Trillions in personal wealth flushed down the toilet and this is all Ayn Rand acolyte Alan Greenspan can offer. And he was treated like a god at the Fed.There are no gods and there are no devils. There are no pure ideologies that work. There ARE ideas that need consideration and discussion and analysis and testing, and usually a lot of work. Every time this country yields its own power and skepticism to some guru, it gets soundly fucked. We don't need pedestals and saints--we need citizens who think!
That's why I'm feeling so sour today. We're living in a nation of zombies.
Greenspan was a free market fanatic who was massively wrong. But he and all the people in all the circles he travels in (with wife Andrea Mitchell of NBC News) will still have their wealth, their shields and bodyguards from the rabble, and will suffer no consequences of their incompetence and/or theft.
As for the rest of us? Let 'em buy Sarah Palin's second-hand Nieman-Marcus rags.
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If it weren't so sad, I would have thought Greenspan's remarks to Congress were from an SNL skit, or something: "See, I thought capitalists were, you know, really *nice* people who, you know, aren't in it for *the money." Wait...isn't that the definition of a capitalist???? Am I missing something here??????
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