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02-17-2013, 09:27 PM | #51 |
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Anyone looking for a good overview of the financial crisis should check out Inside Job
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There have been many many people who have lost pretty much everything who did nothing wrong. They lost their jobs and from there lost everything else. The people who defaulted on loans are just the tip of the iceberg. I stand by the analogy, you don't blame all the victims because some of them appear to have brought it onto themselves. . |
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Individual Americans have been doing dumb shit for the past 70 years and more. But somehow they never succeeded in crashing the entire economy before. Why do you suppose that is?
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I totally don't understand this mentality. Where is this idea coming from?
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If they were such an obvious recipe for disaster, why wasn't the problem addressed then?
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Again, check out Inside Job for a blow-by-blow of the Crime of the Last Couple Centuries.
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Because they're all pretty much on the same team.
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Thanks for that.
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Yeah, but good luck getting people locked into partisan thought bubbles to see this. "It's the republicans. No, it's the democrats." Bullshit. This has all been happening at a level above politics and ideologies. And of course, following the money is not encouraged
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Good post.
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02-18-2013, 01:52 AM | #63 | |
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1. Everything was going great. Nobody changes things when it's working good. 2. Too much money was being made by politician's friends...which in turn gives the politicians more money and power too. It's those same career politicians sitting in the Senate and Congress who caused it to happen and who now blame everyone but themselves. And now they are the ones who are going to "fix" it? lol |
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So . . . the question now is how do we get out of this mess without punishing the innocent parties, i.e. the American populace? Keep in mind that if across the board sacrifice is required it needs to be: a) Shared by all. b) Preceded by vigorous prosecutions (or at least convincing condemnation) of the most direct culprits (i.e the big banks and Wall Street) Otherwise, the masses will never sign on to it. And, as we all know, politicians live in naked fear of the masses every four years. This ain't gonna be easy for anybody.
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It's the career politicians who whore themselves out to everybody that are the real problem. The big banks and "wall street" aren't doing anything that any of us wouldn't do...they look out for themselves and try to figure out ways to make more money. Washington, D.C. has (over the decades) put itself in such a position of power that it literally holds the power of who is and who isn't successful. Which, of course, means that if you want the rules written to your benefit you have to give lots of money to a lot of lifetime politicians in The Senate and The House. The REAL solution to all of this is term limits on Congress and The Senate. I feel that if The Senate, The House and the President were all limited to ONE 6 year term it would take care of a lot of this bullshit. But that ain't gonna happen. So career politicians will continue with their corruption and at the same time continue spending our country into more debt than we will ever be able to repay. |
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Exactly, when I bought my house 3 years ago I qualified for a $500,000 mortgage. I bought a house for $325,000 instead. Live within your means.
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We're in this mess because the culture has shifted from inventing/producing/manufacturing to "scam a buck as quickly as possible with no actual work".
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Then you have guys like me who would never take a loan like that, pay taxes, etc., who end up getting fucked by the 2 dipshits that caused the mess. |
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i think my sig is in place here.
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Higher taxes + paired with low interest rates, basically help take the American dream away. That's money that can be saved. The higher your taxes, the harder it is to accumulate wealth. People say "oh, its only 2%, oh its only 4%!" - think about this in terms of replicating a financial investment. 2-4% + per year in extra savings, then invested at a risk free rate (which by the way is being kept artificially low by the gov't), over time, thats a lot of missed $. So today, everyone is basically getting taxed higher. And also, interest rates are so low, you can no longer go to the bank for a decent risk-free return. Yes, its simple math that its going to be harder for the next generation to save and build up their wealth. Our parents were able to buy more affordable homes, go to the bank and get a different interest rate, etc. Some of it is the president / governments fault, and a lot of it is simply more people vying for the same resources, plus the dynamics of our population changing. The government sure isn't making it any easier though. |
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and JUST deregulated enough to create this entire fiasco?
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Inclined to agree.
