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The current crisis was precipitated by the lack of constraints on human greed. As you state, we still have the foxes guarding the chickens. We narrowly missed a global meltdown, and now they are printing money 24 hours a day, to prop up the system. What goes around comes around. Debts are debts, and they must be paid. We have just postponed the inevitable meltdown. The next Wall Street crash will be the Real Thing.
I don't have a clue. Please ask someone more intelligent. I'm just busy hoarding water and Frito Lay products. I have sold all my stocks, bought gold, and I'm moving to a large vegetable patch in the South Pacific.
Synopsis: The corporate culture of US business and US Goverment is one of endemic fraud and crime. It is rotten to the core, because the entire prevailing business psychology is based on "Greed is not only good, it is justified". The system cannot reform itself. There will have to be a complete collapse of the global financial system, and a new system with a new culture of ethics and rules will have to be created.
Well, you gotta a problem, why bother the broad next door, just ask her if you can borrow her dentures to winch open that tap...about da gay dude, juss tell him you got plumbing problems, he'll understand. Get some muscles man, jus now you not gonna be able to shower for a week, cos you can't turn on the tap there either...
Watch it and weep. Mankind will meet his own end one day, just as the dinosaurs did. I hope it's full of suffering and misery. We deserve nothing less.
No, I think they should be stood up along the route to the top, like statues along the Appian way, as a testament to man's stupidity, or insatiable ego for excellence.
"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers."
RE: "The best way to rob a bank, is to own one."
Here's another take on this fascinating story: