heh heh .... Chris, from a coward's point of view, it is definitely a bad thing.
On Feb 23, 7:25 am, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > You say that as though a little rioting in the street might be a bad thing... > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:16 AM, gruff <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Banks, more than any other industry, can't be allowed to fail. > > Financing and credit are so interwoven into the economies of all > > nations that should the banks fail the entire economy would go > > bust. This may not be right but, as one talking head noted > > yesterday on the tube, lending has almost become a utility just like > > power and water. If the banks are allowed to fail, I'm afraid > > society and civilization as we know it will also fail. Then there > > will be rioting in the streets, for certain. > > > However, I agree that since the top four or five percent of the world > > owns and controls forty or more percent of the wealth, they should be > > called to account and to help. > > > On Feb 17, 3:27 pm, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I see people who have paid taxes for years being thrown out on the > >> street by banks who are foreclosing on their homes while tax payer > >> money is being doled out in billions to the same banks. Who are those > >> people making millions of dollars every year taking tax payers money. > >> By what right do they have to use tax money for that purpose. What is > >> wrong with people in allowing this to go on? Why doesn't the > >> government use tax payer money to bring mortgages up to date and order > >> banks to refinance at a lower rate. It wouldn't even cost one > >> billion to keep families in their homes. Where are the wealthy, so > >> called benefactors, Gates and Buffet in all of this? Why shouldn't > >> banks be allowed to fall just like others? It seems they, the upper > >> echelon of society, still live in their own lofty worlds without a > >> care for humanity. What is wrong with them? I predict a national > >> breakdown in civility, a Ya Basta stance issued by the people. > >> Rioting and looting and arch's political bloodletting ritual. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
