# Bush's Speech

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-speech/465095>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 25, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-speech/465095 "2008-09-25T01:16:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bushs-speech/465095/41 "2008-09-26T16:09:23Z")

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> [@Dead\_Badger](#):
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> Oh, come off it. **Sam Stone** started by saying that Bush, like Clinton before him, had attempted to address the GSEs, and that they had both been stymied by both parties in Congress. This seems a fair reading of the situation (it’s certainly a basis for debate), but you chose to interpret it as mindless Bush-boosting, and launched into the usual tired partisan rubbish. Why do you _do_ this? Must you always try and shut down debate with empty sarcasm? It’s not beyond the realms of possibility that George Bush actually tried to do something right, you know.

We are bailing banks that over leveraged themselves to make a fortune in a short time. They risked the viability of the banks to get short term phony profits that would get them huge salaries and bonuses. I believe these guys knew the risks. They are financial experts after all. Now we argue about how much we should pay them to fix the system.  
Fannie and Freddie already have been dealt with. The banks are a much bigger and more dangerous to deal with.

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