So, I leave Taylor with Geo.

I think he’s rude and uninformed.

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I get the rude part but uninformed? that hurts.

Took me time.

I’ve decided I accept this.

I wouldn’t say you guys have pushed me further into voting Republican.

I’m still at the same point on that issue, because that’s my own personal vote, and I don’t give that up.

But I do accept that this blog has established its parameters.

And I don’t fit in.

So, I leave Taylor with Geo.

I think he’s rude and uninformed.

But..,..I respect the blog owner.

She made it clear she likes his perspective.

So I will not stir up your cozy blog in the future.

I leave it to Geo.

Taylor has the right to set the tone of her blog, and I certainly don’t fit in.

That’s OK. That’s not the same as banning people.

I want to make that clear.

She never banned me, though she sure didn’t agree with me.

But, Geo won the “war of attitude.”

So Geo gets the kudos here.

Thanks for the transition stage, by the way.

And I do applaude Taylor for her posting policies.

I am hated, but I wasn’t banned.

I’ve found a load of sites where I’m not hated.

So that’s cool.
So, good luck to all of you. I never found you to be my enemy, except for Geo……because he’s so personal.

But I think he’s established the new direction for this site.

May you all find peace with Geo.

As Taylor said, “I’ll never ban you.”

This is someone who is insulting beyond belief.

So get the rules, guys.

Geo rules.

I can’t STAND Obamafans, but even I know…..they want the best for all of us.

Are you truly that jaded?

“Elect us and we’ll fix this via tax cuts”

This coming from the people who created the mess in the first place.

I realize that is shocking. They like Obama. They don’t like the stimulus bill.

I don’t think people object at all to welfare efforts right now. It’s needed.

I do think people are skeptical about government spending on government.

And none of us get the banking situation. Who knows?

Nobody is disputing safety net issues.

But……but……..but……

I’ve been around homeless people for years, personally. There are plenty and have been for a long time.

If you’re just meeting them, welcome.

On a related note, head of the IMF just declared this a global depression.

There are “Good Banks” who didn’t get involved in this fiasco, and they are about to get screwed from the market standpoint.

My other thought is that the sheer volume of the new debt has Wall St. adjusting. We’ll not be out of this one for at least a decade.

or…….it could be that this will so shake up gloabal markets that there’s no where to invest.

Anyway, the “Bad Bank” approach is not popular with a lot of folks. I get that one.

I have no real opinion on this deal. It’s a bit like reading intricate opinions on CIA activities.

Like I’ve ever been a spy?

I do have an opinion on Obama’s press conference/speech.

Thumbs down for fear-mongering and Republican bashing.

He set up a straw man.

Tacky, tacky.

Sure enough, CNN pre-picked responders weren’t very enthused.

A grad student after the press conference gave him a B- for going on-and-on.

A woman in Indiana was surprised at being called out by him as non-patriotic, just because she doesn’t agree on the stimulas bail-out.

Then there were the usual flowers for him going on-and-on by people who mistake wordiness for intelligence.

I have decided that there is no solution to the divisions other than sheer success.

So, if his policies work…..partisanship will ebb.

If not……..it won’t.

There’s more to it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6KRXnYgu5I

“Currently burning up the tubes: Rep. Paul Kanjorski’s description, late last month, of how close to the brink the global economy came on September 18. That was the day, recall, when Congressional leaders emerged stunned from a meeting with Henry Paulson, and gave him broad authority to spend $700 billion.

Part of what he said:

On Thursday at 11:00 a.m. the Federal Reserve noticed a tremendous draw-down of money market accounts in the U.S., to the tune of $550 billion was being drawn out in the matter of an hour or two. The Treasury opened up its window to help and pumped a $105 billion in the system and quickly realized that they could not stem the tide. We were having an electronic run on the banks. They decided to close the operation, close down the money accounts and announce a guarantee of $250,000 per account so there wouldn’t be further panic out there.

If they had not done that, their estimation is that by 2:00 p.m. that afternoon, $5.5 trillion would have been drawn out of the money market system of the U.S., would have collapsed the entire economy of the U.S., and within 24 hours the world economy would have collapsed. It would have been the end of our economic system and our political system as we know it.”

Yikes!

Video:
http://tinyurl.com/c4suvb

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Seems to me no one will actually turn down money in the end, which will make it pretty hard for Republicans to demonize the spending. So they have to do all their demonizing now before it’s too late!

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Funny thing is, there is a story on Huffpo that basically states that officials from the Obama admin were basically laughed at at a meeting with the Senate committee when they went over to capitol hill to present the framework of their plan …

IF this plan they are calling a “Revised Tarp” manages to utilize the remainder of the Tarp funds from the failed former administration in concert with very little contribution from the American public, while still managing to eek out some form of noticeable improvement in bank lending and the foreclosure problem, the Obama administration can use that success as a collateral to inquire for more Funding in the future to completely immunize the Problem for future generation ( if that is possible – keyword = REGULATIONS ) …

Obama is coming on right now in FL.

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And it provided me with a quick overview as to who was on line. I actually could tell who was on by just looking at the avatars.

Who is the money going to for education? The states or the schools? If the states, what’s to prevent them from using it for other purposes?

My fear is that the requirements, when they are laid out in more detail, will cause the opposite effect.