The main point of the bill-- pushed by both the President and VP-- was that if the stimulus wasn't passed, unemployment would skyrocket to over 9%. If we passed it, it would stay below 8.
That's a lie. Please see above for my post of the NYT article, or just google "Fannie Mae eases credit to aid mortgage lending". Any discrimination against minorities could have easily been handled by court enforcement of the Civil Rights acts.
Thanks, Joe Sestak, but you have no proof of that. We could have simply split up the 800 billion dollars among every household in the USA and gotten a bigger result. Instead, we made a bunch of rich left-wingers richer.
Reagan's 1986 tax reform took away many of the loopholes, allowing the top rates to be dropped. JFK had done much the same on a smaller scale two decades earlier.
I don't agree with your first statement on historical grounds, but you have the right idea about republican government. There are those who keep trying to convince young people that what we need is more democracy; that direct democracy will give them a greater voice. Meanwhile, it gives them less power because with mob rule, the mob makes the rules. If you like the idea of "might makes right", then democracy is for you.
Fannie Mae Eases Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending By STEVEN A. HOLMES Published: September 30, 1999
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 -- In a move that could help increase home ownership rates among minorities and low-income consumers, the Fannie Mae Corporation is easing the credit requirements on loans that it will purchase from banks and other lenders.
The action, which will begin as a pilot program involving 24 banks in 15 markets -- including the New York metropolitan region -- will encourage those banks to extend home mortgages to individuals whose credit is generally not good enough to qualify for conventional loans. Fannie Mae officials say they hope to make it a nationwide program by next spring.
Fannie Mae, the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages, has been under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people and felt pressure from stock holders to maintain its phenomenal growth in profits.
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Because the federal government is mainly to blame for the scope of this disaster (and the moratorium, which helped kill the already sick economy), so the fisherman would be shooting at elected officials and that usually gets you executed or put away for life.
But that's a small price to pay if we can save some oil so we can drive giant SUVs for a few more years. I mean, not having birds is one thing, but having to drive a downsized sport-utility vehicle is just too much to bear.
Congratulations: you combined both a straw man and a false dilemma in one fallacious statement.
Let's try to set this straight: it was Universal that sued Nintendo with the "King Kong" claim. Nintendo won because Universal didn't hold the copyight on the "King Kong" story. Universal was guilty of a string of SCO-like stupidities in this case, most significantly that they'd THEMSELVES already proven seven years earlier than the plot for "King Kong" was in the public domain.
What kind of society expects a man to retreat from his home? Where are you supposed to retreat to? Run out into the darkness at 2 AM in your underwear so someone else can kick your ass?
Hmm... I don't see anything in the article about whether police, security, or military personnel (active or retired) were included. You see, those kind of folks are more likely to jump into dangerous situations to defend others, due to their training. In any case, if leftists like you are trying to disarm the populace by intimidating selfish cowards, you're wasting your time.
Nice article, except he's wrong about Article V. The constitutional convention would be attended by the state legislatures, not the members of the federal House of Reps. It wouldn't be Pelosi or Frank.
Except moderation schemes are usually skewed towards hiding things. Look at slashdot: Say 10 people moderate the same post. Half of them like it, half of them hate it. So it gets -5 Troll and +5 insightful or something. It's still at 0 or 1. Nobody will see it.
The default for a new account is to browse at 0 so you can be modded down twice before you "disappear". The volume of responses to AC and regular +1 posts indicates that they are indeed quite visible. To claim that "nobody will see" your post at 0 or 1 is likely inaccurate. In addition, if you've already been modded to "-1", you can't be modded down any further. Thus, if you've been victimized it only takes one or two positive mods to bring you out. On the other hand, if you've been modded up to +5 it takes a lot of nasty moderators to bring you down to 0 or -1.
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Then you wake up.
It's spherical. Some KBOs aren't, like my favorite Haumea. Yes, I'm an unscientific idiot.
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You mean other than by creating android clones? Dammit, I've wasted years of my life.
The main point of the bill-- pushed by both the President and VP-- was that if the stimulus wasn't passed, unemployment would skyrocket to over 9%. If we passed it, it would stay below 8.
We passed it.
Unemployment is now 9.6%.
That's a lie. Please see above for my post of the NYT article, or just google "Fannie Mae eases credit to aid mortgage lending". Any discrimination against minorities could have easily been handled by court enforcement of the Civil Rights acts.
Thanks, Joe Sestak, but you have no proof of that. We could have simply split up the 800 billion dollars among every household in the USA and gotten a bigger result. Instead, we made a bunch of rich left-wingers richer.
Reagan's 1986 tax reform took away many of the loopholes, allowing the top rates to be dropped. JFK had done much the same on a smaller scale two decades earlier.
I don't agree with your first statement on historical grounds, but you have the right idea about republican government. There are those who keep trying to convince young people that what we need is more democracy; that direct democracy will give them a greater voice. Meanwhile, it gives them less power because with mob rule, the mob makes the rules. If you like the idea of "might makes right", then democracy is for you.
http://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/30/business/fannie-mae-eases-credit-to-aid-mortgage-lending.html
to do WHAT?
Yeah, I hated that incompetent, condescending jackass, mostly because he was a cracker though.
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
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Wow. That's pretty much a total lie except for the "small government" part.
I eagerly await your citation.
If you really think that having wealth depends on the roll of the dice instead of hard work, determination, and education, you're sadly mistaken.
Because the federal government is mainly to blame for the scope of this disaster (and the moratorium, which helped kill the already sick economy), so the fisherman would be shooting at elected officials and that usually gets you executed or put away for life.
Congratulations: you combined both a straw man and a false dilemma in one fallacious statement.
Let's try to set this straight: it was Universal that sued Nintendo with the "King Kong" claim. Nintendo won because Universal didn't hold the copyight on the "King Kong" story. Universal was guilty of a string of SCO-like stupidities in this case, most significantly that they'd THEMSELVES already proven seven years earlier than the plot for "King Kong" was in the public domain.
No, that's "documentpornkeepenimstackenfurfappen".
Well, in that case I'll find the plate armor +5 so it'll take a natural 1.
What kind of society expects a man to retreat from his home? Where are you supposed to retreat to? Run out into the darkness at 2 AM in your underwear so someone else can kick your ass?
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Gee, Mr. Freeman, I thought you'd be all for using Anrego's crow-bar defense strategy.
Hmm... I don't see anything in the article about whether police, security, or military personnel (active or retired) were included. You see, those kind of folks are more likely to jump into dangerous situations to defend others, due to their training. In any case, if leftists like you are trying to disarm the populace by intimidating selfish cowards, you're wasting your time.
Nice article, except he's wrong about Article V. The constitutional convention would be attended by the state legislatures, not the members of the federal House of Reps. It wouldn't be Pelosi or Frank.
The default for a new account is to browse at 0 so you can be modded down twice before you "disappear". The volume of responses to AC and regular +1 posts indicates that they are indeed quite visible. To claim that "nobody will see" your post at 0 or 1 is likely inaccurate. In addition, if you've already been modded to "-1", you can't be modded down any further. Thus, if you've been victimized it only takes one or two positive mods to bring you out. On the other hand, if you've been modded up to +5 it takes a lot of nasty moderators to bring you down to 0 or -1.