Comments on: I HAVE COME NOT TO PRAISE CAPITALISM BUT TO BURY IT

By: doctor w g sumner

doctor w g sumner — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:34:29 +0000

I have a horrid vision of O becoming a Pol Pot or the judge who tried to “equalize” the Kansas City school system. Brother#1 got an idea that anyone in Cambodia who squinted must have hidden hisher exploiter runningdog eye glasses, so all Cambodians with poor eye sight were killed. Hopefully leveling the playing field in the New Era won’t go that far, but keep your borzhwazee fingers crossed.

By: Eric Florack

Eric Florack — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:16:19 +0000

Surprise, surprise. Is Obama doing anything he didn’t say he would do during the campaign?

Kinda hard to say. Most of what he said was so insubstantial, tying what he said then to what he’s doing now is like trying to nail fog to a tree.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:26:05 +0000

I cannot conceive of a conservative that would think that larger government with more control on business is a sound plan of action. These companies that followed a now failed business model should be allowed to fail. We are passing the buck on these toxic assests instead of removing them from the books. Sooner or later they will rear their ugly heads and we will be back full circle. Government has no place in a free market. The meddlings of Franks, Dodd and many others is in fact the reason we are here. Bush started this bailout mentality and Obama has gleefully followed suit. They have both done a great disservice to this country. Flame away.

By: funny man

funny man — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:38:35 +0000

Rick,
I didn’t refer to you or your article with this link. If you thought so I apologize. I was just upset that when Joe suggested some measures to reign in certain segments of Wall Street he was attacked with some obscure ranting. Anyway, keep up the good work (and I should stick to the contents of your blogs).

By: Neo

Neo — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:44:39 +0000

And to think … 2 years from now we will be looking back on this period and thinking .. you know, it was so much better then.

Now isn’t that a scary thought.

By: cdor

cdor — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:28:00 +0000

Surprise, surprise. Is Obama doing anything he didn’t say he would do during the campaign? Is his behavior any different than one would have expected from his past family influences, education, alliances, and voting record. Was anyone paying attention? Were you reading Rick’s columns during the campaign? Top it all off with Pelosi and Reid running a Democratic Congress and Mr O gets anything he wants…sometimes even more than he wants.

Our parents were the Great Generation. They were tough and they sacrificed for us. We are the generation of cowards. For all the reasons enumerated in thousands of venues (including the natural business cycle) our econmy goes south. Are we willing to toughen up and work through it? No we just want to take a numbing feel good pill. Obama is that pill. He’s the sedative that too many of us wanted. Unfortunately when we wake, the nightmare won’t be over.

In a proper capitalist system, executive pay would be overseen by a responsible and prudent Board of Directors in a publicly held corporation. Others have said it here. If those idiot hypocrits in congress start determining who gets paid what, the United States of America may as well replace our flag with a banana.

By: The Fly-Man

The Fly-Man — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:09:32 +0000

I think the blame can be laid at the feet of whoever decided that Billy Tauzin was the right person to sell the flat tax meme. It became a poster child for accounting hocus pocus and I think his used car salesman attitude helped bring about its demise. Would anyone really care about all of this current uneven distribution if the little folks could have put money in their pockets due to lower taxes not predatory equity bamboozles?
Go back and replay the last 5 years as if we would have had the flat tax. Just a thought…

By: funny man

funny man — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:24:58 +0000

To some of the ’shout louder’ crowd I suggest this article. Many of the people you attack are actually conservatives. We just don’t belong to the Limbaugh cult.

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2009/feb/23/00006/

What are you talking about? How in God’s name did Rush Limbaugh enter the picture? It;s laughable that you would even suggest I belong to the Limbaugh cult - a man I have skewered on this site any number of times.

And you obviously have no clue what a conservative is if you think executive pay control is a good thing.

ed.

By: Harry O

Harry O — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:11:36 +0000

Why would I disagree with you, Rick? You are right. Of course, the Democrats will go too far and there will be a swing back to the right. The problem is it will be 3 steps left and 1 step right. This will continue until we reach Obama’s promised land, gov’t. control of everything. Probably in his lifetime.

Once over 50% of voters quit paying income taxes it was all over with. Surprised it took you this long to recognize it.

? So now that you’re against his policies will you also be responsible for an economic meltdown along with the rest of us? Per a prior article.

By: aoibhneas

aoibhneas — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:40:03 +0000

ah, class envy- ain’t it swell. I see the otards here are down with whatever the north american version lite of little kim or hugo chavez. still wondering what the hell the voters saw in a the neophyte chicago way holier-than-thou assclown sitting in the oval office. Oh yeah, it was for a good teleprompter reader/mulatto to run the show. As George Soros ecstatically pulls strings and makes more billions. I’m sure ACORN will do a bang up job assisting/corrupting the census figures too and walmart will be happy to raise prices so union goons get their dues from the workers too fearful to tell unions to go f*** themselves.
The Iron Curtain worked so well under communism, eh clueless libtards on this board? And fatboy Moore thinks Cuban health care is so great he is moving there?