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Originally Posted by smooth
That article seems to be more upset about the general population not receiving handouts than the banks receiving them.
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The editorial board is known locally as notoriously left leaning.
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In any case, how is Obama to blame for the program lacking proper guidelines when the Bush administration set the program up and Congress was running around crazily claiming if they didn't act before December the entire economy would collapse?
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Yes.
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What would him acting like "the man" entail? Doing whatever he wants regardless of how the program was initially designed before he was president without Congressional approval?
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He is the establishment now, in my opinion he often still acts like he is a street protester. If he wants to do good for working people there are many simple and basic things that could be done, one being enforcing the loan modification program. The bank bailouts were a problem from the very beginning, most of us knew that, most of us thought government should give money directly back to the "people". If the program was set up inadequately (which as a candidate Obama said he was confident it met all of his requirements), he and Congress should change it, and do it now.
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I'm not sure I understand your political philosophy. It seems to me that you would want a limited government, but when it comes to Obama and this bank loan program you want him to operate outside the bounds of Congressional and contractual limits constraining his power to do what he wants. How do you reconcile these kinds of disjunctions in your reasoning?
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I don't like getting screwed up the a$$, figuratively (never tried it literally and have no interest). My dislike of getting screwed up the a$$ is not a partisan issue. I don't like the fact that my tax dollars were given to banks, and then have these banks turn around and raise fees, credit card rates, cut credit limits, restrict access to credit, and in the case of some like Goldman - make record profits, and give out billions in bonuses. Where is the outrage!!! I don't get it.
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Obama is "bad" for a reason in my book. I don't like bullshit artists, do you? Obama has not done a single thing for the average man since taking office. All his talk has been bullshit. All of it.