To all posturing American politicians and anyone who is misguided enough to agree with them

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Thanks very much for destroying our stock exchanges and our financial institutions with toxic debt invented and marketed by you (there is no subprime mortgage crisis in continental Europe, let alone Japan, China or India, but all their institutions are paying for your and Britain's insanity) and then refusing to do anything to stabilize the situation. Evidently, to you the world ends at the bottom of your garden. Except of course when you need help cannon fodder for Iraq or Afghanistan.

Comments

[luckymarty.livejournal.com]

I would like to take umbrage at your suggestion that the financial crisis is an evil plot imposed on the rest of the world by American masterminds who somehow tricked or coerced innocent bystanders into buying into their schemes. Not to mention the unconnected slam at our foreign policy.

...I would like to take umbrage, but unfortunately doing so would align me with a political class that has just comprehensively failed the most important test put to them since the end of the Cold War. "Posturing" is far too kind a description for both ends of the legislature, and it even fits the executive. (Not to mention both presidential candidates.) Politics carried to the point of solipsism, and now we'll all have to bear the results.

I offer whatever cold comfort you may find in the realization that Americans are going to suffer too.

[becomethesea.livejournal.com]

I am no historian, but I understand that our finances have been beyond the point of no return for some decades now, long before I was born, at least.

I'm sorry my country is full of morons who would sooner give millions to unworthy executives when there are children starving in my town, and around the world. This is some idealism peaking out... I don't know whether to be sad or angry at all this. I can do nothing but watch it all and hope we come through it well enough.

[rfachir.livejournal.com]

I try not to judge, but when I must, I'll weigh what people do far more heavily than what they say. Congress did a heap of nothing for the past decade, and is continuing the pattern. They might as well cut every taxpayer a check for $300,000 for all the good this bill would do. No rules were going to change - they were just going to give the people who gambled away their the last bankroll a credit card.
I just hope we have a grassroots "vote them all out" movement. None of them deserve to go back - Obama and McCain included.

[super-pan.livejournal.com]

You know, I worked for a law firm that did foreclosures in 2001, and the people who had these subprime loans were the poorest and most ignorant people, and their loans were with the most predatory lending companies out there(actually, most of them are now defunct). The lawfirm's business was going gangbusters. I was appalled at the ignorance of the defendants, but even more appalled at the greed of these companies that profited from their ignorance. I didn't know it then, but that was some early indication of what was to come. I had no idea what was ahead.
I still have no idea what is ahead, but I am really afraid.

[expectare.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzJmTCYmo9g

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