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- yurimon0
Let me play your game a bit
Republicans:
They keep Guantanamo bay open.
they make political promises, like if they say if you elect me i would close Guantanamo bay. they wont do it.
They sign bills like patriot act, NDAA. they have a kill list on American citizens to limit our freedoms.
They spend and raise up our national debt.
They dont care about people and would rather bail out big banks at any cost to the tax payer.
- yurimon0
you know some of the threads are describing themselves. its called projecting. lol hahaha jeez. You guys make me laugh.
what do you call when someone does the same shyt but talks against it? oh yeah I think its called hypocrisy..
- it's spelled "shit"TheBlueOne
- yeah but i say the british way. shyt.
lolyurimon
- monolith0
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- utopian0
Lost the election once again
- monolith0
- This guy is very engaging, good video.chossy
- he is only right on first and last points. His other points leave alot of other factors out on how those stats are contribed. plus he ignores an important issue like the federal reserve system.yurimon
- he ignores an important issue like the federal reserve system. This is good for idiots who never attempted to think on their own or research...yurimon
- their own and research.yurimon
- utopian0
@ youngdesigner, please name "one single" free market enterprize that is not subsidized with corporate welfare, tax breaks, financial incentives, etc... please....
• Corporate America > subsidized!
• Argiculture > subsidized!
• Wall Street > subsidized!
• Big Oil, Coal, Solar, Wind, and Energy > subsidized!
• Healthcare > subsidized!
• Auto Industry > subsidized!
• Wall Street > subsidized!
• Defense Contractors > subsidized!and on and on and on....
- Free Markets are a fairy tale, please don't be naive and stopping watching Faux Fox Fringe News.utopian
- true free markets have many failures. However every monopoly created had help from gov legislation helping. Example was the railroad monopolies.yurimon
- Well i would say alot. few i am not sure about.yurimon
- monolith0
and young designer... these are your Republican "patriots"
- monolith0
Related to that video so you can understand why Republicans have never EVER been pro-american, patriotic, working in the interest of the people in this country but for the interest of the richest, financial institutions and basically propping up their own pockets and why "deregulation" rhetoric has been proven over and over again that it doesn't work.
It all starts with 93rd Congress (1973-1975) where democrats had the majority.
They created Commodity Futures Trading Commission who's task was to protect market users and the public from fraud, manipulation, and abusive practices related to the sale of commodity and financial futures and options, and to foster open, competitive, and financially sound futures and option markets
This was very clear.. Democrats knew that you needed regulation over these things. Actually in 1998 Brooksley E. Born (democrat who was chairperson of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal agency that oversaw the futures and commodity options markets) issued a first call for her regulatory commission to have power to oversee financial derivatives.
While previous legislative attempts had been made earlier, her efforts were the most direct and threatening to the financial industry. She said, with full right btw, that an unregulated derivatives market could "pose grave dangers to our economy.". No sh**!
Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan gave a recommendation against her proposal stopping her in her tracks. in Congress, Republicans were still up-in-arms over Born's attempts to regulate the financial derivatives market and began working to pass their own set of deregulatory language. That's where the real fun began.
Come 1999-2000, leading the charge in Republican majority held Congress were Sens. Phil Gramm (R-TX) and Richard Lugar (R-IN) and Rep. Thomas Ewing (R-IL). In May of 2000, Rep. Ewing introduced his Commodity Futures Modernization Act. While Ewing's bill sailed quickly through the House, it stalled in the Senate, as Sen. Gramm desired stricter deregulatory language be inserted into the bill. Gramm opposed any language that could provide the SEC or the CFTC with any hope of authority in regulating or oversight of financial derivatives and swaps. Gramm's opposition held the bill in limbo until Congress went into recess for the 2000 election.
So, they stalled it because they wanted to see whether or not Bush will win so they can pass it easier and they disagreed on the fact whether there wasn't enough deregulation in it! Talk about insane.
