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Biden: 'Save the markets from free marketeers'
The Hill ^

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhomarkets; biden; obama
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Save us from you..........socialist
1 posted on 03/28/2009 1:44:34 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Save freedom from those who are making use of freedom.


2 posted on 03/28/2009 1:47:48 PM PDT by Steely Tom (RKBA: last line of defense against vote fraud)
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To: Sub-Driver

Yes, let’s turn our markets over to his friend Soros instead.


3 posted on 03/28/2009 1:48:55 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
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To: Sub-Driver
“And the essence of that requires transparency and accountability.”

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.

5 posted on 03/28/2009 1:50:23 PM PDT by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 156)
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To: Sub-Driver
When I see guys like Biden, I wonder what his constituency is like. In his case, the entire state of Delaware must be half-wits.
6 posted on 03/28/2009 1:54:29 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (FUBO Kenyan Usurper - AntiCHRIST baby killing muslim !)
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To: bitterohiogunclinger

Biden is Tonto to Obortion’s Kinosabe


7 posted on 03/28/2009 1:54:35 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Sub-Driver

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.


8 posted on 03/28/2009 1:55:08 PM PDT by Will88
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To: Sub-Driver

9 posted on 03/28/2009 1:57:29 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Will88

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.


10 posted on 03/28/2009 2:01:07 PM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (The Biggest Threat To American Soverignty Is Rampant Economic Anti-Americanism)
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To: Madame Dufarge

its up there with Bush’s: Save capitalism with socialism


11 posted on 03/28/2009 2:01:14 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Sub-Driver

Another gem from Plugs...


12 posted on 03/28/2009 2:05:29 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Let the Revolution Commence!!!)
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To: 4rcane

No argument there.


13 posted on 03/28/2009 2:08:56 PM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: Will88
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.

I never get tired of pointing out that the above means we need more free trade agreements, not fewer.

14 posted on 03/28/2009 2:12:42 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

Actually, if you think about it, Joe Biden sounds a lot like you.


15 posted on 03/28/2009 2:15:13 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Sub-Driver

Save politics from the politicians.


16 posted on 03/28/2009 2:16:09 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Toddsterpatriot; Mase; expat_panama

Pat Buchanan. Joe Biden. Separated at birth?


17 posted on 03/28/2009 2:16:52 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Joe Biden, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Dianne Feinstein, Karl Marx, etc....all agree with you on Free Trade


18 posted on 03/28/2009 2:27:01 PM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (The Biggest Threat To American Soverignty Is Rampant Economic Anti-Americanism)
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To: 1rudeboy

Read above post....


19 posted on 03/28/2009 2:27:51 PM PDT by UCFRoadWarrior (The Biggest Threat To American Soverignty Is Rampant Economic Anti-Americanism)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior
I don't follow Democrat politics that closely, but if you are half as wrong about them as you are about Marx . . . .

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?

20 posted on 03/28/2009 2:30:32 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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