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our current financial and economic crisis. It discusses policy
changes 13 years ago that unleashed the sub-prime mortgage-backed
securities market, which accelerated prices erratically, inviting
speculation and loose lending practices which were both condoned and
encouraged by existing regulation and carried out by risk-blind
executives and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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that are now destroying our economy because the Democrats let them
cheat.
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never display even to this country's enemies. |
I'm voting Democrat because I believe I'm a victim of the system and politicians are my only friends. They are the only ones who can save me. I'm voting Democrat because it's cool and easy to hate faceless corporations. I don't see the benefit of people forming these voluntary associations of employees, investors, and customers that compete with each other to provide us with high quality goods and services at the lowest prices, that help create the highest standards of living in the world. I don't care that most of the products I love are made by corporations, and many of my friends and relatives make excellent salaries working for corporations. I forget that economic freedom was the primary reason the Declaration of Independence was written and signed, and why so many gave their lives to enforce it. I'm voting Democrat because I don't believe in voluntary charities, to which Americans, especially wealthy Americans, and companies, give more than any country in the world. I believe the government should compel people, with the threat of jail time, to "donate" 40% or more of their hard earned money, so politicians can decide who most deserves the products of their labor. I'm voting Democrat because I want to tell inner-city poor that they don't have a chance, that they can't succeed, that life is stacked against them, that the only solution is governmental help, and even though this defeatist attitude has failed them for decades, and has left them just as poor, I will get their vote because my party stokes class warfare and blames all the ills on racism. But rural poor don't need or deserve my attention because their poverty is their own fault, especially if they're "white trash". I'm voting Democrat because the oil companies are evil. After all, the oil companies only explore, drill, refine, and deliver the fuel that is the lifeblood of our economy and our high standard of living. And even though oil companies often pay more in taxes than they make in profit, we should demand they pay even more. It never dawned on me that businesses do not pay taxes - the people do, since taxes are passed onto the customers in the form of higher prices, and passed onto employees in the form of lower pay increases or benefit cuts. But the voters will agree with our "windfall profits" tax since the tax is hidden from sight, embedded in the price of gas, and in the price of any product that requires fuel to create or transport. I'm voting Democrat because time and time again, the Democrats blocked all regulations on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I believe in home ownership by those who cannot afford to make their mortgage payments, leaving them with horrible credit that makes it difficult to rent after their home is foreclosed. Even though Democrats legally forced banks to make risky loans, I still blame the banks and the Republicans. I'm voting Democrat because we need to do something about the pharmaceutical companies, which pour billions into researching and creating life-saving drugs, and compete with each other to develop drugs with fewer side effects and higher success rates. I see no reason why those who collectively invest billions towards saving and improving lives should make any money at all, but trial lawyers who seek to bankrupt pharmaceutical companies and hospitals deserve every million they earn. I'm voting Democrat because I support the "little guy" - by that, I mean all the people who are going into debt and cannot pay their mortgages and bills due to the high price of gas and heating oil, because I don't support a nationwide energy plan. I don't want to fast track solar, wind, or oceanic sources, I say "no" to accessing our own oil or gas, I pretend to favor new nuclear plants, and I see no reason to build refineries outside of hurricane prone regions. I believe inflating tires or carpooling will create enough energy savings to grow our economy and standard of living for decades to come, and make us all rich. It's entirely possible, within a few years of a Democrat administration, for us to be driving cars with solar panels and flying on planes fueled with sunflower oil. I believe electric cars are totally clean, even though their massive batteries would create one of the world's largest toxic waste disposal problems. I'm voting Democrat because I believe all the headlines and political speeches telling me our country is imploding, warning of Armageddon and a second Great Depression, and claiming that everything bad in the world is George Bush's fault. I forget that at the beginning of the decade, there was a recession during which the S&P 500 slid 40%, the NASDAQ fell 80%, and a massive terrorist attack