Yep, its greed alright, the same greed that makes politicians constantly raise taxes and waste money with their inefficient bureaucracies. It's easy to be greedy when you can borrow money in someone else's name, spend beyond your means and run huge deficits....

Well... I admit rolling around on the ground with another male is not my idea of fun, and could probably be viewed as a bit gay, and for that reason I do not find it personally appealing, but I do like watching some of the fighters, such as GSP, but most of it I admit I can live without.

Taxation is theft and is morally wrong. Government is an inherently inefficient, wasteful, and coercive institution that should should be made smaller, not bigger with stolen money. Debate over.

Although the idea of rolling around on the ground with another man personally turns me off, I have enjoyed watching the UFC since the mid 90's when they had that elimination style format where they kept fighting until one guy was left...What happened to that, why dont they bring that back, maybe for diff weight classes - anyone?

I hope they have read the constitution and understand that rights belong to individuals and not groups (minority or majority). But they also could go on to become a racist supreme court nominee who wants to do away with the right to free speech.

What a bunch of Fat Cows....

This inefficient & wasteful gov't bureaucracy should be privatized along with countless others. These clowns need to find out what the real world is like....

These idiots never learn...Government is an inherently inefficient, wasteful & coercive institution. It should be made smaller, spending should be cut, taxes reduced. Look at history, look at CA, the entire 20th century proves that central economic planning does not work. Stop the insanity, stop punishing the population with a bigger government parasite.

Dear Congress

Treasury Secretary Paulson is asking you to rush through a $700 billion package because "we're literally maybe days away from a complete meltdown of our financial system".

Paulson states that it must be done quickly and that it is better than the alternatives. Fed Chairman Bernanke agrees.

The first question Congress should ask is how would Paulson or Bernanke know?

It was only a month ago Paulson was reiterating to anyone who would listen how sound our banking system is. The fact of the matter is that neither Paulson nor Bernanke saw this coming, yet now Congress is supposed to trust they now "know" the solution.

Problem Defined

Before one can work out a solution, the first step is to identify the problem. The problem is not a lack of liquidity, it is not a lack of trust, it is not lack of consumer confidence, it is not subprime lending, and in fact the problem is not housing at all.

The problem is consumers and corporations are deep in debt with no way to service that debt.

Attempts to bail out banks and brokers at taxpayer expense will do nothing but add to consumer debt, weaken the US dollar, and literally waste $700+ billion dollars that can and should go to more productive uses.

What Caused The Problem?
The Fed
Congress
Fractional Reserve Lending
The Treasury

The root cause of this problem is the Fed micromanaging interest rates, the Treasury cheerleading every step of the way, and Congressional sponsored spending that went wild. The critical issue that ties everything together is fractional reserve lending allows banks to borrow money (credit really) into existence with insane amounts of leverage.

To top it all off, Greenspan slashed rates to 1% fueling the biggest global housing bubble the world has ever seen. Congress needs to figure out a way to eliminate the Fed.

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The above quote from a commentator sums it up best.