Going to the old ad hominem attack. Well done boys. That's always the way to win an argument when you have no ammo.

I'm a guy. I don't hit women. I'm nice, etc...

I'm not calling anyone a monster. Which, I've gathered, is how we're supposed to react. Either he's a monster or she's a monster or they're both monsters. Tracy - monster is a strong word. Just look at it. Monster.

I've seen it a million times. Stay out of your lover's phone.

Look. Rihanna deserves some blame. She invaded Brown's private property. (Yes ladies. Just becuase you're sleeping with someone, doesn't automatically mean you're entitled to the contents of their cellphone. As much as you may believe you should be able to search the phone, you don't have the right. Simple. That a violation. Yeah. It doesn't seem fair. I know, you're bumping uglies. You should be able to search the phone. Stop right there. You don't have that right. So when you look through the phone... that's wrong. Get it?! Is it your phone? No?! Then stay out of it.) And she deserves blame for striking Brown. Anyone else see that? She starts beating on him. Bingo - blame.

He deserves blame for beating her. Bingo - blame.

Boom. They both messed up. She messed up by invading privacy and then striking another human being. He messed up for retaliating. Bingo - blame and blame.

I don't think either of them are monsters. They're just foolish talented jealous hot kids.

Stay our of your lover's cell phone.

Great work Andrew. Perfect reaction to DeSantis's letter. I want to take these people by the shoulders and shake them.

"You went to MIT, you could have been an accomplished engineer!! Our country could have enriched you.... and vice versa! Instead, you crafted worthless ether money in a trumped up fake economy and now you're unhappy. Boo-hoo. Well, you know what, Mr. DeSantis? You kinda suck. And I think you'll realize that."

We need Americans to be optimistic that our economy will turn around. We need our consumers to buy some American made things here and there to get us going. A complete freeze on consumption will seal our fate, as we're begining to see.

It's quite a conundrum. We're damned if we spend and damned if we don't.

I trust that everyone read Freidman today? Because that dude needs a government job. I don't care how rewarding hiswriting is... we need his grey matter in Washington.

I hear you. I really understand your argument, in fact, I almost made it in my first post.

But if we fully acknowledge the venomous economy created, we doom ourselves to a massive depression.

Look, image can be everything. Market confidence is a real thing. Bottom line, if we don't have confidence in our system (or our ability to fix it), no one in their right mind would buy our treasury bonds (think China). And once that happens, we're completely f*cked. We literally won't be able to run our government on a day to day basis. Medicare immediately freezes. No social security checks. Can't pay any governement employoees. And all of those initiatives Obama wants to start - well, they won't get off the ground. This refers to what I've called a potential massive depression. So, having some confidence in our system (even if you don't), while recognizing that we need changes, is probably our best path.

Get it?

When you're in a car going off a cliff, you're about to die. I'm not about to die and you're not about to die. 300,000,000 Americans aren't about to die. We're going to live. The question is; how can we maximize the quality of life for Americans while refashioning our economy in a sustainable, ecologically responsible, and productive way?

Which takes us back to my point. We need to exude some confidence in ourselves to fix the economy. Our President sure has that outlook. Do you think Barack is a fool for that stance? If you were him, what would you say at the G20?

I hope I'm totally wrong, and this is just an example of someone having forgotten to carry a 1, rather than a few million people who robbed the entire planet blind.

You aren't wrong. The system was gamed by the the overclass. Our elected officials allowed it to happen. Look back at 1999. Repealing the Glass-Steagall Act, in retrospect, is absolutely criminal, nearly treasonous. The overclass lobbied hard so they could make even more money. Our representatives passed it because it satisfied their biggest donors. And, as we all know, our representatives want to get reelected more than they want to do what is right for the people. They value career over integrity - and it's hard to blame them. (on the other side of that coin are the thousands of civil servants which shave tepped down over the years because they morally can't put up with the bullshit they're asked to do... then those people lose power, and guess who is there to pick up the slack?? a lackey yes-man)

I don't think we can fix the economy without fixing campaign finance. But, with the incredible lack of basic economic knowledge that I've heard from many representatives, I'm not sure if I really have confidence in the system. But, I think we should just fake it till we make it.

$2 trillion dollars of taxpayer dollars to 'fix' this stuff.

$400,000,000 of which went to Citi so they could pay the New York Mets for the naming rights of their new stadium. So, almost half a billion dollars of taxpayer money goes to a failed company to advertise to us - and to pay Carlos Beltran's salary. Which is exactly where I want my cash going when it comes out of my paycheck. I'm sure you all feel the same.

This deal is precisely why Paulsen mandated that these firms don't have to disclose where their bailout money went.

How are there no pitchforks surrounding this one?