Comments on: Video: Fred! on the economy

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By: Video: Fred! on the economy « Top Daily Digest Reading

Video: Fred! on the economy « Top Daily Digest Reading — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:24:51 +0000

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By: Fred Thompson on the economy - My RV Talk

Fred Thompson on the economy - My RV Talk — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:42:26 +0000

[...] Thompson on the economy Fred gives us a little satire in this video he made about the current economy and the efforts to fix it. Even with me being known to have [...]

By: The Voodoo [Economics] that You Do So Well « John Botscharow

The Voodoo [Economics] that You Do So Well « John Botscharow — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:32:58 +0000

[...] Presidential-wannabe, who appears to be gearing up for a run at the nomination in 2012 already, offers his solution in a very interesting sound bite here. But that is all it really is. Just a good media piece, bot a [...]

By: SheofTwoMinds

SheofTwoMinds — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:23:55 +0000

I do love me some Fred.

By: Bloggers React to Fred’s Economy Video | Christopher Howell

Bloggers React to Fred’s Economy Video | Christopher Howell — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:04:07 +0000

[...] Ed Morrissey at HotAir wirtes: Fred Thompson gives us a dose of common sense about the economy and the government action to rescue it. It’s a masterpiece of sarcasm and wit, and almost impossible to excerpt. Like most Fred! videos, it’s an instant classic. [...]

By: beachgirlusa

beachgirlusa — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:07:34 +0000

FRED!

By: There's My Two Cents

There's My Two Cents — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:05:55 +0000

Fred On The Economy…

This is a great video from Fred Thompson……

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Five Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes for the GOP « JoHNBRoDiGaNDoTCoM — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:38:55 +0000

[...] Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes for the GOP 3 12 2008 Sarah Palin. Mitt Romney. Mike Huckabee. Fred Thompson. Bobby Jindal. Michael Steele. Generally when there’s talk of the future leaders of the [...]

By: starfleet_dude

starfleet_dude — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:39:44 +0000

Poptech, the problem with the Austrian school’s diagnosis is that it’s looking at an ultimate cause (credit supply) and missing the proximate cause of the stock market crash, which was huge increases in margin trading. It’s like saying that the Fed somehow caused the housing bubble by just lowering rates when the real cause was how mortgage brokers were casting all caution to the wind by lending money out of all proportion to the actual value of housing assets and then quickly reselling them after they’d collected their fees. Sure, if interest rates had been hiked up it would have cooled the housing market and perhaps lowered the peak of the bubble, but IMO it wouldn’t have prevented it.

By: Teh Mighty Fred | Little Miss Attila

Teh Mighty Fred | Little Miss Attila — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:11:37 +0000

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By: nottakingsides

nottakingsides — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:10:58 +0000

His stammering, stuttering, verbal pauses and general lack of enthusiasm during the primary debates made me cringe for him. Any chance the bloggers here at HotAir could lose that exclamation point? It’s never seemed so out-of-place.

dhawbake on December 2, 2008 at 2:10 PM

Maybe you should have some patience and wait through a pause for some greatness. Maybe you can’t handle a deep thinker and the few seconds it takes to put things together perfectly. Maybe explaining conservative philosophies in 30-second limits is difficult if not impossible.

I’d take a laid-back deep-thinking conservative, over a passionate liberal like McCain any day.

Socialistic/tyrannical governments seem to have their people wanting a fiesty, loud-mouthed dear-leader that rouses the masses with empty demagoguery. Sounds like Obama, Chavez, Hitler, etc… is more your speed.

By: Poptech

Poptech — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:08:05 +0000

Excuse me, but that’s absolutely untrue. The administrations of Harding and Coolidge were not in any way free market interventionists with regard to the economy, nor was the Republican-controlled Congress of the 1920s. And if anything Hoover unwisely took the advice of Treasure Secretary Mellon in 1930 that led to the onset of the Great Depression. The expansion of credit was mostly due the increased reliance on ever shrinking margins in stock trades, not on anything the federal government did. starfleet_dude on December 2, 2008 at 12:45 PM

You are wrong and need to read this book: America's Great Depression (PDF) (368 pgs) (Murray Rothbard, Ph.D. Economics, 5th Edition, 2000) The government (federal reserve) created credit expansion is fully documented.

