Comments on: Hello? Excuse Me! Brrrring… Anybody Home?

By: LarryM

LarryM — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:19:13 +0000

I'm just curious why a libertarian is criticizing the adminstration with not doing more to stem the financial crisis. i mean, isn't treasury's cautious path exactly what a fan of limited goverment would like to see?

I'm not being snarky here; as someone who increasingly buys into the libertarian critique of the state (though not always buying into into some of the magical thinking about the efficiacy of the “free' market), I have some sympathy for the POV that the administration should be particularly cautious about further interventions into the mess. But whether from convinction or circumstance, isn't that just what the adminstration has been doing?

By: TWylite

TWylite — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:34:05 +0000

The truck has crashed, the window is smashed, the beast is dead, and the point is taken. But where is the olive tree? Over there in a box. The clarity is devastating.

By: uknowbetter

uknowbetter — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:06:56 +0000

So far that's a good description of this administration: laugh or cry.

By: uknowbetter

uknowbetter — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:47:03 +0000

Hoover screwed up by interfering and FDR took it to new levels by interfering more. The Great Depression was as 'great' as it was because of FDR's misguided policies:
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/FDR-s-Poli...

By: odograph

odograph — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:46:41 +0000

All I can do is chuckle at that.

By: uknowbetter

uknowbetter — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:44:56 +0000

I'm not closely aligned with him on anything. However, he claims there is a banking crisis that is paramount to the economy and yet he is off squawking about education, healthcare, and everything else under the sun.

His administration should be clear about what they are doing when it comes to banks. If they are waiting for the rest of Q1 to unfold, then say that. If they don't have a clue, then say that. All the uncertainty has been causing big problems.

By: odograph

odograph — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:40:44 +0000

Are you waving Hoover's boney hand at us?

By: uknowbetter

uknowbetter — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:40:05 +0000

Wow, no.

Will's liberaltarian project is destined to fail because liberals are like retarded 3 year olds. They should not be taken seriously.

By: odograph

odograph — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:12:03 +0000

What's your point then, that Obama should “look busy” on this?

OH! It's that he shouldn't spend any time on things you are less closely aligned with him on!

By: alphie

alphie — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:27:35 +0000

Uknow,

Do you also believe the government was behind 9/11?

Just checking…

By: uknowbetter

uknowbetter — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:23:11 +0000

Increasing the debt and deficit to unprecedented levels is nonsensical to complain about?

Why don't you go dig up FDR's skeleton and go play with it, little boy?

By: uknowbetter

uknowbetter — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:20:57 +0000

No, it doesn't.

It says focus on the one thing you (as in Obama) claim is important. As opposed to claiming totally unrelated things are all important.

By: uknowbetter

uknowbetter — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:18:47 +0000

You really are clueless.

Do you deny the government was encouraging the housing bubble?

You can usually tell the democrats by how much they lie (online and off). Alphie, you have good company with Madoff and Standford (two big-time democrats).

By: alphie

alphie — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:24:04 +0000

I remember when Rove & Co. first floated that lie and thought, "nobody, not even the Republican base, is dumb enough to believe that lie."

Color me surprised.

The "conservative" movement in this country has turned into a freak show reality program where the wealthy folks who run it compete to see which of them can get you guys to swallow the weirdest "facts."

Remember when your leader Rush tried to push the "it's Obama's recession" meme back in November and got laughed at even by the gullible right?

There may be hope for you guys yet.

By: odograph

odograph — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:52:02 +0000

Doesn't that presume an “easy fix” that the President is avoiding? Have China, England, Japan, Germany got their easy fixes in place?