The Best Commencement Address Ever!

[Procrustes Stretched]

Neal Boortz posted this on his on his website...I wish he had given it...it's a home run!!!
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1. … you can bet your tassels…[y]ou may not like much of what I have to say, and that’s fine. You will remember it though. Especially after about 10 years out there in the real world.

Texas A&M Commencement Address – The students gave a standing ovation; the faculty were deathly silent! « The Ghostfighters

From 1998? Okay. I'll take you on.

1. Ten years in the real world would have brought the graduates into 2008. How well were these graduates doing after 10 years of mostly GOP rule? What was happening in 2008, after 2 unfunded wars and a 'gigantic new, unfunded entitlement enacted in 2003, namely Medicare Part D?'


Conservative hero Paul Ryan:

Paul Ryan on the Issues

"during twelve years of Republican rule no reform was adopted regarding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."

Barney Frank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How Newt Gingrich Added $16 trillion to the National Debt | Stan Collender's Capital Gains and Games

 

[PoliticalChic]

Neal Boortz posted this on his on his website...I wish he had given it...it's a home run!!!
...

1. … you can bet your tassels…[y]ou may not like much of what I have to say, and that’s fine. You will remember it though. Especially after about 10 years out there in the real world.

Texas A&M Commencement Address – The students gave a standing ovation; the faculty were deathly silent! « The Ghostfighters

From 1998? Okay. I'll take you on.

1. Ten years in the real world would have brought the graduates into 2008. How well were these graduates doing after 10 years of mostly GOP rule? What was happening in 2008, after 2 unfunded wars and a 'gigantic new, unfunded entitlement enacted in 2003, namely Medicare Part D?'


Conservative hero Paul Ryan:

Paul Ryan on the Issues

"during twelve years of Republican rule no reform was adopted regarding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."

Barney Frank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How Newt Gingrich Added $16 trillion to the National Debt | Stan Collender's Capital Gains and Games

"New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae
By STEPHEN LABATON
Published: September 11, 2003


WASHINGTON, Sept. 10— The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago.

Under the plan, disclosed at a Congressional hearing today, a new agency would be created within the Treasury Department to assume supervision of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that are the two largest players in the mortgage lending industry.


''The regulator has not only been outmanned, it has been outlobbied,'' said Representative Richard H. Baker, the Louisiana Republican who has proposed legislation similar to the administration proposal and who leads a subcommittee that oversees the companies. ''Being underfunded does not explain how a glowing report of Freddie's operations was released only hours before the managerial upheaval that followed. This is not world-class regulatory work.''

Significant details must still be worked out before Congress can approve a bill. Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing.

''These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.''
Representative Melvin L. Watt, Democrat of North Carolina, agreed.
New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae - NYTimes.com


Did you get that?
"These two entities -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ''The more people exaggerate these problems,..."

 

[PoliticalChic]

Neal Boortz posted this on his on his website...I wish he had given it...it's a home run!!!
...

1. … you can bet your tassels…[y]ou may not like much of what I have to say, and that’s fine. You will remember it though. Especially after about 10 years out there in the real world.

Texas A&M Commencement Address – The students gave a standing ovation; the faculty were deathly silent! « The Ghostfighters

From 1998? Okay. I'll take you on.

1. Ten years in the real world would have brought the graduates into 2008. How well were these graduates doing after 10 years of mostly GOP rule? What was happening in 2008, after 2 unfunded wars and a 'gigantic new, unfunded entitlement enacted in 2003, namely Medicare Part D?'


Conservative hero Paul Ryan:

Paul Ryan on the Issues

"during twelve years of Republican rule no reform was adopted regarding Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."

Barney Frank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How Newt Gingrich Added $16 trillion to the National Debt | Stan Collender's Capital Gains and Games

Here is some summer reading for you, so you don't embarrass yourself like this again:


Who Really Wrecked the Economy?
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Been the topic of debate here on the board for a couple of years....

Well...here it is! Just published:
"‘Reckless Endangerment’ by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner

1. 'In “Reckless Endangerment,” Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner argue that cozy connections between government and the financial industry were the primary cause of the financial crisis. In a series of clearly written narratives with many names, dates and figures, they show that government officials took actions that benefited well-connected individuals, who in turn helped the government officials. This mutual support system thwarted good economic policies and encouraged reckless ones. It thereby brought on the crisis, sending the economy into a tailspin.'
‘Reckless Endangerment’ by Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner - The Washington Post

2. "The Republican Party and especially its Tea Party wing have just acquired a new weapon of mass destruction — and it has nothing to do with any of Congressman Wiener’s rogue body parts. If they deploy this weapon effectively in the next election cycle — a big if — then they have the biggest opportunity to move the country rightward since Ronald Reagan took the oath of office back in 1981.

3. The Tea Party WMD stockpile is currently stored in book form: Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon. By Gretchen Morgenson, one of America’s best business journalists who is currently at The New York Times, and noted financial analyst Joshua Rosner, Reckless Endangerment gives the best available account of how the growing chaos in the mortgage and personal finance markets and the rampant bundling of dubious loans into exotically toxic securities plunged the world, and millions of American families, into the gravest financial crisis since World War Two.

4. The villains? An unholy alliance between Wall Street, the Democratic establishment, community organizing groups like ACORN and La Raza, and politicians like Barney Frank, Nancy Pelosi and Henry Cisneros. (Frank got a cushy job for a lover, Pelosi got a job and layoff protection for a son, Cisneros apparently got a license to mint money bilking Mexican-Americans of their life savings in cheesy housing developments.)

5. . Big government, affirmative action and influence peddling among Democratic insiders came within inches of smashing the US economy."

Fanniegate: Gamechanger For The GOP? | Via Meadia

 

[NYcarbineer]

I think Boortz is in the same mold as Hannity - a radio personality opportunist who has put together an a la carte menu of political positions designed primarily for their niche audience appeal,

and having only a secondary relationship to what either might actually think or believe.

Sadly for your side that " niche audience " is those folks who support American values:

American is identified by the “American Trinity” of “Liberty,” “In God We Trust,” and “E Pluribus Unum.”
Liberty refers to personal freedom, based on small government , a free economy, and a God-based society. ,”
“In God We Trust,” proceeds from the moral values axiomatic with the Founders.
“E Pluribus Unum.” refers to a society based on neither ethnicity nor race.
Prager, "Still The Best Hope."

No, actually, e pluribus unum is a championing of the collective,

that concept of 'we' vs. 'I' that you so routinely vilify.