Quote Originally Posted by MV75 View Post
It's long overdue. The USA is just a modern Rome.
Very true. I refer to those in American that lean to the right as those content with the concept of living in an empire.

Quote Originally Posted by STL View Post
There was a lot of pressure from the government on lenders to make out these subprime mortgages to help give Americans who could not otherwise afford a loan to get credit. So they were in fact pressured by the US government to an extent to try and keep the "good" times rolling. This is a problem that's not just greed from the financial institutions but the self-serving interests of politicians as well.
Eight years of a Republican executive branch with six years of a Republican legislative.