This time is [not] different, but where's that Wile E. Coyote Moment?

[David Morris]

These rants are tedious, full of unending bombs landing dud.  Your humor is
too selfish, about you.  Otherwise these rants might be bearable.  Lose the
rants, I advise.

David Morris

On Wednesday, December 26, 2012, alice wellintown wrote:

> The Bush S&L crisis, small and limited in the damage it caused once
> set next to the Great Contraction of the late 2000s, is, of course,
> part of the study, as are all the other banking failures on record.
> The boyz do a fine job of explaining how we get into these problems
> and suggest ways of getting out of them, avoiding them, though it
> seems next to impossible to avoid them all together. The typical Left
> reading of these crises is riddled with ignorance and driven  by envy,
> hatred even, of b/gangsters and those who make money the old fashion
> way,  with money, and often finds itselff in bed with Ron Paul
> stupidity and Christian paranoia of cabals... Jews who go to MIT and
> run the Fed and so on... looking for scapegoats, somebody to blame,
> someplace to occupy.   Again, we see Krugman, a Jewish intellectual,
> an MIT and Yale man, like Bernanke, as a great man when he wears his
> academic laurals, but an asshole, quite often, when he wears his
> journalist's dunce cap. He misinforms and plays the buzz language
> games that get his liberals with a conscience all excited about the
> gangsters; he sounds like Ronald Ray-gun, nostalgic for a day when
> folks, in the wordfs of Archy Bunker, pulled their own weight.
>
> > let's see...we had the s&l thingie (thanks, neil bush et al, that george
> > bailey guy really needed putting in his place), casinos everywhere,
> > lotteries everywhere, the tech bubble, the housing bubble, somewhere in
> > there they sold the rights to the freakin' parking meters of chicago, and
> > some toll road, they give tax breaks to move jobs offshore, the
> everlovin'
> > *debt* bubble...what's left?
> >
> > but seriously, those holding US dollars may realize that there is still a
> > certain amount of coolness left in the concepts that animate this
> republic
> > a-and nobody's perfect, so maybe they're betting that it might occur to
> > someone here to actually make their money the old fashioned way and
> "uhhhn
> > it"...
> >
>
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