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Unfortunately this is what I think tends to drive a lot of policies, and why you see democrats voting for deregulation, and like now, republicans calling for oversight (they can't bring themselves to actually say regulation). They flip-flop on policies to stay on the side of public opinion and stay in office, it's not an excuse it's just the way it is, and in my opinion one of the draw backs to a democracy. That's why people like Ron Paul are so admirable even if you don't agree with them, because they continue to vote in a consistent way despite public opinion.
Obama has voted for things I don't approve of, the dems have voted for things I don't approve of. Sometimes it'd been under the banner of compromise and something just to go along with public opinion. I still support Obama and the Dems because overall they support the views I support. If there were a viable candidate or party that voted more consistently in a manner I approved, I'd vote for them.
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Doing those things makes a company extremely competitive (in the sense they'll attract more customers than other banks), and it makes them look very profitable, until all those crap loans start defaulting and it becomes beyond obvious the banks assets aren't exactly what they were projected to be. But that really doesn't matter to the people who set those policies in the first place because by the time things head south they've made their money, why should they care what happens to the company? Things 'looked' good when they were in charge, so they got paid a lot.
So in a completely free market what will keep that from happening?
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You've Driven Me Away From the Left (Lies Talk Post)
I think its far easier to criticize a position you disagree with than, and with something like politics, the bias is built in the second you express an interest in one side over the other. About a month ago I was trying to search for some positive McCain videos (meaning the intention of the video wasn't to make him look like an idiot) to post, and I had a hard time finding anything I thought met that criteria. Either youtube is liberally biased in the content of the videos that get posted and/or my own views keep me from identifying McCain videos as 'positive'.
I think you're certainly right about the whole things are going to be fucked for awhile no matter who is in charge. I think it'll be at least 2 years before we start to see any real forward progress with our economy or other multitude of problems we have, in the mean time who ever is in charge will get blamed for everything, and it'll probably be 6 years before things are suitably different.
No Need to Wash Urine off of 'Male' Infants ∴ Islam=True.
Ha I love this.
Take one stupid person's opinion and extrapolate it to mean that all Muslim people think this.
The only extrapolation I saw was people commenting that all religion is stupid, which I suppose would cover all Muslims. I guess the title could be taken that way but I thought it was more of a jab at that guys specific line of reasoning. Science found girl's pee is more dirty, Muhammad said that as well therefore that proves Muhammad had divine knowledge.
No Need to Wash Urine off of 'Male' Infants ∴ Islam=True.
I've always been under the impression urine was pretty clean, maybe not pleasant, but fairly sterile in healthy individuals. The fact they're seeing e.coli in the urine of both babies doesn't say a whole lot for those children's health.
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