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Skip to comments.Brooksley Born Excoriates Alan Greenspan: You Failed
Posted on 04/07/2010 5:53:20 PM PDT by dangthis
"At todays Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission hearing, Brooksley Born, the former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, declared Alan Greenspans tenure at the Federal Reserve an unmitigated failure to his face. Greenspan accords a certain degree of respect on Capitol Hill, despite Borns accurate take on his many failures, and so this outburst was highly unusual and gratifying.
Born, who pushed to strictly regulate derivatives under the Clinton Administration, but lost the battle to, among other people, Alan Greenspan, told the former Federal Reserve chair that his agency failed to prevent housing bubble, failed to prevent the predatory lending scandal, failed to prevent the activities that would bring the financial system to the verge of collapse.
You failed to prevent many of our banks from consolidating and growing to a size that are now too big or too interconnected to fail, Born added. She added that Greenspans views on deregulation, which he took as an article of faith, contributed to the Federal Reserves failure in delivering on its mandate."
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I can't believe Greenspan attempted to white wash this.
Remember who he's married to.....a profession whitewasher.
"..Born was particularly concerned about swaps, financial instruments that are traded over the counter between banks, insurance companies or other funds or companies, and thus have no transparency except to the two counterparties and the counterparties' regulators, if any. CFTC regulation was strenuously opposed by Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, Treasury Secretaries Robert Rubin and Lawrence Summers.[4] On May 7, 1998, former SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt joined Rubin and Greenspan in objecting to the issuance of the CFTCs concept release. Their response dismissed Born's concerns off-hand and focused on the possibility that CFTC regulation of swaps and other OTC derivative instruments would increase legal uncertainty of such instruments, potentially creating turmoil in the markets, and reducing the value of the instruments. Further concerns voiced were that the imposition of new regulatory costs would stifle innovation and push transactions offshore.[7].."
Credit Default Swaps were huge in the meltdown.
Anyone who marries Andrea Mitchell is a failure.
Greenspan left the Fed at the beginning of 2006. He is the favorite scapegoat of the Democrats because he advocated deregulation. The current financial mess is not a result of deregulation, but of government meddling in the economy. The Democrats want an excuse to meddle even more, hence their toadies are attacking anyone that they can brand as market oriented. Greenspan was not omniscient, and there is a limit to how much the Fed chairman can do to compensate for the fraud and thievery committed by the Democrat gang.
He pretended that he did not stand in the way of regulating the over the counter derivatives market when it was first suggested. In fact he killed it during the Clinton administration. He attempted to rewrite history. Trust me on this story. Greenspan just put blood in the water today. The true story of what happened will continue to come out. It was the over the counter derivatives that gave Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae their power.
Try history, facts, and honesty for useful characteristics when forming an opinion.
"Government itself, especially Barney Frank, were more to blame than Alan Greenspan"
You can be brought along for the ride.
It failed during the Clinton Administration first. That was that moment in history when the mold was cast to bring everything down. The warning was clear, published in fact, and the congress created a bill that killed regulation once and for all ack then. In fact it's still the law today. Don't you find it funny that Chris Dodd and Barney Frank went around blaming the Republicans for not regulating it? I find that very funny. That takes a real set of them to hang their own failings on the opposition. But that's typical.
Sorry but you are just following a party line opinion from somewhere.
"The current financial mess is not a result of deregulation, but of government meddling in the economy."
No, that's the red herring.
It's the over the counter derivatives and the housing bubble. The derivative trading allowed the creation of tradeable financial instruments that held mortgages in split risk forms of speculative market trading. Everyone was getting rich off the rising values of speculative real estate ownership. While it was going up it was OK. As soon as there were more properties for sale than buyers to buy them then the balloon burst. It always happens that way. All you have to do is to honestly look at the history of the housing market. BTW, I got the Greenspan memo that the housing bubble was about to burst. I knew there was going to be a collapse back in 2005. I'm a builder. I know things.
Please elaborate.
Watch the Frontline piece. I guarantee it will be worth your time and bandwidth.
No. If you can't summarize it, then I assure you it will be not.
You're just lazy and want to be spoon-fed then.
"Please elaborate."
"The derivative market was the bottom line that gave the government enterprises the capability to sell off the bad loans after they purchased them from the banks. Its really a funny kind of Ponzi scheme. They put blinders on the watchdogs and then went into business selling bad paper. All it took was a breathing bag of skin that could successfully sign a loan application. If dogs and cats could have signed the loans they would have done that too. If they could not have transfered those bad loans somewhere then they could not have screwed us. But they had that covered. They made a law preventing any government agency from monitoring that market. That was a Clinton administration & congress that did that. Remember how home ownership was the big achievement? You have to love our government when it does what it does the best. It took suckers to take out the loans and lending institutions like the two government enterprises to create this freight train disaster."
The regulation that caused this was making sure that the over the counter derivatives market remained in the dark. As long as a house could be purchased and then sold six months to a year later everyone was riding that gravy train.
If you dump a truck full of gold nuggets in a stream and then tell anyone that could crawl that they only needed to go down and jump in then guess what happens. It was a Ponzi Scheme. The government makes Bernie Madoff look like a saint compared to this.
