 years

Uh...caffein...I don't quite get it that we did this to ourselves. This nation has been around since 1776 with pretty much the same laws and modus operandi....and this is the SECOND big time problem with our finances. The first was a wall street driven crash that destroyed the big guys and the american people in the process. This time it is the banks, lending institutions, and big time insurance brokers... and, I wonder just how much we've learned from the FIRST crash? We all know isolationism does not work...but I have a suspicion that THIS one has been engineered on purpose...remember what they say, a fool and his money are soon parted. Is it possible to extricate the american people from this so-called "world market mess". You know, the heretofore thought of as "crackpot" Lyndon Laruche said, more than three years ago, "Banks and lending institution are bankrupt as I speak. Within the next three years everyone will know that this is true. The only thing holding them up are the loan payments, and the credit card payments the American people are making." I read one of his handouts a couple of months ago and he said he had written to the whitehouse begging them to listen to him....and, of course, no one did. Now, here we are. You all know that if our economic situation continues to degrade that crime will increase. I suppose, then, we will all be glad to see the slimy marxist buzzards come crawling in with "apparent" solutions to the problem. We can all have a slice of nothing...you know.. redistribution of wealth. Clearly, the next president can and will do nothi

90's ...hmmmm ...

...destroyer pullin' in for a refuel in Yemen and get's a mighty hole blasted in it's port side and cost the loss of somethin like 17 crewmen, world trade center bombing, Somalia intervention (wonderfully stupid show - black hawk down and all), Embassy bombing demolishment ...the Balkans ...opportune target on Bin Laden and we balk …intel for all intensive purposes in a coma leading up to World Trade Centers plane terrorist destruction, …the Iraq tension in the years following Desert Storm …N. Korea and the useless agreement the US made - the North got bountiful gifts and we bent over for it all as they busily stepped up their long missile program and development of weapons grade nuclear material …

…peaceful must carry a different meaning, depending on who’s sayin‘ it?

How about Georgia??? Remember that McCain said he wanted to send them 2 BILLION dollars to them.....I don't believe I recall Georgian troops in Iraq...you???? But what the hey, huh? Bull, guys. This country consists of complete idiots and non-patriots...not ONE in Washington gives a hoot about this country...and I, for one, am sick of them. We are REALLY in a mess right now...and NO ONE is at the wheel!