Today we are tilting towards too much capitalism. The fact that our government is bought and paid for shows this. while we need some addtional regulation to get the mix back on track (ex more shareholder power over boards/ceo’s/better big picture regulation of real estate market/banks/investment banks/markets) we do not need the wholesale takeover of the private sector that BHO and Hillary are advocating.

unseen on April 16, 2008 at 12:49 AM

I’d go so far as to say that excessive government corruption is the fault of socialism, not capitalism. Those vast lobbyist complexes ringing the Beltway wouldn’t be there if the government’s favors were not for sale. Limiting the power and scope of government is the only way to limit the ability of big-money interests to purchase influence. I think you’d have to look at the period leading up to the Depression to see a fair example of “too much capitalism,” and even there, the problem was still caused by un-free markets, not an excess of free market commerce. Un-free markets always lead to economic catastrophe, whether the restraints are imposed by socialist governments or rapacious capitalist robber barons.

the strongest economies have always been those that mix socialism with capitalism. it is the mix that is important. Too much socialism and you stifle freedom, risk taking, upward and downward molbility. too much capitalism and you have a net drain of capital from the population into the hands of the few which stifles freedom, risk taking, upward and downward molbility. Before Reagan we had too much socialism. Today we are tilting towards too much capitalism. The fact that our government is bought and paid for shows this. while we need some addtional regulation to get the mix back on track (ex more shareholder power over boards/ceo’s/better big picture regulation of real estate market/banks/investment banks/markets) we do not need the wholesale takeover of the private sector that BHO and Hillary are advocating.

Green economies are for more sustainable, no?

Squid Shark on April 15, 2008 at 9:09 PM

while I also agree let’s do it for the right reason like national security, lower prices, more compitetion, less pollution than for the man made myth of global warming. Take the Co2 as a polluiate out of the equation and green things become alot cheaper to build and use.

His housing plan is a hell of alot better than Hillary’s 5 year freeze on rates.

His gasoline tax holiday is ok also. It will allow the rebate checks to be spend the way they were intended at the stores instead of at the pump. But it will increase demand for gasoline. what we need is for people to stay home this summer. Dry up demand to the point that oil falls back to $60.00 knocking it off this “dollar/fed cut band wagon” that is is trading on.

If he follows thruogh on cutting pork and spending I’m all for it. Was planning on sitting home this nov. still might. but if BHO gets a little more scarier and McCain gets alittle more conservative then I might go vote.

This is the first speech I heaed him make that I agreed with more than I disagreed with.

There is no reason whatsoever that our government needs 3 trillion dollars a year just to fund day to day operations. just by cutting the use of paper on all those tax forms I had to fill out today would save millions. the government must come into the year 2008. Spend the money on upgrading the government infrastructe with new pc’s mainframes, etc instead of funding the social program of the month.

Green economies are for more sustainable, no?
Squid Shark on April 15, 2008 at 9:09 PM

Not on a large scale, while giving a high standard of living to the vast majority.

However, the reverse is always true: strong, sustainable economies are the ones that can afford to be ‘green’.

We could afford a lot more things for the impoverished in our nation if we’d stop throwing money at places like Palestine for one. I wonder what his stance is on foreign aid…

Grayson on April 15, 2008 at 6:29 PM

I agree completely. I’m all in favor of abandoning the U.N. in favor of an American-led organization whose membership requirements include democratic elections, religious liberty, and complete legal cooperation with the American F.B.I. Membership in this organization would be an absolute pre-requisite for any U.S. foreign aid. No nation outside of this group would receive financial aid from any of its members, although humanitarian disaster assistance – conducted by the American military – would be offered.

Just in case anyone was thinking of writing me in on the Presidential ballot, the other two planks of my campaign platform would be a flat tax, and restriction of voting rights to net tax payers. The only recipients of government benefits in excess of their tax payments who would be allowed to vote would be members of the military. Oh, and I’m thinking of deploying Rover from “The Prisoner” to secure the Southern border.

Oh yeah…. Lets also build more of the most efficient power plants: Nuclear.

I agree 110%

Green economies are for more sustainable, no?

Good, there is only one solution, an Apollo-scale project for alternative energy, we should have started 20 years ago.
Squid Shark on April 15, 2008 at 8:22 PM

I should have gone on a diet 20 years ago too… But I’m not going to cut off both of my legs now to lose the excess weight.

Which is what McCain wants to do.