Just look at those jack asses telling the world it was because of deregulation. It was their deregulation and Greenspan just met his own Waterloo.
Frankly, this particular capitalist needs castigation. This is where the overblown Libertarian economic nonsense meets the real world. The government isn't the source of all of our problems. Sometimes it's us.
The world isn't that simplistic. Ayn Rand's heroic kids playing pirates is a fun fantasy. When it leaves the bedroom, though, it ceases to be cute. You might want to try this on. This is a real good site for separating the truth from the myths. Another good one is the Market Ticker.
parsy, who wishes things really were that simple
Greenspan, as head of the government central bank Fed, was not acting like a "capitalist." He was acting like a politician and motivate by political considerations.
Whatever you call him, I submit he was acting just like certain kinds of capitalists. The kind that think all regulation is bad and the markets will just hum along merrily without them.
Hey, he pulled a King Lear, and got what Lear got. A big friggin mess.
parsy, who figures (regrettably) that this particular mess put us over the edge
He wasn't rejecting regulation. Just the opposite. He was responding to the dictates of his political masters like George "ownership society" Bush.
The ownership society wasn't what sunk us. It was the bets piled up on the ownership society's richer cousins. Pretend for a second, that strangers could buy insurance on your house. People who had nothing to gain, unless your house burned down. Think about all the interesting situations that could arise from that.
The government has it share of blame, but the out of control fat cats on Wall Street are the real villains here. Read that link I put up above. It'll p*ss you off.
parsy, who says its just the reality of the situation
Brooksley Born is one of the very few heros to come out of all of this.
Actually you're the idiot. Born spotted the rising problem in derivatives and attempted to do something about it.
The current mess is the result of scrapping Glass-Steagall in the late 90s and allowing a huge highly leveraged shadow banking system to develop.
I'm with Born on this one.
Yes - the dems in DC own Fannie/Freddie.
But the swaps caused trillions to get sucked into a black hole.
You're correct except for the Fannie and Freddie part. OTC derivatives were the province of investment banks and similar firms that had created a huge market in their own securitized debt paper. This is all described by Gillian Tett.
There was a struggle between Born and Greenspan over the expanding CDS market.
She correctly foresaw the devastating dominoe effect they could have.
But Greenspan, Geitner, and Sumners got their way.
Now O still has Geitner and Sumners working their wonderful bailout ways.
Well said.
This calls for an explanation of the speculative market in housing. What drove the prolonged bubble was the easy access to buyers. The loan requirements were deliberately manipulated by government mandate. They lowered the requirements and that allowed the number of people that could qualify to increase. That made the number of houses still sought by buyers to increase. That caused the prolonged extension. The bubble collapsing was artificially propped up for a time.
Actually I agree with you.
But this I don't: "The current attack on Greenspan by Obama's minions is just part of the overall assault on capitalism by the communist in chief."
Brooksley Born is not a Obama plant. She is not an anti capitalist. She's the one that takes the red herring off the trail. She's the government worker with the credibility to show where the truth exists. You are still following the red herring. They want you to not see this. They want you to think it's an Obama plot so you wont look at it. It wont kill you to look past your suspicions. The liberals took a government enterprise and turned it into their cash cow. Then they sent us a bill when it fell apart. Killing off capitalism is tangential and is what makes them tick. They were only in this for the money. It was pure greed. They used government to set themselves up as capitalists. That's what they are afraid of coming out. You are only helping them do that. It was a planned rip off from the start. They new that it was too big to fail. The bail out money came back. The stimulus money became deficit spending that would never be paid back.
Amazing: "He wasnt rejecting regulation. Just the opposite. He was responding to the dictates of his political masters like George ownership society Bush."
The problem with that is that George Bush was not president when all this went down and became law. I guess Clinton was channeling the hatred of George Bush while punching notches in the White House. This is just another case of an inconvenient truth.
What made this scam blow up was that the loans were taken out by those that would bail out as soon as the value was gone. They had zero in equity so they walked away from it. This was a scam to make money off of a market heading for a cliff. Answer this. Where was anyone saying that a bubble would be very dangerous to everyone if the housing bubble were to collapse? Our government did not see this coming. The government enterprises did not see this coming. In other words they were stupid. They were so stupid that they should never be trusted to run the dog pound. The story is that they never saw this coming. It was their business to know what a housing turn around would do. But they never warned anyone. They just kept doing it until it came to an end. They got caught just like a Ponzy Scheme.
"Youre correct except for the Fannie and Freddie part. OTC derivatives were the province of investment banks and similar firms that had created a huge market in their own securitized debt paper. This is all described by Gillian Tett."
That's right. They purchased the potentially bad loans from Fannie and Freddie. The issue is that government oversite over government sponsored programs and mandates made the choice to allow it to happen. They were hot potatoes. When full mortgages were chopped up into parts in order to minimize risk they didn't bother to remember that markets like real estate go up and down rapidly. They were used to buying and selling paper and turning it over like day traders. The paper took on a life of its own. The only thing that went wrong was that people would default on the loans in mass. That was warned about back in the 1990's. That is why the Brooksley Born story is so important here now. The government sponsored worthless paper.
"Thats right. They purchased the potentially bad loans from Fannie and Freddie."
