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rollotomasi commented on the blog post More Terrible Media Stories About Housing
Good piece as usual, David Dayen. Don’t these people understand that neighborhoods consist of neighbors? Do they think that nobody lives next door to these eyesores? A bank foreclosed on a property next to my brother’s house and the bank never comes around until the police are called, which I assure you drives my meticulous yard-keeping brother nuts. I swear, if it’s not something they can see by looking out their own windows, then it must be a waste of taxpayer money.
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rollotomasi commented on the blog post Taibbi Savages JOBS Act as Fraud-Creation Policy Dressed Up As “Financial Innovation”
I would rename it the PAD Act – Pump and Dump
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rollotomasi wrote a new diary post: The Fox News (News Corp.) of rating agencies
Nobody commented, so I’m deleting the post here.
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rollotomasi commented on the blog post Obama’s Last Lecture
How sad. No “fight for what you believe in” here. I think it’s safe to say that Obama will never have a holiday in his honor.
After hearing that, it’s no wonder the Democrats been getting rolled – and will continue to do so. Those who believe in something will ultimately defeat those who believe in nothing every time. While I didn’t buy into the “Home & Change” at the political issue level, I did think Obama would bring some fresh thinking and strategy into the process; what an utterly conventional and unimaginative man he has turned out to be!
The equation of compromise to one’s maturity is just wrong. There are many perfectly-functioning adults whose cause of their life is the reason they get up every day. Adults have to both compromise and draw lines.
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rollotomasi commented on the blog post A Brief Note on Birtherism
David, glad you saw the post through. Yours and Baratunde’s words were easily the best I’ve encountered on an issue whose basis is silly and whose existence is troubling.
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rollotomasi commented on the blog post Both Parties Use Standard and Poor’s Downgrade Threat for Their Own Political Ends
Just a reminder, California tied their hands years ago like Cantor is proposing, and what’s their debt rating now? A-, I think, not much higher than Greece’s. Cantor says it’s a “wake-up call,” but it doesn’t appear he’s waking up.
