GOP Congressman: Lawmakers Must “Put On Our Big Boy and Big Girl Pants” and Let Americans Die. Talk is cheap when you are sending others to their deaths, Congressman Hollingsworth. Volunteer to lead us from the front.
@bradenslen @johnphilpin I’ll paraphrase what I’ve said before: the real big boys let the companies die. Those can be rebuilt. The people will be gone forever.
@JohnPhilpin Unfortunately this Congresscritter is from my state but at least not my district. The GOP is filled with puppy-kickers.
@bradenslen @johnphilpin We are about to live through an extended lesson in the importance of long-range planning. It’s going to take a lot more than one quarter to rebuild the economy we have lost. There’s a reason for that: the world has changed and that old economy is useless.
@bradenslen umm - you’ve just described America. I just read a report that the markets went down today because the results are in and retailers have taken a hammering.
No shit Sherlock!
Do these people ever look up from their computer screens?
@fgtech I wonder how many people will try to rebuild the economy we’ve lost ... rather than build something new?
@JohnPhilpin Most of the people who did well in the old economy will try to bring that back. Some of them will succeed because those businesses are still useful. Some will succeed only as long as bailouts keep them going. And then they will fail.
@JohnPhilpin The rest will never return. But that will be okay. This is how we make way for something new.
@JohnPhilpin No they don't. Wall Street, investment bankers, hedge fund racketeers: these are the last people we want running America and the World "like a business." These guys gut every business they touch for short term gains and then leave the remains for taxpayers to pick up. To hell with them.