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I've been saying that this coming Great Depression is something severe and is like "going to war" in which you abandon normal measures for *extreme measures*. It's obvious, now, that Bush and Cheney think it is that serious, too....
1 posted on 12/16/2008 3:08:12 PM PST by Star Traveler
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"I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system," Bush told CNN television...

So, in effect he's saying that socialism works better.

Damn fool!

2 posted on 12/16/2008 3:09:57 PM PST by raybbr (It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
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34 days, 17 hours, 47 minutes. Then we replace one Fabian socialist idiot with another.


5 posted on 12/16/2008 3:12:05 PM PST by M203M4 (Bill Kristol: Piltdown conservative)
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Bush says sacrificed free-market principles to save economy

Did he have any explanations for the previous seven and a half years?

6 posted on 12/16/2008 3:13:01 PM PST by RJL
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Two words, damn fool.


7 posted on 12/16/2008 3:13:18 PM PST by Tarpon (America's first principles, freedom, liberty, market economy and self-reliance will never fail.)
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Love this guy and he will go down in history as a President that defended this Country. That said, this bailout BS is just that, BS. He has laid the foundation for the chosen one to come in a keep Dems and their giveaways in place for 50 years, just like FDR. Somebody in the Republican Party better wake up. It isn’t the old guys,lets get some new folks in there.


8 posted on 12/16/2008 3:13:46 PM PST by mortal19440
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Or, the treatment will prove to be like bloodletting to treat a fever. Massive debts, nationalized banks, restrictive regulations, government direction of industry, opening the liquidity floodgates — if these extreme measures don't fix the economy, they'll destroy it.
11 posted on 12/16/2008 3:14:05 PM PST by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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Thank you, Jorge Boosh.


12 posted on 12/16/2008 3:14:54 PM PST by wastedyears ("Life's tough... It's even tougher if you're stupid." - John Wayne)
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Which is only going to lead to more pain and suffering.


15 posted on 12/16/2008 3:16:16 PM PST by DB
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"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."

Gee, I got a better idea! Lets try Marxism!

Schmuck, times infinity.

16 posted on 12/16/2008 3:16:50 PM PST by lowbridge
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WHAT??????? Bush, what ARE you smoking?

You’ve done some great things for our country (such keeping us safe, signing the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and appointing two great justices to the SCOTUS), but this bailout stuff is just WRONG! Why are you doing this???


17 posted on 12/16/2008 3:16:58 PM PST by wk4bush2004 (Let the sound of intercession meet Your ears......)
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When Congress passed that (illegal, Senate-originated) trillion-dollar bailout bill, the best I could do was give them the benefit of the doubt - hoping they did it because they knew something the rest of the country didn’t, and acted on that knowledge to save this country from ruin. (As Lincoln said, the Constitution is not a suicide pact.)

But (again giving them the benefit of the doubt) are they really saving this country from ruin? Or are they merely postponing the ruin?


18 posted on 12/16/2008 3:17:18 PM PST by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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Definition of sacrifice:

1 : an act of offering something precious to God or a god; especially : the killing of a victim on an altar

Sacrificing the free market system will not make you a martyr GWB!!! It makes you an idiot RINO and worse!!!!!!!


21 posted on 12/16/2008 3:17:51 PM PST by crazyshrink (Barack Hussein Obama...... "The Rush to Communism")
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I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system

The last president to say that was FDR, and look what we got. Bush abandoned free-market principles because he and his advisors aren't real free-market believers and so they are too dense to think up free-market solutions to the problem. Their knee-jerk reaction--from the begining of the administration forward--has been to spend like there's no tomorrow.

23 posted on 12/16/2008 3:18:09 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard
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Really what we had were massive previous govt. interventions such as the forces that produced the whole “sub-prime” fiasco which did so much to subvert private enterprise valuations of properties, mortgages, etc.

So once the govt. (led by demented Demagogues like Barney Frank and Chris Dodd) had screwed things up badly enough, the cry goes up for vastly more govt. intervention to “save” the economy.


25 posted on 12/16/2008 3:18:54 PM PST by Enchante (Was Jesse Jackson, Sr. the bagman for "Senate Candidate #5" -- JJJr.??????)
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“We had to destroy the village in order to save it”


27 posted on 12/16/2008 3:20:36 PM PST by Hardastarboard (Why do I find the Toyota "Saved by Zero" ads so ironic?)
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And they had to burn the village in order to save it.


28 posted on 12/16/2008 3:21:12 PM PST by skeeter
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"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."

Using that logic, Mr. Bush, did ya also vote for Obama?

29 posted on 12/16/2008 3:21:35 PM PST by umgud (I'm really happy I wasn't aborted)
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Sacrificed principle? Why did he hold these so-called principles if they don’t work. We are in this mess because we do not have free markets but government interference, regulation, fiat money, etc. The man is a total idiot. He is telling the world that freedom does not work. Good riddance. Here’s another pair of shoes at ya.


31 posted on 12/16/2008 3:22:43 PM PST by all the best
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I’d think sacrificing Democrats would be more efficacious in saving the economy. Not to mention more emotionally satisfying. Who’s got the knife?

(No actual Democrats were harmed in the making of this post.)


32 posted on 12/16/2008 3:22:54 PM PST by RichInOC (Obama/Biden '08: "We Are Not Ruled By Murderers, But Only--By Their Friends."--Rudyard Kipling)
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“We had to destroy the village in order to save it”.


35 posted on 12/16/2008 3:24:22 PM PST by saganite
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