Comments on: Kohler: Geithner’s middle way http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/24/kohler-geithners-middle-way/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Miriam http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/24/kohler-geithners-middle-way/#comment-3217 Miriam Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-3217 Pity we can't edit our comments. I meant back seat drivers, not back street drivers - lol. Pity we can’t edit our comments. I meant back seat drivers, not back street drivers - lol.

]]> By: Mac http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/24/kohler-geithners-middle-way/#comment-3218 Mac Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-3218 So the public bear 93% of the risk and the super rich benefit from 50% of the gains. Sounds as fair as usual! So the public bear 93% of the risk and the super rich benefit from 50% of the gains. Sounds as fair as usual!

]]> By: robert http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/24/kohler-geithners-middle-way/#comment-3219 robert Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-3219 "The market clearly likes it..." sounds pretty damning to me. “The market clearly likes it…” sounds pretty damning to me.

]]> By: Miriam http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/24/kohler-geithners-middle-way/#comment-3220 Miriam Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-3220 Good to see a positive take on this. Everyone seems bent on smashing every idea that comes up, but cannot offer any reasonable alternative.<br /><br />Can you imagine the uproar and outrage if the government proposed to nationalise US banks? Particularly once the ramifications became obvious.<br /><br />And so many who are raging and ranting and would delight in a total collapse of banking and wall street, do they have any conception of what their lives would be like afterwards?<br /><br />It's a plan - and no-one else has one. There are far too many back street drivers here. The big task is to get people to all work together to get things moving again, instead of a few people working hard and the rest sitting back and doing nothing but criticising. Good to see a positive take on this. Everyone seems bent on smashing every idea that comes up, but cannot offer any reasonable alternative.

Can you imagine the uproar and outrage if the government proposed to nationalise US banks? Particularly once the ramifications became obvious.

And so many who are raging and ranting and would delight in a total collapse of banking and wall street, do they have any conception of what their lives would be like afterwards?

It’s a plan - and no-one else has one. There are far too many back street drivers here. The big task is to get people to all work together to get things moving again, instead of a few people working hard and the rest sitting back and doing nothing but criticising.

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