Comments on: A Growing "Tea Party" Movement?

The Weekly Standard: Opposition To The Foreclosure Bailout Rises

[spiritwalk]

DON'T TREAD ON ME, OBAMA!!!
Posted by ___One_American___

Do you really think that waving the flag is going to change anything?

Get a flag, an armband and salute until your arm falls off. Patriotism has never and will never effect the economy because the people with the power to effect it know no borders outside of the boardroom.

John Wayne lied to you. Get over it .

[___One_American___]

Obama and the Democrats are trying desperately to drag America down the path to destruction.

You need not look any farther than to European countries to see what a screwed-up mess Socialism can make of a nation, their productivity, and their standard of living.

This "Tea Party" is really the start of a mass revolt against Socialism - and April 15th will be the beginning of the end of Obama and the Democrats.

DON'T TREAD ON ME, OBAMA!!!

[spiritwalk]

Non-Sequitur and the rest of you bi-partisan meatheads on both sides... you really must pay attention. This isn't about Dem. or Rep. Everyone here is so quick to point fingers and toss the insults if you don't agree with someone's post. How about some intelligent dialog instead of the gradeschool namecalling. Sheesh...
Posted by thinkaboutit13
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Intelligent dialogue and blog posts are mutually exclusive terms.

What you witness here is the common human response to being trapped in a situation in which people have no control. Rather than face and accept the hopelessness of the situation they turn on each other.

These people bought into the Suze Ormans of the worls that told them they could have a financial plan and succeed when in truth their plan was nothing more than an illusion. There 401ks amounted to no more than one chip in the big casino and the real players dont even bother with chips.

PEOPLE do not accept and probably will never accept that in the finacial scheme they are impotent and powerless and under the control of fprces that they will never be able to understand let alone be a part of. Their postings are of no more import than spray paint on a subway car.

All the sytem wants of them is to keep fighting each other over the Soylent Green.

[thinkaboutit13]

Non-Sequitur and the rest of you bi-partisan meatheads on both sides... you really must pay attention. This isn't about Dem. or Rep. Everyone here is so quick to point fingers and toss the insults if you don't agree with someone's post. How about some intelligent dialog instead of the gradeschool namecalling. Sheesh...

I pay my mortgage, and I have less than $200.00/month after the rest of my bills are paid. I save SOMETHING every month. I'm not behind on anything and I don't own a big screen TV. I don't qualify for any special programs because I've always had a job and I make just enough to stay ahead of the wolves. No one will, nor should they care about my situation cause I've been responsible for the debt that I CHOSE TO ACRUE. I don't want anyone to bail me out. I can be proud of the fact that I don't collect welfare, foodstamps, cheat on my taxes, etc. It's difficult, but anything worth having is worth working for...isn't it? Maybe it's just easier to stick your hand out.... I'ts not a democratic nor a republican position to expect others to maintain their finances properly.

I don't give a rip if Bush, Obama or flippin Harry Truman was in office when our country initiated the crisis that it's in now. Politics is politics and no matter which side of the isle you hail from, your party is culpable.

The solution isn't to bail everyone out that asks for it. Remember Continental Airlines? Went bankrupt 3 times and is now stronger than ever. Thinkaboutit...Learn.

[johnbrown888]

"a real opposition movement may be building. "


Or, it may just be another front for Dick Armeydildo and other Neocon scum. Rupert Murdock and *** Nooze may be putting up the money. The Limburgers (and they do smell!) are just dittoing their fat, impotent Dear Leader's talkiong points.

It's as phoney as the Raygun $3 bill.

[jessejames2112]

article: "John Shilling, an 18-year-old student in Hilton Head, South Carolina, launched a site called 92percentgroup.org. Its sole mission is to oppose the Homeowner Affordability and Stability Plan. "We feel like 92 percent of the country has been paying their mortgage on time, and we've been a silent majority this whole time," "

Shilling isn't arrogant. Not one little bit ; )

The other 8% constitute over 5 million people, whom Shilling has no trouble throwing out of their homes for delinquent payment. I believe that many if not most of these people were caught up in the radical sales pitches that went on a few years ago to sell homes to anyone and everyone. And the reason these sales pitches didn't catch Shilling is because he was 12 years old at the time.

If we're going to bail banks out of a self-made mess, can we spend 1/20th the amount we're spending on banks to bail out homeowners from a mess THE BANKS MADE??? What's with this 'socialism for the rich only' thing?