It is stupid to destroy the economy now because ‘they’ didn’t do what you wanted 20 years ago.

Lousy economies make for dirtier environments, not cleaner ones, in case you haven’t noticed.

Exploit now the most efficient energy mediums that are presently available… Use a percentage of the taxes from that to fund improving the inefficient alternative energy sources we have now, and to maybe look for new ones.

Oh yeah…. Lets also build more of the most efficient power plants: Nuclear.

He has already said that he intends to ban forever the possibility of drilling in ANWR, all the coastal areas and some of the interior areas that show great potential but haven’t been drilled yet.

Good, there is only one solution, an Apollo-scale project for alternative energy, we should have started 20 years ago.

If he had thrown in drilling for own oil……
SouthernGent on April 15, 2008 at 7:11 PM

He has already said that he intends to ban forever the possibility of drilling in ANWR, all the coastal areas and some of the interior areas that show great potential but haven’t been drilled yet.

But that’s me.

we’ll never tolerate people starving in the streets or dying because they couldn’t get emergency medical care. The task awaiting a Republican presidential candidate is to make the case that we can address these humanitarian needs efficiently, without wasting vast sums on bloated state machinery or absurd middle-class entitlements. From that perspective, I think McCain did pretty well today.

Doctor Zero on April 15, 2008 at 5:54 PM

We could afford a lot more things for the impoverished in our nation if we’d stop throwing money at places like Palestine for one. I wonder what his stance is on foreign aid…

Is that why he has his own plans?

Chakra Hammer on April 15, 2008 at 5:46 PM

Yes he does have his own plan to take away our liberty and hard earned money for a GLOBAL SCAM!!!!!!!!!!

A TWICE LOSER McVAIN in the senate may be way more effective then him being POTUS….

Branch Rickey on April 15, 2008 at 5:41 PM

He has been elected more times [was this before of after he left his sick wife for an heiress?], and has served his country more honorably than Obama ever has.

Chakra Hammer on April 15, 2008 at 5:45 PM

TWICE LOSER OF POTUS!!!!

Branch Rickey on April 15, 2008 at 5:43 PM

Is that why he has his own plans?

A TWICE LOSER McVAIN in the senate may be way more effective then him being POTUS….

Branch Rickey on April 15, 2008 at 5:41 PM

He has been elected more times, and has served his country more honorably than Obama ever has.

He was! Thats why he voted against the Bush tax cuts the first time, because they did not have spending restraints attached to them.

Chakra Hammer on April 15, 2008 at 5:38 PM

No he didn’t vote against the tax cuts for those reasons at that time. You can read the transcript on C-Span. He was a sore loser to Bush and wanted to humiliate him.

All 3 remaining “candidates” are an insult to the republic.

that was almost word for word from Fred for potus web site.
good deal mccain, but i still dont trust you.

Not that I support tax increases, I don’t want to pay no more then very little… but at what point did less taxes start helping?

PresidenToor on April 15, 2008 at 5:00 PM

If you remember, at the End of Clinton’s term, Bush was handed a recession, then 9/11 that hit our economy HUGE.. to say that the tax cuts didn’t help is to deny reality.

What is principled here? It’s one thing to be against McCain, by principle, but to then give your vote to an out right Marxist…If that’s principled, I’m the Pope.

Entelechy on April 15, 2008 at 5:36 PM

The McCain camp has already told conservatives that they don’t need or want our votes so what we conservatives should do is eat the excrement sandwich from McCain, and d%mn well like it? Oh, btw, if you think McCain wouldn’t sell us all out to Marxist principles for the elites to like him; you might want to take looky over his Cow Fart Hoax / Marxist control over individual liberty plan.

A TWICE LOSER McVAIN in the senate may be way more effective then him being POTUS….

Well then McVain should have spent his time in the senate working to that instead of a frontal assault on the First Amendment because he felt the need to atone for playing footsy with the Keating and the other 4 Democrats involved. Why is it McVain is almost always with the dimwits???

Branch Rickey on April 15, 2008 at 5:25 PM

He was! Thats why he voted against the Bush tax cuts the first time, because they did not have spending restraints attached to them.

I see the “conservative jackasses for Obama” conservatives with principles are out in full force already.

NoDonkey on April 15, 2008 at 2:59 PM

Fixed.

HYTEAndy on April 15, 2008 at 4:04 PM

What is principled here? It’s one thing to be against McCain, by principle, but to then give your vote to an out right Marxist…If that’s principled, I’m the Pope.