Ping!
Its a crisis when the big money donors decide it’s a crisis. When we’re overrun by millions of illegal aliens, no problem. When we pay $4.50 for a gallon of gas, it’s vacation time.
I’m so disgusted by washington right now.
Good article. The author actually likes Americans.
That would be true, if we were at war.
The Army's at war - America is at the mall.
These people are just unnerved that if we don’t bail them out then they are going to have to bail themselves out. They want to see us go down in flames in order to support them. This is why Paulson was so insistent on being able to spend bailout money on them. And they just love Obama! After reading this then I can say that I hope those socialists over there are the first to crash.
I’m a proud member of the mob.
“Not since the 1890s tub-thumper William Jennings Bryan have the “little people” expressed themselves so forcefully against what Bryan derided as ‘the few financial magnates who, in a back room, corner the money of the world’. In e-mails, faxes and phone calls, they too have told their congressmen: ‘You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.’”
The article makes some good points, but loses my endorsement by invoking the by now banal indictment of Bush for invading Iraq, calling him arrogant and dishonest.
I’m so sick of people attacking Bush (and Blair) for making the necessary yet extremely difficult and dicey decisions noone else was willing to undertake.
Decades from now, if Iraqis do prove that that Middle Eastern Muslims can be worthy of being called anything but primitives, Bush and Blair will be remembered as heroic.
Meanwhile, Hussein Obama and his Democrat socialists should be rounded up and shot for wrecking our economy; for forcing banks and Wall Street to make bad loans, creating an environment where derivatives became the drug of choice for avoiding the reality of coerced runaway “diversity” financing.
It’s time to disintermediate the bankers (and off with their heads, while we’re at it). I’m ready for WikiEconomy.
From the title, I thought the Mafia was somehow involved, but now I see he meant the mob (the populace) and not the Mob (the criminal gang).
Odd how he calls the voice of millions of Americans speaking in unison the “mob”. Author also has the Iraq War decision incorrect....we voted for it, make no mistake.
For Bush, it is being "above politics" and "biparatisan" and salvaging the country despite itself - taking the advice of his most trusted economic adviser (and bosom buddy of Schmuckie Shumer), Henry Paulson, another former CEO of Goldman Saks - two previous worthies being such great economists and moral men as Robert Rubin and Jon Corzine.
For the Democrats, they are finally happily getting their chance to permanently shred the Constitution and change our liberty paradigm so they and their corrupt friends can control the rubble forever and be the dictators they so sorely aspire to be.
Despicable, both sides - with the exception of the minority GOP Congress.
This monstrosity will pass with the worst provisions still in it. Bush will gladly sign it. The systemic problems will not be solved or even addressed....
... and we, the American mob, will be screwed forever!
America is lucky - it’s being saved by the mobWell, 'Bruno' does have lower interest rates on a loan than, say,... Citibank. And if you're late with a payment 'Bruno' only breaks your leg instead of ruining your life forever.
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