Did anyone watch the Obama Infomercial?

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Did anyone watch the Obama Infomercial?
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Wed, 10-29-2008 - 9:56pm
I missed it due to a graduate class :( so I wondered if anyone else had seen it. I was surprised not to see anything posted here about it. If you did watch it what did you think? Good? Bad? Valuable info? Waste of time? Are you planning to watch McCain later tonight?

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Registered: 07-03-2008
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 1:56pm
It is very very difficult for young people, college graduates as yourself to find jobs in your chosen field. The college bills alone are frightening, You or your parents combined have spent thousands of dollars for your education, you look forward into getting a well paying job for all your hard work and dedication, and you find just how stiff competition is. You not only have other college students you have to compete with for a good job, but people in their late 30's early 40's and up who have maybe years of expirience but found themselves out of a job because their job went overseas. My son's Gf is 27, she has a degree in Communications/Marketing, she worked for a company who just went Bankrupt. Now she is looking for another job. competion is stiff, she still has college bills to pay. it is difficult. It is high time for the Middle Class hard working people do get a break, not the overpaid CEO's making over 2 million a year!
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Registered: 01-02-2005
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 1:59pm

A friends MIL is going thru chemo and her nausea pills are 800 a month.

 

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Registered: 01-02-2005
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 2:02pm
The first six years the economy was great?

 

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Registered: 09-23-2002
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 2:05pm

Wow I didn't realize chemo pills were that expensive. My what has this country become?


I wonder how health care started in this country, it's very messed up!


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Registered: 10-20-2008
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 2:05pm

< picking a popular, successful governor

>>> Why does everybody keep saying this?

Um...because it's true.

>>> All the people I know (repub, indendp, dems) had NO CLUE who she was. Hence the intial curiosity factor on her.

I doubt that "all the people you know (repub, indendp, dems) would know who most of the governors in America were, and I doubt that you'd have gotten the same reaction from almost any other choice. Palin was unexpected, obviously a woman, and one of the few politicians in the country with a record of being a "maverick" and bi-partisan.

>>> So she was popular by who's standards prior to being named the Repub VP candidate?

Her constituents in Alaska...the people she serves...gave her an 80+% approval rating. She must have been doing something right.

>>> Now she is popular...hitting celebrity status. Oooppsss she better watch out because Obama was crucified for such a thing.

Obama's ego and arrogance SOUGHT out celebrity...Palin has had it thrust upon her.

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 2:09pm

even with insurance -- the portions of her meds that my mil had to pay for her meds associated with her chemo were unbelievable

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Registered: 01-28-2004
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 2:15pm

That's right. And Obama will do the same. No one will get a tax cut.

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Registered: 10-08-2008
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 2:17pm

I cannot tell you how much I sympathize with your friend's mil.

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Registered: 10-20-2008
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 2:19pm

>>> Yes, Mortgage companies DID know what they were getting into by pushing subprime mortgages. One of the most popular subprimes used is a ARM (adjustable rate mortgage). I use to work with them in the commercial sector at my previous employer. Libor's were the most popular. Any variable rate loan has more "risk" associated with it than a fixed rate.

ARM's aren't necessarily sub-primes, and the "risk" to the bank is the same as with a fixed rate loan. It does have a "risk" to the homeowner if it goes up, but that's generally mitigated by being a cheaper loan than a fixed rate. It's a gamble that many homeowners choose to take if they don't plan on being in a particular home for many years.

>>> Subprimes are nothing new. They have been around for ages. Proper due diligence wasn't done to determine if someone can actually afford the reset mortgage price. Something that could have been "predicted" or foreseen. Rate ceilings and floors could have been used by mortgage companies to.

That'

Also, subprimes were not meant to put people in homes they could not afford to begin with.

True, but in practice, that's how "redlining" was eliminated. The CRA was enacted to address the issue...

a United States federal law designed to encourage commercial banks and savings associations to meet the needs of borrowers in all segments of their communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Reinvestment_Act

This liberal attempt at social engineering had predictable results.

>>> Blame the dems if you want but who said that mortgage companies had to throw caution to the wind and give these loans out to everybody even those that could in NO way pay a 2500 mortgage on their 50,000 combined income. ?

Actually, it was the Democrats...starting with the CRA, and then using Fannie and Freddie to imply government guarantee of the shady mortgages. The Dems in Congress then ran defense to "protect" their cash cow from Republican attempts, by both Bush and McCain, to regulate the sub-prime lending...and you've seen the results.

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Registered: 01-02-2005
Fri, 10-31-2008 - 2:22pm

>>> All the people I know (repub, indendp, dems) had NO CLUE who she was. Hence the intial curiosity factor on her.


~~~~~~I doubt that "all the people you know (repub, indendp, dems) would know who most of the governors in America were, and I doubt that you'd have gotten the same reaction from almost any other choice. Palin was unexpected, obviously a woman, and one of the few politicians in the country with a record of being a "maverick" and bi-partisan.


~~~~~~Her constituents in Alaska...the people she serves...gave her an 80+% approval rating. She must have been doing something right.


Approval rating is equal to popularity?

 

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