Posts Tagged ‘wall street’

Should there be a different set of rules of conduct and ethics applied to home owners than to businesses?

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Big corporations defaulted on loans, filed Chapter 11 and/or 7, and some were direct beneficiaries of the TARP funds. Their egregious business practices have been a key cause of the poor condition of our economy. Are home owners being unfairly held to a standard not applied to Wall Street?

What are the biggest disconnects of party to base for each of the parties, respectively?

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

For instance, the GOP doesn’t want to touch the abortion issue with a ten foot poll. Their rabid, fundamentalist base wants it all but outlawed.

For Democrats, it’s a bit harder to say. Their base still wants action to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan and the Obama administration is trucking along just like the previous one did. Either that, or some type of harsh regulation of banks or Wall Street.