USA election = Choosing a new captain for the Titanic?

[SamuelRSmith]

NJ5 said:

SamuelRSmith said:
It's a shame that people don't realise that governments have very little to do with these economic issues, and there's little they can do to improve things.

It's called a free market for a reason, people.

I would agree before having seen the series of taxpayer-funded bailouts we've been seeing recently.

Once the dominoes start falling, forget about the free market.

 

 

 Well, yeah, it's all essentially just damage control, though.

What gets me, though, is that in the UK every right-wing newspaper is blaming the government for the entire problem, when really it was the banks' fault (the UK banks kept buying over-valued houses from the likes of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac before they realised that, really, they were worth nothing).