News flash: We are working hard to find the person or people responsible for our financial meltdown. We have a few suspects -- Bill Clinton, because we know he is responsible for something; President Obama, because, well, the buck stops there; tax-and-spend liberals, because their name says it all; the Democratic Party, because they once had a one-seat majority in the Senate.
Please, if you can think of any other suspects, let us know immediately.
Robert Phillips
Aiken, S.C.
Comments
No need to look at Democrats, we know they're all honest or at least beyond prosecution!
Everybody needs to wake up: It's all of the politicians. Just look at the latest spending bill signed by President Obama, just as many Republicans had earmarks in it as did Democrats. We need to start voting these people out of office.
AC, why do you print this garbage? Have some pity on this poor idiot, Robert Phillips.
Robert Phillips seems to represent the foolish defensive point of view of the left in denial. Yes, the people he mentioned are partly responsible, though hardly for the excuses he makes for them. The social engineering idea of "a house for everyone" spun off the CRA concept. The banks didn't like the idea of unsecured loans, duh. The Freddie and Fannie full guarantee(at taxpayer expense) made the loans not only easy to acquire, but also gave them apparent value so packaging and reselling could occur. The snowball continued to grow as this scam took on international aspects. The precariously balanced economy ,with a foundation of promises, was easy to topple for the sake of securing an election. The foolish path taken by the feds, banks, investors and finally, the politicians eager for control, led to the unintended consequence of a world wide recession....in danger of being made into a depression by the wild spending of our Marxist leader and his handlers. Who's to blame? The voting public is to blame, and they're the only ones that will be able to save us. Flush the congress and replace it with people that feel this country is more important than their personal wealth.
No problem Robert Phillips, we can place all the blame on the left, but when we get ourselves and the economy back on track we should give the left all the credit too..
Our leaders in all areas are a representation of who the people in this country really are. Take a look at television and go through the channels and look at what people are watching ( if they weren't watching then it wouldn't be on the air). Then think about the mind-set that would watch this trash and now you realize who you are living with in this country. Once you've done that, you know why we got to where we are and where we are heading. Most don't follow the Word's instruction by guarding what they see and hear and now they are a product of it. Each of us can avoid being effected by guarding what we see, what we hear, and what we say. God has given all the answers but you won't hear them on the national or local news.
I actually agree with most everyone this morning, pieces here and there. I actually agree with PT on her point about the voting public (wow - never thought that would happen). It's the greed and perceived superior mentality of the Bernie Madoff's, the Ken Lays, and other like them. It's also those of us who vote because if we have the power to put these people in office, we should have the power to remove them from office. If they actually cared about what the public thought, they wouldn't do some of the illegal things that they do because they would understand that we would vote them out of office. They aren't scared because they know most people are going to vote straight party line regardless of what they do. How many of us write to our representatives about the votes that they cast?? I write to mine pretty often because I get an email of what votes they cast and what votes are coming up. If more people did that, we could hold our representatives more accountable for what they are doing. http://capwiz.com/military/issues/votes/ is the website that I use to check on my representatives. Let's hold them accountable, regardless of party.
I see that Mr Phillips has really ticked off the Democrats who read and criticize the Chronicle. Of course he is on track and has named the culprit in the melt-down of our economy. Ah, well.....
It is said that we must remember that 40% of the pork in the new bill came from repubs. That means we must also stop to thinkand realize that there was 60% of the pork that came from the dims. For some, that seems to be difficult to understand.
Sooo Mr. Phillips, you're tired of the AC blaming this mess on Dems and Libs. OK, I'll give you that. I would like to go on record to say I'm pi$$ed at the Repubs for going along with the Dems.
President Obama is a very itellegent ppresident who doesn't need any handlers. We just got to get use to intellegence in the oval office. Its been quite a while. President Obama is the Tiger Woods of the white house and we couldn't be prouder. HELLO! HELLO! HELLO! and HELLO again.
Jack, did you ever have a mind, or is yours lost?
jack234 Obama is more like Harry Belafonte than Tiger Woods. Both really good actors too.
The people smart enough to lead things are usually not the ones going into politics. They use their intelligence in the private sector for personal gain. Most of us would likely be guilty of doing the same if we could.
# Saying pbho "is a very itellegent ppresident who doesn't need any handlers. We just got to get use to intellegence in the oval office. Its been quite a while." I wonder who carries his teleprompter around for him. I guess it's so he can be reminded about how many states there are. The blind and gullible dims continue to be blind and gullible.
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