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2011-09-10 Home Front: Politix

Some of Sarah Palin's Ideas Cross the Political Divide

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Posted by Fred 2011-09-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 So much for Palin not being smart....Course the MSM and elites of all stripes never acknowledged her policy's, just that she looked too good, her voice was too high, quitter (because the lawsuits were bankrupting her family) and making too much money on her books and speeches. Jealousy you think?

Posted by tipover 2011-09-10 00:31|| 2011-09-10 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 How about a subject heading of "Corporate Capitalist Communism"? It has a neat sound to it.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-09-10 00:41|| 2011-09-10 00:41|| Front Page Top

#3 For some reason nobody ever brings up the idea of breaking up any organization that's "too big to fail." Not so! See Barry Ritholz's blog post of 2009 for a long list of people who have proposed just that. Also see Bloomberg 9/13/2009: Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize- winning economist, said the U.S. has failed to fix the underlying problems of its banking system after the credit crunch and the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

In the U.S. and many other countries, the too-big-to-fail banks have become even bigger, Stiglitz said in an interview today in Paris. The problems are worse than they were in 2007 before the crisis.

Stiglitzs views echo those of former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who has advised President Barack Obamas administration to curtail the size of banks.
Somehow their message makes no impression.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-09-10 00:57|| 2011-09-10 00:57|| Front Page Top

#4 Any enterprise/organization that is deemed too big to fail...is to big. Period.

Posted by Secret Asian Man (New Delhi) 2011-09-10 04:49|| 2011-09-10 04:49|| Front Page Top

#5 It would be pretty easy to dramatically slow down the growth in the size of businesses. Eliminate pooling of interest (stock swaps) in mergers and acquisitions.

Too big to fail is easy also. Next time they fail, break them up as a condition of bailout.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2011-09-10 07:09|| 2011-09-10 07:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Ms. Palin's third point was more striking still: in contrast to the sweeping paeans to capitalism and the free market...

Ah, yes the NYT. There is a difference between capitalism and free markets. In practice 'capitalists' don't like 'free markets' because they have to compete. As the piece points out, capitalists seek to maximize their market through means other than open competition. Buying and operating their own agents at the points of governance is one of them. In that manner they're the same as their mirror image unionists. Two wolves discussing how to divide the sheep.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-09-10 09:10|| 2011-09-10 09:10|| Front Page Top

#7 WADR, these are not Ms. Palin's "ideas". A safe assumption is they are indeed her "beliefs". It's an important distinction because these beliefs are niether of Ms.Palin's orginal conception nor are they new. And as the author implies these beliefs are not carved out by partisian ideals. Moreover, the basis for what's often described as "Tea Party principels" is derived from some of these beleifs. The reason symantics matter here is because of the coordinated effort to demonize the Tea Party. The cynic in me suspects the NYT's ~~agenda~~ headline is not portray Palin as resonable but to negativly associate those shared beliefs with a person they have worked so hard to denigrate. Just sayin...

Posted by DepotGuy 2011-09-10 10:54|| 2011-09-10 10:54|| Front Page Top

#8 If Sarah gets to the point of advocating "Stop the looting and start prosecuting" I'll be on her side.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-09-10 10:58|| 2011-09-10 10:58|| Front Page Top

#9 I wish I could find that chart which illustrated a spectrum of political beliefs, I think maybe it was Zombie but I can't find it, which showed that Classical Hippy has more in common with Tea Party than Collectivism; minimalism and self-sufficiency, than one had to be able to care for themself before being able to effectively help others. The latest crop of self-identified hippies are knowing or unknowingly posers of collectivism in antiquated costume, with more in common with winehouse than Constanada where the chief of the ~~fire circle~~ plasma screen is totally awesome at Kevin Bacon, as well as a shift from organic ponderants toward hyper-reality.

Where rural agrarian and communism meet is really the mashing of similar words of concepts, where community sharing and assistance is similar in objectives and a communism sales pitch but the difference being is one is voluntary (or guided by spiritual laws) and the other is mandatory (guided by human laws).

Being the NYTs I would agree to be aware of the word mashing, especially since the new big lie began in earnest about 3 months ago is that prosperity begins with government and its decisions, and is being perpetuated more and more and goes relatively unchallenged.

I would think that anyone over 24 years old or has been out of college for a couple years expecting a Palin hit piece would read this and be confused. Those younger or on the battery backwards sales team may see the view as antithesis on the new lie, that the big government ran by dynasties such as the sebelius and kennedy actually make better conduits of tax money out as they are not there to make decisions, but make decisions look good.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-09-10 15:06|| 2011-09-10 15:06|| Front Page Top

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