mikeVA's Comments (48)

“"It" really is a Texas thing, huh?”

“Have you taken a look at our younger segments? No. A sizable number of kids can't even qualify for military service! 25% lack a high school diploma. 10% have at least 1 prior conviction. 27% are too fat. 32% have health issues other than fat. And take a look at the numbers related to education in the south! And then we have kids out of college with no job so they are forced to join the military. We'll just play police force for the world while our own kids get sucked into the gutter.

How about we work on our problems and let those tribes solve theirs?”

“I got an idea. We'll make a new currency, the american people currency, we'll keep our Constitution, with a few new rules (contributions gone, corporation charters educational only), we'll have new election, and we'll scrap all the sarbanes and mush law, we'll keep our safety nets, and viola. The financial "false" markets and their pets can pay to play in our real economy and they can sort out their financing with their japanese and chinese conspirators. How does that sound?”

“The financial economy is too busy. Got to spend 90 percent of the day clawing for your fee. And what does the financial economy make? Well big tall buildings in a desert or merge a big organization to fire a bunch of people. The financial economy gets to make their own credit and laugh at all the normal organizations that have to scrounge for disappearing profit and nonexistent asset turns.”

“Beck is definitely on something, and he the show, the one where he convinces enough impoverished people to blame themselves, ie other impoverished people.

The truth.
http://www.japanfocus.org/-R_Taggart-Murphy/3265”

“That is my hope and what I imagine. A new valuation system free of the old political jargon lead by real people, real leaders like Elizabeth Warren. We center on our education hubs, decide on fair base-line valuations, and provide all people the opportunity to contribute meaningfully. Presently, these "deal" in our "financial economy" are far to restrictive and given to far too few people, many have little to no special or selective merit.”

“"By 2020, the Chinese middle class will eclipse its American and European counterparts in sheer size," says Ming-Jer Chen. Now my question, how do we make this comparison? The American middle class is gone, now, and the Chinese middle class will grow to what size? We are talking a net lose for freedom, growth, real innovation as these set oligarchies tamp down disruptive technology and hand out scraps to the impoverished cohorts. The global system of valuation is broken.”

“Virginia is the Mid-Atlantic.”

“Thank you Jerry. CNBC lacks professionalism. The network has decided that the crank economics and law of Kudlow sells.”

“The IRS requires all people to record their income - they have explicit rules for all income. That means even Jack Abramoff and all his indicted and convicted felons. Got to record your income even unsavory income from child labor.”

“Bond, could you give us some sources? Are you talking about Kudlow, National Review, the cranks at Hudson/Hoover Institute?”

“I swear part of the reason is because women have higher propensity to get pushed into replicating other people's thinking and other people's expectations. Talking 9 to 5: Women and Men at Work (Tannen) and The Evolving Self (Csikszentmihalyi) do an insightful job of exploring happiness and interaction and expressing individuality. And while the United States has made progress, we still have a great deal to learn - many men still unconsciously ignore or place less value on insight from women.”

“These congress people are the same politicians that gave us the most expansive government in history. The bulk of current spending is from Bush - some still in operation merely because of the current economic situation.”

“And the majority of the "innovation" and research comes from public organizations.”

“-snip-
The deepest downturn in the U.S. economy since the Great Depression may finally shrink the gap between the very best-off Americans and everyone else.
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Wow, they did just say that. The government and the Fed initiated the biggest transfer of wealth in history. And some of these ideological, outlets like the National Review want to argue that the "government" made no error by shirking their regulatory and supervisory duty. The household sector got ripped-off.”

“Hardly surprising that conservatives would find a - one way exchange of ethical behavior. Thank you for showing the police report for these ___fraud___ conservatives. When Mitt Romney, BossLimbaugh, and ClusterFox say that they want the country to fail, they are hardly joking. What a waste of time from these fraud conservatives and their propaganda machine.”

“Thank you for your service. We need strong leaders, tempered by crisis, like you.”

“-snip-
Shortly after she was named to head the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in 1996, Brooksley E. Born was invited to lunch by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan.

The influential Greenspan was an ardent proponent of unfettered markets. Born was a powerful Washington lawyer with a track record for activist causes. Over lunch, in his private dining room at the stately headquarters of the Fed in Washington, Greenspan probed their differences.

“Well, Brooksley, I guess you and I will never agree about fraud,” Born, in a recent interview, remembers Greenspan saying.

“What is there not to agree on?” Born says she replied.

“Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don’t think there is any need for a law against fraud,” she recalls. Greenspan, Born says, believed the market would take care of itself.

For the incoming regulator, the meeting was a wake-up call. “That underscored to me how absolutist Alan was in his opposition to any regulation,” she said in the interview.

Over the next three years, Born, ’61, JD ’64, would learn first-hand the potency of those absolutist views, confronting Greenspan and other powerful figures in the capital over how to regulate Wall Street.
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“More congresspeople need to learn the financial industry. The congress should set up some seminars. The summer of 2007 should have a been a major point of recognition and action. Instead, few Washington types knew or contemplated the fable about to unfold.”

“What exactly was accomplished? Some circus act got paid? The US will still push emergent technology. Now we have a leadership position to replace.”

“MacKenzie, Jean. "Are US Taxpayers Funding the Taliban?" GlobalPost. September 2, 2009.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/afghanistan/090902/usaid-taliban-funding

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KABUL — The United States Agency for International Development has opened an investigation into allegations that its funds for road and bridge construction in Afghanistan are ending up in the hands of the Taliban, through a protection racket for contractors.
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“You are still a conservative, just embarrassed that you tortured kids like Mohammed Jawad, wrecked the economy, and lost two wars.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/2009/02/frakt-closing-argument.pdf.

We have public schools, police, fire, works, engineering, roads, and all the rest. Jefferson has the University of Virginia as one of his three great designs. We can have a plan to compete with a handful of insurers. Republicans, and Romney and the rest, specifically care only about their political fortunes rather than finding common ground for health reform to bring the parity with rest of the modern world.”

“bwhahah-so do what created this mess? you watch kudlow too? We'll just shut down public schools, continue to lose our edge in technology to germany and china, stop the income multipliers and the "free market" will save the day. We can teach everyone scholes and have a big casino of insurance and banks.

The current fiscal stimulus is roughly 40% tax cuts - worthless tax cuts.”

“Journalistic ethics! bwhahhahahahaha - where do we find that in the wingnut propaganda machine? The only rule at ClusterFox is sensational propaganda.”

“Embarrassingly poor article, at minimum make a good list of positives and negatives.”