tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9666124.post6481855878370377466..comments2023-10-23T10:05:25.643-04:00Comments on Rick Sincere News and Thoughts: Craig Ferguson Gets ItRick Sincerehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02430047101172614629noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9666124.post-49581848488964150072008-09-30T13:32:00.000-04:002008-09-30T13:32:00.000-04:00Having a genuine economic understanding won't make...Having a genuine economic understanding won't make Joe Public feel any better about the situation. They're still fitting the bill for someone else's flamingo-up (think cock-up, but much bigger). How many in the public have a genuine economic understanding? And it's not their fault if they don't since it hasn't been presented in laymans terms, instead making a lot of people feel excluded to the process. At the end of the day the public is growing tired and restless and the government ought to be fearful of pushing the people too far which might resort in extremism.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9666124.post-32093360039624689852008-09-25T19:37:00.000-04:002008-09-25T19:37:00.000-04:00Ferguson doesn't really get it -- he's criticizing...Ferguson doesn't really get it -- he's criticizing the bailout from a sentimental-leftist angle, not from a genuine economic understanding. Defining capitalism as democracy's evil twin is pretty egregious: Markets aren't evil, and the function of free choice is not to maximize inequality.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure you "get it" either, if you think your application of the term "fascist" is historically accurate. Never mind that even Jonah Goldberg, who tried to write a book on the subject, can't define what the term fascism means, and the closest thing we have to a working definition -- the old 14-point list -- was cooked up by academic activists, in order to smear political conservatives. (Umberto Eco has devised a slightly better 14-point list, but it also fails to define fascism adequately.)<BR/><BR/>Anyway, here's hoping the bailout loan -- which is meant to be a loan, not necessarily a straight payout -- contains the mortgage meltdown.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12608889417356450181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9666124.post-38210581803293198522008-09-25T18:43:00.000-04:002008-09-25T18:43:00.000-04:00Rick,this is hilarious and dead on.Watched it on y...Rick,this is hilarious and dead on.Watched it on youtube today.<BR/><BR/>I'd never seen him before...I forwarded this to several people.<BR/><BR/>Thanks, David BrownDavid Brownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16150057515513837876noreply@blogger.com