Quote from omegapoint:
The President isn't a servant of the secondary markets as much as he is of the economy. Obviously they're related in intricate ways but that the market tanks every time he speaks is the cringing at the medicine being administered in his approach to reviving the flow of credit. If you don't allow the argument to dead end into words like nationalizing or socialism then regulating what banks do is necessary. Thain and AIG both, when they thought they had the cover of darkness went out and divided up taxpayer funds amongst their cronies ...the Paulson stimulus ... figures from the CEO of Goldman Sachs his loyalties on the way out would be towards the nest he hopes to
reinfest someday. Everybody wants banks to get back to lending someday and of course to applicants who can actually afford to pay the loans back --so where to from here? Jobs, spending that comes from jobs creating more jobs and more spending ...turning the vicious circle into a virtuous circle requires some sort of intervention and its always been my contention that if it don't trickle down and include the middle class then we'll have what we have. Its not like people don't want work and only want to sit around and get free money. I know someone who heads HR at a mid level company and she tells me the resumes come in by the hundreds for every single job thrown out. If you don't start out your day with a "GET OBAMA" memo then you can begin to dig out of the hole we're in.
The market tanks at Obama's approach to revive credit because the market knows Obama's approach will not revive credit.
What Washington, thunderdog and apparently you do not understand is that credit comes from savings. You need money to actually lend money. Before Americans can borrow money somebody needs to save it. The walmart greeter is not going to solve the global credit crisis with their 13 dollars. What we need is for the credit/savings to go to the producers/businesses. Aggressively cutting taxs for individuals and businesses will create 10x the amount of savings then spending on pet projects and Obama's bullshit middle class tax that is merely just a loan to pay less this year and to pay more next year.
Unfortunately Obama thinks if we print enough money and then put it into the banking system the banks will give out loans and we will have economic growth. Unfortunately all we get out of that is massive inflation. Obama is determined to create credit out of thin air. That spells inflation and no savings.
Not only are you guys blind to the method of solving the credit crisis but you also ignore the horrible consequences of such spending which equals huge amounts of inflation and heightened taxes for years upon years.