No, this was entirely independent of Fannie and Freddie, whose conforming loans offered a paltry rate of return and was of no interest to investors looking for yield. This market was created by the investment banks and it was generating high risk, high yield paper. At its peak it dwarfed Fannie and Freddie.
The investment banks were providing warehouse loans to the storefront subprime brokers who wrote the loans. The IBs then securitized these loans, tranched them, and sold them to investors all over the world as CDOs, CMOs, CDOs squared and so on. This market was essentially entirely unregulated and in many ways invisible to everyone except the immediate actors. It measured in the trillions of dollars. Many of the investors involved believed that they had protected themselves from risk by employing credit default swaps but they were very badly mistaken. In fact the credit default swap market was operating more like a rigged casino than an insurance operation.
"Now O still has Geitner and Sumners working their wonderful bailout ways."
True. And Rubin, too. It would be one thing to keep these guys on if they had learned their lesson because sometimes there is no saint like a reformed sinner. But these guys don't seem to have repented. This is a huge opening the GOP could take advantage of, but sadly they are too enamored of the Libertarian view.
parsy, who may wind up in the durn Green Party before this is all over...
No, I don't want to be sent off on a wild goose chase by someone too stupid to explain the issue themselves. And if you can't explain it, you probably don't understand it.
Reminds me of a Ron Paul supporter who links you to a 20-minute long treatise of his about gold.
Ron Paul? Ugh!
Why did Fannie and Freddie need derivatives? They had a government guarantee.
Not true at all. The Fed was slashing the discount rate below market rates throughout most of the Bush administration. One of the goals was to keep the artificial housing boom on track.
That theory doesn't work. Western European countries has far fewer restrictions have far fewer restrictions on investment and commercial banks yet the bubble did not happen there first. Besides, Glass Steagall was repealed nearly two decades ago. If you want the culprit, you need to look at more recent events such as the Fed's unsustainable rapid cuts in the discount rate during the Bush administration.
Fannie and Freddie played too: "What are Freddie Mac's principal businesses?"
"Freddie Mac supports liquidity and stability in the secondary mortgage market through two principal lines of business. Our credit guarantee business purchases residential mortgages and mortgage-related securities in the secondary mortgage market, securitizes these mortgages and subsequently sells them to investors as mortgage-backed securities. We also have a portfolio investment business that purchases mortgages for our mortgage-related investments portfolio."
The government guaranteed that the market was kept in the dark and they got on board too. But they made sure that the market was unregulated. The cats out of the bag. The government gave the green light to this potentially dangerous market. It allowed these frivolous loans to happen. In fact it mandated it to these independent bankers. It was a bunch of liberal social engineering programs, the independent banking scheme, the potentially dangerous financial instruments, the credit default swaps, Barney Frank saying that everything is just fine, and nobody looking at the history of the housing market. Politicians were getting their money too. So why not just go along with Greenspan. They all gambled and they all lost. Only they put the tax payer on the hook for everything. There is no way it was just the banks.
More convenient information: "Not true at all. The Fed was slashing the discount rate below market rates throughout most of the Bush administration. One of the goals was to keep the artificial housing boom on track."
That is not why the rates were slashed. Clinton had put almost all of America's debt in short term loans. Bush set out to get those loans converted into more long term loans. The purpose of rate reduction was to prevent inflation from causing a rate hike in the short term lending markets. Bush got us out of the short term markets and saved this country from the disaster that crashed the housing market. All short term lending dried up. I wonder what type of loans Obama is backing all this wild spending with now? Government always goes for the dumbest move possible. That's right, Obama has gobbled up all the short term credit available. Here we go again. And you might have wanted a job. You silly fellow.
To pass the buck and claim it was to prop up a housing bubble is almost delusionary in thinking. It sounds like you have bought into one of the excuses passed down by politicians. If I understand this, Bush was the co-founder of the social engineering experiment in housing. Yeah, that makes sense. LOL
You're rude!
Thanks. Would you like to direct your comment to the poster that began with the personal attacks?
Waah, must call waaambulance!
Why have unregulated Canadian banks been so successful? I believe our love of small banks is one of our problems. I'm no authority, but as I understand it, our mini-banks fell like dominoes back during the Great Depression. I heard Mark Stein talk about the success of Canadian banks as well — less government control.
Bubbles very often come from government manipulation, such as coercing banks into accepting higher credit risks, or tempting them with artificial safety nets.
"Brooksley Born is not a Obama plant. She is not an anti capitalist."
But even anti-leftists are useful to the left if they turn against an enemy of the left. They use people that way.
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The voice synonymous with Batman in his animated form for nearly two decades is back again this week in Warner Bros. latest Direct to DVD release, âSuperman/Batman: Public Enemies.â
Kevin Conroy, who first voiced Bruce Wayneâs iconic alter ego in "Batman: The Animated Series" from 1992 to 1995, reprises his role in the Bruce Timm-produced adaptation of the first arc from Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinnessâ best selling series of the same name. The DTV feature goes on sale Tuesday, September 29.
