Look, take exception to the source, if you want. But read it. Then this.
Then download the report itself. Just Google: Wall Street and the Financial Crisis: Anatomy of a Financial Collapse. It was written by a bipartisan Senate committee.
Okay, you don't have to read all 650 pages of that. But download it anyway, so that when someone spouts off that it's just Rolling Stone or The New York Times, you can prove it is far more than that.
Lloyd Blankfein and Daniel Sparks and David Viniar and Thomas Montag should be given their day in court. If 12 of their peers determine they should go free, that's fine, then free they should be. But America needs them to stand trial.
Do this despite your temptation to give in to causistry, your desire to bury outrage by pretending 'it's impossible to know" and "in whose opinion?" Or worse, "It's just too hard."
C'mon, get off your ass and be an informed citizen, just like Thomas Jefferson said. That does not mean Fox News. There is such a thing as truth. Do what you need to do to learn what that is in the "market place of ideas." It's your job as a citizen, and you have been underemployed for too long.
Read it, do a little more digging, and form your own opinion. Then do something. But don't ignore it. You have ignored it for too damn long, and look where we are today because of that.
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This is a cute little clip. Think you might enjoy it. The Flea Baggers ought to watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY8LKII_MNA
Thanks. Educational and entertaining. Though your presenter selected facts to make his case ... just as I do.
But I wonder if we really disagree, if our perspectives are really incompatible.
If I agree that we can't just tax our way out of this mess, will you agree to limit campaign contributions to $50 per breathing citizen?
If I agree to cuts in education, will you agree to cuts to the military?
If I agree that all felony-free Americans can carry as many guns as they can lug around, will you agree to put the leaders of Goldman Sachs in jail?
Hey, I am willing to compromise, here.
~Eye
Absolutely... Yes, yes, and yes. Pull us out of Afghanistan and Libya. Don't cut education. Limit campaign contributions. If the leaders of Goldman, or B of A, or anything else have broken the law, arrest them, give them a fair trial, and jail them. And let people, law abiding people, carry all the f-ing guns they want. Hey, maybe they should even register them.
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