YOU Want the Economy To Fail!
Friday, December 12th, 2008 at
5:02 pm
Yes YOU, if you opposed the auto maker bailout, want the economy to fail. YOU are a reckless ideologue. YOU don’t want to solve problems. YOU want the US to suck up a Depression. YOU are extraordinarily irresponsible.
So says Harry Reid and the Left side of the blogosphere. If you want fiscal responsibility out of our government, you’re irresponsible.
And in January, this line of thinking will hold even more sway in Washington, DC. Hold on to your wallets, ladies and gentlemen. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
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Wow. Stinks being called the “enemy” merely because you disagree with a policy, huh?
Yeah, especially when the policy being disagreed with is destined to make America economically weaker. I take it you’re trying to draw an analogy with disagreeing with going after those who attacked us. When the reflexively anti-war crowd opposed any sort of intervention on our own behalf, I’d say that’s a different animal. That sort of policy encourages our national enemies, which then, it can arguably said, puts those reflexive folks in the camp of the enemy.
Republicans are, by their lights, trying to minimize the damage to the economy. I appreciate that the anti-war crowd thinks the same thing, but existential threats are orders of magnitude more important, and history has shown that line of thinking, that sort of policy, only emboldens those who want to do us harm.
Don’t forget; almost *everyone* thought we were due for another terrorist incident in the months after 9/11. 7 years later, Bush’s policies, contrary to Democrats’ assertions to the contrary, have kept the US safe.
OK, maybe I’m reading too much into your comment, but I believe you may be drawing equivalences that aren’t quite equivalent.
And by the way, remember that YOU are being called this by the guys you voted for, Dan. Remember this when tallying up which party you support. This is a huge, foundational policy principle being exhibited.
That is why I’m not strictly speaking a Democrat (although I’m registered as such). I’m a Green kind of guy. The Green Party folk, I would guess, would tend to be against this idea. Or at least amongst my like-minded progressive friends.
At the same time, I will note that this is a bad situation we find ourselves in. Three million jobs, I’ve heard, are at stake. And so, I DO understand the reluctance of the Dems in Congress (and many Republicans, too, including the President) to just let them sink and lose all those jobs.
I’m not dogmatic on this point. I’ll gladly admit, I don’t know what the answer is. Losing 3 million jobs would likely suck. Ultimately, I’m opposed to the bailout, but I’m sympathetic to Bush and the others who are leaning that way.
On that, I gotta agree with you. Not knowing what the longer term effects might be, some are opting for easing the short-term pain. Can certainly understand that thinking.
But the vast amounts of money that are being poured into this just seem like we’re propping things up artificially, only to have, if it all really collapses, a loss of 3 million jobs and massive debt that has 3 million people less paying taxes. Even if it does save those 3 million now and we avoid a collapse, how many folks will not have a job while we’re digging ourselves out of this?
Tough questions, to be sure. But cheap debt got us into this, and I don’t believe more debt will get us out of it.
I’d posit a lot of things got us into “this,” not merely cheap debt. Unsustainable living got us into this. Unjust policies got us into this. Poor planning on the automakers got them into this. Selfish car choices and demands for cheap energy got us into this.
Many things have got us into this, it seems to me. Living more responsibly – societally, corporately and individually – will be what begins to get us out.
Just like AIG, the auto companies will be back begging for more taxpayer money.
Free markets cleanse themselves of outdated business models and it is not up to taxpayers to keep these failed businesses afloat.