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What could possible go wrong???
Thousands line up for zero-down-payment, subprime mortgages
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Whoa there. That was genius. They weren't killing enough of each other until we got involved. And we made some $$$ in the process. What's not to like?kalm wrote:
I don’t like being cornered into an Obama apologist on this but you do remember who first coined the phrase “religion of peace”, right? You’re aware of who hosted the mujahadeen in the Oval Office and armed them to the teeth? Not to mention supporting both sides of the Iran-Iraq war.
Not to mention all the presidents who kissed the ass of the House of Saud. Obama seems hardly extraordinary in that regard. Kind of like his record on punishing Wall Street.
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CAA Flagship wrote:Whoa there. That was genius. They weren't killing enough of each other until we got involved. And we made some $$$ in the process. What's not to like?kalm wrote:
I don’t like being cornered into an Obama apologist on this but you do remember who first coined the phrase “religion of peace”, right? You’re aware of who hosted the mujahadeen in the Oval Office and armed them to the teeth? Not to mention supporting both sides of the Iran-Iraq war.
Not to mention all the presidents who kissed the ass of the House of Saud. Obama seems hardly extraordinary in that regard. Kind of like his record on punishing Wall Street.
An Arab on Arab shooting drill is always a win for the world. And if you can get the Joos involved too? Oh hell yes!
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And then a few years later were spending 100’s of billions on Gulf War 1. How much have we spent since? Is Iran still around?93henfan wrote:CAA Flagship wrote: Whoa there. That was genius. They weren't killing enough of each other until we got involved. And we made some $$$ in the process. What's not to like?
An Arab on Arab shooting drill is always a win for the world. And if you can get the Joos involved too? Oh hell yes!
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Conservative estimates over a Trillion... some calculate it closer to 3 Trillionkalm wrote:And then a few years later were spending 100’s of billions on Gulf War 1. How much have we spent since? Is Iran still around?93henfan wrote:
An Arab on Arab shooting drill is always a win for the world. And if you can get the Joos involved too? Oh hell yes!
But that's no big deal because our National infrastructure is in tip top shape...
So we've got money to burn
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Did I not say Obama was not alone in screwing up in the Middle East?kalm wrote:Sure but at least he didn't invade Egypt, Libya, or Syria (although he did drop a **** ton of bombs on Syria).CID1990 wrote:
Great. I've got to rehash the differences between Obama and Bush/Clinton/Bush for you, klam
They all paid lip service to not demonizing islam but only Obama was completely lost in the woods as to the reality of the overall situation in that part of the world - he actually thought he could generate goodwill in the Muslim world with a couple of well crafted speeches. The other guys were just trying not to get branded as Islamophobes within their own electorate
Only a complete naif would have supported the Arab Spring/Muslim Brotherhood/Libyan insurgency
That isn't to deflect from Clinton's and Bush's mistakes (and one of them was YUGE) but the central themes to their foreign policies on the ME were not based completely in naivete and wishful thinking as were Obama's. And Obama literally had a direct example from his predecessor that he could have learned from but went down that road anyway.
Do you not think one of the goals of the neo-cons was to create a bulwark for the middle east in Iraq from which democracy would flow?
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What is it that teeth-gnashing liberals want in terms of Saudi Arabia? Sanctions that hurt ordinary Saudis and not their wealthy oligarchy? Or perhaps more Bush "cowboy diplomacy"?
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How about NOTHING...Pwns wrote:What is it that teeth-gnashing liberals want in terms of Saudi Arabia? Sanctions that hurt ordinary Saudis and not their wealthy oligarchy? Or perhaps more Bush "cowboy diplomacy"?
because that's what's going to change
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More non-existent voter fraud -
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I'm betting it'll be student loans that cause the next bubble. A borrower defaults every 28 seconds, approximately. The Gov't has sold all the borrowers up a river.CID1990 wrote:Keep piling on that debt! Wooooo hoooooo!
http://reason.com/archives/2018/10/18/w ... so-screwed
When everything goes tits up, if the gov't really wants to bail out someone..bail out the borrowers of the student loans, not the companies. Think of what all that freed up money would do for Gen Xers and the Millennials. That'll be worth more than any half-ass, bull shit "tax cut" any Republican could ever pass. The current generations that need to work to pay for the baby boomers SS are too big to fail.
You can go bankrupt and have your mortgage, medical, credit card debt all erased. But not student loans.
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I would agree with a bailout of both - in return for the government getting out of the student loan business altogetherIbanez wrote:I'm betting it'll be student loans that cause the next bubble. A borrower defaults every 28 seconds, approximately. The Gov't has sold all the borrowers up a river.CID1990 wrote:Keep piling on that debt! Wooooo hoooooo!
http://reason.com/archives/2018/10/18/w ... so-screwed
When everything goes tits up, if the gov't really wants to bail out someone..bail out the borrowers of the student loans, not the companies. Think of what all that freed up money would do for Gen Xers and the Millennials. That'll be worth more than any half-ass, bull **** "tax cut" any Republican could ever pass. The current generations that need to work to pay for the baby boomers SS are too big to fail.
