tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004977.post3831966244574508786..comments2007-04-05T09:28:49.524-04:00CalculatedRiskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08664541332908374389noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004977.post-63299886391311129812007-04-05T09:28:00.000-04:002007-04-05T09:28:00.000-04:00Tanta, your aspirations for yourself and others gives you the energy to provide great guidance here...so maybe your dreams live on in another way. I'm a common citizen looking for a little clarity, and you provide it here. Thanks.<BR/><BR/>Jas, in my experience (banker, executive, marxist, non-profit director) all ideologies are flawed and ideologues invariably become their supposed adversaries.<BR/><BR/>While I applaud your strength of conviction, I'd be careful about ripping on other people when they are making themself vulnerable. Isn't that what you are fighting against? Or did your father abuse you as a child and you haven't yet grown past it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004977.post-13961311496337122822007-04-04T20:42:00.000-04:002007-04-04T20:42:00.000-04:00Me thinkith nary a slip twixt the cup and Tanta's lip. Cheers!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004977.post-86690126848296146612007-04-04T11:04:00.000-04:002007-04-04T11:04:00.000-04:00--<BR/>Repost:<BR/><BR/>--<BR/>Tanta,<BR/><BR/>Some of us never drank the Kool-Aid that is so freely dispensed in America. In late 1990s I was telling people that MSFT and CSCO were committing the biggest accounting fraud in American history, when I was working at CSCO, and that was the prime mover of the tech bubble. Silly.con Valley was full of morons and some of them are my friends. I left and retired in March 2000.<BR/><BR/>It would be helpful to you if you understood the limits of your knowledge. It is so obvious that the whole debt business in America was turned into fraud because someone can loan someone else’s money, fifth hand, without consequences. Debt business is not like selling toys. I bet you never read Schumpeter’s warnings about “bankers’ mischief” and what happens when bankers behave like salesmen. And do you know where bankers’ mischief leads to, according to Schumpeter? “Catastrophe”!<BR/><BR/>You are still clueless about the corrupt American System controlled by Crooks because you still drink the American Kool-Aid that our system is the best, blah, blah, blah. I bet you still believe in the cult of democracy and the cult of "Free Market."<BR/><BR/>Every human institution in infinitely corruptible (the Church?!) and in America our political and economic system are reaching the end until they break because they are as corrupt as any that failed. Only blind faith sustains Americans’ belief in the system.<BR/><BR/>JasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004977.post-1379027478595606792007-04-04T10:35:00.000-04:002007-04-04T10:35:00.000-04:00<I>What happened to all the rest of the comments?</I><BR/><BR/>It's like an episode in Star Trek where someone used the transporter but didn't materialize at the destination ... they still existed, but neither here nor there, and it took heroic efforts to get them to rematerialize.<BR/><BR/>Danduckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04970663722087851678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004977.post-37918072721421751362007-04-04T10:10:00.000-04:002007-04-04T10:10:00.000-04:00--<BR/>What happened to all the rest of the comments?<BR/><BR/>Just curious,<BR/><BR/>JasAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004977.post-53848421675304486292007-04-04T09:17:00.000-04:002007-04-04T09:17:00.000-04:00Thanks, number2son.<BR/> <BR/>I still believe in the dream, you know. Were we to create an economy that could make owning one's own home a financially wise move, as well as an emotionally satisfying one, I could go back to my archane FHA calculations of risk in peace.Tantahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12071304914326167836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004977.post-26091978972684396372007-04-04T08:20:00.000-04:002007-04-04T08:20:00.000-04:00You dream beautiful dreams, Tanta.number2sonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08535412447549128887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004977.post-60618888910669807172007-04-04T07:42:00.000-04:002007-04-04T07:42:00.000-04:00How about "Ground Hog Sausage Factory Day"? Every morning, you get up and find that your links have disappeared, you are confronted with separate piles of pig and filler, and have to make up the recipe all over again . . .Tantahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12071304914326167836noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004977.post-88291899022036663182007-04-04T02:12:00.000-04:002007-04-04T02:12:00.000-04:00Wow, this is like 'Ground Hog's Day'... We get to go back and fill in all the comments over again & again & again. <BR/><BR/>So who gets to be Bill Murry?dryflyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04914649080074846239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10004977.post-18084173881716175252007-04-04T02:04:00.000-04:002007-04-04T02:04:00.000-04:00tying shoelaces <BR/><BR/>my foot on the dining room chair,<BR/>straining, obesity makes this <BR/>a daily event.<BR/>yet<BR/>what's this today?<BR/>stuck to the undersole<BR/>gum again!<BR/>raised to the nose<BR/>that chicklesweet whitedark<BR/>brown<BR/>fire that mexican intern today<BR/>someone<BR/>must pay.delTnoreply@blogger.com