The Spoiled Children of Capitalism

National Review Online ^ | August 01, 2008 | Jonah Goldberg

[safeasthebanks]

I admire your persistence but I really think you’re wasting your time with this....person.

[1rudeboy]

I don't understand it . . . I used to have semi-rational arguments with her, and now she just makes stuff up as she goes along.

I can see people trying to use the "throw everything against the wall and see what sticks" argument (and I'm sure it works in some cases), but against someone with whom you've been butting heads for years? I don't get it.

[1rudeboy]

Sorry, I should’ve included you in my last.

[Cacique]

btt

[JasonC]

X - damn - actly, and it drives me freaking nuts!

[JasonC]

Horsefeathers, the institutions you deride are the precise cause of your wellbeing, and you spit on them because you are an ungrateful useless cur. Spades are spades, and Jonah and I have got your number, sucker!

[Clemenza]

The good news is that most spoiled children wind up getting smacked by real life, and then learn to grow up. A small minority NEVER grow up, and wind up looking just pathetic as they age.

[JasonC]

Nope, it is you, you whining ingrate! Useless drone, get the heck out of my country and my conservative movement! Clear enough for ya?

[VegasCowboy]

Great column. BTTT.

[Let's Roll]

“Poverty is the default human condition. It is the factory preset of this mortal coil. As individuals and as a species, we are born naked and penniless, bereft of skills or possessions.”

[ravensandricks]

You really do have to buy his book. It’s indispensible - by far the best book I’ve read this year.

[TruthConquers]

Notary Sojac posted this on a similar thread:

“This is absolutely right, and I invite all Freepers to ponder this: What do the recent real estate bubble, liquidity crisis, and Federal bailouts of mortgage bankers say about the “laws”, “smarts”, and “cultural assumptions” of American in 2008?”

This was my response:

Not a whole h*ll of a lot. Can you say “moral hazard?” Eventually, even this country will fall because of a debased currency, like Zimbabwe.

Socialism kills freedom, every time it’s tried.

Your comment about the corporate interests getting government bailouts is a good analogy. Kudos to you!

[dirtboy]

Thanks. I ragged on Phil Graham because he has played a crucial role in allowing problems such as Enron to happen - and his wife profited immensely as a result.

For Graham then turn around and rag on working stiff Americans for complaining about the economic impact of government and corporate malfeasance is beyond arrogance. His personal wealth that insulates him from the impact of these policies is due largely to his actions that helped create the pain that working stiffs are now experiencing.

[TruthConquers]

The arrogance of the elites of BOTH parities is staggering. It sickens me. You are so right to point out their hypocrisy.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Thanks. I ragged on Phil Graham because he has played a crucial role in allowing problems such as Enron to happen

How did Phil Gramm allow Enron to fraudulently manipulate/misstate their earnings?

[TruthConquers]

You mean you don’t know about the law that Gramm was part of that ended the 1933 depression era law that was *supposed* to protect us peons? Or was that 1933 law just smoke and mirrors? How did getting rid of it in the 90’s help us today? Hmmm? Allows more “investment” houses to be bankers, how did that help? Has it made you rich?

[Toddsterpatriot]

You mean you don’t know about the law that Gramm was part of that ended the 1933 depression era law that was *supposed* to protect us peons?

Please show the part of that law that prevented Enron from fraudulently manipulating/misstating their earnings.

How did getting rid of it in the 90’s help us today?

Getting rid of it made lying about earnings suddenly legal? LOL!

[TruthConquers]

You don’t ask questions with any reason but to provoke people. And you haven’t answered ALL of my questions.

Please show me how the government bailout of the GSE that can’t even keep their books straight to this very day, is not more of the same?

[Toddsterpatriot]

You don’t ask questions with any reason but to provoke people.

Thanks for running away from your claim. That was easy!

Please show me how the government bailout of the GSE that can’t even keep their books straight to this very day, is not more of the same?

I've always thought the GSEs were a bad idea. Glad I could help.

[TruthConquers]

LOL!! Look who’s running away!

How old are you, five maybe?