Politics

Gary Leach bangfish at cableone.net
Sat Dec 6 01:41:24 CET 2008


Economics never has and never can exist outside politics. Essential  
aspects of the current financial mess lie in political decisions made  
and enacted decades ago. Politics are all over the very bailouts  
Scrooge satirically seeks to get a piece of, and which are currently  
being rendered into high political theater by the efforts of the  
chiefs of the American automakers as they try to get their piece of  
the govermental largesse.

On Dec 5, 2008, at 5:06 PM, dux at ca.rr.com wrote:

> I don't believe this subject is "political" per se. I see it as a  
> subject of "economics," or more precisely, "business." In my  
> opinion the current economic "crisis" has little to do with  
> politics and politicians but rather much to do with ordinary  
> consumers with extraordinary hopes and expectations and  
> overachieving businessmen wearing the profit-margin blinders. The  
> free market has its rewards, and its pitfalls. The free market is  
> engineered by humans, who as is commonly known are flawed at best.
>
> ---- Gary Leach <bangfish at cableone.net> wrote:
>> Herbert:
>>
>>> Might I make a suggestion?
>>>
>>> Cut the politics. It's a touchy subject, and self-righteous idiots
>>> of all stripes are impossible to convince anyway.
>>
>> Self-righteous idiots do not, as much as they themselves may believe,
>> own politics, nor should we allow their delusional viewpoints to
>> constrict what we discuss here. The author of that piece in the
>> Weekly Standard used Scrooge McDuck to make a political point that,
>> by said use, makes the point fair game here. And yes, politics can be
>> a very touch subject, but that hardly excludes it from being
>> appropriate.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>
>



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