Holy crap! The chickens have come home to roost.
Bear and Stearns
Lehman Brothers
Merril Lnych
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
AIG
WAMU.
Gone. Toast. Crashed and burned. Or, on the verge of.
Any blithering fool who continues to vote for conservative/libertarian-leaning policy makers, you deserve what you get. You’re either a God damn idiot, or you’ve drunk so long from the partisan kool aid that you are no longer capable of making rational, adult voting decisions.
There’s not a shred of doubt: this clusterfuck was enabled by “small government, less regulations” morons. Yes, that’s right….utter fucking morons from the Alan Greenspan/Ayn Rand/Milton Friedman/Ron Paul school of idiots.
The subprime crises was directly the result of “free markets” unrestrained by any kind of public/governmental oversight. Yes, we know that some centrist DLC democratic enablers helped Republicans design this fucking disaster…so we are all prepared for the pathetic ”Democrats do it to!” whines from Superfreak, Damocles, and the other kool aid drunk enablers of “free market” extremism. Take the perfumed handkerchief from your tear stained cheeks, and own up to your catastrophe; a disaster of your ideology’s making.
Bernie Sanders and Naomi Klein don’t look so God damn crazy now, do they?
Here’s a clue, Cons: this clusterfuck was not the fault of too much government. This was a complete and unmitigated free market disaster. The financial institutions had complete free reign to do whatever the fuck they wanted: packaging crazy ass financial instruments, bogus securities, and bad loans sold on lies and deception. Government “got out of the way” and an orgy of financial mismanagement, and short-sighted robber baron profiteering ensued. Damn, who could have predicted that? Oh, I know….liberals did. Its hard to contemplate a more disastrous testament to the lack of even the most modest amount of public oversight to protect the nation’s interests and the public welfare.
“Get government out of the way”? Are you freaking kidding me? Capitalism is not a metaphor or equivalent of freedom. Subjugating your nation’s interests to free markets and profit motives is a moronic way to run a country. Capitalism is an economic tool that needs relatively strict regulation and oversight by democratic public institutions that are capable of balancing profit motive versus public interest. I hope to God some wingnuts have learned that the libertarian/Con fantasy about how unfettered corporate overlords will behave responsibly if only they have to live with the threat that some Joe Blow might take them to civil court and sue them for malfeasance. L-O-fucking-L.
The reality is, most Cons will never own up to a disaster of their own making. Expect to see the standard Con threads fretting about lefty “socialist” transgressions like smoking bans in San Francisco, trans-fat bans in NYC, or paranoid hand wringing about Hugo Chavez, even as they continue to drive us over the cliff with their whacked out economic theories.
Should we even bring up what deregulation has done to food and consumer product safety, under the laughable policies of the Milton Friedman-bots? Or what ideological “free market” solutions have done to healthcare access? Or should we let Red Staters live with the consequences of their voting choices?
Congratulations, small government free marketeer wingnuts. You just enabled what Alan Greenspan has called the worst financial meltdown in his lifetime – perhaps in this century. Gee, Mr. Alan Greenspan, the blood is on your hands too. Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Even an average Joe from Kentucky – e.g., USCitizen – was telling us where this was headed years ago, to the laughs and derision of Con/Libertarian message board posters.
So, next time you go to pull the lever for some asshole who promotes “free market” ideology – for some Nimrod who blathers on about getting “government out of the way” – maybe you should freaking remember what the ultimate results of your ideology were….what happened when you finally had your way and got rid of government oversight and some core safeguards against capitalism run amuck.
USC was right. Desh was right. I was right. Darla was right. Midcan was right. Bernie Sanders was right. LadyT was right. Ralph Nader was right. Barbara Boxer was right. Naomi Klein was right. .
Who was wrong?
Anyone who ever spent a nanosecond defending conservative deregulation schemes and issuing pathetic manifestos about “getting government out of the way”. These sad saps should be laughed out of cyberspace. Maybe there are some internet sports forums where your gridiron advice for the Green Bay Packers might be useful and welcome. Because your advice on economics and government are now demonstrably laughable. This capitulation of Con ideology would be hilarious, if the Mofos weren't driving us over the cliff along with them!
It’s taken eight freaking years of war crimes, incompetence, and fiscal mismanagement to get me to the point where I conclude that most ideological conservatives shouldn’t even be elected to dog catcher. Maybe they’d make good cannon fodder in the Iraq War, but unfortunately nobody can get them to volunteer to go fight in their war.
And in other news...I’m laughing my ass off at cons who spent years railing against the influence of the religious rightwing – and yet are now cheering on that religious theocrat freak Sarah Palin. I knew ya’ll were poseurs!
