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Originally posted by LessinSF
Exactly. Like when this Serb general was sentenced to 33 years yesterday for "murder, inhumane treatment and overseeing a campaign of terror that indiscriminately lobbed shells and bombs into the city, killing thousands of civilians." http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ory?id=3987187 . My first thought was Dresden and Hiroshima and its too fucking bad we can't exhume Ike to try him for war crimes.
The problem with saying "so?" comes when we want help and have no goodwill or credibility. But I don't mind that we lack in both because I don't want to be the THE country in the world. I welcome our dimishing stature, our devalued currency, our illeteracy, our ignorance masquerading as freedom of religion, our lack of a moral high ground on so many issues, our decreasing life expectancy rank, etc. Let the other 7 of the G-8 try for awhile. Let them be the targets. Let them try to make sense of 6+ billion people caring about nothing but propagating, air conditioning, Wiis, and going to heaven.
The United States has run its course. Sell high and enjoy the proceeds.
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I love reading Alan Greenspan talk about how we have to avoid bubbles in the Journal.
Hey Alan, WTF else do we create any more? Welcome to the United States, where we recreate the Tulip Craze every seven years.
And WTF is Henry Paulson doing talking about the "tragedy" of the mortgage meltdown? Unless you have absolute dog shit between your ears that was the most obvious game of financial musical chairs in years.
We are in a hustlers economy for the long term foreseeable future. Which I think is good. Lets run this Capitalism thing to its crazy lunatic end.
All credit is long term credit today. Wait until the mortgage fallout slams into the credit card companies. That will be astounding. We're still about six months from the leading edge of that calamity.
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