Comments on: Dancing with Jay and Daisy

By: MrWhy

MrWhy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:37:26 +0000

You should get a senator or two to ask a couple of questions. Which nations economies have done the best in the past 18 months? What distinguishes those economies from the US economy? I’m willing to bet that regulation of the banking industry is a key factor.

By: prostratedragon

prostratedragon — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:06:26 +0000

Yes, actually the self-entitled Buchanans are a pretty good model for the blind fools that are going to get marched on in Chicago next week.

Their looks might have been cool and elegant, but not more so than Fitzgerald’s evisceration of their morals.

By: readerOfTeaLeaves

readerOfTeaLeaves — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:45:31 +0000

These fools can’t seem to kill the Golden Goose that has given them such lush lives fast enough, can they?

Amazing to watch them be so oblivious to human nature.
They think the entire nation is going to have amnesia about this stupidity?
I doubt it.

By: dosido

dosido — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:43:40 +0000

For me, this is the most apt quote from the book and applies to the now infamous decade of W.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy–they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money of their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Ch. 9

By: ART45

ART45 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:41:33 +0000

Citizen Norske,

The enemy is not warm and fuzzy. It is is impervious to words. It kills those having real information.

By: dosido

dosido — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:40:43 +0000

I hope y’all have a permit and police on your side before you don any goldplated toilet seats!!! go get ‘em!

By: NorskeFlamethrower

NorskeFlamethrower — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:32:26 +0000

AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Tula Connell and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

It ain’t that complicated, just call for a return to the banking, securities and exchange and financial regulations that existed in 1940 after the completion of the restructuring of the economic regulation system by the New Deal. Call for banks to be banks and shysters to be shysters. Call for rewriting the anti-trust laws and return to the tax rate structure that existed in 1960 at the end of Eisenhower’s last term. Reenact Glass-Steigel and reduce the FICA tax to 5% and take the cap off so that EVERYONE pays. These are all things that can be explained easily and framed as controlling corruption and saving small business and Andremanureship…It ain’t complicated at all as long as you explain it as keepin’ shysters from making somethin’ for nuthin’…frame it as a return to the “good ol’ days” when crooks went to jail instead of to the White House.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, IT AIN’T COMPLICATED…JUST WATCH THE TARGET AND SQUEEZE THE TRIGGER!!

By: foothillsmike

foothillsmike — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:24:34 +0000

Are they going to have guards with tommy guns at the door? It would be great if we could get some video of the festivities. Hey Mike Stark!

By: ART45

ART45 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:22:32 +0000

Too bad the bankers are merely a bloated and ugly reality, not an elegant creation of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

God, how those fucks must laugh at the rest of us.

Blecch.

By: Ruth Calvo

Ruth Calvo — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:10:12 +0000

Roaring is a good idea, those over runs on taxpayer monies just got a bit reversed: if you recall, Daisy was all about runovers.