Comments on: Let Them Eat Pedicures http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:38:28 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: DWBartoo http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675811 DWBartoo Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:41:56 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675811 <p>If our nation has been made less in the eyes of the rest of the world, then it falls to us to repair such damage and to re-establish ourselves as true citizens of the world, that we squander neither opportunity nor time.</p> <p>While our circumstances have been deliberately made as appalling as could be ‘managed’ and are, as yet, not fully grasped, in their totality, by either our imagination or our conscience, we may be certain that what we have endured (and have forced others to endure) has not been lost upon our understanding.</p> <p>We will cilmb out of the abyss into the light, only if we have learned and understood that it is the responsibility of each of us, individually, to see that never again do we permit or allow (or ignore) the ‘philosophies’ which have run rampant amongst us these past years to ever again find lodging in our hearts or in our institutions.</p> <p>It will not be an easy task, as the siren call of easy money and no meaninful obligations of responsibility or rectitude ALWAYS appeal to the sensibilities of the sociopathic and crimminally greedy.</p> <p>Greed is not good!</p> <p>Among the ‘lessons’ of our recent history that must rank among the most important</p> <p>Greed destroys.</p> <p>It destroys the social contract and it destroys reasosn, deceny and the capacity of the human soul to care, to cherish and to understand the awe of existence itself.</p> If our nation has been made less in the eyes of the rest of the world, then it falls to us to repair such damage and to re-establish ourselves as true citizens of the world, that we squander neither opportunity nor time.

While our circumstances have been deliberately made as appalling as could be ‘managed’ and are, as yet, not fully grasped, in their totality, by either our imagination or our conscience, we may be certain that what we have endured (and have forced others to endure) has not been lost upon our understanding.

We will cilmb out of the abyss into the light, only if we have learned and understood that it is the responsibility of each of us, individually, to see that never again do we permit or allow (or ignore) the ‘philosophies’ which have run rampant amongst us these past years to ever again find lodging in our hearts or in our institutions.

It will not be an easy task, as the siren call of easy money and no meaninful obligations of responsibility or rectitude ALWAYS appeal to the sensibilities of the sociopathic and crimminally greedy.

Greed is not good!

Among the ‘lessons’ of our recent history that must rank among the most important

Greed destroys.

It destroys the social contract and it destroys reasosn, deceny and the capacity of the human soul to care, to cherish and to understand the awe of existence itself.

]]> By: DWBartoo http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675809 DWBartoo Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:21:18 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675809 <p>Regardless of the gyrations of the ‘market’, and despite the attempt of certain of the Political Class to bring this nation to its knees, that it might be “drowned in a bathtub”, despite the depredations deliberately set upon ‘the people’, including a war whose primary purpose was to enrich certain elements of society at the cost and burden of the rest of society, and a tax-structure specifically designed to enrich an already obscenely wealthy percentage, a criminally tiny percentage, of the populace who have power far beyond anything reasonable or just, to force their economic world-view on everyone else … despite all these assaults upon reason and humanity, certain truths remain,</p> <p>After the dust ’settles’, after the madness subsides, we will All still be here, facing the same problems and difficulties we have been facing for decades.</p> <p>In spite of what has cynically been perpetrated in our name and in the name of our battered nation and its guiding trinciples, neither we, the people, nor those principles have been diminished or made less.</p> Regardless of the gyrations of the ‘market’, and despite the attempt of certain of the Political Class to bring this nation to its knees, that it might be “drowned in a bathtub”, despite the depredations deliberately set upon ‘the people’, including a war whose primary purpose was to enrich certain elements of society at the cost and burden of the rest of society, and a tax-structure specifically designed to enrich an already obscenely wealthy percentage, a criminally tiny percentage, of the populace who have power far beyond anything reasonable or just, to force their economic world-view on everyone else … despite all these assaults upon reason and humanity, certain truths remain,

After the dust ’settles’, after the madness subsides, we will All still be here, facing the same problems and difficulties we have been facing for decades.

In spite of what has cynically been perpetrated in our name and in the name of our battered nation and its guiding trinciples, neither we, the people, nor those principles have been diminished or made less.

]]> By: DWBartoo http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675806 DWBartoo Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:04:10 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675806 <p>We, ‘the people’ have tolerated, for too long, the destructive, self-serving behaviors of the Political Class, those who have NOT fulfilled their obligation, a sacred obligation in a ‘representative’ democracy, of serving the real interests of ‘the people’, by recognizing and addressing the real and genuine needs of ‘the people’.</p> <p>A sacred trust has been broken and the Political Class, now, has nowhere to hide, no means of obsfuscating the truth, and NO claim to the patience, the tolerance or the forebearance of ‘the people’ and the nation whom they have betrayed.</p> We, ‘the people’ have tolerated, for too long, the destructive, self-serving behaviors of the Political Class, those who have NOT fulfilled their obligation, a sacred obligation in a ‘representative’ democracy, of serving the real interests of ‘the people’, by recognizing and addressing the real and genuine needs of ‘the people’.

