 crudson
Male, 18-29, Midwest US
 590 Posts
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Thursday, October 13, 2011 10:41:26 AM
The guy below me can below me. |
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 thelonious
Male, 40-49, Southern US
3200 Posts
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 8:09:19 AM
Is it ok that I don't know who either of these people are? When I hear pulitzer prize winning reporter and author I immediately think self-promoter attention whore look what I can do buy my book if there's action somewhere I'll be there trying to leech off of it.
The one guys says the protesters don't even know the names of the firms they are protesting and the other dude says they know bank of america. LOL
They don't know what they want. And further more they have let anyone that has any kind of grievance with the government into their rally because they wanted more warm bodies to count and have ended up with chaos.
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 tommy2X4
Male, 50-59, Eastern US
2824 Posts
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 6:04:20 AM
Read up. Reagan administration started all this. |
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 Cruzy
Male, 18-29, Europe
37 Posts
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 4:56:40 AM
The guy below me just served the guy below him .... booom |
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 Suicism
Male, 18-29, Western US
3534 Posts
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 1:09:31 AM
The guy below you is you.. Idiot. |
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 eovogt
Male, 18-29, Canada
197 Posts
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 12:13:34 AM
PS the guy below me i think had issues....although he can speak words |
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eovogt
Male, 18-29, Canada
197 Posts
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011 12:11:11 AM
I thought Kevin was going to get told (because he's an non-nice individual) but it never happened... |
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Suicism
Male, 18-29, Western US
3534 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 11:06:41 PM
I knew I could count on the I-A-B community to take this "beatdown" headline with the usual grain of salt and zero in on some of the willful ignorance and hypocrisy of this guest (admitting, of course, the knee-jerk rudeness and unprofessionalism of his host). One thing I'd like to add has to do with Hedges' statement about the imminent crises in Greece, Spain and elsewhere. It's more significantly the consequence of corporate and international socialism than 'unbridled capitalism,' ala Marx. To expand upon some of the sentiments expressed by Oldfrt, Mal_bb and "Fart Smeller" (geeze, not the most honorable of usernames I've cited), there wouldn't BE an imminent collapse if we let toxic assets PERISH UNDER THE IMMUNE SYSTEM OF THE MARKET PROCESS. Countries bailing out other countries that suck is no more fruitful than governments bailing out financial institutions which suck. They're also sitting on those assets so they don't flood the market with EASY CREDIT again. |
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 robosnitz
Male, 40-49, Eastern US
2752 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 10:35:06 PM
Sorry. I can't listen to that negro's lies. Had to shut it down. |
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 Roland
Male, 30-39, Midwest US
157 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 9:19:28 PM
Another great example of a conservative reduced to name calling rather than having a dignified and respectful discussion. When people are verbally assaulted for calmly expressing their opinion that is called bullying, and it is becoming the norm thanks to the right wing media, right wing politicians and right wing supporters. |
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 markust123
Male, 40-49, Western US
3783 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 7:32:31 PM
The very ending is worth the boring first half. |
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MCMXCIII
Male, 18-29, Asia
354 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:01:05 PM
Listypoos nailed it well.
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RulerZod
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
4 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 5:04:46 PM
I think CrakrJakass got the names mixed up.
but Hedges was right, and O'Leary was a moron. |
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 Gerry1of1
Male, 50-59, Western US
25617 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 5:03:06 PM
I don't blame banks or corporations. They were given an opportunity to make profits and they did. That IS the purpose of their existance.
I blame politicians who shold us down the river to povertyville. |
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 Listypoos
Male, 30-39, Europe
1474 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4:44:40 PM
@ Beternal "Can someone summarise all this for me?"
Sure, it's about
a)a bunch of people saying 'hey, the banks have screwed us over for long enough'
b) the banks saying 'hey, we're all in this together.... cept the bonuses we're still paying out....... to us.
c) the government saying 'hey we agree with you peeps... but not really specifying which peeps they agree with and secretly wishing they could tax protesting.
d) the lucky people with good jobs telling everyone else that only drugged up hippies protest.
and e) the people who claim it'll never change things..... right until things change, and then at that point they'll claim they were at the vanguard of the movement all along. |
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 razordragon
Male, 18-29, Canada
338 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4:34:07 PM
Everyone miss the boat on 3... |
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FartSmeller
Male, 50-59, Eastern US
33 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 4:33:28 PM
He is a leftist nutbar. What he complains about is exactly what you'd expect from the power he has given government. The power to hand over trillions of tax dollars to market losers. Thank you leftist nutbars. Don't call your mega-government with tentacles in everything "deregulation" please. |
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 megavidiot
Male, 30-39, Canada
905 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:30:57 PM
@bentley,
Well said, people HAVE to take some sort responsibilty for their own actions. |
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 mal_BB
Male, 18-29, Europe
1223 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:30:55 PM
The government encouraged sub prime mortgage lending in the first place to sell the American dream in return for votes at the next election. Tony Bair did near enough the same thing here; spent a ton of money he didn't have to temporally improve peoples standard of living , then after he'd done enough networking he buggered off and left the mess with Brown. The banks were just greedy middle men who worked with the government to make it happen. The government should take ultimate responsibility. |
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megavidiot
Male, 30-39, Canada
905 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:29:39 PM
"CBC is a Canadian gov't owned channel...nuff' said."
Yet it's still the newstation with the most objective reporting I've seen. CBC radio is a standard for me on my commute home, they allow both sides of the story to be told and let you make the judgement (O'Leary and a couple others not included, those kinds of people can't be avoided unfortunately). |
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megavidiot
Male, 30-39, Canada
905 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:27:00 PM
Kevin's a bit of a goof, but his business accument is great. He's worth listening to, sometimes... |
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bentley22
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
245 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:21:49 PM
The nut bar stated his real position when he said: "sub prime mortgages were pushed on people who couldn't afford it". Those people were offered a deal and they took it, which our government made happen through moronic banking regulations.
Occupy wall street is f'n hilarious and ineffective. |
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 jtrebowski
Male, 40-49, Southern US
3057 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 3:10:30 PM
@Oldfrt: It's gonna get worse now that corporations are considered "people". |
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 Fatninja01
Male, 18-29, Australia
23995 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 2:58:39 PM
zing.. so much for professionalism |
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dude21862004
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
778 Posts
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011 2:53:29 PM
"Don't take this the wrong way, but you sound like a left-wing nutbar."
What's the right way to take this? Is that guy serious? |
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