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Tingles: Obama Needs To Offer An Alternative To Capitalism…

Umm, hasn’t he been doing that from day one?

CHRIS MATTHEWS: The Republican candidate will promise that less government is better. Less taxes, less spending, less regulation, less involvement. He or she will say that the smart move is to have Washington pull back into a cocoon of small activity and leave the mighty corporate world, which we’ve been recently assured is just people like us with all the good intentions of mankind, all the compassion and human concern and of course looking out for one’s fellow man, alive and thriving in the executive board room. The live, pending, intriguing unknown is what President Obama will offer. What Obama program? What Obama push? What Obama sweep of action will be showcased for our consideration as we enter the polling booth? What alternative to the compelling argument that government should simply get the heck out of the way so that the lion of capitalism can let loose its mighty roar? What will be the other roar, is my question?

Via Newsbusters

Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, August 17, 2011, at 12:40 pm | Like Tweet

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28 comments
  1. kansas says:
    August 17, 2011 at 12:46 pm

    Cause
    President Barack Obama will announce a double-barreled economic package that aims to boost hiring and find budget savings that surpass the $1.5 trillion goal of a congressional deficit-cutting committee.

    Effect
    Stocks turned lower Wednesday despite a series of earnings reports came in better than expected.

  2. buzzsawmonkey says:
    August 17, 2011 at 12:47 pm

    Hey, Chris—it’s not just Washington and the private sector. There are state governments, too. It’s not an all-or-nothing-at-all proposition.

    You are creating a flagrantly false dichotomy.

  3. zipity says:
    August 17, 2011 at 12:48 pm

    I know! Let’s try Communism. What could possibly go wrong….?

  4. gastorgrab says:
    August 17, 2011 at 12:51 pm

    “with all the good intentions of mankind, all the compassion and human concern and of course looking out for one’s fellow man”

    ———-

    Since when is it the place of government to evaluate the motives of anyone.

    Motives only come into play when a crime has been committed. Until then, government should STFU!

    Making any distinction between Good and Evil is always a spiritual matter. Government shouldn’t be involved in that. To government, nothing is good or bad. Things can only ever be legal, or illegal.

    ‘Morality’ is an individual responsibility. It doesn’t apply to governments.
    .

  5. Rob says:
    August 17, 2011 at 12:53 pm

    Chris…YOUR FIRED! All that comes out of this garbage waste is lies and stupidity. HELL yes Gov’t needs to get out of our way. To Big and to envolved in peoples everyday like. IT’S NOT WORKING CHRIS you stupid idiot.

  6. ThomNJ says:
    August 17, 2011 at 12:54 pm

    I know! I know! Pick me!

    This is it: We pretend! We print enough money for everyone in the country to have a million dollars. We get rid of the old money; so that we all have exactly the same amount. You only work if you want to – if you don’t, well, the plan will include printing a million dollars each year for everyone! Cars will ALL get at least 100mpg (of course, we will change the unit of measure to make that real)…..AND – AND, free unicorns to all!

  7. RickyDfrommiami says:
    August 17, 2011 at 12:54 pm

    Move to a different country !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also have a great idea for
    a Reality Show. Anyone can challenge Chris or ED or Lawrence to 3 3 min.
    rounds. Your first Chris.

  8. Davey Mac says:
    August 17, 2011 at 12:57 pm

    Hey, Chris, where do you think your paycheck for being a blowhard comes from? It is certainly not the largesse of a capitalistic alternative, NOW IS IT?

    What a dumbass. Give him the hook!

    VOTE – 2012

  9. gastorgrab says:
    August 17, 2011 at 12:57 pm

    “with all the good intentions of mankind, all the compassion and human concern and of course looking out for one’s fellow man”

    ———–

    Is that what Progressivism does? Does it act for the “greater good”?

    Who’s definition of ‘good’ are we using?
    .

  10. big-pete says:
    August 17, 2011 at 12:57 pm

    I leave Chris to ponder the words of the incomparable Milton Friedman:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A

  11. Jimco says:
    August 17, 2011 at 12:59 pm

    Yes, let’s start by paying politicians, news anchors, and actors minimum wage.

  12. Katherine says:
    August 17, 2011 at 1:00 pm

    I wonder if Tingles gets up in the morning and says to himself ‘I wonder if this will be the day? I wonder if today I will say something so utterly stupid and obnoxious, that the men in white coats will come and take me off the live set and lead me away.

    Don’t worry Tingles, that day may not be today, but it’s coming…soon..

  13. vagabond trader says:
    August 17, 2011 at 1:01 pm

    Odd how the commies and their useful idiots want to outlaw capitalism after reaping all its benefits.

  14. Proud Infidel says:
    August 17, 2011 at 1:15 pm

    “vagabond trader says:

    Odd how the commies and their useful idiots want to outlaw capitalism after reaping all its benefits.”

    BINGO! And it’s even odder they don’t move to some “worker’s paradise” to experience the alternative. These scumbags think they know better than every one else. What a total asshole Mathews is.

  15. Patrick43 says:
    August 17, 2011 at 1:34 pm

    Prissy ! You will not be a member of the Ruling class… You will a member of the proletariat. Wake up idiot.

  16. StrangernFiction says:
    August 17, 2011 at 1:42 pm

    He or she will say that the smart move is to have Washington pull back into a cocoon of small activity and leave the mighty corporate world

    Ah yes, the mighty corporate world with its Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, IRS, FBI, CIA, ICE, ATFE, SS, DOJ, TSA……..Oh wait, those are the piddly resources of the poor wittle Federal Government.

