"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse."
Ease up people. He had to "Burn the Village In Order to Save It."
Posted on 12/16/2008 3:08:12 PM PST by Star Traveler
US President George W. Bush said in an interview Tuesday he was forced to sacrifice free market principles to save the economy from "collapse."
"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse."
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Really? Well you’re going to stay disappointed aren’t you? Because we have a real socialist coming in, and you won’t be able to blame Pres. Bush anymore, will you?
"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse."
Ease up people. He had to "Burn the Village In Order to Save It."
The policies of FDR excaberated the Great Depression, they didn't alleviate them.
Moreover, Obama's offering to build roads and dig ditches in all 50 states in the bid to create "jobs" is a joke. How many insurance adjusters, car salesmen, retail managers, and real estate agents are going to sign up to build roads (or even know how?)
This isn't the 1930's, where the majority of Americans were blue collar.
It may created some jobs..............for Illegal Aliens from Mexico that will start pouring over the border again. That is probably Obama's intent after all.
Hand out more money the government does not have. Have our leaders gone stupid?
"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse. I am sorry we're having to do it."
I'd say he said it.
Bernard Madoff for Treasury Secretary.
The US Treasury is the next "Ponzi Scheme" to be exposed.
Ditto: "Here's another pair of shoes at ya!" lol
I wish Bush would spend his remaining days in Office trying to pass some common sense Shoe Control legislation.
“Oh no..., I hope that doesn’t mean that Sharia law is next...”
No, I don’t think he Bush will go that far. If he had another few years, probably.
In other words, he's going to wreck the economy to save it. Brilliant - embracing socialism to save a free market. It's never worked before so why try it again?
Adolph Hitler did pretty much this same sh!t. did you agree with his national socialism?
They are setting us up for greater ruin, slightly postponed.
>>So we have a hostile takeover to look forward to? Great.
It already happened, not all at once, but in stages.
Sort of like "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
Shameful, disgraceful and utterly, stupidly WRONG.
Your analogy is mistaken. The market is simply the set of all human action, and isn’t a “patient” that learned doctors can “treat”. Politicians don’t create wealth (but can destroy it), and they do not run the economy, and although they can make a simulacrum of prosperity by printing more money, this temporary pseudo-prosperity will ultimately crumble.
Only trouble is that fact is right under America’s nose.
About your graphic, all I know is the word starts with an f....
You said — “Your analogy is mistaken.”
Analogies are simply word-tools, to give someone else a “view” and a perspective on the other person’s “look” at a situation. And also, analogies don’t “form reality” — they “speak to it” (that is, “what it is”).
In that light, an analogy, in the form that it is meant, is not *basically* wrong or right — because it simply allows someone to see what that other viewpoint is. You’re barking up the wrong tree to say that the “analogy” is wrong — when the analogy shows, very well, where Bush and Cheney are coming from. In that sense, the analogy does its job very effectively.
In other words, you might say and argue that Bush and Cheney are wrong in what they are doing, but *that* would not mean that the “analogy” of what they are doing is wrong. The analogy would be *perfect* (as an explanation of the viewpoint) — it’s the “underlying basis* that you’re saying you don’t agree with (i.e., more like something from a “computer model” of the economy, for example...)
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You said — The market is simply the set of all human action, and isn’t a “patient” that learned doctors can “treat”.
As I said, an analogy is for the purpose of understanding what the “viewpoint” is of the speaker (which, in this case, comes from Bush and Cheney and what they’re saying). Analogies don’t “work backwards”, in other words, you don’t work *from* an analogy and then “form the basis for facts on the ground” from that analogy... LOL...
You’re trying to say that the analogy isn’t any good, because it’s not a good “model” that one can work from and accurately predict behavior or circumstances “from such analogy”. Well..., it’s not meant to “work backwards” and form fact and be a “model”.
AND..., Bush and Cheney have all their own financial guys with all their “real models” (on computer, most likely and according to their studies) to do that — and you can bet that they are not forming “policy” from “analogies”... LOL...
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And furthermore, all analogies are only useful “on the surface” (precisely because they are not “models” for predictions, and even “models” are deficient, somewhat, in that area). In other words, analogies work on a “surface level” but not on a “micro-level”. All analogies break down, when one drills down to deeper levels. But, that’s not a defect of analogies, because they are not meant for that purpose. That’s simply not the kind of “word-tool” that an analogy is.
So, once again, they are “word-tools” in order to have an understanding of the perspective of the speaker of that analogy — and in that light, it does give you the perspective of the viewpoint of Bush and Cheney.
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