Since 1992, Conroy has voiced Bruce Wayne/Batman in every episode in the DCAU shared universe, including âBatman: The Animated Series,â âSuperman: The Animated Series,â âThe New Batman Adventures,â âThe New Batman/Superman Adventures,â âBatman Beyond,â âStatic Shock,â âThe Zeta Project,â âJustice Leagueâ and âJustice League Unlimited,â as well as the feature films and DTVs, âBatman: Mask of the Phantasm,â âBatman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero,â âBatman Beyond: Return of the Jokerâ and âBatman: Mystery of the Batwoman.â
Heâs also voiced the Dark Knight in DC Universe Original Animated Movie, âBatman: Gotham Knightâ and the top-selling and critically video game, âBatman: Arkham Asylum.â
In the previously released DC Universe Original Animated Movie, âJustice League: The New Frontier,â Batman was played by Jeremy Sisto of âLaw & Orderâ fame, and in the upcoming âJustice League: Crisis on Two Earths,â William Baldwin, most recently seen in âDirty Sexy Money,â takes on the role.
CBR News spoke with Conroy about his long run with the iconic character and the veteran television, film and stage character shared news that while he certainly doesnât hope so, this could quite possibly be his last chance to answer the Bat-Signal.
CBR News: Batman is a character youâve been playing for a long, long time now. Does it ever get tired and old, or do you relish every chance you get to play The Dark Knight?
Kevin Conroy: How could playing Batman ever get tired and old? Heâs the most extraordinary character to play. No, I never get tired of it. Iâm the luckiest actor in the world to have the opportunity to do it over and over again.
Growing up in Westbury, New York, were you a Batman guy or a Superman guy? Or maybe Spider-Man was your guy?
I was into Batman, but to be honest, I really wasnât that into comic books. My family was very strict and conservative and Catholic. I went to Catholic schools and I just didnât have comic books. My only real exposure to Batman was the Adam West TV series. So when I went in to audition for âBatman: The Animated Series,â I told Bruce Timm that and he said, âOh God, no. Thatâs not at all the direction weâre going. This is based on the original âDark Knightâ series. This goes back to the Bob Kane tradition. Itâs very dramatic. Itâs very noir.â
And he described to me the whole history of the Batman legend, which I was really completely ignorant of. I think that was actually in my favor, because I had no pre-conceptions at all. I went in with a really blank slate. I mean, Iâd love to tell you that I was raised on it and I always had this fantasy of playing Batman but I was just an actor going in with a really clean slate in terms of playing the character. I think thatâs what gave me the opportunity to come up with a very unique sound, which I did just improvising on the spot. I just put myself in a very dark, personally painful place and the voice changed [delivers line as Batman]. It just went to a very husky, what to me was an appropriate sound for someone living in that kind of intense pain.
Has the voice you improvised that first day you auditioned transformed at all over the years?
The sound hasnât. The way I produce the sound has. I have a lot of stage background. I trained at Julliard. I did a lot of Shakespeare, so Iâve done a lot of vocal training about how to support your voice on stage. And when I came up with this sound in the booth, it was the first time Iâd ever done animation. So I just kind of improvised it on the spot. And I produced the sound by crunching down, really pushing down on my vocal chords. And it was a great sound but it was being produced in a very bad way. It was a very unprofessional way to make a sound. And I thought I wonât be doing it very often. Itâs not like Iâm doing this eight times a week on stage. It will be once every couple of weeks in a sound booth. Iâll be able to do this. Interestingly, after about a month of recording, weâd done about four episodes at that point, I started losing my voice. And Bruce [Timm] and Paul [Dini] werenât happy at all [laughs]. âWeâve already established this sound in four episodes. We canât just change it. You have to figure out a way to come up with this without hurting yourself.â So the way I produce the sound is different, but the voice is very consistent. It hasnât changed.
Nowadays, itâs commonplace to bring big name Hollywood talent in to play the leads in animated productions. What was it that brought you to a voice casting call, almost 20 years ago now, when these types of projects were in their infancy?
It was really lucky that I did it, when I did it. This is in 1991. I had done commercial voiceovers in New York to supplement my theater career. I did mostly Off Broadway and Broadway. I worked for Joe Papp a lot. Itâs very high quality and prestigious work, but it doesnât pay a lot of money, so in order to do that, most New York actors supplement their theater income with commercial work. Thatâs very common to do.
Anyway, I was in L.A., Iâd just finished doing âTour of Duty,â and I was doing a TV movie, and my agent said, âLook, theyâre casting a new animated show at Warner Bros. You do commercial voiceovers in New York. Why donât you go in and see if you can come up with the sound you want?â So it was really a fluke that I happened to be in L.A., shooting something else. I did commercial voiceovers already, but Iâd never done animation. But also, what was very lucky, it was just a couple of years before Hollywood started stunt-casting. Itâs very unlikely now that they would listen to an actor that theyâd never heard of to do lead role in a major series. All the studios now tend to stunt-cast, which is using film stars or television stars, just to give the show marquee value. Itâs not like the audience can really tell whose voice it is. Usually, they canât recognize the voice at all. But the clients, or the studio executives, love the fact that they have a star doing that sound, so there are a lot of stars now doing animation and doing voiceovers in general. So itâs become much harder for people to break into the field, and really hard, virtually impossible, for someone without a major marquee value to his name to walk into a role like Batman. It was very lucky that I happened to do this in â91. A couple of years later, and it wouldnât have happened, probably.
