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May 22, 2009

So Mr. Marshall, you ask what bubble I am living in ("Depression-bound," Record-Courier letters, May 12.) My letter was clear and represents my position. I am aware of the "tea parties." I just don't support them. I also realize they are just a continuation of the Republican/conservative charade that all we need to do is cut taxes and reduce government. The fact is that this anti-tax/anti-government mentality has produced many of our problems.

Your claims are false and misleading. The current government is not repeating what led us into the Great Depression. It is trying to do what brought us out of that depression, albeit too timidly, along with being blocked by Republicans that wish to continue with failed solutions.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did not cause the current recession. Eighty percent of the failed loans were written by unregulated "shadow banks" that were not in the mortgage lending business 20 years ago. The slick stunts they were pulling were aimed only at enriching ourselves at our expense. Alan Greenspan denied that there were any problems here even though several Nobel Prize-winning economists were sounding the alarm bells five and even 10 years ago.

You say government-run health care has proven a failure in the countries that have it. In those countries they do not leave 50 million uninsured, and they accomplish their health care at half the per-person cost of the United States' market approach. Sounds to me like we could use some of this kind of failure instead of supporting a health care system designed to enrich the drug and insurance business.

Your concern about spending us into debt and bankruptcy is way late. Kind of like locking the barn door after the horses have run away. What were you saying over the last 20 years as Republican presidents rang up about $8 trillion of our current $10 trillion debt?

I suppose I will have to thank you for providing such wonderful examples of Republican/conservative hyperbole and distortions. They were exactly what I was writing about.

Charles Chlysta III

Ravenna




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    Posted by Nanny_Society February 24, 2010
Car 54, where are you?

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    Posted by Nanny_Society June 25, 2009
Mike510, where are you? You've been quiet for a while.

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    Posted by Nanny_Society June 24, 2009
Liberal, where are you? You've been quiet for awhile.

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    Posted by Mike510 June 23, 2009
Hawkseley, where are you? You've been quiet for a while.

32.
    Posted by woomum June 23, 2009
This is better than comedy central.

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    Posted by Uknown May 31, 2009
Mrs. Exposer,

You're right, of course. The Exposer is more sui generis than Boy Named Sue.

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    Posted by Molly Coddler Exposer May 30, 2009
Now that is a difficult question indeed. You see, back in the days of the founding fathers Liberals wanted freedom from big oppressive (British) government while the conservatives wanted to keep it. Now those words mean the opposite. Practically the only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is this: the Democrats want to take all the money and give it to the poor who will then be forced to give it to the rich, the Republicans want to eliminate the middle-man in that process.

As for Liberal's name, we prayed that he would have a Liberal dose of Conservatism and a Conservative dose of Liberalism and named accordingly. It seems what he got was completely Fundamentalism instead.

If you ever heard how Corruption cusses when he slaps the cuffs on another crooked politician you would know that Liberal is no son of a preacher man. But, if I remember that song rightly, Sue preferred bare knuckle fighting to lurking and spewing venom like a spitting cobra.

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    Posted by Uknown May 30, 2009
Mrs. Exposer,

May I ask, why did you choose to name your son Liberal?

Are you and Mr. Exposer liberals, in which case, your son is like the proverbial son of a preacher man, or are you conservatives, in which case, your son is like A Boy Named Sue?

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    Posted by Molly Coddler Exposer May 30, 2009
Try Senate slashes the state budget http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4597470 and
Economy sinks at a 5.7 percent pace http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/4597526 for sure.

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    Posted by Molly Coddler Exposer May 30, 2009
Oh, by the way, Liberal has visited the news section and dropped a couple of err... tidbits.

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