Comments on: Pelosi Happens http://www.irreverentview.com/national-politics/pelosi-happens Political commentary with an edgy and "irreverent view." Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:08:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mark R Smith http://www.irreverentview.com/national-politics/pelosi-happens#comment-202 Mark R Smith Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:16:53 +0000 http://www.irreverentview.com/?p=219#comment-202 I could not agree more. Thank you for your comments. Like you I have a kitchen table. I know what I can and cannot afford. It's just simple, plain commonsense. Unfortunately this problem is systemic and the seniority process in congress has not litmus test for competence. Hence, we have Chairman's Dodd & Frank. Not to mention Pelosi (a.k.a. Doby the House Elf). The plain facts of politics is that we will have recovery over the next two - four years and whoever is elected in November will benefit from the economic recovery too. Good luck. I could not agree more. Thank you for your comments. Like you I have a kitchen table. I know what I can and cannot afford. It’s just simple, plain commonsense. Unfortunately this problem is systemic and the seniority process in congress has not litmus test for competence. Hence, we have Chairman’s Dodd & Frank. Not to mention Pelosi (a.k.a. Doby the House Elf). The plain facts of politics is that we will have recovery over the next two - four years and whoever is elected in November will benefit from the economic recovery too. Good luck.

]]> By: Year1Media http://www.irreverentview.com/national-politics/pelosi-happens#comment-198 Year1Media Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:24:24 +0000 http://www.irreverentview.com/?p=219#comment-198 Thank GOD that legislation failed! But the real issue is not Republican or Democrat. You nearly identify it, though. The real problem is that greed and corruption lives deep in both parties, and both parties work together to maintain the status quo. I, my wife, and hundreds of other Florida voters relentlessly called our Senators and Congressmen to give our two cents and plead and threaten them NOT to vote for another bill that rewards corruption and poor business practices - AND THEY LISTENED! Most elected officials don't have the luxury of looking at a problem from afar and analyzing it without outside influence the way the average citizen does. The average person knows that CREDIT is what put us into this mess, and now we ALL have to suffer the market correction together. Bailing out the markets to "make more credit available" only prolongs the problem. Heck, we're already so deep into this that it will take a decade to recover, and $700 Billion was not going to help at all. Now we need to get to basics and (as a country) start manufacturing enough to sustain ourselves and sell the extra to the world. We also need to ditch the credit cards (that scam has run its course) and live within our means. Currently the only thing we create is waste, and we have a $9 TRILLION bill to prove it. It took decades to get into this mess and it will take a decade to get out. Once we get our priorities straight we can rest easy for another 6 or 8 generations until we forget and repeat our mistakes again., Thank GOD that legislation failed! But the real issue is not Republican or Democrat. You nearly identify it, though. The real problem is that greed and corruption lives deep in both parties, and both parties work together to maintain the status quo.

I, my wife, and hundreds of other Florida voters relentlessly called our Senators and Congressmen to give our two cents and plead and threaten them NOT to vote for another bill that rewards corruption and poor business practices - AND THEY LISTENED!

Most elected officials don’t have the luxury of looking at a problem from afar and analyzing it without outside influence the way the average citizen does. The average person knows that CREDIT is what put us into this mess, and now we ALL have to suffer the market correction together. Bailing out the markets to “make more credit available” only prolongs the problem. Heck, we’re already so deep into this that it will take a decade to recover, and $700 Billion was not going to help at all.

Now we need to get to basics and (as a country) start manufacturing enough to sustain ourselves and sell the extra to the world. We also need to ditch the credit cards (that scam has run its course) and live within our means. Currently the only thing we create is waste, and we have a $9 TRILLION bill to prove it. It took decades to get into this mess and it will take a decade to get out. Once we get our priorities straight we can rest easy for another 6 or 8 generations until we forget and repeat our mistakes again.,

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