I slightly disagree with you, my friend.
Was telling someone tonight, this:
We’ve always known about this lib wet dream about national health care. We can’t claim it a surprise; they’ve been angling for it for nearly 75 years. What we should have done was enact it on OUR terms, while Bush was in the White House and we had control of both houses of Congress.
Just like was done with the Medicare thing, which is the only part of Medicare that came in UNDER budget, because it was run by the free market.
We have known for YEARS that the first time they had their first crack at power that they would try to pull this whole Obamacare thing. And we should have known that by the time they had the kind of numbers to bring it up, that we would be unable to stop it.
This Obama/Pelosicare is a failure of OUR leadership. We should have co-opted this issue from them, using common sense, conservative, free market principles and then forced Democrats to vote AGAINST IT.
We had a chance to screw them over, but help the nation...and we punted.
The Repubs had plenty to do with it. They didn’t stop the Freddie and Fannie Fraud, The Graham Leach bill was a Repub bill and they did nothing to clean up Wall St. fraud. Toss in the lack of oversight on what the banking and mortgage sector was doing and they have a lot of blood on their hands.
You are kidding right? The seeds of the collapse were sowed years before that. The eventual collapse (starting Fall 2007) was triggered by Berneke in 2006 with raising interest rates. The economy was a house of cards. Try :
Peter Schiff Was Right 2006 - 2007 (2nd Edition) The classic
Peter Schiff was right 2006-2007 - CNBC edition
Just saw this re-edited one which ends with passing TARP1: THE FED DID IT!!! Ron Paul & Peter Schiff Were Right!!!
As org.whodat put it perfectly, no coolaid. Our Bush butt kissers have given us enough of that.