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Re your second paragraph. I agree with you. I don't think Obama is the messiah. He's way too tame for me. He's sure as hell no FDR. Yes, I know - you think FDR was the worst president ever. Imo, he...

god forbid someone practice plumbing without an official license from the State! Joe you rebel! I love these left wing Jr. Matlocks that uncover these grand conspiracies, Joe the Plumber is a McCain...

Krugman won the nobel prize for his work on economic geography, not his extreme partisan op-ed pieces in the Times or other mass media.

You are right Obama is not a socialist, he is a fascist.

Naomi Klein is an economist? LOL

I feel sorry for people like who who believe propaganda such as this crapola disguised as "journalism".

Its amazing how close the Obama campaign "talking points" are to what you hear the media saying.

And Obama sending more troops into Afghanistan, maybe Pakistan, maybe back into Iraq, maybe into Iran, maybe into Darfur, you get the idea.

OBAMA IS NOT THE PEACE CANDIDATE, repeat until you get...

Earmarks are just a distraction from the big picture of overall government spending, something McCain or Obama are not going to do anything about. Oh ya a few programs will get cut, a few "pork"...

I moved from Phoenix to Portland and couldn't be happier, of course I haven't been through a winter yet.

Ahhh, Republicans have never been for free markets.

Why should I embrace him, he isn't proposing anything new, its all the same old far left polices that liberals have been talking about for decades (ya sure he adds a few twists), some of them have...

I would agree, but add there seems to be an anti intellectual streak in many political populists, not just those on the right. Its hard to court the average working man if you are going to be...

Corporate Time Waster

Obama and McCain are 80% the same.

Trish, people that advocate true free markets are against Corporatism. Almost every single case when someone is talking about the failure of the "free market" is not really free markets, you will...

I don't attribute all of our problems to FDR. There's plenty of others to bang around, especially in the area of foreign policy. I also don't see FDR as the savior that some do. Modern day I see the...

Put down the conspiracy kool-aid.

Except Bush didnt win Michigan. Also Obama has pulled back from some states after stating he was going to run in all 50 states.

The fact is there are some states where it is not going to be...

There is nothing the government provides that cannot be provided by alternatives means. This includes everything you mention.

The idea that man is inherently evil and therefor we need a government...

Same thing I am every year, a drunken asshole.

Trish, I think you are completely underestimating the benefits Fannie/Freddie received from being GSEs:

http://affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/2004/12/fannie_maes_awf.html
Compared with...

hippifried, Keynesian economists have no handle on what happening, Austrians on the other hand have predicted this behavior and it fits in exactly with the Austrian Business Cycle Theory.
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"We're all worried about losing our jobs."

That about sums up politics in America.

I think its a wash between the people who will vote for Obama because he is black, and against him cause he is black.

IMO the only good reason to vote for Obama is that maybe we can finally get...

Send me your address, I need to send you some books on economics.

The moral hazard is that Freddie/Fannie and their investors knew they were "too big to fail" and made loans accordingly, this is...