Palin, Sounding Like Ron Paul, Takes on the Fed
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fired a shot at the Federal Reserve in her coming-out speech in Hong Kong today, blaming the central bank for the current crisis and disagreeing with the idea that the Fed should have a greater role in preventing the next crisis. It was an echo of fellow Republican and Texas congressman Ron Paul, who has led the charge in Congress to perform an audit of the Federal Reserve with an eye to eventually eliminating it.
“How can we discuss reform without addressing the government policies at the root of the problems? The root of the collapse? And how can we think that setting up the Fed as the monitor of systemic risk in the financial sector will result in meaningful reform?” she said. “The words ‘fox’ and ‘henhouse’ come to mind. The Fed’s decisions helped create the bubble. Look at the root cause of most asset bubbles, and you’ll see the Fed somewhere in the background.”
More generally, Mrs. Palin took the tack that the financial crisis occurred because government got in the way of free enterprise.
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Palin is alive!
Comentário por CN — Setembro 23, 2009 @ 21:50
Estou curioso para saber como é que Palin vai “reconstruir” as suas posições a nivel de política externa. Dúvida que sem essa transformação consiga fazer alguma coisa com o apoio da alternative right que o CN fala.
Comentário por terrivel — Setembro 24, 2009 @ 10:54
Sim, é verdade. Ela tem essa faceta e provavelmente continuar a ter, pode ser que pelo menos a atenue e seja suficiente para fazer a diferença.
Glenn Beck está a conseguir fazê-lo:
Vindo da (uma das) casa dos paleo-conservatives, http://www.takimag.com:
Things Sean Hannity Would Never Say by Jack Hunter
http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/
(…) While I did not get to hear Beck’s antiwar, supposedly ”Southern-Avenger-esque” rant, Jenn Morrill at the Salt Lake City Examiner apparently did. And it’s a good’n:
On his radio show last week, he apologized to libertarians everywhere for calling himself a libertarian in the past. He has long called himself a conservative with libertarian leanings, but he said he is now leaning so far libertarian that he is almost horizontal.
He said, “I’m going through a change here.”
Beck would like the time machine to take him back eighteen months. Why? To go back to when he was calling Ron Paul a “crackpot on so many issues.” Now, he laments, “Gosh. I’d like to reexamine all those issues.” Among those issues is America’s occupation of many foreign countries; Beck specifically mentions Germany, Korea, and Afghanistan.
He admits that America’s imperialism has caused a lot of problems.
He said, “Progressive members of the Republican party wanted to make sure that we spread sunshine, lollipops, happiness, and democracy to all around the world. That’s great. But the best way to do that is to live a righteous life and be a good example.” And he repeated what Paul has been saying for years, “Besides, we can’t afford it anymore!”
Diria que…Not bad…not bad at all
Comentário por CN — Setembro 24, 2009 @ 17:12