Obanomics: Print Green and spend !

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Obanomics: Print Green and spend !
by David ET
24-Mar-2009
 

Yesterday the so called "Obama Administration plan" to save the banks was unveiled . The plan in summary encourages the big boys to buy the so called Financial Toxic Assets (primarily the homes and mortgages of the small guys) at pennies on the dollar by having the government (Taxpayer) assume all risks and losses by insuring and financing the purchases.

This is a no brainer for the rich: Buy the stuff cheap. Keep the hefty profit of the good ones and pass the loss of the bad ones to the taxpayers !

As stock market reaction showed, the Wall Street and the real estate elite, who were all along waiting for this great opportunity to again make MORE billions of dollars at the taxpayer cost, loved this. After all they are the ones who made all the billions on the economic way up and now it is only fair that again they make more billions from the mess they created again!

In fact this was planned even before Obama's election and all that Obama is doing is to implement it.  In the words of a former Obama fan, a liberal Nobel prize economist, a "cash for trash" policy that is being sold to the public in the name of "change" !

This is exactly what I predicted 7 months before the US elections in a January 2008 article titled "The new world order" where I wrote:

"....The drop in value of real estate and equities or the recession will only hurt the middle class but it does not effect the elite and actually provides opportunity for those who have unlimited cash reserve to acquire the assets of the middle class at substantial discounts, not to mention that Americans have been rubbed of the value of their assets simply by intentional Fed sponsored drop of dollar. The current US deficit and payment of interest by the tax payer to the elite is also serving as this shift of wealth from the middle class to the few......The next rounds of these shift will be served by increase in taxes as well as possible bail outs to be formulated by the soon to be democrat US president.........all playing a role in the centralization of power at the cost of loss of individual economic and political liberties...........the current economic problems were not a surprise WHATSOEVER to many but an intended outcome of creating more stable and fertile worldwide grounds for new horizons for creation of wealth for a very limited few who control the financial markets of our planet and therefore in charge of the new world order"

It is as if the only real "change" that took place when it comes to bail-outs was the change of one administration to an-other ! and who else better qualified to implement it than a popularly elected "liberal" African American president! If it was anyone else The People could have been demonstrating in the streets by now!

Stay Tuned for the rest of "THE PLAN" to unfold : The collapse of the dollar and a high Inflation all as future consequences of irresponsible printing of unbacked dollar in the name of stimulus plan.... all in due time!

(Note: Since I do not believe in only criticizing without offering alternatives, I must add that I believe the better approach would have been to let the bad apples fall and the good ones prosper , instead of bailing out, rewarding and insuring the the Wall Street and the bank failures at the taxpayers cost. Careless deficit economics at personal, corporate and government levels got us to where we are and more of it will only add to the problem to the point of no return! For more details view prior blog titled:  Mr. Obama: "Tear down this WALL" ! )

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Last 8 years is exactly the point!

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I keep hearing that he only has been in office 2 months which absolutely makes no sense to me!


McCain talked about being in Iraq for 100 years if US had to. Did we have to wait for him to be president to decide if that policy is wrong or not?!

Same with print and spend policy of Obama which has already been outlined. I do not have to wait for 2 years instead of 2 months to form an opinion that more borrowing and spending ON TOP OF THE PAST 8 YEARS will not work!

Any child with a dollar printing machine and any person with lots of debts and unlimited credit cards  can come up with such borrow and spend solution and call it economics !!

Yes 8 years (and more) of such policies by Fed, Administration and congress got us to this point and this is CONTINUATION of exact same failed policies .

Yes we all will wait beyond 2 months but the writing is already on the WALL that was built in the past 8 years and is being kept standing... the wall that Obama must tear down to create an effective change! 


Abarmard

There is a good reason

by Abarmard on

Why the Obama administration chose to pick up the bad apples. I do believe that if conservatives were in charge would do either the same or a similar plan. The reason is simple: Time. In this time the US can't afford the economic down fall to the rock bottom. Any other time your argument is fair for a capitalistic system to function properly, but the time was not right to let things go their natural path.

It's a long discussion, but that's the idea.


farokh2000

I guess you have forgotten the last 8 years

by farokh2000 on

I think a lot of people were expecting miracles, right away from the new President and they are not getting it.

You forgot how  much damage was done by the criminal regime that was running/ ruining this Country and the World in the last 8 years?.

The fix will take a lot longer than the damage.

It is usually easier to take down a house than to build a new one, no?

They spent 8 years to take down everything in sight. Now you expect in 2 months to rebuild it?

And who benefited in the last 8 years? Was it not the big, fat cats, who had selected the criminals to begin with?

You can be fair and reasonale, or you can be blind and unreasonable. Your choice.