Posted on 09/22/2008 5:30:34 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
This is the state of our great republic: We've nationalized the financial system, taking control from Wall Street bankers we no longer trust. We're about to quasi-nationalize the Detroit auto companies via massive loans because they're a source of American pride, and too many jobs — and votes — are at stake. Our Social Security system is going broke as we head for a future where too many retirees will be supported by too few workers. How long before we have national healthcare? Put it all together, and the America that emerges is a cartoonish version of the country most despised by red-meat red-state patriots: France. Only with worse food.
Admit it, mes amis, the rugged individualism and cutthroat capitalism that made America the land of unlimited opportunity has been shrink-wrapped by a half dozen short sellers in Greenwich, Conn. and FedExed to Washington D.C. to be spoon-fed back to life by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. We're now no different from any of those Western European semi-socialist welfare states that we love to deride. Italy? Sure, it's had four governments since last Thursday, but none of them would have allowed this to go on; the Italians know how to rig an economy.
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ORly? I'd say we're getting a hammer stroke from both sides. Things were shaky, but recovering when the GOP had control of Congress and Bush was RINO'ing his way through things. The wheels came off the bus when Nasty Pelosi took the House gavel.
Smells like the post office scam (stamps) the congress pulled of a few years ago.
I hope the author is just satirizing stereotypes, ‘cuz the biggies doing the fleecing in this one are Democrats: Raines, Johnson, Gorelick, come to mind.
I’d agree, to an extent. I’ve had some disaffection with the plethora of RINO’s infesting our government for some time now. They bear some culpability for being so spineless in the face of the Enemies of Freedom.
Man, how stupid am I? All I have to do to make money in the stock market is be a Republican! Damn! How'd I miss that? Wait a minute...even more important...I am a Republican and I'm not rich. How'd that happen? Oh, that's right. You guys taxed all my income and wealth away for entitlement programs to buy votes from those unproductive people who don't work at my expense. How silly of me to forget.
And while we're here, isn't just a little hypocritical for the Times to be bashing Socialism? You guys tout the Democrat candidate and his philosophy at every turn, but now your bitching about it? Seems a tad two-faced to me.
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