From Michelle Malkin’s website:
President Barack Obama asked Congress on Tuesday to create a new agency to police the fine print on consumer products like credit cards and mortgages and determine what fees, penalties and interest rates are fair.
The Consumer Financial Protection Agency would be in charge of regulating those products in the same way other government agencies regulate the safety of drugs, food and toys.
Yup, ’cause that’s what we need in this country – another “Protection Agency” and MORE government regulation of our everyday lives. More people depending on the Nanny-state to hold their hand and tell them what is right and wrong, fair and unfair.
Obama said Americans are demanding it.
Demanding it? What they are demanding is no tax increases to pay for your increasing deficit. What they are demanding is no redistribution of wealth. Remember all those tea parties? Did you really think those people were standing around demanding that you decipher their mortgages for them?
“Those ridiculous contracts with pages of fine print that no one can figure out—those things will be a thing of the past,”
Kind of like that multi-hundred page “Stimulus Bill” (Ptewie!) that you rammed through congress and told us had to be passed immediately or the earth would spin off its axis? You know, the one that members of congress have admitted to not reading or understanding?
How about this…Sign a contract – live with the consequences.
Whatever happened to individual accountability for (supposed) adults in this country?
July 7, 2009 at 12:42 am |
I agree with the spirit of your post but I don’t see how so-called conservatives are any different. If anything, I think they’re more hypocritical. At least you expect the liberals to implement nanny-state policies. Bush, a so-called conservative, started the bail-out process, which is counter to my understanding of conservative economic policy is all about. Right, left, Democrat, Republican, we can count on all of ‘em to screw things up.
July 7, 2009 at 7:12 am |
Your last sentence is where I have settled at this point in my life (it’s just more fun to poke a stick at liberals and hippies). Politicians are all lying, hypocritical scumbags.
Anyone with any ambition toward political office I immediately discount.
There is something broken inside them.
July 7, 2009 at 7:54 am |
Yeah, I think there should be a simple test: If you want to run for political office, you should automatically be disqualified.
Maybe we should make serving in the legislative and executive branches like jury duty. When your number is called, you gotta go do it.