Comments on: just another Talking Point… http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2009/01/05/just-another-talking-point/ All Mickey, All the Time Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:55:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ralph Roughton http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2009/01/05/just-another-talking-point/#comment-100791 Ralph Roughton Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:02:20 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=2782#comment-100791 I agree. The collective Republican voice (politicos, pundits, talk-radio crazies) have a single motive: winning by tearing down the other guys. They like to throw in every once in a while some of their mantras (tax cuts, small govt.); but if they thought they could rally their troops with the opposite, they would say that too. And they figured out that lies become truth if said often enough. So they just say it over and over. Someone points out fallacies? Don't refute it; just keep repeating the lie. I agree. The collective Republican voice (politicos, pundits, talk-radio crazies) have a single motive: winning by tearing down the other guys. They like to throw in every once in a while some of their mantras (tax cuts, small govt.); but if they thought they could rally their troops with the opposite, they would say that too.

And they figured out that lies become truth if said often enough. So they just say it over and over. Someone points out fallacies? Don’t refute it; just keep repeating the lie.

]]> By: Smoooochie http://1boringoldman.com/index.php/2009/01/05/just-another-talking-point/#comment-100782 Smoooochie Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:03:03 +0000 http://1boringoldman.com/?p=2782#comment-100782 The hypocritical thing about "letting the market adjust itself" is that all the while the SEC looking the other way while folks like Maddoff and others have their way with the market is part of it. That isn't anything like letting the market adjust itself. That IS letting crooks take advantage while the regulators wait along the sidelines until they get their turn. It's has nothing to do with the health of the market at all. Letting the markets adjust themselves would require honest people to make honest business dealings which we have learned time and time again just ISN'T something that is going to happen without regulation. The hypocritical thing about “letting the market adjust itself” is that all the while the SEC looking the other way while folks like Maddoff and others have their way with the market is part of it. That isn’t anything like letting the market adjust itself. That IS letting crooks take advantage while the regulators wait along the sidelines until they get their turn. It’s has nothing to do with the health of the market at all. Letting the markets adjust themselves would require honest people to make honest business dealings which we have learned time and time again just ISN’T something that is going to happen without regulation.

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