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Originally Posted by kane
There is no way to make everyone happy. Right now we have a choice. We can have a shit sandwich, or we can have a shit sandwich with mayonnaise on it. Neither is good. You have to decide if you would rather deal with debt or deal with massive unemployment and the issues that go along with that. neither solution is going to be worth a shit if there are not some kind of regulations or oversight put in place to help ward this kind of thing off and keep certain companies from becoming so big that if the fail they bring the entire economy down with them. Maybe that is too liberal of an idea for some, but otherwise we go right back to what we had pre-depression which is a boom and bust economy and in modern times when most people's retirements are based on the stock market and investments a boom and bust economy would destroy them.
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i think you are a very bright and obviously well spoken person who clearly puts a lot of thought into what he says. however, i think anyone can see the basic problems with the federal government taking over private enterprise as they relate to a free market system.
"a shit sandwich",, "no one will happy no matter what" etc etc etc does not mean its ok to stage a takeover of private industry, ignore shareholder rights, break contracts, have politicians dictate business strategy and product lines and so on.
you certainly have to see the problems with that, no matter how liberal you might be. there is a massive difference between a loan and running the company... and having the audacity to think that a bunch of politicians can run it better than actual business people.