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This Time, We'll Learn the Lesson

Your understanding of native american history is small.
Read what Winston Churchill had to say about America's genocidal war.
If you're not working to make America better, perhaps you should leave.
Criticism is critical to improvement, de nial is more than a river in Egypt.

Bernanke's Fall from Grace

What this has to do with Bernanke? Bernanke is another example of administrations using marginally competent "experts" who are more political buddy than expert.
A mark of intelligence is being able to recognize the same shit even when it is repackaged.
Perhaps Bernanke and Greenspan should see if there is an opening for the captain of the Exxon Valdees, job requirements: asleep at the switch.
Jim Saxon, you have a promising career awaiting you in the food service industry, you clown.

Financial Warning to the U.S. Government

presumed economists like Greenspan, Bernanke, and Paulson are either not competent or so manipulated that their advice is useless. Legislators with law degrees are easy marks for financial perversion.
If you want representatives instead of incompetent leadership, pay elected officials the mean average income of their electorate and execute lobbyists, the vermin of government-for-sale politics.

The Fed and the Banking System

It means you can rig a fixed game, you can justify everything without understanding anything, and that government statistics are largely unrelated to events in the real world.

The Sting of American Capitalism

Words,.........those funny little things that monkey-come-down-from-... tree uses to confuse himself and justify his stupidity.

We are only monkeys
with digital watches
and chemically enhanced crotches
what did you expect?

It's Our Own Fault, Not Theirs

greed is capitalism without regulation..
it's the nature of the beast.
Don't remember the houses with 2 car garages on TV in the 50's that we were shown as the way it should be?

Corporate Lobbying's Influence on the Subprime Crisis

Anarchist,
The idea behind representative government is that the representatives represent the electorate. Somewhere during the 50's or 60's, the word represent was replaced with lead.
The lobbying system is a system designed to defeat representative government and provide a shortcut to non-voting entities. Expecting the government to eliminate lobbying is the same as expecting a prostitute to give up sex.
If lobbying was illegal and legislators were paid the mean average income of their electorate, we might return to representative government.

America's Falling Status: What Are Its Next Steps?

The government has proven that it is not able to effectively regulate airlines or trucking companies. Why should we believe they are competent to manage financial issues? What evidence do we have that they will not continue to line their pockets at our expense? None!
Survival of the fittest produces strong entities, bail out, no repercussion bullshit, such as we are currently fed, strengthens the causes of our problem.
The fact that no legal repercussion has visited those responsible for our problems would seem to indicate our lifeguards can't swim or have a vested interest which exceeds their job description.

Comedy Virus Hits Headline Writers

Does our congress remind you more of the men in Aesops Fable, "The Blind Men and the Elephant" or the participants in building the Tower of Babel?

Bailout Bill Passes; What Happens Now?

If you spend or lend unwisely, it causes problems. If you spend money you don't have, it causes problems. If your legislators are lawyers and whores, not economists, it causes problems. You can talk until blue in the face, use words 50 letters long, but the above principles still apply.
If the electorate swallows this plan it deserves what it gets.

The Bailout Plan Still Has a Fatal Flaw

Additionally, it assumes the media is responsible, independent, and trying to improve the situation. Largely, the media is receptive to those who have caused the problems. Better hunt for another lifeguard.

Don’t Blame Wall Street - At Least Not Completely

Markus, you are too close to the trees to see the forest.

Is This Bailout All Just a Game of Rock, Paper, Scissors?

Seems like we, in our self-proclaimed wisdom, have recreated the scenery from the fall of Rome. An appropriate outcome for those with more dollars than sense and more greed than need.

Protect Main St. First, But Give Away As Little As Possible to Wall St.

Oh, the same buffoons who created this mess can fix it? Sure!

The Bailout Is No Less Than a Threat to the Rule of Law

Having Bush and the Fed attempting to fix this is like having a child molester teaching primary school!