Posted on 09/15/2008 9:44:53 AM PDT by pabianice
If there were needed any additional proof of the hatred of Obama supporters for the U.S. in general and the capitalist system in particular, its on display.
Over the weekend, investment bank Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, an historical failure of a pillar of Wall Street. Caught-up in a twisted fish net of bad investing decisions, creative accounting, stupidity, punitive laws passed by Congress that discourage investing in U.S. companies, and a financial world in which many investment derivatives have become so arcane as to resist any meaningful analysis, Lehman has dropped into bankruptcy.
The New York Times one of those curious dying newspapers run by an obscenely rich family that spends all of its time damning the rich was Johnny-on-the-spot with major articles expressing alleged dismay over Lehmans failure and the tragedies of its employees, now out of work. It is the comments to these articles from self-described Democrats those purveyors of Love, Tolerance, and Diversity that most catch ones eye:
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1. poor little capitalists ...
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) ... Mon Sep-15-08 11:44 AM... Response to Reply #1...
4. Ha! You are watching the death of Capitalism in America...
The "experiment" has failed.... Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top...
magellan (1000+ posts) ... Mon Sep-15-08 11:43 AM... Response to Original message...
2. How could it go from THE place to work to this?...
Ignoring reality doesn't make it go away....
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Atman (1000+ posts)... Mon Sep-15-08 11:44 AM... Response to Original message...
3. Maybe they can go get real jobs now. In the manufacturing sector.
Oops...maybe not. Sorry, bad karma to wish ill on this people, and I don't. But I don't have a lot of compassion for them, either...
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Xenotime (1000+ posts) ... Mon Sep-15-08 11:46 AM... Response to Reply #3...
5. Jobs in the social services sector would be good too..
They could actually be helping people rather than shilling and trying to line their own pockets.
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Feel the love.
These people are among Obamas most ardent supporters. With every keystroke they demonstrate the disaster that would be an Obama presidency.
Lehman employees gave 3 times the money to Obama as to McCain. F-em.
I want the Fannie and Freddie employees out on the street too. Let them sell pencils.
The wife of Obama’s buddy Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn....
http://internet-deutschland.eu/video_Dba7_D3m1UU_tag_dohrn.html
BINGO
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0722/p01s04-uspo.html
A housing rescue nears but for whom?
Minority neighborhoods would especially benefit from a $3.9 billion aid package.
By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
from the July 22, 2008 edition
Fannie and Freddie were dem "full employment" rip-offs. They caused this... these bail-outs will be worse than letting reality happen...
These people need to be re-educated.
They simply cannot get over the fact that efficiency leads to job loss (replace humans with better, faster machines or better, faster processes) in SOME sectors. But then, that opens up opportunities in other areas for job growth (programming, shipping, etc...).
Are they serious?
This is the fault of irresponsible humans at war against market forces. If any ‘ism is at fault it's socialism. If a truly free market reigned all these suicidal loans would have never been approved of in the first place. Too many people in the business would have "If I give this person a loan my butt might get fired" or "Our shareholders will get pissed" in the back of their minds. Now if those do gooders in DC said "We will work with/for you etc." well...
Banks with the backing of a CENTRAL GOVERNMENT (That never forces businesses to do their bidding /s) tried the ‘pie in the sky’, ‘everyone deserves to live beyond their means’, ‘let us get our poor people loan’ and it was good for awhile. If these idiots think this represents capitalism they must of slept through their economic classes.
If anything capitalism should be the correcting mechanism that will get us out of this position and most importantly TEACH the lesson. But in the end the mechanism that brought this debacle on will be the idiot teacher, government will save us all, Yeahhhhh Hawwwwww!!!!
It is kind of hard to feel for companies (not saying Lehman is) that give loans to people with very bad credit, make risky investment, and do other very foolish things. The government needs to let these companies fail or get absorbed instead of bailing them out and making the problem worse.”
Look harder at Bill Clinton and Henry Cisneros.
Problem started there, with Congress giving a giant helping hand.
It is kind of hard to feel for companies (not saying Lehman is) that give loans to people with very bad credit, make risky investment, and do other very foolish things. The government needs to let these companies fail or get absorbed instead of bailing them out and making the problem worse.”
Look harder at Bill Clinton and Henry Cisneros.
Problem started there, with Congress giving a giant helping hand.
And who put those Congress critters in office? Who voted for those RINO’s that supported such legislation?
Former Lehman Brothers Employees Celebrate 0bama Supporters Losing Their Jobs
Former Lehman Emoloyees Celebrate 0bama Campaigners Losing Their Jobs
Sorry for the double posts. Weird goings-on when trying to post; get server errors.
A friend is a SVP at Moody’s and an expert in forensic accounting and analysis. He called the Asia crash in 97. He has been predicting these events for nearly two years. He says this will come to look like something very few of us are old enough to have experienced....and he doesn’t mean the Carter years.
Selling short, is he?
I’m having lunch with him naxt week, I’ll ask.
Those are people who have never really experienced a job loss and the period where you can’t find a job no matter how hard you try.
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