This wonât translate well for readers, but can you say a line as Batman, as Bruce Wayne and as yourself, because I hear Bruce Wayne in your actual voice.
Get into the Batcave now [delivers line as Batman]. And youâre right. Bruce Wayneâs voice is just very much my voice. Itâs pretty close to me. When I started doing the show, I did more with Bruce Wayne, making him almost a dilettante. Just to give it more of a range from Batman. So I used more of my higher register and there was a lot more color to it [speaking higher], it was a more animated sound. They decided they wanted the show to be much darker. So I went back and re-recorded a lot of the early episodes making Bruce Wayneâs voice much closer to just my own. I thought it was fun having Bruce Wayne be more colorful than Batman. Just to give it more range. But they wanted the whole palette of the show to be darker, so I toned all that down.
Do people ever hear your voice and it just clicks that youâre Batman?
I remember once there was a kid standing in a line at the movie theater. The kid almost went into shock when I asked for two adult tickets. And he turned around with these saucer eyes, staring at me. His mother was saying, âJohnny, whatâs the problem?â This kid went into a trance. And heâs staring at me and just pointing at me. And I had to explain to the mother, âI think he recognizes my voice. I do Batman.â And he started screaming, âIt is Batman. It is Batman.â So that was funny.
Youâd be surprised, actually, how many people follow animation and how attuned they are to who does what voices. I always assumed this was a completely anonymous job, and Iâm always surprised. At Macyâs in New York one time, someone just walked up to me and said, âArenât you Kevin Conroy?â I thought it was someone I might have known. He said, âYouâre Batman.â I said, âHow did you know that?â And he said, âOh, everybody knows who plays Batman.â So Iâm always amazed when someone recognizes me.
Recently, I was bringing my car in to get serviced to a garage Iâd never dealt with before. And I gave him my name and the guy said, âOh, thatâs funny. You must have a hard time with that name. Thatâs the name of the guy who does Batman.â And I said, âThatâs me.â And they he didnât believe me. So I had to do the voice in the garage for everybody. And then they believed me. Iâm standing in the middle of a garage. I am Vengeance. I am the Night [delivers line as Batman].
Youâd be surprised at how many people know the names of who does what characters.
Well, I remember when it was rumored that you werenât going to be doing âBatman: Gotham Knight,â there was near pandemonium on the message boards and in the talk-back forums.
[Laughs] That was so cool. Itâs such a privilege to be a part of something like this. This is a hugely high quality show. Aside from Batman being an incredibly cool character, what Bruce Timm and Paul Dini created with the original show was just head and shoulders above what any other studio was doing in L.A. at the time in terms of animation. It just blew the lid off anybody. I had a friend working at Disney at the time, an executive, and he called and said, âWell, Iâve just seen a screening of your new show and youâve just screwed all of us.â He said the bar had just been raised. So thatâs a real honor to be a part of something like that. And thatâs Paul and Bruce. They were really responsible for setting a very high standard.
You get to don the cape and cowl once again this week in âSuperman/Batman: Public Enemies.â Itâs not set in DCAU proper, but youâre still back as Bats.
Interestingly, I donât really have a lot to do in this one. Itâs really Clancy Brownâs show. He has the most to do of anybody. Neither Tim Daly nor I have much, but in every show, somebody gets a chance to shine a little more. And this is Clancyâs turn. Heâs a very good actor. And he gets to really give a good performance in this.
Did you enjoy being back on the soundstage with Tim Daly, someone who youâve played off of so successfully in the past?
Oh yeah. The nice thing about so many of these things and working with people like Mark Hamill [who plays Joker in DCAU] and Clancy; these relationships span so many years. And you only [get together] maybe once or twice a year to do something, but thereâs all that time and all that history. Thereâs a real relationship there, so the second youâre in the booth together, thereâs a lot of unspoken understanding of how each other works and the give-and-take in a situation. Thereâs a lot of trust thatâs been established. The longevity of the relationship really pays off for the show in terms of knowing how to work with each other. And enjoying working with each other.
You werenât voicecast in âJustice League: New Frontier,â and then you were back for âBatman: Gotham Knightâ and this one. But now I see William Baldwin is Batman in âJustice League: Crisis on Two Earths.â Do you ever think about the possibility that you may never get a chance to do the voice again?
You never know. I donât have any claim on it. Itâs really a question of whether the studio wants to use me. I know Iâve given a good performance. I know that the fans think so. So, as to the frequently as the studio wants to use me, Iâll be happy to do it. I love doing it. But you canât get to possessive of these things. Thereâs always someone who comes along with a different idea. They just want to hear a different sound, so you never know.
Do you know if thereâs a next Batman project for you?
I have no idea. I have absolutely no idea. They never tell the actors until the very last second. We are just pawns in the game [laughs]. They almost donât want us to know, in case they want someone else to do it. The actors are literally the last thought on anybodyâs mind. Isnât that terrible?


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Attorney General Eric Holder said on Friday that the federal government would recognize the 300 same-sex marriages that took place in Michigan in between two conflicting court rulings.
