@GaffaUK

I don’t play partisan games. I place all blame where it is properly due, regardless of political affiliation. You can’t get to the root cause and solution of a problem without examination of all the pertinent causes. Personal political favor or disfavor for “who did what” while ignoring their responsibility will not lead to honest assessment of the situation and will foil any ability to learn from history’s mistakes. You can not fix a problem without recognizing it’s causes and effect. I take a balanced position because it is the sensible thing to do.

(Note: I don’t go by “Ditto” as in Limbaugh’s “Ditto-heads.” It was a nickname bestowed decades before Rush, due to my being a twin.)

If a corporation is “too big to allow to fail” then that company has far too much influence on society and could become a danger. It is the old “don’t place all your eggs in one basket” syndrome, more commonly applied to some of the dangers of Monopolies. Competition in business insures better Services and Products. It also helps internally so that officers are less likely to be complacent. The financial giants should never been allowed to merger and grow as big as they have. Fanny and Freddy were simply mismanaged. It’s leadership should be replaced. GM & Chrysler banked on continued popularity of the SUV’s and big trucks, and ignored the growing number of people who wanted more energy efficient vehicles. Which has placed them behind in the Hybrid and Hydrogen wave. They should have diversified their products sooner and farther to be on top of the demand.

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lol – nice one Ditto. But surely you can’t be balanced on this – it’s has to be all the fault of Bush and the Right or all the fault of Obama and the Left…

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Let’s see, …Who is to blame for our current financial situation?

The real truth is that for various and complex reasons the blame rests squarely on:

Both George Bush(s) (Senior for not going all the way to Baghdad and taking out Saddam H. the first time, making it eventually necessary to go to the trouble and expense of marching back in to finish the job. Junior for being financially irresponsible, for not having the banking regulators crack down, for going along with TARP, and for not firing Paulson immediately)

Bill Clinton (The conditions for the housing situation started under his administration)

The Democrats (For their dubious protection of Freddy & Fanny, for out of control pork spending, and for pushing for TARP, and Especially Barney Frank and the others on his committee.)

Obama (For his own pork, for not showing up for Senatorial duties, TARP I, TARP II, and the latest pork engorged spending bill, for appointing the Geithner)

The Republicans (For banking deregulation, their own pork spending & for not talking Bush out of the bail-out)

The Main Street Media (For dropping the ball and not reporting on the things they should, ffor sensationalizing and fear mongering, for biased reporting, for not doing their duty to hold ALL politicians feet to the fire, for not even mentioning the involvement of those Democratic congress-people who got us in this housing/financial crisis, for turning mountains into mole-hills and visa versa.)

The Banking Industry under Freddy & Fanny Mac (Obvious reasons)

The Federal Feserve & Regulators (Obvious reasons)

Wall Street & it’s investors (the Exchange for not down grading stocks it should have sooner, and all those investors in it who panicked and thereby insured the market would crash following 9-11)

Al-Qaeda (Obvious reasons)

The “free trade” lobby (For their involvement in creating this staggering trade & job deficit.)

Unions & the corporations (for not being sensible in negotiations and in tough times)

Speculators (Who invested their money into real estate when the stock market crashed, and as a result for their involvement in driving-up home values until their markets became overpriced)

Those home buyers who bought overvalued homes they couldn’t afford (Whether they knew they could or not.)

Voters (Those who keep voting for pork loving candidates)

Non-Voters (For dereliction of duty: i.e. not voting against pork loving candidates)

Illegal Immigrants (Some for adding to social spending burdens, others for For keeping wages too low in some markets and taking jobs that could have been filled by US citizens.)

The medical industry and legal profession (Both for making health care too damn expensive, and the legal profession for giving us the legalese which often makes it so hard for people to understand contracts and contractual laws)

The IRS & FDR (If it wasn’t for the agency’s existence, Congress would have had to come up with a simpler tax code)

There! Did I leave anyone out?

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Had Obama traveled to Baghdad to make this same speech, it’s entirely likely shoes again could be thrown… altho I’m sure they are ready for that now.

Doesn’t matter who the current “satan” is to the Islamic jihadist. Clinton, Bush, Obama… they are all the same “great satan” to them just by being the western POTUS. Eventually Obama will figure this out. Hopefully at not too great a price for the US citizen.

Scott: They definitely didn’t seem to hot to have Barack announce the best time to attack American forces.

huh? to what do you refer, Scott. Here’s the transcript.

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Ya know what’s kinda funny? When Bush flew to Baghdad to talk about this 2 days after it was originally agreed to…Iraq’s threw shoes at him. This time, when it’s repeated by Barack Obama…he goes before the US Marines instead of the Iraqis.

Had to laugh when the Marines barely applauded his decision, but they cheered for higher pay (rightfully so). They definitely didn’t seem to hot to have Barack announce the best time to attack American forces.

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Somehow when Scott wrote this nonsense article he got the date screwed up… August 2010…. that’s the pull out date..

Complain to ABC News-not me. I just copy/pasted their date. Could it be that you’re thinking the combat troops not all the troops?

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18 months is not far away. Lets see him do it.

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Scrapiron,

Your logic makes no sense about democrats as usual. At least you got the date correct of the pull out..

Somehow when Scott wrote this nonsense article he got the date screwed up… August 2010…. that’s the pull out date..

Fit Fit… you got it Correct..

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If you put a deadline in place and MAKE IT PUBLIC during a war, then the enemy automatically wins. They know that time is then on their side, and time ALWAYS wins.

Just ask any empire, mountain range or star.

Why don’t Dems get the concept that announcing an easy way to beat you is a sure road to defeat?

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Do the American people listen to the Hummingbird brained O’Dumbo? He’s going to pull out all combat troops by Aug 2010. That means he has to pull all military personnel out. There are no ‘non-combat’ troops in the U.S. Military, other than the democrats who have deserted and haven’t been caught, yet. Will he replace the troops with cub scouts and/or brownie scouts?

Then when (2011) he thinks he is gone or has a chance of winning another term he will surrender Iraq to the terrorist. Evidently he doesn’t want to politic with the blood of millions on his hands like Hanoi John and Fat Ted have. Then I look at democrats who have the blood of 50+ million babies on they’re hands and are now asking for more. and see there is nothing so low a democrat won’t do it.

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