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A bunch of hot air, blah blah blah....

So the solution is a simple one at first, get out of the way. Reward business people to invest their money, get the cycle started again where people feel confident to invest their money and the jobs will start rebuilding in the private sector again.
So where are the jobs TJ?

Been there, done that.. where are the jobs?

And all IWS has ever posted are the same damn GOP talking points.. tax cuts, tax cuts, like were gonna tax cut our way out of a bad economy.

As for STEALING Republican ideas... sh*t. What does THAT matter, the Republicans still say NO.

It's been that way for the last 2 years. He crosses party lines, proposes REPUBLICAN ideas, they STILL say NO. Simply because they WANT America to fail.

These are the same assholes that want power back because they can complain 24-7 about the guy in office?

Ahh hell no, the voters aren't THAT stupid.

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hmmm, for almost 2 years ow Dems have had control of the House, the Senate and the White House.

and it's the Republican's fault nothing is getting done?

How the hell does that work????
Really? So what legislation did the Democrats in control for those last 2 years create that caused the downturn?Come on, spit it out, name 1 thing if you wanna try that BS line.

Fact are facts, the bad economy was 100% Republican, and 100% what TJ, you, IWS and others want again.

Still don't see that answer... WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

Where are all these great jobs that were created?

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A bunch of hot air, blah blah blah....

So the solution is a simple one at first, get out of the way. Reward business people to invest their money, get the cycle started again where people feel confident to invest their money and the jobs will start rebuilding in the private sector again.
So where are the jobs TJ?

Been there, done that.. where are the jobs?

And all IWS has ever posted are the same damn GOP talking points.. tax cuts, tax cuts, like were gonna tax cut our way out of a bad economy.

As for STEALING Republican ideas... sh*t. What does THAT matter, the Republicans still say NO.

It's been that way for the last 2 years. He crosses party lines, proposes REPUBLICAN ideas, they STILL say NO. Simply because they WANT America to fail.

These are the same assholes that want power back because they can complain 24-7 about the guy in office?

Ahh hell no, the voters aren't THAT stupid.

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hmmm, for almost 2 years ow Dems have had control of the House, the Senate and the White House.

and it's the Republican's fault nothing is getting done?

How the hell does that work????
Really? So what legislation did the Democrats in control for those last 2 years create that caused the downturn?Come on, spit it out, name 1 thing if you wanna try that BS line.

Fact are facts, the bad economy was 100% Republican, and 100% what TJ, you, IWS and others want again.

Still don't see that answer... WHERE ARE THE JOBS?

Where are all these great jobs that were created?

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Pretty sure that Fannie and Freddy and the housing regulations for the banks that were the cause of the economic collapse, were opposed by Republicans.

http://startthinking...nomic-collapse/

I know there has been thread after thread of us showing this to you but here it is again.
 
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Still wanna know where those jobs are... all I get is finger pointing.

If you guys wanna back up your claims of how great the free market is, show me the jobs. Just saying it is, doesn't make it so.

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Still wanna know where those jobs are... all I get is finger pointing.

If you guys wanna back up your claims of how great the free market is, show me the jobs. Just saying it is, doesn't make it so.

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How would you know? There hasn't been one in over a hundred years.
 
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Capitalism should not be condemned, since we haven't had capitalism. A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalism cherishes voluntary contracts and interest rates that are determined by savings, not credit creation by a central bank. It's not capitalism when the system is plagued with incomprehensible rules regarding mergers, acquisitions, and stock sales, along with wage controls, price controls, protectionism, corporate subsidies, international management of trade, complex and punishing corporate taxes, privileged government contracts to the military-industrial complex, and a foreign policy controlled by corporate interests and overseas investments. Add to this centralized federal mismanagement of farming, education, medicine, insurance, banking and welfare. This is not capitalism! Ron Paul
 
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Still wanna know where those jobs are... all I get is finger pointing.

If you guys wanna back up your claims of how great the free market is, show me the jobs. Just saying it is, doesn't make it so.

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How would you know? There hasn't been one in over a hundred years.
Really? Yet this ANCIENT form of government will work today? You can't show any evidence that it works, can't show where people were gettings jobs, can't show where the economy was climbing with that method, but I should just take it to heart that the free market is the way to go... EVEN THOUGH... every time anything is deregulated, it gets messed up... INCLUDING Fannie and Freddie which you like to use as an example..

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Still wanna know where those jobs are... all I get is finger pointing.

If you guys wanna back up your claims of how great the free market is, show me the jobs. Just saying it is, doesn't make it so.

