[GoghGoner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('fireplaceguy', 'A') better idea of the future. Right. That's why he's going to plow hundreds of billions into crooked banks and make-work highway programs.

Fiat money and highways. Barry valiantly channeled Lincoln but we ended up with Eisenhower...

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GoghGoner', 'S')o you propose to let the banks fail and then what? We go back to the barter system? Credit disappears and we have unbelievable unemployment? Why not try to spend our way out? Is it really going to be any worse in the long run?

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GoghGoner', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('fireplaceguy', 'A') better idea of the future. Right. That's why he's going to plow hundreds of billions into crooked banks and make-work highway programs.

Fiat money and highways. Barry valiantly channeled Lincoln but we ended up with Eisenhower...

[GoghGoner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'T')he free market system. You should try it some time.

[AirlinePilot]

Gogh,

The longer you wait to "cleanse" the system and impose some sort of sanity and conservative banking process the worse the end game becomes.

The time for forcing the toxic crap out into the open, orderly forcing bankruptcy of insolvent institutions, and reopening new and solvent banks with the remains is probably over. That is what should have been done last year.

Spending our way out of it is not the answer and leads most likely to governmental default and depression. Personally I think the window of opportunity is closed at this point. Too much effort is being expended on BAU and pasting over the problem with no one willing to take responsibility for it.

Short term pain is far better than long term depression and social dislocation. That is where we are headed with the current handling of this crisis. Wishing and hoping doesnt work very well either.

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GoghGoner', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'T')he free market system. You should try it some time.

[GoghGoner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'I') never said it wouldn't be bad. Now get your thieving hands out of my billfold and off my tax money for your corrupt CEOs.

[Jotapay]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GoghGoner', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'I') never said it wouldn't be bad. Now get your thieving hands out of my billfold and off my tax money for your corrupt CEOs.

[Serial_Worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GoghGoner', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', 'I') never said it wouldn't be bad. Now get your thieving hands out of my billfold and off my tax money for your corrupt CEOs.

[yeahbut]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yeahbut', 'N')o doubt the backlash, when all the hot air and hoopla has cooled down and it becomes apparent that the recession/depression will not be turned around with a magic obama wand, will be correspondingly extreme. It will be interesting to see how long that process takes.

[mos6507]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AirlinePilot', '
')Short term pain is far better than long term depression and social dislocation.

[da23]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AirlinePilot', ' ')Short term pain is far better than long term depression and social dislocation. That is where we are headed with the current handling of this crisis. Wishing and hoping doesnt work very well either.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Jotapay', ' ')Let the bad businesses fail and let new entrepreneurs take their place. It is healthy, like fire on the prairie.

[GoghGoner]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('yeahbut', ' ')If people are stupid enough to think that one man is gonna make everything better, then they are also stupid enough to blame it all on him when, instead, it gets worse. This pres has just got his hands on the old 'poisoned chalice', the election you don't want to win, the hospital pass.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Serial_Worrier', '
')I should stop listening to political talk radio, just more of the nauseating bullshit.

[AirlinePilot]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AirlinePilot', '
')Short term pain is far better than long term depression and social dislocation.

[coloncleanse]

You mean changes like stop taking my tax dollars to give to uber-rich montetary mafioso so they can make multi million dollar incomes while lending money to teir rich kids businesses which they cant run?

Forget it.

This system is going to crash and the mafia are going to suffer, live with it.
The white house toilet flushed, but there is still scum in the bowel.

Let Obama the tidy bowl man fire all the 2nd sand third mafia the clinton bush team packed into DC.

Good riddance.

[Serial_Worrier]

Fuck Obama and every single idiot who voted for him. Their increasingly unbearable triumphalist displays will lead to a massive blowback that will make the Civil War look like a day in the park.

[fireplaceguy]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GoghGoner', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('fireplaceguy', 'A') better idea of the future. Right. That's why he's going to plow hundreds of billions into crooked banks and make-work highway programs.

Fiat money and highways. Barry valiantly channeled Lincoln but we ended up with Eisenhower...