Asked who was responsible for the economic meltdown, 80 percent in the poll blamed banks, financial institutions and corporations. Some 70 percent also blamed consumers for taking on too much debt and the former Bush administration for lax regulation. Only 26 percent said the Obama administration was not doing enough to turn the situation around.

These people are exactly right, what is the problem with this poll?

Getting harder and harder to take Robbie seriously. The above quote is almost as outrageous as when he said the downturn under bush was a “mild recession.”

Dishonest little dinostem has a problem with the truth, as always.
Before Obama was elected, the recession was mild; the third quarter of 2008 was only -0.1 GDP growth. You can’t get much milder than that.
Of course, you have already admitted to being uneducated about econ, little dinostem, and it shows.
Obama has destroyed all the wealth built up during the Bush prosperity, and has saddled us with massive new debt, as well. A deadly combination for the US economy. Soros must be proud.

This is the biggest lie told on this site.

Robbie is Insane.

Getting harder and harder to take Robbie seriously. The above quote is almost as outrageous as when he said the downturn under bush was a “mild recession.”

Harder and harder? It is impossible to take anything he says serious. It is the same stupid bullshit lies over and over, I don’t even read his posts, I know what it will say. LIES.

…I don’t even read his posts…

Another lie from little buzzy. Now, if you said you don’t understand the truths in my posts, then you would be telling the truth. You lack the education.

Those who blame the companies and (even more stupidly) capitalism never back up their accusations with anything approaching evidence.
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Oh, and it’s really GREAT to see so many people blaming the capitalists and the republicans. That will only more intense as the economy sinks.

Should make 2010 a HUGE referendum on conservatism.

But I don’t hope for failure to see republicans punished. If things improve Obama will be on COINS and republicans will STILL lose big in 2010!

Politicians on both sides of the aisle have mastered the “it’s not MY fault” mantra. They are all like the five year old found with matches in his pocket after the house burns down. “I didn’t do it”, followed later by, “I didn’t mean that to happen.” I have much more respect for individuals who recognize their mistakes and own up to them than any of the weasel-word wielding politcos. As this relates to the crisis-du-jour, they are using this tactic to whip up public angst toward others, deflecting the portion of the blame that rightly belongs to them. While we may not rightly lay everything at their feet, neither can we rightly blame everyone else. This whole mess took a considerable amount of cooperation, collusion and willful blindness on people in both the private and public sectors. Unfortunately, only the private sector is getting an ass-whupping right now. Hopefully the public will see through the ruse though and hold the political class to account in the next election cycle.

These people are exactly right, what is the problem with this poll?

Those people are wrong on the facts, little buzzy, which is the point. It’s not about the truth, it’s about the volume of leftie lying propaganda.
Obama has not only destroyed all the wealth built up by Americans during the Bush prosperity years, but he has also created massive new debt. It’s a recipe for economic failure. His master, Soros, must be proud.

Bat, you are better than that. This site has really taken a turn for the worse.

We are all doing very little these days but making cheap shots. Most of the criticisms these days are dishonest and petty……and not very well thought out.

Cant we please return to intelligent dialogue?

Why don’t we quit pretending to be right all the time? You are not right all the time Bat, and neither am I.

This site is a joke………so let’s continue the race to the bottom. Shall we?

ssn697: Your ignorance of the truth is laughable. Since the Fair Housing Act of 1968 introduced the subject of race into housing, there has always been the threat of govt intervention in the housing market to enforce racial quotas. Carter intensified this in 1977, and Clinton strengthened it even more in the Nineties. The purpose of this intervention was about “ensuring racial equality” on the surface, but the hidden agenda was to create an imaginary product the Dem social engineers called “affordable housing”. Since housing costs what it costs, the Dem social engineers mandated lower lending standards, and threatened, with ACORN’s help, the big lenders to make loans to low income and minority buyers who couldn’t actually meet good lending standards. The result of doing this was an inflationary bubble in housing prices, which finally collapsed, since it wasn’t based on actual values, and we got the phony mess that got Obama elected.
The Dems tried to use the housing market to produce a social outcome, and the result was, as it always is, disaster.
Without govt rigging, markets don’t inflate in the long term.

Very true governments have always passed on the baton to somebody else the current mess is partly due to executives phbia with providing houses to all americans …. now they will ahve to take away lot ogf houses

liberals have been in charge for two years. barry voted for all of this.

This is the biggest lie told on this site. The dems have a much bigger lead now, and there is little chance that they can still get “anything they want” through congress.

Stop the mortgage banker/brokers before they force more money onto the indigent.

Cute. A bit specious, to be sure, but cute nonetheless. Good thing no one takes it seriously!

None whatsoever.

This is baracks economy, and GM is now his company to destroy.

Time to Galt these fuckers.

“I’m willing to bet that Obama would have rather not taken over during this mess.”

Then he should not have asked his uncle George Soros to buy it for him.

No hypocrisy in that headline. Nope. Move along. No hypocrisy to see here.

I was fairly prosperous during the Bush years, and live in the inner city with largely “minority” neighbors who were also fairly prosperous. According to your worldview, my neighborhood should have been plowed under by evil rich white Republicans and all of us sent to gulags or at the very least rendered destitute but that didn’t happen. Quite the opposite.

Please try to figure out which delusional view of the past you’re going with and stick to it consistently for more than three minutes.