Government officials being unaccountable

Ayn Rand emigrated from the Soviet Union. Enough said.

alanhart... I think you should go to Havana to get your health care. You liberals keep telling us how great the care is.

juliag. the glen beck videos please stop, he doesn't help the cause.

Her parents were anti-Czarists -- that's like being Commies right there. She had a much more colorful name originally, but took a dull yet still difficult fake name as an adult.

Riversider.... The socialist supplied the videos to street easy.

Alisa Rosenbaum emigrated from the Soviet Union.

must be a closet fox fan.

I went to Singapore a couple of years ago. It is a remarkably successful, centrally-managed economy. 85% of residents live on government owned land and one party has been in power for 50 years. It made me realize the world is a complicated place despite how much shit-for-brains posters on streeteasy want you to believe it can all be reduced to sound bites.

mlthus... if you have a ounce of pot you get the death penalty.. You like that too.

Thanks for answering the call.

you too.

So that's what's behind your insane mock-libertarian rantings, julia? You're a maniacal drug fiend, trying to make sure you have an unfettered supply line to your narcotics?

No alanhart, I hate drugs, but I do think they should be legalized.

"The Reason the country isn't focused on Blaming Bush is they see the connection between the same Obama officials "fixing the crisis" and the Obama officials "causing" the crisis Rubin, Summers and Geithner"

Probably true.... and Barney Frank... and Bernanke (who replaced the guy appointed by a Democrat)... and Pelosi... and....

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"

"I went to the USSR in 1988 to Leningrad; you can not believe the misery and the scale of the debacle. It was truly scary.The liberals should kiss the ground of the free market capitalism system. "

Well, putzfitz is a slumlord, so thats his goal...to make the rest of America look like where he lives (in bankruptcy)

Julia, howz about this? We do a means testing for social security m'okay and the $$$$ we don't spend for Clinton, Bush, Obama social security we can plow into a universal healthcare... and we'll ladder the cost based on drinking, smoking, BMI? and, I'm not talking breast implants, just you know cancer( except lung cancer caused by your smoking), immunizations, broken bones...

one other thing, you can't get paid back SS plus interest... that's not the point of SS... it's an insurance policy, you don't get your premiums back... FWIW, if I'm counting on SS to live a decent life past 65, i've completely spent way too much on prada shoes....

The USSR was Communist, not Socist. There is a big difference. I am not a communist, for the record. The problem with Communism is that it never works since the people at the top always steal the money. Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez are super rich, yet their people are starving.

> The USSR was Communist, not Socist.

Uh, it was also socialist.

Jeez, socialist, get a dictionary.

The Soviets abandoned Socialism in 1921:

http://www.romm.org/soc_com.html

There is nobody in Congress that I like better than Alan Grayson. He says something at least once a week that gets him into trouble. That takes guts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-usmvYOPfco

There is nobody in Congress that I like better than Ron Paul. He say something at least once a day that is brilliant. That takes brains.

"The Soviets abandoned Socialism in 1921:
http://www.romm.org/soc_com.html "

I love it when one wacko points at another wacko's web site as "evidence". Hell, maybe its the same wacko.

Immature.

The weather was so delightful this evening when I got home that I made myself a sidecar and glugged it down on my balcony. This time I mixed it 8:2:1, and it was much better than the usual too-sweet cocktail. Next time I'll try 6:2:1, which I think should be just right.

A teacher I know didn't think it was fair that some kids got A and B grades and others got C D and F grades. So, she decided to incorporate socialism into her class. The next test the average grade was a C.; so the A and B students received a C and the D and F students also received a C. After all, that is fair, and we need shared sacrifice. The next test nobody studied and all the students received an F.

julia, your acquaintance is made of straw. I'm going to try a good brandy instead of the more expensive cognac.

alanhart,.... hope you are enjoying the weather.

Thank you, julialg, I am ... it's such a nice change. I hope you are, as well.

Hey alanhart, you and the socialist are getting the D and F so you don't mind the society helping you out.

I wonder if Timmy will have to go soon...

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2010/03/ny-fed-under-geithner-implicated-in-lehman-accounting-fraud.html

Quite a few observers, including this blogger, have been stunned and frustrated at the refusal to investigate what was almost certain accounting fraud at Lehman. Despite the bankruptcy administrator’s effort to blame the gaping hole in Lehman’s balance sheet on its disorderly collapse, the idea that the firm, which was by its own accounts solvent, would suddenly spring a roughly $130+ billion hole in its $660 balance sheet, is simply implausible on its face. Indeed, it was such common knowledge in the Lehman flailing about period that Lehman’s accounts were sus that Hank Paulson’s recent book mentions repeatedly that Lehman’s valuations were phony as if it were no big deal.

Well, it is folks, as a newly-released examiner’s report by Anton Valukas in connection with the Lehman bankruptcy makes clear. The unraveling isn’t merely implicating Fuld and his recent succession of CFOs, or its accounting firm, Ernst & Young, as might be expected. It also emerges that the NY Fed, and thus Timothy Geithner, were at a minimum massively derelict in the performance of their duties, and may well be culpable in aiding and abetting Lehman in accounting fraud and Sarbox violations.

http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/

As William K. Black said a year ago, the government's entire strategy now - as in the S&L crisis - is to cover up how bad things are ("the entire strategy is to keep people from getting the facts").

Paul Krugman and others pointed out that Geithner has been trying to artificially prop up asset prices, but that such a strategy cannot succeed.

A fireman in California has a pension of $285,000 a year. Google a lis of the 100 highest paid government worker in Illinois. A gym teacher #100 has a $198,000 salary. Is it any wonder all the states and federal governments are broke.

And don't forget the lifetime free health care...

AND, many don't pay taxes on social security!

But ya know, somewhereelse. the"rich" must pay their fair share of taxes and we need shared sacrifice. The government knows best.

"A fireman in California has a pension of $285,000 a year. Google a lis of the 100 highest paid government worker in Illinois. A gym teacher #100 has a $198,000 salary. Is it any wonder all the states and federal governments are broke."

Clearly they need to offer higher salaries to teachers. We're failing out children, julialg and the rest of the illiterati among them.

That is, we're failing our children, who are failing out, like julialg.