Wall Street demonstration I think they are chanting: "You broke it, you bought it, the bailout is bullshit"
This American Life episode from this weekend explained what is going on and why it is so much more than bad mortgages. The program airs on Saturday afternoon and then again on Sunday night. The Saturday one was blacked out after the first few minutes - one hour of dead air which was really strange. I'm expecting an innocuous sounding 'bank holiday' quite soon.
And this tragedy is damn sad.
I suppose Bush will declare a national emergency, suspend the election, and use the troops recently moved home to round up the dissenters and send them off to camp.
ReplyDeleteAnd you thought the October surprise would be Israel attacking Iran.
How many more Addie Polk's are out there, who never make the headlines?
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