    LIBERALS. ARE. at best MENTALLY. ILL.

  17. the slob says:
    August 17, 2011 at 1:44 pm

    I though he has been offering his alternative to Capitalism all along.

  18. buzzsawmonkey says:
    August 17, 2011 at 1:46 pm

    vagabond trader says:
    August 17, 2011 at 1:01 pm
    Odd how the commies and their useful idiots want to outlaw capitalism after reaping all its benefits.

    Having reached the top tier themselves, they want to pull the ladder up after them.

  19. Dan says:
    August 17, 2011 at 1:49 pm

    pffft….Capitalism needs an alternative to Obama, not the other way around!

  20. Terry Lanciotti says:
    August 17, 2011 at 2:29 pm

    Saving President Obama… Its Not Worth ONE Man or Woman’s Life

    When you look beyond, to the areas pushed aside and devastated… Where communities and neighborhoods show the story behind the tale, where foreclosure notices have replaced the smiles of children and the random pets in the window… Hope to Believe In has become hopelessness, despair and a choice. For many life has turned to the surreal, gaining momentum towards an uncertain future and a hope of mere existence… with nothing more than the ability to pray.

    Praying… it was once what we did as a people, when our beliefs were our riches, built on foundations of our families and neighborhoods which were not tied together with string spun from the political spinning wheels; that have produced webs of societal dependency, weaved and tethered to handouts and scraps for their hopeless existence.

    I do not know how anyone, anyone… can put faith within the leadership Barack Obama has produced. Change You Can Believe In? What I want to know… Can you believe the change you have seen? Can you or could you, put your faith (2012) and our countries future in the hands of those ignorant of the American Ideal . Ignorant to our history; where Hope is the expectation of our vote, our leadership and our personal desires… leadership that has and can not produce any vision beyond Hope. Can you?

    It is time for the reality of our ignorantness and the FUBAR caused by our vote in Hope and make a Change that is not for mere Hope but change that embraces what America as a People has based our way of life upon. Hope is not conveyed in our founding documents and is a contradiction the goals set for our society and the leadership needed for a nation that is Of The People and For The People.

    I am not sure that one man… NO, I know that one man or woman will not bring change, nope. We are going to have to re-learn how to be American. We are a People, the People… a People that once left concerns in our pursuits of happiness to our individual freedoms and our the ability to use them for prosperity… prosperity that built families, neighborhoods and business that produce greater ideals of self worth and reliance. All which now have become tied to government intervention that levels all abilities to those of the slothful and generational dependent… pitting classes against one another with polarizing rhetoric, for the only means of securing large blocks of votes, dependent upon the handouts and the transfer of wealth. We were a People where guaranteed freedoms produce intrepidity within our use of freedom, which pushed frontiers in all manners of life… It was American and the American way.

    Our country was not meant for what it has become.

    Read more: http://contributors.blogsome.com/#ixzz1VJQE7Vs9

  21. Spurwing Plover says:
    August 17, 2011 at 3:27 pm

    Tingles is a total prick

  22. ZIP says:
    August 17, 2011 at 3:33 pm

    @Spurwing Plover

    Why you have to insult pricks like that?

  23. BigJake says:
    August 17, 2011 at 4:35 pm

    Thank God MS-PMS is sponsored only by the DNC, CBC, EPA, etc ….

    All those other stations have those nasty, capitalist business sponsors ….

  24. BART SIMPSON says:
    August 17, 2011 at 4:38 pm

    NBC has to send their manufacturing operations to China to offset the $$$$ they are losing operating the sad joke that is msnbc…. Boycott chinese made goods at all retailers, tell the managers at those stores what you are doing, and why…………

  25. Fishy Commentator says:
    August 17, 2011 at 6:56 pm

    Will Tingles PLEASE renounce his US Citizenship and PLEASE leave the USA to the Socialist or Communist Utopia of his choice ASAP?!?!!?

  26. HonestAmerican says:
    August 17, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    Oh boy……will Comcast now be free?

  27. Terry L Smith says:
    August 17, 2011 at 10:37 pm

    Dear Chris Matthews,

    After reading your short little rant, I have only one thing to say about you.

    You have earned the space within my cognitive, libertarian mind, that is bringing to memory a Thomas Jefferson quote, with something to do with some kind of tree!

    I don’t recall what that is, at this present moment. Do you? How does this relate to you, anyway? I’m not too sure, either!

    Does anybody here, have a clue???

    From the lyrics of “1776″:

    “Is ANYBODY there?”
    “Does ANYBODY care?”
    Does anybody CARE?”

  28. debrobeaudean says:
    August 18, 2011 at 6:49 am

    Actually Chris Matthews, since corporate America has become infested with COMMIE Unions and have become cronies of commines taking jobs OUT of America and pay ZERO taxes and ENSLAVE cheap labor in 3rd world counties they now pollute.. you commies can KEEP corporate “America” which will soon leave our shores entirely anyhow with the excuse of Obama’s tax hikes..
    The small business owner is who wants Obama’s foot off his THROAT.. the farmers too.. they want to be able to BREATHE… THEY are what made America GREAT.. not Nazi Fascist corporatism. We LONG to be able to support American SMALL businesses

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