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"Video: George W. Bush launches Mortgage Bubble, 10/15/02"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

OT: Gays not really interested in marriage after all

"Gay Couples, Choosing to Say ‘I Don’t’"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/style/gay-couples-choosing-to-say-i-dont.html

"Now that same-sex couples in 14 states have all the rights and responsibilities of straight married couples, gay couples are rushing to the altar, right? Not exactly. Plenty of gay couples do not want to marry, and their reasons are as complex — and personal — as any decision to wed.

For some, marriage is an outdated institution, one that forces same-sex couples into the mainstream. For others, marriage imposes financial burdens and legal entanglements. Still others see marriage not as a fairy tale but as a potentially painful chapter that ends in divorce. And then there are those for whom marriage goes against their beliefs, religious or otherwise.

“It’s a very, very archaic model,” said Sean Fader, 34, an artist in New York who is single and asked to be identified as queer. “It’s this oppressive Christian model that says ‘Pick a person that’s going to be everything to you, they have to be perfect, then get a house, and have kids, and then you’ll be happy and whole.' ”

“There are many heterosexuals who feel the same way,” he added. After all, not all heterosexual couples choose to marry. But same-sex couples do seem more inclined to be marriage holdouts."

10/26/13, 11:32 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

An interesting counter factual would have been if Bush had grew up in a non-Southwestern state and avoided the consequent fetishization of Mexican immigrants. He seemed a pretty decent sort who was generally sympathetic to the non-rich and non-elite.

10/26/13, 11:43 PM

Anonymous Mr. Anon said...

It's not enough to put food on your family. You need to put a house on your family too.

Someday, people will look back on George W. Bush much the same way we look at mood rings, leisure suits, and the AMC Gremlin: what the f**k were we thinking?!

10/26/13, 11:49 PM

Anonymous RS said...

Imagine that. A president who isn't saying it's someone else's fault.

10/26/13, 11:58 PM

Anonymous Jill said...

Let's not forget Bush's appointment of Roland Arnall (Ameriquest Mortgage CEO, charged by 50 states Attorney Generals for subprime mortgage fraud) as Ambassador to the Netherlands. You can't make this stuff up.
It always amused me when listening to tv commemtators during the Bush years begin their remarks "conservative President George Bush".

10/27/13, 5:35 AM

Anonymous beta_plus said...

The housing bubble was already in full swing by the middle of 2000, before Bush was even elected.

This certainly didn't help matters.

10/27/13, 9:40 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Let's not forget Bush's appointment of Roland Arnall (Ameriquest Mortgage CEO, charged by 50 states Attorney Generals for subprime mortgage fraud) as Ambassador to the Netherlands. You can't make this stuff up.
It always amused me when listening to tv commemtators during the Bush years begin their remarks "conservative President George Bush"
Well, Bush was for the government getting you a construction job by pumping up housing. In fact what surprise me he did cut some other entitlement programs and wanted to semi-privatized Social Security and give you a tax credit to buy health insurance, a Republican Idea. Bush and Rove were trying to make certain Texas and Florida and Arizona and Nevada remain Republican by getting better paying construction jobs to Mexicans but his own state has many of them making 5 less per hr than whites on average. In fact illegal immigrants during the housing boom in some jobs in construction made over 25 per hr and electricians were sometimes making 6 figure incomes. I heard a small developer complain about this, the wages are way down now.

10/27/13, 12:40 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

An interesting counter factual would have been if Bush had grew up in a non-Southwestern state and avoided the consequent fetishization of Mexican immigrants. He seemed a pretty decent sort who was generally sympathetic to the non-rich and non-elite
That's what made Bush more dangerous than Mittens. Mittens had some bad ideas but I doubt it was housing as much.

10/27/13, 1:02 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

An interesting counter factual would have been if Bush had grew up in a non-Southwestern state and avoided the consequent fetishization of Mexican immigrants. He seemed a pretty decent sort who was generally sympathetic to the non-rich and non-elite.
Republicans like Bush do like Cheap labor, he had a scheme where employers could get guest workers for 10,000 a year in almost any job category.

10/27/13, 1:04 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"You see, we want everybody in America to own their own home. That's what we want. This is--an ownership society is a compassionate society. "

The idea of an ownership society is a pretty sound conservative goal. If you want to avoid having politics split along Marxist lines, then make sure that the ordinary working man is an owner of capital in some capacity.

Of course, having minimal equity invested in a bubble asset is not real ownership. Indeed, it becomes negative ownership once the bubble bursts. Oops.

10/27/13, 4:01 PM

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