Comments on: Treasury Head Seeks More Regulatory Muscle

Geithner Asks Congress For New Powers Over Financial Companies That Could Imperil Economy

[bobnjersey]

[Biden has been the Gaffe Gift that keeps on giving......his latest one....."What's that website number ?" ]
[Posted by Joe-NY-4 at 1:10 PM : Mar 24, 2009 ]

the number was 164.223.65.123 ... but it's easier to use the domain name.

[bobnjersey]

[It can be explained.......The Obama Presidency bad-mouthing the economy to further his spending agenda....it's simple ]
[Posted by Joe-NY-4 at 1:20 PM : Mar 24, 2009 ]

it's only simple to a simpleton.

[bobnjersey]

[Biden has been the Gaffe Gift that keeps on giving......his latest one....."What's that website number ?" ]
[Posted by Joe-NY-4 at 1:10 PM : Mar 24, 2009 ]

nobody ... and i mean nobody ... can hold a candle the grand poobah of the spoken gaff .. the one and only gwb. everyone else is a pathetic second ... so far back they can't see gw ... and gw feels like he's all alone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKgPY1adc0A

[bobnjersey]

[How many times can O-Duma play his trillion dollar card before the libs figure out that our children and grandchildren will have to pay back all those trillion dollar cards O-Duma played.. ?

a: one
b: two
c: three
d: four
e: who cares it is only our kids..
f: It doesn't matter because the US will be a communist country soon.. ]
[Posted by cornbiker at 1:04 PM : Mar 24, 2009 ]

you forgot option g ... which reads as follows: 'it doesn't matter because i as a republican didn't open my big mouth from 2001 thru 2007 when we were spending like drunken sailors ... so why do i care now?'

[ubrew12]

I said: "Read about Bush's bubble economy, after the fact: (followed by two links)"

TruePirate09 said: "I get it - MORE EXCUSES. ... Sorry Sparky but I (and many others) told you how this was to go down long ago. "

By long ago, you mean 2 months ago? Sorry, but it takes longer than that to tank most of the worlds economies. Even AIG can't burn through money that fast. I would say it took 15 years to get us into this mess. Your attempt to lay it on Obama is indicative of the well known saying:
"Republicans hate democrats more than they love their country."

Way to go, arsonist.

[bobnjersey]

[The stereotyping is all fine and dandy but the change from the last election has led to Plummeting stocks and home prices and unemployment that has doubled in two short months. How can that be explained? ]
Posted by TruePirate09 at 12:22 PM : Mar 24, 2009 ]

gather up all the top economists in the world ... count up all the nobel awards ... pose your question to the group ... and 'they' wont be able to explain it to you ... or they will each explain it a different way.

[bobnjersey]

[One day in heaven is 1,000 years on earth. ]
[Posted by arthur310 at 12:34 PM : Mar 24, 2009 ]

do you a link to support this claim?

[Vet_Turner]

TruePirate09, great!. :: You admit to being an unreasonable gaffe. "True or False"? What are you in 5th grade?

You had your disaster of a President, now why don't you sit back and watch a true administrator run the country who will make things work rather then start unjustified wars because he was bored with playing golf.

[grabandgo]

Little Timmy needs to be sent home. This situation is much to complicated and difficult for him to handle. The American public has no faith in his abilities. Obama needs to become his own man and start running the show. Pelosi, Frank, Geithner, Reed , and the rest of the Democrats and Republicans will hang him if he does not.
Posted by impeachbhb at 12:05 PM : Mar 24, 2009

how can obama become his own man, he only had 143 days as a senator. HE IS AN EMPTY SUIT!

[ubrew12]

TruePirate09: I'm sorry its a surprise to you that during the Bush years this country had a house of cards economy, a bubble economy. Now that its popping, you're using that as an excuse to engage in party politics. Fine. Its not like you people have any credibility left, after Bush, anyway. Read about Bush's bubble economy, after the fact:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0YTY5TWtmU&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfascZSTU4o&feature=related

[ubrew12]

There were people who predicted this downturn. Listen to what Peter Schiff was saying in 2006. This country was in a massive bubble, and this is what happens when bubbles pop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0YTY5TWtmU&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfascZSTU4o&feature=related

[ubrew12]

God created the world in 7 days so, according to the rightwing ranters on this board, why can't Obama recreate it in 7 weeks?

[ubrew12]

TruePirate09 said: "the change from the last election has led to Plummeting stocks and home prices and unemployment that has doubled in two short months. How can that be explained? "

Its Obama's fault? This economy was in a train wreck since 2007. That's what happens when bubbles pop.

[pepperp1]

Real change that I could be live in would require:



Geithner and all other legacy Goldman Sak's players in Obama's Administration to be fired now....



Goldman needs to return the money's they received from the AIG bailout billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars were funneled through AIG to Goldman Sachs -- one of Wall Street's most politically connected firms .... and the FBI called in



Banc of America must repay the Merrill executive 2.4 Million in bonuses paid by tax payers



Jail ............. Cassano and the all that belonged to the Morgan Mafia





Restore the Glass-Steagall Act NOW





Gut ....... the Commodity Modernization Act and begin to regulate credit swaps





and if anyones house should be picked it should be former Senator Phil Gramm's



all campaign fiance dollars from AIG, ML, Goldman, Banc of America be donated to a defecit reduction fund

[Vet_Turner]

Very sad to see this forum turn into this. ...People making totally unjustified comments. Saying that the Obama Administration caused this problem is so absolutely rediculous. It is only warranted to address here because those who have such unwarranted claims have ruined this forum for every thinking person. Very sad.

[tedryfiak]

It amazes me how many people can't figure out that if unemployment was almost non-existent, our economic problems would be too. If everyone had decent jobs, they would have made all their payments, regardless of the greedy, stupid banker's terms. Throwing bailout money at banks also will not help our current situation fast enough. Unfortunately, loaning money to manufacturers in the USA, to increase production of useful goods which will immediately create jobs, is not a "cool" enough thing to do so it hasn't been considered. Patriotic Capitalism puts the country, corporations and citizens all on the same team to help each other survive. Crappy trading balances, greedy corporations and unions, plus citizens that keep putting each other out of work by purchasing too many foreign goods; all share the blame for getting us here. The bank collapse is just a giant symptom of the cancer that is the real cause: JOB LOSSES.

[impeachbhb]

Little Timmy needs to be sent home. This situation is much to complicated and difficult for him to handle. The American public has no faith in his abilities. Obama needs to become his own man and start running the show. Pelosi, Frank, Geithner, Reed , and the rest of the Democrats and Republicans will hang him if he does not.

[grabandgo]

Give the cockroach more power....Now that gives us all a sense of security.

[scb1111_1]

By the end of this LOSER of aPresident Obama first term, there won't be any "private sector", with over 80% Unemployment with only 20% Government workers doing everything in this Socialistic Country?

[scb1111_1]

This LOSER of a President has been a FAILURE from Day One! The "craziness" continues with this "stupid" idea of "seizing" all the financial institutions that they determine that will fail? Failure until the Big Bad Government own all that once was "private sector" economy?