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How would you know? There hasn't been one in over a hundred years.
Really? Yet this ANCIENT form of government will work today? You can't show any evidence that it works, can't show where people were gettings jobs, can't show where the economy was climbing with that method, but I should just take it to heart that the free market is the way to go... EVEN THOUGH... every time anything is deregulated, it gets messed up... INCLUDING Fannie and Freddie which you like to use as an example..

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Being as you completely ignore every example shown you, it is no surprise that you can't see how anything but socialist ideas are valid. IWS just showed you a great example of how the housing market crash was delivered to us through the fannie/freddie mess caused by the Democrats, and you don't even care.

The Republicans tried to offer reform of Fannie and Freddie but guess who blocked those attempt?

In 2004 the Democrats even played the race card and said the only reason Republicans wanted to offer stricter regulations was because they hated black people......so the attempts were blocked and we see the result. No, I don't believe regulation at that point would have stopped all of the mess, but it would have severely reduced it, and that reduction was blocked by progressives.
 
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So you admit it was a "DEREGULATED" Freddy and Fannie? See, sorry, you can call those "liberal" organizations if it comforts you, but the fact remains... they, as well as every other business in America, were allowed to run wild without over site or intervention, and they fukked up. Still wanna see those jobs. Come on TJ, be the first right winger EVER on all of the forums I visit to show me where that method created jobs. Where are the jobs?

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So you admit it was a "DEREGULATED" Freddy and Fannie? See, sorry, you can call those "liberal" organizations if it comforts you, but the fact remains... they, as well as every other business in America, were allowed to run wild without over site or intervention, and they fukked up. Still wanna see those jobs. Come on TJ, be the first right winger EVER on all of the forums I visit to show me where that method created jobs. Where are the jobs?

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Deregulated by progressives, at least get that part right Phreakwars, be big enough to admit that when the conservatives tried to head off the mess, it was the Democrats who haulted the attempts and caused the massive free fall decline that came later. But you can't admit that can you Phreakwars? Your just so self-deluded you can't see any solution to a problem unless it involves your progressives holding the reigns.

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I don't really understand the meaning of your question Phreakwars. How many 'poor' people employ other people? Zero.

So how makes the jobs? The so called 'rich' do, and who do you get them to make new jobs? The progressives must think calling them names, putting them down, or abusing them is the way to go but every time the progressives start their anti-business rhetoric, the jobs starts decline.

Under Bush job creation was still strong until the progressives took over the purse strings and started talking trash against business again, and guess what, jobs declined.

Do you want jobs created Phreakwars? Then give the 'rich' a reason to make jobs, let them make a profit and they will create jobs that employ people but if you take away all the incentives to make a business, they why would they want to make one? You can't keep treating business like the goose that lays the golden egg and taxing them into oblivian.

Look at California Phreakwars.
 
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So you admit it was a "DEREGULATED" Freddy and Fannie? See, sorry, you can call those "liberal" organizations if it comforts you, but the fact remains... they, as well as every other business in America, were allowed to run wild without over site or intervention, and they fukked up. Still wanna see those jobs. Come on TJ, be the first right winger EVER on all of the forums I visit to show me where that method created jobs. Where are the jobs?

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Or hey, if he even had some sources. Where's the racism? Where did Repubs try to pass reform?
 
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So you admit it was a "DEREGULATED" Freddy and Fannie? See, sorry, you can call those "liberal" organizations if it comforts you, but the fact remains... they, as well as every other business in America, were allowed to run wild without over site or intervention, and they fukked up. Still wanna see those jobs. Come on TJ, be the first right winger EVER on all of the forums I visit to show me where that method created jobs. Where are the jobs?

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Or hey, if he even had some sources. Where's the racism? Where did Repubs try to pass reform?
Your lack of even a basic education on the issues is truly shocking, well, considering your educated in California I guess it should be expected:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
 
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Do you want jobs created Phreakwars? Then give the 'rich' a reason to make jobs, let them make a profit and they will create jobs
So where are the jobs?Is that Fannie and Freddy's fault too?

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Dumb ass right wing logic:

Give rich guys more money to hire more people to build more products that people can't afford to buy because they don't have jobs.

So how does that work anyway?

Oh look, I just hired 25 more employees with a big .gov tax break, that's 25 more employees to make sh*t that isn't selling because the economy fukking sucks.

Yeah, some help that is.

Dumb ass right wingers love speaking out for their own enslavement to the rich, they even DEMAND to be enslaved.

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Dumb ass right wing logic:

Give rich guys more money to hire more people to build more products that people can't afford to buy because they don't have jobs.

So how does that work anyway?

