Comments on: No Hopey Changey for You: Despite Talk, Obama Admin Defends DOMA Again in Action http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/02/no-hopey-changey-for-you-obama-admin-defends-doma-again/ When old landmarks crumble, established roads no longer lead the way. New paths open to those with an irregular eye. Our news is unfit for print. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:24:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ramone http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/02/no-hopey-changey-for-you-obama-admin-defends-doma-again/comment-page-1/#comment-574991 ramone Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:22:41 +0000 http://irregulartimes.com/?p=15257#comment-574991 meanwhile, gays and transgenders have to get it on in the back seat just like teenagers do. can't get mom and pop to let 'em have a place of their own. when will we grow up? not to make light of the topic (well,a little light), but, there are some really big issues obama is facing. maybe we could wait until the pie is out of the oven before we taste it and call it sour. i love mixing metaphors! meanwhile, gays and transgenders have to get it on in the back seat just like teenagers do. can’t get mom and pop to let ‘em have a place of their own. when will we grow up?
not to make light of the topic (well,a little light), but, there are some really big issues obama is facing. maybe we could wait until the pie is out of the oven before we taste it and call it sour.
i love mixing metaphors!

]]> By: hendrix http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/02/no-hopey-changey-for-you-obama-admin-defends-doma-again/comment-page-1/#comment-574958 hendrix Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:32:44 +0000 http://irregulartimes.com/?p=15257#comment-574958 Well this is totally off the original topic (which was a valid critique), but, Tom, the government is already making money back off the banks it bailed out. Since March: Signature Bank of New York said on Tuesday that it had repaid $120 million to the Treasury Department. Old National Bancorp of Indiana returned $100 million, Iberiabank of Louisiana paid back $90 million, and Bank of Marin Bancorp of Novato, Calif., repaid $28 million. All of the banks paid 5 percent interest on the money they had received. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/business/01bank.html And continuing in June: The Treasury Department granted permission to 10 of the nation's largest financial institutions to repay $68 billion in government-bailout cash, showing that the industry is rebounding from losses that sank some firms and caused the world economy to buckle last year. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124455528999797923.html Well this is totally off the original topic (which was a valid critique), but, Tom, the government is already making money back off the banks it bailed out.

Since March:
Signature Bank of New York said on Tuesday that it had repaid $120 million to the Treasury Department. Old National Bancorp of Indiana returned $100 million, Iberiabank of Louisiana paid back $90 million, and Bank of Marin Bancorp of Novato, Calif., repaid $28 million. All of the banks paid 5 percent interest on the money they had received.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/business/01bank.html

And continuing in June:
The Treasury Department granted permission to 10 of the nation’s largest financial institutions to repay $68 billion in government-bailout cash, showing that the industry is rebounding from losses that sank some firms and caused the world economy to buckle last year.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124455528999797923.html

]]> By: Tom http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/02/no-hopey-changey-for-you-obama-admin-defends-doma-again/comment-page-1/#comment-574924 Tom Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:48:49 +0000 http://irregulartimes.com/?p=15257#comment-574924 “We have this very strange situation today in America where we have given banks hundreds of billions of dollars and the president has to beg the banks to lend and they refuse. What we did was the wrong thing. It has weakened the economy and has increased our deficit, making it more difficult for the future.” -Joseph Stiglitz “We have this very strange situation today in America where we have given banks hundreds of billions of dollars and the president has to beg the banks to lend and they refuse. What we did was the wrong thing. It has weakened the economy and has increased our deficit, making it more difficult for the future.”

-Joseph Stiglitz

]]> By: Tom http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2009/11/02/no-hopey-changey-for-you-obama-admin-defends-doma-again/comment-page-1/#comment-574923 Tom Tue, 03 Nov 2009 10:47:26 +0000 http://irregulartimes.com/?p=15257#comment-574923 More and more signs that Obama is a big disappointment. All his soothing words about the economy are also to be doubted as the Fed and Wall Street continue to draw tax payer money to support insolvent banks and insurance companies, more fictitious money is printed daily, and our debt balloons ever higher. This too will end badly (probably when he's out of office). More and more signs that Obama is a big disappointment.
All his soothing words about the economy are also to be doubted as the Fed and Wall Street continue to draw tax payer money to support insolvent banks and insurance companies, more fictitious money is printed daily, and our debt balloons ever higher. This too will end badly (probably when he’s out of office).

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