Why Does The Republican Party Want To Put Wall Street On Welfare

[berni_mccoy]

Seriously, bail-out after bail-out after bail-out is being handed out to Wall Street. Why?

The Republican ideology of "Free Market" has led us to precisely the point that Conservatives have feared all along and Liberals never wanted to go in the first place. That's why Conservatives should have agreed with Liberals back in the 80's with regard to regulations and controls over the greed that has consumed this country into massive debt and disgrace.

The Republican party has ruled for decades now and their 'policies' have led us to ruin. McCain has been there for 26 years, not fighting Republican policies, but enabling them.

We must unite as a country to solve these very serious problems. The fact that McCain has wholeheartedly stolen Obama's Change Theme and has abandon his own Experience Theme is the very proof you need that McCain is not serious about change. McCain just wants to be president and is willing to do or say anything to make that happen. McCain's change in theme from Experience to Change is also another admission: that Conservatives want change as much as Liberals do. All of us as Americans realize what is at stake and we realize what change is necessary.

Obama is the candidate who has built his entire campaign and policy platform on change. He has been responsible for passing laws to bring about transparency in government and removing the stranglehold of corporate influence on government. One of his first acts upon obtaining the Nomination of his party was to immediately have the DNC stop taking money from lobbyists, something Obama's campaign has done from the beginning.

America, if you are looking for change, a new direction that will restore America and prevent the disasters that Republican policy has led us to, then you must unite together behind Barack Obama.

[joefree1]

1. Work harder

Billionaires on Corporate Welfare depend on you. Life is tough for them. :sarcasm:

[onetwo]

6. Laura Ingraham was telling listeners to pour more of their hard earned dollars into Wall Street.

She said that it would show the foreigners pulling their investments that Americans have confidence in their own system.

LOL.

How about the corporations hiring more Americans to demonstrate our confidence in the US workforce? Nahhhh, that's not profitable.

[cascadiance]

2. I think that the timing is not coincidental either. They want to do it before a new president ...

If Obama were in charge, there would be a lot of executive orders he could issue that would really corner these crooks that created the problem to start with, even if he still might try to bail out these companies in order to keep the economy intact.

That is the key word here. These CRIMINALS that have been working unfettered under Bush's regime by any sort of accountability, need to be brought to justice. They are hoping to take their cash and if necessary, bail to the Cayman's before the end of the year. If they waited until Obama took office, that might not be in the cards like it might be now... That's my bet as to why this is happening now.

[GreenTea]

3. The republicans despise socialism except for the rich!

[yowzayowzayowza]

4. The "free market" is to conservatives as...

the hammer is to Cro-Magnon man. Everything looks like a nail to 'em!!!

[Frumious B]

5. This situation can't be cast as anything other than a failure of "conservatism".

I know. I know. To a dyed-in-the-wool conservative the ideology never fails. People only fail the ideology. If reality, itself, conflicts with the ideology then reality becomes a matter of opinion. Republicans will try to blame individuals while ignoring the elephant in the room. However, it is blindingly obvious that if these companies had been more tightly regulated then a situation would not have arisen where the government would be considering a bailout of this magnitude.

[TheKentuckian]

7. It is Republicanism that has failed

At least the Reagan/Bush/McCain/Gingrich/Rush/Rove brand. I'm sure sane arguments will be made going forward for lots of conservative principles and ideas, some of them may even work. After all, they were abandoned along the way, just like progressive ideas.