The sad thing is, he can't seem to find a mirror into which he can look to find any of them (strange that this is the case in the life of an entertainer). So, since no mirrors are available, all he can see to blame is everybody else.

Didn't your parents teach you not to do this? Mine did. I taught my children the same.

When things aren't going well in your life, the FIRST place you need to look is at yourself to see what role you have had in the way things are going. You may find that you still agree with your choices, even though they've turned out badly, in which case, they were your choices and you don't get to blame anyone else for the results.

You may find that you've been a fool and decide to change the direction of your life or change how you make choices.

You may find that you can't stop being a fool and need coaching or skilled help to assist you in breaking out of the foolish behavioral/psychological scripts you're locked into.

If you don't start with yourself, nothing much will change because you have almost no control over other people, no matter how much you'd like to blame them for your problems. (Of course if those other people are criminals or confidence artists, that changes the equation a bit, but not completely).

have used every trick in the book, legal or not, to strip cash out of well-funded corporate pension plans, dumping the deficits created on the taxpayers, thereafter summarily wiping out "contractual obligations" for the workers of those countries - contracted wages, pension benefits, health care for existing retirees, etc., all to the loud cheering and stomping of Wall Street and the investment bankers.

Surely we can find a way for these Wonderful Wizards of Wall Street Wealth to discover, by personal experience, how amazing and educational it is to be on the other side of what they've forced on so many workers in these good old United States of America. Surely it would be good and just, for once, if the sword could "cut both ways," especially if we could find a way to start at the top.

Are still defending him as if he really hadn't been the prototype for the Emperor in the Star Wars movies? Geeze, do they think he's going to pop up out of the woodwork and literally take their breath away or shoot lightning out of his fingertips if every one in every room in Washington doesn't continue to show obeisance?!!

We've all long since noticed the evil little man who was behind the curtain during the Bushco years. How can these sad little pipsqueaks of the press still be impressed with their has-been Wizardry?!!

The Mindless Minions of the Mainstream Media only continue to render themselves less and less relevant, in effect, singing their own swan song (and completely unable to realize it).

Perhaps a survey of those who watched would be illustrative. I can't help but suspect that a fair number were the equivalent of straight people going to gay clubs to watch drag shows... It's not that they like seeing men playing female characters, but they just had to see it and couldn't take their eyes off it once it started.

The difference being that straight people watching drag shows come to enjoy and appreciate they artistry of the performers whereas Beck really is nothing but a freak show.

Wall Street and the financial institutions lobbied for and accomplished the shift from traditional pensions to 401k plans precisely because they knew the public could be easily manipulated and the fees they would make off convincing regular folks to participate in their constant churning of the market and managing those 401k plans would be astronomical.

They knew they could take John and Joan Q. Public for quite a breathtaking ride, soak up a massive amount of money out of their retirement funds, money they would never have made if those funds were in traditionally-managed pensions.

Their attempt to move Social Security into the market was for precisely the same reason - to pad their own pockets by forcing virtually the entire nation to invest with them and keeping the already massively overinflated bubble inflated a bit longer.

This was all done quite deliberately, with a real sense of purpose and resulted in a huge shift of resources from the middle class to those with the most.

Meanwhile, they got so used to being able to do this with no questions asked, and so intoxicated with their ability to pursue ever greater, ever-more-highly leveraged risk and never take a loss, that they forgot the old adage... what goes up, must come down.

Now we're all going to be stuck, together with our great-great-great grandchildren, paying off the borrowed money required to fill the massive hole that Wall Street and the investment banking system have created.

Perhaps for the future, we need to write the New Deal banking regulations into the constitution as amendments and require repeal of those amendments in order to change those rules.

Finally, I don't care how much money you were able to lock in before this all came crashing down, the fact is, it never was and never has been your money. You didn't make it by doing anything that proved to be worthwhile to the rest of society. You extracted it by legal-but-dishonest means. You should be taxed retroactively (like the AIG traders may be) to do as much to fill up the hole you helped dig as you gained by gaming the system in ways that created that hole.