A Fantathy Unwewated to Any Human Expewienthe!
here’s your towel
Rep. Barney Frank on government regulations: “The general fear that the banking members, that we’re going to over regulate on behalf of consumers is a fantasy unrelated to any human experience. The federal government has never done that.”
So, tell me again why the banks were knowingly making loans to people and failing to ask whether or not they actually had any income? Or stopped the oil sucking boats to check on life vests? Or stopped the dredging? Or keeps out the foreign oil-gathering specialist equipment?
Tell me again who will force the banks to bail out Freddie/Fanny—again? Who is taking private property for crony private gain? Who is demanding “escrow monies” and dipping it’s ...hands in it as though it were pudding? Who is likely gonna “encourage” US all to go to bed an hour earlier putting poor Charlie Sheen out of work*?
Pull the other one --- it’s got bells on.
* I hear he has a popular evening TV show—which no one could watch if they can’t use electricity
Which is why thoooo many Amewicanth have confidenth in you, Mithter Fwank:
Rasmussen : 48% of Adults see the government today as a threat to individual rights...
--37% regard the government as a protector of rights.
--15% [asked to be directed to the snack bar]-- Republicans 74%
-- Unaffiliateds 51%
-- [even 36% of the Slow-learners Party agrees][Part Dux]
-- 52% say it is more important for the government to protect individual rights than to promote economic growth
-- 31% say promoting economic growth [is even possible for the fed gubbmint to do]
-- 17%aren’t sure which is more important[asked to be allowed to pet the bunny]-- 21% believe that government today has the consent of the governed.
[Final kicker]
Men strongly believe it is more important for the government to protect individual rights, while women are almost evenly divided on the question.
*sisterly facepalm* my palm...
“The federal government has never done that.”
Mr Frank: Could you tell us, please, the number of pages of regulations in the Federal Register?
Anybody: Could you tell us, please, any area of human activity that is not regulated and/or taxed?
Our extremely conservative governor Arnold came out with a nice quote the other day:
“From the time they get up in the morning and flush the toilet, they’re taxed. Then they go and get the cup of coffee, they’re taxed....This goes on all day long. Tax, tax, tax.”
I heard the radio clip. He includes a few other things, like “drive your car - taxed, buy gas - taxed, ...”
Some time ago somebody in Blogland said that government spends money like a drunken sailor.
A commentor replied, no that’s not right. A drunken sailor stops spending when he runs out of money.
Posted by ZZMike on 06/24/10 at 10:36 PM
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