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That has as at least much to do with the tax increases and higher revenue as the sequester.
No doubt the GOP would prefer a uneducated population since the polls show thats who votes for them.
I note that Texas was hiring folks to work in an unsafe fertilizer plant. How did that work out for ya?Do you make this up as you go along ? Texas is HIRING, and we're hiring Californians and Ganders. People and families that had to run away from their blue plague states because their idiot politicians pushed a corrupt ideology.
Hows Obama's economy working out for you ?
Let me guess, thats not his fault either.
I note that Texas was hiring folks to work in an unsafe fertilizer plant. How did that work out for ya?
I wonder if Texas is successful in teaching their children basic language skills so that they don't make fools of themselves by using "words" like 'stupidization' and 'dumbification?'...The Texas GOP has set itself explicitly against teaching children to be critical thinkers. Never mind the creeping stupidization of this country, the growing dumbification of our children,
Hmm, I checked the Census data the author in your link claims to have used and it didn't seem to match the conclusions he made. Nor did the Cook Report. Here check for yourself.....
False false and false...
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/07/weekinreview/20101107-detailed-exitpolls.html?_r=0
Refer to this chart.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/weekinreview/20101107-rightward-march-poll-graphic.pdf
High school grad, some college and college grad were all won by a 8% margin.
Not graduating from high school and post grad won by dems. 22% swing for those not graduating high school to dems. 4% swing for those with a post grad education.
Is that so? You posted an unverifiable chart by unknown author from the height of the tea party movement and think that somehow proves your point? It doesn't, in fact it actually proved my point and showed just how easily some Americans can be dumbed down with lies and propaganda.When you set out to argue that Democrat supporters are smarter than Republican supporters it would be wise to try a little harder to not sound like an idiot.
Jobless claims fall to 5-year low - May. 2, 2013First-time claims for unemployment benefits fell to their lowest level in five years last week, signaling fewer layoffs in the economy.
No, you appeal to an old white man who talks to an empty chair, an actor famous for fake fighting on a television series, and the backwoods racist Jethros who spend more money on beer and bug zappers than on their trailer home.Right. No we don't appeal to the Beyonce and Jay-Z idiots, the "Obama-Phones Lady", the racist who vote for him because he's black, the perpetually stoned, drunk and addicted low lifes who believed his lies.
No, by definition a Obama voter is a idiot. Low information, gullible and suceptable to a corrupt ideology.
Would that be the same Pew Research Center that consistently says things like:From The Pew Research Center .......
"...The Pew Research Center released data in August 2012 about GOP gains among working-class white voters that found: "Lower-income and less educated whites also have shifted substantially toward the Republican Party since 2008
Home prices rose 9% in February. Thats the largest increase since 2007 and it's not even the peak of home buying season yet.Construction on WHAT Rob ? You looking for a mass upswing in housing ? Commercial ?
The entire real estate market is floating in a sea of debt due to the Democrat mandates sub-prime bubble.
Things written or said can be easily taken out of context and since you didn't provide a link, I really can't say what the Pew Research Center consistently says.Would that be the same Pew Research Center that consistently says things like:
"Republicans fare substantially better than Democrats on several questions in the survey, as is typically the case in surveys about political knowledge."
"Republicans did somewhat better than Democrats on average."
"Republicans, on average, answered one more question correctly than Democrats (5.9 vs. 4.9 correct). These differences are partly a reflection of the demographics of the two groups; Republicans tend to be older, well educated and male, which are characteristics associated with political and economic knowledge. Still, even when these factors are held constant, Republicans do somewhat better than Democrats on the knowledge quiz."
Home prices rose 9% in February. That's the largest increase since 2007 and it's not even the peak of home buying season yet.
FYI, Bush had a home buying mandate and the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates to 1% under his watch. There wouldn't have been housing bubble without those lower interest rates or big banks bundling up predator loans and giving them A+ ratings. It was Bush's appointee, Sec. Henry Paulson, ex CEO of Goldman Sachs who threatened to tank the economy if the taxpayers didn't bail out the banks.
Oh, it's not all bad:
Jobless claims fall to 5-year low - May. 2, 2013
No, you appeal to an old white man who talks to an empty chair, an actor famous for fake fighting on a television series, and the backwoods racist Jethros who spend more money on beer and bug zappers than on their trailer home.
Aren't generalizations based on a few fun?
I was just about to post that. Construction is way down right now, but we had hell of a winter across the nation. We went from twiddling our thumbs to breakneck speed overnight. It is nice to be busy again.
And we started hiring again. White and Blue.
a Obama voter is a idiot.
Hilarious.
Well ROB, they're either AN idiot, or they're so ideologically bind and devoid of humility that they are going to back a ideology that's responsible for 20 million more people on the food stamp roles, a rise in poverty to record levels, consumer confidence at 30 year lows, disability roles doubling and record debt and deficit as our Central Bank is stuck on stupid forced into perpetual QE.
So go ahead, cherry pick my mistakes, but one things clear, you'll stay 10 miles away from the issues because you have nothing substantial to add.
Fenton said:Ah I see, your problem is that you have NO IDEA of what the hell it is your'e talking about. But then again, your'e a Liberal for a reason.
Fenton said:Right. No we don't appeal to the Beyonce and Jay-Z idiots, the "Obama-Phones Lady", the racist who vote for him because he's black, the perpetually stoned, drunk and addicted low lifes who believed his lies.
No, by definition a Obama voter is a idiot. Low information, gullible and suceptable to a corrupt ideology.
No, you don't see the problem and that's is your biggest problem.Ah I see, your problem is that you have NO IDEA of what the hell it is your'e talking about. But then again, your'e a Liberal for a reason.
