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

By: LarryM

LarryM — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:19:13 +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: LarryM

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

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!