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wildeyed in NC
Posted by wildeyed in General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010)
Sat May 01st 2010, 07:43 AM
First the economic meltdown and now the oil spill in the gulf. Huge risks taken insanely greedy individuals who left us regular people to take the brunt of the consequences and don't seem to even comprehend what that entails. Or care. I grew up during the Reagan years hearing endlessly about the genius of the free market, about its self-correcting perfection. I never really believed it, but seeing the economic train wreck of the past few years, fueled by greedy individuals running rampant in unregulated markets and now the oil spill in the Gulf, also fueled by greed and a total disregard for potential consequences, I am completely disgusted. It has just been awful people looking for a way to justify their character defects all along. What is crazy is how many people believed them. Drill, baby, drill! Yeah, whatever. I am so tired of paying the price for these people's avarice. They need to be held accountable.
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