That’s about as disturbing a statement as I have read in a long time. It’s bad enough that the U.S. imperium has in effect nationalized the mortgage market. For further such actions to take place would surely place us in the same philosophical arena as Mussolini’s Italy and Hitler’s Germany.

To drag this back to Palin, one must dispassionately observer her record and her actions since joining the McCain ticket. Palin is most definitely not libertarian in any manner. That may have been somewhat hidden by her obscurity before she became a national politician, but both her actions in Alaska and her pronouncements WRT the Georgia/Ossetia/Russia events and elsewhere indicate that she is no libertarian. Not even close. It is going to be a disaster, regardless of who gets into office in 2009, but McCain/Palin is more of the same old imperial, loss of liberties, massive debts, psychotic posturing from the religious reich that Bush made famous.
You folks might want to have a look at Chalmers Johnson’s Blowback trilogy by the way.

He did that to save the banks and the financial institutions that were key in causing the collapse.

Like Greenspan, he was so disconnected from ANY idea of the real state of the economy, and especially the effects of the increase of the price of oil, he actually seemed to think that lowering interests rates would increase demand in real estate as well.

As I have been saying for some time, one measure that should be undertaken immediately is the nationalization of oil in order to disattach the price of oil on the international market from the currency.

But this will cure nothing– 66 percent of US oil is imported. At most it will give a little breathing space.

The other measure that should be taken is to raise interest rates appreciably and very quickly. The trouble with that is that things are so far gone it may not help that much in the short-term, and there may be no long term.

The incompetents boldly saunter forward swashing their paper swords.

So there will be no repeat of 1929. It might well be much worse. More like Weimar. Everyone will have enormous amounts of money, but it won’t be worth much.

Social spending and welfare had little or nothing to do with the collapse. The war in Iraq was the precipitating event.

Add this little tidbit: on September 8, Brazil and Argentina signed an agreement to stop using dollars in their bilateral trade.

Adios, USD.

Do people think she was selected for
her grasp on the facts? If so, this
interview should dispell that hope.

This nation cannot afford four more years of Republican rule. And there’s one big reason.

Forget personalities, inexperience. racism, sexism, and war hero talk. It’s the ideas that the candidates and the parties cherish that really matter.

The same ideas that produced the Hoover Depression are alive and well in today’s Republican party–no taxes for the rich, subsidies for big corporations, no government regulation by the federal government, and the supremacy of states rights.

Change the name from Hoover to McCain to Palin on the economy, and the answers they give are interchangeable.

I’ve shortened my comments here because I know I’m blogging, but if you want to see more on this subject, go to a great website I found with the url http://www.howtotalkback.

I personally heard Rush Limbaugh say that it was his goal to undo everything that FDR did.

Now it’s no secret that nobody has more influence over Republican thought than Rush. And it’s no secret what Rush believes: government is bad and federal regulation is a plague.

But I wonder if Rush realizes that the FDIC–a program of the federal government put in place by FDR–is the main thing right now that’s keeping America from an economic collapse.

One of my friends asked me why I wasn’t voting Republican. “Don’t you want to keep more of your money?”

My answer? If Republicans continue to rule, and they follow the Hoover, McCain, Palin script, AND THE BANKS FAIL, neither she nor I will have any money to keep.

What we need is a President who sounds like FDR, not a Hoover sound-alike.
–Will C. Justice

Islamo-Fascists want to force our wives/girlfriends to wear ugly black burqas from head to toe, outlaw all free speech especially that which is critical of Muhammed, ban booze and gambling, stone prostitutes in town squares, kick our dogs, cut off the genitals of our gay friends, and jail our marijuana-smoking buddies for life.

Rothbard was not a “libertarian” but rather a leftwing Anarchist who infiltrated our libertarian movement. Unwelcomed as a matter of fact.

Perhaps they recognise the vapid Jesus whore’s “pro life” draconia as profoundly antilibertarian.