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When the tax rate was high there were many deductions that were available. No one paid anywhere near the amount they are paying today. |
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Are you just fucking around or should i pull some stats to knock your mouth-breather bullshit outta the park
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Couple that with a generation of people who got a participation trophy for everything they did, where every childrens tv show tells them they're "special", where teens are all suddenly getting credit cards and a culture where living beyond ones means became the rule and was everyone instead of just "that asshole down the street", and everything was obviously going to crash. The younger a person is, the less aware they are of these massive cultural shifts and the more misplaced their blame is. Its total insanity to me that people here put ZERO responsibility for everyone living beyond their means on the individual and in turn blame big, "evil" corporations who simply made money available to total idiots.
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lets see yours stats
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The government has also made privately held cash worthless. You can't grow cash anymore. The fed loans money for nothing to banks, banks in turn pay nothing to private individuals for deposits.
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This is simply not true... a full recovery is jussssssst around the corner. And besides... green shoots!
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lets look at year 1980 and 2010 (just for easy comparison 30 years apart) 1980 1198B in tax revenues, population in 1980: 227M = 5.28k/person 2010 1928B in tax revenues, population in 2010: 309M = 6.24k/person so, instead of 5.28k/person we are paying 6.24k/person = 18% increase... so after taking population growth and inflation into account, we are paying 18% more in taxes than we did in 1980 source: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfa....cfm?Docid=200 http://www.census.gov/popest/data/historical/
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stats are the past! lets paly with the present
google 'why 70% tax rates won't work' and see how many articles you get and google 'why 70% tax rates will work' and see how many articles you get the entire internet can't, cough, be wrong!
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for a very significant % of the population the family home was the basis of their retirement and then their estate passed on to their kids.
a middle class young family bought a house in 1960 for $15K, 40 years later that house in most places was worth anywhere from $150K - $500K the children of that family, baby boomers, bought homes in the 70's and 80's for $50K-100K and when they retire, some already have, those homes are worth $300K - $1M principal residence sales are tax free today with the low interest rates, even cashing in on a $750K home doesn't put you on easy street retirement wise. people wait until way too late to plan for retirement - the strain the aging baby boomers will put on taxpayers is going to be historic. lower taxes just aren't possible, not without a lot of pain caused to millions - so the pain will be shared and spread out among the middle class and rich , which is how it should be in a human society. it would be nice to put the onus back on the individual again but we are so far past that it makes conservatives look delusional the banksters are pure evil, not one of them who caused the second biggest economic collapse in history is wearing an orange jumpsuit today and that is outrageous.
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Here is a question for the younger guys… how many of you have retirement accounts in place?
I have two of them, I set them up when I was 26 I believe and I have a few other assets that can go towards retirement as well. Anyone can start saving/investing for their retirement with just a few dollars a week. It's not a lot, but it's something. And anyone that says they can't spare five dollars a week for their future is full of shit. Piriod.
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don't have me killed bro!
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I sincerely believe if you start by watching Inside Job and look into the 'revolving door' between wall st & government, you'll start re-thinking your opinion.
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It's because they're running the show. Since at least 1980, Treasury, SEC etc have been stocked with Wall Streeters. In other words, the foxes have been guarding the henhouse for 30+ years. This includes 'hope and change' obama. the biggest contributors to his 2008 campaign were wall street firms. Is it any shocker his 'justice' department hasn't taken any meaningful action against these banksters? Guys, political ideology is just for show. Doesn't matter which republicrats inhabit the white house or congress. Virtually all of them serve the same masters
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funny, swear i was responding to something
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But compare the Democratic party to the cruel, hateful, batshit-crazy, science-denying, anti-labor, anti-education, war profiteering, bigoted, bloodthirsty scoundrels in the GOP. You really think there's no difference? |
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Because I'm paying attention to what's going on.
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Nitpicking. That's microscopic compared to what I'm talking about, and I think you know that.
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government just like any business should be becoming more efficient over time... so cost per citizen should be going down, not up...
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but reagan-or can't be wrong
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