Brady Proposes New Housing Legislation to Save America (and screw the PRC)

As I noted on the Bloodhound post:  I think the protectionist, China bashing comment is way out of line and out of place.  What a stupid idea, Brian - let's screw the rest of the world and see how much money people invest in this country (that will be really good for the plummeting value of the dollar).  Look how long it has taken countries like Brazil and Russia to try and dig out of previous currency issues where in effect they did that same thing to others.  Ross Perot had a similar theme going in his election stance for President some while back and thank G-d that NAFTA got passed (by a Democrat president of all things!). 

Brian... can I be the Vice-President?   Seriously, what an excellent thought provoking post.  I read the other part of this and I loved it.  Number 3 was a great way to look at this.  Great job....

Ouch....  I should keep my mouth shut, but I thought Perot had a great plan of attack on how to handle things. Haven't so many of us have said that we should run this country like a business? Gabriel....  maybe that is the problem with today's politicians.  They tell you what they want you to hear, and not the truth. Just my .02.

Rhetoric at best Brian, what your missing is that our free trade mentality is killing the American Way of life.  Libertarian, Democrat, Republican it doesn't matter.  We have all sat back and watched for too long.  And Gabriel, China should be bashed, we haven't even begun to see the damage that this irresponsible country will reap on the world!

Brian...  I know that....  but I guess we have to know how you write ti know this. Maybe you should put a little disclosure down at the bottom of your blog. 

That's too bad Brian because you have my vote.  Jeff, I'm going to subscribe to your blog so that I can make a decision about you.  I guess Gabriel missed the part where you said that you were kidding. For so many years politicians have been dumbing down America (not sure if dumbing is a word). They tell us theories of business and investors being bad and the little guy being taken advantage of.  This day and age of the internet it's very difficult to use the same excuse, "I didn't know".  We have to remember that it's the taxpayer that pays for all these bailouts and for some reason these bailouts take credit for the markets turning around even though they probably will rebound faster if you let the normal market forces happen. 

Great post like always Brian.

My goodness, you always attract the folks who can't see the joke/satire/irony. =)  Besides, your wife is entirely too intelligent to allow you to run for office.

Jeff, I wish I thought it was possible to run a country, or any government, as a business, but quite frankly it isn't.  The goals are not the same, though I'm sure we can all agree that we wish politicians knew at least a little bit more about the business of business instead of just the business of politics.

Brian, perhaps, since you have never responded to the email chain, you can make a statement as to the ludicrous following response from Greg Swann, the Bloodhound moderator, to my identical statement as posted above:

"I killed this. "Stupid idea" is ad hominem.  If you want to come back with something less inflammatory, I'll let it pass."

For those that don't want to dig out a dictionary, "ad hominem" suggests that my statement was a bash on Brian, not the post or the ideas contained therein, which it most certainly is not.  I think that was rather self explanatory in the two words Greg quoted me on "stupid IDEA" - not "stupid BRIAN".  Instead of responding yourself, Brian, you have chosen to remain completely silent other than pulling this blog post off your board for a day and now reinstating it.  As I noted to Greg, aparantely China bashing (and whatever groups come next in line) is okay and non-"inflamatory" (and also aparently not ad hominem, but on point about a subject, not the people) and I will never go to Bloodhound Blog again, since it seems to want to be the Bigoted Bloodhound Blog in peace, free from critical thought or opinions in the responses of it's blog-reading masses. 

Brian, I just love the titles and unabashed approach you have to blogging. I almost spit my coffee out on that one.

I'm not really sure, Brian, what your own comment about "this" being a "stupid idea" was referring to, though perhaps you meant the entire post and that should have been more obvious, no matter how tired I was.  Frankly I liked a few of the suggestions (the last one being clearly satiracle, yes, but nonetheless suggesting justice be done just in the greatest sense of the word).  I will freely admit I read it all too quickly in the middle of reading a bunch of completely serious plans and proposals for similarly stupid taxpayer bailouts of this personal responsibility issue, so the normally witty Brian Brady spin didn't get a fair read - my fault for sure.  For anyone that doesn't know how relaxed I am in general, just look at my AcidRain picture and that should say it all (though it's not at what looks to be a bowling alley, Brian, maybe a campaign stop of yours?!).

If I make a comment about it, though, and my comment gets deleted by a self-important blog policeman who throws around $12 words when a $2 word will suffice, clearly not knowing what his own word usage even means, and tells me I'm the one that's "inflamatory" that says something that's a little more than satiracle,m it suggests that maybe that isn't anything tongue-in-cheek at all.  That says there's truth in those words, as Bloodhound Blog sees it that is.  If it was such a non-issue, why was my comment deleted and why didn't I ever get an email from you, since he copied you on it from the start.  If it really REALLY wasn't an issue, why didn't you send him an email back immediately saying something to the effect of Greg, get over yourself and put the comment back so I can respond to it and dig on Gabriel for a second for being too high strung when I'm trying to add a bit of levity to a messy situation?  I thought, frankly, short of cussing or something extremely hate-based in a comment, that the whole point of blogging was to have an open forum, so I can knock you of the head and you can knock me one right back as we each see fit?  Heck, if he wasn't even more closed minded that I had been in drafting my initial response he would have still deleted my comment but instead sent me the message "Gabriel, I'm deleting this to save you the embarrasment of Brian ragging on you for not seeing the humor in a post not intended to be taken seriously to begin with."

What if my comment was "Brian, I AGREE, what a stupid idea..." was that still ad hominen, explicitly agreeing with your own statement? 

I think you should run for office, you'd fit right in (that, too, is intended satirically), just don't have Greg as your campaign manager!