sether

Wall Street Is Short Barack Obama

Market fetishist. He wrote that and actually made it public. WTF. No perspective. This guy must have serious E.D. by now.

On Mar 06 01:19 PM raytayzmd wrote:

> ..."...recent Business Week poll of anonymous voters indicates that
> 42% of respondents blame Obama for mismanagement of the economy."...uhhh,
> the guy's been in office hardly a month and they're doing polls on
> how his management?...let's see, if I put you in a rowboat and dropped
> you in the middle of a tsunami, how well do you think you would do?..."The
> Wall Street voting bloc is alarmed by the prospect of higher taxes..."...that's
> where you should have stopped...if all those expenditures you mentioned
> served to enrich Wall Streeters at the expense of Main Street, no
> doubt their roar of approval would be deafening...and WTF is this
> from your website:
>
> "...Do you pine for me - the way I pine for you? Please. Please,
> say Yes...
> No.
> You are a ho.
> I hear the stories - but I don't believe them. Nope. Not my Green
> Eyes. Not, Miss Precious. How could my sweet, delicate flower do
> this to me? How could she treat me..."
>
> ...ooooookaaay -- I hope you'll pardon me if I don't seek your investment
> advice.

Wall Street Is Short Barack Obama

The socialism thing is a straw man. It's still distracting people like you from the great unwinding of everything. The socialists aren't coming to take what you (and I) have worked for. That is already long, long gone. This fact is more apparent to some than others. You'll get there. When the sh*t really comes down you'll be on our side. You got moxie I can tell.


On Mar 06 03:58 PM fireball wrote:

> sether
> come take your free lunch. it's free. hope you like lead. come on
> little piglet. come take your lunch. hope you got a taste for the
> lean meat of a predater. oops i mean succulent pork. i guess i'll
> use you for fertilizer. think you'll mix well with manure.
> pretty sure i made my gains by my own labor but just for fun let's
> say i took it from weaklings like you. bleat his name obahahahamahahaha.
>
> usually i like reasonable conversation but there are exceptions.
> come take your free lunch little piggy. i'm weak and helpless. easy
> prey for you. come on over. i'll give you exactly what you deserve.

The Bubble of Uncertainty Is About to Burst

I know that's your standard comment, but this is one of the few articles which is not suggesting that. You have to actually read the article. It's fairly objective and refreshingly unemotional about the political dynamics.

On Mar 06 07:12 AM plumstupid wrote:

> Its all Obama's fault! Its all Obama's fault! Its all Obama's fault!
> Really! NO, REALLY!

Wall Street Is Short Barack Obama

attention all fearful, fat, white, petty stock speculating, FOX watching, 60-something, arterial sclerotic piggies. You have nothing to fear from the new regime of the great unwashed; so long as you take your tax hike with a smile, keep your petulant cake-holes shut, and fade quietly into political and economic irrelevance. That is your future. I enjoy the fact that you will spend the waning years of your life gnashing your teeth and crying bitter piggy tears. Squeal piggies, squeal louder, SQUEAL.

My Analogy for the Financial Crisis

He didn't say the shovels were for 'market participants'. The Economy does not revolve around the stock market, nor your petty speculation in it. Nobody cares about your gambling losses.

On Mar 06 02:54 AM constructe wrote:

> I think the shovels the government is throwing into the pit to help
> market participants are rather dangerous projectiles killing everyone
> in the market and quashing any chance we can do anything.
>
> Likewise, I would remove the SWAT team. What SWAT Team? TARP and
> TALF are just more big shovels hitting us in the head.

The Free Market Votes: Still No Change We Can Believe In

This comment board is so heavy with stock market fetishists and fantasy fremarketeers. You are all trapped in your insular, withering world, angry because no one is too keen on re-inflating it. To hear Joel West complain about losing even MORE money because he thought the market had bottomed is priceless. Blaming Obama for that is just pitiful and emabarrasing. Look, no one gives a sweeeeet sh*t about your personal gambling losses. We do resent however that gambling on a huge scale by Wall Street / Banks has now stuck US, we the (unproductive) people with titanic losses. So you better take your tax hike with a smile, close your petulant mouth, and pray this Obama thing works out. If it doesn't there's going to be millions of angry, hungry people out there, and we know where you live. I bet Joel West's meat falls right off the bone, very tender, this one. His jowls look particularly succulent.

