Comments on: Wall Street Welfare Reform http://www.republicoft.com/2008/07/23/wall-street-welfare-reform/ Black. Gay. Father. Vegetarian. Buddhist. Liberal. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:12:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: KipEsquire http://www.republicoft.com/2008/07/23/wall-street-welfare-reform/#comment-183671 KipEsquire Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:58:10 +0000 http://www.republicoft.com/?p=2315#comment-183671 It's not at all fair to equate truly private companies with Fannie and Freddie, which were brazen interventionist government bureaucracies until that radical conservative Lyndon Johnson decided to get them off the federal budget in order to help fund that totally capitalist Vietnam War of his, and which have always benefited from an unfair direct credit line to the Treasury, even before any talk of a bailout. Apart from that, I agree with you pretty much 100%, especially the part about Chrysler. If you're going to be a capitalist, then go ahead and be one. It’s not at all fair to equate truly private companies with Fannie and Freddie, which were brazen interventionist government bureaucracies until that radical conservative Lyndon Johnson decided to get them off the federal budget in order to help fund that totally capitalist Vietnam War of his, and which have always benefited from an unfair direct credit line to the Treasury, even before any talk of a bailout.

Apart from that, I agree with you pretty much 100%, especially the part about Chrysler. If you’re going to be a capitalist, then go ahead and be one.

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