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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-08-09 08:56 PM
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A right-winger even the Freepers would tell to take a hike.
Saw this on another message board, (no, not Free Republic,) this is a guy who has bought into just about all the right-wing conspiracy theories.

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We've got a president who was elected by a bunch of liberal sycophants
who don't have a collective rational thought amongst them. Them bought
the BS from the media and swallowed it whole. But that's all water
under the bridge now. What's going on is that Barney Frank and Chris
Dodd and a bunch of others pushed the home loan industry and the banks
into making bad loans to people who had no means beyond good intentions
to repay them. The mortgage meltdown is what resulted. At the same
time, they kept the Republicans from doing anything at all to prevent it
via re-regulation of those industries, and in the end when the bottom
fell out they had the balls to blame it all on Bush.

Now, AIG and GM and a bunch of huge banks are going down in flames and
taking a lot of innocent, hard working people with them. None of this
would be happening now if we had adhered to conservative principles as
we should have done, and let the free markets and capitalism self
correct. That's what has kept this country in the forefront financially
for decades. GM, AIG, and the rest should be allowed to fail or enter
bankruptcy protection as the case may be. While it would be painful in
the short run, the pain would be much shorter and we wouldn't be staring
into the abyss of a looming depression.

The stock market has lost 2000 points since Obama took office, and the
bottom isn't in sight yet. Unemployment is already at 8.5% and will
likely hit 12-15% over the next several months. Obama now has us on the
hook for over 2 Trillion. When we can no longer sell the debt to China
and other countries to generate cash, we will just print more money,
running what's left of the economy into hyper inflation. How long do
you think it will be before we are in a full blown depression? A year,
maybe two?

Back in 1932, most of the country was still rural enough that people
could still grow their own food, and revert to the ways people survived
for thousands of years with little or no money. People were also a lot
more self-reliant in those days, and knew how to do the things necessary
for basic survival. Today, most people live in cities and and
metropolitan areas. Their lives depend on grocery stores, credit cards,
gas stations, and the hundreds of little technological wonders that make
up modern life. When the depression hits, those people will suddenly
find themselves with no food, medicine, little water, etc., and no means
to get it. Gangs and criminals will rule the inner cities because they
have the firepower to take whatever they want to survive. You're going
to see food riots, and riots for heating fuel when it gets cold again,
and ultimately we could see a race war as all the old animosities come
boiling to the surface as people lose their veneer of civilization in
the face of starvation and survival of the fittest.

You think it can't happen? We're a heartbeat away from going over the
edge, and every day that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid stay in power the
closer we get. It is only a matter of time. Are YOU ready for that?

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I mean, even a RACE WAR??!!?? :wtf:
This is what Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Hal Turner, "The Turner Diaries," etc. does to a person.
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ladym55 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-08-09 09:05 PM
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1. Yep ...
I hear ol' Rushie and Bill-o right away with the ol' it's ALL Barney Frank and Chris Dodd's fault. Boy, if THEY hadn't forced the altruistic and business-savvy banks into making loans to "poor" (MINORITIES!!!!!!!!) people, well, we'd just be peachy.

Yeah, and SUDDENLY, the right-wingers have noticed we are in debt to the Chinese. Where in HELL were they for 8 years when the Republicans did the borrowing? Oh, wait, they were busy telling us to hate LIE-bruls and that LIE-bruls hated Amurika.

I wish some of these incredible boneheads who buy into this dreck would think (oh, wait, that needs a BRAIN). Unregulated capitalism brought us to this mess. Bernie Madoff, anyone?? Tainted peanut butter???
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-08-09 09:11 PM
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4. the extent of chinese debt has been ovehyped. until the meltdown,
the us borrowed more from the ss trust fund than to the chinese. Your SS taxes funded the major portion of US "debt".

& until recently (i think 2006/2007) the US borrowed more from the japanese than the chinese.

but it makes a good story - "we're trapped because we owe so much to the chinese!" kind of like "we don't have enough money to pay for mom's social security!"

both lies serving the interests of power.
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-08-09 09:06 PM
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2. I think the freepers would love that stuff..
Sounds a lot like the crap they spew.
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Redneck Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-08-09 09:10 PM
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3. This is the third time this week I've heard the "race war" meme.
The crazies are starting to come out of the woodwork.
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Cheap_Trick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-08-09 10:29 PM
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5. It's what lack of oxygen to the brain while in the womb will do to a person.
He's clearly not firing on any cylinders.
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customerserviceguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-08-09 10:29 PM
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6. Not so sure about that
I do a bit of lurking over at the Freeptards from time to time, and it's an article of faith over there that the housing bubble was built on the government "forcing" lenders to give home loans to people who either didn't deserve them, or couldn't possibly pay them back, or both. They conveniently ignore the greed of realtwhores, and associated fee grabbers who have their hands out at every real estate closing, and get paid no matter what happens after that transaction is concluded.

The racial nature of their extreme dislike for our President has been very evident for quite some time now. The surest way to motivate someone is to convince them that some "other" out there is going to "get" them. In many parts of the red states, African-Americans are just people you see on TV, or who give you funny looks when you drive into the big city. The people who live in such places have not undergone a true integration that people in the bigger cities and even the suburbs have known for at least a few decades.

Some of the older folks probably remember the rioting of the inner cities in the 1965-1968 era, and conclude that it could happen again, spreading out to the countryside.
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