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Unintended consequences of too cheap and easy to get student loan money.
Again, the government gets involved and screws it all up.
If the loan money was harder to get, the price of the colleges would have to come down.
This is the next big bubble.
Commented Dec 5, 2011 on High cost of college at Unfettered Letters
High cost of college
We live in a competitive world. But as a teenager who is about to enter the college world, I feel as if I am competing against millions of other teenagers — not just the United States, but the world. I recently received a postcard in the mail from a university that included the line, “College i...
"Steve is rewriting history quite a bit. Economists are in almost universal agreement that the economic crisis came about after the bursting of the housing market bubble. That had nothing to do with GOP initiatives."
But it had alot to do with Fannie and Freddie and Dodd and Frank
Commented Jan 21, 2011 on Obama should bypass Clinton’s dirty trail at Unfettered Letters
Obama should bypass Clinton’s dirty trail
So Kit Bond thinks all President Barack Obama needs to do is to cooperate with Republicans as Bill Clinton did. Yeah, that strategy nearly wrecked the world economy. To recap: President Clinton, then under siege from Republicans for his indiscretions, signed a series of bills deregulating the ...
Fred -
the truth does not matter to Mic
Commented Jan 18, 2011 on Goofy Supreme Court at Unfettered Letters
Goofy Supreme Court
Let me see if I have this correct. The far right having lost the debate in the Congress, seeks to have the new health care initiative overturned by the Supreme Court. The grounds of the suit: that it is unconstitutional for the government to require citizens to buy private insurance. As I reca...
Let's get rid of all of our weapons and see how fast the US and the rest of the world fall into slavery. I'm guessing it would take about 5 seconds.
Man, you libs just don't get it. You live in a very insulated world.
Commented Jan 14, 2011 on WMDs in KC area at Unfettered Letters
WMDs in KC area
Does the United States of America know that Kansas City has a plant that makes parts for weapons of mass destruction? Does the world know? Exceptionalism is a heavy burden. Elizabeth Smith Kansas City
Marxism and Capitalism are mutually exclusive.
That is the problem.
Commented Jan 3, 2011 on Honorable opposition at Unfettered Letters
Honorable opposition
Whatever happened to honorable opposition? Whatever happened to compromise? Why must we hate and disrespect? Whatever happened to “We’ll agree to disagree?” Can we just move forward? Shelle McCartney Kansas City
Fred, you are an idiot. Do some research, you don't have a clue.
Commented Jan 3, 2011 on Bush legacy stain at Unfettered Letters
Bush legacy stain
Lest we forget the legacy of the Bush administration, deregulation of the mortgage and banking industry allowed chief CEOs of financial firms to melt down the entire global financial system since Jan. 1, 2008. The CEOs received taxpayer bailout funds averaging $13.78 million in personal compensa...
I'm afraid they will. The Republicans are almost done. They will be replaced by a new conservative party just like the Whigs before them if they do not figure it out very quickly.
Commented Jan 3, 2011 on GOP must get government right at Unfettered Letters
GOP must get government right
After the election sweep by the Republicans, many local governments are almost entirely run by the GOP. I want to take a second to remind them of why they were elected and why the same thing happened throughout the country: conservatism. Voters overwhelmingly elected these people as a rebuke of...
Face yours Gloria
Commented Jan 3, 2011 on Tea party stains at Unfettered Letters
Tea party stains
I remember the hatefulness of grown women spitting on little black children who only wanted an equal education. I also remember reading about civil rights workers being brutally beaten — and some killed — just for trying to register black people to vote. Some tea party participants remind me an...
No Ryan -
You think you are some sort of elitist (a quality that libs seem to have a special ability for) who is really just an idiot.
FYI, Occam's Razor means that the most likely answer is generally the correct one. When applied to the current problems in the US:
Collapse of the Entitlement programs: Most like due to the influx of illegal immigrants taking benefits.
Bankruptcy of typical liberal cities and states: failure of liberal policies and politicians.
Commented Dec 31, 2010 on Soaking we, the people at Unfettered Letters
Soaking we, the people
The powers that be in Washington want to take away or reduce our Social Security, cut Medicare, raise Medicare payments, raise the retirement age to 69, make individuals pay tax on employer provided health insurance and take away our tax deduction of interest paid on home loans. All the while we...
Those ... should be a comma.