You can go bankrupt and have your mortgage, medical, credit card debt all erased. But not student loans.
The natural market correction would be that about 20% of the colleges in the US would shut down, and the ones that are left would shave off about 50% of their major offerings and almost all of their non-teaching factory. They’d be forced back to the basics and that’s a good thing
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I agree 100%. The US Govt should either get out of the loan business or make it free for all. It's selfish for me, but I could do a lot of with we spend each month. I could stimulate my local economy.CID1990 wrote:I would agree with a bailout of both - in return for the government getting out of the student loan business altogetherIbanez wrote: I'm betting it'll be student loans that cause the next bubble. A borrower defaults every 28 seconds, approximately. The Gov't has sold all the borrowers up a river.
When everything goes tits up, if the gov't really wants to bail out someone..bail out the borrowers of the student loans, not the companies. Think of what all that freed up money would do for Gen Xers and the Millennials. That'll be worth more than any half-ass, bull **** "tax cut" any Republican could ever pass. The current generations that need to work to pay for the baby boomers SS are too big to fail.
You can go bankrupt and have your mortgage, medical, credit card debt all erased. But not student loans.
The natural market correction would be that about 20% of the colleges in the US would shut down, and the ones that are left would shave off about 50% of their major offerings and almost all of their non-teaching factory. They’d be forced back to the basics and that’s a good thing
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Saw another Reason piece with Analjelly-worthy graphs pointing to a 30-year, $100 trillion deficit comprising just three elements: Social Security, Medicaid, and interest payments. Woo-hoo indeed.CID1990 wrote:Keep piling on that debt! Wooooo hoooooo!
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let's just print the exact amount and then we'll be good..right? I've got a printer we can use...Ivytalk wrote:Saw another Reason piece with Analjelly-worthy graphs pointing to a 30-year, $100 trillion deficit comprising just three elements: Social Security, Medicaid, and interest payments. Woo-hoo indeed.CID1990 wrote:Keep piling on that debt! Wooooo hoooooo!
http://reason.com/archives/2018/10/18/w ... so-screwed
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Yeah but you can afford to make your payments. And so can doctors and lawwers, and most people gainfully employed. So instead we will bail out the people that went to private colleges to major in social work or chose to attend for profit colleges for worthless degrees. And the govt will never get out of it because we have to help the poor people.Ibanez wrote:I agree 100%. The US Govt should either get out of the loan business or make it free for all. It's selfish for me, but I could do a lot of with we spend each month. I could stimulate my local economy.CID1990 wrote:
I would agree with a bailout of both - in return for the government getting out of the student loan business altogether
The natural market correction would be that about 20% of the colleges in the US would shut down, and the ones that are left would shave off about 50% of their major offerings and almost all of their non-teaching factory. They’d be forced back to the basics and that’s a good thing
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Start shutting down academic departments and for-profits with poor track records for job placement. Stop sending every bleeping high school student with a pulse to a four-year school. I would also be okay with federal funds for work study/internship/co-op programs for four-year colleges and also give out vouchers for people to learn to be welders and plumbers in technical schools as well.
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Some of hte biggest offenders of the for-profit schools are already failing. The Art Institute, for one, has been shutting down campuses. MrsCCU used to teach there and the stories she would tell are un-real.Pwns wrote:Start shutting down academic departments and for-profits with poor track records for job placement. Stop sending every bleeping high school student with a pulse to a four-year school. I would also be okay with federal funds for work study/internship/co-op programs for four-year colleges and also give out vouchers for people to learn to be welders and plumbers in technical schools as well.
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*campiIbanez wrote:Some of hte biggest offenders of the for-profit schools are already failing. The Art Institute, for one, has been shutting down campuses. MrsCCU used to teach there and the stories she would tell are un-real.Pwns wrote:Start shutting down academic departments and for-profits with poor track records for job placement. Stop sending every bleeping high school student with a pulse to a four-year school. I would also be okay with federal funds for work study/internship/co-op programs for four-year colleges and also give out vouchers for people to learn to be welders and plumbers in technical schools as well.
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EU Court of Human Rights sez: “Calling Mohammed a pedo ain’t covered under your silly ideas of free speech”
https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{"documentcollectionid2":["GRANDCHAMBER","CHAMBER"],"itemid":["001-187188"]}
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I'm not seeing the real reason for the situation described in the article at http://www.kplctv.com/2018/10/25/heavy- ... -hospital/. I was aware of it because my nephew and his wife were in the hospital when it was locked down. The story is that the guy bought tampons for his wife and was embarrassed about it so he wrapped them in a towel. Someone thought he had a gun.
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Europe is so screwed.CID1990 wrote:EU Court of Human Rights sez: “Calling Mohammed a pedo ain’t covered under your silly ideas of free speech”
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