Comments on Greed Is Not Good

Where was McCain before the crisis happened but anyone with any basic knowledge of finance and economics KNEW this was going to end up happening? How about some preventive leadership for once instead of fucking crisis management?

McCain is the real populist.

Obama is a shell to protect his wealthy Liberal backers.

So because Wall Street is the villain, he now wants to bail out Wall Street?

Fannie and Freddie's shareholders should be wiped out, the companies should be turned back into wholly public entities.

Obama is the real populist.

McCain is a shell to protect his wealthy Conservative backers.

I don't understand that last sentence. Is it just me?

McCain is the real class warrior, it seems.

Maybe if we encourage people to invest their Social Security funds in the market, it will somehow reform itself.

Maybe we should start the inevitable bailout by seizing assets from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac's executives. They should have enough money between them to start paying for this shit sandwich, huh?

I would have blamed the deregulation that got McCain in trouble with the (cheaper) S&L Crisis he so proudly ripped off American taxpayers for.

But then, I'm not lying for President like he is.

@6 ,the occasional populist or truthful grumble or fart does not a class warrior make.

Don't expect a class warrior to pop out of either party in our two-party (one party?) state. But one party most certainly, consciously stands for sticking it to regular folks again and again and again. (Hint: they're the ones always pointing at the other side and shouting "elitist!")

(Sadly, the other party just wants a little tenderness and lube to be used before the fucking begins.)

ams @5, that sentence took me 3 times to figure out, too. It's the cost of failure, not the cost of bailout, I think is what's being compared.