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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (146563)	11/8/2008 9:03:04 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

I am not ignoring that they were initially set up by the government but that was decades ago. I said, how does their being set up by the government affect the housing market as private companies are going bell up as well. Public, private or something in between...what did it matter and what does it matter now? The implicit guarantee is really only about being 'too big to fail' or having good political connections. I don't care if prostitution is made legal but the reality is that there are plenty of things you cannot do legally with your money just as there are plenty of things you really can't say. I don't agree with that either but that is the way it is. Money still isn't free speech and to equate the two is absurd. Where is lobbying in the Constitution? I must have missed that paragraph. How in the world is lobbying a natural right? Are you talking about generally discussing someone in order to persuade them to your viewpoint or being an actual lobbyist?

To: TimF who wrote (146563)	11/8/2008 11:59:13 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

they took spitzer down because he used all these grey area business rules to take down some pretty decent businesspeople like AIGs Greenberg. Business is full of grey areas and most of what Spitzer was prosecuting people for were not technically crimes. He went after a lot of really popular people too, like Frank Quattrone out here, and defaced their character for political gain. The typical William Randolph Hearst behavior. Well if you play with fire you might get burned and thats what happened to Spitzer. He was careless and somebody close to him turned him in for being such an SOB. Too bad because he did some good work. But I for one would have been MUCH HAPPIER with Greenberg at the helm of AIG during this big mess, and I wonder if Greenberg would have made the same mistakes the current guys did. The whole episode at AIG that resulted in firing Greenberg reminded me of when they fired Steve Jobs at Apple.