[JasonC]

You are focused on a moment, I am looking at the entire system and entire lifetimes. Some banker got fired yesterday, some other one will make money next week, it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. Why would I care? It is another man's livelihood, that is all. In the long run, though, I or anybody can choose to keep what I own sitting in bank deposits, or invest it in the institutions you are busy denouncing - and so can you, or anyone else. There is no reason whatever to buy a single line of class warfare rhetoric, when where you choose to stand in the matter is entirely up to you. If you think capitalist speculators have it easy, be one. If you don't run out and get in the game, then you know it isn't easy. The rest is consciously dishonest smearing and slander, and no conservative is going to buy a lick of it.

[AndyJackson]

There is no reason whatever to buy a single line of class warfare rhetoric

I really resent the fact that folks caged in the New York condo's think that I resent them because they think that I think that they are somehow my social betters. I could not care a fig about them and what they do until they come to DC asking for bailouts, paper swaps or whatever the hell you want to call it from the Federal Reserve. Moral Hazard is a sound and sobering principle, and if they fall out of their tree and hurt their heads I am going to care little more than when they thought they wanted to go climb it in the first place.

But to create rampant inflation to bail out what they did to themselves is immoral and it is picking the pockets of folks who did nothing to create it in the first place.