Oh look, I just hired 25 more employees with a big .gov tax break, that's 25 more employees to make sh*t that isn't selling because the economy fukking sucks.

Yeah, some help that is.

Dumb ass right wingers love speaking out for their own enslavement to the rich, they even DEMAND to be enslaved.

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You just described Obama's plan to give tax rebates to businesses if they hire people. :lol:
 
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Do you want jobs created Phreakwars? Then give the 'rich' a reason to make jobs, let them make a profit and they will create jobs
So where are the jobs?Is that Fannie and Freddy's fault too?

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Where is the profit in creating a job under an administration and congress that is jumping at any excuse to demonize the private sector? There will not be any big flow of jobs until the Progressives stop treating the job creaters as the enemy.

Dumb ass right wing logic:

Give rich guys more money to hire more people to build more products that people can't afford to buy because they don't have jobs.
No, you keep missing the point, as usual, I don't want the Government to give anyone a dime of taxpayer money, I want the Government to let job creators "keep more of the money they earned".

So how does that work anyway?
Easy, stop trying to punish people just because they are creating jobs and being successful. It is called positive reinforcement, the Government can reward those who create jobs and guess what, you reward them with their own money and it does not cost the Government a dime.

Oh look, I just hired 25 more employees with a big .gov tax break, that's 25 more employees to make sh*t that isn't selling because the economy fukking sucks.
And those new 25 workers are off the Government tit and at the same time they are earning money that the Government is now able to collect taxes from.

Yeah, some help that is.
Getting people off welfare and working in the private sector is the only help we can possibly have, the only thing the Government can give us is more poverty, as it is right now, and how all of California has found out.

Dumb ass right wingers love speaking out for their own enslavement to the rich, they even DEMAND to be enslaved.

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If you think having a private sector job is being a slave, I guess your entitled to your opinion, but everything you offer as an alternative is even stricter enslavement to the Government whewre elitists like Obama and Al Gore mandate down to the masses what you can do, how you can do it, and when it is to be done. Letting the Governemtn enslave us is definately not going to give us prosperity, because they don't really believe in prosperity.

And that is the rub, progressives believe the American dream is gone, that people can't find success on their own and need the Federal Government to hand out success and life to the masses.

But people like me is proof against their propaganda. I am not really that different than anyone else, I work hard though and that hard work has helped me rebound twice, totally rebuild from complete loss two times and I can gurantee that it was not possible without the freedom to succeed based on my own work ethic. I do better than most Americans not because I am smarter, or because I am a movie star, or because the Government handed me more than someone else.....I am more successful because I work harder and have set goals that I am willing to bust my azz to attain.

The progressives want to "cap" failure, they believe all Americans need the Government to step in and provide every American with all their basic needs to survive, and doing this they also cap success. Each businessman in America will have such a massive burdon on them that only the select few will survive, only those who are permitted to survive (because they have the correct political friends) will survive, and the welfare rates of today will be only a small beginning to the unemployed numbers we will see in the future if we let them go through with their plans to remake America into a daycare center.
 
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Dumb ass right wing logic:

Give rich guys more money to hire more people to build more products that people can't afford to buy because they don't have jobs.

So how does that work anyway?

Oh look, I just hired 25 more employees with a big .gov tax break, that's 25 more employees to make sh*t that isn't selling because the economy fukking sucks.

Yeah, some help that is.

Dumb ass right wingers love speaking out for their own enslavement to the rich, they even DEMAND to be enslaved.

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You just described Obama's plan to give tax rebates to businesses if they hire people. :lol:
It's better then giving a tax break for "PROMISES PROMISES" to create jobs with an end result of hoarding away profits in the Cayman Islands. At least this way, the employer would have something to show for to earn the tax break..

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So you admit it was a "DEREGULATED" Freddy and Fannie? See, sorry, you can call those "liberal" organizations if it comforts you, but the fact remains... they, as well as every other business in America, were allowed to run wild without over site or intervention, and they fukked up. Still wanna see those jobs. Come on TJ, be the first right winger EVER on all of the forums I visit to show me where that method created jobs. Where are the jobs?

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Or hey, if he even had some sources. Where's the racism? Where did Repubs try to pass reform?
Your lack of even a basic education on the issues is truly shocking, well, considering your educated in California I guess it should be expected:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs
Hm. Watching that, I'm sensing that there's more to it than just the Dems being morons. The lack of continuous video i.e. the cuts between clips, make me suspicious of the whole thing. And on the surface, it does seem like they're saying there's nothing wrong with Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac.

Suspicious like when Meeks is "beating up on the regulator". He's questioning why they should listen to OFHEO, and give them regulatory power, as this would be their fault in the first place.

