Political Oxymoron comparison time - Granite Grok

Political Oxymoron comparison time

President Bush (12/16/08),

"I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system,"

President Obama  (6/1/09)

"Understand, we’re making these investments not because I want to spend the American people’s tax dollars, but because I want to protect them."

At least the first one might have really meant it.  I have real serious doubts over the second one.  These tell me there’s not much of a tinker’s dam between them for free-market principles.  Bush did start the nationalization effort that Obama grabbed like a lost soul in the desert when spotting a bottle of water.

The second?  I fear the cloying hand of government descending upon us all in order to "protect us".  So, I ask you, reader: are you a child that needs protection?  Especially with Amtrack as an example of Government running a business profitably on a continuous taxpayer lifeline (I wanted to be kind so I didn’t mention all the other bailouts…).

I will repeat – I will never, ever purchase another GM product until the Government has sold off its shares, the bondholders recoup their haircut at the hands of Obama’s scissors, and the new Board / Chair / CEO are gone.

And maybe, not even then….

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