Comments on: Congress Creating Big Brother for Wall Street http://biggovernment.com/bdarling/2009/11/14/congress-creating-big-brother-for-wall-street/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:09:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: NC Freedom » President Obama’s Permanent Bailout Fund http://biggovernment.com/bdarling/2009/11/14/congress-creating-big-brother-for-wall-street/comment-page-1/#comment-2251286 NC Freedom » President Obama’s Permanent Bailout Fund Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:45:30 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/?p=30378#comment-2251286 [...] financial institutions with no input from the average American.  I wrote a piece for the web site Big Government where I argued that Congress was creating a Big Brother for Wall Street on November 14, 2009 based [...] [...] financial institutions with no input from the average American.  I wrote a piece for the web site Big Government where I argued that Congress was creating a Big Brother for Wall Street on November 14, 2009 based [...]

]]> By: President Obama’s Permanent Bailout Fund - Brian_D’s blog - RedState http://biggovernment.com/bdarling/2009/11/14/congress-creating-big-brother-for-wall-street/comment-page-1/#comment-1768066 President Obama’s Permanent Bailout Fund - Brian_D’s blog - RedState Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:07:54 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/?p=30378#comment-1768066 [...] financial institutions with no input from the average American.  I wrote a piece for the web site Big Government where I argued that Congress was creating a Big Brother for Wall Street on November 14, 2009 based [...] [...] financial institutions with no input from the average American.  I wrote a piece for the web site Big Government where I argued that Congress was creating a Big Brother for Wall Street on November 14, 2009 based [...]

]]> By: President Obama’s Permanent Bailout Fund - Brian_D’s blog - RedState http://biggovernment.com/bdarling/2009/11/14/congress-creating-big-brother-for-wall-street/comment-page-1/#comment-1768058 President Obama’s Permanent Bailout Fund - Brian_D’s blog - RedState Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:07:53 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/?p=30378#comment-1768058 [...] financial institutions with no input from the average American.  I wrote a piece for the web site Big Government where I argued that Congress was creating a Big Brother for Wall Street on November 14, 2009 based [...] [...] financial institutions with no input from the average American.  I wrote a piece for the web site Big Government where I argued that Congress was creating a Big Brother for Wall Street on November 14, 2009 based [...]

]]> By: President Obama’s Permanent Bailout Fund - Brian_D’s blog - RedState http://biggovernment.com/bdarling/2009/11/14/congress-creating-big-brother-for-wall-street/comment-page-1/#comment-1768062 President Obama’s Permanent Bailout Fund - Brian_D’s blog - RedState Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:07:53 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/?p=30378#comment-1768062 [...] financial institutions with no input from the average American.  I wrote a piece for the web site Big Government where I argued that Congress was creating a Big Brother for Wall Street on November 14, 2009 based [...] [...] financial institutions with no input from the average American.  I wrote a piece for the web site Big Government where I argued that Congress was creating a Big Brother for Wall Street on November 14, 2009 based [...]

]]> By: ConcernedVet123 http://biggovernment.com/bdarling/2009/11/14/congress-creating-big-brother-for-wall-street/comment-page-1/#comment-457338 ConcernedVet123 Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:26:13 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/?p=30378#comment-457338 WHAT A JOKE! Dodd is going to write/sponsor a bill to overhaul our financial system? Who is going to help him, Barney the joke Frank? Another pathetic election year move by a pathetic career politician looking to drum up support for his upcoming DEFEAT next year. By the way senator, DID YOU READ YOUR BILL? Or maybe like you did with the TARP package, you can claim your ignorance after the fact! PATHETIC! Dump Dodd, Frank, Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, Schumer, Rangel, Conyers, Waters, Kerry, Durbin, ....! Vote for REAL hope and change. Vote ALL liberal clowns out of office and replcae them with TRUE conservative FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE representatives. That's the only way to achieve the hope and change this country needs now! WHAT A JOKE! Dodd is going to write/sponsor a bill to overhaul our financial system? Who is going to help him, Barney the joke Frank? Another pathetic election year move by a pathetic career politician looking to drum up support for his upcoming DEFEAT next year. By the way senator, DID YOU READ YOUR BILL? Or maybe like you did with the TARP package, you can claim your ignorance after the fact! PATHETIC! Dump Dodd, Frank, Pelosi, Boxer, Feinstein, Schumer, Rangel, Conyers, Waters, Kerry, Durbin, ….! Vote for REAL hope and change. Vote ALL liberal clowns out of office and replcae them with TRUE conservative FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE representatives. That's the only way to achieve the hope and change this country needs now!

]]> By: arby http://biggovernment.com/bdarling/2009/11/14/congress-creating-big-brother-for-wall-street/comment-page-1/#comment-449658 arby Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:53:23 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/?p=30378#comment-449658 I'd forgotten that line and it interests me how similar the thrust of her argument is to that of F.A. Hayek. In the Road to Serfdom Hayek explains a similar phenomena in the move towards totalitarianism from milder forms of central planning. He notes that initially, the people advocating and running the states planning efforts are often moral men, who have no desire to harm their fellows, but instead sincerely want to help them. But when The Plan doesn't work, or new plans are needed, member of society will need to be prodded to move in the direction of the planning authority. These moral men will find themselves in a position of choosing between effecting The Plan or doing immoral things. Usually, those men will quit the planning authority, leaving the power to enforce The Plan to less scrupulous persons. And that process repeats itself until you end up with a Stalin or a Pol Pot. Supporters of Obama (and any statist for that matter) need to come to grips with the long term effects of their desire to move away from a society based on individual liberty and the rule of law, towards collective goals, central planning and the arbitrary authority of those in power. The are are putting us on the Road to Serfdom. I'd forgotten that line and it interests me how similar the thrust of her argument is to that of F.A. Hayek. In the Road to Serfdom Hayek explains a similar phenomena in the move towards totalitarianism from milder forms of central planning. He notes that initially, the people advocating and running the states planning efforts are often moral men, who have no desire to harm their fellows, but instead sincerely want to help them. But when The Plan doesn't work, or new plans are needed, member of society will need to be prodded to move in the direction of the planning authority. These moral men will find themselves in a position of choosing between effecting The Plan or doing immoral things. Usually, those men will quit the planning authority, leaving the power to enforce The Plan to less scrupulous persons. And that process repeats itself until you end up with a Stalin or a Pol Pot.

Supporters of Obama (and any statist for that matter) need to come to grips with the long term effects of their desire to move away from a society based on individual liberty and the rule of law, towards collective goals, central planning and the arbitrary authority of those in power. The are are putting us on the Road to Serfdom.

]]> By: arby http://biggovernment.com/bdarling/2009/11/14/congress-creating-big-brother-for-wall-street/comment-page-1/#comment-449598 arby Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:43:05 +0000 http://biggovernment.com/?p=30378#comment-449598 Sorry, have to disagree. The "shrug" that takes place is merely a walking away from a society that treats producers as the enemy. Galt et al are not trying to destroy that nation or society, but to make it clear that they, the victims, will not be complicit in their own victimization. Rand was right about this: when we sit by and watch our freedoms and our wealth taken we grant the takers a degree of moral authority. Sorry, have to disagree. The "shrug" that takes place is merely a walking away from a society that treats producers as the enemy. Galt et al are not trying to destroy that nation or society, but to make it clear that they, the victims, will not be complicit in their own victimization. Rand was right about this: when we sit by and watch our freedoms and our wealth taken we grant the takers a degree of moral authority.

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