N1ghtM0nkey

No.

You're not even close.

And here's where you're wrong. Republicans aren't after ZERO government regulation. Republicans are after LESS government regulation.

What you are describing is anarchy. And that's the only argument you have is that Republicans are after zero regulation. It simply is not true, so turn off the CNN and go hang yourself. Nobody cares that you went to a socialist pep rally where they taught you the word Laissez-faire. We don't give a ---- about that word because the way you define the word - it doesn't describe Republicans in the least.

+1

signorelli21

LOL, looks like someone has been reading Adam Smith, trying to make a case for Socialism are we?

Hey ToysRme I am a republican and believe in free market economics, i would be happy to tell you why your wrong, I don't have time at the moment, but basically what your arguing for is the system we already have, the average investor is regulated and has a whole array of departments providing oversight and accountibility, but the real investors like hedgefund managers and bank managers or corporations do pretty much whatever they want.

If you want we can get into things like leveraging, short selling, naked short selling, the differences in all the various securities and bonds, the foreign currency exchange, interest rates and everything else that is supposedly regulated by your wonderful government, but thats not the problem.

The problem is that whenever you or I invest in the stock market and the stock takes a dump or whatever we lose our money, but when a large investment bank like bear stearns goes under because they leverage billions of dollars of worthless MBS's and are suddenly forced to come up with a shitload of money they never had in the first lpace..... then they are deemed too big to fail and get bailed out.

anyway all the great empires you listed no longer exist, no empire in the history of the world (including the great american empire) can go on forever. also if memory serves i don;t see how their economies are relevent in our current situation as they used gold or some precious metal for currency and had no central banks, the US has already had two central banks and both failed.

E-b0la

This is no longer an issue of Democrats vs. Republicans.

This is an issue of people vs government.

J-SMITH69

ding ding you win

Racintweek

couldnt agree more, the only thing is alot of people are too stupid to realize what the real problem is (themselves) and will want anything passed that will help them regardless of the affect on the economy

TorganFM

Consume to live, don't live to consume.

j3w

here's a few democrats that are specifically calling for no regulation of fannie mae and freddie mac... while a republican calls for it over and over.

http://www.youtube.com/v/_MGT_cSi7Rs

i stir the poop to make it stink worse

Slo_crx1

We have a winner. "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." ~Benjamin Franklin
They understood that back then, why is it so hard for coddled americans to wake up and realize the truth? Of the People, by the People, for the People has lost its true meaning and this country is just swallowing it whole without demanding accountability. America has grown fat and lazy on the greed and blind faith in the government to always bail them out. The greatest country in the world is no longer.


But what does it matter...the world ends in 2012 anyway. :P

TorganFM

The fall of Rome started when the Romans got fat, lazy, and greedy. I'm not saying we're a crumbling empire or anything, but it's food for thought.