OK-- here's a political idea--
First bail out floundering banks and corporations.
Next put limits on the salaries of top executives.
This will accomplish several things:
The companies will be under the virtual control of the government.
The taxpayers will be in debt, and left holding the bag.
The executives will find work elsewhere (they already are).
The wavering companies will lose their best talent.
The companies the government (aka taxpayers) will fail with a larger debt than if they had been left alone.
Yeppers, thats the Plan! if you could even call it a Plan?
Sheer Genius...
And yet, there are people who think Obama is doing a good job.
Not to mention that the limitations are unconstitutional.
First help someone out-- so they are indebted to you, then you have control, they do whatever you want and let the people pay.
It works for business, healthcare, housing, etc etc.
Then forget about "the common defense" which was what the U.S. government was established for in the first place.
What is happening to us?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co … id=topnews
Haven't you heard? Obama won and we are on our way to socialism.
Well, the saddest thing about it is that if McCain won, you would be on your way to fascism...
You think? I think we'd just have half-hearted capitalism.
If you remember, it was not Obama who started the bailouts. And economically fascism and socialism are quite close. Both are based on a nationalized property.
Yes, I remember it was Bush who bailed out the banks. I don't think he would have gone as far as taking over General Motors and giving the democrats free reign over the stimulus program that put us into the whole for trillions of dollars. I don't think McCain would have gone that way either. He is still enough of a Republican not to want big government.
I have always had the feeling Bush was trying to Create a Big Super Bank to dump the Tarp Funds in, and have it consolidate all the failed banks, buy them up, then sell it back, pieces of it, to the Surviving Super banks that did not fall. shure up the Big guys first, let the smaller lesser ones fall. The buy up the mess. Di it through the treasury bank, acting as the Super bank
Then Have the Goverment Super bank make the loans to the economy sectors; Auto, Mining, Small Business, Export Business etc, Stock Funds, Housig; those needing the help, shure them up and then after a period of time, as the Loans began to pay back, then sell the Gov. paper off to the Big Private Banks that survived. Split it up between them. Let them loan to New lesser banks to create a new banking system.
I think thats why he held off, only partial not total bail outs. Made it look like he was not doing anything. I think He was calculating a time to put that in place? and Ran out of time. IMO, that is
I am not up-holding Bush now, not sure how that would have gone actualy.
Obama I think changed it, made it into a Stimulus Program with direct awards, thus control of the Companies Directly. Gov Ownership of the Industries it bailed out. Not Control of the Banking Industry. I think Bush wanted stronger more absolute control through the Banks that way.
Yes, I think that's what Bush had in mind. He probably felt that by giving the banks money that they would turn around and release it and ease credit crunch. But that wasn't the case, I think it was too far gone and if they had a couple more months they probably would have tried to ease the plunge down.
But Obama thought it was a great opportunity to turn the country socialist.
In a hidden agenda, yes I think that also. Contol the Industry = Control the Unions, thus the Jobs!
You can't say that for sure....he will dam near agree to anything with anyone.....
Yes, and People who even believe America is a great ATM machine, just insert your magic lobby card, and there you are!
Did you think Robin Hood was not real? OH MY!....lol
we can argue over this all night long without any result - it is all if and would. Yet i do think that the main political problem of your society is you let politicians divide you. Difference between dems and reps is immaterial nowadays IMO...
You are correct Misha. Many who complain about the present situation voted for Bush and seem to forget what a mess he made of things. Keeping Dems and Reps at cross purposes benefits the big money guys who actually run things in america.
Not arguing just discussing. What you say interests me. And it's okay if you think differently.
Actually, the division was always there, but there were always people from both parties who were willing to compromise and come to the middle. That is not the case now so yes I agree with you Misha.
Obama has given the world hope for peace at least, by not threatening and crippling other countries economies.
Americas behaviour towards other countries had not made it a lot of friends during the last admin., and America is a long way from being socialist.
Socialism is Communism is Fascism. From now on, the phrase "too big to fail" has to be banished from public discourse.
Capitalism is one of those systems that preaches self sufficiency until it sees an opportunity to get a handout from the government it preaches against.
by ixwa 13 years ago
When was it that the American People have been so Angry at a President as they do President Obama?
by Scott Belford 9 years ago
One of President Bush's arguments for invading Iraq was the strong Hussain-al Qaeda connection. The anti-Iraq invasion group said there was only very skimpy evidence of that and much stronger evidence that such an arrangement couldn't exist;. After several extensive post-war...
by Elvisa M 8 years ago
When you say "Obama has ruined this country," can you explain why you feel that way?There is no denying that the nation is divided into the right and left side. The right side, more so, tends to say suck things as "He is the most divisive President," and "He is the worst...
by Audrey Selig 10 years ago
How can PRES get away with doubling down his bypasses of Congress and making own decisions?Are these actions impeachable?
by Alternative Prime 8 years ago
Opening his mouth doesn’t appear to be a strong suit for poor ole’ backwards Jeb - Every time he yaps his trap his big “Special” brother George W looks like the intelligent sibling ~ How much trouble is that?If this numbskull wasn't so dangerous to the majority of Americans his involuntary...
by Cassie Smith 10 years ago
Should a president be impeached for lying?Barack Obama lied to get his (un)Affordable Health Care Act passed. Why is no one in uproar over this? If this was Bush the dummycrats and (un)liberals would be asking for his head.
Copyright © 2024 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2024 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |