Comments on: Time to Get Swedish

By: victorberry

victorberry — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:31:25 +0000

If you want to end capitalism for a generation, go ahead and destroy more middle class wealth by liquidating banks. Sure, as “small fish” investors, the middle class won’t lose as much in the short term as the upper class. However, ask the middle class later what they think about it when their pension funds can only pay half the implicitly promised (i.e., explicitly advertised) retirement benefits. Subsequently, how many grandparents will instruct their grandchildren to never invest in the American financial markets? [Note: How many grandchildren will actually heed the advice of their doddering, bitter, live-with-the-kids grandparents is another story.]

By: dunnage

dunnage — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:31:16 +0000

By the by— The Investment banks will never loan on their own. I wouldn’t. They are building bomb shelters, praying for time, and needing many many more Trillions.

By: dunnage

dunnage — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:29:12 +0000

Same People Syndrome

You have the same people on wall street and in government. Has this ever been more apparent? Actually, no attempt has ever been made to lead people to think otherwise. Notice that your Sec. of Treasury and Fed Chair are not elected.

I wish there were a difference. Nothing could trash the Investment Banks as well as the private sector.

By: royrogers

royrogers — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 12:30:45 +0000

who will run the new government banks ??
Can you guess who will run them ??
The same idiots that flushed them down the toilet will run them
cause they have political clout

By: try2bamused

try2bamused — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:19:17 +0000

Get real. The chances of our policy makers “doing the right thing” are exactly zero. There has been way too much corruption, criminality and cronyism for way too long for these people to even know what the “right thing” looks like. I guess there’s always the chance that we’ll just get lucky and somehow muddle through. But I’m not in a gambling mood anymore, and I don’t think anyone else is either.

By: Mannwich

Mannwich — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:11:50 +0000

@duncanst: Wow, the vitriol. Why so angry? That’s why I left Boston. So many angry ass people back there who revel in being miserable. Go eff yourself d-bag.

By: The Curmudgeon

The Curmudgeon — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:11:30 +0000

Reminds me of a line from “An Officer and a Gentleman” when the drill sargeant (played by a black, er, African-American guy whose name eludes me right now) is inspecting the officer candidates for the first time:

“Where you from, boy?” He says to the recruit

Reply: “I’m from Oklahoma, sir.” (Any good military man would know instantly that this is Hollywood military because you never, never address a drill sargeant as “sir”–he’s not an officer, he’s a “drill sargeant”).

Drill Sargeant’s reply: “The only two things to come out of Oklahoma is steers and queers. So which one are you, boy?”

Gulp. Nothing from the recruit, except a scared face, looking at the drill sargeant.

“Don’t you eyeball me boy. You eyeball me boy and I’ll poke out your eyeballs and skull fuck you to death.”

By: duncanst

duncanst — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:22:48 +0000

Transor Z and Mannwich,

You’re both full of shit.

I’ve lived in Boston over 50 years……only newspaper writers (morons) and faggots call it Beantown.

Which are you?

By: Transor Z

Transor Z — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:46:02 +0000

I rest my case. :-)

By: Mannwich

Mannwich — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:37:12 +0000

@Baille Beag: I’m from Boston (lived there 29 years) and have called it “Beantown” from time to time.

@Transor Z: Yes, GFY, was/is something that they/we say in Beantown. It’s not a very nice thing to say but it’s widely used!