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   cjr53 said, about 1 month ago

   Yeah, thanks to W & Crew, the economy sucks, big time. It only took them 8 years to really mess it up.

   Clinton had it running better then ever.

   President Barrack Obama is working on restoring things.

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   oldlegodad said, about 1 month ago

   Except Clinton let the derivative markets go unregulated. Did you see Warning on PBS? Can’t blame it all on Dubya.

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   believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

   cjr, I have to differ with you on Clinton. Clinton set in motion some of the deregulations that ultimately ended in the metldown, severe recession. The first failure of a hedge fund caused to failed unregulated, OTC derivatives was in 1998. Clinton’s trio of big bad boys controlling the financial sector claimed the collapse of the private equity firm that failed due to derivative losses in billions would cause “systemic collapse of the entire financial sector” and the economy. (Does that ring a bell?) The trio then proceeded to stop every effort to regulate OTC derivatives that followed the firm’s failure, they stopped every effort to even make derivatives above board and public knowledge. They drummed the woman out of office who warned about the danger to the economy from the secretive nature of unregulated, uncapitalized, over-leveraged derivatives beginning in 1996.

   Another poster suggested the documentary “The Warning,” available on Frontline on the PBS web site. I highly recommend it for those who are interested in learning more about the catastrophic collapse of our nation’s economy in 2008.

   I wouldn’t vote for Bill Clinton even if someone wanted to pay me. My sister and I were discussing political leaders recently and she asked me if I thought Clinton was a great president. I said no, he wasn’t even a very good one.

   I give him credit for fiscal responsibility, eliminating budget deficits and leaving a budget surplus for the next prez. I give him credit for reforming welfare with the welfare to work program. I give him credit for talking candidly to black ministers about speaking up about the teenage pregnancy rates for young black women and the cavalier attitude of young black males regarding fathering children by giving sperm and nothing else.

   I’m sure he accomplished more, but I wouldn’t want him back. When it comes to the economy, Obama has much that needs to be restored going back far more than 8 years.

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   believecommonsense said, about 1 month ago

   one last point … I think Obama should get rid of the Clinton holdovers too. It’s not doing him nor the economy any good.

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   cdward said, about 1 month ago

   Afraid I have to agree with believecommonsense once again.

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   Magnaut said, about 1 month ago

   its the Chicago Clubs stupid

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   Redeemd said, about 1 month ago

   Balloon boy! LoL!

   Is today “Will work for food” day?

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   shane damit said, about 1 month ago

   I have to agree with the gorilla in the room.
   yet, I long for the days when the biggest problem in the whitehouse was an unmarried BJ.
   I also have to agree with the gorillas last point, get the left over BJ’s out of the new administration.

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   nomad2112 said, about 1 month ago

   None of the above. We need to bring manufacturing back to U.S.

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    NeoconMan said, about 1 month ago

    nomad, what the heck for? We in Wall Street are making money hand-over-fist by out-sourcing manufacturing to cheap labor markets. That would hurt our economy, which means, windfall profits for the investor class.

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    oldlegodad said, about 1 month ago

    800# Bless you for the synopsis of THE WARNING. I’m getting too lazy to do all that typing. Rather use links if possible…

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    nomad2112 said, about 1 month ago

    Tell me NeoconMan, when the middle class is gone and this nation can no longer support a standing army, who is going to protect your wealth?

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    churchillwasright said, about 1 month ago

    ^ Why would you ask him that. He’s not conservative. He’s a liberal who plays one on TV.

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    NeoconMan said, about 1 month ago

    nomad2112, my wealth has long since been moved to the emerging markets of India, China, and Brazil. We’ve bled the middle class dry and it’s time to move on. Happy landings, sucker.

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    deadheadzan said, about 1 month ago

    The investor class is so classy!

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    comYics said, about 1 month ago

    The nerve.

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    kat827618 said, about 1 month ago

    You’ll notice that, in the cartoon, the media isn’t paying attention to the JOBLESS AMERICANS ISSUE.

    In fact, the media is so NOT paying attention that the jobless guy is having a hard time figuring-out the glaringly obvious –a comment on how the media is able to distract the masses from their own best interests.

    They’re on their own, and the ones who were able to get unemployment are running out of that, and we’re not supposed to think about that. It’s not one of the choices on the list, as you can see.

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    kat827618 said, about 1 month ago

    PS … the deregulation campaign began in the Reganomics era, with savings-and-loans. We didn’t nip it in the bud then, and we’re not nipping it in the bud now, because our Congressmen have to fund their campaigns in order to get our votes, and the finance lobby provides the money for that.

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    pbarnrob said, 26 days ago

    IF we can ever figure out how to take the Gawd-Awful amounts of Money out of political campaigns, there may be a chance that politicians will be willing to work for US.

    How about: NO paid political advertising; Equal time (anybody remember The Fairness Doctrine?) It’d be a start.