Fascinating to be watching the Frontline documentary while simultaneously watching the Tweetstream discuss this:
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
Good thing there weren’t regulators working at Lehman leading up to the crisis. Hopefully we can get our money back.
An to add fuel to the fire:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57418034-10391709/kroft-when-to-give-up-on-accountability/?tag=contentMain;contentBody
And what was it that Eldrige Cleaver said in 1968:
“If you aren’t part of the solution then you are part of the problem”?
Here’s a thought exercise: if we truly live in a representative deomcracy, about 8% who get elected would have come from the ranks of the unemployed – and an even bigger percentage from those who are part of U6. But obvoiously, that’s not the case.
So the only conclusion one can draw is that when it comes to government, only the employed have any voice.
Draw your own conclusions as to the eventual outcome should things get worse.
Watching Chris Dodd being interviewed on that show truly boggled my mind. How can these people be so good at lying? Do they fool themselves first? Or are is it simply an ability akin to Gretzky and Jordan?
The worst part of the entire process, is that a lot of rich & powerful people will be never go to jail. One wonders how America cannot acknowledge that it is a class-based society.
BR observed:
Fascinating to be watching the Frontline documentary while simultaneously watching the Tweetstream discuss this:
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If you say to. If you were really cool, you would be watching Frontline on your tablet, tweeting on your phone, while driving on the freeway and steering with your knees. If you were really really cool, you would be eating a chicken leg or a panini, too . That’s how I roll.
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this genie out of the bottle is a BIG pandoras box .. its everyones AIR .. the media in their
desire to not alarm and hype spend like normal – wash rinse repeat does its thingie – limit