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

[Paul Mackin]

On 12/26/2012 10:15 PM, David Morris wrote:
> 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.

Alice does like to fun us.  She's a scamp, naughty girl.

P


>
> 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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