Speakeasy forum: More good news......

John Boehner, whose name isn't pronounced Bayner except by him, and Mitch McConnell and every other Republican extremist. So glad, because housing really is the foundation of the economy, and its key indicator. I'm glad because it means that this agony for the people thrown out of work by Republican policies have a chance to try to pick up the pieces of their lives.

Gee, Obama's economics are clearly working, but if Romney had won, you'd all be praising him to the skies as the saviour of the American Economy.

It's Okay, I'll wait for you to take a drink of water and brush your teeth before you say, "We were all wrong and things really are improving." I know it's an effort to reverse course, and come to the realization that everything you believed was wrong, and admitting wrong is very difficult and distasteful, but it is necessary if you're going to move on.

http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/95dec/conbook/conbook.htm

http://harpers.org/blog/2012/11/on-victoria-colliers-how-to-rig-an-election/

There is a new book, released this month, about the Conservative Takeover of the Republican Party. Sadly, I can't find the review I read yesterday. It's very frustrating because it looks like a very good book, and it was a very good review.

Rob

improvement without Obama in the White House? Personally, I have more confidence in the resilience of the American people than that. Improvement was inevitable. What we cannot know the improvement is what, if any, leadership had on timing, depth or durability of any recovery.

your comparison isn't a good one. It would be like saying slavery was a cyclical process with surges and ebbs...that it could come back at any time. Right now, you could start praying to some sun god with guaranteed results that days will begin to get longer a month from now. All you'd need to do to reach shaman status is convince your friends and neighbors that your actions were the cause.

government dependency and not forced servitude. Keep in mind that slave owners did all they could to make sure their "property" could not achieve independence. Today, dependency is on government assistance and "dependents" are growing in numbers. That's not good for people or our economy. Who do you think is best equipped to tackle that problem after decades of costly and unproductive programs have only made things worse? What we do know about our efforts is that, so far, nothing has worked. Sounds like time to change the plan to me.

I was talking about people (esp. women and kids) brought to this country and becoming sex slaves and sold to wealthy people to keep as domestic workers and not letting them out. There are still people that do share cropping that might as well be slaves - remember the sold I owe my soul to the company store? It still goes on. I have relatives in Arkansas that still thought of their workers as owning them.

Diana

You thought it was about keeping people dependent on the government through entitlements. I was just explaining that it wasn't. I was talking about real slavery.

Diana

This is a spurt, not a beginning of recovery.......at 3+% interest, still little to no down payment required, and the FHA looking for its own bailout BECAUSE of those low interest rates and down payments, it's just a matter of another year or two and we'll be looking at more foreclosures again. The Feds are not allowing the market to follow its natural course and is still trying to force it. Won't happen.