Comments on: DOES THE GOVERNMENT THINK YOU’RE STUPID? OR A CHILD?

By: Maddie

Maddie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:10:35 +0000

Though the years it didn’t matter whom was president of which party, government has tried to tell us what to do, so why do we blame whichever party is in the white house at the time? Also, the tea baggers and the like don’t realize thay are doing the same as the radicals did in Russia, that created communism, and same who gave hitler the boost he needed and created nazism. True republicans have taken a back seat to the ones who are creating their own party . What ISM will they create and we find ourselves isolated like Germany and Russia?

By: Dan @ Israeli Uncensored News

Dan @ Israeli Uncensored News — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:54:13 +0000

Of course, the government has to treat subjects as stupid: paternalism is the best, most agreeable way to expand the government regulation

By: Marge Gunderson

Marge Gunderson — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:42:46 +0000

Yeah, I really hate it when the government tells me what plants I can grow in my garden for my own personal use. Or what should or shouldn’t show up in my bodily fluids.

Danged libruls are always infriging on my personal space and freedoms as an American.

By: michael reynolds

michael reynolds — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:21:13 +0000

Govt = Daddy, so eat your veggies and let Govt tell you what to do - infantilization of laws.

Yeah, I hate that. Like when some people think the government should decide whether a woman can get an abortion? Or when the government decides who can and cannot get married? Or when government tells people what words they can use on the radio or TV? Or when some people think government should have an unfettered right to listen to your phone calls?

That’s like, so liberal and all.

By: Travis Monitor

Travis Monitor — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:38:29 +0000

I always felt that the problem with liberalism is that:
It treats adults like criminals,
criminals like children, and
children like adults.

Nanny-statism is along the same lines. Govt = Daddy, so eat your veggies and let Govt tell you what to do - infantilization of laws.

By: Locomotive Breath

Locomotive Breath — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:12:00 +0000

DOES THE GOVERNMENT THINK YOU’RE STUPID? OR A CHILD?

False dichotomy. The government thinks we’re both.

By: Marge Gunderson

Marge Gunderson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:58:36 +0000

Since there are so many “laws on the books” already to discipline the wrongdoers, then perhaps we ought to be digging those up to punish those whose cruddy business practices have led tens of thousands of people to be foreclosed upon, some of whom must be victims not only of their own ignorance or circumstance, but also of fraud. What’s that you say? Those people should just wait in line while one or two overworked States Assistant Attorneys General “look into it”? Great solution. Meanwhile, people are literally kicked to the curb.

The banksters have proven, yet again, that they cannot be trusted to self-regulate their behavior or treat their customers as anything other than foie gras geese to be stuffed with garbage until they pop. Just the threat of “some agency” telling them what to do MIGHT get them to straighten up.

By: Chuck Tucson

Chuck Tucson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:48:38 +0000

Michael Reynolds, you are absolutely 100% correct. I’ll even take that a step further though, and throw in the amazing “Financial Innovation” called the No Income, No Asset Verification Mortgage.

Imagine the surprise of the financial institutions when they basically said, come on in, lie to us, and we’ll give you FREE FUCKING MONEY… (for a commission, of course) and people actually came in and did it.

There’s your financial crisis right there. Oh, but lets blame the people for taking the money. What the hell difference does it make though, as long as everyone up the chain got their commission on the mortgage, or, further up, their financial innovation.

Give me some time though, and I’ll figure out a way to blame ACORN for this.

By: michael reynolds

michael reynolds — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:54:13 +0000

Wait a minute, I thought conservatives argued precisely that the people who ended up underwater or signed lousy deals were stupid. That thy had been foolish. Responsible, but stupid.

Isn’t that a big part of why the country almost went 1929? That people were stupid enough to sign mortgages they couldn’t pay? Wasn’t that a key theme as conservative politicians bobbed and weaved and tried to avoid taking any responsibility?

The problem is not outright fraud, it’s deceptive practices. It’s using endless documents full of legalese to baffle and confuse the suckers. Not everyone has a lawyer to interpret. And the assumption by a lot of people is that the financial institution wouldn’t give them a mortgage they were unable to pay.

Blaming the customer for failing to understand deliberately obscure deals written in deliberately obscure language makes no more sense than demanding that patients read their own charts and take responsibility for all medical decisions.

Possibly the very last thing we need right now is a lot of clever, clever financial innovation. These masters of the universe just innovated us into disaster and had to be rescued by the taxpayers.

By: Chuck Tucson

Chuck Tucson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:59:10 +0000

Financial innovation. This is another way of saying, lets put an addition on the house of cards.