Chris Matthews - Businesses Holding Money to "Screw Obama"

[Ben]

I guess because it's a mass conspiracy of sado-masochistic stockholders the world over out to get that Obama fellow at any cost. 

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/09/27/chris-matthews-businesses-sitting-trillions-dollars-screw-obama

[makattak]

According to another article I read (Unnamed White House Aide), Obama thinks the Banks aren't lending money because they want him to fail.

I think both of them believe that. They think socialism doesn't work because those evil capitalists will sabotage it.

The Democrats, too, thought that the economy would recover and they'd get to claim credit for it.

Liberals are very deterministic. They think the economy just "happens" and people don't matter. (Yes, I realize the irony that they are now blaming people for screwing them by "keeping the market down")

They have no concept that the rules of the game (also known as "laws and regulation") have a BIG determining effect on business and people's willingness to take risk. They simply cannot understand that they killed the economy.

It's all Bush's fault or a conspiracy against them.

[Racehorse]

Man, those are some enormous egos. They actually believe that they're important enough that normal people and business make decisions just to spite them.

[Silver Bullet]

Rush Limbaugh had some interesting comments on Democrats and the economy.  He said the Democrats viewed the economy as a zero sum game, where somebody had to lose for somebody else to win.

[Angel Eyes]

I seem to recall reading that FDR had a similar attitude during the Great Depression, that the "evil bankers and industrialists" were deliberately sabotaging his New Deal.

Over 75 years later, they still don't get it.

[HankB]

Who the hell do these damn capitalist swine think they are, running out of their money before we're through spending?

[BReilley]

Who the hell do these damn capitalist swine think they are, running out of their money before we're through spending?

Win!
That's almost a bumper sticker.

[TommyGunn]

According to another article I read (Unnamed White House Aide), Obama thinks the Banks aren't lending money because they want him to fail.

I think both of them believe that. They think socialism doesn't work because those evil capitalists will sabotage it. .....

Chris Mathews has devolved into a blithering idiot.
Lord help us .....
Franklin Delano Roosevelt spent eight years in the White House trying to tax us back into prosperity.  He tried ABC agencies.  Fireside Chats.  Spending and Spending more; President Hoover (who also had tried to throw a few $$ at the problem) hadn't done enough and ol' "Fireside Chat" F.D.R. was here to show "we have nothing to fear but fear itself" and pretty soon "happy days ...(would be) here again."  Well, it didn't work.  And FDR sat around whining the "industrialists" were "conspiring" against him.  He believed it, too.
Now we've come full circle.  Here we go ..... again.

They say history repeats itself.  
We're in deep kimshe ..............................































Anyone get the idea I am not  particularly happy about the situation we're in?    



EDIT:  Angel Eyes; I see we've both read the same history books . . . . 

[Perd Hapley]

Franklin Delano Roosevelt spent eight years in the White House trying to tax us back into prosperity.  He tried ABC agencies.  Fireside Chats.  

It's true.  I saw him on TV.

[TommyGunn]

"ABC agencies,"  AKA "Alphabet Agencies," was a term coined as shorthand for  FDR's predilection for naming government agencies with alphabet letters, ie., "Civilian Conservation Corps,"  also known as CCC, or his famous N.R.A.  Now, WE might think that's the National Rifle Association. But it isn't; FDR's N.R.A. was the National Industrial Recovery Act.  Go to Wikipedia or google it.  You might be amazed what FDR wanted to stuff down our throats.  The NRA was was declared unconstitional by the Supreme Court.  Fortunatly.  Unfortunatly, it caused FDR to threaten to stuff the court ... and the court blinked first.   

Had NOTHING to do with the American Broadcasting Corporation. 

[Northwoods]

EDIT:  Angel Eyes; I see we've both read the same history books . . . . 

SEAN: Where are you from in Southie?

WILL: Did you buy all these books retail, or do you send away for like a "shrink kit" that comes with all these volumes included?

SEAN: Have you read all these books, Will?

WILL: Probably not.

SEAN: (indicating a shelf) How about the ones on that shelf?

Will's eyes flicker up to the shelf for an instant.

WILL: Yeah, I read those.

SEAN: What did you think?

WILL: I'm not here for a <explitive> book report.  They're your books, why don't you read 'em?

SEAN: I did.

WILL: That must have taken you a long time.

SEAN: Yeah, it did take me a long time.  (Says this with pride. His determined stare and confident manner catch Will a bit off guard. Will rises from his chair and goes to the shelf.)

WILL: (looking at book) "A History of the United States, Volume I." If you want to read a real history book, read Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States." That book will knock you on your ass.

SEAN: How about Noam Chomsky's "Manufacturing Consent?"

WILL: You people baffle me. You spend all this money on beautiful, fancy books-- and they're the wrong <explitive> books.

SEAN: You think so?

WILL: Whatever blows your hair back.

[RoadKingLarry]

Chris Matthews thinks American businesses are refusing to spend money in order to intentionally harm the economy as part of a long-term plot to "screw" President Obama.

That is the most insanely idiotic thing I've ever heard. Everyone on the internet is now dumber for having read it. May god have mercy on your soul.

[Silver Bullet]

Anything anyone can do to neutralize the destruction of the economy by the current administration is probably a good thing.  There will be that much less to clean up when Americans retake the White House.

Meanwhile ... 619 days down, 842 days to go.  42%.

Will the Republic survive ?

[sanglant]

somethings got to give, somethings got to give.................................


only this time around it's the immovable Constitution, and the unstoppable, stupidity, of obamamania.

[El Tejon]

Hoarders!

The socialist utopia is being undermined!  Rally to Comrade Obama, workers!

This stuff is right out of a history book on the Soviet Union.

Marx was right, history does repeat itself, first as tragedy, then as a farce.

[Northwoods]

Welcome back El T!  First post I've seen from you in quite a while.

[DustinD]

Sorry if I am committing a Godwin, but does anyone else see the similarities between this and the Nazi regime's "stab in the back" (by the Jews) theory? It is amazing how much the antisemitism of old looks exactly the same as the current sentiment towards businesses and the rich.

[Gowen]

If banks and business are sitting on their money, that is because they are afraid to part with it.  They need to keep that money on hand to pay their taxes.

[Angel Eyes]

Sorry if I am committing a Godwin, but does anyone else see the similarities between this and the Nazi regime's "stab in the back" (by the Jews) theory? It is amazing how much the antisemitism of old looks exactly the same as the current sentiment towards businesses and the rich.

Both are instances of scapegoating.  Blaming someone else is easier than taking responsibility for your own actions.

[MicroBalrog]

Karl Marx called anti-semitism "socialism for the idiots".

On the same grounds we may call socialism "anti-semitism for intellectuals".

It's just a way for people who hold themselves up as 'enlightened' to practice hatred with a 'progressive' justification.