A sacred trust has been broken and the Political Class, now, has nowhere to hide, no means of obsfuscating the truth, and NO claim to the patience, the tolerance or the forebearance of ‘the people’ and the nation whom they have betrayed.

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675805 SouthernDragon Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:53:27 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675805 <p>Just another trap the moronic Dems fell for. I think the only reason the Rethugs voted against the bailout was due to the all the junk the Senate threw into the bill to get our stoooopid Dems to vote for it. And they did.</p> Just another trap the moronic Dems fell for. I think the only reason the Rethugs voted against the bailout was due to the all the junk the Senate threw into the bill to get our stoooopid Dems to vote for it. And they did.

]]> By: bobschacht http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675804 bobschacht Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:46:13 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675804 <p>Do the Republicans come out better on this? A majority of them voted against this bailout for bankers. A majority of Democrats were too afraid to “Just say no!”</p> <p>Bob in HI</p> Do the Republicans come out better on this? A majority of them voted against this bailout for bankers. A majority of Democrats were too afraid to “Just say no!”

Bob in HI

]]> By: Mauimom http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675803 Mauimom Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:38:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675803 <p>In addition to the “loans,” why didn’t the Treasury/Congress/whoever insist on provisions that would have prevented incidents like former AIG CEO Hank Greenburg selling $18 mill of AIG stock. He did this <strong>after</strong> the cash infusion, since that, of course, drove the stock price up & thus Mr. Greenburg’s profits higher.</p> <p>How stupid are these bailout negotiators that they don’t grab these sort of rip-offs and put them into the taxpayers’ account?</p> <p>Oh, right: Paulson.</p> In addition to the “loans,” why didn’t the Treasury/Congress/whoever insist on provisions that would have prevented incidents like former AIG CEO Hank Greenburg selling $18 mill of AIG stock. He did this after the cash infusion, since that, of course, drove the stock price up & thus Mr. Greenburg’s profits higher.

How stupid are these bailout negotiators that they don’t grab these sort of rip-offs and put them into the taxpayers’ account?

Oh, right: Paulson.

]]> By: foothillsmike http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675802 foothillsmike Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:36:38 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675802 <p>Also could talk about his cowardice<br /><a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081007_investigating_john_mccains_tragedy_at_sea/" rel="nofollow">http://www.truthdig.com/report.....dy_at_sea/</a><br /> And then we could talk about his close connections with numerous felons including but not limited to James Helmsley, Chas Keating, G. Gordon Liddy (the nazi sympathizer)etc</p> Also could talk about his cowardice
http://www.truthdig.com/report…..dy_at_sea/
And then we could talk about his close connections with numerous felons including but not limited to James Helmsley, Chas Keating, G. Gordon Liddy (the nazi sympathizer)etc

]]> By: LS http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675801 LS Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:34:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675801 <p>Demand the resignation of Bush, Cheney, and Paulson.</p> Demand the resignation of Bush, Cheney, and Paulson.

]]> By: SouthernDragon http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675800 SouthernDragon Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:32:55 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675800 <p>The Dow is down 679 points. Whaddya gonna do now, Paulson? Get legislation passed that in future all income taxes will be paid directly to Wall Street, care of you? </p> <p>Hey, Paulson!! Yeah, you, skinhead. Suck on this.</p> The Dow is down 679 points. Whaddya gonna do now, Paulson? Get legislation passed that in future all income taxes will be paid directly to Wall Street, care of you?

Hey, Paulson!! Yeah, you, skinhead. Suck on this.

]]> By: siri http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675799 siri Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:30:09 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/10/09/let-them-eat-pedicures/#comment-1675799 <p>HEAL the skin wound, loose that nail!<br /> You’ll be fine…..<br /> you’ll be fine.</p> <p>WHO CANNOT UNDERSTAND THIS?<br /> Dow just closed unbelievably low.<br /> We’re OUT OF MONEY, thanks to georgieboy.<br /> well,<br /> a good thing is this<br /> we’re shed of the Bush’s for maybe forever, or at the least QUITE some time.<br /> goood Lawwwwwd!</p> HEAL the skin wound, loose that nail!
You’ll be fine…..
you’ll be fine.

WHO CANNOT UNDERSTAND THIS?
Dow just closed unbelievably low.
We’re OUT OF MONEY, thanks to georgieboy.
well,
a good thing is this
we’re shed of the Bush’s for maybe forever, or at the least QUITE some time.
goood Lawwwwwd!

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