tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2946942062204448159.post6587790483284488648..comments2023-10-14T04:34:47.438-04:00Comments on The Happy Wanderer: Reformed Wall Street. Now what?vanillamanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08385749975343350948noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2946942062204448159.post-42828956436529578562010-05-22T04:13:06.805-04:002010-05-22T04:13:06.805-04:00If you think Obama or Ignatieff are progressive th...If you think Obama or Ignatieff are progressive than you're the one missing information or off your meds.<br /><br />Weak reforms, are pointless, even if they're the "most significant" since the Great Depression, if they do nothing to curtail the power of a corrupt financial system or do nothing to avert the next crisis, which looks like it's already starting to bubble up.<br /><br />Next thing you're gonna try to tell me is that Clinton, the guy responsible for gutting Glass-Steagal (may he and Rubin rot somewhere awful for that) was a progressive too, just because he had "Democrat" on his business cards. <br /><br />Obama promoted Bernanke, Geithner and Summers, all failures of the Bush era and acolytes of mister "deregulation is good" Rubin. <br /><br />Ignatieff has no idea why he wants to be PM or what he would do with it, so yeah I'd rather Harper win again than get Iggy playing Obama and "waste" a liberal government. <br /><br />With Obama and Iggy as "progressive" leaders of their respective countries I now know how fiscal conservatives felt under GW Bush. Betrayed. Disappointed. Disgusted.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2946942062204448159.post-60905277448557968632010-05-22T02:30:55.428-04:002010-05-22T02:30:55.428-04:00I'm sorry. So the implication of the first co...I'm sorry. So the implication of the first comment that the Republicans would have passed greater reforms? <br /><br />Fat chance! They fought these reforms tooth and nail.<br /><br />I too would have liked to have seen the Volker rule or a complete return of the Glass-Steagal Act<br /><br />But the reforms being discussed now remain the greatest reforms to the US financial system since the Great Depression.<br /><br />So if your comment is any indication, you don't know what's important to Canadians either, especially if your idea of advancing progressive ideas is to re-elect Harper.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2946942062204448159.post-33763014042986610302010-05-21T23:55:57.025-04:002010-05-21T23:55:57.025-04:00No Volcker rule.
No Tobin Tax.
No meaningful reg...No Volcker rule.<br /><br />No Tobin Tax.<br /><br />No meaningful regulation (including outright restrictions) of CDOs and CDSs. <br /><br />Reform? You have low standards friend.<br /><br />Watching the Democrats lose big to the Republicans in November will be a very big treat for this liberal and dessert would be Ignatieff losing to Harper (minority of course) whenever the next election occurs.<br /><br />At least Dion had heart, better policies and courage, too bad his English is so poor, our country full of idiots and our party full of gutless, out of touch lawyers. <br /><br />P.S. Thanks for posting about something actually important, too many liblog bloggers have no idea what matters to Canadians if the content of their blogs is any indication.<br /><br />Matt BAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com