And yet...

They have not spent the TARP money on what they said, and they won't say how they're spending it, but you call that 'doing nothing'.

Just because YOU don't know what they're doing, doesn't mean they're doing nothing.  They're doing the same stuff they've been doing for 100 years to make us poorer, just more effectively, now.

Maybe if we give them more power, we'll all be enslaved or dead sooner.  How long will the American republic last when all its citizens are taxed into poverty to support the elite?  Will we still call ourselves the land of the free, while we slave for the state?

If we actually DO need more regulation, we should place that regulation on the power of the politicians to take from us and give to well-connected losers.

by UncleSim (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 198 comments) on Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 9:37:45 AM
 

Don't blame Bush

Hi Allen,

Don't blame Bush; Nobody can manage a system that doesn't work.

He came to office with a $5 Trillion National Debt and approximately doubled it over 8 years.  That is a relatively 'normal' rate in our insane mathematical world.  In fact, the dot-com boom of the 90's had a lot to do with this new implosion.  Bust must follow boom.  But as the numbers get bigger, the pain grows worse.

 I am not saying his denial doesn't make the situation worse, but the denial on the other side of the aisle is just as great.  Denial is the great consensus. :-)

 The middle-class brought this crisis upon themselves.  Social Security was created because speculation destroyed the economy.  Now people regularly speculate (invest) because they fear Social Security won't be "enough."  Thus, they destroy the thing that was meant to help them, and re-create the same problem they were trying to escape.  As easy as it is to blame the leaders, the problem lies with the majority: the middle-class. 

There is more to this story, in a mathematical sense, but the person people should be blaming for this mess is themselves.  Using Bush as a straw-man or whipping boy isn't going to solve anything.

peace,

steve 

by Steve Consilvio (15 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 159 comments) on Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 11:13:08 AM
 

RIVERO'S RULE

The buck stops with Bush because of Rivero's Rule ~ all organizations and countries will eventually reflect the moral integrity and character of its leaders.

The Bush/Cheney administration has been an unregulated crime syndicate and the economy and stock market eventually became an unregulated crime syndicate whose principle driving force was and still is greed.

We have yet to fully open Pandora's box on the full extent of the abuses of power manifested and condoned by this administration. 

Allen L Roland

by Allen L Roland (952 articles, 7 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 369 comments) on Sunday, November 23, 2008 at 3:33:50 PM