brain most if not all the politicians who have come on board after Eisenhower have had no more morals or ethics than prostitutes who carved out their little corner to sell their wares.
The more advanced the world becomes, the greater the risk it imposes. For every action there is a reaction. There is as much bad as good........and sometimes I wonder which is tipping the scale?
We don't live in a democracy, far from it. Plutocracy rather fits the bill.
If we were those bailouts would never have happened, nor the stimulus bill, most all Americans were against them.
AIG committed plain and simple fraud, and most people would view these CDS's to be not even real insurance policies, but more like a gambling bet, and AIG was the Bookie, who played the odds and lost.......$175b came in their front door and went out the back.............$175b!!!!!, but they need $440b.
The odds were in favor of the Hedgies, who shorted the the weakest links, and for those who had their butts leveraged to the side of Mount Everest betting against the avalanche of those who controlled the mountain, lost.........not them, the Amercan people, the taxpayer, and the taxpayer will pay for it all again.
Not those at the top of these finely run establishments, but everyone else, in particular the moms and pops who may have had their pensions, 401k's, tied to these golden boys.
Most Americans could live without Msft, Oracle, the cell phone. Don't we have Apple and IBM, and HP.........
Ellison and Gates could both being buying fleets of ships to help the Sea Shepard save the whales, and this would be help to preserve what the oceans may be empty of..........If they would use that money for something other than up'ing one they could leave legacies they could be proud of. They could be doing "alot" of good things with what they've stashed up for themselves, Buffet to, but they live to serve themselves, its all about money.............I don't fawn over the rich, nor those is power, nor those in Hollywood, or Follywood, nor do I envy them, wherever they are at when they pass thru this world is where they will be.
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