In Georgia, housing woes a long-term drag on economy
As we claw our way out of this recession, it’s easy to forget where it all started: housing. And while other parts of the economy have begun to recover and show signs of health, the housing situation is actually getting worse by some key standards. The Atlanta Federal Reserve has some interesting data and — oh goody! — charts to explain where we are at the moment.
For example, the number of American households who owe more on their mortgage than the house is worth — known as negative equity — continues to grow in many markets, including Georgia. In fact, in the fourth quarter of 2010, Georgia had the sixth highest rate of negative equity in the nation. Three out of 10 Georgia homeowners owed more in loans on their property than their property was worth, which is a remarkable number.
In the metro Atlanta area, the ratio is even higher. More than one out of three homeowners in this market are “underwater” on their mortgage, making them prime candidates for eventual default or foreclosure. Those who do not default will experience long-term “houselock,” meaning they’re stuck in those homes because they’re unable to sell them for enough to pay off the mortgage. Every monthly mortgage payment they make is another payment in a bad investment, but they make them anyway because that investment is also a home.
That is not a problem that is going away soon, with “soon” defined as anytime in the next five or maybe 10 years. It will continue to be a drag on housing prices and on consumer spending. New-home construction — once the driving force in the metro Atlanta economy — will continue to be more of a boutique business than a thriving industry.
That’s what happens when a bubble pops. That’s what happens when the music stops. Sooner or later, things that are too good to be true always stop being true.
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WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:03 pm
“Oh I think I addressed your points very well. You simply have no logical retort as usual. ‘
Vet has never ever ever had a point. Ever.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
March 23rd, 2011
2:04 pm
Bosch
Growing up in such an environment, I concur. Those who live in that environment don’t give a crap about Democratic/Republican stuff. They don’t care about politics at all.
Bosch
March 23rd, 2011
2:06 pm
“to siphon off as you see fit with more social programs. No skin off your backs, right?”
Couple weeks ago my uncle died, and I had to go out of town and make final arrangements for him. This guy lived hand to mouth his whole life and lived in a housing project, got food stamps, disability, whole nine yards. The quisessential stereotype of what the wingnuts hate the most here and are convinced is ruining the country.
So, what happens to the people if you just cut social programs. Do you honestly think they will just straighten up and get jobs and live the “right” kind of life? Are you really that delusional?
Now, I don’t think for a second that all people on “welfare” (whatever that is) live “bad” lives or are “bad” people, but my priest once told me he was working in a soup kitchen and this guy was going on and on about how some of those guys that came in could work, and he asked the guy, “well why don’t your hire them?”
The Leg Lamp™©® is a “major award”…..
March 23rd, 2011
2:06 pm
DebbieDoRight
March 23rd, 2011
1:47 pm
The levies didn’t break…George Bush blew them up. Weren’t you paying attention to Rev Farrakhan during the whole sordid affair?
Normal
March 23rd, 2011
2:08 pm
Who built those levees, Debbie?
The Corps Of Engineers…Gov’mit fellers…
Bosch
March 23rd, 2011
2:08 pm
SoCo,
The uncle I was just describing, I can say for certain, he never came out of his drunken stupor enough to go, “Oh, I gotta go vote!!!”
jm
March 23rd, 2011
2:09 pm
Ragnar, going to have to disagree on this one. The recession, while not wholly driven by a housing price bubble / collapse, was largely driven by the housing bubble. And the housing bubble was driven by corruption, government subsidies for housing, and an over-abudance of those “animal spirits”.
Normal
March 23rd, 2011
2:09 pm
“Vet has never ever ever had a point. Ever.”
Now WOW, That’s really pot meet kettle…
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
March 23rd, 2011
2:09 pm
jm
It peeves me when someone tries that “you libs” or some other label when talking to me. The only label I ascribe to is American. I don’t give a rat’s ass about either party because I don’t think either one of them are worth sh*t. Both parties playing games is why we’re in such financial crap now. Instead of doing what’s best for the country, they’re more worried about protecting the people who fund their campaigns.
I’ll ascribe to a political party when one of them decides to man up and straighten our country out. Until then, F’em both!!
Normal
March 23rd, 2011
2:10 pm
When do you think the credit card bubble will break?
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
March 23rd, 2011
2:10 pm
Bosch
It’s easy to live of stereotypes when you’ve never been confronted by the truth.
