Replies to post #137840 on Biotech Values

[malachite]

Yes, it does matter, because of the damage they will do. I submit the damage of influencing domestic policy with mores from the "religous" will be less consequential than the damage to the constitutional foundation of the American Experiment that becomes more apparent as we roll along. (Meaning not limited to the current potus.)

[Tamhas]

Doesn't mean they couldn't do worse or better at the job, however they look.

[iandy]

It doesn't matter who's the next president is because they'll never look successful trying to unwind our current situation.

Are you refering to the current situation in Washington,the problems with our economy,or the deficit?

What a fine mess we've gotten ourselves into, this time.

[vinmantoo]

Jbog, it does matter to the country in the long run who wins the next election. I figured it would take at least 5 years to being to correct the damage to the country from the financial chaos inflicted by the policies of the last decade. Hell, it would take 2 years or more just to stabilize the country. The country was hemorrhaging jobs BEFORE Obama took office, and you get idiots who look at job losses occurring from January 2009 through spring of that years as some sort of indictment of Obama's record.

The repeal of Glass-Steagle opened a risk to our commercial baking industry. Then you have the idiots who thought unregulated derivative would be just dandy because the private industry would self-regulate. How disastrous were those moves? Amazingly, we now get the view of many Republican candidates that the problem arose because there was too much regulation, so even less would be better for the country. If there is one thing we learned, or should have learned is that without strong regulations and vigilant oversight, the urge for maximizing short term profit at the expense of everything else will predominate.