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RichClem » 23 Jul 2014 10:21 am » wrote:
Then why would you possibly want Beltway politicians running the economy?

Because they and their contributors in Big Business will ride roughshod over the average citizen.

As has been seen under FDR and Obama, in particular.

Who besides you ever said that I want beltway politicians running the economy?

If corrupt government is a problem, why would anyone be against fixing it? Against holding it accountable to do its job - which, like it or not, includes regulating the market. Or did you think the Easter Bunny would regulate the market? Or that the market - represented EXCLUSIVELY by employees, zero ownership oversight of day to day operations - can regulate itself?

Who is to regulate Wall Street, Clem? Say. Whom do YOU say it should be?

As to your Obama complaints, I had the same complaints about bush. I found the first unitary executive to be a threat to liberty, and I see Obama no differently. It isn't so easy to quell a president empowered with the definition "unitary executive," is it? He's the decider, you see. And you get to live with it - to like it or lump it., - because unitary executives are above the rules, it seems. A thing BECOMES legal, merely by their doing it - ESPECIALLY if they do so in the name of "national security" (while refusing to even secure our borders).