NYtimes, Bailout Talks Advance, but Doubts Voiced in Congress, By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
This American Life Podcast - 'The Global Pool'
Why and where and how did it get to a point where you knew less than us? What was your definition of "contained" when you said it Bernanke? ... and Paulson, you ask for this money now but you think you're going to have a job when the new president comes along? And then what? who rolls out your plan? who is responsible to see it through?
I'm not pretending to know more than I do about the finite details of national and international finance and investments, I don't... but the more I learn about how this has happened, the more helpless and upset I feel.
How could reasonable people delude themselves into thinking they were justified in doing any or all of this? How?
- How could you take advantage and leverage someone's version of the 'American Dream'?
- How did you think you could afford that house with little to no income?
- How could you even offer that type of loan to someone whose income you've just inflated?
- How could you rate those "collateralized debt obligations" on bullshit logic?
HOW?
HOW DID YOU GET THE GUMPTION TO THINK YOU WERE SO FUCKING AMAZING THAT YOU COULD ALL JUSTIFY GETTING SOMETHING FOR NOTHING?
There are limits to how much we can take from each other, right? How am I going to keep faith in working hard and being honest to myself and others around me if all I see is the opposite occurring?
All this on top of a war, on top of higher education costs, costs of living, sub par health care ... don't get me wrong, life keeps on living despite most of this, it will. But most of you are in positions of extreme and unimaginable power. One swoop of a pen, one wave of a vote and you can make or break lives that are living paycheck to paycheck.
It's just disheartening is all.
anyways, whatever ...
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