was perpetrated on our financial center. But, within a couple years, the US economy began a streak of 52 straight months of job growth. I want 4 more years...of Jimmy Carter. I'm voting Democrat because I'm ok with sending hundreds of billions of oil dollars annually to embolden the leaders of Iran, Venezuela, Russia, and others who strip human rights from their own citizens, and threaten the security and freedom of people around the world. Even though US environmental protections and standards are far ahead of those in countries from which we buy oil, all of which are drilling off their own shores, we should refuse to drill for our own energy. I prefer to close my eyes to the effects of the foreign oil I purchase. I'm voting Democrat because I believed in the UN economic sanctions on Iraq. Sanctions only killed 5,000 of the most vulnerable Iraqis per month due to poor sanitation and lack of medical supplies, totaling over 600,000 deaths since Saddam's 1991 brutal invasion of Kuwait. Though sanctions also impoverished millions, they were a perfectly acceptable course of action, but going to war to liberate Iraq was criminal. I ignore the fact that doing neither would have allowed Saddam to pursue his dreams of a second Mesopotamia through military annexation, and would have created a global destabilizing nuclear arms race between Iraq and Iran, which just happens to be a state sponsor of terrorists around the world. I'm voting Democrat because I believe the main reason there's any evil in the world is that we aren't more friendly with tyrants. And of course, George Bush is the other reason. I haven't learned the lessons of World War II, I'm blind to the brutality and cultural devastation of communism, and I deny the economic realities of socialism. I cannot hear the screams of the 800,000 Rwandans who were brutally massacred in 1994, or the millions of Cambodians who were slaughtered by the Khmer Rouge, or the Somalis who have lived in a state of terror and anarchy since 1993, because it's none of my business. But if someone, somewhere in the western world, is being executed for multiple murders, I rush to their defense and organize protests, which the national media covers. However, if Iranian men are hung for being gay, or Iranian women are hung for dating without government authorization, or if Afghan women are stoned by the Taliban for leaving their home without a man, my outrage is much more muted. It's really not my business. I'm voting Democrat because I believe in the zero-sum game - someone else's poverty is the direct consequence of my having plenty. Global poverty is caused by all the wealth that the US and western countries create with our freedom and hard work. It has nothing to do with corrupt and undemocratic foreign governments, which have total control over media and industry, which murder political opponents, and use starvation as a weapon to keep the their citizens weak, in order to prevent revolts. I'm voting Democrat because the biggest problem we have in this country is that there are too many billionaires who need to be taxed. I am much worse off because two genius MBA students, with classic American ingenuity and entrepreneurial drive, developed a company called Google, which changed the face of the Internet, and now use their wealth to make lives around the globe better. The $5 billion that Bill Gates has donated to his successful charity, a charity that Warren Buffet admires so much that he'll be giving billions more, would be put to much better use by politicians. I'm voting Democrat because my party receives support from teachers unions, which say they care about our children, but refuse to reward the best teachers, and will not allow schools to demand high standards, or fire the worst teachers, no matter what they do. I believe teachers unions have our children's interests at heart when they block charter schools that have small classes, high quality teachers, and results-based methods, simply because those charter schools aren't unionized. I'm voting Democrat because I believe in access to universities for all, but because university presidents are just as liberal as I am, I see no reason to bring them in front of Congress to explain the more than double inflation annual percentage rate increase in tuition costs, and massive salaries for professors and administrators, some of which make over half a million dollars. Instead, I believe the government should subsidize low-interest loans that take students decades to pay off, if they're ever able to. These loans artificially inflate ability to pay for college, and encourage schools to institute even higher increases in tuition. And I don't see any reason to demand lower tuition rates or oversight when Congress sends tax dollars directly into the coffers of private universities. I'm voting Democrat because I've been scared into believing I'll lose the freedom to choose an abortion, even though Bush and Republican Congresses have not been able to do anything to restrict availability, and even though a conservative Supreme Court will not overturn Roe v Wade because there are legal precedents, and they know it would create chaos if each state could have different laws banning or legalizing abortions. I'm voting Democrat because I don't want the government telling me who I can marry. I forget that Democrat nominees