Quote Originally Posted by killerweed420
Welcome to socialism. Its a short step to communism.
if only that were true, then the people might regain some of the powers they have so blindly handed over to their so-called representatives. these bastards represent nothing but the consolidation of power and the slow stripping of the people of their liberties. the marxist concept that a government handed such powers over the lifeblood of a nation might willingly relinquish those powers to the citizenry has been disproved over and over again. no communalist society has ever been born of the consolidation of power in the few. only if all the people have the freedom to accumulate wealth and power individually is there any possibility of an equitable distribution of control over the nation's economy.

Quote Originally Posted by maladroit
it's only temporary socialism...the government doesn't want to stay in the bank business...
do you honestly believe that such power will just be blithely returned to the private sector? once government has gotten its hooks into any private entity has it ever really loosed its grip entirely? please don't be so naive. every totalitarian regime has instituted a series of temporary measures for the good of the people and it has always taken a popular uprising for the people to regain control.
delusionsofNORMALity Reviewed by delusionsofNORMALity on . Updated bailout price tag: 840 Billion? I'm surprised this hasn't come up over the past couple of days, but yesterday I saw something quite interesting in the news. While we were all focused intently on the bailout negotiations, the Treasury Department quietly released a five-sentence statement saying it had repealed section 382 (I think) of the tax code. Section 382 kept corporations from claiming losses taken on by buying failing corporations for tax deductions/exemptions (I don't know the exact way it works) This was Rating: 5