As we reported last week, a federal judge struck down Michigan's ban on gay marriage. The judge did not, as others have, stay his ruling so marriages took place for about a day, before another judge issued a stay, halting marriages pending an appeal.
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wahhhhh nice..
I had this at the hotel the other day, it wasn't all that great for $30.
What they DON'T tell you is that they laced the chocolate with ricin...
Congrats on the DD.
I would die happy.~ But gratz awesome pic!
The slice almost looks like it's floating above the plate! Not that that's a bad thing of course, it just looks incredibly vivid
Breakfast meeting!? OAO wow~
Congrats on the DD! Have a good day~
congrats to your DD! >w<
it looks so awesome *u* nomnom
it looks so awesome *u* nomnom
I would die for some of this right now
I have no idea why the drizzle of chocolate is there, I mean if it's needed then there should be a happy face instead @3@
Congrats on the Daily Deviation! ewe
This is the leading cause of death in the world.
Chocolate cake? I'd love to see the corresponding statistic.
9 out of every 10 individuals in the world. commonly die from this creamy, seductively delicious siren, each day. These deaths are so numerous and widespread, no scientist on Earth can find a graph that has the ability to record these amount of deaths.
It is Halloween.
"Death by chocolate" Maybe it's a slice of GLaDOS's cake? XD
Yumm! Wouldn't mind that right now with my cup of coffee this morning.
Congratulations on the Daily Deviation
Ow... Can I kill you? x'D
It looks good. ^_^ What is it?
Don't mind dying that way at all...
Oh yummy <3
eat it, dont tweet it
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perfectly fitting title is perfect. (the photo too, but that goes without saying )
Mmmmmmm.... that looks delicious.
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Skip to comments.Low Income Preppers, Should they get a SNAP/EBT Card? ~ Vanity
Posted on 08/18/2014 11:34:16 AM PDT by GraceG
Okay, So I know of a few people who are shall we say very Lower middle class who used to be Mid-Middle class until recently due to the wonderful economy as of late.
I know they are wanting to prep, but are unable to make ends meet and I have been rotating out my own personal prepping stock to just keep them fed day to day. (don't worry I am not giving them expired food, just food that is nearing expiration).
The question recently arose about if they should get an EBT card and use it to buy their own reserve, stuff like canned food and easily storable food like oats, rice, etc...
They hate the idea of getting on EBT/SNAP, but the question is if things are going to go haywire anyways is it a bad thing to do this?
Or should they go to private food pantries to slowly stock up on having a stash in case SHTF....
I have offered to help with their preps but they are too prideful to take my prepping food for prepping purposes. The only way I could actually give them food for day to day living has been to use the excuse that the food that I have that is nearing expiration and they are doing me a favor by taking it...
I hate to try to convince them to use an EBT or SNAP to buy canned food in case SHTF, but on the other hand, I am really starting to get apathetic about it all...
What is Ethical vs. What is Practical..? And at what point do either options apply?
Also if I find myself out of work and end up eating through my Prepping stocks, what do I do then if I still want to stay prepared in case of the SHTF event?
Preppers' PING!!
What say you preppers?
As for me its a case by case, without all information its impossible for me to give a blanket answer.
A matter of conscience, I suppose...
If you think it's OK to get a part of what you've paid in back, because it's all gonna crash anyway, go for it.
If you have strong convictions about never being on any form of the dole, then eschew it.
That Kart, I thought you might chime in....
Granted a low income prepper using an SNAP/EBT card for prepping type food would actually be a better use of the card that probably 90% of the people currently using SNAP/EBT cards....
What would be funny would be if they fallged someone for using a SNAP/EBT card because they bought bags of rice and cans of pork and beans....
You know because it made the other SNAPers look bad...
Yes. If your environment included berry bushes you would pick the berries to feed your family. If your environment include free government cheese, give the free government cheese to your family. I would much rather see EBT benefits going to someone who wonders whether they should take it than to someone who is certain that they are entitled to it.
40% of our country is on food stamps. If they need it then they should use it. The system is there for temporary help, IMO.
What they do with the food once they get it is up to them. If they store it then they will eventually eat it.
The people I have an issue with are those who buy lobster with food stamps or spend their personal money on luxuries and plan to live their life on food stamps and other welfare programs.
i to think about this exact very thing for myself and family quite often as i'm also right in that lower spectrum of middle class i guess you could say. i mean don't get me wrong, we live ok and we also take care of my disabled mother for the last 11 years( disabled by my own brother) (but that's for another story another thread) but we never have any "extra" if you can call it that to prep for shtf situation that i know will happen eventually : /
btw Grace, you sound like a very nice, caring person!
If the person is of the mind set to buy bags of rice and beans and other staples vs the normal purchase of the entitled EBT crowd of steaks, shrimp and TV dinners, then I say they most likely fairly need the assitance and I have no problem.
[ The people I have an issue with are those who buy lobster with food stamps or spend their personal money on luxuries and plan to live their life on food stamps and other welfare programs. ]
Same here, and those people will be the first to violently attack the prepping people in suburban areas when their EBT/SNAP card stops working...
They are the Welfare Hordes/ Obama Zombies...
I'm not a Prepper in any serious sense but this seems foolish. A dark invitation to the government to get their boot on your neck. Once your addicted it's hard to break. (Unless forced of course due to some wide-ranging catastrophe.)
