tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post646595303467271375..comments2023-10-21T05:55:59.422-04:00Comments on BarackObama666: Happy New Year: Hopefully It Will BePubliushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16915351885679876346noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post-80769117448350894742010-01-05T14:30:06.420-05:002010-01-05T14:30:06.420-05:00Class Warfare American Style
At turning points su...Class Warfare American Style<br /><br />At turning points such as these, when the time is right, a 'great man' will stand up and many will follow. Who will it be, and what principals and principles will they represent?<br /><br />Obama was such a one, but he is obviously like the character of Robert the Bruce in the movie Braveheart, or perhaps the Bruce's father, who chooses practically and cynically to support the nobles. He is finished; no one will follow him as his betrayal becomes too painfully obvious.<br /><br />Will it be the banal fascist with the easy answers, the vile leftist with retribution to offer, or a 'braveheart' who has nothing to offer but hardship, and freedom?<br /><br />America is not alone in this. The UK is further along the path. We may see the first expression of the future of the West in London than in Washington. Only the future will tell.<br /><br /> "There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning." Warren Buffett New York Times, November 26, 2006.<br /><br /> "The class warfare is over -- we lost. I want to make that announcement today. Working people lost. The middle class lost." Dennis Kucinich, 18 December 2009<br /><br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/yhko6xmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post-23293139666027837222010-01-05T11:54:11.880-05:002010-01-05T11:54:11.880-05:00Can't verify this but heard every banker has o...Can't verify this but heard every banker has one of these in their office:<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/y8ewp73Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post-34502136169069831482010-01-04T12:59:28.505-05:002010-01-04T12:59:28.505-05:00"HAFA" - Foreclosure Warning Dead Ahead!..."HAFA" - Foreclosure Warning Dead Ahead!<br /><br />However, I must object to how Treasury has gone about this. Rather than being an advocate for the people of this nation Treasury has instead intentionally designed these programs and withheld critical information from the public with regard to their full intentions with the purpose and effect of inducing consumers to enter into transactions that are severely to their disadvantage - all to create yet another rip-off of the public for the benefit of the big banks.<br />http://tinyurl.com/yl553ymAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post-71482374709741368062010-01-04T07:57:30.726-05:002010-01-04T07:57:30.726-05:00You know, I’ve really been trying not to write an ...You know, I’ve really been trying not to write an article every other week about all the things I don’t like about Barack Obama.<br /><br /><br />Like any good progressive, I’ve gone from admiration to hope to disappointment to anger when it comes to this president. Now I’m fast getting to rage.<br /><br />How much rage? I find myself thinking that the thing I want most from the 2010 elections is for his party to get absolutely clobbered, even if that means a repeat of 1994. And that what I most want from 2012 is for him to be utterly humiliated, even if that means President Palin at the helm. That much rage.<br /><br />Did this clown really say on national television that “I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street”?!?!<br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/yjtyeqgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post-66022999995397362752010-01-03T21:30:34.175-05:002010-01-03T21:30:34.175-05:00As the middle class gets blamed for all their prob...As the middle class gets blamed for all their problems and gutted, these scumbags keep creating fast money...everything is a complete game to this administration:<br /><br />State records show Walmart paid $22.6 million in cash last year for the right to claim $33.6 million in energy tax credits. The cash went to seven projects, including two eastern Oregon wind farms and SolarWorld's manufacturing plant in Hillsboro. In return, Walmart profits $11 million on the deal because that's the difference between what it paid for the tax credit and the amount of its tax reduction.<br /><br />The loser in the transaction is Oregon's general fund -- which pays for public schools, prisons and health care programs -- because the state is out the full $33.6 million in tax revenues.<br /><br />Walmart isn't alone. An analysis by The Oregonian shows Costco and U.S. Bank, which also rank among the nation's top 200 wealthiest businesses, have made millions by buying up energy tax credits to cut their Oregon tax bills. Dozens of other companies and hundreds of individual Oregon taxpayers also have cut their tax bills by buying up the tax credits.<br />http://tinyurl.com/ygu6oxdAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post-85507293260296651672010-01-02T23:52:48.098-05:002010-01-02T23:52:48.098-05:00Why doesn't someone at the WH read this:
