Yeah, the 'pubs are all. "Oooh! Freeee market! FREE MARKET! Let teh free marketz take care of everythingz!" until such a time as it becomes clear what 'the free market taking care of everything' actually means. Like it has intelligence or a conscience or any regard whatsoever for human beings.
You were so down on fucking deregulation, you bastards, let's let the free market take care of everything and blast this philosophy out of the water until the end of time.
And no, the nationalized companies will be controlled by political appointees, who will be decided not based on merit, but based on ass kissing (FEMA anyone?), and they will quietly find ways to pocket the profits, should there, by any incredible miracle, be any.
Ron Paul is a crazy man, and he has no right to talk, because deregulation (you know, the stuff he advocates in everything?) is what got us into this mess. This whole meltdown is what happens when you treat the free market like a benevolent god who fixes everything.
I was really impressed with Senator Barry Sanders' bailout proposal (he's a Senator from Vermont). He wanted it to be contingent on economic relief for the poor and middle class, including jobs restoring our country's infrastructure (gee, almost like he read my post. ;)), the burden for paying for the bailout falling on the wealthy, who have most benefited from Bush's so-called economic policy, strict regulations to keep it from happening again, and the utterly sensible quote: "If it's too big to fail, it's too big to exist."
Utterly fair, sensible, contains measures to keep history from repeating itself, and creates a silver lining out of the disaster (infrastructure restoration). Thus, it will be considered way too loopy liberal left wing and ignored.
He can be against the bailout all he wants, but since everyone and their dog is against the bailout, that doesn't make him special.
Deregulation is what caused this entire fiasco. Thus, IMO, anyone who was for it doesn't get to have an opinion now, unless their opinion is 'shit. I fucked up. Here is a whip. Forty lashes, please.'
People who worship the "invisible hand" like it's some kind of god forget that it's not sentient, and it doesn't give a crap about anyone, whether they live or die or live in abject poverty, or even about itself. It just IS. (Not to mention that clever fat cats have arguably managed to figure out ways to game the system that the so-called invisible hand can't balance out, and no amount of deregulation in the world is going to fix that.)
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You were so down on fucking deregulation, you bastards, let's let the free market take care of everything and blast this philosophy out of the water until the end of time.
And no, the nationalized companies will be controlled by political appointees, who will be decided not based on merit, but based on ass kissing (FEMA anyone?), and they will quietly find ways to pocket the profits, should there, by any incredible miracle, be any.
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I was really impressed with Senator Barry Sanders' bailout proposal (he's a Senator from Vermont). He wanted it to be contingent on economic relief for the poor and middle class, including jobs restoring our country's infrastructure (gee, almost like he read my post. ;)), the burden for paying for the bailout falling on the wealthy, who have most benefited from Bush's so-called economic policy, strict regulations to keep it from happening again, and the utterly sensible quote: "If it's too big to fail, it's too big to exist."
Utterly fair, sensible, contains measures to keep history from repeating itself, and creates a silver lining out of the disaster (infrastructure restoration). Thus, it will be considered way too loopy liberal left wing and ignored.
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Barry Sanders talks sense. Sadly, you're right that his suggestions likely will not fly.
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Deregulation is what caused this entire fiasco. Thus, IMO, anyone who was for it doesn't get to have an opinion now, unless their opinion is 'shit. I fucked up. Here is a whip. Forty lashes, please.'
People who worship the "invisible hand" like it's some kind of god forget that it's not sentient, and it doesn't give a crap about anyone, whether they live or die or live in abject poverty, or even about itself. It just IS. (Not to mention that clever fat cats have arguably managed to figure out ways to game the system that the so-called invisible hand can't balance out, and no amount of deregulation in the world is going to fix that.)
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