Comments on: Is Wall Street Ready for Obama’s Fall? http://www.rickackerman.com/2009/08/is-wall-street-ready-for-obamas-fall/ Trading Newsletter for Gold, Silver, Stocks and Mini Indexes Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:15:09 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: George http://www.rickackerman.com/2009/08/is-wall-street-ready-for-obamas-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-1912 George Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:57:31 +0000 http://www.rickackerman.com/?p=8729#comment-1912 The banks paid billions of dollars in bonuses in 2008. Ackerman believes this was Obama's fault. &&&&& <em>Can you identify the passage where I said this, George? If I did say it, it is certainly not what I had intended to imply.</em> <strong>RA</strong> The banks paid billions of dollars in bonuses in 2008. Ackerman believes this was Obama’s fault.

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Can you identify the passage where I said this, George? If I did say it, it is certainly not what I had intended to imply. RA

]]> By: Mark Kemper http://www.rickackerman.com/2009/08/is-wall-street-ready-for-obamas-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-1899 Mark Kemper Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:46:54 +0000 http://www.rickackerman.com/?p=8729#comment-1899 The Republican game plan is much more dangerous than the Democrats' -- they only protect the very rich. Look who came out ahead: It was The Boys, as Rick calls them. Most decisions that were made as the economy was crashing under Dubbaya concerned how they would help Goldman Sachs and that black hole, Citibank. I am possibly more conservative then most Dixiecrat Republicans andthink a balanced budget should be part of the Constitution. In fact, the budget would be based on the previous year's receipts, not what might be collected next year or ten years out. All of the rescues I saw under Dubbaya helped those making millions while the middle and working classes were laid off. This is the reason healthcare reform even had a chance. Rick said he paid $35K out-of-pocket. How does somebody who earns $35k a year get health care for his family? I have company insurance and had a annual physical. The doctor charged $776, was paid $308, and wrote off $467. Is this fair to the uninsured, and did the write-off reduce the tax bill for the doctor? The economic problems of this country will not be solved until we start making stuff again. All other activity is just moving money from one pocket to another. When the middle class disappears, all you have is the Latin America model: rich families and the dirt poor. The Republican game plan is much more dangerous than the Democrats’ — they only protect the very rich. Look who came out ahead: It was The Boys, as Rick calls them. Most decisions that were made as the economy was crashing under Dubbaya concerned how they would help Goldman Sachs and that black hole, Citibank. I am possibly more conservative then most Dixiecrat Republicans andthink a balanced budget should be part of the Constitution. In fact, the budget would be based on the previous year’s receipts, not what might be collected next year or ten years out. All of the rescues I saw under Dubbaya helped those making millions while the middle and working classes were laid off. This is the reason healthcare reform even had a chance. Rick said he paid $35K out-of-pocket. How does somebody who earns $35k a year get health care for his family? I have company insurance and had a annual physical. The doctor charged $776, was paid $308, and wrote off $467. Is this fair to the uninsured, and did the write-off reduce the tax bill for the doctor?

The economic problems of this country will not be solved until we start making stuff again. All other activity is just moving money from one pocket to another.
When the middle class disappears, all you have is the Latin America model: rich families and the dirt poor.

