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Colly Wolly · 10-14-2008, 12:34 AM

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122390023840728367.html

Please just leave Wall Street alone. Let us swallow the medicine of our bad deeds, learn our lessons, and move forward. This is not the responsibility of government. Stay the hell out of it.

BarbaraGordon · 10-14-2008, 12:48 AM

I was literally weeping yesterday at church out of shame over our country's bizarre priorities. Right now my minister is doing a series on political issues and the Church's obligations to society. On the big screen they were showing the stats of how many people in Africa are without water, and what an insignificant investment it would cost to provide it to them.

And I'm sitting there thinking, here we're spending trillions on a war that is effectively creating new humanitarian crises, we're spending a trillion or more to bail out fledgling economic entities, when all the while there are kids without so much as clean drinking water.

You can make a pretty strong argument that it's not our government's place to get involved in humanitarian efforts. On the other hand, it's pretty hard to make that argument when we're spending the amount of money we are on a pointless war and on bailing out bazillionaires. Either stop taking 35% of my family's money, or if you insist on taking it, then by golly start making better use of it.

10-14-2008, 12:34 AM	#1
Colly Wolly Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,281	Ths makes me sick! http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122390023840728367.html Please just leave Wall Street alone. Let us swallow the medicine of our bad deeds, learn our lessons, and move forward. This is not the responsibility of government. Stay the hell out of it.

10-14-2008, 12:48 AM	#2
BarbaraGordon Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Gotham City Posts: 7,157	I was literally weeping yesterday at church out of shame over our country's bizarre priorities. Right now my minister is doing a series on political issues and the Church's obligations to society. On the big screen they were showing the stats of how many people in Africa are without water, and what an insignificant investment it would cost to provide it to them. And I'm sitting there thinking, here we're spending trillions on a war that is effectively creating new humanitarian crises, we're spending a trillion or more to bail out fledgling economic entities, when all the while there are kids without so much as clean drinking water. You can make a pretty strong argument that it's not our government's place to get involved in humanitarian efforts. On the other hand, it's pretty hard to make that argument when we're spending the amount of money we are on a pointless war and on bailing out bazillionaires. Either stop taking 35% of my family's money, or if you insist on taking it, then by golly start making better use of it.