Bosch
March 23rd, 2011
2:10 pm
“I’ll ascribe to a political party when one of them decides to man up and straighten our country out. Until then, F’em both!!”
Testify to that! Amen!
Hey, by the way, SoCo, were you working last night?
@@
March 23rd, 2011
2:11 pm
Ragnar:
As the recent census indicates, people respond to the environment around them. It’s not going the way liberals would have liked. With the local economies suffering like they are and no hope from the feds, I doubt seriously they’ll be able to create the mixed-use developments they dream of. Not in the short-term anyway.
Stuck in limbo.
Thulsa Doom
March 23rd, 2011
2:12 pm
Bosch,
There is a good degree of Democratic sheeple who listen only to ethnocentric media which might as well be the Democratic speech organ and read or hear nothing else- no exposure to other media. And they do and will vote if you pay them $5 and if they believe someone is going to get them more free shi$. There are lots a people who believe that.
Do you remember that black woman on election night crying in delight as Obama won. She was crying with happiness and telling the tv interviewer that now she wouldn’t have to put gas in her tank, she wouldn’t have to pay her mortgage, etc. It was shocking but there were a good number of black people who believed this- that somehow Obama was going to pay for all their sh$t. When I saw that I laughed at the woman but then felt sorry for her because I knew what a disappointment this lady was in for.
DebbieDoRight
March 23rd, 2011
2:12 pm
Who built those levees, Debbie?
The Army Corps of Engineers.
Normal
March 23rd, 2011
2:12 pm
SoCo,
I think you’re on to something there…our new third Party, The F’em Both Party. I likes it! Where do I sign up.
ConnedConsCon
March 23rd, 2011
2:12 pm
Leave it to a Republican to lead the US further down the road to dumb and dumber.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:12 pm
“The Corps Of Engineers…Gov’mit fellers…’
But…but….Spike Lee said that Bush broke the levees with his magic levee breaking mind powers.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:13 pm
“Leave it to a Republican to lead the US further down the road to dumb and dumber.’
HUFFPOST!!!!! HHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
There’s your sign.
@@
March 23rd, 2011
2:13 pm
I also anticipate homestead exemption will be eliminated. Local communities can’t survive without the boomers.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:14 pm
“The Army Corps of Engineers.”
Which has what to do with W?
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
March 23rd, 2011
2:15 pm
Normal
Don’t know when that bubble will burst, but I’m down to one card with a balance. Then I can fax them all a middle finger salute!!! I will be my own credit card, screw the banks. And I’ll keep the interest payments for myself.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
March 23rd, 2011
2:16 pm
Not at work yesterday Bosch. Medical appointments.
Bosch
March 23rd, 2011
2:16 pm
Doom, Doom, Doom,
“Do you remember that black woman on election night crying in delight as Obama won.”
Do you honestly think that one woman represents the entire Democratic party? Don’t you think that’s just taking things a bit too far? If so, anytime a member of the GOP says something wild and crazy, do we get to use that ONE person as representative of their party?
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:17 pm
“I’ll ascribe to a political party when one of them decides to man up and straighten our country out. Until then, F’em both!!”
But…you’ll continue to vote Democrat.
Bosch
March 23rd, 2011
2:18 pm
“It was shocking but there were a good number of black people who believed this”
Wait a minute Doom, I didn’t see that part — really? You got any kind of stats on that?
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:18 pm
“Do you remember that black woman on election night crying in delight as Obama won.”
Which one? Jesse Jackson? Louis Farrakhan?
Thulsa Doom
March 23rd, 2011
2:18 pm
The Leg Lamp™©® is a “major award”…..
March 23rd, 2011
2:06 pm
DebbieDoRight
March 23rd, 2011
1:47 pm
The levies didn’t break…George Bush blew them up. Weren’t you paying attention to Rev Farrakhan during the whole sordid affair?- Leg Lamp
Leg Lamp,
I forgot. I must be slipping up. When in doubt always resort to the tried and true Democrtic strategy
1- blame Bush
2- bash Palin
3- scream racism
Looks like Farrakhan hit no. 1 pretty well. I forgot all about that. I also forgot about Bush and the 9/11 inside job. As Rosie O’Donnel and Willie Nelson aptly pointed out it looked like their were bombs going off inside the building.
Willie and Rosie both have PHDs in buildingfallingdownology. Farrakhan has a Phd in leveeblowupology.
