Comments on: Home sales hit slowest pace in 18 years. http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/home-sales-slow-18/ Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:46:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: drew3rd http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/home-sales-slow-18/comment-page-1/#comment-5395194 drew3rd Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:40:35 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/home-sales-slow-18/#comment-5395194 As a commercial, industrial and residential appraiser, I can tell you that the housing market is the fault of democrats. If we want to be credible we need to be honest about our mistakes. The repubs need to admit that Bush spent us into oblivion and created the atmosphere that is destroyinf Wall Street. Democrats need to admit that the relaxed lending standards forced through in '94, coupled with the $850 billion dollar bailout have destroyed our real estate market for the time being. Finger pointing doesn't solve anything. Firing the people responsible and replacing them with more competent folks does. Bush down, Frank, Dodd and Schumer to go. As a commercial, industrial and residential appraiser, I can tell you that the housing market is the fault of democrats. If we want to be credible we need to be honest about our mistakes. The repubs need to admit that Bush spent us into oblivion and created the atmosphere that is destroyinf Wall Street. Democrats need to admit that the relaxed lending standards forced through in ‘94, coupled with the $850 billion dollar bailout have destroyed our real estate market for the time being. Finger pointing doesn’t solve anything. Firing the people responsible and replacing them with more competent folks does. Bush down, Frank, Dodd and Schumer to go.

]]> By: PatrioticLiberalChristian http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/home-sales-slow-18/comment-page-1/#comment-5394216 PatrioticLiberalChristian Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:19:01 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/home-sales-slow-18/#comment-5394216 RantingTommy, here in my very red county, the blue collar and union folks still voted Republican up and down the 2008 ticket! Amazing. Our local Democratic Club is going to try to do something about that for the future and it looks like I am going to be having a leadership role in that effort. Obama is a phenomenon that is not likely to be repeated anytime soon, so we cannot be complacent. RantingTommy, here in my very red county, the blue collar and union folks still voted Republican up and down the 2008 ticket! Amazing. Our local Democratic Club is going to try to do something about that for the future and it looks like I am going to be having a leadership role in that effort. Obama is a phenomenon that is not likely to be repeated anytime soon, so we cannot be complacent.

]]> By: RantingTommy http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/home-sales-slow-18/comment-page-1/#comment-5394198 RantingTommy Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:08:23 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/home-sales-slow-18/#comment-5394198 Seems like all these out of work construction workers should have turned off the radio and learned something before they voted for bush and the trickle down economic scam --------------------------------------------- 'ere - Atlanta's Progressive Jazz (yes that's me on the piano) Find us at ReverbNation.com/ere --------------------------------------------- Seems like all these out of work construction workers should have turned off the radio and learned something before they voted for bush and the trickle down economic scam

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]]> By: tarazan http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/home-sales-slow-18/comment-page-1/#comment-5394182 tarazan Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:02:22 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/home-sales-slow-18/#comment-5394182 Now what Rush Limbaugh will say about that..?! May be it is a 'realtors conspiracy' to help Obama..! Now what Rush Limbaugh will say about that..?!
May be it is a ‘realtors conspiracy’ to help Obama..!

]]> By: kasinca http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/home-sales-slow-18/comment-page-1/#comment-5394150 kasinca Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:57:13 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/home-sales-slow-18/#comment-5394150 W Bush = Worse than Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon. Well done, shrub! W Bush = Worse than Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon.

Well done, shrub!

]]> By: jb http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/home-sales-slow-18/comment-page-1/#comment-5394140 jb Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:55:26 +0000 http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/23/home-sales-slow-18/#comment-5394140 Ah yes, the wonders of the "Ownership Society". The top 1% will end up owning everything of value. Ah yes, the wonders of the “Ownership Society”. The top 1% will end up owning everything of value.

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