For every ostensible successful government entry into, and manipulation of, the market by way of the private sector, there isn’t one. Not really. But that won’t keep an ever new set of indoctrinated, leftist elites from seizing power and making it work the next time — their being so much smarter and more able than all who have tried before them. Plus, they really really really want socialism to work.
— Which, that should be enough, shouldn’t it — the world bending to the will of those who have taken great care to pretend it actually exists in their image, and as extensions of their egos?
Plus, they really really really want socialism to work.
As long as they’re in power, it is working. The condition of the economy is irrelevant.
Because if the proles get prosperous, they get uppity, and we can’t have THAT.
How can you say the GM intervention was unsuccessful? The unions cashed in, the investors took it in the shorts, and Obama installed a bunch of his buddies into cushy jobs. Now, Obama has a whole stable of people who owe him favors, and a huge bloc of economic movers and shakers who understand that he has a sword dangling over their heads. And what did it cost him? A few tens of billions of dollars taken from people he doesn’t like, and a few tens of thousands of jobs lost by more people he doesn’t like.
How on Earth is this considered unsuccessful?
Squid, it’s at this point a quiet “I hope he fails.” comes across the airwaves…