[Rasputin]

I don't have anything factual here but I heard it said in a rebuttal to the Clinton/socialist thing that it was the lower income people who were less likely to get in over their heads and had a better record overall in servicing their debt than higher income folks.
I believe the lefty, socialist bad guy propaganda is just a scare tactic to pull moderates to the right .

[Cashmere]

Anything you read that attempts to argue that one party is better or worse than the other party has been written by somebody who has not yet escaped from the illusion-of-choice trap in which they exist. Ergo, the thing they have written is generally not worth reading.

[Tanada]

Nice to see my research into what percipitated this mess being validated, thanx Shanny.

I really get PO'd (and I don't mean peak oiled) every time Chris Dodd and Barney Frank open their mouths to blame someone else. They are the chairmen of the Senate and House banking commitees fer crying out loud, they were suppossed to preform oversight duties and prevent this trainwreck. Now they have the gall to stand there *ick in hand and say we need MORE regulation! If these dudnerheads had been doing their job then Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac wouldn't have gone down the tubes and set off this latest string of disasters. They go on and on and on about '8 years of the Bush economy' when for 3 of those 8 years they had controll of the Senate and 2 of those years controll of the house. In case people forgot or never learned it the CONGRESS sets federal spending and taxing policy, not the President. They also confirm the Federal Reserve board members, you know like Helicopter Ben Bernanke....