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  • morph366: 
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  It should tell us that it's Business As Usual in Washington DC. But the spinners are hard at work to prevent us from being so cynical

  Feb 06 12:59 PM | Link | Reply
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  • Broken: 
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  Who cares?
  
  If Snow White is the only job candidate that will meet your ethics requirements you won't be able to hire the competent and experienced. What you want to avoid are obvious conflicts of interest, like, say hiring Paulson of Goldman-Sachs to run Treasury.

  Feb 06 01:06 PM | Link | Reply
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  • user344210: 
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  So are only people who've spent their entire careers in government qualified to run government departments? Sounds fantastic. Also, it was shown a long, long, long, long time ago via "public choice theory" that the same interests exist in government as exist in private industry, they just manifest themselves in slightly different ways. Why people continue to romanticize "government" as if it were populated by ethereal creatures lacking self-interest is one of the great mysteries of the age.

  Feb 06 01:18 PM | Link | Reply
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  • joshuaodonnell: 
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  it doesnt matter, because the USA is going into depression anyway. We wont see a bull market until 2012

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  I heard Obama is putting off getting a new puppy for the White House until spring so he can make sure it's kid friendly, easy going, and pays its taxes.

  Feb 06 01:26 PM | Link | Reply
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  • Timothy Swift: 
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  What's odd to me... If there is a crisis of cofidence in government and the financial systems in general why anyone in their right mind would appoint tax cheats. It's not what we know about them that's the problem. They are tax cheats. Got it. It's what we don't know about them that is a concern.
  
  Afterall Madoff was a regulator...

  Feb 06 01:52 PM | Link | Reply
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  • dinosaur br...: 
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  The only person I've seen with a plausible way to end business as usual on capitol hill is Tom Clancy. Democrats and Republicans are more interested in playing politics and protecting their own personal interests than doing the countries business. And so far, Obama is not showing any talent for changing things. Just more partisan politics.
  
  
  On Feb 06 12:59 PM morph366 wrote:
  
  > It should tell us that it's Business As Usual in Washington DC. But
  > the spinners are hard at work to prevent us from being so cynical

  Feb 06 11:42 PM | Link | Reply