Comments on: UPDATED: Crazy Like A Fox (Bush & Laissez-Faire Capitalism)

By: George Pal

George Pal — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:57:50 +0000

Best post yet profiling two Ps (presidents) in a pod.

They were a matey pair, not personally, not psychologically, not philosophically, but effectively. The consequences of their actions were the same, as would be expected. The contradistinction of their ostensible motives, as polar as day and night, even if authentically so, were no small comfort – were no comfort at all.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:07:21 +0000

While I was picking my car up from getting it serviced, the president was on the lobby television, lambasting the republicans because they would not agree to dropping the tax cuts on the upper income Americans. He reminded me of why I left the church, all that hell fire and brimstone preaching from a self righteous bigot. Those rich people are selfishly holding on to 700 million or billion dollars (I missed the total) that America needs to pay its bills. I picked up my vehicle and left before he promised to use the money he collected (stole) wisely. No, he wouldn’t make any promise like that, would he.

By: Myron Pauli

Myron Pauli — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:41:26 +0000

Frankly, it might be due to cynicism and old age but Obama does NOT raise my blood pressure like he does to many “conservatives”. I generally find him to be a colossally inane bore. He doesn’t have the snake-oil salesman rogue personality of a Clinton. He doesn’t have that feckless goofy mangling of the English language of Dubya. He doesn’t have that hyperactivity of Bush # 1. As Shakespeare foretold in Macbeth, our modern Prince of Banality just utters a lot of “sound and fury signifying nothing”.

And what do most of these conservative warmongering Republicans have to be angry about? If Obama is the Messiah of Deficit Bailouts, Bush was his advance-man “John the Baptist”. And this is why I see little hope with the Tea Partiers
or Republican “Victory-in-2010”. Paul Gottfired writes about this in the American Conservative:

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2010/09/08/taming-the-tea-parties/

Most American “big business” (outside of startup industries like computer software) are basically neo-fascistic government contracting, government controlled, and government subsidized entities. Their largest shareholders are Unions, Saudi sheiks, and Bailed-out Bankster Hedge Funds. As you point out, Capitalism is the Unknown Ideal – the miniscule remnants which, like Atlas, support the much larger population of parasites (myself included).

By: Steve Hogan

Steve Hogan — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:33:44 +0000

So our Dear Overlords believes in lean and efficient government, eh? The fact that this didn’t elicit howls of laughter tells you how far gone we are as a country.

By: james huggins

james huggins — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:49:24 +0000

George Reisman is on to a complicated concept in a very simple, straight forward way. That paragraph of his in your WND column was a full semester of economics and civics in a few short lines. Bravo George Reisman and bravo Ilana Mercer for whole column.