Posted on 12/16/2008 3:08:12 PM PST by Star Traveler
Definition of sacrifice:
1 : an act of offering something precious to God or a god; especially : the killing of a victim on an altar
Sacrificing the free market system will not make you a martyr GWB!!! It makes you an idiot RINO and worse!!!!!!!
Those "extreme measures" OUGHT to be free market principles. Not the other way around.
The last president to say that was FDR, and look what we got. Bush abandoned free-market principles because he and his advisors aren't real free-market believers and so they are too dense to think up free-market solutions to the problem. Their knee-jerk reaction--from the begining of the administration forward--has been to spend like there's no tomorrow.
Extreme measures that in the long run will only make things much worse.
There’s a bigger picture than just tomorrow.
Really what we had were massive previous govt. interventions such as the forces that produced the whole “sub-prime” fiasco which did so much to subvert private enterprise valuations of properties, mortgages, etc.
So once the govt. (led by demented Demagogues like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd) had screwed things up badly enough, the cry goes up for vastly more govt. intervention to “save” the economy.
You said — “Only a damn fool would say it let alone believe it. I don’t care what he “knows”. Unless this is the plan they have all along - to rend the free market we have and amalgamate it with the rest of the world. Are you for that?”
I don’t think Bush or Cheney are fools. Cheney has always been regarded around here as very smart and astute. Apparently that must only be true if Cheney agrees with whomever the poster may be, at the time... LOL...
But, really, they’ve got the details at their hands and know a lot more than you or I do. I think they are right. It does require extreme measures, in order to save the economy...
I’ve been saying that I’m sure we’re sinking into a Great Depression. And that being the case, we had better “go to war” in regards to the economy. And “wartime” requires extreme measures (which the government is already engaged in at the present time, anyway...).
I’m not for undoing the free market system any more than I would be for being in a continual “state of war”. Being in a state of war is a temporary measure until you’ve won the war. And likewise, taking extreme measures is temporary until the Great Depression is over.... (it hasn’t really taken hold yet, though, but you’ll see it in 2009 and on...).
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it”
And they had to burn the village in order to save it.
Using that logic, Mr. Bush, did ya also vote for Obama?
You said — “How will we recover from three or four trillion dollars of debt?”
Inflate it to the rest of the world, like we’ve been doing for the last 40 years... :-)
Sacrificed principle? Why did he hold these so-called principles if they don’t work. We are in this mess because we do not have free markets but government interference, regulation, fiat money, etc. The man is a total idiot. He is telling the world that freedom does not work. Good riddance. Here’s another pair of shoes at ya.
I’d think sacrificing Democrats would be more efficacious in saving the economy. Not to mention more emotionally satisfying. Who’s got the knife?
(No actual Democrats were harmed in the making of this post.)
Agreed, the small brained one seems to be hell bent on repeating the failed FDR Presidency.
You said — “And they had to burn the village in order to save it.”
Yes, I heard that was a strategy during the Viet Nam war... :-)
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it”.
Creeping and galloping socialism wrecked the free-market economy, so he brought more socialism in to save the economy. Hmmm.
You said — “Here’s another pair of shoes at ya.”
Oh no..., I hope that doesn’t mean that Sharia law is next...
Bush and Cheney are socialists (Compassionate Conservatives), socialists think of socialist(compassionate) solutions. The best thing they could have done was keep their filthy mitts off of the economy.
What prolonged the great depression was Government intervention. We need less, not more.
Bush’s comment is strikingly familiar to the logic used by the AP reporter who claimed that the cooling temps of the Earth are proof of global warming. Moron’s and sell-outs need to be purged from the goverment ASAP.
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