Barack Obama did some of his “community organizing” working for ACORN. He even ran a voter registration drive for them in 1992. Voter registration drives are one means used by “community organizers” to pressure the government for more giveaway programs.
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Ohio Voter Registrations
This morning a judge ruled that the Ohio Secretary of State was not in compliance with the law regarding removal of suspect voter registrations from the state’s central database. There was more, but the gist of it is that there is no way to detect and remove fraudulent voter registrations. Be that as it may, […]
Distress Signal
Persons familiar with flag etiquette know that flying the U.S. flag upside down is a distress signal. Someone needs help. This is not limited to the U.S. flag; An upside-down flag is internationally recognized as a distress signal. That being the case, for years — decades, actually — I have made a point of preferring U.S. flag postage stamps […]
Connect the Dots
We had a mechanism in place to prevent people from over-extending themselves financially. It was called credit-worthiness. If you couldn’t afford a $300,000 loan, lenders would not give you a $300,000 loan.
Connect the dots, people. “This mess” was caused by government-mandated replacement of credit-worthiness with political correctness. Before the Democrats, and in particular, the Clinton administration, changed the rules, there was no sub-prime mortgage problem. People who could not afford loans were not given them.
The Bailout
I knew that the housing bubble bursting was a trigger for the later financial market failures but I was a bit unsure as to how much of the financial market failure was due to other causes. Then I heard yesterday that most of the $700 billion in bad debt that must be rescued is in […]