Posted on 02/16/2009 5:09:42 AM PST by dennisw
Oh, please. I said I have no sympathy and you translate that into gloating. How? Stop playing games - it's not the same thing.
You obviously believe in economic freedom....which is a good thing..... but carry along with that belief a naive understanding of human nature and the capacity for people engaged in business and the market to be just as venal as anybody else in the real world.
That's really all anybody has been trying to tell you. Power corrupts.....even economic power gained in the free market. It is the lesson of history and why our Founders feared concentration of any kind of power...military, political and even economic.
And today much of that abuse is centered on Wall Street and the banks in addition to Wash.
I'm not worried about the people who have earned it themselves, they are not the ones trying to rob the average wage earner, it' the trust fund babies who have no idea what an honest days work is. They got where they are because Daddy or Mommie risked everything to get something. All they did is inherit it.
So tell me, where is the hypocracy?
Just so you all understand, Greenwich is pretty much the only town in Connecticut with a Republican majority. Obama pipped McCain in November, which marked the first time a Rat won in Greenwich in forever.
Driving around town in October, it is clearly a Republican stronghold judging by lawn signs and bumper stickers.
Please don’t let this stop anyone from bashing my liberal state as a whole though!
Better raise property taxes and income taxes. ;’) From mid-February.
what’s a “moneychanger?”
“Would you be happy if the NY Times went under? “
I’d have a party. Bad analogy.
I know what the NYT lies, and hates and hurts this country.
I don’t know who these Greenwich people are and have no reason to assume they are all wrongdoers. I do not agree that every hedge fund is a criminal enterprise. Nor do I know that all these houses were going to hedge funds. Plenty of good people have been badly hurt by this financial crisis.
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