The day is gone when a man was valued for his character and values.

Now the only thing people care about is how much money does he have in his wallet.

And nobody cares where it came from (whether from selling drugs, kiddie porn) as long as they have it.

Corporations long ago passed the point where the costs of goods was directly related to the costs of producing those goods ..... the mergers that created oligopolies while the impotent FTC stood by gave us the twin evils of market control and control of the politicians who are supposed to represent the people.

I am personally familiar with the pharmaceutical companies lying, theiving, corrupting ways.

Are you surprised that there are corrupt mortgage brokers everywhere, corrupt lawyers, corrupt bankers, corrupt "bundlers", corrupt congressmen, corrupt auto mechanics, etc. etc.?

So it is in a culture where materialism is king and mammon is god.

When this country collapses, it won't be because a bunch of snake oil salesmen dressed in $5000.00 suits ran off with the money, it will be because the american people have become so devoid of principles and values themselves, that they can no longer even muster outrage when corruption is paraded before their eyes each and every day.

Sadly, most americans don't care about the welfare of their next door neighbor ....... let alone some stranger from a foreign land.

We've come a long way baby!

The sky is falling ...... the sky is falling ...... it took over 20 years to get to this sorry ass state and now something has to be done in a few days ???

Can the Congress still be that stupid, gullible and cowardly ???

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"We cannot impose punitive measures on the institutions that choose to sell assets. That would eliminate or strongly reduce participation and cause the program to fail?"

Who the fuck is "we" in this statement ?.....it should mean the public who will paying for this scam but it means Paulson, Bernanke and their Wall Street friends (the ones they play golf with, party with and pass on inside info to) .....

Yes, "we", the elite a few telling the many how we are going to rob you once again to enrich our friends.

Screw them ...... if they don't want to participate, let the program fail.

By the way, does anyone know if Paulson still owns any Goldman Sachs stock ?...... my information was that he had sold it.

A short and sweet anlysis of the whole scam in a nutshell!

You done good ...

I work in healthcare .....

Medical bills are the primary cause of bankruptcies in people over 45 years of age .....

We have spent enough money in Iraq to provide healthcare to all americans for years ....

Ah, no, we can't "nationalize" healthcare .... that's socialism ...... (no that's putting restraints on the robber barons of the insurance and pharmaceutical companies that every other industrialized country has already done) .....

We can't do something with taxpayers money that would actually make the lives of taxpayers better .....

But we can nationalize the debt of a bunch of billionaires that belong to the same good ole boys club that Paulson and Bernanke belong to .....

When are the people of this country going to wake up and revolt ?????

RE : Woody

Perhaps he was just at the right place at the right time (like Bill Gates) for Watergate ....

Then he got successful and lazy .....

Is there no one left in this country who has a sense of propriety? People know right from wrong but how cheaply they sell their own selves.

These people have committed grave crimes against the welfare of the people.

And all for money ....... they have no values or principles and believe in nothing else.

We will fill their coffins with cash so they can take it with them.

Kill them ........ kill them all.

The sky is falling and all is well.

Yes, they were all just trying to make a living.

Then take them to Gitmo and waterboard them till they confess to being undercover terrorists.

Of no significance whatsoever .....

The chinese perhaps ????

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The market is unpredictable. You cannot refute that fact.

But the people who created this mess are predictable ...... they're greedy

How about this quote ....

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Denis Diderot