What a stupid article. Hope he got paid.

The free-market and individual enterprise were strictly curtailed based on not just the needs of the community but, when it came to things like banking and lending, the Old Testament teachings that frowned on "usury" --- in other words banks making more money than they should from ordinary people-- were upheld.

President Obama is a conservative.
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Uh huh. I wonder if it bothers him, that Obama just kited a trillion four to send to Goldman Sachs, AIG, and Citigroup?

Probably not. Ironic, though, to see those two sentences in a row like that.

Party on, former-con-now-lib. Goldman needs you to keep being stupid, so they can pay another round of bonuses.

He's stupid because he pretends that Obama believes in the things he does. No conservative could support bailing out Wall Street, using money borrowed from Main. But Obama did, along with all the other "progressives". The author rails about usury and banks, then throws his support to a guy who ran up $4 trillion in US government guarantees to keep those banks in business.

Even John Lennon might be surprised to hear that his silly "brotherhood of man" Imagine song should be used to justify bailing out Goldman Sachs. No, this author is just a tool, just one of many.

Jerry loved the article, though. And that's who it was written to. People who are able to read a sentence and realize they're not clever enough to have done it themselves, but can't think critically enough to see it's just a fluff piece.

You know--liberals.

Yes, Prag, you are wrong. Stock buyouts also happened at Citi, AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac, just to name the first few that popped into my head.

Conservatives believe in individual rights, not "community rights". It's liberals lately who are saying that it's okay for a town to condemn property so that a developer can build condos. It's liberals who say that if a company fails, the taxpayers need to be on the hook for the money.

The author pretends to prefer individual choices and decisions. But the progressives he's lining up with now are saying that it will be illegal to decide to self-insure for health, for example.

But whatever. Just another guy who got the chills running up his leg during an Obama speech, and now feels the need to justify pulling the lever for the party of big bailouts. CIT declared bankruptcy last weekend; they were the primary vendor to millions of small- and medium-sized businesses. Unfortunately, small biz owners tend to be conservatives. No bailouts for them. Goldman needs bonuses, just in time for Christmas.

That would be one more sentence than you read, drone.

#13 | Posted by jerrytarkanian
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Someday maybe dumbasses like you will realize how badly you've been played. I work in financial services, and always resented the influence the big Wall Street banks had in Washington.

Doesn't bother you, though. Ever since Goldman and Citi started big campaigns to re-elect Democrats, you're cool with trillions of dollars headed to most badly run firms in the world.

Hope you didn't need the money. Gobama!

But are you willing to support federally funded election campaigns, breaking up of the monopolies that own the media and forcing more fair access to the airwaves which the people own as a requirement for having a license to broadcast???

#17 | Posted by danni
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I don't support federal funding of almost anything. If you want fair access to the airwaves, get a license like everyone else.

Give me a break on Wall Street, please. If Bush and the Republicans in Congress had pushed it through, you would be taking to the streets. But because it was Bush and the Democrats, you don't know what to think.

$1,400,000,000, plus another $4 trillion in government guarantees of crappy paper. Instead of asking how many teachers can be hired for the cost of one aircraft carrier, maybe you should ask Obama how many job could have been created with $4 trillion.

But you don't. Tools. And you say we're the drones?

Gobama! Water-walkin', Wall-Street savin', healthcare providin' savior of us all. Especially Wall Streeters and hedge fund managers.

A stockbroker raging against keeping the Wall Street crap game running.

Now I've seen everything.

#18 | Posted by silver_ironist
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I'm not a stockbroker.

No, you should have said that you've "seen everything" when the Democratic Party decided that Wall Street should have $4 trillion in taxpayer dollars.

But you didn't. You sat by, quietly, and didn't say a word. They couldn't have done it without you.

Conservatism hasn't changed. This guy did. Forgive me for not celebrating.

You libbies carry on. You don't need us.

And Wurster is right. The media oligopoly is broke across the board, and Washington is now considering a bailout of THEM.
Those "progressives" again. "Too big to fail", and all that. Gobama!