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Re: Freedom in the 50 States
01/25/11 07:20 PM


> > Dude, stop bursting the bubble of everyone
>
> He didn't burst any bubbles! 70% match is pretty good statistic, meaning you can
> predict the fiscal stability of a state 70% of the time based on its prevailing party
> alone... that says a lot.
>
> Don't get me for a Republican, though. But of the two lousy parties, they are the
> lessor of two evils. If you could get the fiscal responsibilty without all the
> rightwing zealotry, I'd accept them, but since the zealotry comes with it, it makes
> them a tough pill to swallow... but to further that analogy, if they are a tough pil
> to swallow, the democrats are a suppository.
>
> But as far as the budget busters go:
> 1. "Out of control public worker pension payouts" a democratic staple.

Yeah, paying out agreed upon pensions is nothing but a democratic fault...I might buy that one with some citation

> 2. "Huge investment losses from the stock market taking a dump" triggered by #3
> 3. "Popped housing bubble" which was created by Bill Clinton's legislation which
> forced banks to loan to bad-risk buyers under the moniker "The National Homeownership
> Strategy: Partners in the American Dream." Made him popular with the masses, but it
> cost the country dearly in the end.

AMPTA signed in 1982 by the The Great Communicator created these loans to begin with. It also meant that banks could issue these adjustable rate loans with no oversight.

>
>
> Time and time again society suffers when Governments mess with free market forces.


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Subject Posted by Posted on
* Freedom in the 50 States krick 01/23/11 09:48 AM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States Jdurgi  01/30/11 06:58 AM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States DMala  01/30/11 08:51 AM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States GatKongModerator  01/24/11 05:15 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States krick  01/25/11 08:03 AM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States igamabob  01/25/11 02:44 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States GatKongModerator  01/25/11 06:25 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States igamabob  01/25/11 07:20 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States GatKongModerator  01/25/11 07:39 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States igamabob  01/25/11 07:52 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States GatKongModerator  01/25/11 07:57 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States igamabob  01/25/11 08:00 PM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States DMala  01/30/11 08:57 AM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States igamabob  01/31/11 03:30 AM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States Jdurgi  01/30/11 07:16 AM
. * Re: Freedom in the 50 States AWJ  01/24/11 03:07 PM
. * Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose [nt] Andrew  01/24/11 05:24 AM
. * If you're playing strip poker maybe ;P [nt] URherenow  01/25/11 05:42 AM
. * Re: Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose [nt] igamabob  01/24/11 02:48 PM

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