Shay says that OFHEO has been manipulated for years by Fannie Mae, which is the same regulatory group who the Republicans insist should have more power. The question there is whether they'd still be able to manipulate them, as they were filthy rich.

Also, part of the video says that Raines is saying that houses aren't risky investments. I doubt Raines is that stupid. It seems more likely that he's talking about how the loans they give are backed by the government, so they are riskless in that they're always backed by money somehow.
 
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IWS

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Dumb ass right wing logic:

Give rich guys more money to hire more people to build more products that people can't afford to buy because they don't have jobs.

So how does that work anyway?

Oh look, I just hired 25 more employees with a big .gov tax break, that's 25 more employees to make sh*t that isn't selling because the economy fukking sucks.

Yeah, some help that is.

Dumb ass right wingers love speaking out for their own enslavement to the rich, they even DEMAND to be enslaved.

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You just described Obama's plan to give tax rebates to businesses if they hire people. :lol:
It's better then giving a tax break for "PROMISES PROMISES" to create jobs with an end result of hoarding away profits in the Cayman Islands. At least this way, the employer would have something to show for to earn the tax break..

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No. It's not. What you keep describing, and what the Obama admin keeps prescribing, is central planning. We're going to take a bunch of your money in taxes, but if you do what we say you should do in your business, we'll give you some of your money back. We know better than you how to run your business.

It's government bureaucrats trying to decide what is best for and how to run private business.

I know you've never heard of him, but you might want to check out some Milton Friedman...

http://www.rightnetwork.com/episodes/860061523

Even big time left winger, socialist, Phil Donahue, try as he might, couldn't best him.
 
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Hm. Watching that, I'm sensing that there's more to it than just the Dems being morons. The lack of continuous video i.e. the cuts between clips, make me suspicious of the whole thing. And on the surface, it does seem like they're saying there's nothing wrong with Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac.
These things last days sometimes, the only way to show the meat of the meetings is to use segments. I am sure you can find an old archive of the entire hearings if you really want to.

Republicans had been screaming about the lack of oversight with Fannie and freddie, they were even exempt from most of the rules other banking companies had to follow, that is why they caused this mess. Fannie and Freddie had a limit as to how much in loans they could hold at opne time so they would close a loan to someone who could not possibly pay that loan to term and then sell it to a private bank to free up money that can close another loan and sell that one too, over, and over, and over until they caused this mess.

Suspicious like when Meeks is "beating up on the regulator". He's questioning why they should listen to OFHEO, and give them regulatory power, as this would be their fault in the first place.
Your not keeping up with the point, slow down and stop looking for excuses to protect your progressives.

The OFHEO never had direct power over Fannie and Freddie, look at about 4 minutes into the video, the Democrat Davis admitted that they did not have any regulatory authority to place an ultamatum on them, basically saying the regulator over stepped himself even though he was just responding to a massive problem he discovered.

Several other places Republicans point out that Freddie and Fannie were exempt from many new laws that were created to regulate banks, they were completely free to do anything they wanted to do and when Republicans attempted to do something about it, the Democrats blocked it.

Shay says that OFHEO has been manipulated for years by Fannie Mae, which is the same regulatory group who the Republicans insist should have more power. The question there is whether they'd still be able to manipulate them, as they were filthy rich.
They were manipulated because the OFHEO had no real power over them, think of it like the weapons inspectors in Iraq, they were told to look around but they were kicked out over and over and blocked from seeing certain things.

If the Democrats had not blocked these attempts to make Fannie and Freddie accountable to someone, we would not have seen the massive crash that came later.

Also, part of the video says that Raines is saying that houses aren't risky investments. I doubt Raines is that stupid. It seems more likely that he's talking about how the loans they give are backed by the government, so they are riskless in that they're always backed by money somehow.
Your nieve.

No, they are not that stupid, they are driven by an ideology that makes the waste of Government money irrelivent. They knew there were problems and they did not care. This hearing clearly proved there were problems but the Democrats circled the wagons, started playing the race card, and blocked any new restrictions to what Fannie and Freddie were doing.

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So I just proved to you that the Republicans did try to warn people, they did try to create new regulations to protect Americans, and only the Democrats blocked those protections and refused to protect Americans. The facts are there for you to see, the question is will you pull your head fromt he sand and admit it is there, or will you still be blinded by the lies from the progressives that they are blameless for the crashed economy?

Look behind all of these issues and you will find Conservatives fighting for solutions while Progressives are blocking those same solutions.

But all I can do is show you the door, it is you who has to walk through it.
 
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