Comments on: Railing Against Bailouts http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2009/11/23/railing-against-bailouts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=railing-against-bailouts n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: bayesian http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2009/11/23/railing-against-bailouts/comment-page-1/#comment-34330 bayesian Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:56:33 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/?p=10322#comment-34330 GOM, that may not be entirely fair. I'm not sure the main mass of the GOP was particularly imperialistic in the Twenties and early Thirties, though I could be wrong on that. Consistently driven to pants wetting over the Red Menace (Green Menace after 1991) du jour, yes, but the imperialistic response to that is post-WW2 IMHO. nb I'm not saying there wasn't a Red Menace then or that there isn't a Green Menace now - I'm critiquing the menace hyping / pants wetting / tantrumy responses. GOM, that may not be entirely fair. I’m not sure the main mass of the GOP was particularly imperialistic in the Twenties and early Thirties, though I could be wrong on that.

Consistently driven to pants wetting over the Red Menace (Green Menace after 1991) du jour, yes, but the imperialistic response to that is post-WW2 IMHO.

nb I’m not saying there wasn’t a Red Menace then or that there isn’t a Green Menace now – I’m critiquing the menace hyping / pants wetting / tantrumy responses.

]]> By: BarryD http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2009/11/23/railing-against-bailouts/comment-page-1/#comment-34314 BarryD Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:44:02 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/?p=10322#comment-34314 I'd add that the problem lay in the deregulation. Once enormous firms had congealed, with vast positions which were extremely highly leveraged, we were in the sh*t. Especially as, given the current laws, judges a prosecutors, a Nuremburg Trial (followed by a mass hanging) of Wall St executives was never in the cards. Wall St was allowed to mass enormous power, with no counter-vailing force. Quelle surprise! I’d add that the problem lay in the deregulation. Once enormous firms had congealed, with vast positions which were extremely highly leveraged, we were in the sh*t. Especially as, given the current laws, judges a prosecutors, a Nuremburg Trial (followed by a mass hanging) of Wall St executives was never in the cards.

Wall St was allowed to mass enormous power, with no counter-vailing force. Quelle surprise!

]]> By: Grumpy Old Man http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2009/11/23/railing-against-bailouts/comment-page-1/#comment-34302 Grumpy Old Man Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:32:15 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/?p=10322#comment-34302 The GOP has always been the party of big capital, centralization, and imperialism, now joined by most Democrats. The GOP has always been the party of big capital, centralization, and imperialism, now joined by most Democrats.

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