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nc4bo

(17,651 posts)
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:29 AM Sep 2012

Could someone explain to me what is this FREE-MARKET APPROACH Mr. Willard refers to?

I want him to explain again about this "free market approach" thing he referred to.........

I don't care if he has to go line by line explaining it.

If I'm not mistaken, this "free market approach" is what helped send us over a cliff, as did the hedge fund treachery, Ponzi scheming, CDO swaps, among other devious financial schemes perpetrated by corporations and individuals like Mitt Romney.

If I can recall, many people lost everything when that boil burst and the ones that got hurt the most were among the mooching 47%.

He can't possibly want us to return to that.

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Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
1. its when the government and taxpayers step in and save businesses asses from their own stupidity
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:31 AM
Sep 2012

at least that's what it seems like

nc4bo

(17,651 posts)
2. Like when we bailed out those Too Big Too Fail Banks? Privatize the profits, socialize the losses?
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:34 AM
Sep 2012

Like that?

 

Warren Stupidity

(48,181 posts)
3. medicare vouchers.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:34 AM
Sep 2012

privatized fire and police and sanitation and education and maintenance services.
school vouchers.
privatized military.
privatized roads and bridges.
Your social security turned into individual accounts 'managed' by Wall Street assholes.

Oh and increased taxes on all those moochers not making enough to pay income tax in order to pay for huge new tax cuts for the top income bracket.

nc4bo

(17,651 posts)
5. That's what I thought. Also wants wars but I haven't heard a peep on how Romney would pay for them.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:44 AM
Sep 2012

Who will fight these wars? A privatized army can not possibly be enough man/woman power to do this dirty work.

BumRushDaShow

(128,859 posts)
4. David Stockman, Raygun's original free-market architect
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:38 AM
Sep 2012

has been out in the media about R/R's "free market" talking points and admitted that it hadn't worked nor will work the way they envisioned.

Thirty years of Republican apostasy — a once grand party’s embrace of the welfare state, the warfare state and the Wall Street-coddling bailout state — have crippled the engines of capitalism and buried us in debt. Mr. Ryan’s sonorous campaign rhetoric about shrinking Big Government and giving tax cuts to “job creators” (read: the top 2 percent) will do nothing to reverse the nation’s economic decline and arrest its fiscal collapse.


http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/opinion/paul-ryans-fairy-tale-budget-plan.html

nc4bo

(17,651 posts)
7. Yet they continue to push this.
Tue Sep 18, 2012, 11:51 AM
Sep 2012

Thanks for the article.

Romney throws that phrase around almost like its an inside code for the 1%; he will continue the pillaging and plundering the wealth of the country for the benefit of the few. Sad part is it's entirely true.

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