Posted on 03/28/2009 1:44:34 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Biden: 'Save the markets from free marketeers' @ 3:45 pm by Michael O'Brien
Vice President Biden, echoing President Franklin Roosevelt's famous admonition about saving capitalism from capitalists, urged world leaders on Saturday help "save the markets from free marketeers."
Biden made the remarks while speaking Saturday at the Progressive Governance Conference in Vina del Mar, Chile.
The assembled leaders "have to, in a sense, save the markets from free marketeers right now," Biden said in remarks released by the White House. "And the essence of that requires transparency and accountability."
The remarks could be interpreted as an ideological shot-across-the-bow at conservatives, who often emphasize the primacy of market forces in an economy.
Biden spoke of building a "new foundation" for the economy based on pragmatic considerations.
"I think the answer lies less in ideological prescriptions than it does in practical applications of the circumstances we face," Biden said.
Save freedom from those who are making use of freedom.
Yes, let’s turn our markets over to his friend Soros instead.
To a DemonRAT idiot like Biden, those are words that mean “we don't have a clue about what we're doing, don't have the time to read the laws we are passing, and will find a way to blame it all on someone else when we get caught.” The only transparency in the Obama administration is that we conservatives can see you for the bottom feeding scum sucking liar that you are.
Biden is Tonto to Obortion’s Kinosabe
Our real problem is that we have all too many who bullheadedly pretend that we have free market situations when we don’t. US firms have for decades been put in disadvantageous competitive circumstances by “free trade” agreements that tolerate endless barriers to US products, and that have built our trade deficit from less than $100 billion to $700 billion in two or three decades.
Time to stop pretending and require equal access to markets from trading partners, and time to recognize that few international markets are actually free markets.
Wow...Good points.
The first real “free market” post. Yes we have too many bad trade deals that put barriers on US products...and too many support “free trade” over “free market”
And, Biden is a big supporter of Free Trade...as well as Socialism. He is the total anathema to free markets.
its up there with Bush’s: Save capitalism with socialism
Another gem from Plugs...
No argument there.
I never get tired of pointing out that the above means we need more free trade agreements, not fewer.
Actually, if you think about it, Joe Biden sounds a lot like you.
Save politics from the politicians.
Pat Buchanan. Joe Biden. Separated at birth?
Joe Biden, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Dianne Feinstein, Karl Marx, etc....all agree with you on Free Trade
Read above post....
Marx argued that free trade would lead to a proletarian revolution. Just between you and me [Connie Chung], how deeply do you hold that view?
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