How many of you hate having been right?

You were right if for a long time you saw the consolidation, deregulation, Culture of Greed, rampant materialism, concentration of wealth, selling out of the economy and all the rest as heading for disaster. And if you were among those who tried to warn about this very thing happening.

Now those chickens are coming home to roost. And it's a pain in the ass.

:7

:toast: :toast: :toast:

when they rename the WAMU branch here in town.

If they just close it down, I get extra credit.

i hate those bastards

:rofl:

I've posted DU journals about this impending financial disaster, I've spent days embroiled with CU pinheads who called me a hysterical liberal idiot, I've wasted breath trying to convince my mother to buy gold with her inheritance instead of real estate....and boom. Here it is. Everything. Boom.

But not really. Once again, the media knew Bush was fucking the numbers, but it gave Bush a pass. As always.

The media.

Fuck Bush. He's just one cell in the cancer.

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God, what I hate is all those numbnuts... when we TOLD them a couple years ago the recession had ALREADY started and that people were hurting, and it's likely to get REALLY bad this time etc... were claiming we were alarmists -- just "Bush Hating" and "Bush Bashing"...

NOW all of a sudden... they never said that...

Oh... and it's all Clinton's fault. :eyes: :puke:

for fear that if one were to admit the Left's analysis was correct, then the Left's solutions are also correct. This will present a conflict in people that have grown up believing that there was really freedom and democracy in America and that capitalism was good.

and this started with Reagan and was accelerated under the Chimp.

Anybody not seeing this long years in advance was being willfully ignorant. Seeing the mess that has been made took little vision, just open eyes.

and I really don't like suffering when it's too late... :(

Tom Frank warned the people will continue to vote against their best interests out of fear and the Repukes are doing it again, making it seem as though they weren't at the levers of power for the last 8 years at least. They know how to 'win' (or STEAL) elections but they govern worth shit. If people allow their hatred for a black man to influence their decision making, well, this time they get what they deserve. Sadly we have to suffer along with them because of their hatred, fear and stupidity.

sometimes I amaze myself ::oooh :::kisses own hand:::

Bankruptcy, Regulatory and International Joint Ventures so I have had a front row seat for the last couple of years,

What I found most alarming and would bitch about to anybody who would listen was the Enron style compensation that seemed to gain favor everywhere, in which executives were compensated entirely on the immediate transaction and not on its performance. We were consulting on transactions that simply didn't make sense and were driven only by the fact the parties to the transaction would reap huge immediate bonuses on closing the deal even if the whole thing collapsed a year later. This mentality wasn't restricted to investment bankers and CEO's - it went all the way down to the "retail mortgage professionals" who made an unknowable number of bad loans because every loan they made brought in commision even if they gave a $500,000 mortgage to a homeless meth addict.