FACT: Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the president. So did Bush’s secretary of the Treasury, five years ago.

Eight years you had a president that did all you wanted, and for six years you had a Republican majority Congress backing him up, and yet the country did not prosper. It is common knowledge that the true friend of all bankers are the Republicans is it possible the Elephants took as much money as the Donkeys?

Here are the FACTS:

Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Sen. Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years — including the present year — denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big risks that could lead to a financial crisis.

FACT: It was Sen. Dodd, Congressman Frank, and other liberal Democrats who for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set up an agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

FACT: It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today’s financial crisis.

FACT: Alan Greenspan warned them four years ago. So did the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the president. So did Bush’s secretary of the Treasury, five years ago.

Yet, today, what are we hearing? That it was the Bush administration “right-wing ideology” of “de-regulation” that set the stage for the financial crisis. Do facts matter?

Then there is the question of being against the “greed” of CEOs and for “the people.” Franklin Raines made $90 million while he was head of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution into crisis.

Who in Congress defended Franklin Raines? Liberal Democrats, including Maxine Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus, at least one of whom referred to the “lynching” of Raines, as if it was racist to hold him to the same standard as white CEOs.

Even after he was deposed as head of Fannie Mae, Franklin Raines was consulted this year by the Obama campaign for his advice on housing!

FACT: The Washington Post criticized the McCain campaign for calling Raines an adviser to Obama, even though that fact was reported in the Washington Post itself on July 16th. The technicality and the spin here is that Raines is not officially listed as an adviser. But someone who advises is an adviser, whether or not his name appears on a letterhead.

FACT: The tie between Barack Obama and Franklin Raines is not all one-way. Obama has been the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae’s financial contributions, right after Sen. Christopher Dodd.

But ties between Obama and Raines? Not if you read the mainstream media.

Facts don’t matter much politically if they are not reported.

But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely NOTHING beyond the advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years allied himself with a succession of people WHO HAVE OPENLY EXPRESSED THEIR HATRED FOR AMERICA.

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Chavez, Morales, Correa have multiplied poverty and despair, institutionalized corruption, and taken away freedoms and rights from their people. The same can be expected from Obama.

How can we defend ourselves and our children? First, we must insist that Obama be investigated before takes offices. Even his birth certificate is in question. And how about his links with enemies of the U.S. (including Ayers, Wright, Soros)? Shouldn’t Americans be protected from an impostor planted by terrorists like Ayers to destroy us?

If the Supreme Court does not defend us, we must be ready to defend ourselves everyday by every means at our disposal. We need to remember that we MUST NOT trust the mainstream media. They lied, hid important information about Obama, and manipulated the population. We must keep informed through trusted conservative media.

The U.S. and the Free World are in grave danger. All Americans who believe in American principles and love the U.S. must begin working to have candidates for positions at all government levels who support U.S. basic principles.

We must also try to defend our friends in other countries. In the second debate, Obama repeated Chavez’s propaganda against Colombia’s President Uribe, the only steadfast friend of the U.S. in Latin America. As if to back Obama’s words, leftist demonstrations (probably paid by Chavez) mushroomed all over Colombia. If Obama continues supporting Chavez, Uribe and Colombia as a democracy will be destroyed. The same can be said about Israel and about every country and leader that has sided with democracy and the U.S. They and we are all in danger.

Here’s the problem just on what I see on the ‘Net.

You have your economic conservatives that believe that paying taxes is wrong and that the more wealthy you are the more you don’t have to pay them.
The second part of the argument that if they don’t pay the taxes all that spare income can be use to pay people that would pay the taxes.

Here’s the problem that popped up on that argument. Those wealthy people realized that people in other countries offered better quality work for far less money which meant they got to keep more of their money. So the wheels started coming of the belief that rich people that were given a pass on supporting the government would mean more jobs for the lower classes. It didn’t happened.

More importantly Pierce believes that if you make something too expensive nobody will buy it and the price will go down then people will buy. Free market theory at its best. The problem was that instead of consumers not buying those products they relied on consumer credit offered by those retailers to pay that high price. Now folks are hitting the wall with that consumer debt and defaulting.

Free market theory didn’t factor in people borrowing money to buy food.

Conservatives have no answer for overwhelming debt, or profiteering, or fraud. Conservatives don’t have an answer for dealing with people who are not capable of taking care of themselves. Conservatives haven’t adjusted their philosophy to deal with cheap energy and cheap labor that are no longer abundant. Actually cheap labor is still abundant but none of it was born here. So the belief by conservatives that we have drive that cheap labor back across the borders it is not obvious to them that they are shooting themselves in the foot.
They are in conflict with their own beliefs of cheap energy, cheap labor, and no government intervention means prosperity.

Now there are the social/political conservatives that say they believe that personal liberty means you should be able to do whatever you want to do as long as it doesn’t interfere with anybody else wanting to do what they want to do.

Unless… you’re the wrong religion, or dare to question their beliefs. Then you don’t deserve any rights.

The government is great when it enforces the law on “them” but evil when it enforces the law on “me”. That is what I see is the conservative position.

What I really believe have conservatism stuck in the mud is the desire to go back to what they saw as simplier times but you can’t apply those simplier times to today because the environment is different, the technology is different, and the advances in human development, for better or worse, has made things really different. So conservatives have to accept a nation affected by mulitple cultures that are not Christian or European based. They have to accept a nation forced to find other energy alternatives. They have to be willing to improve quality of life not just for themselves they have to be willing to give service to their communities.

Then conservatives have to accept the responsibility of this nation being the last superpower. That means interacting with other nations, other peoples, and maintaining the peace, in order to survive.

You had a guy that will be the subject of textbooks for years to come on how not to deal with all of those challenges. Lets be honest he has done more damage to the nation financially over 8 years than Osama bin Laden has done to us and I’m including the attacks to US property overseas. Conservatives have to ask themselves do they believe what he believes.

Obama’s policies are doomed to fail. But in the bizarro world of liberalism, they’ll use that as an excuse to give the gov’t more control. Because no matter what the situation, they always assume more gov’t is better.