I agree.
It is a personal choice and circumstances vary.
In general, I have no problem with a safety net for the truly needy and deserving.
Our problem is that the safety net has been perverted by the government into just another wealth redistribution program.
There is a world of difference between someone with a legitimate disability and an able bodied whore sitting on her butt spitting out fatherless babies sired by anonymous sperm donors.
The same applies to able bodied people who are temporarily down on their luck as compared to those who game the system as a way of life.
If we eliminated all of the non-deserving moochers on the public dole we could take first class care of the truly needy and spend much less.
I talked to my pastor about this not that long ago when it came up on FR I posted that as Christians we are to be kind and helpful to the poor, but rebuke and avoid the slothful. He agreed with me so much that he ended up doing a sermon on just that the difference between the poor and the slothful.
[ btw Grace, you sound like a very nice, caring person!
Mike ]
I don't let my friends go hungry. I shouldn't feel guilty about using my freinds as a "dumping ground for soon to expire food" but I do... But it is the the only way they will take the food anyways... so there is that...
Just for giggles, I got on the Lone Star card website, and my wife and I qualify for the assistance card. BUT, there is no way I am applying for the card.
Well said.
Government assistance is like road-kill. If it's fresh, grab it.
"Self love is not so vile a sin as self-loathing." Henry V, Shakespeare.
If hey are eligible, and they have kids. If they have exhausted all other sources, it is important to eat well.
I know there is a stigma, and that is good. But as long as they don't abuse it, why the heck not.
Hruumph, .gov buying preps with some of the FSA's "entitlements". What decently "cautious" person couldn't see the seething irony/humor in this? If only o'bummer could know somehow. His head would implode. Hehehe. d;^)
If my state agency (WA DSHS) finds out that SNAP proceeds are being used to purchase food for storage (not immediately consumed) they will reduce or suspend the benefits. I don't know if this policy derives from state or federal law. But if this is the plan best to not make it known (as with almost any prepping).
How about this - apply for the card and ONLY use the benies for your prepper stockpile... :)
I'd rather see my tax dollars go to someone being responsible and preparing rather than the usual crowd stocking up on chips and garbage. Yeah, let them have a SNAP card and help them prep.
I'd say wring every last dime you can from this worthless government. You've paid for all these programs these many long years. It's high time you got something out of them besides the joy of enabling another generation of parasites.
The way I look at it, if you've have worked and paid into the system for decades and now are having hard times, you are not the problem. Get what you can now, because what you've been promised probably won't be there later. It's the people who have never worked and suck out of the system their whole lives that are the problem.
But not if it's nacho cheese.
[ Id say wring every last dime you can from this worthless government. Youve paid for all these programs these many long years. Its high time you got something out of them besides the joy of enabling another generation of parasites. ]
At some point I see myself comming to this same feeling/conclustion, I am not there yet, but inching closer...
At some point I can see one last Harumph of people just needing to SWARM the EBT system before it all collapses and all hell breaks loose...
[ If my state agency (WA DSHS) finds out that SNAP proceeds are being used to purchase food for storage (not immediately consumed) they will reduce or suspend the benefits. I dont know if this policy derives from state or federal law. But if this is the plan best to not make it known (as with almost any prepping). ]
if that is the case could they shift day to day food expenses to EBT/SNAP and pay cash for prep foods?
I'd start worrying about being on EBT (I'm not)when the banks stop worrying about bailouts, or the crony capitalists or farmers stop worrying about subsidies.
First of all, thank you for being there for these folks. Second, the EBT/SNAP program is there for a reason. I don't have an issue with the hand UP that these folks could likely qualify for. The fact that they were middle class tells me they have likely paid an awful lot into the system over the years, of course they should be allowed the assistance in this, their time of need. And, like many on this post, I agree that I would MUCH rather see the benefits going to help someone get prepared.
Had a pastor opine from the pulpit that there are no poor in America: world median income is $2/day; hard to live in USA and _not_ make significantly more than that. If you're earning more than half the people on the planet, you're not poor.
They paid into it. The Feds literally owe them. Unlike the situation with lifelong welfare recipients who have never worked a day in their lives (unless walking to the welfare office is considered working).
Stop it. If it is not appreciated, use it yourself. I just had part of a can of expired July 2013 Spam for lunch. I await my demise. I won't even talk about how old some of my home canned meat is. I'll have "experts predicting my death.
When I was a kid - about 10 or 11, my dad walked out on my mom leaving her with five kids - one a baby. She was forced to go on welfare/food stamps. It was humiliating for her, but she had no choice. She made the most of those food stamps, buying canned goods on sale and stocking up, marked down meats, bread at the bread outlets, etc. She never bought goodies, instead baking us cookies, cupcakes, etc. We did not eat grand, but we had basics. She could make a heckuva good meal with cheap ingredients, and we did not starve. She got off welfare as soon as she could, when she got a full-time job at the local university in the maintenance dept. By then I and my twin sisters were old enough to babysit. That was back in the 60's, so 13 and 14 was old enough to take care of younger siblings. NONE of us five kids are on welfare. We knew mom did what she had to do. Meanwhile, I get my frugal ways having watched her. I think the prepper thing comes from that experience.
