The history of government subsidies
1933 - The Agricultural Adjustment Act pays American farmers who don't grow crops.
2008 - The TARP Act pays investment bankers who don't make money.
2010 - The US pays Afghan insurgents who don't attack US troops.
posted by Old Rebel @ Thursday, February 04, 2010
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And we don't attack them either:
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1256/Air-Force-Magazine-Holding-Fire-Over-Afghanistan.aspx
Our people die for Iraq, and China gets the contracts:
http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/1255/Surging-China.aspx
End it, it can't be mended!
2012 - US pays 'unprofitable' states to secede.
Hey, don't laugh - are not stranger things happening everywhere you look? My state is accused of kicking in only 85 cents for ever dollar it gets back from the Feds; and most Southern states are "in the Fed red". Now that's no way to run a government, even this corrupt criminal enterprise! How about if they paid us just a nickel back on each dollar we would no longer give them and kept the dime as pure profit? If that sounds screwy to you, clearly you haven't been paying very close attention to what currently passes for economic policy in this country. Plus, that's yet another cost control measure Obama could tout before the few dopes who still bother to listen to anything he has to say.
D.V. Arminius
During the Great Depression which the Federal Reserve caused to plauge our grandparents in the 1930's and 40's, the Feds required people to plough under every third row of crops. They collected potatos and burned them at sea. They shot thousands and thousands of pigs. They outlawed the ownership of gold and forced people to sell their gold at a very low price to the government. They jacked the money supply through the cealing, bailing out their favourite industries and businessmen. They pressured many businesses to keep their prices artificially high with their NRA (National Recovery Act) program. They joined the railroads together and put their price decision under a government buaurocrat connected to that industry. And finally they provoked a war with Germany and Japan. In short, they took was would have been a bad, short recession (due to their own manipulation of the markets and credit during the 1920's) and made it into a 17 year-long Great Depression. Isn't it great that we have idiots like the Feds running things? What's going on now has a long, sorry history of failed central planning that precedes it. Ben, Tim and Barry are just the latest fools and tools to plunder us all blind and wreck the economy.
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