good to know you'll vote for the lessor of two evils even thou its evil. Get a backbone and vote conscience. Its not a popularity contest.
I can't vote for a candidate that doesn't exist. There is no candidate in the election that represents my views. And I don't know why you consider it brave to vote for someone that has no chance of winning.
I'll get a backbone when you get an independent thought.
GM paid back their initial loan using other tarp money from a treasury escrow account paid by guess who? The taxpayers. Yea that's paying it back right? Keep believing the propaganda instead of looking beneath the surface.
Here's the thing. I don't give a shit. I'm glad America still has an auto industry and that 2.5 million jobs were saved. I really don't care that tax money funded it. In fact I'm glad tax money funded it. I'm not a libertarian. I don't think the single most important thing is to make sure the government never helps anyone ever. From my point of view, that's retarded. And no, I don't care if you think that is socialism in case you were wondering.
Neither believed in the free market of letting losers fail.
Nor do I. I do not worship the free market. I think the free market is a terrible idea. And every industrialized country in the history of the world agrees with me on that since no industrialized nation has ever had a free market system.
Instead we the people paid the price for their mistakes. The auto industry wouldn't fail. A few might, although more than likely file bankruptcy and restructure, then that slack is picked up by the successful ones.
Likely they would have filed bankruptcy, downsized, then had their assets bought up by Toyota and Honda. And when they declared bankruptcy, millions of Americans would have lost their jobs, and probably people would have gotten screwed out of their pensions. And for what? So we can worship free market ideals? What does that get us in reality? -2.5 million jobs and an even worse economy? No thank you, keep your free market, I want no part in that.
And by the way, banks got bailed out under Obama too. That's another thing you don't know.
Obama distributed the bailouts that passed under the Bush administration.
Like I said you're uninformed. He went back on his word about getting out of Afghanistan "as one of the first things I'll do". He has sent the military into Uganda and Libya. We are expanding in Australia. The president controls troop movement. He can bring them home like he lied about doing in Afghanistan.
Their policies of big government intervention do not differ much.
They offered 2.5 million Americans working in the automotive industry the chance not to be unemployed. I'm sure your counter offer of free market economics, unemployment lines, and having their homes foreclosed on would have been real tempting though.
Obamas policies were no different thanpast presidents which he said he'd emulate. Those policies failed over the long run too.
Actually those policies worked just fine for nearly half a century until the Reagan years when we decided to deregulate big business which we kept doing for nearly 30 years until it finally blew up the economy.
Surprise, surprise, surprise THAT is what you don't get.
Oh no, I get it. You have this ignorant revisionist version of history in your head that never actually happened.
If you learned to think for yourself instead of believing what far right wing politicians told you to think, you'd know that.
Like I said, you're the enemy. Why give you ammo so you can make things up about him?
You've given me all the ammunition I need. I've challenged several of you to name something about Ron Paul you dislike or do not agree with him on. Your failure to come up with anything proves that you are incapable of thinking for yourself and it proves my charge of you guys being cult members correct. No reasonable person agrees with anyone 100% of the time. Cult members do that. Thanks for proving my case.