Aldante, you’re hilarious. You take republican corruption and somehow, with smoke and mirrors, turn it into a way to rail at “liberals.” There’s no talking common sense with someone who can be so ridiculously blind to his own biases.
You can’t run a country the size of the U.S.A. with a government small enough that there’s no chance for corruption. To say that what Paulson did couldn’t have been done with a smaller government is rubbish.
Is big government necessary? Depends on how you define big. Would a government small enough to avoid any chance of corruption be big enough to run our country? Only in the dreams of your typical, borderline-paranoid anti-government wingnut.
Most of the problems of the 2008 collapse could have, and probably would have, been avoided by more regulation (bigger government) not less. Especially closer regulation of the ratings agencies.
