Alan Colmes Defends...
February 1st 2008 02:26
Alan Colmes is defending John McCain! That should tell everyone something really important, folks. The ultra-liberal (and proudly so) Alan Colmes is defending the tactics and behavior of John McCain. Mitt Romney and John McCain have several issues, as everyone knows. But when a super lib/dem like Alan Colmes defends McCains positions, it should tell you something.
It tells me that John McCain is far too liberal to get elected by Republicans. If you doubt me, folks, pay attention to who supports him. Liberal newspapers, liberal talk show hosts, liberal politicians (yeah, I know... The Governator and Rudy support him. That should be a warning device right there! The Kennedys support Obama and that should be another wake-up call. Obama says he wants "change" but the deepest, darkest part of the "establishment" supports him! The only missing voice for Obama so far is former KKK member Robert Byrd! And the only Republican in Name Only who hasn't thrown his name in after McCain is... hmmm... let me think about it... Nope, McCain has all the R.I.N.O.s)
Maybe sometimes you can judge a person by the company he keeps... ya think?
It tells me that John McCain is far too liberal to get elected by Republicans. If you doubt me, folks, pay attention to who supports him. Liberal newspapers, liberal talk show hosts, liberal politicians (yeah, I know... The Governator and Rudy support him. That should be a warning device right there! The Kennedys support Obama and that should be another wake-up call. Obama says he wants "change" but the deepest, darkest part of the "establishment" supports him! The only missing voice for Obama so far is former KKK member Robert Byrd! And the only Republican in Name Only who hasn't thrown his name in after McCain is... hmmm... let me think about it... Nope, McCain has all the R.I.N.O.s)
Maybe sometimes you can judge a person by the company he keeps... ya think?
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Comment by PopulistConservative
Angry Electorate
Comment by S.L. Bradish
Comment by Howard
Real Crash
Doesn't that assure his "conservative" (and destroy the United States in endless war) credentials?
Anyway, the "total free market system," also known as the financial bubble, is dead as a doornail. The USA must return to directed credit to necessary projects, and high interest rates for everything else. Otherwise, we will soon break up as a nation; that will be the end of the debate.
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Comment by Howard
Real Crash
We don't need to, and can't run our system through pure animalistic lust and greed. That is the Adam Smith- British system. I keep telling you to study LaRouche and larouchepac. He has been right, Rush Limbaugh and all these other bozos have been wrong, dead wrong.
Comment by S.L. Bradish
Capitalism isn't just based on corporate greed. It's a system that profits those who create and produce by letting the market set the prices (supply and demand) while giving the incentive to all citizens to work as hard as they can for their own benefit. It always works, Howard. Self-interest isn't necessarily greed and avarice. It's survival and a very healthy thing. If the government steps in to control every facet of our lives, it will degenerate quickly into the communist mantra of "to each according to his need, from each according to his ability." There can be no progress in such a society. Unless Cuba, North Korea and Communist China are doing better than anyone knows....
Comment by Howard
Real Crash
Communism and the theories of Karl Marx themselves are a branch of British political economy, in that the horny hand of labor is the creator of wealth. No, individuals create wealth, but a government of the people must coordinate GOVERNMENT directed credit.
That is what is going to save the 3 million familes about to get kicked out of their homes, and the ongoing destruction of these cities and towns. We need a freeze on the mortgages, reasonably small rental payments, and to sort the thing out. We need bank protection by the GOVERNMENT.
Try it, and you'll like it. The cocaine party of the financial bubble since the 1970s is over forever. Whether we reorganize it and save the nation, or have a new dark age is up to you.
Comment by S.L. Bradish
When the first European settlers came to North America, they had very little in the way of government. In their innocence, they decided to devote everything toward the "collective good." They nearly starved to death (because those who did the work were rewarded with bare subsistance while those who did nothing had everything they needed). Then the settlers decided that they could each keep what they earned and prosperity reigned. Those who did the most, earned the most. Private enterprise, Howard. The way things are supposed to be. Helping neighbors who are having bad luck is called charity. It's a very good thing. Supporting them forever so they don't have to work is called either Welfare (by liberals) or communism. That's the financial theory the US was intended to have. Not a Big Daddy government that stepped in at every turn and moved the money around. Honest! Read the Constitution, it doesn't say anywhere that those who work have to support those who don't. It grants us life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Not state sponsored prosperity. There is no way whatsoever that you can tax a population into prosperity, Howard.
Back in the days of FDR, the dust bowl and stock market crash of '29 created a situation where it was easier for the President (and government) to take from the rich (or those who were managing to survive, in spite of circumstances) and spend millions on make-work projects that gave the dole recipients the illusion of being productive. The TVA is a prime example.
After World War Two, the financial situation improved vastly. Prosperity and optimism reigned supreme for many years (the major product of which was the "Baby Boom.") In the 50's and 60's, when the Viet Nam War was beginning and then raging, the drug culture opened doors for the famous "welfare state" because so many illigitimate children were born and so many people blew their minds out on drugs. Mental hospitals, Medi-Care (and all it's "children"), and Food Stamps became the order of the day. What was originally intended to be a short-term assistance for people in temporary need turned into a multi-generational lifestyle for people who didn't want to get off their rear ends and work for a living.
Through times of prosperity and recession (including even the Carter years when we all had to be aware of the famous "misery index" on a daily basis), the government grew and grew. During Reagan's years, the idea of smaller government, lower taxes and more personal freedom began to resurface. Many of us started remembering why the US had worked so well for so long. We recalled the Constitution and the words "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness," and what they were intended to mean. Not the welfare state we had to deal with (and pay for), but opportunity to thrive and succeed, Howard. That's what this country was founded on. Opportunity to succeed! Not opportunity for the government to create new programs designed to make you feel like you mattered. Not the land of freebies for every illegal who sneaks over the borders. And, sadly, not a private bank to provide a safety net for those who bought too far above their means. Investing in real estate was always a good thing, the value of homes and land never went down. Always up! Buying and selling real estate for big profits was the way to strike it rich, back in the day. That day ended with the bursting of the sub-prime bubble, as you know.
Those who are responsible for the bubble (and it's ultimate buresting) should be held accountable to those who were injured by it. The government could insist on a lowering of the interest rates briefly or offer low interest loans to those who are in dire straits due to the market. But closing banks and forcing private enterprise to submit to the will of capricious financial markets isn't going to accomplish anything but a failing of every financial system the American people count on. These aren't the days of FDR and you can't go back in time, Howard. The markets determine the real estate value and will eventually come down to earth. Forcing a bigger government on the citizens isn't the answer. Free enterprise is the only way.
Comment by Howard
Real Crash
So we can have HIGH interest rates, with a low interest rate window for credit that is DEEMED by the GOVERNMENT to be necessary. Screw the Europeans and the Euro, till they learn to behave.
Otherwise, it's "I am the walrus, koo koo ka choo." (That means drug overdose has set in, croak).
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Real Crash
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Real Crash
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Comment by Lester Caudill
Round Politics
If they can get John McCain the nomination it means the doom of the republican party in 2008. Conservatives will not support him, and what we were hoping for when Hillary, and Obama was fighting will happen to the republicans.