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I'm not a Democrat, I'm a moderate-leftist. There's a big difference. The impetus behind de-regulating banking is the result of our government being bought and sold by large corporations, many of those being banks, and both parties are guilty of that, but this movement towards de-regulation was initiated by the GOP, it was their mantra starting in the late 70's, and that's all there is too it. Now, say partisan blinders one more time...
Many Democrats saw Reagan's success and bought into the philosophy and got big money behind them because of it.
I'm more anti-corporate control of the government than anything, and in that case the Dems are a lesser of 2 evils, although not much so.
Except all of his posts appear to be completely anti-republican and pro-democrat but his doubletalk aside I agree with this person about being against corporations running the government.
Regarding the orignal topic, I would like the federal government to take into account the higher cost of living in this area when they offer various programs and loans. Even for certain types of college loans, there is a maximum income limit for the entire country and therefore doesn't take into account the higher salaries and cost of living in the NY area. Therefore, unfairly, middle class people from other parts of the country can qualify while New Yorkers cannot.
How can you justify that? No one told us to live in the land of BMW's and Hummers..well, I guess some of our parents did, but no one forced us to stay here.
It is unfair that classic income distributions are skewed (40K income in other parts of the country is middle class..it's bordering on poverty here), but I can't see that ever flying in the parts of the country that aren't LA, the Bay Area, and the east coast megalopo-whatever.
Except all of his posts appear to be completely anti-republican and pro-democrat but his doubletalk aside I agree with this person about being against corporations running the government.
If you call pointing out that Glass-Seegal was authored and presented by 2 Republicans and that the mantra of Republicans starting in the 1970's was de-regulation "double talk", you need to do some research.
What you are seeing now with the economic collapse is the legacy of Ronald Reagan's voodoo economics, pushed by all the people who came after him, including Clinton. They are the ones who sold out the working class to Wall St and opened the flood gates for manufacturing jobs to vanish.
The fact that any working class guy thinks fondly of Ronald Reagan is a testament to how perception and media campaigns are so much more important than substance. Reagan sold Joe Sixpack and Trailer Park Tom out, but they loved him because he turned catchy phrases and called welfare people lazy. At the same time the Dems lost focus on working people and gave too much air time to leftist special interests like gay rights and abortion rights.
The GOP convincing lower middle class people that their enemies were minorities on welfare and not big money interests like banks and Wall Street is one of the greatest swindles of the 20th century. Absolutely brilliant.
So,yes, the police and teachers unions are soaking us through high taxes, living with benefits packages you used to get working for private industry, and no we can't afford to keep their inflated packages going, but that is only a symptom of the problem. Good night.
The first thing the President should do is enforce existing immigration laws. That means throwing people who hire, house, and give aid to illegal aliens in jail. This would help us by making neighborhoods safer and allowing US citizens to take back the towns that have been invaded, like Brentwood, Freeport, Hempstead, and Huntington Station.
Instead of bailing out corporations, he should begin infrastructure improvement projects, such as burying the power lines, new high speed rail, and green energy projects. This would make getting around the island much quicker, and appealing to business, with cleaner air and lower energy costs.
And the money saved from denying welfare or any govt benefits to illegals would probably erase the defecit in a few years, and allow tax cuts for citizens.
But Obama has done none of this, in alot of ways, he's not much different from Bush, except he supports illegals more and wants to give them free health benefits.
Thats why I voted 3rd party. If Mitt Romney was running on the Republican ticket it may have been a different story.
Me too. Is Chuck Schumer up for re-election? We need to run his *** out on a rail. The same goes for the entire state Legislature - they can't even pass a budget, what a joke.
The MTA crisis is reason enough to send everyone packing in Albany. We dont have $$ for essential transit services but its OK to give themslves pay raises and give illegal aliens all the health care they need.
Ever drive by the welfare office in Uniondale? Looks like a foreign country!
How about cutting off upstate NY and making them their own state. Long island and the city would remain NY. Upstate shows no resemblance to either areas and looks alot more like Vermont,and NH. We wouldn't have to share all the money with those areas which would help long islanders especially.
I think that may be the only way we will get proper representation. Albany is far upstate and removed from the city and LI. Just look at how they decided to cut MTA funding. Meanwhile pet rail and road projects costing millions of dollars go forward upstate, even though its the boonies up there.
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