[dirtboy]

Over the past few years, however, there clearly has been an erosion in the country’s financial values. This erosion has happened at a time when the country’s cultural monitors were busy with other things...They were arguing about sex and the separation of church and state, oblivious to the large erosion of economic values happening under their feet...

Ah, so it all becomes clear - the financial meltdown is all the fault of those dreaded social conservatives.

Words fail me.

[La Lydia]

That is not exactly what he said. I had to snip it. But this is instructive:

States around the country began sponsoring lotteries: government-approved gambling that extracts its largest toll from the poor. Executives and hedge fund managers began bragging about compensation packages that would have been considered shameful a few decades before. Chain restaurants went into supersize mode, offering gigantic portions that would have been considered socially unacceptable to an earlier generation.

[Freddd]

When I saw it was a NYSlimes article, I couldn’t even read it...