The Road to Economic Hell

Is this Roger Ailes?
Roger you forgot the Homos and Hollywood.

On Mar 05 09:03 AM patio wrote:

> It's far worse than you desribe. Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are using
> this crisis to cram through massive gifts of our money to their cronies
> ( ACORN; unions; you name a dem voting bloc, they get a payoff ).
> That's jsut the porkulus. Then they are putting together a multi-year
> spend and tax budget aimed at crippling our economy for decades,
> and solidifying power. They are targeting small and big business
> alike; they are still using the phony global warming scam ( exactly
> how cold, for how long does it need to get before the media pokes
> their head outside???) to target oil and gas; the list is endless.
>
> The sheeple are being led into socialism, and they are seemingly
> clueless.

Five Predictions for This Market

Caren, you twit.
Who milked the system? I assume that by 'milking the system' you mean 'made billions of dollars'. Was it the fly-by-night mortgage companies writing NINJA loans and immediately selling them to Investment Banks? I-Banks and the like who securitized those loans and re-sold them world-wide? The ratings agencies who rated this crap AAA? The folks buying and selling CDO's CDS's based on this junk? The de-regulators that facilitated all this?
You are not smart. Turn off the FOX and think for yourself. Duh indeed.


On Mar 04 04:18 PM Caren wrote:

> People milking the system generally tend to be more socialist in
> nature. Duh.

Five Predictions for This Market

Cheers. Yet another columnist who can't leave the gratuitous Obama bashing out of an otherwise fairly decent article. Like the rest of us, all these stock market fetishists are alot worse-off than they were just a few scant quarters ago. We're all angry about it. The difference is that they don't quite know where to direct their anger. Petty stock speculation is now and has always been superfluous to the economy. Wall Street is not the economy. Reviving Wall Street is therefore not at the top of this administration's to-do list. Thank God.


On Mar 04 09:17 AM oldcurmudgeon2 wrote:

> Why would I follow the advice of an idiot who is blaming President
> Obama for this crisis? Some kid who apparently thinks all the Bush
> tax-cutting created this extraordinarily strong economy we have?
> Garotte Garot!

Market Death Spiral Continues

Yank is a crank. Cranky.
No one listening to mass media is what conservatives want. The FOX model of 'news' is designed to discredit ALL media by suggesting that it is all just opinions, left or right leaning, and that there is no fact-based reporting, and by extension no facts. This provides cover for whatever atrocities are committed by government / corporatocracy. Papers like the NY Times are one of the few big-media sources which still do actual investigative reporting. They are not perfect of course, but yes they are a valuable and still powerful watchdog. That is why they are the target of relentless and shrill attacks from the right. Don't worry, they will deliver the dirt on the left as it unfolds. The last 8 years have been such a shitticane of horrors from the right that naturally any media outlet's body of criticism from that time would seem heavy weighted on the right side of the spectrum (except FOX). Get real. Don't cry. By the way, in order to dance on a grave you must be capable of dancing.


On Mar 02 09:28 AM yank wrote:

> alpha:
> you are correct. The stark differences between McCain and Obama were
> readily apparent to the average voter but the deceitful ,conniving
> media did everything possible to make Obama look like JFK and McCain
> look/appear like Nixon. One of the most dangerous outcomes from this
> election is the fact that soon no one will listen or pay any atention
> to this mass media. When that happens we could be ripe for anything
> from a revolution to a demagougue as President. The media from the
> main TV networks to the NY Times "sold their souls" to the devil
> in the adoration of Obama. Now they will pay the price as ratings,
> ad revenues, and circulation fall off a cliff. When a liberal newspaper
> recently failed in the Pacific Northwest one journalist bitterly
> complained that the people had lost a "watchdog" of Govt. Unfortunately
> we need to susbstitute the term "lapdog" instead. And now they will
> pay the price for their "bias". The day the NY Times goes bankrupt
> I will happily "dance on their grave." Bastards.
>
> Yank