]]> By: jt http://www.rickackerman.com/2009/08/is-wall-street-ready-for-obamas-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-1896 jt Sun, 16 Aug 2009 03:56:03 +0000 http://www.rickackerman.com/?p=8729#comment-1896 Just to tag team on the comment made, quite accurately, that in political terms, the Big O'Bamanation could very well be to the Demogognazis just a smooth-talking well-tanned foreign-born version of what Bush was to the Repugnahypocrites. The party system is in shambles.... But the bigger problem for this country and for most of its citizens is that neither of those parties, nor the fact of their existence, IS the problem. Many here have touched on and expounded on the problem, yet many STILL think that there is a political solution...when there is NOT!! The parties are a side-show...a distraction...a puppet show. It's the larger body equivalent of Hannity and Colmes. Most Americans seem to think that the "truth" lies somewhere in the middle of all the bluster coming out of the two of them. Similarly, many think that if they watch the "No Spin Zone" with O'Reilly, and then squirt an equal douchebag full of CNBC or the like down their throats, they've gotten all the political nutrition they need to make an "informed decision." An informed decision about what???? Which of the two parties, which are simply two sides of the same coin (now anyway), to vote for next time? The truth is that the REAL truth and the REAL problem are elsewhere...WAY off the screen...right where they want to be. (After all, they also control the mainstream media exactly for that reason.) TPTB are NOT our elected officials-- the WallSt Bankster Cartel own BOTH parties. Their control of the money supply (as in "we ain't tellin' you nothin' about who we're givin' the money to you little pipsqueak idiots...who do you think you are??...We are the GREAT and MIGHTY OZ!!") is a wire, one end of which is in their hands, the other around the minute but very sensitive cajones of our elected officials...you squawk, we pull...you squawk louder, we pull harder. Goldman Sachs, along with the Treasury, or I should say the Treasury Dept of Goldman Sachs, along with the Fed Res Banks and JPMorgain4Elites, etc., run this country. And until the Fed is removed like a cancer from this country, and GoldmanSachs and their CEO Treasury Secretaries are convicted, tried and hung out to dry, or just hung...nothing will change. jt &&&& <em>Amen. </em><strong>RA</strong> Just to tag team on the comment made, quite accurately, that in political terms, the Big O’Bamanation could very well be to the Demogognazis just a smooth-talking well-tanned foreign-born version of what Bush was to the Repugnahypocrites. The party system is in shambles….

But the bigger problem for this country and for most of its citizens is that neither of those parties, nor the fact of their existence, IS the problem. Many here have touched on and expounded on the problem, yet many STILL think that there is a political solution…when there is NOT!! The parties are a side-show…a distraction…a puppet show. It’s the larger body equivalent of Hannity and Colmes. Most Americans seem to think that the “truth” lies somewhere in the middle of all the bluster coming out of the two of them. Similarly, many think that if they watch the “No Spin Zone” with O’Reilly, and then squirt an equal douchebag full of CNBC or the like down their throats, they’ve gotten all the political nutrition they need to make an “informed decision.” An informed decision about what???? Which of the two parties, which are simply two sides of the same coin (now anyway), to vote for next time?

The truth is that the REAL truth and the REAL problem are elsewhere…WAY off the screen…right where they want to be. (After all, they also control the mainstream media exactly for that reason.) TPTB are NOT our elected officials– the WallSt Bankster Cartel own BOTH parties. Their control of the money supply (as in “we ain’t tellin’ you nothin’ about who we’re givin’ the money to you little pipsqueak idiots…who do you think you are??…We are the GREAT and MIGHTY OZ!!”) is a wire, one end of which is in their hands, the other around the minute but very sensitive cajones of our elected officials…you squawk, we pull…you squawk louder, we pull harder. Goldman Sachs, along with the Treasury, or I should say the Treasury Dept of Goldman Sachs, along with the Fed Res Banks and JPMorgain4Elites, etc., run this country. And until the Fed is removed like a cancer from this country, and GoldmanSachs and their CEO Treasury Secretaries are convicted, tried and hung out to dry, or just hung…nothing will change. jt

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Amen. RA

]]> By: Rick Ackerman http://www.rickackerman.com/2009/08/is-wall-street-ready-for-obamas-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-1889 Rick Ackerman Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:26:25 +0000 http://www.rickackerman.com/?p=8729#comment-1889 Posted by Rick for Brad Alpert: I enjoyed your piece, but I see no reason to take it as more than wishful thinking. Obama is climbing the learning curve of a new president, perhaps more slowly due to his extreme ideology than would be best for him, but it is still not certain that the Republicans will gain congressional seats next year. While many see Obama's health care push as selling snake oil, it is still not obvious the Democrats will fail in getting a bill this year. (How grim is that?) I agree that the stock market is not ready for Obama to become a lame duck. If only that were to happen! &&&&& <em>The prospect of a health-bill-any-health-bill just to get the camel's nose in the tent is grim indeed -- scary, even. Medicare started with ostensibly small aspirations, and look at it now.</em> <strong> RA</strong> Posted by Rick for Brad Alpert:

I enjoyed your piece, but I see no reason to take it as more than
wishful thinking. Obama is climbing the learning curve of a new
president, perhaps more slowly due to his extreme ideology than would
be best for him, but it is still not certain that the Republicans will
gain congressional seats next year. While many see Obama’s health care
push as selling snake oil, it is still not obvious the Democrats will
fail in getting a bill this year. (How grim is that?)

