InnocentsAbroad

Rolling Stone's poison-penned Matt Taibbi lays waste to Goldman Sachs (GS), again. Here's the intro: "From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they're about to do it again..."

Right. But the alternative is chaos or autarchy. I'd like to think that at some point, the democratic process works because my fellow citizens have a core of a capacity for self rule. Overoptimistic and naive, but still, the alternatives are worse.


On Jun 25 12:59 PM Neil459 wrote:

> For someone that believes in propaganda, I'll bet it is. But you
> should believe in facts. The facts are that its not GS that is allowing
> GS to take advantage. Its corrupt government staffers at all levels
> that are supposed to protect us from these types of manipulation
> that are allowing this to happen. And still a lot of people think
> that giving government more power will make it go away. What a joke.
>
>
> That GS is working in self interest is true. That this government
> will solve it is simply ignorance.
>
> On Jun 25 12:23 PM D_Virginia wrote: