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   HUMPHRIES said, about 1 year ago

   “Play it again Sam, play it for me”

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   Alexus_The_Great said, about 1 year ago

   Excellent!

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   d d said, about 1 year ago

   Im not sure its Reagans fault. Dont know whos it is though.

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   FarWestGirl said, about 1 year ago

   Dead on! It did start with Reagan’s buddies. The problem was he wasn’t bright enough to figure out how he was being used by the people he trusted. He believed them and what they told him, so he believed what he said and made the country believe it too. How else could you sell voodoo economics?

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   acellist said, about 1 year ago

   Oh now come on, a prominent Hollywood actor not bright enough to… being used… it’s unamerican thinking that’s what it is!

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   Herbabee said, about 1 year ago

   Yah, Cellist - at least in the movies he grapples with the personal crisis (the turning point!), turns it around, saves the day and becomes the hero & all-around jolly good fellow in the end.

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   charliekane said, about 1 year ago

   :D!!!!!!!

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   DHLEAKY said, about 1 year ago

   Acelist and Herb.

   you got it.

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   ConservativeBob said, about 1 year ago

   The funny thing about this comic is that is precisely the actions of FDR that caused this crisis while people like Reagan were trying to correct it. I will explain this comment now:

   The whole argument about deregulation being the fault of the breakdown of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac doesn’t apply to the failure of Capitalism since those companies as they were GSE’s are not fully private companies in the first place. A GSE is a GOVERNMENT SUPPORTED ENTERPRISE and FDR was the President that started this practice.

   Fannie and Freddies main purpose was to buy and repackage mortgages and financially insure these loans. Since they are Government supported that means they are secured directly by the Federal Government. This entire process of the government backing loans and later the government dictating who those loans go to via the CRA and the policies of the HUD is entirely Government interfering with the Free Market and thus Socialist in nature. It is no business of the government to secure loans made by companies just as it’s no business of the government to help people afford buying a house.

   Government is directly responsible for this crisis and not the free market or capitalism because it was the government that insisted that companies take bad loans in the first place. They directly created the greed that these companies are demonized for because if they weren’t backing up these predatory loans then the companies wouldn’t of made them in the first place.

   To try and say that regulating these companies is what the Republicans are against because they don’t believe in regulating business is entirely misleading. These companies were government agencies created by FDR and the Republicans are specifically for regulating the Government. Had they been fully privately owned companies and not supported government ones, they would of failed and have been bought out by another company as is what has happened with Washington Mutual.

   The Republicans were the ones trying to regulate these companies and to his credit so was Bill Clinton. Clinton himself admitted that the Democrats were responsible for this mess since they were the ones that fought against the regulations the Republicans were trying to start in the first place.

   The entire problem was created by Government trying to regulate the Housing Market as a whole and not allowing the free market to do it’s job. Again, it was compassion that caused this problem not Capitalism which has historically proven to work while Socialism ALWAYS fails. This is not to say that the people that feel compassion are wrong but they don’t understand that forcing everyone to be equal is impossible. There will always be “higher ups” because it is the nature of man to do this.

   I don’t think that Sheriffius is even aware of this and that is why he drew such a clearly wrong cartoon. In fact, it took a great deal of investigation on my part to fully understand this situation. Please anyone that feels I am wrong, research this as much as I have. I am fully willing to defend this position.

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    Corosive Frog said, about 1 year ago

    It did work back in Raegan’s days, but here’s a little liberal news flash;

    THE WORLD F’IN’ CHANGES!!!

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    Kylop said, about 1 year ago

    CBob, that was a thorough post. I don’t mean to be difficult but I suspect that what may be contentious is “…the business of the government…”.
    Would you be willing to add your definition for “the business of the government”? I’m betting you can picture that different people have different ideas there.

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    ConservativeBob said, about 1 year ago

    “Would you be willing to add your definition for “the business of the government”?”

    Of course, and you’re not being dificult whatsoever, I’m glad to talk with you about this.

    I believe that government is primarily there to protect the rights and freedoms of the people they are representing both physically and legally. This would mean from both foreign armies and from criminals at home. To do this I believe that they must tax the citizens reasonably to pay for a military and a police force. The government should pass laws that enforce the protection (through that police force) of the citizens unalienable rights as defined by the Constitution and Bill of Rights from both physical and legal attack. The most important in the context of my earlier post would be a person’s property.

    I also believe the gov’t is responsible for settling legal disputes through a judicial system entirely based on the same laws that the citizenry follows. It must tax the citenzry reasonably to pay for this system as well.

    When the government starts getting involved in using other people’s property (money) to secure another person’s comfort then they are violating the rights of the people they are forcibly (through taxes) taking that property from. It is not the responsibility of the government to provide for the citizens only to protect them from losing their rights. It is up to the citizen to provide for themselves and for the government to make sure they are able to do so only to the extent of not allowing a person or company to violate the rights of the citizen that they are there to enforce.

    That would be my basic belief on what the business of the government is.

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    Dale Hopson said, about 1 year ago

    Too late to impeach Reagan now…
    he tried to do what Thatcher did, but the USA ain’t the UK!

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    Kylop said, about 1 year ago

    Bob, thank you.
    This forum is no longer on the most recent comic but I’ll reply and copy/paste if it comes up again later.
    I agree with your basics. However I see complications coming out of that. I’ll be out of my depth quickly so I’ll stick to the level that I can work with.
    The government needs the people to continue to be there so they can be taxed. No people= no money = no government. The people need money to be able to pay the taxes. What happens if there is an Ebola outbreak? Its not a military threat. Its not a criminal threat. Its not a legal dispute. But it threatens the people. Does the government say “Not our thing. Good luck with that citizens and try not to pass it to us…the government. We’re protecting you from threats.”
    What happens if there is a Great Depression? Now the citizens are alive but have no money. So they can’t pay taxes. So the government can’t function. To me it seems that the government ALWAYS has a vested interest in seeing its people succeed so it can succeed. The correct level to ACT on that interest is WAY beyond me. But its there.

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    ConservativeBob said, about 1 year ago

    “The people need money to be able to pay the taxes. What happens if there is an Ebola outbreak? Its not a military threat. Its not a criminal threat. Its not a legal dispute. But it threatens the people. Does the government say “Not our thing. Good luck with that citizens and try not to pass it to us…the government. We’re protecting you from threats.”

    Glad you asked. It is up to the State governments to provide for their citizens during a disaster of this sort. It is their responsibility to tax their residents fairly to make such emergency funds available. Natural disasters or epidemics rarely if ever effect the entire country and only in the most horrible of horrible situations should the government be able to implement martial law ONLY as long as the crisis lasts. After that it MUST go back to the states. Ever since the Federal Government took this action over you’ve had disasters like Katrina that were horribly managed as we all can agree.

    “What happens if there is a Great Depression? Now the citizens are alive but have no money. So they can’t pay taxes. So the government can’t function.”

    There are many theories as to the cause of the Great Depression are but the majority of them have to do yet again with the Government getting involved in the free market. The most prevalent theory is that the creation of the Federal Reserve and it’s policies is what did us in for that decade. I won’t go into it here unless you’d like to, but we should stick with this crisis and not get ahead of ourselves. That being said, basically if the government hadn’t been involved there wouldn’t of been a Great Depression in the first place.

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    jimbo90036 said, about 1 year ago

    Lessons Learned: Corporations will look for people to fire so watch what you say to your friendly co-workers.

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    TheGreatSatan said, about 1 year ago

    Bob, that was a fantastic post. You have explained this situation in words I never could. I hope the other people on this website actually read this and if they don’t and they keep trying to claim the opposite of the truth I’m going to use your words against them everytime.

    (Claps)

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    acellist said, about 1 year ago

    It seems that the internal structure and wording of any posited plan depends on not offending the ‘good old boys’ while increasing your voter base, i.e. covering your arse.
    It’s simply too transparent a tactic in this day and age.
    Big Government has stepped in it and wiped it on us!
    Even running with scissors is preferable to running scared.