Bosch
March 23rd, 2011
2:19 pm
SoCo,
Too bad, you might have got a chance to meet the oldest Boschkin. He flew in from Amsterdam yesterday.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
March 23rd, 2011
2:19 pm
Conned
That’s gotta be a joke….
@@
March 23rd, 2011
2:19 pm
It’s funny watching WOW remind jay’s team of all the insane things libs have said in the past.
Spike Lee said that Bush broke the levees with his magic levee breaking mind powers.
Weren’t some levees breached in Iowa and Illinois during Bush’s term. Did he blow those up too?
DebbieDoRight
March 23rd, 2011
2:19 pm
Doom: There is a good degree of
DemocraticRepublican sheeple who listen only to ethnocentric media [Fox News] which might as well be theDemocraticspeech organ and read or hear nothing else- no exposure to other media. And they do and will vote if you pay them $5 and if they believe someone is going to get them more free shi$. There are lots a people who believe that.See how easily your sentence can be turned around. Absolutes much?
Also: That woman on tv you were speaking of, do you have link of a clip that I can see this for myself? You see, I’ve lived my whole life around black people and I have never seen or heard of one act like the woman you described. I’d like to see it for myself. Thanks!
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:19 pm
“Willie and Rosie both have PHDs in buildingfallingdownology. Farrakhan has a Phd in leveeblowupology.’
AWESOME!!!!!!
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:20 pm
“It’s funny watching WOW remind jay’s team of all the insane things libs have said in the past.’
It ain’t hard, @@.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
March 23rd, 2011
2:20 pm
Bosch
I’m guessing the trip was a success then. I didn’t hear anything about hand-cuffed escorts coming through yesterday.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:21 pm
“See how easily your sentence can be turned around. Absolutes much?’
Yeah, the keyboard makes it easy to do that, Debbie.
AmVet
March 23rd, 2011
2:21 pm
Kam, occasionally the Tucker miscreants get canned, banned or derided to the point they flock over here, temporarily.
And obviously that includes Tulsa Swamp and the Name Changers.
Who perform a kind of drunken polka, Klannish-tinged, style of music…
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:22 pm
“That woman on tv you were speaking of, do you have link of a clip that I can see this for myself?’
WHY YES!!!!!!!
Obama Is Going To Pay For My Gas And Mortgage!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36×8rTb3jI
DebbieDoRight
March 23rd, 2011
2:23 pm
Bosch: Do you honestly think that one woman represents the entire Democratic party?
AND black people!!! That’s what’s so funny about America. I’ve lived all over the world, in all these different countries, but here in America, ONE BLACK PERSON defines ALL black people. It’s amazing.
Normal
March 23rd, 2011
2:23 pm
I still can’t figure out how “The Jobs First” hasn’t happened yet. After all, they primiced, didn’t they?
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:24 pm
“Kam, occasionally the Tucker miscreants get canned, banned or derided to the point they flock over here, temporarily.’
Did you learn that at Harvard?
“And obviously that includes Tulsa Swamp and the Name Changers.”
Ah yes, the wonderful world of AmVet.
“Who perform a kind of drunken polka, Klannish-tinged, style of music…’
This is how I view AmVet:
Open on a sunny morning. AmVet walks out the front door in his bath robe to get the morning addition of Communism Today.
Out of nowhere, some neighbor kids come riding across his lawn.
AmVet: Hey you kidsasfdasfd uh HICCUP, get oft my lawwwwwn or I’ll “hiccup” come after you!!!!!!!! hafdasfhasdlfjasfl blahhhhhhhhhhhh PUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUKEEEEEEEEEEEE
Thulsa Doom
March 23rd, 2011
2:24 pm
Bosch,
There have been several surveys indicating that a decent percentage of the black population believed they would get mortgage help. You can google it. Also, do you remember all the local news regarding scams about a slave compensation payments with the IRS and similar scams involving mortgage forgiveness- these scams hit Clayton pretty good. Anyway people believed this nonsense and were having fradulent tax preparers and scammers getting all their personal info such as soc sec #s and such to scam them.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:25 pm
“ONE BLACK PERSON defines ALL black people. It’s amazing.”
Worked well for MLK for a while.
@@
March 23rd, 2011
2:25 pm
Spike Lee claims to have his finger on the pulse of black America. What made him think he could sell such an outrageous claim….”Bush blew up the levees”?
