re: #82 Targetpractice

Much like Dubya convinced the masses that the economy was “booming” in 2004, 4 years before it utterly crashed in a way that wingnuts to this day insist was totally not his fault…until he went ahead and signed that bank bailout, when they were convinced that letting multi-billion dollar banks collapse would actually help the economy.

People have no trouble attaching conditions to government handouts (mandatory welfare recipient drug testing, restricting SNAP purchases, etc.) but when the government wanted to attach certain conditions to bank bailouts, those were seen as a “creeping government takeover”