Comments on: SOME CUTESY OBSERVATIONS ON THE COMING APOCALYPSE

By: jambrowski

jambrowski — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:38:23 +0000

“Anyone who thinks they have all the answers – can say definitively how we have arrived at our current crisis and whose fault it is – is an arrogant prick. I would prefer a little humility rather than the swaggering braggadocio of morons like you.”

bingo or in a few less words

He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson

there are so many complicating issues and areas of ambiguity that it will never really be possible to truly lay the blame on individuals, but groups can be held responsible, and the congress, senate, and POTUS know they are in the collective blame for just letting it ride without oversight…
hang’em and hang’em high.

By: still liberal

still liberal — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:16:30 +0000

How’s the right wing hard on for privatizing Social Security going? Has it been four hours? Do we need to call the doctor?

By: aric

aric — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:00:32 +0000

Commenter #17 wins the “Blame this mess on the Democrats contest”…going all the way back to Carter? Also, I hear those poor bankers had guns held to their heads when signing the loan papers for poor people.

By: Neo

Neo — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:22:54 +0000

There is actually a change that the Resolution Trust Corp. that is to be setup by this pending “deal” will in fact not only not cost the taxpayers any money, but could make a profit.

If there is a profit .. how many fathers will this deal have then ?

By: Mark30339

Mark30339 — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:19:22 +0000

So is this the Luddite stage of denial? Is Rick smugly celebrating his uninformed state and refusing to advance? Is learning just too far above this blogger’s pay grade? Snap out of it and educate yourself! Start with Robert Samuelson on Dennis Pragger at http://townhall.edgeboss.net/download/townhall/audio/mp3/16daed24-c830-4f42-bb17-ddc85c67e9a6.mp3 (fast forward a bit until you get to the interview)

I am as well informed as reading dozens of articles from excellent authors like Prager and Samuelson can make me. I have no claim to expertise beyond that. And unless you’ve worked for the Fed or the Treasury in some capacity that would make you privy to information beyond what has been in the MSM, shut the fuck up and stop lecturing.

Anyone who thinks they have all the answers - can say definitively how we have arrived at our current crisis and whose fault it is - is an arrogant prick. I would prefer a little humility rather than the swaggering braggadocio of morons like you.

ed.

By: RHJunior

RHJunior — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:47:16 +0000

Blaming the corporations for the subprime loan disaster is like blaming the flies on the corpse for murder. It was not businessmen or banks that wanted loans to be given to poor-risk borrowers. It was the Democrats during the Carter Administration. THEY were the ones that passed the laws REQUIRING banks to give loans to “lower income” demographics and to distribute loans according to ethnic diversity standards.
The banks and investors and corporations were stuck with that dead, rotting fish, and they had two choices: sell it off as fast as possible, or leave the rotting corpse sitting in their office, stinking up their business.

By: funny man

funny man — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:40:34 +0000

Had to laugh cause I for one am guilty of throwing ’socialism a la Bush’ around. There are indeed comic aspects to all this e.g. CEOs proclaiming they also had no idea of what kind of schemes they had endeavored in. IMHO, there are no hardened battle lines because there is general bipartisan confusion of what to do next. Makes me think maybe it won’t make much difference who wins the election cause neither one will have anything to spend. If it is a party on the Titanic let’s at least have some fun!

By: Michael B.

Michael B. — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:30:12 +0000

Quantum mechanics repair quantums. An important, underappreciated job that someone must do.

I thought they worked on Australian jets.

BTW, Rick, that music was AWESOME (my give-a-damn’s busted)!

By: Dude

Dude — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:43:12 +0000

Quantum mechanics repair quantums. An important, underappreciated job that someone must do.

And a messy job, too. I’ve already contacted Mike Rowe.

By: Wramblin' Wreck

Wramblin' Wreck — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:04:49 +0000

Just one note to add to this great article.

Quantum mechanics repair quantums. An important, underappreciated job that someone must do.