http://belowthebeltway.com/2008/12/11/the-battle-against-the-bailout-continues-in-the-senate/ I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in, the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in, and the personal freedom that America used to believe in. Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:02:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://belowthebeltway.com/2008/12/11/the-battle-against-the-bailout-continues-in-the-senate/comment-page-1/#comment-267738 Leslie Carbone Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:55:45 +0000 http://belowthebeltway.com/?p=12851#comment-267738 Thanks for the link, Doug. And you raise a very good point about how deeply, disturbingly unAmerican is such government control of companies. But I have very mixed thoughts on that aspect of the now-dead Corker plan. I hate federal control of business, and fear where it would lead. But on the other hand, I want bail-outs to hurt. I want them to make the survival of the companies that take them less likely, not more likely (as surely federal control can accomplish). I want bail-outs to be so painful that the screams of every corporate executive and union boss who takes them will echo through the decades as a warning in the ears of any future moral imbeciles tempted to try to rebuild their failing companies on the backs of hard-working taxpayers. Thanks for the link, Doug. And you raise a very good point about how deeply, disturbingly unAmerican is such government control of companies. But I have very mixed thoughts on that aspect of the now-dead Corker plan. I hate federal control of business, and fear where it would lead. But on the other hand, I want bail-outs to hurt. I want them to make the survival of the companies that take them less likely, not more likely (as surely federal control can accomplish). I want bail-outs to be so painful that the screams of every corporate executive and union boss who takes them will echo through the decades as a warning in the ears of any future moral imbeciles tempted to try to rebuild their failing companies on the backs of hard-working taxpayers.

]]> http://belowthebeltway.com/2008/12/11/the-battle-against-the-bailout-continues-in-the-senate/comment-page-1/#comment-267733 Auto Bailout Dead, Politics Alive and Well Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:49:00 +0000 http://belowthebeltway.com/?p=12851#comment-267733 [...] Doug Mataconis offers disdain for both sides, observing, “Not only is the Corker plan a bailout, it’s also an even greater imposition of state corporatism than anything we’ve ever seen before. It would give the Federal Government, represented by a self-described ‘car czar’ unprecedented control over a huge segment of the American economy, and anyone who thinks that power will be surrendered easily is kidding themselves.” [...] [...] Doug Mataconis offers disdain for both sides, observing, “Not only is the Corker plan a bailout, it’s also an even greater imposition of state corporatism than anything we’ve ever seen before. It would give the Federal Government, represented by a self-described ‘car czar’ unprecedented control over a huge segment of the American economy, and anyone who thinks that power will be surrendered easily is kidding themselves.” [...]

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