I dont know his backstory - but i like his style. That was a lot of smackdown.

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Nice try, balabing..
Good sift though. Smackdown is indeed right, dmac.

I think Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need to get a room and make some more money babies.

>> ^choggie:
Solution:
When they come to take your home, don't let them.
Fuck a bank, it's only as strong as the power you give it...The cops who have to serve papers, are losing their homes as well.....


And make them show you the promissory note.

And why isn't this on the front yet?

Free capitalist market.. indeed. Of course it isn't. If a business fails.. it should fail.

Definition of IDIOCY: Bush blithely commenting about people needing to learn how to balance their checkbooks... and this.

Big whoop, I went down to Vegas and doubled my national debt in 15 minutes...

Authoritative smackdown. I've seen a few videos of this guy now. I'm liking him more and more.

Holy shit... the U.S. government doubled America's debt from 5 trillion to 10 trillion to bail out 2 private banks, and this isn't all over the news? No one knows about it, no one is outraged, and no one's going to do anything about it? Incredible. And I hate to say it, but what else is new? That seems to be the way things work in the U.S. these days.

Nothing new here... Rich people bailing out rich people by using money from someone else (you).

The last time banks were not bailed out it let to the 1929 crash and the Great Depresssion which let to WWII. Dont get me wrong, I am all for letting banks rot in hell, but our economy as currently setup is based on this make-believe system where if one card falls, the entire house will come down.

Any ideas on better economic systems?

How about communism? But still let people keep their guns.

I was thinking more along the lines of Marxism (we share all but there is no central command), Internetism (market economy but translucent and no central command, no guidance) or a pure dictatorship (with me as dictator).

I think the last one is the only realistic option.

Uh... the US national debt was/is already $9.5 trillion. As much as I agree with his point, his continual repeating of "doubling the debt by $5 trillion" does not make me trust his math.

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I like what Britain did with it's troubled banks -- it nationalized them, fired the management (no bonuses, no million-dollar salaries, no stock options, just shown the door), hired in responsible adults to run the thing, and then sold the company back to the shareholders.

If the company is too big to fail, go ahead and save the company, as long as you make sure the losers who screwed up the business lose their livelihood, rather than have taxpayers guarantee their salaries and bonuses, while the bank lays off workers at the bottom.

This is a bipartisan disease, though I imagine if Clinton tried this, they'd have impeached him...again.

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there's is a lot of ad hominem in here.

I like your point Netrunner. People are so busy arguing should we bail them out or shouldnt we and the affects when really we should be looking at "how" we go about. Through punishment or consequences you can reinforce others to get their act together and if done properly fat cats wouldnt have anywhere to hide and wouldnt be coddled as much as they already are. Who knows maybe we can make some money off of it, who am i kiddin, im going to go get drunk

Where exactly is he getting the 5 trillion number from?

>> ^SaNdMaN:
Where exactly is he getting the 5 trillion number from?


Together, the two companies own or guarantee $5 trillion worth of mortgages.

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