Is There A Perfect Person

[uscitizen]

Only the Dems were to blame huh?

 

[Vanquish]

Apparently. I can't credit any of the posts by people who are drinking the Koolaid of one side or the other 100%. You might get your kicks posting some long wall of text, but if you're not even-handed, it just comes off as rubbish.

 

[WillowTree]

Let's take a few steps back. We had Freddie Mac and Fanny Mae created for the purpose of ensuring "equal housing at affordable rates" ... even if the people couldn't afford to make the mortgage payments. They had a RIGHT to own a home. We ALL have the right to own a home, but if we can't afford a downpayment or the subsequent mortgage payments then we need to stay where we are until we're more financially secure and able to meet these obligations.

Then we had all the news about how ACORN was highly involved with FM/FM and started harassing banks ... going to the homes of banking officials and threatening them and scaring the shit out of their families over what would happen if they did not make their banks lend out money for unstable loans that were going to ultimately default in one way or another.

Then we have Barney Frank up to his eyeballs in the whole fiasco saying, "FM/FM are stable! We're safe! No problems!"

Then Paulson (who was high up in the ranks at Goldman Sachs) along with Bernake of the Federal Reserve and Tim Geitner who headed up the NY Federal Reserve suddenly popped up screaming "We didn't know! We didn't know! We're in a financial disaster!" The hell they didn't know. Barney Frank knew.

But let's put that aside and blame the banks who got bailed out whether or not they wanted or needed to be - some of which have repaid their bailout money. The banks are not entirely at fault for this mess. There's plenty of blame to be spread around. And the quicker we get the overbearing government involvement in our lives reduced and/or done away with, the better off we're going to be. There is no excuse, rhyme or reason why this country has to have this burgeorning, overextended, maneating, out of control government that is totally FUBAR. Nobody knows their head from their ass or whether they even have their own head or ass or they're sporting someone else's head or ass on their body. All these overemployed, underperforming agencies and agencies and more agencies are not necessary. None of them work hand in hand with each other so that they all know what's going on. Our laws do not have to be 12,000,000 pages of legal bull shit covering 1000s of hidden "deals," "pork barrel specials" to make this country work like a well-oiled machine.

Let's not be tricked into believing what we're being fed.

As my ex used to say as he tapped his finger to his head, "Kidneys, baby! Kidneys!"

Although, in his case, it turns out he was right.

I hate to inform you Granny,, but you are not a perfect person..