Bert Sobanik, 51
Home Town:
Lyman, Maine

Occupation:
Home Inspector
I am currently a Home Inspector for Real Estate transactions, but had until 2004 spent thirty years in Manufacturing, especially in New Product Prototype Development. In spite of up to date skills and ... See full Bio

As Michigan goes...so goes the Nation
Where is the leadership?
Israel to attack Iran after the election?
Let's borrow and spend our way out of this mess!
Purple States does it too!.... Non Recognition of third party candidates
Just because it sucks......
Where is the leadership?
September 14th - 3:01 pm

When FDR was in charge he used the power of Radio to address the Nation. He advised the population as to his vision, and how people could best contribute to the advancement of their country.

When Goerge W. Bush came on TV after 9-11, and told us that we could best serve our nation (at a time of attack) by going shopping, I darn near gagged on my lunch. Why can't we have a leader who will listen to our concerns and give us some straight talk about why things are the way they are and what we can do to help ourselves?

Tell us to save energy by shutting off all those garrish advertising lights at 10:00. Tell people their buying habits that increase our trade deficit are putting US citizens out of work and contributing to our economic insecurity as a nation. Tell people that it is the way they spend their money that influences much of what goes on in the world today.

Can we have leadership that communicates with us?  Not shaking their finger at us, or trying to scare us with WMD's while selling our jobs out with bad trade deals (Nafta, Cafta, WTO) ?

      I hope that in the next administration Bob Barr, or Ralph Nader, or whoever wins will speak to us in a way that includes us in the struggles as well as the triumphs of our nation.

Comments:
Bert
Tongue in cheek
September 19th - 3:28 pm
My early morning post suggesting no regulation coupled with no bail-outs was an attempt at humor that obviously failed.

The regulation of banking and mortgage industries existed before the call to de-regulate came from big business.

The magnitude of the failure to regulate will likely take years to realize.
 
mockstar
Bert: DE-regulate?
September 18th - 4:35 pm
I think Obama is doing an unprecedented job of communicating. He's using every media known. I get a new video or email from his campaign every day. You may not like what's he's saying or how he's saying it, but he is reaching out.

One thing he said in his video posted today was about regulating business.

http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/economyvideo

I read your post supporting deregulation.

From what I understand about your own situation and what is unfolding on Wall St., the whole problem current problem stems from deregulation and lack of government oversight. The traditional conservative laissez-faire approach, combined with Clinton's allowance of huge mergers in every field are what landed us here.

I understand you don't want to bail these guys out.

But isn't the problem our LACK of regulation? Clearly we can't trust corporate powers to regulate themselves. If there were strong regulatory laws and penalties, would you support them?