[davidw]

This is exactly the kind of comment that I feared we would see when articles like this start gaining traction. It's a cheese puff comment: it's got some taste, but it's empty. It has nothing to back it up, no content, no reasoning, no well crafted argument. It's just an empty "rah rah" type of slogan of the type that politicians regularly regurgitate. There is nothing new or clever about the comment, it's the sort of thing that's made the rounds elsewhere 100's of times. Being such a cheap, throwaway comment, it mostly/usually doesn't lead to particularly interesting discussions, as we can see here, despite a few good comments, but more zingers, one liners and similar "go home team!" cheering for one political side.

[yamil]

My comment was one of the first reaction to the post (16 hours ago) it was a spontaneous reaction to the somehow shocking news that the US government is taking (again) over a private company in the financial sector. When I wrote "socialist" it was for the irony of the situation, the financial market in the past has been very hostile to any regulation and it is the most visible flagship of liberalism as we know it since Reagan. People who read about economy (check comments bellow) know exactly what I was talking about, this is a well known topic about the contradiction between "less government, less regulations" and "the need of government help in time of troubles". Some more clever and much more articulate people wrote about it and their conclusion is the the current crisis is a direct consequence of lack of proper regulation in the first place. Go read the source it's free, it's online, it's better than expecting Techie guys to spend 30 minutes of their precious time writing a "reasoning" and "well crafted" comment a topic which is only one of their many "hobbies"

[steveplace]

Freedom.

[netcan]

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