| TheRealMafoo said: I never said the government didn't set enough standards, I said the government needed to do nothing in the first place. If the government had just stayed out of the home loan business, there would have been no sub prime lending (or very little). States get a lot of money from the Feds. If they go back on the policy, they will deduct it from other funds they receive. Now.. for the line that floored me.... "Its like complaining when someone gives you a cupcake for free and you got pink icing instead of chocolate icing." This is the kind of thinking that just gets to me. IT'S NOT FREE!!! A better analogy is: "It's like someone took 5 pounds of flower and 3 pounds of sugar from you, bakes a cupcake with it, and gave you pink icing instead of chocolate" The money belongs to the people of the United States. Taking it just to give far less of it back, is not free.
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To the state government it is free. You are getting into a completely different issue outside the one we are talking about.
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It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
