Comments on: Here comes Housing Czarina Hillary to the rescue

By: Michelle Malkin » The Sunday talk shows open thread

Michelle Malkin » The Sunday talk shows open thread — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 14:21:42 +0000

[...] Hillary’s turn. She’s got her trademark Mao-style jacket. She starts in on her Housing Rescue Plan. “At some point, we’ve got to have government action to solve these [...]

By: Michelle Malkin » SC Democrat debate: Punch, Judy, and Silky

Michelle Malkin » SC Democrat debate: Punch, Judy, and Silky — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:11:55 +0000

[...] Housing czarina Hillary jumps right in attacking Bush for “not taking it seriously enough.” She reiterates vow to freeze interest rates for five years, pay for people’s energy bills, “jump start” jobs, and create “green collar” jobs. [...]

By: Michelle Malkin » The Democrat food fight in Nevada; Update: Denny K is out; Update Clinton on Obama race flap: “We both have exuberant and uncontrollable supporters;” Update: “What’s a white male to do running against a woma

Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:42:04 +0000

[...] 9:40pm Eastern. Hillary gives a seminar on the subprime crisis. Housing Czarina to the rescue! “The administration is doing very [...]

By: Do we really need a $30 Billion infusion into the Housing Market? » Pasadena California Real Estate Blog

Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:18:13 +0000

[...] in. Record foreclosures that are outpaced only by the number of electoral votes. She is proposing a $30 Billion Emergency Housing Fund. Her plan would give money to states, cities and communities to help prevent what her website calls [...]

By: Michelle Malkin » Obama on Hillarycare for housing: Me, too! Me, too!

Michelle Malkin » Obama on Hillarycare for housing: Me, too! Me, too! — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:01:05 +0000

[...] it rains, it pours: Barack Obama, his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination bolstered by [...]

By: TaiChiWawa

TaiChiWawa — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:13:19 +0000

Some background information for you: Bernanke Remarks 01/10/08

By: granite

granite — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:28:31 +0000

#65 On January 11th, 2008 at 12:27 pm, Ditkaca said:

“If only those who pay income taxes were allowed to vote we wouldn’t hear any of this socialistic drivel from the candidates.”

Exactly!

By: granite

granite — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:27:48 +0000

#64:

My father tops that; including his time in the military, he worked for Uncle Sam for 30 years.

Unquestionably, the military is one of the rare things that our government does right, that is essential, and that is UNDERfunded.
We should spending MORE on our soldiers, their equipment, and their benefits.

I believe “the drones of the bureaucracy” refers to administrators and bureaucrats.

Sorry, but the government, for the MOST part, is way too big, way too ineffectual, and way too expensive…and first and foremost concerned with maintaining itself, growing, and invading and metastasizing into more and more areas of control.

By: Ditkaca

Ditkaca — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:27:37 +0000

If only those who pay income taxes were allowed to vote we wouldn’t hear any of this socialistic drivel from the candidates.

By: scooter56

scooter56 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:15:06 +0000

On January 11th, 2008 at 12:05 pm, granite said:

The vast majority of our tax money is used for nothing more than, to use your wonderfully accurate description, “to pay the drones of the bureaucracy”.

As a 26 year veteran “drone of the bureaucracy”, I thank you.

By: danimal

danimal — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:11:06 +0000

Here’s my story that I submitted to Hillary’s blog:

My wife and I bought a modest-sized home for our family of four in a middle-class neighborhood. We managed to stay within our means, and because of our excellent credit rating, we got a decent mortgage rate. However, if we have to incur any more tax burden to bail out people who were not responsible in their home purchases, I’m afraid we won’t be able to make our payments.

Should have added some fake tears at the end…

By: granite

granite — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:05:38 +0000

#57: On January 11th, 2008 at 11:57 am, Chuck said:

“Economic stimulus? We don’t need no stinking economic stimulus!
[ apologies to John Huston ]”

Excellent!!!

