Posted on 12/17/2008 6:12:33 PM PST by LowCountryJoe
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush said in an interview Tuesday he was forced to sacrifice free market principles to save the economy from "collapse."
"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision "to make sure the economy doesn't collapse."
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This could be on FailBlog.org
Bush's comments reflect an extraordinary departure from his longtime advocacy for an unfettered free market..
Interesting strategy Bush has had...grow the government to advocate for a free market. In Bush's defense he probably needed to do this in order to get many of the free market-hating SoCons FauxCons FoeCons to vote for him.
W will be blamed by 0be, no matter what. Note that 0be is voting “present” by not being part of the gov’t at the moment.
I have no idea what he’s babbling about. Perhaps if he had real economic advisers?
Free market principles are what will save the economy dum dum. What a bird brain. Forbes 2000.
Same story here where I posted my GWB grips
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150549/posts
Can I throw shoes at him now??
Well well..it would seem the White Flag has been raised on Free Trade/Globalism...
Not here to gloat, rather, what can be done? A quasi Centrally Planned economy is not very attractive either, but with GWB, the largest booster we’ve had for Free Markets waving the surrender banner...
This hasn’t been a free country in general since long before I was born.
President Bush sacrificed free market principles for nothing. That is the economy is collapsing no matter what the government does, IMO. He is taking a sand bucket to stop a tsunami. I believe that the stealth socialism of the Democrats caused the quake that initiated the tsunami. I also believe that our country has no leadership that comes close to understanding what happened and what is happening to all of us.
Is that sort of like “I had to kill you to save you?”
I actually liked Bush during the beginning of his tenure. Not any more. He has become “simplified”...as in Liberal Simple.
GWB has clearly been influenced by way too many ‘Rats, some of whom he invited into his administration. What ever made him think they weren’t going to bury knives in his back here?
We are screwed. But at least people are going to get what they deserve.
I'm not sure why Bush did it, but it was a horribly expensive way to further damage the economy. Why couldn't he have done his damage cheaply - by just reminding people that our future will be in Obama's hands in only five weeks?That would cause any sensible American to panic, without wasting $80,000 of taxpayer dollars per family on disfunctional companies.
Meanwhile, in the real world, this is crazy talk.
I still disagree as I have on many issues, but still respect the man. It's always easy to be critical when your not in the other persons shoes.
He had one, Lawrence Lindsey, but he was shown the door for being right. W never liked dealing with economics, and he's one of the worst economic presidents the country has ever had.
You don’t see many Bushbots anymore. I’d throw my shoes at the tv but I can’t afford a new TV.
What he has really done is taught business leaders that you can play any damn games you want with your $$, and mama Government will bail you out. Lord knows how long it will take us to wake up from this foolishness. My bet is not in my (remaining) lifetime.
RE :”You don’t see many Bushbots anymore”
They all are here still posting, I threw a few shoes at them LOL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150549/posts
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