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Thursday, March 05, 2009

Jim Cramer Responds To White House Attacks

CNBC financial analyst Jim Cramer believes Obama's budget may be one of the great wealth destroyers of all time.

When Obama Press Secretary Robert Gibbs openly criticized Cramer for publicly blasting Obama's voodoo economics, Cramer had to respond:
Obama has undeniably made things worse by creating an atmosphere of fear and panic rather than an atmosphere of calm and hope. He's done it by pushing a huge amount of change at a very perilous moment, by seeking to demonize the entire banking system and by raising taxes for those making more than $250,000 at the exact time when we need them to spend and build new businesses, and by revoking deductions for funds to charity that help eliminate the excess supply of homes.

We had a banking crisis coming into this regime, but now every area is in crisis. Each day is worse than the previous one for this miserable economy and while Obama's champions cite the stimulus plan, it's really just a hodgepodge of old Democratic pork and will not create nearly as many manufacturing or service jobs as we hoped. China's stimulus plan is the model; ours is the parody.

Sure there's going to be some mortgage relief, but the way to approach that problem is to eliminate the overhang, which a $15,000 tax credit for existing home sales could have dented if not consumed. I have offered a comprehensive plan of 4% refinanced mortgages for all by the government, not just those many considered deadbeats, to eliminate moral hazard. I have come up with a novel plan to cut the principal and spare the banks regulatory problems by offering them a certificate of equity, making them whole over time when the house appreciates in value, which will happen if demand is stoked and supply is shrunk. ...
Follow the link below to read Cramer's full commentary:

My Response To The White House

1 comment:

TheBitterAmerican said...

In the socialist view, you have to destroy the centers of wealth before you redistribute it.