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Thanks Robo and Squalebear. Just expressing myself.

I do feel that we should have more compassion in this country right now. Playing the zero sum game may work in football and chess, but in society it has led to strife and destruction. We will all be losers when our friends, families, and neighbors suffer from this meltdown. Yes we will get out of it, but we will be better off for our cooperating and helping each other as we begin to improve in this economy. Calling the ones who need help losers will only lead to class warfare and strife and then we all will be losers. So, keep grounded and remember and 'there but for the grace of god, go I'.
 
Robo,

I feel compelled to respond as I have always respected you and your opinions and continue to do so. I do not speak for Santelli but I believe that the people like your folks were not the target of his comments. The losers are the snakes that lied on there application and bought a house they could never afford, flippers and liars. The ones that had to keep up with the Jones's and threw caution to the wind. The ones who walked away from houses that were to big and full of electronics and big screen TV's that they could not afford in a good economy.

How about seizing the assets of everyone involved with this whole mess. Everyone at AIG's finance arm, Citi, BofA, Merill, Goldman, Countrywide, etc. Real Estate agents, appraiser's, liar borrower, lenders that did not verify income. All the Executive and Board members of every company that gets a taxpayer loan. Everyone at FRE and FNM get their personal assets taken.

All of this money being created and thrown around, I doubt your folks will see much if a dime and the inflation will eat them alive in a few years. Honest folks will not get anything, IMO. The ill and the unlucky in life are a completely different and minuet category in the sub-prime, derivative, and CDS mess we're in.

As for the misfortunate being losers I strongly disagree with that sentiment, I'm one of those misfortunate. Every family has someone that is struggling and the government won't help them as much as family can. Look at Amtrak and the Postal Service, two of the most mismanage government sponsored entities in the Nation. Freddie, Fannie, two more. That alone should prove that anytime the government decides to save the day, 95% of it will be wasted and somebodies got to pay for it.

I too have family struggles, let me vent a little. I am living on coupons and sale item but I still can take my family to dinner once in a while, while just buying a vehicle and insurance for a indigent family member that live too far away for me to easily help and I last seen him the mid-eighties. That and my struggles paying my last surgery medical bills and now major medical for both of my sons. The hits keep on coming. I thank God I do have this job and benefits. Should I get a bail out? For what? Life. **** happens.

Now, I need a $200 EGR valve for my used 2005 van and the rear tire has a slow leak. Had to put a new blower on the stove and nothing cost less than $100 for any part. Had to buy a 1989 car as a back up to my 1990 Toyota as it has 217,000 miles and is about to die.

I'm living the American dream, those other people were living the American dream at someone else's expense.

The losers I and I believe Rick was talking about were the losers with too big a house a brand new car or two in the garage while crying they need help. Give them a 2% loan and I bet they still default on it. They don't care. History has proved that 40% will still walk away after assistance.

You know that cartoon with the guy and the black cloud over his head? I am beginning to believe that I'm that guy. So what!

So I believe that Rick and I know myself felt the losers are the people that created this mess from the mortgage lenders, to credit card co., to AIG, to the politician, to the FRE and FNM and the people that bought way more than they could ever afford. And the people that let them.

Those people don't deserve a dime, but we all know they are all bold enough to be the first ones in line and crowd your folks to the back of the line.

Your folks aren't loser and neither am I. We just got dealt a crappy hand but are luck to have family.

Hang in there Robo.;)
 
Show-me said:
Robo,

I feel compelled to respond as I have always respected you and your opinions and continue to do so. I do not speak for Santelli but I believe that the people like your folks were not the target of his comments. The losers are the snakes that lied on there application and bought a house they could never afford, flippers and liars. The ones that had to keep up with the Jones's and threw caution to the wind. The ones who walked away from houses that were to big and full of electronics and big screen TV's that they could not afford in a good economy.

How about seizing the assets of everyone involved with this whole mess. Everyone at AIG's finance arm, Citi, BofA, Merill, Goldman, Countrywide, etc. Real Estate agents, appraiser's, liar borrower, lenders that did not verify income. All the Executive and Board members of every company that gets a taxpayer loan. Everyone at FRE and FNM get their personal assets taken.

All of this money being created and thrown around, I doubt your folks will see much if a dime and the inflation will eat them alive in a few years. Honest folks will not get anything, IMO. The ill and the unlucky in life are a completely different and minuet category in the sub-prime, derivative, and CDS mess we're in.

As for the misfortunate being losers I strongly disagree with that sentiment, I'm one of those misfortunate. Every family has someone that is struggling and the government won't help them as much as family can. Look at Amtrak and the Postal Service, two of the most mismanage government sponsored entities in the Nation. Freddie, Fannie, two more. That alone should prove that anytime the government decides to save the day, 95% of it will be wasted and somebodies got to pay for it.

I too have family struggles, let me vent a little. I am living on coupons and sale item but I still can take my family to dinner once in a while, while just buying a vehicle and insurance for a indigent family member that live too far away for me to easily help and I last seen him the mid-eighties. That and my struggles paying my last surgery medical bills and now major medical for both of my sons. The hits keep on coming. I thank God I do have this job and benefits. Should I get a bail out? For what? Life. **** happens.

