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Originally posted by cgiles:
Hammer, I've lived in this country all my life. I was born here, raised here, educated here, raised a family here, and will probably be buried here. I DID NOT MISS THE POINT. With all the hostility towards Obama (whose biggest crime seems to be his middle name) on these threads, where is the outrage towards Bernie Madoff? Maybe it's time to face the truth not only about ourselves but about where America still is regarding social attitudes.

BTW, I realize that the attitudes expressed here are basically the attitudes of 'old men', men whose attitudes were shaped by the social mores of the 40's, 50's, 60's, and even the 70's. Hopefully, when this population dies off, it will be replaced by a generation less tainted with this plague. It would be so nice if the community of artists and musicians led the way.

chas



Bernie Madoff is not President. those who "invested" with him are angry. But THEY made the choice. Just like the guy who could not read a contract when signing for his funny money loan on his new home and the 60 months worth of car payments and all those little signatures on credit card receipts.

When the "old men" die off be assured you will never achieve the standard of living many of us have achieved. You are a victim of society.

Producers PAY your bills. But someday you will seek government ot pay them. But government will have no place to collect the money from. Wall Street will be gone, The greedy banks will be gone, All those who create jobs will send the last of them overseas. Their money will be deposited in forign banks. Those who have will flee like they are doing in California.

Study California Son.....THAT is your future. Good Luck with that. I remember "idealism" I was a child of the 60's. We we PLUCKED off the streets into a REAL WAR...We KNOW and have experienced the difference between a war and an 8 year street fight. 5000 dead on two fronts in 8 years and thats a WAR??? Any war with 5000 US Casualties in 8 years in a VICTORY in my book.....

We lose 5000 AMERICAN kids every year to gunfire within our borders. Wheres the outrage??? LOL .Many of us eventually grew up and became PRODUCERS of goods and services. Many of us are not participating in this "recession" We saved for the rainy day. We knew life was more than having the latest and greatest at the expense of our future security, We SAW what was going on in government and saved for the eventuality . We SOLD our homes to stupid people. We know to sell high and buy low. We did not NEED government to do anything for us but get out of the way..

Yeah go ahead and hate the rich....hate them all the way to the welfare line.
Please grow up , read a few books, put the flowers and dope away and get a stomach for blood....You are going to need it.



[This message has been edited by Kingfrog (edited 02-13-2009).]
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