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The question was simple: Should the lending practices of auto dealers be regulated?
It was already October and the 42 Democrats and 29 Republicans on the House Committee on Financial Services had spent the better part of the year hashing out the details of a new federal agency dedicated to protecting consumers from dangerous and deceptive financial products.
Auto dealers seemed like an obvious target for the new agency; nearly every time someone buys a car, the dealer also sells them an auto loan, complete with promises like zero per cent interest and a pile of cash back. Americans hold some $850 billion in car debt and dealers are responsible for marketing roughly four-fifths of that amount. They pocket lucrative commissions with little oversight, and the committee seemed poised to change that.
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The Black Caucus forcefully requested that President Obama deal specifically with the economic condition in the black community and not simply make it part of his national agenda. I believe they are right to do so as it is their job to advocate for the needs of their constituents. The question then becomes what is the agenda? How does the President specifically go about creating jobs in the black community? What is the CBC’s strategy to force the President into action?
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America is in the midst of a dynamic change; demographically, economically and politically. For the first time in their lives, Baby Boomers are being squeezed economically. They are facing slower wage growth and higher medical expenses. The free-spending of the 80’s and 90’s are now catching up with them. The country is now paying for its inability to take on difficult political task: Social Security, Medicare, trade deficits, etc.
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As our society currently seeks solutions to some of America’s and the worlds greatest problems, however, polarity can be a great hinder to finding solutions, not because of the dividing passions it can engender with both people and politicians, as much as because it can make us blind, blind to the only possible and realistic solutions to these problems.
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I have no qualms about reminding many of you that just over a week ago you were clamoring for President Obama to be more assertive re: health care reform. You wanted him to call the elephant people names, pimp slap the recalcitrant Dems and make reform happen. You were tired of him trying to carry out the necessary reforms with bi-partisan support.
