In case you were wondering that in the midst of all the drama on the Democratic side of the aisle it was possible for the Republican party to remain brain dead on the seminal issues of our time… wonder no more.
Sen. John McCain on Tuesday rejected calls by his Democratic opponents for universal health coverage, [...]
I was thinking about this but then someone actually did the work. One of the major issues I wrote about on this blog back after 9/11 was about the free money congress and the president handed to the airlines. Just let them die. Trust the market, and let them die. I fear that my sentiments [...]
Wall Street and the right want to eat their cake and have it too. They want vital financial institutions to be left alone, given free reign to do as they wish – but when they screw up and cause a ripple effect throughout the economy they come running to the government for a no-strings-attached bailout.
Eh-eh.
You [...]
The free market is no good if there are no rules.
I fail to understand what the purpose is of the free market if we’re going to engage in socialism and bail out companies like Bear Sterns who claim to be masters of capitalism. This reminds me of the free money the government gave to the airlines after 9/11 that they subsequently used to make their [...]
