STILL CONSERVATIVE, AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
I vote Republican because I am politically conservative and I believe the GOP offers the best hope for the kind of governance I’d like to see. If I thought the Libertarian Party ever had a shot, I’d vote Liberterian. Maybe get a few Libertarian senators and representatives elected and, who knows?
The morning prayer circle where I work is largely conservative. We prayed for God to guide Barak Obama’s presidency. Then I went home to watch the liberal media continue it’s attack on Sarah Palin. (She lost by the way, remember?) That’s another reason I’m conservatives. Liberals talk about compassion, conservatives show it.
THIS BAILOUT IS GOING DOWN THE WRONG PATH! AIG gets a few billion here, The Big Three automakers get a few billion…Where does it stop? That’s the question everybody is asking as this economic crisis gets worse. Here’s an idea…SINCE IT’S OUR MONEY ANYWAY….Why not give it back to us. After all the reason for the economic crisis is, what.
Home loans going bad? Last I heard there were well under 2 million sub prime loans in default. Le’s just say there are 2 million. If you gave 2 million home owners $200,000 each and required them to apply it towards their home loans, and required those lenders to refinance at lower, more affordable rate. Wouldn’t that go a long, long way towards solving the crisis? And you’ve only spent $400 Billion. You’ve still got $300,000 billion to play with. AND IT’S OUR MONEY ANYWAY. Why not require the people who get these special outlays to pay it back, in taxes, interest free. Or better yet, put a second mortgage on their homes that kicks in when their first mortgage is paid. Principal only, no interest.
Of course the truth is, not everybody would need $200,000. There were actually 1.3 million sub-prime loans in default in 2007. Some just needed refinancing at the a lower rate so they could afford the payment again. When you jump from the 4% introductory rate brokers were giving with no doc loans, up to 8.5%, a realistic rate for borrowers with poor credit, on a $400, 000 home you go from $1900 a month payments to over $3000 a month. No wonder we’re having a crisis. Could you hack it if your mortgage payment almost doubled? That mortgage brokers lied about being able to refinance. (By the way, why not make ever mortgage broker that collected a fee for setting up one of these sub-prime loans pay a portion of that fee into a sub-prime rescue fund?)
The same concept applys to cars and everything else. In stead of taking our money and giving it to the big corporations so they can buy out other corporations and own more…why not give our money to us and let us spend it. That’s what will get the economy going. (Wells Fargo was given $25 billion dollars as part of the bailout. In stead of making that money available to consumers for loans, they used it buy out Wachovia. THEY USED OUR MONEY TO BUY WACHOVIA! Does that make any sense to you?
Republicans and Democrats alike are rushing to the trough with big buckets so they can feed their wealthy friends. I pray that Obama does bring real change, but based on what I’ve seen so far, Obama is going to be Clinton’s third term.
So much for change.
The Other Side Says: December 13th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
i thought that the defeat that the republicans suffered would change their attitudes regarding the direction of their party. america thoroughly mandated a progressive shift in policies and obama could be the beginning of a new generation in politics. the republican way of partisian politics and polarization was defeated, hopefully forever.
but that might have been wishful thinking. the republicans are doing nothing different and continue to obstruct progress that, again, america called for. this bailout for the auto industry is one example. why do republicans all of a sudden have a vested interest being responsible with tax payer money when they raised no objections to the wall street bailout and say nothing about the wasted billions in iraq? could it have to do with the foreign automakers in southern states and an ideological need to break unions? i guess white collared workers need money more than blue collared workers.
this is truely repulsive what republicans are doing and they deserve to run their party into the ground. but how dare they stand in the way of solutions that america voted for. republicans ruined this country for the past eight years and don’t seem to want to fix it.
Kolran Says: January 16th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
Huh? Past 8 years? Did clinton never take officer? Have the democrats not been in control since nancy palocy got in?
The Other Side Says: January 17th, 2009 at 4:49 am
its nice to hear a response on this site.
just because pelosi is the speaker of the house doesn’t mean democrats deserve blame for the destruction of america. not only did she have to work towards fixing the mess, she also had to work around petty republicans who filibustered and vetoed bills. the horrible policy decisions rubber-stamped by previous congresses are still running rampent, iraq and the economy to name a few.
republicans need to take responsibility for their ideology and policy. just look at how unrepentent bush was in his farwell address.