Rep. Hensarling: Recessions are just ‘a part of freedom.’

[G_j]

Rep. Hensarling: Recessions are just ‘a part of freedom.’

This morning on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, a caller asked Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) how Republicans would solve the current economic crisis. He replied by insisting that the best cure was more tax cuts, and said that recessions are simply “part of freedom”:

I don’t think we can figure out how to outlaw recessions any more than we can outlaw tornadoes or outlaw hurricanes. … Economic growth has never gone in one straight line up. It goes in a zigzag line. It’s a part of freedom. Sometimes freedom can be messy. Sometimes freedom has reversals. But it certainly beats the alternative.

Watch it:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/26/hensarling-recession-freedom/

[mitchum]

1. Hard people make hard times

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

2. Yes. We know freedom can have reversals.

We just went through 8 years of it, asshole.

[Skidmore]

3. I have a visceral loathing for that little cretin.

[jobycom]

4. Republican'ts. Why do people vote for someone who says "I can't do anything and

I won't let anyone else do anything, either?" I know my boss loves it when I tell him "I don't know how to do that."

That's often the most convincing point a new CEO makes--"Give me the job, and I won't be able to do anything. Business just happens. Maybe we'll get better, maybe we'll go down the tubes. Here's my salary requirements and my Parachute clause." Makes boards all excited about hiring a CEO who says he can't do anything.

[bdamomma]

5. wow what a sick comment

makes me what to do this :puke:

and their answer to everything is tax cuts, that is what has screwed so many us.

[bluethruandthru]

12. I wonder what they think will happen when there are no more taxes to cut!

It seems they really resent having to pay for any service other than "defense" (war). Maybe they'll just abolish taxes and have everyone contribute to a "war fund".

[chaska]

6. During boomtimes the rich have the freedom to get much richer while the poor....

may advance a little.

During recessions the rich have freedom to get much richer while the poor get to flirt with homelessness or worse.

Regulations (now gutted) were put in place to moderate these boom/bust, bubble cycles.

Republicans can kiss my ass.

Bring SOCIAL DEMOCRACY to the USA NOW!

[fasttense]

7. Minor recessions are common in all capitalist societies

But Great Depressions are something only Republicons create.

[depakid]

8. I'm convinced Texas Republicans suffer from some mental illness

that's characterized by collective delusions.

[Metta]

9. He's a blind, uncaring mouth piece for the destruction of our way of life. Hurt? Collateral damage

Happy karma, Jeff. Which choice of suffering human or animal would you prefer to be reborn as?

[Deja Q]

16. Isn't freedom our way of life?

:shrug:

[KG]

10. spoken like someone who won't lose his job or house during bad times

[Solly Mack]

11. Sometimes (all too often) idiots go to Congress.

[corpseratemedia]

13. I wish rep. Hensarling would utilize that recession freedom to walk away from

his welfare queen/taxpaid gov. job.


Just walk away. Freedom is messy. And poor. rofl.

[G_j]

14. --

[Deja Q]

15. A drug addict also sung that freedom was a word meaning having nothing to lose.

Something like that.

:shrug:

[Ardent15]

17. Typical GOP rubber stamp

[MiniMe]

18. He must be channeling Janis Joplin