I agree that the stock market is not ready for Obama to become a lame
duck. If only that were to happen!

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The prospect of a health-bill-any-health-bill just to get the camel’s nose in the tent is grim indeed — scary, even. Medicare started with ostensibly small aspirations, and look at it now. RA

]]> By: Charles Hill http://www.rickackerman.com/2009/08/is-wall-street-ready-for-obamas-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-1887 Charles Hill Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:40:13 +0000 http://www.rickackerman.com/?p=8729#comment-1887 Hey Rick, Why isn't anybody talking about the illegal imigrants that will receive free medical. This will only invite every sick and needy Mexican to every south American that needs health benefits to jump our border to get on the band wagon. This is the largest group that drains our economy and floods our emergency rooms from california across Texas and wherever else they may go. They show up pregnant to have there children born here and get free medicare and housing many live better than middle class Americans working everyday paying their taxes. Hey Rick,
Why isn’t anybody talking about the illegal imigrants that will receive free medical. This will only invite every sick and needy Mexican to every south American that needs health benefits to jump our border to get on the band wagon. This is the largest group that drains our economy and floods our emergency rooms from california across Texas and wherever else they may go.
They show up pregnant to have there children born here and get free medicare and housing many live better than middle class Americans working everyday paying their taxes.

]]> By: Keyser Soze http://www.rickackerman.com/2009/08/is-wall-street-ready-for-obamas-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-1884 Keyser Soze Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:08:56 +0000 http://www.rickackerman.com/?p=8729#comment-1884 I can't understand why so many Americans seem to be opposed to health care reform when they have the most expensive and least effective health care system in the developed world. Sure, some vested interests will be hurt by reform, but what's so bad about that if the majority benefit? I can’t understand why so many Americans seem to be opposed to health care reform when they have the most expensive and least effective health care system in the developed world. Sure, some vested interests will be hurt by reform, but what’s so bad about that if the majority benefit?

]]> By: Hurshel http://www.rickackerman.com/2009/08/is-wall-street-ready-for-obamas-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-1825 Hurshel Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:33:34 +0000 http://www.rickackerman.com/?p=8729#comment-1825 billwilson said: "Unfortunately the implosion of the Republicans into a minor party of angry, cranky, old white guys in the South is not helping. " I see comments like this all the time from supposed conservatives who are merely mimicking leftist talking points. What exactly is wrong with whites who are old, angry and cranky? I'm white, middle-aged and pissed off as hell at what's going on in this country. Is it wrong to be white? Old? What the hell are you talking about? What an utterly stupid comment. Demographic groups whose interests are aligned does not make those interests automatically suspect. If I say that the Democratic party is full of whining, ethnocentric, young, middle-aged and old black guys and gals, is that racist? If you think it is, then that thought ought to tell you a lot about yourself having made, as you did, the comment about angry, cranky and old white guys. billwilson said: “Unfortunately the implosion of the Republicans into a minor party of angry, cranky, old white guys in the South is not helping. ”

I see comments like this all the time from supposed conservatives who are merely mimicking leftist talking points. What exactly is wrong with whites who are old, angry and cranky? I’m white, middle-aged and pissed off as hell at what’s going on in this country. Is it wrong to be white? Old? What the hell are you talking about? What an utterly stupid comment.

Demographic groups whose interests are aligned does not make those interests automatically suspect. If I say that the Democratic party is full of whining, ethnocentric, young, middle-aged and old black guys and gals, is that racist? If you think it is, then that thought ought to tell you a lot about yourself having made, as you did, the comment about angry, cranky and old white guys.

