tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post438494941100295132..comments2024-03-25T16:03:36.810-07:00Comments on The Existentialist Cowboy: Right-thinking among righteous angerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04598093941551759917noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-21466927850054278632009-03-17T20:47:00.000-07:002009-03-17T20:47:00.000-07:00Let them fail, the market find it's own level and ...Let them fail, the market find it's own level and give these financial institutions a REAL stress test. If they can pay bonus' after a bailout (major mistake) let then stand on their own two feet. there are trillions in toxic loans still in the pipeline.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-5202362115023991942009-03-17T15:47:00.000-07:002009-03-17T15:47:00.000-07:00For what it's worth, they should have let all the ...For what it's worth, they should have let all the banks collapse back in 07-08. The bankers deliberately blew up the bubble because they knew their political cronies (insert relevant country's 'left' and 'right parties here) would give the people the bill when it burst.AdamShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08217603013523768701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-30645864627739315812009-03-17T09:09:00.000-07:002009-03-17T09:09:00.000-07:00The notion of taxpayers having any say in how mone...The notion of taxpayers having any say in how money is spent is about as quaint as the Geneva Conventions of the United States Constitution, dont'cha know?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19580203.post-71028941081890022062009-03-16T12:41:00.000-07:002009-03-16T12:41:00.000-07:00Consider too that this comes on the heels of a go...Consider too that this comes on the heels of a government who for eight long years has reduced corporate taxes and tried their damnedest to eliminate estate and capital gains taxes altogether. Now these bailouts mean that tax rates for these gigantic companies have been effectively LESS than zero for some time.<BR/><BR/>I should think that a modicum of righteous anger is way overdue.<BR/><BR/>"<B>HOPE has two children. <BR/>The first is ANGER <BR/>at the way things are. <BR/>The second is COURAGE <BR/>to DO SOMETHING about it.</B>"<BR/> -- St. Augustine --SadButTruehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977090207448656065noreply@blogger.com