Civil Right, Civil Wrongs, and the Media

[One Inch Group]

GOVERNMENT
"Who believes government needs more of our money, when it already wastes so much of it? Do we want to replace this great country with all the opportunities it affords to people who play by the rules, work hard and make right decisions, with a country that doesn't care what rules you live by because government will take care of you? And what does this say about people who have played by the rules? They have paid the bank, but now see people who did not getting a handout from government for their mortgages, as if paying and not paying are morally equivalent. Each generation must renew the principles delivered by the preceding one. I fear this generation may be dropping the baton, seduced by the flattering words of politicians who promise not to let us fail, or suffer, or even feel bad. That is a fool's bargain because it is through failure (or the threat of it) and suffering that we grow stronger as individuals and become more self-reliant. .... We face a future of ever-bigger and intrusive government and the punishing of achievement unless this generation realizes it has dropped the baton it was handed and returns to pick it up." --columnist Cal Thomas

THE GIPPER
"Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite." --Ronald Reagan

[JimFromTN]

We brought this on ourselves. The people who write articles like this as well as those who post them, typically want less government and government regulation. Guess what? Thats what got us here. We deregulated the banking industry. Sure, these same people will tell you that it was all Bill Clinton's and Jimmy Carter's fault but thats a load of garbage. Bill Clinton does bare some of the responsibility because he went along with the deregulation. Bill Clinton never told the banks to give someone who could only afford a $150,000 home a loan for a $500,000 home. By deregulating the industry, we made it possible for creative lenders to come up with sub prime mortgages, interest only mortgages, ARM's, and 100% mortgages. Human beings are greedy by nature. You give them the ability and they will take it. Thats why we need laws and regulations. We can't expect people to do the right thing because as we have seen, they won't do it. Now we have to crawl out of this mess and its going to cost those of us who went by the rules because we are the only ones left who can do it.