Here's a good article for your reference Ryan
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm
Commented Dec 31, 2010 on Soaking we, the people at Unfettered Letters
Soaking we, the people
The powers that be in Washington want to take away or reduce our Social Security, cut Medicare, raise Medicare payments, raise the retirement age to 69, make individuals pay tax on employer provided health insurance and take away our tax deduction of interest paid on home loans. All the while we...
Ryan -
shortcommings is shortcomings.
Not sure if you got that
Commented Dec 31, 2010 on Soaking we, the people at Unfettered Letters
Soaking we, the people
The powers that be in Washington want to take away or reduce our Social Security, cut Medicare, raise Medicare payments, raise the retirement age to 69, make individuals pay tax on employer provided health insurance and take away our tax deduction of interest paid on home loans. All the while we...
Ryan meant to say" I'm sorry everyone, but I cannot let this slide. I have made errors in spelling and grammar before, so I have no doubt about my own shortcommings (which by the way Ryan is misspelled). However, I'm an Ahole so I want to be sure to belittle another person who I feel superior to." I have to, however, draw attention to the fact that Ryan Roedel, who with 12 posts so far on this topic, often one right after another, tries to sound intellectual by spouting BS he has gotten from liberal blogs. Let's talk about that punctuation problem you have. I can't seem to find anywhere in any english book I have that ... can be used in place of a simple comma. There are not 3 commas placed back to back anywhere, so I know it was out of ignorance, not error.
Ryan, we await the logic of your next 4, no 5 posts in a row.
You either cannot put your thoughts together in a logical manner or you just start typing like some rabid raccoon. Get a blog. You can go http://wordpress.com/ and get your own. Then you can type your disjointed ideas all you want. No one will read it of course... (just like here) (See I'm using your cute comma replacement thing) but at least you'll be happy in knowing that you have an easy way to track all of your thoughts.
Commented Dec 31, 2010 on Soaking we, the people at Unfettered Letters
Soaking we, the people
The powers that be in Washington want to take away or reduce our Social Security, cut Medicare, raise Medicare payments, raise the retirement age to 69, make individuals pay tax on employer provided health insurance and take away our tax deduction of interest paid on home loans. All the while we...
Yeah Ryan -
Common sense tells us that Illegal immigration is good for the country. We get millions of unskilled labor instead of picking from the best and brightest around the world. In addition, these illegals are dirt poor and would never try to get welfare or fill our emergency rooms, or take what they are not entitled to.
Additionally, I should believe only Obama adminstration or MSNBC supported data for illegals as we know that that is the only truthful data.
Occum's Razor. Look it up.
Commented Dec 31, 2010 on Soaking we, the people at Unfettered Letters
Soaking we, the people
The powers that be in Washington want to take away or reduce our Social Security, cut Medicare, raise Medicare payments, raise the retirement age to 69, make individuals pay tax on employer provided health insurance and take away our tax deduction of interest paid on home loans. All the while we...
whispering - idiot and bigot
Commented Dec 30, 2010 on McClanahan column at Unfettered Letters
McClanahan column
In his Dec. 5 comments on American exceptionalism, “Dems are creating some fertile turf for Palin,” E. Thomas McClanahan suggests Sarah Palin used her superior intelligence, guile and genius, to trap the left in a debate about American exceptionalism that it can’t win. If there is indeed a trap ...
I think Truman would have been the first to rid the party he loved with the communists that now control it.
Commented Dec 30, 2010 on Wishing for Truman at Unfettered Letters
Wishing for Truman
I am starting to pine for a president like Harry S. Truman, whom I heard about around the house. How would Truman handle these “just say no” Republicans? On taxes I think he would just lay out his four aces, V - E - T - O, and explain they can either pass the tax plan he wants or let the George ...
http://www.examiner.com/page-one-in-salt-lake-city/study-shows-illegal-immigrants-cost-u-s-113-billion-a-year-52-billion-to-educate-their-children
All you have to know about illegal immigration and it's costs can be ascertained by the current fiscal problems in California.
How can anyone with common sense not realize that illegals are getting much more than they are giving.
Commented Dec 30, 2010 on Soaking we, the people at Unfettered Letters
Soaking we, the people
The powers that be in Washington want to take away or reduce our Social Security, cut Medicare, raise Medicare payments, raise the retirement age to 69, make individuals pay tax on employer provided health insurance and take away our tax deduction of interest paid on home loans. All the while we...
He's also the first Marxist president.
