I'm tempted to indulge myself

Flavius — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 03:07:00 +0000

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I'm tempted to indulge myself in blanket accusations of the Steet even beyond the over the top ones in my blog..A couple of things restrain me.

First, I don't know what I'm talking about. Often true of many of us here. With me prominently in the fore. But in this case I know just enough- to know that I don't know enough .To be intellectuallly respectable a detailed accusation should be based on detailed evidence . Particularly if you claim some expertise which I occasionally do by alluding to the fact I was the CFO of a Fortune 500 company.-

And , in addition, there's a mismatch between the intensity of my reaction and the subject of the blog. I regard the Republican attack on entitlements as a cruel hoax. We know what flat grants look like as a replacement for Medicare. They look like Arizona. Times 50. A country in which the aged will endure pain from treatable diseases which are untreated. And then die of them. Not only am I angry on behalf of those future sufferers But also on behalf of the future reputation of this country which the Ryan plan will lower to the moral level of Papa Doc's Haiti or the Nicaragua where death came to the archbishop on his altar, or Argentina where the nuns thrown into the Atlantic from Helicopters reappeared on Calle Florida as a thigh- slapping cocktail party witticism about "flying nuns"..

So yeah,there's plenty of justification for my fury.But what I'm blogging about here are the crimes of Wall Sreet( if that's not tautological) during the decline and fall of W's administration.And I shouldn't entangle its tawdry sub prime carnival with the emotion prompted by the antics of- at best- an economically challenged mid western congressman.

It is just a damn shame.If

Richard Day — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:10:59 +0000

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It is just a damn shame.

If everybody--every millionaire on Wall Street--was doing it, then everybody should have had their property confiscated and everybody should have done a stint in prison.

So on a scale of blatantly

synchronicity — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:03:20 +0000

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So on a scale of blatantly criminal to operating with high intergrity where exactly are the banks and Wall Street today? I am sure ' very shabby behavior' rates in there somewhere.

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I'm tempted to indulge myself

It is just a damn shame.If

So on a scale of blatantly