for President have always opposed gay marriage, and Bill Clinton even signed a bill that disallowed Federal recognition of legal gay marriages. I cannot recognize the fact that even with a Christian conservative Republican President, popular support for gay rights have advanced more over the past 8 years than any time in US history. I'm voting Democrat because I believe the victims of society are those who commit crimes, not the hard working law-abiding citizens who get shot, robbed, or raped while walking home from work or school. I don't think violent crime rates and gang activity have any negative impact on investment, construction, business activity, bank loans, or mortgages in underserved neighborhoods. Racism is to blame. And I will continue to elect Democrat mayors for cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Washington DC, no matter how high the murder rates climb. New York's 75% drop in murders, its economic expansion, increase in population, and soaring tourism, in spite September 11, had nothing to do with 15 years of Republican mayors who enforced the law and governed for the people, not for the political machines. I'm voting Democrat because I want the government running my health care, and deciding when and where I receive treatment. Even though US healthcare delivery is far superior to single-payer systems, I want free government healthcare, like in the United Kingdom. I still call it "free" even though the UK government takes 20 to 40% in income taxes, 17.5% in sales tax, 9% in National Insurance tax, and $4 per gallon in gasoline tax. It's not an issue that availability and quality of national healthcare is so lacking in the UK, that many people with the resources, or those who value quality healthcare, pay entirely out-of-pocket for private treatment. Instead of improving coverage and efficiency in the US by encouraging interstate competition, I believe we should demolish our entire medical system, and hand it over to the same government that has mismanaged Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid - a government that, instead of saving and investing the entitlement surpluses, has already spent over $4 trillion - yes trillion - of our national trust funds and left non-marketable IOUs in place of cash. I complain about government handling of almost anything, but I still want to hand over my medical decisions to them. I'm voting Democrat because I think Social Security and Medicare are perfect in their current form. It doesn't matter that many millionaire elderly couples receive almost $40,000 annually in Social Security, and even more in taxpayer funded Medicare. These rich senior citizens usually have no young kids, no mortgage payments, no college loans, and no car payments, but their benefits are paid for by young struggling families with all of the above. I still believe the entitlement programs only take from the rich to protect the poor, and have nothing to do with Democrats targeting votes in a key swing state. I'm voting Democrat because I admire John F Kennedy, even though JFK stood for lower taxes, strong national defense, and service to country, but today's Democrats, the ones for which I'm voting, promise something for nothing, and tell you what the government can do for you. I'm voting Democrat because I admire Bill Clinton, and the great economy of the 1990s. Never mind that it was the Republican Congress that led Clinton to buck his own party's ideology, and endorse conservative economic policies such as multiple free trade initiatives, welfare reform, lowering the capital gains tax, elimination of onerous regulations, and spending control. I think economic growth during the 1990s had nothing to do with an unprecedented technology boom, low unemployment had no connection to free-flowing venture capital and the irrational exuberance that created the equity bubble (which burst as Clinton was leaving office), and the close, but not quite, balanced budget wasn't related to the massive downsizing of the military after the fall of the USSR. I'm voting Democrat because the out-of-touch Republicans don't understand my needs. I vote for Democrats like Barack Obama, who made $4.2 million in 2007, and owns a $1.5 million home; John Kerry, who is worth upwards of $500 million; Jay Rockefeller and Edward Kennedy, both worth over $100 million, who have homes and yachts coming out of their ears; Al Gore, who is worth over $120 million and flies on Gulfstream jets to and from his 14,000 square foot mansion; and Nancy Pelosi, who owns a vineyard valued at up to $25 million, and a multimillion dollar Lake Tahoe townhouse. These people really understand the way I live. I'm voting Democrat because I'm from the party of tolerance, understanding, and acceptance of others' opinions, and I believe in free speech and constitution rights, except when the speech is made by people who disagree with me, in which case, I wont attempt to inform myself and discuss the issues, but I'll resort to vulgar name calling, abusive smears, lies, lead efforts to get them fired from their jobs, suspend them from schools, accuse them of racism, and tell successful conservative women to stay home and take care of their kids. And finally, I'm voting Democrat because, unlike the Republicans, I actually do want the whole world run by one big "corporation" - the US Government. |