Colbert: The free market is ‘a blindly vengeful god’(VIDEO)
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But even Colbert had to acknowledge that “the supporters of this bill wouldn’t shut up about how this is the end of the world.”
“So just why did a free market president like Bush propose a government bailout in the first place?” asked Colbert.
“The market is not functioning properly,” Bush stated in a recent appearance.
“The market is fine,” Colbert objected. “We are the ones who are not functioning properly.” He went on to explain that “the free market is not just some economic theory we can abandon when things get rough. It requires faith.”
Colbert continued expanding on the idea of faith, saying, “It is a lot like believing in another all-powerful being — God. The market is all around us. … It guides us with an invisible hand. … Like God, if we have faith in it, the free market is the answer to all our problems — but if we doubt it, it will withhold its precious gifts.”
“Some out there, folks, are going to say that this financial meltdown shows the market is fallible — that it is, in fact, not God,” cautioned Colbert. However, he insisted, “It does not mean that the market is not God. It means that the market is just a dangerous and destructive god. …Maybe the market isn’t like the Judaeo-Christian god at all. It might be a blindly vengeful god, with a thousand hungry mouths.”
“We must believe even harder!” thundered Colbert in a sermon-like conclusion. “Our god demands sacrifice! And I don’t mean regulation, I mean human flesh!”
“It’s gobbling Wall Street firm by firm, and it’s still hungry,” he proclaimed. “I say we feed it Main Street! … Being eaten alive by the market is better than admitting the government should have any role!”
“Thanks to the House Republicans, we are in the market’s hands,” concluded Colbert, “and it will take care of us only if we trust it.”
This video is from Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, broadcast September 29, 2008
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AveryMoore
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Thank you Argon18! And Father Emeritus Colbert!
So that's it!The Light Shines Through The Darkness!
And here we all are held hostage by larky poltergeists! I can work with this. I spent decades working in corporations and know what it is never to see normal humans.
These deities? Are they local spooks from around here? Or recently recruited demons from Deep Space?
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Y'know, between you and me, if any other group, religious or secular, and other than business evangelists, went on TV to declare that economic goblins were running our systems of government and commerce - we all know that at least half of the audience would declare them insane "conspiracy theorists" and demand they be locked up.
Meanwhile the rest of the population would demand a swift military response with first-strike nukes.
So maybe Colbert is right and we've grown considerably weirder in our quest to attribute economic failure to superstitions, beyond even when Bush Sr. lamented "Voodoo Economics."
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AveryMoore
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kennymotown
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Funny very funny guy.
- 3 years ago
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kennymotown
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Argon18
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He's got a point since you have to have faith that the natural selection of the free market will make the economy stronger by eliminating the weakest companies.
That's the whole point of the "inivisible hand" since it determines which companies will survive to be the stronger without any interference.
That's why their should be no interference with the natural forces to try and aid the weak since it ony weaken the economy by diluting the DNA of Market and allowing the unsuitable companies to hang on past their usefulness.
- 3 years ago
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Argon18
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JohnA
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As it should be.
- 3 years ago
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JohnA
