Speaking from the steps of the Church Of the Divine Government, President Obama has announced his ambitious plan for Universal Hotel Care. This single-payer hotel care bill would guarantee every American an affordable hotel room or suite in any city in the United States, with no co-pay. This is another piece of the puzzle to provide the cradle to grave the President wants the government to provide for all Americans.
“Why should any citizen of this great country have to stay with friends or family because they can't afford a decent hotel room?” said the President. “Why should a hard-working American have to crash in someone's living room or pump up an airbed in the basement of an acquaintance's house because a hotel room would crash their budget?”
The President cited the horrific stories of families having to wait in line to use their host’s bathrooms and some even having to make their beds before breakfast. Others have told of being in guest rooms without a television, or a televison that wasn’t cable ready. And the complaints of missing remotes are heartbreaking as house guests had to get out of bed and change channels by hand.
Research has also revealed that the stress of having to be a good guest and submitting to the demands of a host is unbearable, especially if the host is a hard ass about keeping neat the house he probably can’t afford.
The President added passionately, “Why shouldn’t all Americans enjoy unfettered maid and room service, free wake up calls and the freedom to pilfer those little shampoo bottles and towels? Congress gets that stuff for free all the time. Why shouldn’t you? It won’t be as good as they get, but if you want those privileges, you can always run for office. That’s what makes America great.”
“We are a transient, mobile people,” continued the President. “In these difficult times, many citizens need to go to other cities to find the jobs our current economic policies are now in the process of wiping out. Families are fractured as kids leave home to take up residence in states with lower taxes, an inequity we’re already working on to fix.”
“With families so scattered and homesteads foreclosed, relatives must travel long distances to new cities for Thanksgivings, Christmases – oops, Holidays, weddings, funerals and the ever present repo men. And when they get there, they are shocked to see the cost of a hotel room.
The President became emotional when he told the story of Mindy Ferguson’s parents, who had traveled out of state for their daughter’s wedding.
“It should have been a joyous occasion,” said the President, stifling a sob. “But it wasn’t. Hotel costs were so high, Mindy’s parents couldn’t stay the full week and had to return home after the rehearsal dinner.”
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There's no way in hell Obama can destroy the Free Market Nirvana of the conservative's wet dreams.
The conservatives have already destroyed it.
Coitus interruptus, market corruptus, conservatism bankruptus..
I can't see how you would object to this Hotel Plan. Republicans will need it most, as they're going to be out of town for a very long time.
Soon it will be a "right" to get a haircut and a nail job. No one should have to look frumpy. What I find the most ironic is that to many fiscal conservative, this really does sound like a policy that might be thought viable and proposed by this administration.
I mean, mortgage bailouts? Auto manufacturer bailouts? Where is Studebaker or American Motors or Jeep or Nash or Hudson? They went out of business and those events didn't destroy the market for cars. Shifting and adjusting are a normal cycle of business trends and market demands. Shift Happens. Bye Bye GM. Hello better product or better business model.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=310173877357981
Ice.... the fun is about the government insisting on taking care of us.
Hawley....that darn Wall Street. I was at my bank when they walked in and emptied my account. I was helpless.
Paul....ohmigod, conservatives killed capitalism. The bastards.
Rolling....that was really interesting info. Thanks.
A real right wing rag there. Thanks. The poor people caused this. hahahahaha.My suggestion: Read the CRA. When you find the quotas and requirements forcing banks to make risky loans, please make a post out of it and "educate" us some more.
We can wait an eternity.....because it ain't there, Bucko.
Got anything from Pravda?
Blackflon....Great link. The first I've seen that gives us an historical step by step explanation of the events.
conservatives killed capitalism.
Which is why they're reduced to clucking like braindead Bolsheviks about words, not real issues.
Duh-duh-socialist! duh-duh-Marxist! And the Conservative "Intellectual": Duh-Duh Marxist Socialist Statism!
It's a clown show....
I temporarily forgot the Mandate for Conservative Affirmative Action. We're supposed to treat the empty ideological clucking of the pseudo conservatives as if it's the product of actual rational thought. I apologize to all "conservatives," and will put a gold star sticker and a smiley face on every one of y'all's efforts.
I promise to never again forget the Conservative Creed: There are no truths, only viewpoints.
Ever hear of Acorn and other so called community organizers?
They used the power of the CRA to accuse banks of redlining and demanded that they give loans to the losers who knew they could not afford them. All in the name of "equality".
If you knew the history of how these problems came about you wouldn't be so quick to smear the source.
Do some research or continue living in ignorance.
Don;t forget it was BArney Frank who insisted that Fannie Mae was doing just swell when Bush was trying to clean it up but Frank was the obstructionist.
There isn't now, nor has there ever been anything in the CRA that mandates writing risky loans, in fact, it is clear on this point. There are no quotas in the CRA.
Most toxic subprimes were written by private, unregulated brokers, bought and bundled by investment banks, given AAA ratings by colluding rating agencies. Most were written between 2004-2007.
Funny how the right wing propaganda media can sucker people. It takes somebody fairly gullible to put the "CRA means poor get some loans" together with "People defaulted on toxic subprimes." and think one caused the other. If you like looking things up, try this term : Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
Have any other original thoughts that somebody provided you?
Anyone genuinely interested in improving health care in the United States will resist governmental involvement by whatever means are available, including, without limitation, humor.