Now, I need a $200 EGR valve for my used 2005 van and the rear tire has a slow leak. Had to put a new blower on the stove and nothing cost less than $100 for any part. Had to buy a 1989 car as a back up to my 1990 Toyota as it has 217,000 miles and is about to die.

I'm living the American dream, those other people were living the American dream at someone else's expense.

The losers I and I believe Rick was talking about were the losers with too big a house a brand new car or two in the garage while crying they need help. Give them a 2% loan and I bet they still default on it. They don't care. History has proved that 40% will still walk away after assistance.

You know that cartoon with the guy and the black cloud over his head? I am beginning to believe that I'm that guy. So what!

So I believe that Rick and I know myself felt the losers are the people that created this mess from the mortgage lenders, to credit card co., to AIG, to the politician, to the FRE and FNM and the people that bought way more than they could ever afford. And the people that let them.

Those people don't deserve a dime, but we all know they are all bold enough to be the first ones in line and crowd your folks to the back of the line.

Your folks aren't loser and neither am I. We just got dealt a crappy hand but are luck to have family.

Hang in there Robo.;)
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I was going to comment also, but Show-me covered my thoughts very well. I've said many times that we must help those that are trying, but just need a boost up. I've been unemployed, savings wiped out feeding my family and then took a beating on my house when I sold, because the bottom of the housing market had fallen out. This was in the early 80's.

I also remember taking bags of groceries to my Dad's side of the family, because LBJ's war on poverty, sure wasn't being fought in our part of Appalachia, it was just a running joke.

But through all of that, my family instilled strong values in all of us kids, that we have passed on. It's a shame now, the values almost 40% of the country pass on is how to get as much money of free stuff from the Feds, and most of them don't even pay taxes. It's a generational teaching on how to cheat the feds and get welfare without working. In my home state now, they are trying to pass a bill that if you are on the dole and buy illegal drugs, then you lose your welfare benefits and you'd think from the howling from the left, you were cutting off inportant body parts. If they can afford to buy drugs, then they can buy food. And for those of you that are worried about the kids, well there are thousands of people wanting to adopt, so those deadbeat druggies have to make a decision, what's more important drugs or their families.

I'm against helping those who knowingly bought more than they could afford, who lied on their apps and also the greedy business men who took advantage of the ignorant and the Congressman, Frank and Dodd, just to name a couple that take advantage of these opportunities to line their own pockets or get special favors.

Yes I do believe in personal responsibility, morals and ethics and the lose of these characteristic is one major reason we are in this mess. Yes, these are old fashion beliefs and those of us that still believe in them, do get called various names by the supposedly tolerant left.

When I went to work for the DOD, almost 24 years ago, I swore to uphold the values of the US Constituion and I KEEP my word. They probably don't do that anymore, cause someones feelings or sensitivities may get hurt. :sick:

That's the problem, no one keeps their word anymore. We have about 70 people in our family, counts aunts, uncles and cousins and their children and we all live with about 20 minutes of each other, so we are always there to help each other. We're just another archiac feature of the past, and my mom and gandmothers died at home, being cared by family members, not in some sterile nursing home, because that's just the way it is, we take care of our own and anyone else who really needs help.

So when I bash BHO, it's because I see him destroying the very values and country that are dear to my heart and will not sit idly by, while it happens. I write letters and make phone calls, so I try to do my part, but being heartless to the helpless is not one thing I believe in. Heartlessness is taking the will of a person to better himself and family and having depend on handouts from a Socialist government.

Dang, that just flowed and I'd like to apologize for going on so long, but I'll never apologize for my beliefs and feelings.

CB
 
Is Rick Santelli the Father of the Tea Party? 'If that's what they put on my tombstone, they can bury me with a smile.'

"The markets are the world's greatest Rubik's cube," says CNBC's Rick Santelli. "And I love solving puzzles."
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"These are important topics that are going to affect every man, woman, and child in the world," Santelli tells TVNewser during an interview between live shots, "and I want to do my best job to portray it as I see it in an honest, objective fashion."
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"Santelli says all his outbursts (such as last month's "Stop Spending!" plea) are spontaneous. "There's nothing faux about it."
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"Another misconception? He's not "some mega-rich guy. Listen, I work hard, and I haven't done badly in life. But I pretty much came from very modest roots...I go home on my train, I cut my own grass...I don't have anything against people that are more elite, but it's just not who I am or what I'm about."

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I was so rooting for Santelli when he made an appearance on a Sunday talk show awhile back. It seemed awkward, and his posture added to that, rather like a technical expert at a table of decision makers. When he finally was invited to talk he had a lot to say, and the others did not seem to use his comments and thoughts to further the conversation. There seemed to be a respectful atmosphere and I think he did add some comments after, but my impression was they did not want to hear, evaluate, expand, debate, etc. what he said as they do with their other regular colleagues.

Later on CNBC he said all the other commentators were kind and considerate toward him. But my lingering impression was that he must have been excluded from, or at least limited in, the show prep conversations that must take place.

Anyone have a different take?
 
Anyone know what happened to Rick Santelli on CNBC? - haven't seen him on for over a week!

Is he on vacation?
Budgetary Cutbacks? :confused:

Did they send him packing?
Hope that he will be back! - He's the ONLY one there worth listening to!!!

Hope you'll be back soon Rick! (Maybe he's gonna run for President - yeah that must be it!) :D
Rick Santelli Equates the Federal Reserve to a ...Bulldozer
 
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