New ...Why doesn't someone at the WH read this:<br /><br />New York Times Takes Aim at Treasury Mortgage Mod Program<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />While no one has said as much, Home Affordable Modification Program, like the Paulson Hope Alliance Now, looks designed to work very narrowly within existing securitization rules to so as to minimize the odds that any mortgages modifications under the program could be challenged in court. However, the resulting program is an abortion. It gives little in the way of real benefits to borrowers. So called “permanent mods” are in fact only a five year payment reduction, which makes sense only if the borrower believes both his income will improve markedly between now and then (given stagnant worker incomes since 1973 and deflationary pressures, that is unlikely to apply for most people) and that the value of his house will appreciate considerably over that timeframe as well. Of course, Treasury may harbor fantasies like that, which might explain why they thought this dubious program was viable.<br /><br /><br />January 2, 2010 at 6:50 am<br /><br />This still seems more optimistic regarding Treasury’s motives than I’m willing to be.<br /><br />It seems clear that the mod program was never meant to solve the problem, namely to keep people in their homes.<br /><br />Rather, facing the prospect of more and more people being willing to stand up for themselves and walk away, this program was a scam meant to induce people to keep paying, dangling the fraudulent promise of a permanent mod (which, as this piece demonstrates once again, was always a chimera). Meanwhile Treasury itself wrote into the agreements how once you enter the program you waive all rights to further negotiations or even notifications.<br /><br />So once they lured somebody in with these lies, the banks could then keep extracting until they foreclosed at a time of their convenience.<br /><br />Once again we see the joint crime of the banksters and this administration.<br /><br />In light of that and of everything else, it’s overwhelmingly clear that where it comes to a rogue, criminal system and a rigged, corrupt “legal” system,, there are no longer any “contracts”.<br /><br />The banks are not citizens. They’re simply gutter criminals, and no reasonable person thinks a contract with a common criminal is binding, morally or legally.<br /><br />So I’d suggest that decent Americans stop trying to rationally argue with the “sanctity of contracts crowd” and instead demonize and villify them as the scum they are. It’s clear by now that such perps are not willing to be part of the solution, but only to be part of the crime.<br /><br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/yjedrgxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post-69063208917756842812010-01-02T23:30:22.511-05:002010-01-02T23:30:22.511-05:00Looks like we really did get Bush3...same cronyism...Looks like we really did get Bush3...same cronyism, same profiteering....anyone who voted for obama really got duped...<br /><br />KBR must have 4 civilians for every military member. There are a few American contractors but most seem to be Foreign nationals. Philippine nationals are everywhere. I'm sure they get paid peanuts so the KBR shareholders get their return.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/yalug48Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post-4217610065986881652010-01-02T00:03:28.734-05:002010-01-02T00:03:28.734-05:00HAMP=SHAM
BAILOUT FOR BANKS= CAPITALISTIC
LOWERIN...HAMP=SHAM<br />BAILOUT FOR BANKS= CAPITALISTIC<br /><br />LOWERING RATES/EXTENGING MATURITIES=SOCIALISTIC<br /><br /><br />JOKES ON US<br />U.S. Loan Effort Is Seen as Adding to Housing Woes <br />The Treasury Department publicly maintains that its program is on track. “The program is meeting its intended goal of providing immediate relief to homeowners across the country,” a department spokeswoman, Meg Reilly, wrote in an e-mail message.<br /><br />But behind the scenes, Treasury officials appear to have concluded that growing numbers of delinquent borrowers simply lack enough income to afford their homes and must be eased out. <br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/yg73hplAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post-43916748311630914952010-01-01T14:59:43.334-05:002010-01-01T14:59:43.334-05:00William K. Black's Theory of Corporate Fraud
...William K. Black's Theory of Corporate Fraud<br /><br /><br />William K. Black is a former senior deputy chief counsel at the federal Office of Thrift Supervision. During the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s Black investigated accounting fraud. He spoke with Huffington Post Senior Reporter, David Heath, about how fraud can infiltrate entire corporations. <br /><br />http://tinyurl.com/y89tewtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173940490303025576.post-88392416576015671352010-01-01T14:12:44.734-05:002010-01-01T14:12:44.734-05:00What a lost concept:
Wednesday - December 30
Chr...What a lost concept:<br /><br />Wednesday - December 30<br /><br />Christmas and New Years Hope for a Global Present: Principles<br /><br /><br />http://www.deanlebaron.com/index.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com