Let these sub-prime consumers reap what they sow because if they don’t and we don’t learn from this, the same thing will happen again (yet packaged differently of course).

Do you really think this is about the consumer?

Well, in the immortal words of Kathy Griffin, these sub-prime “victims” can go suck it. While I sympathize with their plight, no one forced them to make bad decisions. Yes, there are genuine victims out there but to expect the American people to bail out those claiming “victim status” who didn’t think before they signed the dotted line is ridiculous.

Honestly, I’m fed up. With it all. This country has millions of adults who lack a basic economic education and just as important: common sense. All I hear on message boards across the internet about the economy is: wah, wah, I’m a victim…I’m being crunched and can’t afford food, housing, college tuition, health care. The inevitable blame game has begun about what caused the slowing economy and high prices. What the average American citizen fails to realize is that without Pres. Bush, this economy would have been toast a long time ago.

While we’re at it, let’s do an investigation into why exactly all these items are so expensive. Why are we outsoucing jobs to the third world? To enrich them or to enrich businesses? If both sides (labor and business) actually sat down and chatted perhaps they could have avoided this unpalatable trend. Just like the sub-prime crisis, business and their employees are equally greedy.

I agree with others…President Bush, stop being a schmuck. You’ve already disillusioned much of your base and those of us still supporting you (like myself) think this is a dumb/ill-timed move. You have to sink before you can swim. Let these sub-prime consumers reap what they sow because if they don’t and we don’t learn from this, the same thing will happen again (yet packaged differently of course).

This man is not done, in fact he’s more dangerous now than ever before just watch what he does for illegal aliens in the next year.

GDP = consumption + investment + (government spending) + (exports − imports)

Thus the GDP report will remain positive.

True, consumption is the big elephant with nearly 70% these days but guess what, government must be approaching the remaining 30% as we have cellar dwelling investment in this country along with a massive trade imbalance.

I wonder if any one realizes this. Now of course government spending includes all levels of government but the federal government is the largest of them all by far.

Here in California we are used to what is called Hollywood accounting where a blockbuster movie such as Forrest Gump can be called a flop by studio executives but they must step aside to the grand daddy of all accounting b.s artists, our government.

The emperor has no clothes.

Can’t we just kill some more fr=kn’ terrorists and bomb Iran in the final months?

“Where’s my old “WIN” button? (You youngsters who need a change may not know what that is…)”

Oh yeah…”Whip Inflation Now” during the Ford administration, I believe.

Bush is raiding the cemetery of buried bad ideas and resurrecting the economic stimulus idea.

That is an excellent sentence, goos writing, Michelle!

Keep the government out of my wallet, that’s all I have to say.