]]> By: C.C. http://www.rickackerman.com/2009/08/is-wall-street-ready-for-obamas-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-1824 C.C. Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:43:41 +0000 http://www.rickackerman.com/?p=8729#comment-1824 The only 'change' we need is to simply eliminate the federal government from areas it doesn not belong, 'healthcare' being one of many. Basically, it is to bring to heel a government gone out of control - via BOTH corrupt parties. Unfortunately, even for those seemingly level-headed enough to understand, the concept of Freedom escapes them because the pervasive tentacles of government-everywhere-and-always, has clouded their thinking. Even well-meaning 'conservatives' have fallen into the trap of 'smörgåsbord' government - that of which one picks what he likes about government intrusion, but discards the remainder in favor of his righteous ideology. Unfortunately, due to circumstances surrounding the unchanging vices of human nature, freedom and government interference in the economy are incompatible. Over regulation by a 3rd party (government) into the contractual agreements among men and the litigious interference that follows, is what is at the core of most of our ailments in society - again, 'healthcare' being the issue-du-jour for the present. The rise and fall of empires... We have had a good run, but human nature without rigorous temperament of our desire to have someone else 'Do Something' about a situation, rather than rely on ourselves and our neighbors to close the circuit of interaction, has brought us to this state. Once the people have figured out that they can vote themselves largess... Well, you know the rest - C.C. The only ‘change’ we need is to simply eliminate the federal government from areas it doesn not belong, ‘healthcare’ being one of many. Basically, it is to bring to heel a government gone out of control – via BOTH corrupt parties. Unfortunately, even for those seemingly level-headed enough to understand, the concept of Freedom escapes them because the pervasive tentacles of government-everywhere-and-always, has clouded their thinking. Even well-meaning ‘conservatives’ have fallen into the trap of ’smörgåsbord’ government – that of which one picks what he likes about government intrusion, but discards the remainder in favor of his righteous ideology. Unfortunately, due to circumstances surrounding the unchanging vices of human nature, freedom and government interference in the economy are incompatible.

Over regulation by a 3rd party (government) into the contractual agreements among men and the litigious interference that follows, is what is at the core of most of our ailments in society – again, ‘healthcare’ being the issue-du-jour for the present.

The rise and fall of empires… We have had a good run, but human nature without rigorous temperament of our desire to have someone else ‘Do Something’ about a situation, rather than rely on ourselves and our neighbors to close the circuit of interaction, has brought us to this state. Once the people have figured out that they can vote themselves largess… Well, you know the rest -

C.C.

]]> By: Patrick http://www.rickackerman.com/2009/08/is-wall-street-ready-for-obamas-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-1819 Patrick Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:07:55 +0000 http://www.rickackerman.com/?p=8729#comment-1819 necessary goods will increase in price.... cars, houses.. gsm's will deflate necessary goods will increase in price…. cars, houses.. gsm’s will deflate

]]> By: ben http://www.rickackerman.com/2009/08/is-wall-street-ready-for-obamas-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-1816 ben Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:22:45 +0000 http://www.rickackerman.com/?p=8729#comment-1816 So far...Obama seems to have been getting his away and getting away with everything. He's expanded the bailout of the banks. He's taken over GM and robbed the bondholders. His cash for clunkers program, with car dealers destroying working cars that could have been resold or given away to the poor, is obscene and criminal. I don't think Dems have the stomach to oppose the first black President, and Obama is not shy about sticking race in their face. Most Dems would instantly lose about 1/3 of their support if they went against the President...virtual political suicide. I'd put my money on Obama getting his way simply because thus far he always has. Here is a link for the odds on a federal health insurance plan by the end of this year. Currently the odds are a bit better than a 1 in 3 chance. http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=683800&z=1249971555575 So far…Obama seems to have been getting his away and getting away with everything. He’s expanded the bailout of the banks. He’s taken over GM and robbed the bondholders. His cash for clunkers program, with car dealers destroying working cars that could have been resold or given away to the poor, is obscene and criminal. I don’t think Dems have the stomach to oppose the first black President, and Obama is not shy about sticking race in their face. Most Dems would instantly lose about 1/3 of their support if they went against the President…virtual political suicide.

I’d put my money on Obama getting his way simply because thus far he always has. Here is a link for the odds on a federal health insurance plan by the end of this year. Currently the odds are a bit better than a 1 in 3 chance.

http://www.intrade.com/jsp/intrade/common/c_cd.jsp?conDetailID=683800&z=1249971555575

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