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I knew I was going to get kicked off
Talking Points Memo ^ | August 23, 2009 | davidfarrar

Posted on 08/23/2009 8:08:15 AM PDT by DavidFarrar

And it didn't take long.

I always make it a point to re-post on at least one "left" blog. I do this in order to gain their perspective and judge it against my own.

The problem is, left sites don't seem to tolerate adverse views as much a conservative sites do.

Below is the post at Talking Points Memo that apparently did me in. It was a post concerning my main political interest: Our two-party system tends to divide the people to achieve the political interests of the few, instead of bringing people together for the common good of all.

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To: DavidFarrar

That doesn’t not happen all that often. Goobers in gooberment agencies are too expensive an insurance policy for any mind except Obama’s. One does have to ask how the Marxist hypothesis can survive amidst the plenty which America has produced.

An informed electorate does not have to play any game it does not wish to join.

Here, a man & wife can elect to live in other than a grossly metastasized, urban Big Sh*tty with the costs and moral/ethical challenges to child rearing.

When they do not wish to have their children warped by the publik skool mentality, they have other options. Etc., etc., etc..

Monopoly is usually the bastard offspring of government restriction into the market and short term greed of those in that market.

Alas, we are far from under supplied with either goobers or government.


61 posted on 08/23/2009 1:17:28 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: reagan_fanatic; DavidFarrar
The best way to regulate profit is not by government intervention, but by competition. Period. End of story.

Anytime the government gets involved in ANYTHING, matters get worse, not better.

Needs repeating.

62 posted on 08/23/2009 1:22:09 PM PDT by Eaker (If you have a problem and If explosives are an option then explosives are THE answer.)
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To: DavidFarrar
Thus it becomes the function of the state to regulate capitalism properly in order to insure the common good of all.

If Hitler left this tidbit out of Mein Kampf it was merely an oversight.

This statement is pure fascism.

63 posted on 08/23/2009 1:29:06 PM PDT by Eaker (If you have a problem and If explosives are an option then explosives are THE answer.)
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To: DavidFarrar

Competition gives profit all the “control” a free society should wish to place on it.


64 posted on 08/23/2009 1:41:23 PM PDT by Kansas58
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To: DavidFarrar

Newt is an idiot. So are you.


65 posted on 08/23/2009 1:49:52 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Eastbound
serve my fellow man

Its a cookbook!

66 posted on 08/23/2009 3:41:19 PM PDT by zeugma (Will it be nukes or aliens? Time will tell.)
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To: stylin_geek

No, the buyers should be held accountable; I agree. I do not agree that government owes them anything. To this day I don’t understand why the government got involved in restructuring their owns.

ex animo
davidfarrar


67 posted on 08/23/2009 6:22:00 PM PDT by DavidFarrar (davidfarrar)
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To: DavidFarrar
No one in their right mind believes unrestrained capitalism will regulate itself, as the recent mortgage crisis amply demonstrated.

Horse sh!t. The recent crisis was a direct result of governmental interference with normal functioning of the mortgage loan market. If there were no such thing as Fanny and Freddie, this never would have happened. People would have saved up 20% down as they always had to before, and there would have been no bubble in prices.

68 posted on 08/23/2009 7:01:17 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: DavidFarrar
Republicans, believing in smaller government, less taxes, more individual freedom, fought a good fight against the deregulation of the banking industry, but lost?

The Glass-Steagall Act was mostly repealed by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act in 1999, which passed with large bipartisan majorities, and was signed by Democratic President Bill Clinton.

Requests for better regulation of Fanny and Freddy were made by (among others) George W. Bush and John McCain on repeated occasions between 2002 and 2007. All were thwarted by Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, and the other Democrats who were happy to gamble your tax money and mine on a perpetually rising housing market.

You really don't have a clue what you're talking about, do you?

69 posted on 08/23/2009 7:06:24 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: DavidFarrar
No one in their right mind believes unrestrained capitalism will regulate itself, as the recent mortgage crisis amply demonstrated.

It did no such thing.

When the U.S. government, in the form of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, "encourages" (read "intimidates") mortgagers into making sub-prime loans for "affordable housing", then removes them from any liability by offering to buy the resultant mortgage -- regardless of risk -- what the hell do you think is going to happen?

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac created the housing bubble. And they caused the housing crash -- which took the rest of the economy down with it. And nobody is to blame other than the federal government, the 'Rats who ran Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, plus the 'Rats in Congress who enabled them.

Unrestrained government is a much bigger threat than "unrestrained capitalism".

70 posted on 08/23/2009 7:37:16 PM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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