A question that begs an answer.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:26 pm
“What made him think he could sell such an outrageous claim….”Bush blew up the levees”?”
Same thing that makes him think that white people are the devil.
Midori
March 23rd, 2011
2:26 pm
on an aside, DDR — during the California recall, there were videos of young white women declaring their allegiance to Arnold because “he’s rich and he’s going to give us some money”…………..
1811/1801 - 0311/0317
March 23rd, 2011
2:26 pm
“Pythagorean theorem: 24 words.
The Lord’s Prayer: 66 words.
Archimedes’ Principle: 67 words.
The 10 Commandments: 179 words.
Lincoln ’s Gettysburg address: 286 words.
The U.S. Declaration of Independence : 1,300 words.
The U.S. Government regulations on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 words.
Obamacare Regulations ……….. ah, forget it!”
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:27 pm
“during the California recall, there were videos of young white women declaring their allegiance to Arnold because “he’s rich and he’s going to give us some money””
Link please.
Bosch
March 23rd, 2011
2:28 pm
Doom,
“There have been several surveys indicating that a decent percentage of the black population believed they would get mortgage help. You can google it.”
How in the world would you go about googling something like that?
“Black people who thought Obama would pay their mortgage” and “surveys”
” Also, do you remember all the local news regarding scams about a slave compensation payments with the IRS and similar scams involving mortgage forgiveness- these scams hit Clayton pretty good.”
Yes, I do, but that is not comparable to saying a large percentage of black people thought that Obama would pay their mortgage.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:28 pm
“on an aside’
That’s not even English.
Midori
March 23rd, 2011
2:28 pm
sometimes history has a way of repeating itself. perhaps that’s where Spike was coming from?
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/orleans_levees.html
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:28 pm
“How in the world would you go about googling something like that?”
It’s called typing, Bosch.
DebbieDoRight
March 23rd, 2011
2:28 pm
Wow – RE: Your Link with the video – that link you showed me, the video skips in parts and looks remarkably like the Sherrod video that was aired a few months ago — I wonder if it was by the same “producer”?
Midori
March 23rd, 2011
2:28 pm
FIRST!!
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:29 pm
“perhaps that’s where Spike was coming from?”
Spike is a 4 foot tall bigot.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:30 pm
DDB
Here’s another one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=381gFG4Crr8&feature=related
Midori
March 23rd, 2011
2:30 pm
and what are you?
a 5 foot tall bigot?
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:31 pm
“I wonder if it was by the same “producer”?”
Channel 5 news?
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:31 pm
“and what are you? ”
6 foot 1, baby!
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:32 pm
“a 5 foot tall bigot?”
tick…tick….tick……
HDB
March 23rd, 2011
2:32 pm
ConnedConsCon
March 23rd, 2011
2:12 pm
Found something that further shows the heartlessness of the GOP…..
War On The Poor: Minnesota Republicans Want To Bust Poor People Who Carry Cash
Susie Madrak
St. Paul, MN – Minnesota Republicans are pushing legislation that would make it a crime for people on public assistance to have more $20 in cash in their pockets any given month. This represents a change from their initial proposal, which banned them from having any money at all.
On March 15, Angel Buechner of the Welfare Rights Committee testified in front of the House Health and Human Services Reform Committee on House File 171. Buechner told committee members, “We would like to address the provision that makes it illegal for MFIP [one of Minnesota’s welfare programs] families to withdraw cash from the cash portion of the MFIP grant – and in fact, appears to make it illegal for MFIP families to have any type of money at all in their pockets. How do you expect people to take care of business like paying bills such as lights, gas, water, trash and phone?”
House File 171 would make it so that families on MFIP – and disabled single adults on General Assistance and Minnesota Supplemental Aid – could not have their cash grants in cash or put into a checking account. Rather, they could only use a state-issued debit card at special terminals in certain businesses that are set up to accept the card.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/war-poor-minnesota-republicans-want-b
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
March 23rd, 2011
2:33 pm
I love the way all you non-Black people talk about “what Blacks think and believe”. It’s laughable everytime I see it.
Normal
March 23rd, 2011
2:35 pm
With all respect due to the Army corp Of Engineers, I do believe that their funding was pretty well stripped during the Bush years.
