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Originally Posted by Rekna
I find it funny how you are now so worried about deficit spending. Where were you during the Regan/Bush years?
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I have never supported the excessive spending in Washington. I support smaller government, lower taxes and fiscal discipline. My support of Bush primarily involved the war on terror and the war in Iraq. If you read my posts, you will find many where I disagreed with him on fiscal policy and government spending. I have been consistent, others have not been including those who had a problem with Bush deficits but now think deficits will prevent the worst crisis in the history of man or whatever they are saying about it today.
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Originally Posted by shakran
Ahh yes. Football economics.
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Every lesson to be learned about life, can be learned on the football field.
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Originally Posted by filtherton
I suppose if your current reaction is any indication, after he called the first play, and your team failed to score on that next play, you got on him about his poor leadership abilities and then waxed nostalgic about the previous quarterback in every huddle for the rest of the game.
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Nope. We focused on the moment, the job at hand not the past. We all made mistakes, we where all there and we knew what got us into our situation.
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Originally Posted by dippin
Ace,
No one is going to resume payment on an underwater mortgage simply because the president was upbeat.
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If you believe that hanging on will lead to a better future you will. If the President says it is the right thing to do in troubled times. If the President says his economic policies will reward those willing to do what is right in these difficult times you would. Granted perhaps, not 100% of the people, but what if half of those in default did? think it would make a difference?
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No one is going to reverse foreclosure because the president is a good cheerleader. Mortgage backed securities are not suddenly become worth something again because the administration sounds optimistic. No investor is going to pick up worthless derivatives because a chief of staff is smiling.
That is not how it works.
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And if the Pres. says you and your business is worthless and that you are bordering on being criminal scum, that just might have an impact on your future behavior or the value others see in you and your business.
I can't believe you don't think words can make a difference if they come from the most powerful office on the planet. I simply can not believe it, I won't accept it.