Posted on September 23 at 12:57 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
We have seen what the Harvard / Ivy League educated elitists have done. The have wrecked our nation.
I am ready to elect plain old ordinary folks with common sense and a real purpose.
Then we need to get rid of those wackos in our media like Chris Mathews. He's a joke not worth his pay.
Posted on August 26 at 12:15 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
The Tea Partiers are comprised of republicans -democrats - indepedents off all races, genders, and ages.
Tea Partiers are no more their own political party than Native Americans - African Americans - Hispanics - Caucasians or Asians are a political party.
But I will agree that All those folks mentioned are: VOTERS!!!
93% of African Americans support & will vote for President Obama. No one labels or villifies the African American for their beliefs.
Why do people think they have the right to villify the beliefs of other voters like the Tea Partiers?
Grow up America ... if you cannot convince someone to believe as you do with good reasons to, at least show them the courtesy of listening to their ideas.
Villifying other Americans, especially about their political views, is a highly toxic & cancerous form of debate that has never worked! But it does clearly weaken America.
On How will the season end for the Brewers?
Posted on August 26 at 11:55 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
Don't believe the Brew Crew can beat the Phillies ...
On Pointing started Wis. court choking incident
Posted on August 26 at 11:50 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
"A liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice told investigators a conservative colleague choked her after she pointed at her office door and told him to get out. .... Walsh Bradley said she didn't feel any pressure on her neck."
It's pretty clear the right decision was made in this incident. It is pretty hard for the DA to prove Prosser 'choked' Walsh Bradley without squeezing and putting pressure on her neck / throat; which she says he did not.
I wonder if Walsh Bradley used her middle finger to point Prosser to the door?
This is an example of a liberal community irresponsibly trying & condemning a conservative justice in their liberal community's liberal media without any merit or facts to base their condemnation on except their POLITICAL BIAS!
On Public profanity bleeds our civility
Posted on August 24 at 12:57 p.m.
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On Which state agency is most exasperating?
Posted on August 24 at 12:44 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
I imagine we all have had a miserable time renewing our drivers license or getting a new vehicle registered. And I have been told it is not that easy getting a live body to talk to the state about Job information or unemployment bennies either. And it is never easy trying to get tickets at the UW. BUT just try contacting your legislator -- impossible. They are by far the worst of the bunch.
On The strange death of domestic policy
Posted on August 1 at 9:36 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
The article says .." In about 40 years, health care entitlements -- Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and Obamacare -- will overtake spending on everything else in the budget, including Social Security, defense and domestic discretionary spending. “The federal government,” says Levin, “will basically be a health insurer with some unusual side ventures like an army and a navy.”
When will our leaders realize that our nation would have been in the same boat with our utilities had we not established price controls over them.
We NEED & MUST create public health service boards to police the rapid health care service costs & to control them and their price increases.
We do not need new hopsitals built on every corner in every city and we do not need to guarantee doctors over a million $ a year in salary.
It's time to slow ther healthcare costs down to resemble the real cost of living.
On Do you expect a debt crisis resolution to be reached by the Aug. 2 deadline?
Posted on July 26 at 11:29 a.m. ( Suggest removal )
I do expect some sort of an interim solution created that will allow our spending & the debt ceiling to NOT be an issue for our federal gov't in the future few months while more indepth discussions ensue.
On Pro: EPA’s failure to investigate groundwater contamination is a shocking dereliction of duty
Posted on July 20 at 2:44 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
I am ashamed of our nation and at how lax it is on protecting its natural water supply. I know nothing about FRACKING .. but it sounds like a pretty F__KING bad idea. The water supply in the far west is diminshing .. CA, AZ and NV are all going to be bone dry pretty soon. They are getting fracked to death!!!
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On Facts expose Norquist myth
Posted on November 25 at 12:39 p.m. ( Suggest removal )
Efforts to blame the banks for the financial crisis are failing because they are not supported by data. The key fact is that, by 2008, before the crisis, over half of the 54 million mortgages in the U.S. financial system were subprime and other low-quality mortgages.
Revisionists blame housing policies More than 70% of these 27 million weak mortgages were on the books of government agencies, primarily the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. When these mortgages defaulted in unprecedented numbers, they drove down housing prices, weakened most large financial institutions and caused the financial crisis.
Here's why it happened. In 1992, Congress adopted legislation that imposed "affordable housing" requirements on the GSEs. These required that 30% of all mortgages they bought from lenders had to be made to low- and moderate-income home buyers — borrowers who were at or below the median income in their communities.
Over the next 15 years, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development — pushed by Congress — tightened and expanded this quota so that, by 2007, 55% of all mortgages the GSEs acquired had to be made to low- and moderate-income borrowers, including 27% to those below 80%.
USATODAY REPORT
The GSEs could find good mortgages at the 30% quota, but when it went higher they had to reduce their underwriting standards. By 2002, to meet the quotas, they had bought at least $1.2 trillion in subprime and other weak loans.
By 2008, just before they became insolvent, they and other government-controlled institutions held or had guaranteed 19.2 million loans, over 70% of the 27 million outstanding. In other words, the government's housing policies created the demand for these destructive loans.
What was banks' role? It wasn't until 2002 that Wall Street issued over $100 billion in securities backed by subprime or other weak loans. Recall that by this date, the GSEs had bought over a $1 trillion. The banks' number grew so that, by 2008, there were 7.8 million low quality mortgages backing bank-issued securities — less than 30% of the 27 million.
Given these numbers, it's obvious that factually blaming the banks (or Wall Street) for the financial crisis is simply a way to cover up a huge government error in policy stretching across three different political administrations.
As in this case, Government can often be the blame for a national tragedy it would rather not be blamed for. Our role is to make certain that facts are separated from fiction for the betterment of the nation’s knowledge base. Knowledge always has been, and continues to be, POWER. We are a much weaker and more ignorant nation of people with knowledge not based upon fact.