A fascinating and nightmarish sceanrio. In essence; the government found itself attempting to govern or regulate a cabal that grew to equal the size and influence of the government just on the basis of sheer financial power.
And the financial cabal turned around and said..."No, we'll buy YOU out".
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
WE still HAVE a legitimate government? I thought that was run out of town last January....
Oh, right. It was.
2 posted on
10/16/2009 12:40:20 PM PDT by
alloysteel
(....the Kennedys can be regarded as dysfunctional. Even in death.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Barney Frank should have been ANSWERING questions rather than ASKING them.
3 posted on
10/16/2009 12:41:28 PM PDT by
a fool in paradise
(The character assassination of Rush Limbaugh is worse than what the Left accused Joe McCarthy of.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
Like a broken clock, Greenspan was right.
4 posted on
10/16/2009 12:44:32 PM PDT by
steve8714
(There's a straight line from John Wilkes Booth through Paul Robeson to Sean Penn.)
To: blam; FromLori
5 posted on
10/16/2009 12:51:25 PM PDT by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
All planned. Insofar as a thing is like this is avoidable, it was planned.
6 posted on
10/16/2009 12:55:09 PM PDT by
SMARTY
("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
To: TopQuark
Here, you seem to be interested in Wall Street stuff.
I didn't even read the article and I'm pinging you.
Cheers!
11 posted on
10/17/2009 12:18:09 AM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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