Bear and Stearns
Lehman Brothers
Merril Lnych
Fannie Mae
Freddie Mac
AIG
WAMU.
Gone. Toast. Crashed and burned. Or, on the verge of.
Any blithering fool who continues to vote for conservative/libertarian-leaning policy makers, you deserve what you get. You’re either a God damn idiot, or you’ve drunk so long from the partisan kool aid that you are no longer capable of making rational, adult voting decisions.
There’s not a shred of doubt: this clusterfuck was enabled by “small government, less regulations” morons. Yes, that’s right….utter fucking morons from the Alan Greenspan/Ayn Rand/Milton Friedman/Ron Paul school of idiots.
The subprime crises was directly the result of “free markets” unrestrained by any kind of public/governmental oversight. Yes, we know that some centrist DLC democratic enablers helped Republicans design this fucking disaster…so we are all prepared for the pathetic ”Democrats do it to!” whines from Superfreak, Damocles, and the other kool aid drunk enablers of “free market” extremism. Take the perfumed handkerchief from your tear stained cheeks, and own up to your catastrophe; a disaster of your ideology’s making.
Bernie Sanders and Naomi Klein don’t look so God damn crazy now, do they?
Here’s a clue, Cons: this clusterfuck was not the fault of too much government. This was a complete and unmitigated free market disaster. The financial institutions had complete free reign to do whatever the fuck they wanted: packaging crazy ass financial instruments, bogus securities, and bad loans sold on lies and deception. Government “got out of the way” and an orgy of financial mismanagement, and short-sighted robber baron profiteering ensued. Damn, who could have predicted that? Oh, I know….liberals did. Its hard to contemplate a more disastrous testament to the lack of even the most modest amount of public oversight to protect the nation’s interests and the public welfare.
“Get government out of the way”? Are you freaking kidding me? Capitalism is not a metaphor or equivalent of freedom. Subjugating your nation’s interests to free markets and profit motives is a moronic way to run a country. Capitalism is an economic tool that needs relatively strict regulation and oversight by democratic public institutions that are capable of balancing profit motive versus public interest. I hope to God some wingnuts have learned that the libertarian/Con fantasy about how unfettered corporate overlords will behave responsibly if only they have to live with the threat that some Joe Blow might take them to civil court and sue them for malfeasance. L-O-fucking-L.
The reality is, most Cons will never own up to a disaster of their own making. Expect to see the standard Con threads fretting about lefty “socialist” transgressions like smoking bans in San Francisco, trans-fat bans in NYC, or paranoid hand wringing about Hugo Chavez, even as they continue to drive us over the cliff with their whacked out economic theories.
Should we even bring up what deregulation has done to food and consumer product safety, under the laughable policies of the Milton Friedman-bots? Or what ideological “free market” solutions have done to healthcare access? Or should we let Red Staters live with the consequences of their voting choices?
Congratulations, small government free marketeer wingnuts. You just enabled what Alan Greenspan has called the worst financial meltdown in his lifetime – perhaps in this century. Gee, Mr. Alan Greenspan, the blood is on your hands too. Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Even an average Joe from Kentucky – e.g., USCitizen – was telling us where this was headed years ago, to the laughs and derision of Con/Libertarian message board posters.
So, next time you go to pull the lever for some asshole who promotes “free market” ideology – for some Nimrod who blathers on about getting “government out of the way” – maybe you should freaking remember what the ultimate results of your ideology were….what happened when you finally had your way and got rid of government oversight and some core safeguards against capitalism run amuck.
USC was right. Desh was right. I was right. Darla was right. Midcan was right. Bernie Sanders was right. LadyT was right. Ralph Nader was right. Barbara Boxer was right. Naomi Klein was right. .
Who was wrong?
Anyone who ever spent a nanosecond defending conservative deregulation schemes and issuing pathetic manifestos about “getting government out of the way”. These sad saps should be laughed out of cyberspace. Maybe there are some internet sports forums where your gridiron advice for the Green Bay Packers might be useful and welcome. Because your advice on economics and government are now demonstrably laughable. This capitulation of Con ideology would be hilarious, if the Mofos weren't driving us over the cliff along with them!
It’s taken eight freaking years of war crimes, incompetence, and fiscal mismanagement to get me to the point where I conclude that most ideological conservatives shouldn’t even be elected to dog catcher. Maybe they’d make good cannon fodder in the Iraq War, but unfortunately nobody can get them to volunteer to go fight in their war.
And in other news...I’m laughing my ass off at cons who spent years railing against the influence of the religious rightwing – and yet are now cheering on that religious theocrat freak Sarah Palin. I knew ya’ll were poseurs!
