Jesus Christ, you 2 are about the blindest fuckers on here. Do either of you have any idea who paid the money that these idiots from AIG paid out to their execs? Take a guess. I'll give you a hint, it was before Jan 20th. Your talking points are ridiculous. I understand they are the same talking points most others would throw at Bush, but I had more respect for you than that. Who cares if he fucks a speech?
I honestly believe that GW has little to do with this, as I believe Clinton had little to do with this. Legislation this, and legislation that, who the fuck cares, you can smash yourself in the face with a baseball bat but that doesn't make it a good idea. Just because the law allows something doesn't make it a wise business decision. And as for Obama running the country into the ground...Today marks his second month in office, did anyone believe for a second that this was going to be gone within 2 months regardless of who won election. Let him do his fucking job. I understand that you don't agree with what he is doing, but give it a fucking chance, no matter how you feel this will be happening for 4 years. And let's say, for the sake of argument, that in 4 years the country is prosperous and doing well. What then? Should we throw Palin in there so she can fuck it up by deregulating everything? Neither one of you wants the country to turn around, you want your side to win. We are at a pivotal point in our history, chill with the partisan bullshit. I heard someone say Obama is socializing the financial system. Are you kidding me? This shit started in September. I want none of it, I want AIG to fail, and any company that made bad business decisions, but that ain't gonna happen.
I used to fall on the conservative side of center. I would have, prior to 2002, considered myself a republican. I voted for GW the first time and that is where I left. Religion has destroyed the party. I have no problem with someone being religious, but don't agree with pushing religious beliefs on a country supposedly with freedom of religion.
To end, here is something to think about...If capitalism is so great, why are we here now? Deregulation is one of the things that got us to this point, letting the financial system sort itself out would be the way to go if you were following capitalism. If we got to a point where CONSERVATIVE politicians and a CONSERVATIVE president thought that throwing money blindly at companies with no contingencies attached to that money was a good idea, I tend to think there is a flaw in that system.
I would also like to point out that Obama fucked up imo, in the same manner as GW did. Any taxpayer money that goes to any company needs to be loaded with contingencies to ensure that it goes directly to where it is supposed to go for the purpose it was intended. If I were running things, all of that money that was blindly thrown at companies in September to free up the credit markets would have only been used to make credit available, What happened instead? Companies bought other companies and AIG gave money to their partner companies and execs that ran the company into the ground. The fact that Obama didn't realize this and alter this method of bailout leaves me severely doubting his intelligence, but to think McCain/Palin would have done anything different would be laughable. The king of deregulation wasn't going to regulate shit.
