Comments on: Republicans Only Like Class Warfare Within One Class

By: McKMN

McKMN — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:22:22 +0000

Blaming union wages doesn’t fly. Here is why: Back when there was talk of raising taxes on incomes of $250k or more we heard “But you can’t do that, $250k is NOT rich!” Then in the next breath, “Union thugs are lazy and make too much money, they killed American manufacturing with their $50-$70k wages and their cadillac benefits.”
So if $250k is Not rich, how the hell is $60k too much money?
I make $60k in my union job and it used to be fine. I WAS a consumer-the TRUE job creator-but my buying power is diminished. And the ones with the money are not using it in our economy(a trade for goods and services), they are using it in the stock market(speculating the middle class out of the picture).

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By: Qtprof

Qtprof — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:19:50 +0000

Antonio Gramschi called it hegemony. We call it America.

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By: Taxpayer

Taxpayer — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:09:06 +0000

Democrats are JUST AS RESPONSIBLE for ruining this country as Republicans. Reagan signed the last great amnesty but Democrats pushed it through making it a bipartisan effort. Neither party implemented E-Verify and stopped illegal immigration. The future of America will be just another poor Latin American country as a result by the end of the century. Clinton ratified NAFTA breaking American trade and decimating the American labor market but Bush Sr and the Republicans designed it and pushed it through resulting in the massive offshoring and outsourcing of American jobs, capital investment, and innovation to foreign hosts and workers. It was a bipartisan effort. The country is reduced by both parties. Neither is good. Both are bad.

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By: ingrid

ingrid — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:34:40 +0000

Rush Limbaugh is having a party…feel free to wear your SS Uniform
and boots
Rush Limbaugh
1495 N. Ocean Blvd
Palm Beach, Florida 33480
[home]
340 Royal Palm Way
West Palm Beach, Fl 33411
[office]

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By: Ray Medeiros

Ray Medeiros — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:25:30 +0000

I will quiet the conservatives here and nullify the argument regarding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Here is what American Enterprise Institute said in 2003.
AEI is a free market,conservative organization..FYI

www.aei.org/article/econo...

“Fannie and Freddie suggest that they provide special assistance to minority families hoping to become homeowners. And if they did this disproportionately–that is, helped minorities or low income borrowers more than they helped middle class borrowers–that would be a powerful argument for preserving their current status.”

“But they do not do this. Instead, according to a study by Jonathan Brown of Essential Information, a Nader-related group, Fannie and Freddie buy proportionately fewer conventional conforming loans that banks make in minority areas than they buy in middle class white areas.

Other studies have shown that the automated underwriting systems that Fannie and Freddie use to select the mortgages they will buy approve fewer minority homebuyers than similar automated underwriting systems used by mortgage insurers.”

The sad fact is that Fannie and Freddie–two government sponsored enterprises that have a government housing-related mission–do less for minority housing than ordinary commercial banks.

Studies have repeatedly shown that banks and other loan originators make more loans to minority borrowers than Fannie and Freddie will buy.

That in itself should be a scandal, together with the fact that both companies seek through their soft- focus advertising to create the impression that they are actually using their government benefits for the disadvantaged in our society.

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