Voting Power Should Be Proportionate to Who Pays Most of the Taxes

So is your article sardonic, or is it tongue-in-cheek? It certainly seems sincerely derisive of the new administration's policies, making it sardonic. If it's tongue-in-cheek that would suggest you don't mean what you say. Are you exaggerating often-repeated criticisms of the new admin to point out the ridiculousness of those critiques?
Your swiftian proposals regarding po' folks and voting are obviously tongue in cheek (I hope) and therefore somewhat funny. It's the mixture of the two tones which is confusing, and which is one of the many reasons your piece is terrible. What is the point of your article? You are obviously angry at the Obama admin and the po' folks who you beleive put him in office. The article can't come off any other way. Again, it's petulant crap. And I'm not in the Obama "camp". We agree on one thing here: all insolvent / bankrupt financial institutions should be allowed to fail. Let's get this over-with.


On Mar 02 05:22 AM gtmcduffy wrote:

> Actually, as another person commenting already pointed out-my article
> is tongue in cheek. Then, again, you obviously don't have the mental
> capacity to have figured that out. Which would put you in the Obama
> camp to be sure...
>
> Despite your flowery egg-headedness writing-style, you still can't
> find your way around the most basic sardonic interplay. Go back to
> your professors- and ask them if they'll still let you write a thesis
> on life in the real world.

Voting Power Should Be Proportionate to Who Pays Most of the Taxes

This guy fancies himself a high-rolling freemarketeer. His paper assets have taken quite a beating, of course, as have his political heroes lately. However he would rather deconstruct the foundational principals of our nation than engage in any sort of meaningful, much less self-critical thinking. The delusional financial constructs on which his whole existence is based have some crashing down. This is the desperate and pitiful squealing of the fat and tender swine before slaughter. Yes, your taxes are going up, little piggy. We are going to bleed you. Take it like a man, you're emabarrassing yourself with this petulant crap. Everything is going to be fine.

Market Death Spiral Continues

Your whole premise is faulty. Ambitious people, regardless of their race or socio-economic strata, will always strive to better themselves and achieve. Social programs are designed to facilitate that amongst the lower strata (again, regardless of race), who have fewer opportunities in their immediate environment. Civilized societies (especially those which claim to be based on 'Christian' principals) should promote social mobility by providing baseline minimums in education and health, which anyone is 'free' to accept or reject. Conservatives do not want an educated, heathly, or upwardly-mobile population, which is why they oppose these programs.
You are a shameful sellout. This is conservative thinktank drivel. You think they respect you? Black single mother turned christo-fascist? They turned you out. I hope they pay you well. And if you are such a christian, read the new testament. Half of it is Jesus talking about helping the poor. He never rationalized, as you do, denying the poor because they were all lazy and shiftless idlers anyway, and coddling them would only reiniforce that. You are a self-hating propagandist.

On Mar 01 09:45 AM patio wrote:

> Written by Star Parker - an African American Columnist.
>
> ----------------------...
>
> Six years ago I wrote a book called Uncle Sam's Plantation. I wrote
> the book to tell my own story of what I saw living inside the welfare
> state and my own transformation out of it.
>
> I said in that book that indeed there are two Americas -- a poor
> America on socialism and a wealthy America on capitalism.
>
> I talked about government programs like Temporary Assistance for
> Needy Families (seekingalpha.com/symbo...), Job Opportunities
> and Basic Skills Training (seekingalpha.com/symbo...),
> Emergency Assistance to Needy Families with Children (seekingalpha.com/symbo...),
> Section 8 Housing, and Food Stamps.
>
> A vast sea of perhaps well-intentioned government programs, all initially
> set into motion in the 1960s, that were going to lift the nation's
> poor out of poverty.
>
> A benevolent Uncle Sam welcomed mostly poor black Americans onto
> the government plantation. Those who accepted the invitation switched
> mindsets from "How do I take care of myself?" to "What do I have
> to do to stay on the plantation?"
>
> Instead of solving economic problems, government welfare socialism
> created monstrous moral and spiritual problems -- the kind of problems
> that are inevitable when individuals turn responsibility for their
> lives over to others.
>
> The legacy of American socialism is our blighted inner cities, dysfunctional
> inner city schools, and broken black families.
>
> Through God's grace, I found my way out. It was then that I understood
> what freedom meant and how great this country is.
>
> I had the privilege of working on welfare reform in 1996, passed
> by a Republican Congress and signed 50 percent.
>
> I thought we were on the road to moving socialism out of our poor
> black communities and replacing it with wealth-producing American
> capitalism.
>
> But, incredibly, we are going in the opposite direction.
>
> Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich American
> on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America
> on socialism.
>
> Uncle Sam has welcomed our banks onto the plantation and they have
> said, "Thank you, Suh."
>
> Now, instead of thinking about what creative things need to be done
> to serve customers, they are thinking about what they have to tell
> Massah in order to get their cash.
>
> There is some kind of irony that this is all happening under our
> first black president on the 200th anniversary of the birthday of
> Abraham Lincoln.
>
> Worse, socialism seems to be the element of our new young president.
> And maybe even more troubling, our corporate executives seem happy
> to move onto the plantation.
>
> In an op-ed on the opinion page of the Washington Post, Mr. Obama
> is clear that the goal of his trillion dollar spending plan is much
> more than short term economic stimulus.
>
> "This plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending --
> it's a strategy for America's long-term growth and opportunity in
> areas such as renewable energy, healthcare, and education."
>
> Perhaps more incredibly, Obama seems to think that government taking
> over an economy is a new idea. Or that massive growth in government
> can take place "with unprecedented transparency and accountability."
>
>
> Yes, sir, we heard it from Jimmy Carter when he created the Department
> of Energy, the Synfuels Corporation, and the Department of Education.
>
>
> Or how about the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 -- The War on Poverty
> -- which President Johnson said "...does not merely expand old programs
> or improve what is already being done. It charts a new course. It
> strikes at the causes, not just the consequences of poverty."
>
> Trillions of dollars later, black poverty is the same. But black
> families are not, with triple the incidence of single-parent homes
> and out-of-wedlock births.
>
> It's not complicated. Americans can accept Barack Obama's invitation
> to move onto the plantation. Or they can choose personal responsibility
> and freedom.
>
> Does anyone really need to think about what the choice should be?
>

Market Death Spiral Continues

The fact (if it is a fact) that 44,000 people are paying half of the NYC taxes is simply the flipside of the fact that 1% of the population owns 99% of the wealth, which is a symptom of the terminal illness of our nation. They probably will leave. Their work is done. Fine americans.


On Mar 01 10:26 PM Hexan wrote:

> "They won't move away from the greatest country on earth! Will they?
> No, because other countries tax at an even higher rate or can't offer
> them the things they think they can't live without. Mass migration?
> Hardly."
>
> It does not take mass migration. In fact, quite the opposite. <br/>
>
> According to Mayor Bloomberg, almost half the budget of NYC is paid
> by 44,000 people (of over 8 million).
>
> If half those people left, the city would be bankrupt.
>
> 22,000 people could leave in an hour from JFK.
>

Market Death Spiral Continues

Who are 'the most productive' in society? Speculating on equities and/or waiting for your dividend checks is not being productive, little piggy. And who at this point cares what the 'markets' reject? I love hearing all the fat piggies squeal as their straw markets are blown away. The wolf will be at your door soon. Yum yum.

> Keep drinking that Cool Aid. Obama is an unmitigated disaster for
> America. His bumbling and stumbling on the economy has only made
> things worse. The idea that taking resources away from the most productive
> in society will somehow make us all better off is so stupid that
> the markets are rightly rejecting it.
>