Posted on 10/13/2010 6:35:54 AM PDT by Sakity Yaks
If you haven't been humming tunes from "Les Misérables," you haven't seen "Inside Job," the new documentary about how our economic crisis evolved.
The most forgiving American will want to seize a pitchfork and march on Wall Street. Or Harvard Square. Or in front of the White House. There are so many despicable parties, it's hard to pick a favorite. Is it time to reconsider the Axis of Evil?
The film, written and directed by Charles Ferguson (and narrated by Matt Damon), will be opening in select cities this week. Although much of the story is familiar, Ferguson manages to weave together decades of bits and pieces into a dramatic narrative that plays like a whodunit. Names have faces, and storytelling combined with graphic illustrations helps explain the complex series of events that led to the global meltdown. Here are a few takeaways:
One, trying to assign blame to either Democrats or Republicans is pointless. Everyone is culpable. From the early 1980s, when Ronald Reagan deregulated banks, through the two Bushes, Bill Clinton and now Barack Obama, each administration has endorsed -- and each Congress has helped tweak -- laws and rules that made systemic abuses and the meltdown not only possible but, looking back, inevitable....
I'm not one to advance class warfare, and most Americans still want to preserve a market system that leaves open the possibility that they, too, can work hard and achieve wealth. But it's clear from "Inside Job" that the game has been rigged so that only a few were in positions to get rich at the expense of the middle class, not just here but globally....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Since it's being recommended by a conservative columnist, I would assume that it leans in favor of protecting the free market from this sort of corruption.
I think the democrats purposely may have tanked the economy to help ensure a democrat would be elected after Bush, since they knew the liberal judges on the Supreme Court couldn’t hold on much longer. You see liberals can never allow abortion to be made illegal, because if it is then they will be portrayed by history as the ones who butchered over 100 million babies, which would make them 10 times more disgusting than the Nazi’s which only killed 8 million jews.
Yep -- the crooks are very good at ginning up a "let's you and him fight" distraction while they get away scot free.
A documentary of the Rinocratic Oligarchy. Their little present to the country.
The last four presidents have been Ivy Leaguers.
That works.
Kathleen Parker conservative?--and Ferguson and Damon are too? Now that's funny.
“Damn their warnings, damn their lies;
They will see a people rise!”
“Drink with me, to days gone by;
Sing with me, the songs we knew...”
“Do you hear the people sing,
Singing the songs of angry men?
It is the music of a people
Who will not be slaves again.
When the beating of your heart
Echoes the beating of the drum,
There’s a new life about to start
When tomorrow comes!
Will you join in our crusade?
Who will be strong and stand with me?
Beyond the (present day) there is a world you long to see.
So join in the fight that will give you the right
To be free!”
Well over a billion before it was over.
Narrated by Matt Damon. Enough said.
Narrated by Matt Damon means I’m won’t be wasting my money seeing it.
Are you referring to the money market money? Here is a link, but I’m not sure if it is the article I am thinking of. Rep Paul Kan(jorski?) talked about it somewhere... $500 Billion, IIRC? Taken out in short time period.
I share your take on this. Soros perpetrated an ‘October Surprise’ one month early.
Thanks, folks — that’s what I was trying to remember.
I know it had Bush and his admin scrambling, and I’m amazed it’s never even mentioned these days. At the time, I remember the speculation it was a major contributor to the overall collapse.
Well, that would explain why it’s never been mentioned again! ;-)
What we are trying to live through is the DIRECT result of image over substance. Today's stock market continues to reflect this trend - it goes up when manipulative polices are announced. Polices that will not change anything just continue to repair the house of cards that passes for the American home building industry.
Thirty odd years ago I was put in charge of a real hodgepodge of a management program - designed to support 40 people now supporting almost 400. My final solution was to step back and let the entire thing crash so I could see what was salvageable and what wasn't.
Until we are able to spend our limited time to determine what works and doesn't instead spending all of our time keeping the balls in the air we will never get anywhere and our kids and grandkids will suffer.
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