By: nottakingsides

nottakingsides — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:55:48 +0000

I love Fred. Fred is the man! I wish this country had a 1,000 Fred Thompsons.

beachgirlusa on December 2, 2008 at 12:44 PM

We do, it’s just that they fear putting their own face on an issue and taking a stand. Some fears are justified, but mostly they are cowards and are fine letting talk radio and a blogs do their talking for them.

Leftists are getting their message out and taking a stand using every tool available. The Thompson-style videos should be the norm, but unfortunately they are the exception.

Still waiting for Palin to get her message out, but perhaps she has nothing to say, or she prefers the proven-to-fail pathway of attempting to get the lib media on her side. We’ll see over time. Hopefully she will stop propping up McCain, denounce/expose/fight the lib media, and talk directly to the people.

By: paulmorrison

paulmorrison — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:00:17 +0000

Fred Thompson / Chuck Norris in 2012!!!

Why is Chuck the VP? Because we had to put the toughest guy up front in the ticket!

By: omnipotent

omnipotent — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:47:11 +0000

“Like telling a fat guy to lose weight by eating more.”

This is a bad analogy.

Many fat people can loose weight by eating more.

Thune on December 2, 2008 at 12:27 PM

His quote was “Like telling a fat guy to lose weight by eating more DONUGHTS.”

Gotta problem with that?

Fred!

By: califcon

califcon — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:11:34 +0000

dhawbake, people like yourself, who care more about the style than the substance, are a big part of the current problems and the horrible choices being made by the slick Washington insiders to dig us deeper into the hole. Please refer to the very astute comment above regarding Fred’s lack of “American Idol-y” appeal and enjoy the crap out of the coming dark days.

Fred! is a wise man and a great American!!

By: ThePrez

ThePrez — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:05:38 +0000

Aw shucks, I`m still a Fred Head!

By: Common Sense is So Yesterday | The Lonely Conservative

Common Sense is So Yesterday | The Lonely Conservative — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:40:06 +0000

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By: rhodeymark

rhodeymark — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:36:16 +0000

We provide the enthusiasm – he provides the folksy gravitas.

By: Mallard T. Drake

Mallard T. Drake — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:18:27 +0000

Any chance the bloggers here at HotAir could lose that exclamation point?

dhawbake on December 2, 2008 at 2:10 PM

FRED!

(does that answer your question?)

By: dhawbake

dhawbake — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:10:57 +0000

I’m a big fan of Sen. Thompson, but I can hardly think of a politician less-deserving of an exclamation point after his name. His stammering, stuttering, verbal pauses and general lack of enthusiasm during the primary debates made me cringe for him. Any chance the bloggers here at HotAir could lose that exclamation point? It’s never seemed so out-of-place.

By: rhodeymark

rhodeymark — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:48:43 +0000

Dude – we’ll see. Nobel winning economists also said the GSEs weren’t a risk to the taxpayer. Right now, common sense and a healthy survival skillset says to listen to those who were right about the housing bubble even before it became obvious. Common sense will usually trump theory every time.

Those who were pushing for Social Security “privatization” were merely trying to weasel out of the obligation to honor the Social Security Trust Fund.

That’s one way to look at it. The other is – the money isn’t there, and never will be at this point without simply printing it. The Government can inflate their way out of a lot of obligation. It won’t be painless.

By: starfleet_dude

starfleet_dude — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:40:25 +0000

rhodeymark, the looming entitlement trainwreck is greatly exaggerated and has been for decades. Those who were pushing for Social Security “privatization” were merely trying to weasel out of the obligation to honor the Social Security Trust Fund. Ronald Reagan would be appalled to see how some want to break the promise he made back in 1983 when it was created.

In the meantime, we have an economic crisis right here, right now. I’m not dead yet and neither are you, so we can both hope for something to be done about it.

By: rhodeymark

rhodeymark — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:29:33 +0000

starfleet_dude (tell me you’re not some guy in Captain Kirk underoos), I just received Forgotten Man, haven’t started it yet, it’s in the queue. Just curious, have you read it? Before you pound on Fred and tout Keynes, you might want to admit that the looming entitlement trainwreck is a game changer on many (if not all fronts). The last time the government spent us out of an economic hole, it also handed over a time bomb. Tick tick tick…

Better to do something now for the living, rather than let unemployed parents and their kids suffer for the sake of failed economic nostrums

Except Fred is right – the ones who are going to really suffer are already alive.