Quote Originally Posted by CLW View Post
They get so.... heated b/c they cannot stand when their view that only 1% of the population believes in a conservative world view/philosophy. Of course if they were rational, they would look at election results and see that roughly 50% of the country does. But they believe hook, line and sinker everything their lord and savior Mmmh Mmmh Mmmh tells them. It's sad but a telling sign that soo...... many are completely dependent upon the government to survive and even incapable of logical/coherent thought w/o the government telling them what to think/say.
Here your telling us that the government has no place on regulating or making decisions for people and those that want it are not up to your standard.........then

Quote Originally Posted by CLW View Post
I'm all ears for any other cause of the recession other than anything directly/indirectly associated with the housing bubble and thus the liberal idea to lessen credit standards so that everyone could own a home regardless of whether they could afford one. The banking/insurance sector made STUPID moves associated with the lessening lending standards and sold crappy products to investors who wanted in on these "sure bets".

You take away the housing bubble/bust and most if not all of the economic problems in the private sector are gone.

Interestingly, Clinton largely benefited the MOST from two false bubbles during his presidency: (1) .com bubble (2) fake housing boom

Take away those two false beliefs at the time and the Clinton "boom" economy largely goes away.
Then here when the Government allows people to decide to make their own decisions of whether they can afford a 250K home on a 45K salary which most common sense people know isn't a good decision fails squarely on the hands of the Government for allowing this to happen.

So I ask which is it? Or would you like to have it both ways?