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Is it really, really you, comrad Mao?
You are not some kidder, please.
I am grandson of one of those peasants who carried you up and down the mountains during the "wong march" which you got to get carried up and down all of those mountains my poor grandfather had to help carrying you up and down and up and down, in your litter, comrade Mao. My poor grandfather had to run away, so I must apologize for him, because he had a falling out with your number one chef who used to prepare all those tasty morsels made from the pigs stole from the evil rich peasants. Is it true what you had happen to enemies of the people who could not fathom your greatness, comrade Mao? Did you really enjoy hearing of their abject screams as they confessed their bourgeois tendencies before the coup de grass, Oh Great Mao?
He (Dershbag Loser) suffers from anti social personality disorder we experience in some underachieving peoples of Jewish ancestry. It is more common than one would like to think, unfortunately.
In the 50's it was called the persecution complex by none other than the late great Siggy Freud. There was, is, and unfortunately always will be a subclass of Jewish underachievers.
Failures, just plain failures, no less.
Some of them can just accept it. They just shrug their shoulders a lot when it's obvious they are not a mensch like Jacob Milgrom or Ellie Weisel or Jackie Mason or Seinfeld even.
Unlike Mel Brooks, Gilda Radner, Sandy Koufax, Buddy Rich, and Woody Allen, some Jews never amount to much. They don't even get into a decent med school or law school. They don't even get to be a big time crook like Bugsy Siegel. They are just what some call "schlepers," "nudniks," or "schmucks."
I don't think it is such a bad thing that some Jews don't amount to much. They can't all be Arturo Rubenstien or Albert Einstein, you know.
So what happens to the poor soul who resents this and cannot deal with being a Jewish failure, when, in the world of the goyim, he is just another guy, as good or bad as anybody else? He can kick start a mortorcycle and smoke a joint just as good as anybody else. Who says he's gotta be a billionaire motorcyclist like Sam Zell? Who says he's even got to have a job, let alone a career?
Why bother, when he can spend all day and all night here on stalin.com fighting his demons and denouncing Jews and Zionists? So, who needs to make a living when living can just be self hating Jew, already?
I did serve this country which is my country real well, M00sey.
My own Jewish father served the USA in the Pacific, and my Jewish step dad served us in Europe.
If it were not for them and many like them, I would have been murdered and you would not have been born, you sick, little schmuck.
So have another grin. The drinks are on us, little schmuck. You get to grin and spew your stink thanks to us.
It's a great country, ain't it?
You are right, dear sir.
We Americans are very fortunate, and we are too spoiled to count our blessings, deal with our relatively minor adversities, and get on with it.
Whatever you fine Indians do, do not become effete liberals, like the denizens of this here saloon, stalin.com, sir.
You will prosper if you continue to work so hard and maintain your great values.
JaiGuruDev
Our crisis is the result of our government's insistence that our banking system distort its normal, prudent mortgage lending policies.
Reduced lending standards were forced on the mortgage lenders. Banks were threatened. Their charters and insurance would be revoked unless they gave out mortgages to folks who couldn't afford to pay for them.
Of course no one could grasp the size of the ensuing bubble.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Or is it paved by corrupt politicians who made Franklin Raines a centi-millionaire, running a kind of Ponzi Scheme called Fannie Mae?
I know most of the people here, Mr. Map included, wish to change the facts to fit their progressive narrative. It is inconvenient to remember that Barney Frank, Christopher Dodd et all their wonderful fellow progressives went to bat whenever the conservative press or conservatives in Congress tried to rein in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Each of these GSE house of cards had about a dozen ex lobbyist staffers (like Jamie Gorelick), each pulling down about a million bucks a year.
Politics rule economics and economics rule the world. When politicians decide who gets credit, credit becomes free money, especially for all of those who cannot afford to pay it back.
Do these politicians care? Not a chance, as long as people are stupid enough to believe that this crisis was caused by laissez faire capitalism and not their lust for power.