Politics, History, Society, and Current Affairs (Page 2 of 2)

hehe ok..

'The Last Temptation of Christ' or 'The Passion of the Christ'?

I'm gonna go with temptation..

yeah temptation leaves a little more room for free thought.. however, they are both great.

I just love this guy.

be intelligent through metaphor and they won't get you

^^^
It's also spreading to other cities now.

Article from Philly-
http://www.philly.com/philly/business/2 … =124488489

Though I have no idea where they are going to protest.  Basically there is a shooting somewhere in the city every day now, and at least one death every 3rd day.  Place is going to hell.

Hell Yes!

We have to separate the country from the politicos who run it.  I don't even blame businesses that much, they trying to earn money (do they go overboard, yeah).  But at the root is the politicians that have set up the laws that allow for all of the huge abuses by companies; for example, the House Housing Committee relaxed regulations on 'sub-prime' loans, and even encouraged banks to use them so "more people could get better housing."  About 2 days after that the WSJ was saying "you all are fucking nuts!"

On a tangential note- did you know that if your house is foreclosed on that in most states, if the mortgage holder get less than what is owed on the mortgage, they can sue you?  And guess what these mortgage holders are doing with these assets- they're bundling them & reselling or doing equity swaps.  Just like all the sub-prime loans before.

Fucking dolts.

First of all there is a thin line between politicians and the private sector. Where do politicians and even high up military officials go when they retire? With the exception of ones like ex presidents that can get paid just for showing up to dinners and talks, the before mentioned  go to work for the corporations they were arguably already working for.

As for housing Everyone wants to point at the subprime lending and back off the just plain crazy landing (ARMS, interest only loans etc..) that were being made, almost with the intention of default. Not to mention the crazy house prices. Here in southern Orange county California house prices at the peak of the bubble were insane. What had been a 200 thousand two bedroom condo two years before turned into 600 thousand dollar condo and the crazy lending made that possible (for awhile) you can’t blame the government for that, that’s plain greed. That’s not just the irresponsible and low income people getting loans and screwed. When there is not one reasonably priced house on the market at any level, then that’s a whole lot of hard working decent people getting the American dream held just out of reach and facing dire consequences if they try and grab it.

I am all about free enterprise and capitalism.  But the making money without any concern for consequences attitude is going to make this country pay dear. They want to paint you as a loafer and un-American, if you complain about cooperate greed. But as they kill the affordability of housing and access to bread and butter loans, and send all the jobs overseas or to Mexico. They can’t understand why we’re in a recession soon to be depression. They can’t understand why china is kicking are ass and your neighborhood shopping centers and malls are turning into ghost towns.

The money still has money, the middle (although most too prideful to admit while they sit chin high in debt) class is dying and everyone else is being painted as freeloaders and being made the patsy for our problems while big biz is carrying on as business as usual. That’s a recipe for disaster.

Last edited by swollenguy (2011-10-27 16:42:33)

I agree, Swollen is definitely on a roll today.