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| Lindsey Graham bitch-slaps Obama over his lack leadership on Stimulus Bill |
| 2009-02-06 |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #6 You can see the tract houses going up by the thousands on the prairie to the east of Colorado Springs. There are hundreds of houses being built in places like Monument, Palmer Lake, the Black Forrest, all along Co. Hwy 115, in Fountain and Security - just about everywhere. Right now, though, there really isn't enough water to meet the needs of all those homeowners. There aren't enough well-paying jobs to fill all those $250,000+ homes being built. Townhouses and condominiums are sitting empty, sometimes for years. The median income in Colorado Springs is about $38,000 a year, yet most of the houses built in the area BEGIN at $175,000, and move up rapidly. Hewlett Packard, SCI, Intel, and a dozen smaller electronic firms have either cut their workforce or left town in the last five years. The housing industry just didn't know when to quit, and the market average price has dropped from about $190,000 to about $160,000 now. It's still going down, and there's no way to predict where it will bottom out. Whoever let Babs out of her cage should be shot. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2009-02-06 16:59 |
| #5 I dislike this peckerheaded slimeball intensely, but if he's causing a shitstorm for Obambi, I'll hold my fire. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 2009-02-06 14:06 |
| #4 I'm not a native of S.C. but IIRC Graham is quite a RINO. I agree EU6305 abt the housing remarks. We should've never bailed out finance and certainly not auto. We should've taken our medicine and faced the music & had a rough couple yrs. We're doing what japan did in the 90s but it looks worse. No one in congress is talking about expanding our manufacturing base in any way. There are really only a few adults up there, but none are in power. |
| Posted by: Andy Ulusoque aka Broadhead6 2009-02-06 13:03 |
| #3 Graham is making a lot of sense here but I disagree with what he says about housing. He's moaning a groaning about the way houses are sitting empty and how housing prices have fallen. But that is in direct contradiction with all the wailing all these politicians have done in the past about the need for "affordable housing". Face it, housing costs had gotten completely out of control. The only way anybody could afford a house was to get one of these "exotic" mortgages which is exactly what started all this trouble in the first place. The boom had gone on way too long and the bust was way overdue. Stimulate something else, please, and let the housing market come back down to earth. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-02-06 12:11 |
| #2 Spine implant? I don't know about that, maybe he smells the tar being heated. |
| Posted by: Trader_DFW 2009-02-06 11:56 |
| #1 Did someone just have a spine transplant? I agree with almost everything he said which, given my political philosophy, is not a surprise. What is a surprise is that he said it at all without all the waffling and PC BS. I wanted to reach in and bitch slap that reporter when he started in on partisanship. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2009-02-06 09:57 |