> RoMunn wrote: > Once again Bizarro-Gruss rears his head. Please quote me or retract your > lie. >
"I agree with the bank bailout", "Gutting anti-trust was a mistake" See, what you don't understand is that economic "freedom" = Laissez Faire; in other words, no regulation. That's libertarianism. In a perfect world, that'd be my choice. But if you favor ANY regulation - Glass-Stegal, Anti-trust, SEC - then you're not a libertarian. So you can see your hypocrisy: you can't say you want economic freedom until a crisis and then go all wobbly in the knees and cry for mommy to bailout the banks or strengthen anti-trust. Therefore the only argument is *how much* regulation. My point is simple: the crisis just answer that question for us. The US population has voted for enough regulation to prevent a crisis and enough government intervention to bail us out if there is one. By your own words, you're in that camp. So all I'm saying is if, as a tax payer, I have to pay for all the mistakes then I want to minimize that cost by preventing them in the first place. Preventing a crisis in the first place is going to mean institutions like Healthcare, Retirement, Economic Regulation, and Defense. You playing the have-cake-and-eat-it game: saying you want safety, but just don't want to pay for it. And that's the lie, that's the snake oil: selling people on, say, the elimination of social security. The end result of such a policy is obvious: crisis. One I'll have to pay for. And cleaning up a crisis is always WAY more expensive and WAY more unfair then preventing it. So as a taxpayer I'm taking the realistic policy route and you're continuing with the lie. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:292551 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
