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Cannonpointer » 23 Jul 2014 10:30 am » wrote: Who besides you ever said that I want beltway politicians running the economy?

That's what Socialism is, moonbat. Unless you're talking about people living on some commune.

Clearly you're not aware that Obama's munchkins have already written 20,000 or so pages of regulation micromanaging the health care sector.

Or the thousands of pages written by bureaucrats for Dodd-Fank.

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?

Government fix itself? Hold itself accountablel Clearly you believe in the Easter Bunny.

Go out and shovel the tide with a spoon. When you've accomplished that, get back to me about reforming government.

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?

There should be a few clear, simple laws.

Beyond that, the market will take care of itself, just like it does with consumer goods.

Does the government regulate, say, computers? Almost not at all, yet you can buy a computer with nearly a 100% chance of getting a good product and acceptable service.

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).

Except that Bush abided by long accepted legal precedent and when overturned by the Supreme Court, abided by that decision.

When did Bush repeatedly re-write a law on his own, as Obama has done over and over and over with Obamacare?

Or immigration law, when he refused to abide by it and legalized many thousands of illegal immigrants?

to cite just a couple examples of many.

Your comparison as usual is spurious.