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September 30, 2008
Nutroots Call for Exploiting Mortgage Crisis to Justify Radical Measures
Ominous words from the moonbats at the eponymously named Crooks and Liars:
In the end, I'm hoping for a more liberal version of the Shock Doctrine. If crises are used to force citizens to accept policies we normally wouldn't, what is stopping us from using this crisis to move the country towards a more progressive future?
The Shock Doctrine is a book by Naomi Klein. From the Amazon.com review:
Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times. As Klein demonstrates, this reprehensible game of bait-and-switch isn't just some relic from the bad old days. It's alive and well in contemporary society, and coming soon to a disaster area near you.
The C&L folks opposed yesterday's bailout, but only because handing $700 billion of our money to the government to flush down the drain wasn't "progressive" enough. They've got a point: a complete ban on private property would make the whole mortgage issue moot.
Soon these radicals could have one of their own in the White House.
On a tip from LT Nixon.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 30, 2008 10:51 AM
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"Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of 'emergency'. It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And 'emergency' became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains." -- Herbert Hoover
Posted by: Artfldgr at September 30, 2008 11:42 AM
Naomi Klien just your avrage bolsevek radical extremists swinelady
Posted by: Spurwing Plover at September 30, 2008 11:44 AM
Wow--good quote Artfldgr. Where did you pull that from?
Anyways, I too am in favor of a more liberal application of the shock doctrine---oh wait, what I meant was I'm in favor of a more liberal application of the Shock and Awe doctrine.
Posted by: theQUICK at September 30, 2008 11:53 AM
Why do liberals call themselves "progressives" when their philosophy is Russia 1917?
Posted by: JamesJ at September 30, 2008 12:05 PM
"JamesJ at September 30, 2008 12:05 PM"
Your question may be retorical, but the communists themselves suggested the name change for better PR. Who wants to be against "progress", right?
Posted by: KHarn at September 30, 2008 12:34 PM
thanks theQUICK. i just know a lot of quotes and just then search when i need them. no standard place...
JamesJ, KHarn is pretty much correct
though there are a lot of people that call themselves progressive and have no idea of those origins.
you can file it under... if we told the truth of what is to come, you wouldnt let us do it to you.
Posted by: Artfldgr at September 30, 2008 4:35 PM
There is no doubt in my mind that this so-called "crisis" has been manufactured by various people to achieve their various ends.
Simply go to a car dealership this Saturday and watch all the people buying cars, on credit. Or go to a restaurant and watch all the happily employed people spending money and eating out. Put down the newspaper with articles about the "Great Depression" and go to Starbucks, and watch people planting down $4 one after another for a cup of Java. Or go to a bank and watch people getting credit, opening accounts, depositing and withdrawing money.
Growth may have slowed a bit, but there is no contraction - not in economic activity, not in credit, nothing.
This "crisis" is a giant fraud. More specifically, it started as an extortion racket by market players - you citizens/taxpayers, give us a trillion dollars or we will break you. It has now been coopted by politicians for their various purposes. But it is no more real than global warming, except it will cost even more, in both dollars and handover of power.
It was funny to watch the market so-called "crash" yesterday as the extortion team pulled a trillion off the table in punishment for not giving them their $700 billion, and now that they cried like babies and didn't get what they want, the market returned almost to the previous level.
This all could have been avoided if the original set of extortions - the relentless demands for interest rate cuts as the market was rocketing 2004-2006 had been refused. Our dollar would have been stronger, and our economy would be sounder. And a lesson would've been taught from the get-go that whining for hand-outs by equity traders would be met with a big fat "No."
Posted by: mega at September 30, 2008 4:50 PM
