It didnt take long

I think the disastrous effects of government interference in the free market are tragically and glaringly most depicted in the housing crisis.

 

With the benign and benevolent sounding mantra “affordable housing”, congress and the Dept of Injustice implemented laws, threats, and their sine qua non, “regulations” against mortgage lenders who wouldn’t lend to as many “minority” borrowers as their infinite wisdom saw fit. Why a person’s ethnicity qualifies or disqualifies an applicant is something conservatives still can’t figure out. We thought it was supposed to be an applicant’s ability to repay the loan. (Common Sense as Thomas Paine might say)

 

When, as was very predictable, mortgage holders stopped making payments, well, we saw what happened.

 

The Barney Frank led bureaucrats had an admirable and laudable goal in mind. Increased home ownership. Who could argue against that?

 

But, as usual, consequences are more important than intentions.

 

But if it sounds good, how bad can it be?

 

 

Thank You,

 

G. Gordon LennDef

 

Re post 73

What exactly is it about my statements, that you confuse as right wing?

Lefties dont understand, and are against my positions, so they ball up in the fecal position and point "right wing"=bad.

Righties dont understand it any more than the left,,,,,so they label it as leftist

I dont agree with much of anything offered by the right or the left. Most everything they pretend to believe in is false, as neoclassic economic thinking is the ultimate fail

I support natural resource rents to be publically collected, and used as the sole form of funding for government. This would be the greatest of all boons for the poor, the working class, the economy, and freedom. If you read a little closer into this countrys history, you will find that many of the founding fathers and bright minds from this countrys past, agreed

There is such disregard for private property at this point in time by the state, if only property owners were to vote, it would be less then 1% of the population, that is if you understand the definition of ownership.

The reason its hard for you to discuss, is likely because it is so simple, and you feel that the solution must be more complex, that you cannot grasp the concept, not to mention that your Statist instructions(education), intentionally confused you to make it hard to understand. That blame lies in neoclassical economics

Once you come to understand that land monopoly, secured by the state, is a zero sum game, and that Land is not capital, then you will be ready to learn. Until then, its round and round yous go with the same tired shit that youve been regurging since ived read this forum, which is a whole lotta nothing

Barney frank abandoned this sinking ship

Housing is basal to life as we know, as well as all economic activity

The same people that pretended to fight for affordable housing are now demanding more taxpayer money to fight off the affordable house prices they claimed to desire

Round and round we go, like....back to housing?

What has your bama done to fix housing?

It is the number one issue going into this electio, dont you think?

Im not really a ron paul guy, i just posted about how well he understands the problems we face. So much so, he had the vision to solve the probblem years before the public herd, realized it was a problem. There, he is THE ONLY CANDIDATE THAT SPEAKS FOR ME AND THE REST OF THE 99%. If the election were today, he would get my vote on that alone

Drawing down our overstretched war machine? Paul, for the win. Every other candidate, bama included, are expansionists

Pulling back subsidies?

Attempt to solve our currency issues? Does anyone other than paul even address the topic?

What people seem to have forgotten about the Greatest Depression, is that NOTHING structurally has changed, we have the same problems x2 as we did last election

Id be happy to hear of any of pauls ideas, that yous dislike. Would be a good learning experience for me, as im not that educated on his stances, especially the ones that bother you, wall, and the other leftists so much,,,,,,,

And i thought the point of the thread was wally got a chub from an msnbc smear about paul hating person and blacks?

So thats his vetting by msnbc? That hes a racist and a homophobe?

And some people buy into it and run with it. Doesnt make it true, but the tv watchers are quite 'impressionable'

What will get worse?

The frustration of his detractors?

The reaching of the statist media? Im sure his position on israel will keep the media off his back

They reached twenty years into the past, and found a newsletter that proves hes a racist and homophobe

Original

considering that he addressed the newsletters in the mid 90s and again in 2008; i would think its a dead issue more or less

that being said, he scares the piss out of every establishment status quo person or entity, including most media channels

re: 75 -

of course not about property owners only voting

i refer to the simplicity and the very short reach of the federal government. in fact; most things were a-ok until Lincoln. then after him until the 16th and 17th amendments were passed. all downhill from there

everyone has equal rights by birth. its a matter of whether your government is forced to recognize them. thats another question entirely

your argument was that the government had to expand and became more complex because of the population change from 1770s to today. i'm just following your logic to its end

government has gotten complex because it has been taken over by lobbyists and banks and multination corps

regulation is bought and paid for by those who are supposed to be regulated by said laws. more regulation is not the answer. bankruptcy is

you have lost your mind. If we dont pay property taxes, how is city govt going to get funded? Oh thats right, you just want to get rid of the whole govt at every level, then everybody can just do what they want and the country will be like the wild wild west all over again.
Bottomline KOAJ, you dont want to pay for anything. You just want what you earn to be yours and could careless about anything else.


stop reading all those whacked out websites you visit daily, they have destroyed your mind.


I guess with no govt and courts, lawyers wont be needed then

I hope you got lots of weapons and know how to use them, because the country you dream about, will be one of total chaos

This post really is funny.  It went downhill after Lincoln  You act like you were actually living back then.
To even think that we can run the country today the same way they ran it in 1776 {which i gotta remind you, that you werent there back then}  borders on insanity. In 1776 they had none of the problems are country faces everyday.  none, zippo. zelch.

And in 200 years from now, the people alive then will have to run govt based on whats needed for their own time period.

Civil rights in the form of suffrage and Emancipation came about because of republican ideals. Those ideals that are in the constitution and our bill of rights. Gaining theses things did nothing to change our way of govt. they upheld the principles of our republican form of government and serve as an example of the greatness of our constitution.

the scale of ones problems do not call for tyranny on any level

statists

Cd, do you think we should have a monarchy, theocracy, or what? Should we continue to expand the role of govt domestically, have a foreign policy of empire,and inflate the executive branch to the level of dictator? This is the route we are going. Are you ok with that? Our fourth amendment is essentially gone . Our first and second amendments are being chipped away at every day.

Should we just give them away and say that there is no reasonable expectation that I should be able to retain the rights that a man in 1776 had ?

Or that the world is so much different today that we should not have rule of law or checks and balances., that the very idea of justice is obsolete?

That is so true.

so true

wanting to keep what you earn does not equate with caring less.