You are arguing like a liberal. Bush was a fool.
The Swine Flu pig market crash was an act of G-d crisis. Like a weather event, tornado, hurricane. H1N1 FLU! Not a self inflicted crisis like the auto market or the credit market bubble. The auto industry needed to go bankrupt to self correct the union bloat. The financial sector also should have gone bankrupt and let the market reset itself. You are conflating the issue. Apples and Oranges. Did the market or government contribute to the H1N1 flu? All told the government spent peanuts on this act-of-G-d induced pig buy. And you want to make a big deal about it.
Bachmann is correct to view infrastructure, roads and bridges as non-pork earmarks. The federal highway system must be maintained. The difference is that she does not believe in sticking them in Omnibus bills in the dead of night but should be visible in a transportation bill for all to see and vote on. Are you saying the Federal government should not maintain roads and bridges?
ROFL.. act of god? sure it was. You know all those alerts and bullitens and pandemic fears that the government stoked for years including under the bush admin. color me shocked that people over reacted.
so you are saying that the free market doens’t work in an act of god crisis? interesting. i guess there are only SOMETIMEs that the free market can work then. all other times we need Government to come save us.
so let’s see what would have happened if the government did not bail out the pork industry becaus eof this act of god.
Hmmm..... demand dries up, there is an oversupply of pork. Pork producers must drop their price to stimulate demand. consumers due to the lower demand buy the oversupply of ork, some even oh my buy extra since its on sale and freeze the pork. producers make less, consumers save money that can be used to buy more pork or buy other things like flu medicine, or masks, or a new pair of jeans or what have you.
Pork producers produce less pork next time. the demand comes back and there might by a shortage of pork. the price goes up. producers make more money, consumers have to cut back and more pork producers enter the market.
Or we can do it your and Bachmanns way. the demand for Pork goes down. the government steps in and bids up the price of pork using taxpayer money. The producers make more money then they should have, the consumer gets screwed and everyone looks towards the government for the next bailout.
Look either you believe in the free market or you believe that Government is the answer.
next you will be telling me the government needs to step into the free market to stop price increases during a crisis.
you just got done telling me that Palin’s earmars were pork. they went to roads, bridges etc.. so when Palin requests those raodway funds its pork but when bachmann does it isn’t?
yeah ok.