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VentureBeat: MapLight: Bailout supporters received more money from banks and securities

  • surya · 1 year ago
    what if that's because the people that don't get money, don't get money because they're ideologues?
  • Matt Marshall · 1 year ago
    Surya, good point. We've updated with a nod to that possibility!
  • surya · 1 year ago
    Matt-- this also goes to this and though you'd find this interesting too: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/swing-di...
  • Michael F. Martin · 1 year ago
    This is a particularly good demonstration of public choice theory. Mancur Olson was noticing this stuff 40 years ago, and Arthur F. Bentley 100 years ago.

    But some people don't believe in theory until they see the evidence themselves. Congrats to Maplight for such a powerful demonstration of the usefulness of their technology.
  • S.t · 1 year ago
    http://www.nypost.com/seven/09292008/postopinio...

    "WHAT exactly does a "community organizer" do? Barack Obama's rise has left many Americans asking themselves that question. Here's a big part of the answer: Community organizers intimidate banks into making high-risk loans to customers with poor credit."

    (I was going to link a video from YouTube, but the Lefties yanked it)
  • S.t · 1 year ago
    AH -- who got big money from Fannie & Freddie?

    & who asked the head of Fannie Mae to chose his VP for him?

    & can you pen a post on the liberal lending standards ushered in by Obama's ACORN? & why giving people loans based on skin color instead of credit strength was a bad idea?
  • Anthony Ha · 1 year ago
    You'd probably make your points more effectively if you actually laid out your argument and linked to supporting evidence. Not that VentureBeat is really the best place to have a discussion about Fannie and Freddie.

    On your last point, I did actually write about a similar-but-not-identical issue at my old gig: http://www.hollisterfreelance.com/news/contentv...
  • S.t · 1 year ago