
Originally Posted by
crimsonedge
There are some things IMO that are good ideas with Socialism, but I wouldn't take the entire package and adopt.
You cannot just simply print money and throw it into the economy and expect to get good results, you do nothing but inflate the currency and make what everyone already has, worth less. Prices on everything rising during a recession isn't just a fail idea, its epic fail. What Ben Bernanke calls quantitative easing, or QE1, QE2, QE3, etc, is just printing more money. In fact I can't think of one example in history where just printing money and throwing it into the economy has gotten good results. Someone as smart as Ben Bernanke should know this, unless he has another intention.