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Originally posted by SteveR
We are not bailing out the elite and forgetting you exist. It's very simple, by keeping the market working as it should we make sure you get everything you need when you need it. Sure there have been failures but this is nothing compared to how things could be. Without the economy, life as you've come to know it would not exist. If we give you $7000 each as someone suggested and let the system fail, you will fail.
The suits in Washington are doing the best thing for the people - in the long run. Less whining and more intelligent thinking is needed here.
Thank you
Originally posted by SteveR
In the meantime you will starve to death and functioning government will no longer exist.
Originally posted by SteveR
How do you think the father gets his job? The kid his/her foods?
It's called the economy. If they give in to your whines and give you all your $7000 bailouts instead of supporting market institutions, WHAT will happen? WHAT will you spend it on?
The government's main priority is keeping the economy functioning. Only a fool would begrudge that.
Meanwhile Gordon Brown does a deal with the devil.
What do we make of Gordon Brown's plans for a £1.9 trillion bail out of the British banking system? The Daily Mail reports this morning that the PM has been putting together a package with City firms UBS and NM Rothschild.
Although the scheme was later denied by Number 10 today, if true it could be a canny move by the Great Helmsman, as he presents himself as the man to steer the country's economy through choppy waters.
By constructing a bail-out package of unimaginable complexity he would guarantee that no one in the Labour Party will try get rid of him in case it goes pear-shaped.
And if the problems continue until May 2010 - the likely date of the next general election - he might be able to argue that it would risk the country's economic future if the electorate got rid of him.
No wonder there is a sense of unease at the Tory conference this week over the way that the global economic crisis has pushed the party off the front pages. How else can you explain yesterday's "look at me" speech from David Cameron?
It's very simple, by keeping the market working as it should we make sure you get everything you need when you need it.