Bush Stops Gravity: Abandons Free Market to Save it?
December 18, 2008 by FCD Administrator
Filed under Brain-Off Awards, Guest Articles, Principle 04
Can principles be suspended or sacrificed?
AFP (Breitbard.com) | US President George W. Bush said in an interview Tuesday he was forced to sacrifice free market principles to save the economy from “collapse.”
“I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,” Bush told CNN television, saying he had made the decision “to make sure the economy doesn’t collapse.”
Bush’s comments reflect an extraordinary departure from his longtime advocacy for an unfettered free market, as his administration has orchestrated unprecedented government intervention in the face of a dire financial crisis.
“I am sorry we’re having to do it,” Bush said. Bush said….<<<Read the Full Story>>>
Why not suspend free enterprise principles to save free enterprise? Lenin, Stalin and their disciples attempt to save communism by suspending those principles and allowing free enterprise to build up the national prosperity again before clamping back down on the people. Why can it not work in reverse? BRING ON THE COMMUNISM TO SAVE CAPITALISM! YIPPEE!!!
To save something you have to abandon it’s principles? That makes me laugh.
So, if we’re falling from a tall height, let’s just “abandon” gravity shall we?
I found this quote by Groucho Marx and thought I would add it to this story…
“Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them…well I have others.”
When you continue to violate principles you guarantee eventual failure. I hope more people will learn this.