Commented Dec 30, 2010 on Obama's GOP friends at Unfettered Letters
Obama's GOP friends
I keep reading the far right saying that Obama is the first black president. He is half white. Why isn’t anyone saying that? His supporters say everyone is against him in the GOP. That is not right, they are against his policies. Richard Minear Kansas City
No - in reality, many of the social programs live on credit and the account has been overdrawn for years. Additionally, it is going to get worse.
The republicans are reacting on a reality, politicians who tax to offset spending, will only spend the additional taxes also and in fact increase spending.
The only way out of this is to cut spending.
Commented Dec 24, 2010 on Rich can afford taxes at Unfettered Letters
Rich can afford taxes
I have heard that Bill Gates and Warren Buffett said they would not mind paying more taxes. If I had the kind of money the Gates and Buffetts have, I would not mind paying more myself. Look at what they would have left — plenty. Gentry W. Robinson Pleasant Hill
"Worst of all his lack of leadership to focus us on defunding the middle east by pivoting to clean energy after 9/11 never happened. We're only getting to that now with Obama but it should've started 8 to 9 years ago and would have under a President Gore."
There is no current "clean energy" option available. Quit being a stupid parrot and do some research. We are about 20-50 years away from true clean energy that will be able to replace our energy demands.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/green-make-believe-van-jones-admits-left-is-pretending-need-for-regulations-and-cap-trade-in-green-movement/
Everything you have been hearing is just BS.
Commented Dec 24, 2010 on Bush’s leadership at Unfettered Letters
Bush’s leadership
Former president George W. Bush, seen on many TV news stations promoting his best selling book “Decision Points,” reminds us of a confident America in crisis. Bush gave us a shot of optimism and hope. What an honorable man. Before the 2004 election many Democrats turned right. Former mayor Ed K...
No, the thing that lead to the destruction of an empire is forgetting what built the empire in the first place. The progressives are attempting to destroy this memory.
Folks, if there was an infinite amount of money, it would be easy. The problem is that the people making policy, either don't understand how to make money or don't care and want to transform the society. The spending is unsustainable. If you are really concerned about education, the truly poor, health care, you would realize that when the monetary system collapses, all of these areas will be hurt the most.
Commented Dec 24, 2010 on Greed fest in progress at Unfettered Letters
Greed fest in progress
I try to make sense of America’s current political gridlock. We have a $13.8 trillion national debt and the most unequal distribution of wealth of any major country. Why would we not tax billionaires, and also cut the government war machine business by a small percentage and redirect the money ...
there's whispering...still stupid.
We just love that guy!
Commented Dec 24, 2010 on Scrooge lives in U.S. at Unfettered Letters
Scrooge lives in U.S.
On a recent Sunday night I attended my daughter’s children’s service for Christmas, which was an adaptation of the classic “Christmas Carol” story. At its end I realized that this story is describing us today. Why are we even thinking of extending tax cuts when there are so many whose lives are...
A free market for health care would allow insurance companies to work across state lines. It would not be tied completely to an employer.
Sorry if you don't understand what a free market is.
Commented Dec 16, 2010 on Majority wants health care reform in U.S. at Unfettered Letters
Majority wants health care reform in U.S.
I was happy to read the article on Nov. 25 in The Star by Steven Thomma, “Poll shows health plan support,” which basically says a majority of Americans want Congress to keep the new health care law. The next day The Star printed another article, this time by Dave Helling, “Another look at health...
"Oh that's right...the free market solves everything."
Let's give health care a free market to work in. Do a little bit of research before you write, you might sound smarter.
Commented Dec 16, 2010 on Majority wants health care reform in U.S. at Unfettered Letters
Majority wants health care reform in U.S.
I was happy to read the article on Nov. 25 in The Star by Steven Thomma, “Poll shows health plan support,” which basically says a majority of Americans want Congress to keep the new health care law. The next day The Star printed another article, this time by Dave Helling, “Another look at health...
It's great what other countries can do when the don't have to really only on themselves for defense.
Commented Dec 15, 2010 on German capitalism at Unfettered Letters
German capitalism
Germany is an enigma among ideological capitalists in the United States. The country is second in exports after China. Germany’s labor unions are strong, and many sit on the boards of companies. Germany has a low national debt, national health care, and high worker productivity without working ...
whispering doesn't like orange, but he sure likes red and pink.
bigotted hick.
Commented Nov 24, 2010 on Speaker Pelosi at Unfettered Letters
Speaker Pelosi
In spite of being maligned, castigated and vilified, I believe House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is to be commended for the key role she played in the passage of very important legislation, which will benefit millions of Americans. In the face of strong opposition from powerful interests, she displayed...
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