Bottom line, if you need the foods stamps, and use them wisely, then go for it. They can tide you over until your circumstances improve.
So long as you're "getting" less than you "put in" (accounting for other services you are legitimately paying for like road infrastructure, police, legitimate "safety net" for others, etc), I've no problem with taking fair advantage of those services you've funded. It's just a different form of taking all the deductions you can when filing taxes, something which _nobody_ should fault you for.
This year, I'm enjoying my free electric car. No qualms about the tax credit, given how much taxes I've paid.
Point is: don't abuse the system, use it fairly as you honestly see fit/moral/responsible. Don't get greedy, don't misuse it. Government has legitimate purpose, use it legitimately.
Do beware the hooks it could get into you. Don't become reliant on it, don't let it master you, be ready to bail fast.
Prepping is a way of life. It's not just stocking away separate "what if" supplies, it's _living_on_ those supplies so that when SHTF you don't have to change your ways (and yes, unemployment is a personal SHTF event). When the "Y2K bug" debacle was looming, I described the potential for SHTF in as thorough detail as possible; he listened carefully, understood the issue, shrugged, and said "so I'll throw another log on the fire and go back to my book" - all SHTF should really do is make resupply & travel more inconvenient, if you're properly prepped.
EBT/whatever is just another way to retrieve money taken from you. Absolutely, apply it to filling the pantry in a sensible prepper way.
Your story tugged at my heart. Your dear mom sounds like (she is/was) a wise and loving mom. Her/your family's appreciation of food stamps and whatever you had (income, food, clothing and, most importantly, family) is exactly how the system SHOULD work. Thanks for posting that.
Exactly. The program has since morphed into "anything goes" with a debit card washing away the stigma. The FSA runs amok with it.
Hadn't thought about that. Thanks for the suggestion.
There is no one on this board that I know of that begrudges anyone participating in these programs. If you need it, use it. Heck we're all paying for it.
As others have noted, the rub is when people game the system to avoid work or enable a slothful lifestyle.
The government is giving them the money for food so they can eat.
They ought to buy just a little extra each month with it if they go for it. If they buy a little extra at a time, then it won't raise any red flags.
Aside from rice and beans, they could do canned soups as well.
touching, that is the way it is "suppose" to work! thank you for that reply.
I just had part of a can of expired July 2013 Spam for lunch. I await my demise.
LOL did u fry it? i like it best that way but either will work for me!
Ethically, the first step is to go through an ethical analysis of any decision. So you've started with that.
Deontologically, I like to proceed with the Kantian Categorical Imperative. One should do only that which one would will to be a universal moral law. I would suggest that everyone should reserve a portion as savings, assuming that the source is ethically garnered. I see no ethical problem in receiving food assistance when in true need, and so holding back a portion thereof as savings seems moral and even categorically imperative.
Teleologically, we're dealing with the ethics of scarcity and survival. Since it is not immoral to receive charity when in true need, saving a portion of that charity (if possible) seems reasonable. It harms nobody, and can actually help the common weal by helping the prepper to become more self-sufficient.
Practically, food assistance is really fairly limited and available only for those with rather low household incomes. Saving even that little portion as preparation for future emergencies may be difficult in practical terms.
The determining factor in each individual case involves the conscience of the needy person or family in assessing what "true need" means for them.
In my case, I have not applied for any assistance because, I have been unemployed for quite a while, but I had the foresight to have savings to live on. According to what I've researched, if I have 2-3 months worth of savings to pay for a place to live, etc., I am not eligible for food assistance until I am destitute. I don't really understand that. It seems they would rather have me eligible for assistance for every program. I know why so I will not apply.
There is no shame in accepting help, when the government has allowed our jobs to be offshored.
When the people wise up and change our leaders and they raise the import tariffs, and bring industries back to the US, and jobs are plentiful again, then I would say get a better job. But right now, do what you have to to survive.
There is no shame in accepting help, when the government has allowed our jobs to be offshored.
When the people wise up and change our leaders and they raise the import tariffs, and bring industries back to the US, and jobs are plentiful again, then I would say get a better job. But right now, do what you have to to survive.
If they qualify for EBT, then they probably qualify for Medicaid. Be careful...your state will want the Medicaid money paid back from your estate, after your pass. Talk to a lawyer.
If they need the food, SHTF or whatever, and they qualify for it, I strongly encourage them to use it. I am sure they have helped others from time to time, and that they will continue to do so.
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- 1 cup butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar, packed
- 2 eggs
- 1 1⁄4 cups flour
- 1⁄3 cup hazelnuts, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 1⁄4 cups rolled oats, not instant
- 1 1⁄2 cups raisins (optional)
- 1 1⁄3 cups nutella
- Cream butter and sugars in a large bowl. Add eggs and vanilla and beat well.
- slowly add dry ingredients, mixing well after each addition.
- Add rolled oats and raisins. Let stand for 30 minutes.
- Roll into balls, about 1 1/2 tsp in each. Place 2 inches apart on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 8 minutes or until golden. Cool completely.
- Spread 1 tsp of nutella on the bottom of a cookie and top with another cookie. Repeat for remaining cookies.
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