re: #105 freetoken

What is so queer is that by the far-right GOP’s own professed economic theories, the government and especially the office of the President aren’t supposed to be involved in the economy. Yet whenever they criticize Obama they always seem to say “we can do better”, as if they want to control the economy, but want the freedom simultaneously to profess that they should have the ability to control the economy.

It’s just perverse.

The theory is that they will ‘get out of the way’, or ‘unleash the market’, and boom times will naturally follow. They don’t really believe in economic theory, per se, merely that regulation of any kind is bad, and that companies will just naturally do what is best for the economy when left to their own devices.