Posted on 12/01/2009 8:05:57 AM PST by DuncanWaring
Anyone so incensed with investment bankers that he/she feels it's time to take them out, is unlikely to settle for an anonymous pot shot from several hundred yards away.
Such a person usually wants to look into the eyes of his/her victim and see the fear in that person's eyes and make it clear to him/her that "justice" is about to be done. It's part of the deal for people who consider they've been wronged. Before they dispatch their victim, the victim has to know that he/she has lost and the executioner has won.
Excellent commentary!!!
True on so many levels.
Your words ought to spread across the social networking sites, like Twitter, Facebook, Digg, and all the other ones(including the newish ones).
I’ll do my part to make it happen(it only takes one individual to start something, BTW).
And thanks so much for posting this.
If they were not posted here, then why not?
Sure the author wrote for Rollingstone, and certainly he was interviewed on AIR AMERICA; however, I also heard plenty of conservative talkshow hosts have him on as a guest, too.
IF these ever got posted to FR, does anyone have links to the two messagethreads?
Well, it’s good up to a point. Government had as much or more to do with the housing crisis as bankers did. The current govt $8,000 give back on new home mortgages is just more of the same. So, who do we hang first? The politicians or the bankers?
I won't go into all my analysis (I'm nobody special anyway), but my own prediction/analysis has a troubling dual path leading to the same end of massive riots hitting about the summer of 2013. The dual path I'm referring to is either (1) a conservative resurgence followed up with stern and serious austerity measures to balance the budget or (2) continued Democratic dominance resulting continued spending and erosion of the dollar, etc., leading to increasing economic paralysis and collapse.
Either way, I'm expecting that the pain either from welfare cuts or from economic collapse will be hitting critical mass following the 2012 elections. I just hope we have that long.
I don’t blame him a bit.
ACORN has already passed out maps to his home, I’m sure.
The Democrats are clearly trying to whip-up an anti-bank jihad as part of their desperate class warfare strategy for 2010. Would not doubt that some deeply in debt and over the edge personality may present a physical threat.
I may not like a lot of what Goldman does but that does not justify a death sentence.
I have been unable to reach tickerforum.org or market-ticker.org this morning. Is anyone else having this problem?
Looks like they’re preparing to protect themselves from 0b0z0’s ACORN minions and maybe a few irate taxpayers as well.
Great column. And, yes, Goldman is at the heart of this mess. Paulson was the Treasury Secretary who conned Bush into passing the “Bailout” TARP package.
And he was the guy who orchestrated the October economic surprise that elected Obama.
Obama was a big-time recipient of campaign donations from Goldman employees. Second only to Chris Dodd.
So, it was bankers and politicians working hand-in-hand. Stepping up the CRA act under clinton. Cozying up between the Congressional Black Caucus and Fannie Mae. Suing banks to force them to make bad loans. Bundling these government-guaranteed bad loans into derivatives and shooting them around the world.
I don’t think Bush was on the inside, but he contributed by failing to respond to the dangers and by letting spending go out of control again.
Which is not to say that European bankers, and some Asian bankers, weren’t doing the same thing. But let’s worry about our own problems first.
Love to... Link?
The proper spelling of “Taibbi” yields 180 hits:
I’m expecting that the pain either from welfare cuts or from economic collapse will be hitting critical mass following the 2012 elections.
No need to worry. The World is going to end Dec 21 2012. Just ask the Mayans and Discovery channel.
I'll bring the tar and feathers.
These REMFs are deluding themselves. When the populist uprising comes, their little popguns won't save them.
This must be the first time at google, that the Big.Bro.Spellcheck didn't ask me, "
Thank YOU so much!!!
Don't have to travel with 'em...these two commodities are readily available whereever one goes.
You hang the politicians, I'll hang the bankers. Or, you hang the bankers, and I'll hang the politicians. Take your pick. With me, es macht nichts.
Yes the Rolling Stone article about the great vampire squid was posted I could find it if I could remember the title. I may have been the one who posted it lol but I would have to go back through pages and pages do you remember the title?
Looks to have been posted at least once, by chicagofarmer:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2286227/posts
The dual pathed collapse of America is an interesting concept as both are very plausible. I have been telling my friends and family that I expect 2010 to be worse for the simple reason that the can was kicked down the road. State and local governments were either temporarily saved by the stimulus or they dipped into rainy day funds. Those options won’t be available for next year which is when the real cuts will occur. The second shoe is about to drop with commercial real estate and now the oil rich Arabs will likely default on billions of loans. Throw a job killing healthcare and or Cap and Trade bill and unemployment...well...
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