Comments by Warrenboy75 (page 8)

You recall incorrectly RA....as I recall you were knee deep in lib speak and I asked you did you feel that Fannie, Freddie and the overall expansion of lowering the bar for federal quasi federal organizations allowing the loans to be provided contribute. ....and you went into as I termed it the lib micro focused hiss fit. I haven't changed my position one bit. I'd suggest you quit cherry picking what you read and consider facts. There is plenty of evidence to support it was a factor...actually in the end it cost Barney Frank his political career because he like you went off when anyone would suggest it played a part. Just as I pointed out last week you have the Bear Stearns event incorrect as well.....and I'll warn you ahead of time you are really going down the wrong road with questioning anything I state about the organization so don't bother. As for Ms Warren...as I stated I doubt she will be a factor but I am ready and willing to give her 1/1024th of my vote. :-)

You missed the point DC....you want to be like Germany....Germany is in the process of moving forward with a wall.....again I'll repeat what I have said often, liberals tend to have a micro view on issues.

So DC are you saying a wall will solve the immigration problem ? Because guess what or more to the point have you not heard about Germany and Border patrol....btw my source is the NY Times--July 2018 to be exact. We aren't like Europe for a lot reasons, many of them good reasons.

Show me where I ever stated this was the cause: I do give you credit for not blaming the Community Reinvestment Act and government lending to the poor, which I've heard from @WarrenBoy, Did it contribute--yes. was it the sole cause? no and as I recall that is what I stated when you had a hiss fit. As for Elizabeth Warren my comments about her aside from what has been written on her American Indian heritage and if she benefited from living a lie she has in my estimation no chance because finally someone was willing to call her out on her mock outrage and dodge and deflection tactics. You can go back to her first election against Scott Brown and he let her get away with her tactics. Hate Trump till the end of time but he calls her out when she tries to slip slide out of her comments.

"Everyone should feel entitled to a good life" as opposed to everyone should be entitled to the right to strive/work for a good life...........the opportunity not the prize.........too many damn participation trophies were given out at a young age.

I haven't been on line the past few days as much but the one thing that stands out about the entire affair is that it split the liberals into two camps both state wide and nationally ( as well as local NYC Politics) I didn't understand why Amazon wanted to be in LIC and how they "won" the lottery for lack of a better way to describe the selection process but I do think moving forward watch to see what this does to impact the positions of candidates for the 2020 election cycle.

I don't hate her James as much as I do what some of her ideas would impact the entire country. We'll see if she develops listening skills and starts to understand that there are a lot of other people who live in other parts of the country and that anything done by government typically has a reaction to the action. So far it doesn't appear she will. FWIW who I hate is the media who once again wants to shine a light on a liberal as tho he or she is the next coming of a saviour --the problem is when they want to shine the light and not show the warts. As far as the Amazon deal---one of the things I will point out to you with Long Island City is that in the last decade there really are two distinct areas now where as one time it was pretty much all blue collar-look by zip codes......11101 versus 11109.......I don't agree with twentyfive 100% but he does have a few valid points. Amazon would displace small businesses, probably push them further out onto Long Island and possibly increase the cost of services provided although I tend to wonder how much of that would be out of need and how much out of greed.

I've used in SA in Northeast Ohio--had only one experience where the girl who showed didn't look like the girl in the picture. It was her just ten-fifteen years later in life than the picture. Whenever I meet someone in person it is always at a public place that I know. I think you need to be careful but I also think common sense goes a long way in life.

Isn't the Vegas and Phoenix populations to a large extent transplanted people from Southern California that couldn't make ends meet when living in and near LA? I spent a fair amount of time in Northern California over the years for work--loved my time there but even back then--late 90's the housing cost north of SF ( Marin County) was insane. There is also a rather large political movement to break California up into two or three separate states.

There is a warehouse not all that far from where I live. Most of the people there make anywhere from 13.00 an hour to 22.00 an hour. It's not the greatest pay but it certainly is above minimum wage. I'll repeat an often used comment on the liberal thought process which is they are extremely short and narrow focused when it comes to their beliefs........The tax breaks came over a ten year period and only if Amazon hit certain benchmarks--repeat no one was handing Amazon billions of dollars stipulation free nor all at once. There are 200 other cities that would and will welcome Amazon with open arms......curious how many of you have ever been to Long Island City......the infrastructure updates alone would have been beneficial to the area.

Or you could look at it this way............dated 9 years ago---notice that the name Pelosi was with us back then. The ant worked hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thought the ant was a fool and laughed and danced and played the summer away. Come winter, the shivering grasshopper called a press conference and demanded to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others were cold and starving. CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC showed up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America was stunned by the sharp contrast. How could this be in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper was allowed to suffer so? Kermit the Frog appeared on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cried when they sang, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.' Acorn staged a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations filmed the group singing, ‘We shall overcome’. Jeremiah Wright then had the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake. Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid exclaimed in an interview with Larry King the ant had got rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both called for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. Finally, the EEOC drafted the Economic Equity and Anti - Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. The ant was fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home was confiscated by the government Green Czar. The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he was in, which just happened to be the ant's old house, crumbled around him because he did not maintain it. The ant had disappeared in the snow. The grasshopper was found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, was taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorized the once peaceful neighborhood. Moral of the story: Be careful how you vote in 2010. ( Since you were not in 2018---be smarter in 2020)

Some time back we had discussed Speakers of the House and I raised the point that Gingrich was probably the last very good one we had in office. Oddly ( or not so oddly) are resident liberals cried I was nuts........Gingrich did pull Clinton back to the center. And DC I'll repeat if you do the math you'll realize you can't get there from here. It simply won't happen.

