The DeadTaco Portfolio » Politics http://deadtaco.com The DeadTaco Portfolio Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:38:56 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://deadtaco.com/2012/02/144/ http://deadtaco.com/2012/02/144/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:43:13 +0000 DeadTaco http://deadtaco.com/?p=144 Hey, this 17 year old girl may have just found a cure for cancer!  What should we give her?
Let’s give her $100,000 and a round of applause.

Hey, this guy just ran a leather egg-shaped ball from one side of a large field to the other!  He also had a bunch of dogs kill each other for the fun of it.  What should we give him?
Let’s sign him up for a $100 million dollar annual contract and a million screaming fans.

Humans are a silly lot.

]]> http://deadtaco.com/2012/02/144/feed/ 0 So who’s at fault for the economic crisis? http://deadtaco.com/2008/10/so-whos-at-fault-for-the-economic-crisis/ http://deadtaco.com/2008/10/so-whos-at-fault-for-the-economic-crisis/#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:57:37 +0000 DeadTaco http://deadtaco.com/?p=46 Honestly, I think both sides of the political spectrum have it wrong (one side blaming the other and ignoring the facts).  However, after watching this video, I do have to question the decisions of the Democrats back in 2004 to ignore the corruption going on at Freddie Mac.  The Republicans request to have more regulations imposed on Freddie Mac due to corruption, and the Democrats promptly claim the Repubs are nitpicking.

[Youtube removed the video.  D'oh.]
Democrats claim there is nothing wrong with Freddie Mac, 2004

No, I’m not a registered Republican.  I’m a registered Independent.  It’s crap like this that keeps me independent.  You see it on both sides — there is corruption in both parties.  I admit that I probably do lean more to a moderate-right stance on most topics, but both parties royally piss me off. How do the Democrats explain this, anyway?  You can read the Youtube comments, and there are still hard-core political left-wingers who defend this.  How can you defend this with an honest face?

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