As I opened my browser to http://www.nytimes.com/, thoughts were running through my head:
- Are my tenants going to lose their jobs and become unable to pay their rent/my mortgage?
- Will I be able to secure funding for the projects that I have slated for the upcoming year?
- Do I still have access to my savings? All of it? The whole $453?
- How f%&ked are we all going to be by this?
- Was China's Olympic display an eery foreshadow of World Domination with the first step being: Bank of China Merrill Lynch?
- Are we all going to have to stop doing bad Chinese accents?
Hey NYT writer - Michael Slackman, I'm sure your article is gripping , but most folks JUST DON'T GIVE A FLYING PYRAMID POOPIE about people in Egypt who don't have the sense to move away from a dangerous area! You don't have to be rich to get out of harm's way.
Anyway, I'm surprised their homes lasted this long. They were built by Jewish and Arab slaves thousands of years ago. It seems to me, as a resident of Tel Aviv, Jews and Arabs are not the best urban planners or construction workers!!!!
Hey there, New York Times, most of the world is really more concerned with how the Bush Administration was too busy playing the game Crusaders-killing-folks-again-in-the-name-of-Jesus-and-Money-Amen to worry about how White Collar America was raping the country to the point of Armageddon.
The photo of those Egyptians' homes falling off a cliff pretty much sizes up the way America is going to look in the next couple of years because of the lack of sharp monitoring of the financial institutions in the United States.
We slapped Michael Milken, Ivan Boesky, Ken Lay into their White Collar Crime Spa-I-mean-prison, and with a wink and a shrug, we allowed Wall Street to intensify its greedy strategies and continuously up the ante.
And, they did up the ante. While Bush was playing Top Gun and declaring victory-uh-well-whatever in Iraq, the majority of taxpaying, American homeowners were being wooed, courted and then violently date-raped by our banks back home and now are paying to save these vile perpetrators.
Seems that at the same time, the then-Mayor of Wasilla, Palin cut funding which forced rape victims to pay for their forensic tests.
I guess that's the Republican response to Rape Victims: You pick up the tab.
Bush has been preaching on and on about the Axis of Evil, yammerin' on about how they hate us for our freedom. The Mid-East increasingly buys our music & TV shows, so they seem to appreciate our culture and free ideas.
They attacked the twin towers in Wall Street. Seems they were making a statement about America's Greed.
I feel like we have been attacked again. And once again, it is on Wall Street. This time, I think it was the rest of that Axis of Evil. We were attacked by the viciously corrupt and greedy partnership of the Bush Dynasty and the today's so-called 'Masters of the Universe'.
It was more devastating because it was an Inside Job.
I just read Roger Cohen's Op-Ed piece The King is Dead. It's cool that Roger was able to apply contemporary lyrics to an ancient sin: Greed.
Mr. Cohen seems bright, which is why I am perplexed. He seems so optimistic, as if this debacle is going to usher in a new, well-structured era. Why? Because a bunch of Ivy League grads are not flocking to Wall Street after graduation?
Given time, that's where they'll end up.
Face it, we didn't learn from our years of Reaganomics, 1989's conviction of Michael Milken, 2001's devastating Enron collapse and 7 years later the collapsing of the America's financial institutions.
Every 5-10 years, Wall Street implodes, explodes, collapses. Meantime, all these Masters of the Universe cry, pout and either get back on that horse again, or some new cowboys ride into town with some fresh angle.
I'm no economist or psychic (same thing, right?), but I'm going to hedge my bets that the next nail in the United States' financial coffin will come from Hedgefunds.
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