What would eating the rich accomplish?

Somewhere in the future (hopefully sooner than later)... the "fat cats" will be whining that, their 'influence' is somehow unfairly limited. But it is also my hope that the American People remember AND seriously regard just how MONEY was allowed to corrupt and game our entire way of living (certainly our politics).

I know we'll get the money out eventually, but I honestly cannot say 'when'.

 

The problem is that 49% of the idiots being hurt be the "fat cats" support the "fat cats" right to hurt them, because they have delusions of being "fat cats" someday. Personally, I'm a pragmatist, I'll oppose and fight the "fat cats" until the day I become one, then after that, if that happens, I will persue self interest as I do now.

 

"Land and factories are not portable, for the most part."

Taxcutter says:
When Soros & Buffett get away, they'll take all the liquidity with them. The remaining assets will have no resilience. When the confiscators come for those left behind, it will make the 1930s look like boom times.

Such is the price of brainless egalitarianism.

 

I see...so, Clinton should not get the credit for that. Instead, Gingrich should. The buck doesn't stop at the President then. Is that what you're saying? Not his fault when things go bad or good? Please expand your point of view if you would be so kind.

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You don't think Bush scrapped enough regulations during his reign huh?

There can NEVER be enough. Correct?

 

Not until it all crashes, burns and is reborn. I doubt either one of us will still be here to see it however.

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That's true. The BS that "you can be rich too". If everybody's rich, who'll generate the work to be profited from? People are ignorant and stupid.

 

Thank you.

This perspective angers those with piles of corporate cash though. Kinda goes against the grain but, I'm satisfied with it.

 

Ho many times should you be able to veto something and try to stop its passage before you can claim credit it for it? How long can government be shut down b/c you are fighting an idea before you can claim credit for your opponents policy?

Not at all. Regulations grew under his Presidency too. You see, there are millions of regulators literally in this country that do nothing at all except meddle around in the affairs of others. They get big pay to do it, and multi million dollar retirement packages. You can't vote for them,, Presidents can rarely fire them, and they are beholden to special interests, they don't care what you have to say at all.

 

The most singlarly bizarre notion in the world is of regulatory decline under Bush. No bureuacrat er child left behind, the medicare drug benefit, hell if he'd ahd his way he'd have added regulations to the housing industry but the Democrats weren't having any of that because country wide fanny and freddie were lining there pockets.

Oh and for waht it's worth government running busines in preThatcher Britain and the former Soviet union worked so well that I'm surprised that even the biggest lunatics want to try that again.

 

Private industry cannot run the power grid. They ran California into the ground and are still costing me money.

 

California by the way has a fascist government. They don't own the means of production like a socialist one, but they direct the means of production, like a fascist one. This way they are not to blame when things go awry.

 

Yeah, I know. Never thought anything I thought/said would be so prophetic.

 

"Private industry cannot run the power grid."

Taxcutter says:
They do it throughout most of the country.

 

Sorry there was no energy deregulation in California. In fact the California legislature gets the nod for the most truly Orwellian statement of the nineties just for calling what they did deregualtion. in fact there were more regulations after what they called deregulation than there were before including the one that is still on the books that forces energy company's to buy on the spot market. The spot market is basically an open air auction. This means when energy is a glut on the market you save money but when it isn't you get hammered. By the way it was pretty much California that bankrupted Enron and cost a whole lot of small investers alarge chunk of change.

 

If you knew how things actually worked in Washington DC, you would see that virtually every regulation promulgated by the central authorities is supported and even written by corporate lobbyists trying to stifle competition. Far from despising such regulations, rent-seekers are constantly trying to enact more regulations that serve to run their competitors out of business and subsidize their own company. A DNC hero, Chuck Schumer, did this recently by running the Chinatown bus industry in NYC virtually out of business on behalf of big transportation companies like Greyhound. So, you can keep dreaming about more regulations and such, but they will only serve to further empower the criminals in DC and the special interest groups who give them their marching orders. If you don't believe me, try opening your own bank with your own gold-backed legal tender and see what happens. You'll be in Federal prison before you know it.

 

Big government intrinsically loves big business. If you are going to try to herd something aobut would you rather heard a couple of elephants of a few thoudand kittens?

 

You know that show "American Greed"? I guess you think it should be called "American Good"?

 

Facts are facts. Most regulations are written by lobbyists on behalf of rent-seeking special interest groups trying to crush the little guy and get subsidies. Sorry if that doesn't jive with your regulatory fetish, but it's the way it works in DC...

 

Yes. lobbyists run the show. I'm well aware of that. You keep trying to focus on Washington. The "American Greed" show focuses on corporate greed. Have you seen it?

 

Of course I'm focusing on DC. They have a monopoly on violence and the greedy rent-seekers you keep talking about leverage that power to make themselves even richer. No, I have not seen that show. It is simply stating the obvious. There are greedy people who want tons of money and power. That is not news.

 

That is the path to success in the corporate world though...GREED.