Government Propaganda Has Worked

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richie2044 Posted: Wed, Oct 15 2008 9:29 AM

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People now want big government to step in.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=alhCRwBpIK0U&refer=home

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MatthewWilliam replied on Wed, Oct 15 2008 7:04 PM

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Glenn Beck makes a passing reference in this interview with Peter Schiff that some of the Congressmen were scaremongered into voting YES on the $700bn bailout bill.

"the sky will fall / the DOW will plummet 3,000 points..." 

*for those interested the video is just a typical Schiff interview. If you see one you've seen em all. Great stuff though.

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Julio replied on Wed, Oct 15 2008 8:53 PM

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richie2044:

People now want big government to step in.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=alhCRwBpIK0U&refer=home

Propraganda always works. At this rate since 1929 to 2008, we can expect a fully operational kind of communist society with some kind of private enterprise.

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Kakugo replied on Thu, Oct 16 2008 12:32 PM

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As Ron Paul rightly remarked more than a few times government intervention works like a very addictive drug. Remember when you were a child in the '70s or the '80s and you had all those stories about unscrupolous dealers handing out free candies laced with heroine to turn children into hopeless addicts? This is pretty much the same thing, only this time it's very real. We tend to grow addicted to government intervention: take a quick look at any local newspaper and a good chunck of the news will be about this or that special interest group clamoring for government intervention on their behalf. If it's not money, it's legislation or other people's blood.

The serious problem right now is that pretty much every industry is rushing in to be the first to be bailed out. Maybe they know very well that there won't be the resources to bail out everybody so they need to be first in the pecking order: the bankers were the first, now we have the car industry, then we'll probably have the "green" industry (manufacturers of solar panels, windmills and other assorted treehugger's essentials), the airlines, the oil companies (let's not forget that oil is tumbling down... now, now 150 $ oil was it ALL about supply and demand?)... pretty much everybody who can get a sympathetic ear in the US congress or the EU commissions before resources will dry up. Big Brother, help your faithful sons!

Let me add a final word: I had no ideas politicians and bankers were already in full panic mode. I thought they had some kind of evil and twisted plan but now it seems they are hitting at random hoping to score a jackpot. Just to give a measure of how bad the situation is the Evil Union has just imposed very strict CO2 emissions for automakers (last week), but now is already talking about an immense bail out plan for the car industry they helped cripple. Let's pray to the Gods that they won't force us all to buy new vehicles with the excuse of saving the Mother Gaia (don't laugh, my local government has been trying this approach for the past five years and I am quite busy in holding them in check).