Comments on: Shays Lashes Out At Voter Who Is Losing Everything

By: CTBob

CTBob — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:07:25 +0000

Whoops! I just found out about this article, and there is a minor correction. I didn’t shoot the video, and the person who did can’t be identified due to work-related issues. But I agreed to post the video for them. So, while it’s a video on my blog and Youtube account, I didn’t actually shoot or edit it.

I was at the event earlier, but was asked to not tape the debate by Fairfield University staff. So I left, and after the debate this person was allowed to tape Shays in the crowd.

By: cosmosis

cosmosis — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:37:13 +0000

We can’t dump Loserman this year, but HoJoe Junior will be a nice substitute.

By: demi

demi — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:02:13 +0000

Thank you, Norkse.
I don’t know what old means. I’m 56. Some days it feels older than others.
For some reason, I’ve always worn my heart on my sleeve. It hurts easier that way, but it keeps me “feeling”.
We all have our different ways, don’t we?

By: willpowwow

willpowwow — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:52:02 +0000

I just don’t see the issue with this one. Shays doesn’t really seem too annoyed and the out-of-work guy is pretty obnoxious. Generally I agree with what’s said on this site, but this particular incident seems like a big non-event.

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:09:31 +0000

Not even close to thinking. I used to say that the powers-that-be at my firm got up every morning, but on a blindfold and proceded to do what they did the day before. That works fine as long as the market is going up and allows them to confuse brains with a bull market. But it completely messes up at every downturn. But, as a former boss of mine said: That’s what layoffs are for.

So “think.” Nope.

I realized after I left the Street that it wasn’t just the firm I was at, but every Wall St. firm.

By: mui1

mui1 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:06:55 +0000

University students don’t think? How about finance folks, eh?

By: Elliott

Elliott — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:06:14 +0000

Eli’s upstairs
Not-Joe The Not-Plumber: More Representative Than We Think

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:04:27 +0000

One pundit, can’t remember who, recently said that the presentation was all baloney and the only reason anyone believed it was because Powell put his reputation (such as it is) behind it. That’s certainly how it appeared to me. There was no objective evidence of anything in that presentation.

As for university students, most of them don’t think. They just study to get the necessary grades. So not surprised that they would accept anything an authority (like a college prof or Sec of State) says.

By: mui1

mui1 — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:00:12 +0000

I’ll do you one scarier. I was at a university dining hall. And other students were watching that Powell presentation on a big screen without a single raised eyebrow that I could detect.

By: nomolos

nomolos — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:59:42 +0000

What the hell do economists know about the finance industry everyone knows that politicians know the best things to do to in a financial crisis, well politicians and Goldman Sachs wackos.

Shays is another politician that is so bloody arrogant that he gets pissed when people question him.