Matt Lauer Worried That Government Might Not Be Able To Run Companies Paying Back Their Bailouts

• April 14, 2009

Because it’ll mean these companies can be run how their executives, boards of directors and stockholders want and not, you know, how the government wants.

The announcement that Goldman-Sachs may be able to pay back its bailout loan, sooner rather than later, was met with a grim assessment by NBC’s Matt Lauer, on Tuesday’s “Today” show as the co-anchor fretted to the Obama administration’s Christina Romer: “I’m worried if you think if that’s a good thing. Are they doing this because of financial stability or might they be talking about that, simply to get out from under the thumb of the federal government and be allowed to go back to running the business the way they want to run it as opposed to the way the government wants them to run it?”

It really is amazing just how transparent the bailouts-as-government-takeovers has become. Many such as myself have been saying that the bailouts were always more about a government power grab than an economic rescue from day one. Now we’ve got media liberals openly decrying the pay back of these bailouts because it’ll mean the government won’t be able to use them as leverage for control any more.
When you consider that the government has, to date, bailed out with TARP funds 532 financial institutions nationally – most of them institutions with absolutely no need for bailouts – you begin to see what the agenda is. It’s not about economic rescue. It’s about control.
The Obama/Democrat government wants control of our capital markets, because control of the capital markets means indirect control of the economy. And big, fat centralized control of everything is the goal of liberalism.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array Bat One

Disappointment was expected from you, but not anticipated so easily and suddenly.

More proof that you are singularly unqualified to judge the writing skills of anyone else. When the best you can do is mudpies in the back yard, you’re in no position to criticize somebody else’s Boeuf Bourguignon or veal marsala.
Hannitized

I feel the same way about Beck, Hannity and Billow………Hey, isn’t that pretty much all of Fox News?
Hannitized

Bat,

I thought you were going make an argument. Disappointment was expected from you, but not anticipated so easily and suddenly. Thanks for the ego boost.

You thought you were being clever with your insult directed at me. But you missed due to your anxious desire to make me look bad. But once again, you were out maneuvered, as you carelessly assume I don’t choose my words carefully. Most of the time.
robert108

…what I think about Hannity…

You’re a Hannity groupie; you use his name for your screen name. Of course, since you’re a leftie, it’s more about feeling than it is about thinking…
If you were able to think, you might be able to come up with a valid argument once in a while.
Bat One

Explain how your comment about Matt is relevant to what I think about Hannity, Billow and Glen Beck?

You’re on a first name basis with Lauer? Or is that simply more back-handed self-promotion on your part? Perhaps Lauer played golf with you and the admirals last week??

Not surprisingly, you’ve got it backwards. Again! Since my remark about Lauer, a rhetorical question about those who ignorantly take what he said seriously, was posted ahead of your remark, the onus of proving relevance is yours, not mine.

However, the fact that you chose to mirror my comment, while complimentary, certainly adds nothing to your credibility as a “thinking individual.”
Bat One

H,

Read that first comment of mine again. If you still don’t understand get back to me and I’ll try to explain it for you.

“Capice?”

As a New Jersey-American you’d make a great waiter.
Hannitized

I specifically said thinking individual.

About Matt Lauer. I was commenting on Billow, Hannity and Glen Beck.

That means I don’t give a shit what you think about Matt Lauer and have no comment on your irrelevant attack on him. I made my own attack, unrelated to yours.

Capice?
Bat One

R108,

Don’t bother. I don’t take his “threats” any more seriously than I do anything else the kid says. Besides, this is the one who was railing against concealed carry and self-defense yesterday, insisting that it was those of us on/in The Right with guns who constituted a threat. Its all childish prattle and quibble. And not very artful either.

See y’all after the party!
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

That’s a shame, Dino had his heart set on playing “The lovely Margo Lane.”
Bat One

I feel the same way about Beck, Hannity and Billow…

H,

I specifically said thinking individual. That clearly leaves you out.
Hannitized

My Uncle Romi and Uncle Dom would remind me, there are no such thing as threats.
Buzz

I say we show up to his house waving pitchforks and demanding justice!

Maybe you and your five hippie friends can take a little detour tomorrow.
http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

Lauer is nothing less than a Newser Apparatchik…. Sympathizer….. Judas Goat!

We know who cares about the future of this country…..
support Free Speech!
Hannitized

Oh Liberal Knobert, please explain what the argument is. This shall be good fun.

I bet of you, explain. Cutting and pasting is not an adequate display of understanding. Your faux display of intelligence has been revealed.
Buzz

Sure they want to pay back as soon as possible, that way they can steal the corporate profits that should be going to the share holder. How can someone be expected to live on 600,000 a year, when you can give yourself millions upon millions in bonuses.

The bottom line is that Obama saved the financial industry by loaning them money, which you lie about and call a gift. Now they are trying to pay the money back, and you are bitching about that. Is that all you do is cry about everything? What a miserable fuck you must be to live with, crying and bitching all the time.
Bat One

Someone should tell Matt Lauer that there isn’t going to be a movie sequel to The Shadow.
Flickertail

Oof, scared about a company who pays back its government loans actually being able to do best for its shareholders, and not the government is scary. That isn’t socialism, it is communism. We shouldn’t have given them money in the first place, every business should have the chance to succeed or fail with the least amount of government involvement possible. I don’t care if you’re GM or a mom and pop grocery store, the government should stay out of running businesses.
robert108

Here’s the argument, H:

Not surprisingly, you’ve got it backwards. Again! Since my remark about Lauer, a rhetorical question about those who ignorantly take what he said seriously, was posted ahead of your remark, the onus of proving relevance is yours, not mine.

However, the fact that you chose to mirror my comment, while complimentary, certainly adds nothing to your credibility as a “thinking individual.”

You have just illustrated, again, that you don’t even understand what an argument is.
Bat One

Why would any thinking individual care what Matt Lauer has to say?
Hannitized

The pompous bourgeoisie plays class warfare, instead of admitting he had no argument.

Go figure!
robert108

As a New Jersey-American, you would fit a pair of cement shoes, nicely.

Another death threat from an intolerant, hate-filled leftie punk.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

I’m really really worked up over the exorbiant salary that Matt Lauer is getting because of the bailout his company (GE) got.

Is he getting a bonus? How much?

I say we show up to his house waving pitchforks and demanding justice!
Hannitized

Bat,

Explain how your comment about Matt is relevant to what I think about Hannity, Billow and Glen Beck?

Go for it.

As a New Jersey-American, you would fit a pair of cement shoes, nicely.
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

Nice lie Buzz. We’re ticked about the fact that Matt Lauer and pretty much all the libtard ideologues believes that the companies controlling themselves is a bad thing. We want them to pay back the money as soon as possible and get out from under the thumb of the freedom hating statists.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

rabid
about that picture you posted…
oh behave.

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