DC--I suggest you think it through again and do the math. The real issue to me is the government track record for spending responsibly is horrendous. I used to ask this question when the previous administration was in office and wanted to raise taxes--especially after the "porkulus bill" they put out......would you give meth to a meth addict? Scotch to an alcoholic? If not why would I give more money to fiscally irresponsible people?

"Why don't you pay attention to financial crash of 2008? The government had to bail out institutions like Bear and AIG" Actually what happened was the following: On March 14, 2008, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York agreed to provide a $25 billion loan to Bear Stearns collateralized by free and clear assets from Bear Stearns in order to provide Bear Stearns the liquidity for up to 28 days that the market was refusing to provide. Shortly thereafter the Federal Reserve Bank of New York had a change of heart and told Bear Stearns that the 28-day loan was unavailable to them. The deal was then changed to where the NY FED would create a company to buy $30 billion worth of Bear Stearns assets. Two days later, on March 16, 2008, Bear Stearns signed a merger agreement with JPMorgan Chase in a stock swap worth $2 a share or less than 7 percent of Bear Stearns' market value just two days before. Oddly I'm accused of getting things wrong when I insert a P into the Nobel Prize where as you get it wrong entirely. I'm not going to repeat myself on the tax issue but again the amount of people in this country that actually make a half million dollars a year is so small that you could tax them 90% and it wouldn't change the deficit or fund any of the liberal pie in the sky programs they want to run. I suggest the Brooklyn bartender buy some large corks and a hammer and plug up the cows butts herself she wants to stop them from farting.....

"Does it matter? Even if I have been here before it would not be the same as being here with you"

Actually depending on how far back you go it is better in Denmark, Finland, and Norway than England. But one needs to be careful because some of the studies include education advancement not just economic factors. Additionally and here is the real rub and something I touch on often.--you can't look at something with far reaching considerations as if it exist in a vacuum. Our numbers have declined in this country in the past decade? Can you think of an issue that might impact the father to son ration of upward mobility that has not been addressed in the past decade or longer but more so in the last decade? (Actually multiple issues come to mind)

Upward mobility isn't easy but it is more attainable here than most countries---if you don't believe that ask yourself why people continue to come here --all forms of immigration. Why they come here to go to college? I do believe it is harder now than it was twenty-five years ago. At least legally and legitimately.

Damn flagooner.........can you tell me how much is my fair share? Who gets to determine what is fair? And who do I share it with? ,,,,,,,,,,inquiring minds want to know. :--)

@ Flagooner---especially for what someone thinks we "might accomplish" instead of actual results. Keep in mind he was nominated eleven days after he took office.

Wild Orchid---Dallas Texas. No idea if it is still standing or not.

And plus one in a big way to Nicespice because she nailed the post I was going to post up and thought it hit a bit too close to home with some people I know.

I still recall the use of the phrase fair share being over simplified as a means to raise taxes on anyone deemed rich....of course this was the same genius bunch that would throw out the phrase "millionaires and billionaires flying around in their corporate jets"......just to start if you don't know or can't conceive of the difference between a millionaire and billionaire I submit you need to stop taking self proctology lessons. Your head is already far enough up your backside anyone with an ounce of common sense knows you are ignorant on the topic you are speaking. DC--I'll give you something to consider most people who come from a lower middle to middle class background start off making minimum wage--I did as well when it was 1.40 per hour. The difference is you are expected to advance your career past that point by acquiring a skill set that makes you worth more than minimum wage. As a secondary point of observation most people considered rich do not own five Lamborghinis. Unless I've slipped recently I'm in the 3% net worth in the USA which means 97% of the population has less net worth than me. I drive something a lot less expensive than a Lamb......and I don't make 30 million a year either.

LOL-- and influence equals right? Have you read his masterpiece? ( I have) And did he or did he not win a nobel prize? Because it is for something different than making peace does it "supposedly" carry any less weight? This is a pattern with you RM----looking to pick nits when it the meat of your point doesn't stand on it's merit. Call me Sheldon Cooper then from the BigBang.....I'm about as impressed with where he got his PHD ( at MIT) as Sheldon is as his side bud Howard. Tell you what let's settle this....give me your credit card and I'll use it till I spend your way out of debt. --how is that for fair contest of what Krugman preaches.? As I recall from memory Krugman is now over in Europe preaching his political agenda masked as economics because he got destroyed in debate after debate in the USA----first running to Great Britain and not fairing so well there either. Krugman's beliefs beyond his prize winning fiction on international trade is only one of his theories that were at the center of Obama policy and because of his Nobel Prize touted as being factual and backed by "all economist" according to President Obama.

And yet you brought it up.....odd.....is this what is called a discussion board retreat......again you brought up the comment.

BTW as a side note "taking my pick" is pretty much the same thing as me asking you "when did you stop beating your wife?"---no matter how you answer the question you just stuck your foot into a place it shouldn't go.