Comments on: More Paul Broun http://justorb.com/2008/11/13/more-paul-broun/ A Tangential Autobiography Fri, 18 May 2012 23:21:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: Orb http://justorb.com/2008/11/13/more-paul-broun/comment-page-1/#comment-14170 Orb Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:19:58 +0000 http://justorb.com/2008/11/13/more-paul-broun/#comment-14170 A lot of people are easily cowed by a suit holding public office. Well, just because someone has been elected to office does not mean they are really any smarter, wiser, or more ethical than someone who hasn't been. They just know how to play the power game, and all it really requires is an endless supply of self-confidence and chutzpah. <i>We deserve to go broke.</i> I have not been at all into this bailout plan from the get-go. I was able to abide it when the plan was to loan the banks money so they could loan it to people --home owners and business owners-- who needed it to keep going. I wasn't happy, but I thought it might end up helping at least someone. This new plan to buy stock in banks ... while allowing these banks to hand out fat bonus checks to people making 8 times my household income, well, that just pisses me right off. I'm of the opinion now that we need to allow whatever will fail to fail, reboot the system, and fix what's left when it's over. I mean, if we really want that free market they keep screaming about saving, well failure is an aspect of a free market. Stuff fails. Other stuff succeeds or grows from the ashes of the failures. Sure, a depression would suck, but I don't see anything getting better right now, and I don't see that it's going to get better any time soon. Meanwhile, we taxpayers are getting screwed every step of the way. Yup, pisses me off. Not only does Paulson have the keys to the vault, have you heard about the regulations and such Bush is pushing through at last minute? If you haven't, it'll make your head spin. They really want to leave the government as broken as they can before they leave, or so it seems. A lot of people are easily cowed by a suit holding public office. Well, just because someone has been elected to office does not mean they are really any smarter, wiser, or more ethical than someone who hasn’t been. They just know how to play the power game, and all it really requires is an endless supply of self-confidence and chutzpah.

We deserve to go broke.

I have not been at all into this bailout plan from the get-go. I was able to abide it when the plan was to loan the banks money so they could loan it to people –home owners and business owners– who needed it to keep going. I wasn’t happy, but I thought it might end up helping at least someone. This new plan to buy stock in banks … while allowing these banks to hand out fat bonus checks to people making 8 times my household income, well, that just pisses me right off.

I’m of the opinion now that we need to allow whatever will fail to fail, reboot the system, and fix what’s left when it’s over. I mean, if we really want that free market they keep screaming about saving, well failure is an aspect of a free market. Stuff fails. Other stuff succeeds or grows from the ashes of the failures. Sure, a depression would suck, but I don’t see anything getting better right now, and I don’t see that it’s going to get better any time soon. Meanwhile, we taxpayers are getting screwed every step of the way. Yup, pisses me off.

Not only does Paulson have the keys to the vault, have you heard about the regulations and such Bush is pushing through at last minute? If you haven’t, it’ll make your head spin. They really want to leave the government as broken as they can before they leave, or so it seems.

]]> By: John http://justorb.com/2008/11/13/more-paul-broun/comment-page-1/#comment-14167 John Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:48:55 +0000 http://justorb.com/2008/11/13/more-paul-broun/#comment-14167 The problem most liberal arts-educated Americans of middle or working class background have dealing with the two government loudmouths you write about is that there exists no override mechanism in our default tolerance by which we can slam the door of social acceptance on these people. A simple flowchart of known values and variables would not need many arrows and ifs and thens to conclude that these characters are nothing but criminals, disguising their motives with patriotism and religion. Criminals, by which I mean people who covet and take that which rightfully belongs to others, whether property, opportunity, money, power, privacy. We're just too nice, lazy or timid to tell criminals to go to hell, especially when they wear business attire. We're probably scared and stared down as much as we are dumbed down. The glaring example going on right now is Bush's Treasury Secretary funneling billions to his golfing buddies at Goldman, while telling the gullible that he is saving American jobs and homes. Less than 10 weeks and he still has the key to the public vault, is known to have been one of the masterminds of the credit swindle, but precious few Americans are demanding his resignation. We deserve to go broke. The problem most liberal arts-educated Americans of middle or working class background have dealing with the two government loudmouths you write about is that there exists no override mechanism in our default tolerance by which we can slam the door of social acceptance on these people. A simple flowchart of known values and variables would not need many arrows and ifs and thens to conclude that these characters are nothing but criminals, disguising their motives with patriotism and religion. Criminals, by which I mean people who covet and take that which rightfully belongs to others, whether property, opportunity, money, power, privacy. We’re just too nice, lazy or timid to tell criminals to go to hell, especially when they wear business attire. We’re probably scared and stared down as much as we are dumbed down. The glaring example going on right now is Bush’s Treasury Secretary funneling billions to his golfing buddies at Goldman, while telling the gullible that he is saving American jobs and homes. Less than 10 weeks and he still has the key to the public vault, is known to have been one of the masterminds of the credit swindle, but precious few Americans are demanding his resignation. We deserve to go broke.

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