Im sure the 92% group is against the bank bailouts as well. Most of the GOP was except for Bush and McCain. Also Shilling the kid doesn't run the group his dad does, this article is misleading. Alright so arrogant? You call an 18 year old arrogant because he wants equality of treatment? All men are created equal i thought, but you obviously don't believe so. Did you ever stop in think of the benefits that foreclosure presents? It forces oh wait, THE BANKS to take a hit on the sale, and allows people to buy a house that they can actually AFFORD. See you are stuck in this magical fantasy land where everything that feels good is good. Ubrew12 sit down and think for a second instead of just feeling. Why are we in this mess? People bought homes they couldn't afford. In 5 years when the government pulls their support out, we will be right back where we started. It's not the people's fault who bought the homes, but it is their responsibility, not yours, not mine. See I think you're just in a hissy mood cause an 18 year old knows more than you. Maybe you should listen to him.

[elz523]

noloyalist-well, one reason to criticize the chosen one is because since he's been in office the stock market has tanked, he's tripled the deficit, he's signed off on a bill filled with pork, etc,etc. Guess that could be the reason, dontcha think!
In his droning campaign speeches he swore no more pork, he swore he would read every bill line for line and veto any pork.,he swore that any bill would be posted for at least 5 days for all to read-HE LIED!!! And don't give us "the emergency" cr*p cause your messiah didn't sign that pork filled bill for 4 days after it was passed.
SO, that's why.
Posted by janem4 at 6:57 AM : Mar 7, 2009

Who says he is a messiah? Only the Republican who wish he was one of them. He is a President and is doing what he has to do to lead the country. The bill you mentioned with pork in it should not have been presented to him. Should he now spend all his and the Congress' time working on last years business or moving forward. I expect the budget bills passed next year, that are his budget bills will not have the pork that these had. Let's get moving forward.

The amazing thing is that any Republican would have the gall to complain about pork when they have Bush and the Republican Congress from 200 to 2006 record to stand on. That won't be used to justify a poor Democratic record on pork should it materialize, but it should certainly serve to silence the self-serving and hypocritical Republican on this omnibus bill 7 weeks into Obama's presidency.

[spiritwalk]

I can see from all the ?comrade Obama? and ?neocon? snipping that you haven?t gotten it yet. Hasn?t the Bernie Madoff plea deal talk sunken in yet?

It?s all a big money game and you aint a player!

Madoff has been smiling all through this because he knew that he wasn?t going to be touched. The corporate execs took the bailout money and did what they wanted because they knew they weren?t going to be touched.

Somebody gets appointed to a cabinet post and they owe a few thousand in back taxes and they have to slink off in shame. Madoff steals billions and he doesn?t even flinch when he gets caught. Banks get billions in bailouts and literally take the money and party and they don?t flinch either.

Still don?t get it?

You are the peasants and the politicians are the Sheriff of Nottingham. You think that if you form up your little band of rebels in Sherwood forward and fight the evil sheriff that you are going to get some where. Meanwhile the Lords of Finance and the Barons of Bailouts take all the money and just let you peons fight it out.

Keep trumpeting Obama and his vision. Keep thinking Rush Limbaugh is going to do something that brings change his way. That?s exactly what the big guys want you to do.

Have your little dream that you have some power. That?s all it is, a dream.

Remember those original ?Tea Party? people in colonial Massachusetts? They were ?outraged? over the policy of King George III in his ?Stamp Act?. They got the people to go out and fight a war in order to stop the government from requiring the purchase of ?stamps? to make documents legal. As soon the British were gone and Massachusetts became a ?state? the first thing those ?rebels? did was to start requiring the purchase of ?stamps? to make a deed legal and it still goes on today.

Its all a game and you aint a player, you just have to hand your money over to the real players to gamble with. When they lose you have to come up with more and when they win you?.have to come up with more.

Now do you get it?

[markangeloo]

Eye of the needle rich man.
When did the republican party stop being christian ???

[caldwellptr]

This may be slightly off topic - When did affordable housing stop being built? I don't need a bailout; I have no mortgage. I can afford $400 to $500 a month, in rent or a mortgage. It takes me 5 working days out of a month of 20 working days to earn that. When I lived in NYC it took me 10 or 11 days to make enough to pay rent. It was a depressing struggle. There are no new houses out there being built in my price range. The only market that is served by new housing is the luxury market. And the cast off housing by the luxury market is out of my range. The housing that I have looked at, rental or for purchase, in my price range is very, very bad. Poor maintainence, very bad neighborhoods - a lot of it should be condemned. You should be able to move into the house you purchase, not spend to bring it up to code, or install windows because some are missing.

Bailout the folks who overreached on their mortgage? Try finding them affordable housing.