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Originally Posted by cardiacpaul
"I think it can only get better.
Why don’t you?"
I only need to reference one industry to prove that "government intervention" is almost never a good idea.
late '70's early-mid '80's... British Leyland... nuff said.
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Can we have a whip-around for more servers at Sailnet? We’re going to need a lot to satisfy your method of debating: listing one example after another to prove a point. “late '70's early-mid '80's... British Leyland... nuff said.”
No,
cardiac, it ain’t nuff. There are thousands of government-infected businesses around the world, some successful, some not. And there are millions of private businesses, some… you get the picture. One can learn more from taking a single example and analyzing it properly than by throwing more darts at the board to see if they stick. Leyland proves – exactly nothing. I am not going to bother coming up with a counter example, it wouldn’t help my point anyway.
I’ll give you this: you did at least address my question:
"I think it can only get better. Why don’t you?" But like several others, you did it by skipping the past, the cause, the starting point of my question, namely that things were already royally stuffed.
So, I repeat the question in more detail:
The economy crumbled over many years. In the end, it wasn’t a matter of rising unemployment or a few bad quarters for shareholders – we had banks on the rope, GM and Chrysler finally coming home to roost, home values dropping and people losing pensions.
In my observation, it could hardly get much worse.
A majority of the population voted for change; things clearly could not continue as they were; some things had to be done very differently.
With me so far?
The new guy is different, he does things, and you cry “government intervention.” Now I am not stupid, despite some of your hints at the opposite, and I can think of a few alternative solutions. All I want to hear now is
your solution.
How would
you deal with the banks?
With GM and Chrysler?
As I said, I believe it can get better. Do you?