“How is it an economic stimulus to take billions of dollars from the nations workers, use 85% to 90% of it to pay the drones of the bureaucracy, and then dribble the remainder out to (usually) useless projects? Another round of (permanent) tax cuts will actually do the job, thank you.”

Exactly!!!

The vast majority of our tax money is used for nothing more than, to use your wonderfully accurate description, “to pay the drones of the bureaucracy”.

Remember, all these bureaucrats need cost of living raises, benefits, and retirement plans; sometimes they need more staff, which continues the snowball effect.
And on, and on.

By: TexasTiger

TexasTiger — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:03:21 +0000

granite:

Might be wishful thinking, but I don’t think anyone on this site has any illusions about what Hillary’s up to.

The only voluntary donations Hillary’s concerned about are those that go into her pocket.

By: Blind_Mule

Blind_Mule — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:01:46 +0000

I’ve really been blessed to have met people in my life that have taught me some valuable lesson’s. I’m 47 own the deed to my 2,250 sq. ft. house including my unfinished basement, have not ever had a credit card therefore no credit card debt. I am virtually debt free with the exception of power, natural gas, cable bill etc…. The fact is I have been fiscally responsible my whole 27 yr. married life. What I don’t have is anything I can’t pay cash for (not bragging just thanking God for the blessing’s). Our taxes went up $200.00 this year, the increase was not passed until Oct. 2007 so we had a little bit of a struggle with Christmas but we made it out of this challenge. So starting this month we cut our cable back to standard, we used to eat out once a week and are scaling back to once a month, we are going to cut back on some of the fun stuff we do every year to make up the difference. This is what responsible people do, they see the challenge and take it on reminding themselve’s that the government is not here to take care of you cradle to grave, and yet the responsible people have to pay the price for the irresponsible people who want to take advantage of the system. Because your responsible you should pay a penalty? This is on the same idea of wealth distribution your responsible so you must pay for those who are not. The problem is that I’m not and I’m sure many of you are not independently wealthy but if the time come’s I don’t think I should have to pay my hard earned cash for those who choose to do nothing or make bad finacial decision’s. The problem with Billary is she is not only wanting to redistribute the wealth of the rich but that of the middle class therefore destroying the middle class, that’s the real plan here.

By: RetFireman

RetFireman — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 17:01:41 +0000

The “Housing Bubble” I believe people have been calling it. Out here in California, we have been watching prices go so high that you couldn’t afford a house in the worst neighborhood in town. Seriously, when you can’t afford to live in an area where you run the risk of dying in a drive by every night…I would say it is out of hand.

They have been talking about that bubble popping for years now, but it kept growing. “How big will it get?” “Maybe it will never pop?” “Be ready for when the ‘Housing Bubble’ pops”. Well, once again, no one listened and once again, the Democrats have found a whole bastion of new voters.

“What about me? Help me oh Mighty Government Overlords and Masters. Shine thy wealth upon us so that we may never learn from our mistakes. Give unto us all that you have, so that we may always want more and more and more. We promise, h Democrats, to always be forever in your debt, to be forever subserviant towards you, and to keep you in office inperpetutity, claiming that Republicans do not care…only Democrats will give us what we cry for…our baby’s bottle and change our diapers.”

Yes, they have what they want. A new reason to “Save the People From Themselves”. It is what the Democrats do best. Whether it is by legislation or by entitlements or just straight-up hand-outs, they save them from themselves.

To have Bush in on it…well, it only shows that almost 8 years of being beaten down by these…well I just can’t say here else Michelle’s people will yank the post…may just have got to him finally. He is really starting to cave towards the end and I think he just can’t handle hearing about what a skink he is anymore and would like to coast as much as he can this last year.

Thank you oh Mighty Overlords. Thank you so for the bounty with which you bestow upon us at your whim.

Your pound of flesh you ask for will be coming forthwith.