Keep the "Private Sector" out of this game

[DianeG5385]

It's time for the Federal Gov't to pony up the money to take care of these people. The private sector is corrupt. I'm sick to death of the "private economy" making bucks off tragedy. Time to roll back the tax cuts and hey, you democratic Reps where the hell are you??? The answer is obvious and the American people are happy to oblige. Stop paying homage to the sick and deviant republican ideology!!!! TAX ROLLBACKS NOW!!!!!!

[pacifictiger]

1. I disagree

Its time for the corporations to pony up tax break and corruption money they received that would have otherwise gone to feed and clothe the poor.

[DianeG5385]

2. You agree with me actually

They need to pay bad their ill-gotten gains for the greater good.

[Silverhair]

3. That would require nationalizing the ENTIRE economy. Bad idea.

A totally nationalized economy has never worked in any country that has tried it.

[natrat]

5. yea we should let these people get sick and die this fall/winter

and keep the tax cuts and obscene breaks for corporations,,not

[Hello_Kitty]

4. But....but....

The Almighty Free Market will take care of everything! The Invisible Hand will enable the price gougers to reap the great wealth that their superior Socially Darwinist DNA entitles them to such that they will be able to employ all the displaced hurricaine victims in their sweatshops. And it'll be wonderful!! Stop raining on our Trickle Down parade, you commie socialist pinko gubmint welfare grubber....:eyes:

[Silverhair]

6. Yours is a Strawman argument.

Nobody is arguing for a TOTALLY Capitalist system either. A totally capitalist system is just a bad,in a different way, as a totally socialist system. A blended economy, as ours is, works best. Current politics argues over the mixture in the blend. Only the fruitcakes on each side want a total economy.

And the relief effort and the rebuilding will be a mixed effort.

[Hello_Kitty]

7. Hey, it's not my strawman.

I was being facetious but that really sounds like a lot of hardcore Free Market worshippers I've met. There are people out there who truly believe that all government programs, with the exception of the police and military (natch), should be dissolved. Very scary and there a lot more of them out there than you'd think.

I'm with you on this. Rebuilding after this disaster will require intensive collaboration and cooperation between citizens, the government, and corporations. It'll be something if we can actually pull it off.

[DianeG5385]

8. Honey, We don't have a blended economy anymore...

We once did, when we had a robust regulatory environment. Free market capitalism is unhelpful to the wage earner. That's why the Pukes have spent the last thirty years demonizing unions, the last protection of the worker. When they failed to win concessions, they off-shored our jobs. They don't play fair. A blended economy depends on fair play. When people are considered a commodity, the people lose. I could go on ad nauseum, we have millions of our citizens without jobs MANY in NO, many now dead or adrift and do you seriously think our stupid Prez gives a ***t???? No! What accounts for the current chaos is the lack of a robust regulatory authority. There is no incentive to help the "non-productive" (as they would say) element of soociety. In some respects this is a back-handed holocaust if our gov't does not step up RIGHT NOW!!! Where are our leaders??? Why are people in NOLA so sick and helpless? Is this our nations dirty secret?

[wli]

9. The IEM was brought into it...

There's been no trace of them. They apparently took the money and ran.