SO did the poor have a part, yes. So the the middle and the rich and everyone in between. Too many people everywhere just wanted too damn much. I have conservative friends that bought too much house and are now in the mortgage welfare. And it angers me. They have bigger, more elegant and luxurious homes and no I have to buy it for them. And this is why I object ot Obamas policies. I would be happoy to help the truly poor in many ways. i am not willing to buy a Mansion for someone just because the mortgage is more than 30% of income when the income is perfectly fine. In fact at a lveel the democrats would have called wealthy a year ago.
I'm not interested in mortgage relief so someone can continue bad spending habits and drive new cars and other crap they also borrowed for. Let them liquidate all that crap and then prove to me their budget is so bad that I have to help them. But this is Obamas master plan. Get everyone on the gov. payout.
Have you seen CNBC's program hosted by David Faber, "House of Cards"? It shows all the responsible parties. The bankers, the GSEs and the people of all income levels that just cannot get enough of anything to feel good about themselves.
I have never awned a new car. Have modest furniture and ugly green Formica counters in the kitchen. I have a TON of cash in the bank because I don't but this crap. I told a friend I could shop at the most expensive furniture store in town if I wanted. He told be that I can because I don't. He is exactly right.
Greed at every level caused this. The people wanted the stuff and everyone in the loan chain took advantage of that insatiable need.
Of course it blew up. The lending and spending could not continue and the house of cards fell. So blame conservative politics if you want. All politicians are to blame and most all the people participated.
Call me arrogant, but my guess is that most members here on either side politically are guilty as charged.
The problem is bipartisan, but Obamas solution isto blame the past admin. and wall street, and then to try to spend his way out of irresponsible spending. The house of cards will be built of the same cards and fall again.
Paul: Since you obviously don't want to believe the facts about why we got here maybe you'd like to surmise as to why Obama's supporter's are starting to flee in droves. You KNOW it's bad when the San Francisco Chronicle states that "Obama is embarrasing America". Ouch! Or when Newsweek asks boldly "Is he up to the task?". This does not bode well for Mr O. The tsunami of disillusionment is on the horizon and it is is quickly gaining ground.
"Did politicians that insist on helping the poor do a degree as to put the economy at risk. How can you deny that? Did the banks join, yes. greed and irresponsibility is everywhere. Not just in conservatives."
Yes, I am denying this has anything to do with "helping the poor." The idea is silly. Mortgage brokers wrote NINJA loans because they were allowed to, and because investment banks were buying them. The borrowers weren't "poor," neccessarily, they were under qualified for what they were buying. There were ZERO gov. mandates for these folks to write those loans, they weren't even regulated like banks are. Community banks aren't in this mess, they wrote loans like they always did, and avoided risk because they were holding the notes.
The GOP/Rwing went shopping for their "Usual Suspects" to blame for the absolute failure of their economic ideology...so, it was the poor people, aided by the Liiiiiiiiiberals....How many times can they run this infantile scam past y'all?
I ask that of eveyone but DJ, I know that answer.
Joseph is correct in that people in both parties bought into the "conservative" idea of deregulation that enabled this collapse, but it is conservative ideology that is at the root.
One of these days some of you may figure out your "conservative" media is designed to stroke you, not inform you.
Now for the Bonus Round. The first one to cite the passage from the CRA that mandates writing risky loans, or quota system...which is THE basis of that argument the Rwing media makes....Wins a cheesemold of Reagan on Rushmore
By Thomas di Lorenzo Partial paragraphs.
".....The policy in question is the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), which compels banks to make loans to low-income borrowers and in what the supporters of the Act call "communities of color" that they might not otherwise make based on purely economic criteria.
The original lobbyists for the CRA were the hardcore leftists who supported the Carter administration and were often rewarded for their support with government grants and programs like the CRA that they benefited from. These included various "neighborhood organizations," as they like to call themselves, such as "ACORN" (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). These organizations claim that over $1 trillion in CRA loans have been made, although no one seems to know the magnitude with much certainty. A U.S. Senate Banking Committee staffer told me about ten years ago that at least $100 billion in such loans had been made in the first twenty years of the Act.
So-called "community groups" like ACORN benefit themselves from the CRA through a process that sounds like legalized extortion. The CRA is enforced by four federal government bureaucracies: the Fed, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Office of Thrift Supervision, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The law is set up so that any bank merger, branch expansion, or new branch creation can be postponed or prohibited by any of these four bureaucracies if a CRA "protest" is issued by a "community group." This can cost banks great sums of money, and the "community groups" understand this perfectly well. It is their leverage. They use this leverage to get the banks to give them millions of dollars as well as promising to make a certain amount of bad loans in their communities.
A man named Bruce Marks became quite notorious during the last decade for pressuring banks to earmark literally billions of dollars to his organization, the "Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America." He once boasted to the New York Times that he had "won" loan commitments totaling $3.8 billion from Bank of America, First Union Corporation, and the Fleet Financial Group. And that is just one "community group" operating in one city – Boston. "
Here's the link: http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo125.html
Where's my cheesemold?
But I guess that's the idea.
Thanks for stopping by, Jim
DJohn, it's worse than that. Howard Fineman, Obama cheerleader and ankle grabber actually suggested in Newsweek that he might not be up to the job.
Well....duhhhhhhh.
John Boni
March 10, 2009 11:30 PM
Let Paul keep his cheese mold. Being smacked down probably hurt his liberal ego.
Paul-the first step on the road to recovery is to admit you have a problem. We have faith in you though. You can do it.