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Re: Can't rely on Big Business or Big Government said by Titus Pullo:Gee, the current administration just took a Trillion dollars and spread it around to financial dolts to do with as they see fit to "bail us out." People squeal like pigs when they think some liburul is going to fleece them to finance crack addicts but bend over for bankers and Hedge funds. Unreal. Many conservatives that believe that are not even business owners, just average Joe Plumbers (who may not even be plumbers) who make much less and have little to no hope of ever making millions... yet they still believe that giving big businesses free reign to do as they please and putting all taxpayers money to them in hard times is the best course of action. Got news for you: You may not like government and think it is an amoral and corrupt entity, but big businesses with no oversight are no shining angels either (as much as you want to think that).
said by Titus Pullo:The hypocrisy is frightening, and I don't know whether it's ideology or ignorance. If you make less than 250K a year under Obama's plan you won't see a penny of money taken from you and spread around. If it turns out he lied it won't be hard to catch. All the man is calling for (so far) is basically a return to Clinton's tax policies. And under McCain's plan most of them would get a very minimal tax cut while big businesses got huge ones. They would have had spending freezes on everything except military, potentially hurting everything from education and research to infrastructure and emergency protection. Businesses would be getting more "free market" (eg. letting businesses do as they please and expecting them to never use corrupt practices) potentially bringing about a second "housing" collapse in a different industry. That never sounded good to me.
I am not one for massive regulation on anything, but COME ON! The reason the banks and housing industries collapsed is because they had no oversight and no regulation whatsoever. They were given free reign to do whatever and they clearly did. We certainly don't need massive regulation but we don't need NO regulation either.
I at least have faith that Obama will use sound judgment and not go completely far left on everything. He seems to have gone middle-of-the-road where-as McCain seemed to go from middle-right to far-right.
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| See my comment re discussing politics rationally. The two points you make don't apply to me or my views; you completely miss the mark on where I stand politically or socially. People simply don't read, think, or interpret critically on these - and most other - forums. How you drew the conclusions you did are well beyond my pay grade 
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1 edit | said by Titus Pullo:See my comment re discussing politics rationally. The two points you make don't apply to me or my views; you completely miss the mark on where I stand politically or socially. People simply don't read, think, or interpret critically on these - and most other - forums. How you drew the conclusions you did are well beyond my pay grade -- If you had bothered to read my post: I was agreeing with you. I was mainly adding my own opinion to the topic to get my point across. I never said I was trying to undermine or speak for you or whatever you thought I was doing. I think you misunderstood my post.
said by Titus Pullo:How you drew the conclusions you did are well beyond my pay grade Clearly...
P.S. - You said it, not me.
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