In spite of not requiring a down payment, few low income earners could afford a mortgage in the 1990s because of the high interest rates applied to the loan. Do you know what the interest rates on a 30 year loan in 1995 was? It was around 8%.First, the sub-prime bubble was built exclusively by Clinton's 1995 Affordable Home Owners Strategy as it lowered capital requirements on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to 3% and put them under the regulatory authority of HUD which enforced a climbing scale of quota's. That is the percentage of loans purchased by the GSE's HAD to be low quality and by 2000 it was up to 50%.
No, it doesn't mean that at all. The Riegle Neal Act simply allowed a bank that was adequately capitalized and managed, to merge or purchase a similar bank in another state.....In 1994 Clinton signed the Riegle Neal Act, which tied a banks CRA score to whether or not they could acquire new acquisitions, grow into new territories. Clinton's 1995 Affordable Home Owners Strategy also beefed up CRA requirements by now forcing targets implementation on CRA loans. For our Liberal friends that means for the first time since the 1997 CRA was initiated, banks HAD TO loan to people in the communities they served who were at or below 80% of the median income rate IN THAT COMMUNITY. Thus began the sub-prime loan.
It's the Attorney General's job to enforce the laws made by congress and as such it was Reno's job to go after people who violated the law. Why is that a problem for you, Fenton?Janet Reno to banks after the Affordable Home Owners imitative was implemented..." For those who thumb their nose at us we promise rigorous enforcement", " 'No loan is exempt, no bank is immune,' Hmmmm....
Since it helped expose and end the practice of RED LINING then I'm all for it. Black people are US citizens and deserve the same Constitutional protection to exercise their rights as white people do.There CRA scores were published so Community organizers like Obama and ACORN could file law suites and threaten them in general if they did not roll over. The National Bureau of Economic Research looked into the matter...Did the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) Lead to Risky Lending?
Bush was president for eight years and he had six years of GOP "rubber stamp" controlled Senate and House. The housing bubble actually started under their watch, so instead of making it worse, why didn't they fix the problem when they had the chance? Because they were too busy trying to bankrupt the country, thats why.But aside from that Clinton needed criminals he could count on so from 1993 to 1998 he replaced all of Fannie and Freddie's top Executives and over half of the board members. One in particular who was the CEO of Fannie Mae misreported billions in earnings so he could meet executive target bonus's. In 2000 the HUD Secretary Andrew Cuomo pledged 2 TRILLION dollars to buy up affordable home loans. He's speaking for the corrupted GSEs since Fannie and Freddie were under HUD Regulatory control to purchase and increasing number of toxic debt by way of sub-prime, Alt-A loans.
Pffft, if you think thats bad you should get a load of Bush's HUD appointment.....You guys gave him a Governorship for his stupidity....:lamo
And yet, Democrats didn't control congress in 1997, Republicans did.In 1997 Fannie securitized it's first sub-prime loan. Prior to 1997 Fannie and Freddie wouldn't touch CRA, Alt-A trash with a 10 foot pole, it was against their charter to buy bad debt, and for almost 70 years it worked, until their charter and mission was changed by the Democrats and they started buying, bundling bad with good and started pushing toxic mortgage Backed Securities into the world Financial Markets to fund the new secondary market. They were AAA rated because American Treasuries were triple rated and it was understood these securities would be backed by the US Treasury if something happened.
Too bad for you because history will tell a different story......Clinton's appointee Jamie Gorelick in 2000 at a banking Congress in San Fransisco.." We want to buy your CRA loans because it helps us meet our affordable housing mandate " " We will buy them from your portfolios, and turn them into Securities "
But, since the Democrats forced the banks to lower their standards, and as they understood that these loans over enough time would bankrupt any lender, they realized in order to make available 6 trillion dollars in easy credit backed by the tax payer, they would need a guaranteed BUYER of those loans. Well Fannie bought over 70 % of Country-Wide's loans, as Country-Wide gave Democrat politicians like CHRIS DODD inside sweetheart deals on personal loans. The CEO of Country-Wide, Angelo Mozilo, was a corrupt Democrat, selling worthless mortgages to another corrupt Democrat, Franklin Raines.
I know that you don't know as much as you think you do.Oh yea, we need to ignore all of that, because corrupt Democrats who ripped off the American public for TRILLIONS as over 5 trillion of GSE debt sits on the Treasury's books.
Time for you to educate yourself, just in general. The one thing common with people on the left is their lack of knowledge and that their susceptible to nonsense and dishonest narratives.
Bush, upon election almost immediately tried to create a regulatory panel to oversee Fannie and Freddie's corruption. New Agency Proposed to Oversee Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae - NYTimes.com
Turns out they were right...Bush had done enough damage to last for generations.The Democrats weren't having it, and 27 of them signed a letter warning Bush not to screw with Fannie and Freddie.
Obamacare hasn't kicked in yet and some states aren't even going to participate. So if healthcare is having an impact then it's probably because so many people still don't have health insurance and healthcare costs are still skyrocketing.
For folks on this site who do not know ( many I am afraid) Zandi has been an unofficial mouthpiece for the administration for years. That being said, not sure there is enough evidence about a spring swoon just yet, the market does not seem to be indicating one.
It is silly to think that health care is not already on the minds of CEOs and business owners when the law comes into effect in eight months. Makes sense that people would be looking to find ways to get under the under 50 people bar for small companies and under the 30 hour bar for part-timers. When do you think people will start working on this problem, december 31???
Gerrymandering aside, 2010 wasn't a national election year and it was at the height of the tea party movement. But now that the tea party has proven themselves too extreme, do you have any charts for 2012?