Comments on: Romney’s Etch-A-Sketch Moment

By: Ibsyboy

Ibsyboy — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 01:52:00 +0000

Is this some kind of juvenile game with you? Well, na na na na nah.

By: montanabill

montanabill — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 12:24:00 +0000

You can’t change the truth.

By: Ibsyboy

Ibsyboy — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:47:00 +0000

Who cares. This is an exercise in futility. Your point has long escaped me.

By: Ibsyboy

Ibsyboy — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:45:00 +0000

You’re boring. Like a broken record that skips endlessly back to the same part of the song over and over. Put the blame…Put the Blame…Put the Blame…

By: montanabill

montanabill — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:16:00 +0000

You need some serious courses in economics.
Some things to consider: 1) factor in the part that Affordable Housing played in your scenario. You missed the most important part of the equation.
2) How much money would you loan to someone if it wouldn’t earn any money from interest? Or would you search for some place for that money that would earn you some profit, at least enough to keep up with inflation.
3) Pretend you earned three million dollars every year. After paying more than a million dollars in taxes, what would you do with the rest of it?

By: Ibsyboy

Ibsyboy — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 03:19:00 +0000

Let me try asking the question again. Did they not get the tax cuts and deregulation they wanted during the Bush administration? I believe they did. And now explain why they invested in everything except job creation. When things went south economically, the first thing they did was start firing people. How was it capable that we were able to have low unemployment when the taxes were higher and the regulations were in place. I don’t get the logic. They were taxed higher and regulated more and unemployment was low. They get a tax cut and deregulation and unemployment soars. This job creator BS, is about one of the lamest stories ever foisted on the public to convince people like you that the guys who came out on top of the Crash of 2008 are so incapable of creating jobs because they are having the best years of their lives. Corporate profits up, Dow at 13,000. More Billionaires than ever. And we need to prod them with more tax cuts and deregulation to get them to part with their dough? You’re nuts, it’s a con job. Where are the guarantees they will invest in jobs rather than just invest in a money making scheme unrelated to your promise of jobs. Like they did with the mortgage scam. And other scams that are nothing but money makers for the investors and nothing trickles down. The Fed is lending money at a discount rate of 0.75%.

Here’s a novel idea, being over looked. Interest rates are low, capital is there to acquire. This can spur economic development because businesses can borrow cheap money to expand their businesses and create new jobs. Why tax cuts when the job creators can borrow cheap money, deduct the interest payments and grow their business and create jobs. No need for tax cuts when the Government is giving away money to the banks to stimulate the economy.

Now why isn’t that being touted by the GOP? It causes the 1%ers to make an effort to make money. They would have to hire people to handle the loans and investment in expansion of their businesses. Whereas, a tax cut takes no effort. Mo’ Money, Mo’ Money Mo’ Money. Without lifting a finger. Or being inconvenienced with details of creating jobs. It’s all a great big scam bought and paid for by the likes of the Koch Brothers and Sheldon Adelson. Take that money and give it all to the geniuses at a hedge fund and Bingo. Mo’ Money Mo’ Money Mo’ Money. Without breaking a sweat.

Get the GOPers to get us guarantees the money goes to job creation, and then maybe there wouldn’t be so many people skeptical of the GOP’s intentions with the tax cuts.
Prove it’s not a pay off for the campaign contributions and future wealth for the politicians. Romney and Lying Ryan, would both benefit from the tax cuts. Romney is out of business so how does he help out by adding millions to his wealth. Ditto, Lying Ryan.

By: Erik Nash

Erik Nash — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 18:54:00 +0000

I’ll see your Romney/Ryan and raise you (not by a landslide)but by a second term. You see, people like you always and I mean always bend over and take a beating/or plunging of the backside and then turn around and blame the ones that are trying or have tried to help you before or when that happens. It never fails nor ceases to amaze me that this country still caters to and support idiots like you. I may be a war veteran and neolib, but you, you sound like a welfare check, food stamp junky, that lives in a trailer park somewhere in South Florida or even Alabama. Whichever the case may be, I hope that you and those that think and act like you wake up and pull your heads out of your collective A$$e$ before its too late.

By: montanabill

montanabill — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:39:00 +0000

They felt like it was time to collapse when there was no longer any money flowing to fund new mortgages or renovation to pay for their services or products. The easy money stopped when everyone realized that there were trillions of dollars in already bad mortgages. The financial guys knew they were bad, but tried to disguise them as derivatives sucking more investment into bad paper. Lenders weren’t ‘encouraged’ to make those bad loans, they were threatened by Barney Frank.
And yes, I will blame the victims. The people who got mortgages they knew they really couldn’t afford, the new turn-over specialists and flippers who were trying to use the easy money, and a lot of rich real estate investors who got banks to give them no guarantee money, but especially, I’ll blame Barney Frank who was the most instrumental politician in creating the whole mess, just trying to do good.

By: montanabill

montanabill — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 21:25:00 +0000

Let me try to explain it one more time. What America needs are jobs. How many jobs have you created in the past four years? Would a tax cut for you give you the money to create more jobs? A tax cut for the wealthy leaves them with more money to invest. They do not need to buy necessities with it or pay off bills. They will invest it in growing their own businesses or by providing capital to other companies to grow. That results in jobs.
On the other side of the coin, if you threaten them with more taxes, they will look for ways to avoid them. They will not invest in things that will get them taxed even more here. They will invest places where they are not at risk. You can rant all you want about ‘greedy’, but my friend, that is the way of the world and it hasn’t changed in thousands of years.
Entitlements are not sinister. Mostly, they just don’t do what they are intended to do. They are good intentions, but sometimes tough love is the real solution.

By: Ibsyboy

Ibsyboy — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 18:08:00 +0000

And the construction industry just up and decided to collapse on its own, no cause, they just felt is was time to collapse. My My. What kind of thinking is that? The housing bubble, I knew it, you would find some way to turn Supply Side economic failures on the DEMs. Barney Frank and the Affordable Housing Act. I recall that bill, there was that specific part of the bill which encouraged lenders to lend money to people who could not afford it, and the other section of the law which allowed pie in the sky deals. Yep, all of those cheating lenders were following the law as it was set out in the Affordable Housing Act. I think they missed the affordable part. Well, why don’t we just blame it on the naive people who borrowed the money with promises the housing bubble was going to go on for ever. Buy it, and when the mortgage payments are about to rise, flip it for a wind fall. Once again the lack of compassion in your right wing view comes to the surface. Blame the victim. Bail out the perpetrator.

These complex problems we face can not be simplified by the GOP thought you eat up like a starving man.