So heartless.'The Republican convention didn’t turn me off of libertarians, but I started losing respect for the movement while watching the financial meltdown. Libertarians were (rightly) furious when our government bailed out the banks, but they fought hardest against help for ordinary Americans. They hated unemployment insurance and reduced school lunches. I used to say similar things, but in such a catastrophic recession isn’t the government supposed to help? Isn’t that the lesson of the Great Depression?'
Wow, did he get all of that backwards. Government takeovers are not “help” at all.
We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot.
— Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt)
“...I started losing respect for the movement while watching the financial meltdown...”
Does he mean when 80 BILLION suddenly disappeared from the stock market in Sept of 2008 RIGHT before the election???
I’m still convinced Soros withdrew his $$$ to INSURE a Hussein victory.