Hitler was part Jewish. Plus the Judeo-Bolsheviks ran the USSR. Not to mention the role of the international Jewish capitalists in upholding the western powers. Plus everyone from capitalist Britain to Nazi Germany to communist Russia worshipped a Jewish guy from 2,000 years ago.
Bah! Human history may as well be called Jewish history!
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Last edited by Rhyfelwyr; 11-20-2010 at 18:17.
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
At the end of the day politics is just trash compared to the Gospel.
Define "worked".
It certainly succeeded in ushering in a new era of crony capitalism. It was great for lobbyists.
Was the Troubled Asset Relief Program successful at buying up troubled assets? No, not at all- that was left for the Federal Reserve to do.
Did it succeed in stimulating more lending? Nope.
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
Aren't they defining "worked" as "only cost the taxpayer a little bit and prevented economic collapse"? Regardless of lobbyist's and lending etc...
Did it though? Again, TARP didn't accomplish any of it's stated aims. The Fed injecting over a trillion dollars into the economy (and you know, actually providing troubled asset relief) had more effect than TARP. I guess "a little bit" is subjective too. TARP funds were poured into AIG and GM- we'll never recoup all the billions spent on those.
Last edited by Xiahou; 11-22-2010 at 04:47.
"Don't believe everything you read online."
-Abraham Lincoln
Last edited by Fragony; 11-20-2010 at 21:09.
The big promise of TARP was supposed to keep the unemployment under 8%, epic failure there. Taxpayers are going to lose at least $10 billion on GM, not counting the loans GM still owes, cash for clunkers and the Chevy Volt subsidies.
The remaining taxpayer shares would have to jump from $33/share to $51/share just to break even on the loan, not gonna happen.
The Frank-Dodd financial reform bill codifies into law future bailouts. It creates a permanent new bailout authority that undermines our bankruptcy system and rule of law. Too big to fail is alive and well. This administration will trumpet how well Bailout Nation "worked" to justify future bailouts of other firms.
The chief economic case against the bailout was not that huge infusions of taxpayer funds and special exemptions from bankruptcy rules could not make G.M. and Chrysler profitable. Of course they could. Instead, the heart of the case against the bailout is that it saps the life-blood of entrepreneurial capitalism. The bailout reinforces the debilitating precedent of protecting firms deemed “too big to fail.” Capital and other resources are thus kept glued by politics to familiar lines of production, thus impeding entrepreneurial initiative that would have otherwise redeployed these resources into newer, more-dynamic, and more productive industries. The “success” of the bailout is all too easy to engineer and to see. The cost of the bailout—the industries, the jobs, and the outputs that are never created—is impossible to see, but nevertheless real. George Mason University economist Don Boudreaux
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." *Jim Elliot*
Interesting. But kind of uncomfortably theoretical or "impossible to see" as he puts it.
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