During a lame-duck December session, while the media was focused on the recounts and court cases, Gramm and Ewing sought to strike a compromise on the Commodity Futures Modernization Act. The day after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Gov. Bush, December 14, Ewing introduced a new version of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act. On December 15, with little warning or fanfare--aside from the overshadowed discussions on the floors of Congress--the new, compromise version was included as a rider to the Consolidated Appropriations Act for FY 2001, an 11,000 page appropriations conference report.
This is how they managed to get Clinton to sign for the Consolidated Appropriations Act before leaving the office, basically stuffing the 262-page Commodity Futures Modernization Act deregulation in it. This is WHAT really started the whole thing.
Btw, The final language, which the public was hardly aware of, contained some new sections not in the original Ewing bill that, for all intents and purposes, exempted swaps and derivatives from regulation by both the CFTC and the SEC. Also, hidden within the bill was an exemption for energy derivative trading, which would later become known as the Enron loophole- this loophole would provide the impetus for Enron's nose dive into full blown corporate corruption.
These unregulated derivatives, especially the credit default swap, would be at the heart of the financial and housing crisis of 2008 and directly responsible for the things you that happened. Complete deregulation and basically banks and investment corporations doing predatory lending practices without any control.
- aaux0
Complain and cry every four years that the country will be doomed.
- monolith0
Not to mention that they are the cause for the 2008 financial and housing crisis. They blame it on Barney Frank and all kinds of other shit but they are the ones who deregulated whole financial markets by secretly pushing a 262 page Commodity Futures Modernization Act into 11,000 page Consolidated Appropriations Act Clinton signed at the end of his presidency without even knowing about this because everyone was occupied by the fraud and rigging of elections in Florida to get Bush elected.
I can tell you EXACTLY what almost destroyed this country and why.. but a good video that explains what happened is this:
And after you watch that video, I will explain to you how Republicans fucked all of us.
- randommail0
"Slavery... a blessing in disguise"
- Arkansas Rep. Jon Hubbard
- monolith0
They sure fixed the economy and made us prosper
- monolith0
^ how the fuck can you say any of that shit when the FACTS show that they didn't do ANY of those things. They buried us and destroyed this country.
Every SINGLE time, Republicans destroy this country, a democrat comes into office and cleans up their mess.
Healthcare -> worst shit and a breeding ground for fraud, not to mention causes preventable deaths because insurance companies are propped up by Republicans. Not to mention one of the worst and inhumane healthcare system in the world.
Republicans had almost a decade to "fix" shit you are claiming. What happened? They almost destroyed this country.
How is that "creating" jobs, shoring up economy and curbing spending?
What fucking planet do you live on?
- +1 spinners need their brains kicked out of their headscannonball1978
- youngdesigner0
And job creation too, shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. Healthcare reform, reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans.
- are these the same republicans that outsource to china and india?Amicus
- youngdesigner0
Also believe in the free market and that "you build that". Mitt Romney Karl Rove Newt Gungrich
- Name me one free market?
There are none, everything is subsidized, period!utopian
- Name me one free market?
- youngdesigner0
Patriots who are conservative and believe in freedom and living with as little government rule as possible. That is very American and does agree with what the founders stood on.
- So what do those people have to do with republicans?aaux
- Freedom to infringe on your civil right without explanation. Very patriotic indeed.monospaced
- monolith0
And who can forget Patriot Act. The ultimate in stripping away our human rights and is against EVERYTHING our founding fathers stood for.
Yep.. patriotic alright. Calling yourself a patriot and doing things Republicans do is the equivalent of the guy who says "I'm not racist, but..." and then goes on spewing the worst racist and bigotted shit you can imagine.
- monolith0
Patriotic Americans who:
A) Take us into wars on lies and cost us tens of thousands of American lies for their own interests
B) Use bigotry and racism to get more tax cuts on the richest and eliminate any trace of education, intelligence and science.
C) Strip away human rights by discriminating against everyone who has a differing opinions or different religion.
Republicans are patriots the same way Hitler was a patriot.
- oh and the fact that they will block progress of this country if it doesn't further their own personal interests.monolith
