Mr Khan said:
badgenome said:
Kasz216 said:
It's like your old friend telling you you should hang out with his buddy because all those times you had drinking together were way more fun then all those times you spent alone with a hangover.
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That's the perfect analogy. The good old Clinton days were the result of a bubble economy, and the recession is nothing more than a very painful correction. As convenient as it is to blame it all on Bush it's just dosn't hold up to any sort of real scrutiny - although Bush's ownership society initiatives didn't help, but that was really just a continuation of what started way back when with the Community Reinvestment Act. It's just a pitiful nostalgia trip, more worthy of VH1 than a serious political party.
It's pretty rich to watch the Democrats spend decades blaming the inability of poor minorities to get loans they can't ever afford to pay back on racism, and then when they force the banks to make those loans and the whole thing blows up in everyone's face, they rail on the banks' "predatory lending" policies. Because debt slavery is bad, you know, unless it's done at the national level.
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See, i blame it on the banks who took what they knew were risky loans and decided to infect the whole system with it. The slowdown would have been much less painful if it weren't for banker greed.
And debt slavery is a bad thing on a national level, but you'll never here America complaining, as it reaps the benefits of such slaves as Argentina
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It is one thing to end up saying the government forced you to do it. It is another when you leverage to the hilt on such demands. At that point, you go from being a hostage, to getting a bad case of Stockholm Syndrome.
As for the having Clinton speak, thinks have gone downhill since 2000, so having Clinton there is a reminder. In my case I am certainly not better off since I was in 2000. Heck, I am not even better off since I was in 2003-2004.
