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Posted on 07/19/2010 2:56:39 PM PDT by downtownconservative
As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations, and opinion leaders stretching from the National Review magazine (and the Wall Street Journal) on the right to the Nation magazine on the left, agreed that spending some $700 billion to buy the investors' "toxic assets" was the only alternative to the U.S. economy's "systemic collapse."
In this, President George W. Bush and his would-be Republican successor John McCain agreed with the Democratic candidate, Barack Obama. Many, if not most, people around them also agreed upon the eventual commitment of some 10 trillion nonexistent dollars in ways unprecedented in America. They explained neither the difference between the assets' nominal and real values, nor precisely why letting the market find the latter would collapse America.
The public objected immediately, by margins of three or four to one.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
“This article needs to go virile.”
It would help if it went viral as well. Then it would be potent and widespread ;-)
First posted here on FR on 7/8.
Duplicates:
This here has become the Preferred!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2553634/posts 122
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2554512/posts 40
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2554945/posts 16
Earliest, 7/8
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2548923/posts 14
The article is also very series and hugh. :)
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