DebbieDoRight
March 23rd, 2011
2:37 pm
Midori: on an aside, DDR — during the California recall, there were videos of young white women declaring their allegiance to Arnold because “he’s rich and he’s going to give us some money”…………..
Hi Midori!! Top of the afternoon to ya! Midori, the race baiters on this blog get off on stroking their small impotent knowledge on anything race based while spouting off how they’re really NOT racist [only liberals are it seems] just stating _________________(add comment in blank). It’s amazing to me that they don’t ejackquuelate all over their keyboards in ecstasy every time they put down a person of color. These same people it seems, fail to mention the number of brown people that have died and/or was maimed in the current wars – that is insignificant and doesn’t get them hard enough I guess.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:37 pm
“Found something that further shows the heartlessness of the GOP…..’
Cry me a river, HDB.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:38 pm
“I love the way all you non-Black people talk about “what Blacks think and believe”. It’s laughable everytime I see it.’
I love it when bloggers pretend to know what race other bloggers are then pretend to care.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:38 pm
“the race baiters on this blog get off on stroking their small impotent knowledge on anything race based while spouting off how they’re really NOT racist’
LOL!!!!!!!! Nothing like playing the race card.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:39 pm
“It’s amazing to me that they don’t ejackquuelate all over their keyboards in ecstasy every time they put down a person of color.”
tick….tick….tick…..
DebbieDoRight
March 23rd, 2011
2:39 pm
Midori: sometimes history has a way of repeating itself. perhaps that’s where Spike was coming from?
Wow Midori I remember that!!! josef brought it up years ago as a history lesson on this same blog!! thanks for that!
AmVet
March 23rd, 2011
2:39 pm
Hey numerologist, how many words are there in your tribe’s Big Book of Make Believe?
No clue?
774,746.
Which completely dwarfs your cousins’ Quran – which comes in at a svelte 77,701 words.
They epistling apostlers desperately needed some editors back then.
Selah…
Kamchak
March 23rd, 2011
2:39 pm
I love the way all you non-Black people talk about “what Blacks think and believe”. It’s laughable everytime I see it.
Jay can read your thoughts and then he emails his findings to all the non-Blacks.
ConnedConsCon
March 23rd, 2011
2:40 pm
Conned
That’s gotta be a joke….
It is on their comedy page right under Colbert but it is not like it has not been done before and probably by a Republican. Then again, maybe it was taken from scripture and used as a basis for an attempt to redefine Pi in Indiana or was it Oklahoma or Kansas.
ConnedConsCon
March 23rd, 2011
2:41 pm
“the race baiters on this blog get off on stroking their small impotent knowledge on anything race based while spouting off how they’re really NOT racist’
What kind of bait do you use.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:42 pm
“What kind of bait do you use.’
A little Sharpton with a bit of Jackson.
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
March 23rd, 2011
2:44 pm
I love it when bloggers pretend to know what race other bloggers are then pretend to care.
You also love to assume too, huh? I don’t pretend to know, but when have you heard white person make a blanket statement about “most white people” or “all white people”? When have you heard a blanket statement from a black person that started off “all black people” or “most black people”?
The overwhelming majority of people do not make generalizations about their own race, especially an incorrect generalization. Most people don’t speak in absolutes of their own race either, as they know, personally, that their race is very diverse in ideals, beliefs, and actions. The only time you’ll hear someone mention their own race in a statement that says “all *whatever race* people” is when they’re proving a generalization wrong.
AmVet
March 23rd, 2011
2:44 pm
As an old catfish angler, I find that taking some plain white sheets, fashioning a hood, cutting out two eye holes, and rubbing the entire thing down with stink bait, then fishing on the very bottom, tends to catch your garden variety, right wing bigot quite nicely…
DebbieDoRight
March 23rd, 2011
2:44 pm
SoCo: I love the way all you non-Black people talk about “what Blacks think and believe”. It’s laughable everytime I see it.
Hi SoCo!! Well, their ONE black friend, (close friend — but forgot their names), said it/saw it/heard about it so it must be true.
WOW: Channel 5 news?
No the guy who posted it on youtube. Duh.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:45 pm
“You also love to assume too, huh? ”
No more than you already do.
“When have you heard a blanket statement from a black person that started off “all black people” or “most black people”? ”
I’ve heard Jackson and Sharpton say it more than once.
