Thursday, January 15, 2009
Enough Already!
Nationalize the banks, split them up, re-regulate them to within an inch of their lives, send the ponzi schemers to jail, but for heaven's sake no more secret no-strings attached money to these liars and these crooks. We're going to end up nationalizing most of this crap anyway, why not do it now rather than burning more tons of money first that needs to go to healthcare, infrastucture, education, and creating a renewable energy economy? A private enterprise too big to fail is a private enterprise too big to exist. These fraudulent financial instruments and these secret funnelings of bailout cash involve some real criminality and that stuff needs to be punished for once, else these would-be aristocratic scumbags will literally pound the planet to dust while they party on an air-conditioned beach in Dubai. We the People are too big to fail, how 'bout them apples? And we certainly can't rationally destroy the country to insulate a handful of smug self-serving bastards from the consequences of their criminal irresponsibility and stupid greed. Enough already!
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Hearing stuff like this makes me nostalgic for leftist groups like America's Weatherman and Germany's Red Army Faction who robbed banks and "disposed" of corporate executives in spectacular ways during their "anti-imperialist struggle".
I'm curious. What are your views on left-wing "terrorism"?
An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
Great line, Dale. Terrorism is never, under any circumstances, ever and anywhere an acceptable option. It flies absolutely in the face of the very core of what it means to be "left-wing".
"Democratisation? Informed consent of the participants? Who needs it! Let's scare the bastards into giving us what we want!"
I don't want to go and pin terrorism on the right, although it does tend to be essentially right-wing to turn every damned thing into a "war" instead of a debate.
I don't want to go and pin terrorism on the right, although it does tend to be essentially right-wing to turn every damned thing into a "war" instead of a debate.
I'm just speculating but I think it is partly the manichean legacy of Christian Crudades and the notion that there can such as thing as "just war" and "holy war"...
Nationalize the banks, split them up, re-regulate them to within an inch of their lives, send the ponzi schemers to jail, but for heaven's sake no more secret no-strings attached money to these liars and these crooks. We're going to end up nationalizing most of this crap anyway, why not do it now rather than burning more tons of money first that needs to go to healthcare, infrastucture, education, and creating a renewable energy economy?
I just saw I.O.U.S.A., an award-winning documenatry which examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens.
http://www.iousathemovie.com
What I like about "fiscal conservatives" is that are among the few on the Right who are "anti-imperalist"/"anti-militarism" but what drives me nuts about them is that they only propose privatizing social programs and the military (think Blackwater!) rather than raising taxes on the rich or proposing the nationalization of some industries in order for the government to have new sources of revenue. So it begs the question: Are some (but not all) "fiscal conservatives" using the national debt as part of their "disaster capitalist" agenda?
Have you seen I.O.U.S.A.? Do you think the national debt is a clear and present danger? What do you propose to solve it?
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