Is Alan Greenspan part of the problem?

[shance]

I along with many other Americans probably know very little about Alan Greenspan.

How would you qualify him as the Chairman of the Federal Reserve?

What is his history? Qualifications. Performance as the Chair?

[amber dog democrat]

1. he is a shill whoring for the chimp.

I take very little of what he says seriously.

[swag]

5. An important poiint

Ridiculous of him to

1. shill for the irresponsible Bush tax cuts before Congress four years ago

2. shill for the irresponsible deficit-monster of Bush's Social Security scam

all the while

3. Droning on and on before Congress about the massive deficits (which he helped create by endorsing the tax cuts) and their financing (all of which would be made far far worse by the Bush Social Security rip-off).

[indepat]

13. He is a partisan shill whoring for devastating Administration initiatives

and in doing so, has made a mockery of his office.

[swag]

2. He is A DISCIPLE OF AYN RAND!

[Hand]

8. Momma!

That is one scary old bat...
:wow: :scared:

[Dr.Phool]

9. The undead

She's in the ground, but she has her zombies, like Greenspan, walking the earth.

[amber dog democrat]

16. Who is John Gault ?

After I turned 18 I lost respect for her.

[shance]

12. That's interesting. There's another 'interesting' individual, Ayn Rand.

Who seems to me to be more of a propaganda pusher than someone looking for the best systems for people to live and thrive under.

However, I have not read Atlas Shrugged, but Ive heard varying opinions, more to the tune she's very simplistic in her views.

[swag]

15. Imagine a stunted infantile robot

charting a view of an ideal infant-centered society.

Douchebags worldwide continue to fall in love on first contact.

[dogman]

3. I believe his efforts to bring down the Clinton economy backfired.

They still didn't damage the chimp because he did everything in his limited power to revive it. He was concerned that our surplus under Clinton would undermine efforts to cut Federal spending. The chimp took care of that. Now he shills for a sales tax that hurts the poor to the benefit of the wealthy.

[CoffeeCat]

4. It's really too bad...

...that no one is a pure professional these days.

No longer do we have experts, speaking the "truth". We've got partisans--who happen to be economists, doctors, psychologists, educators, biologists, chemists--and they spit out their own politically slanted version of reality to the masses.

In the case of Greenspan--he's a slave to Bush's wishes--first. Then, he's the Chairman of the Federal Reserve.

There is no absolute truth any more.

[President Jesus]

6. I think his political donations answer your question...

a peak into where his heart lies prior to becoming fed chairman: http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Alan_Greenspan.php

[shance]

11. Well, there you have it. What's interesting is probably how few people

realize people like Greenspan are so biased themselves.

I knew he was probably a Republican, but not to the extent that I realize it now.

[BurtWorm]

7. He is transparently part of the problem.

He was able to hide it during the Clinton years (because he didn't want to be fired and lose credit for the best-performing economy in our life-times). But since 2000, he has betrayed his true metier as enabler of Republican fucking up.

[moggie12]

10. One word: Hyprocrite

Back in '92, he told the Clinton camp they had to bring down the deficit or the bond market would kill the economy.

In '01, he backed Bush's obscene tax cut plan and now every once in while mentions that perhaps we ought to do something about the massive deficit.

[Spinoza]

14. Fuck,, yes.

He's an old Randian as in Ayn Rand. He really believes that the "free" market works better and more efficiently than a controlled economy. What an ignorant ass!