“The overwhelming majority of people do not make generalizations about their own race”
BWAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
March 23rd, 2011
2:46 pm
Dammit Kam!!!!!!!! Thanks for making me spill my cheetos…..
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:46 pm
“As an old catfish angler, I find that taking some plain white sheets, fashioning a hood, cutting out two eye holes, and rubbing the entire thing down with stink bait, then fishing on the very bottom, tends to catch your garden variety, right wing bigot quite nicely…”
You’d fit in well at the University of Alabama.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:47 pm
“No the guy who posted it on youtube. Duh.”
Which guy? There were 15 different postings of the same video showing the girl talk about how Obama would pay for her gas.
@@
March 23rd, 2011
2:47 pm
The devastation Katrina brought to NO was because of how she was built. She’s centralized…a basin (below sea level) of sorts. Other coastal cities are built on the strip model. Some flooding but nothing that can compare to NO’s holding tank (no racial slur intended).
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:47 pm
AmVet
Where’s that doozy you wrote about earlier?
Kamchak
March 23rd, 2011
2:48 pm
SoCo
Them things’ll make you fat.
@@
March 23rd, 2011
2:49 pm
Con:
What kind of bait do you use.
Better question…what kind of bait does the Democratic Party use?
DebbieDoRight
March 23rd, 2011
2:49 pm
Where’s that doozy you wrote about earlier?
Why should he waste it on you……….You wouldn’t understand it without pictures anyway.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:51 pm
“Why should he waste it on you”
Uhhhh, because he wrote it about me, Debbie.
“You wouldn’t understand it without pictures anyway.”
WHAT A PROFOUND STATEMENT, DEBBIE!!!!!!!!!!
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
March 23rd, 2011
2:51 pm
Kam
It’s the cheesy barbeque one’s though… The trick is to not eat a lot of them.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:52 pm
“Better question…what kind of bait does the Democratic Party use?”
Welfare, free gas, free bussing to the polls…….
TruthBe
March 23rd, 2011
2:53 pm
Brazilian Oil Company Petrobras was given 2 billion dollars from the Obama administration to find and drill for oil offshore of South and Central America. George Soros is one of the biggest stock holders of this Company. Obama is paying back his big pockets boss Soros with American Taxpayers money. Obama is so dishonest just like almost all liberal democrats.
Bosch
March 23rd, 2011
2:53 pm
“Thanks for making me spill my cheetos…..”
Damn, SoCo, my sympathies. That’s bad news indeed.
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:54 pm
TruthBe
Obama was also the biggest recipient of cash from BP.
Funny how that works.
DebbieDoRight
March 23rd, 2011
2:54 pm
Better question…what kind of bait does the Democratic Party use?
Even better what types do the Repubs use?
1) Southern Strategy
2) Willie Horton
3) Gay Marriage
4) Illegal Aliens
Bosch
March 23rd, 2011
2:54 pm
Debbie @ 2:54,
You forgot baby murderers, duh.
stands for decibels
March 23rd, 2011
2:54 pm
fashioning a hood, cutting out two eye holes…
Or, for a twist on this methodology…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJkHykGRXrw
“Where’re the white women at?”
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:55 pm
“1) Southern Strategy
2) Willie Horton
3) Gay Marriage
4) Illegal Aliens”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
DebbieDoRight
March 23rd, 2011
2:57 pm
Sorry Bosch how could I forget their favorite rallying cry!?!
WOW
March 23rd, 2011
2:57 pm
“Sorry Bosch how could I forget their favorite rallying cry!?!”
YES WE CAN!!!!!!
Southern Comfort (aka The Man)
March 23rd, 2011
3:00 pm
I’ve heard Jackson and Sharpton say it more than once.
http://archive.perfectduluthday.com/beating-a-dead-horse.gif
Figured you’d break out the old standby’s Jackson and Sharpton. I don’t know whether it’s too funny or too sad for you to be that predictible. As much as some want to paint them as racist, they can be nothing more than bigots. They have no power over white people to be racist. Bob Chambliss has more blood on his hands than the two you mentioned combined. Bull Connor, he’s racist. He had power to express his hatred for a different race. Jesse and Al, no power there at all…..
Sue Certain
March 23rd, 2011
3:01 pm
I really don’t know what your problem is with charts, Mr. Bookman. They present actual data that support your point: why is that bad? What’s with the sarcastic “oh, goody!”?