The aggravating part of it all is that I keep hearing how many "regular"
citizens were against the bailout and would not have voted for it. Yet our
representatives voted for it, seemingly, not caring what their constituents
thought. As for the crooks (oops, I mean idiots) that got themselves into the
mess, I'm sure they knew that a worst case scenario would have Washington
bailing them out. They could use the threat that "if we go down, so do
thousands of American investors that have their money tied up with us". Sounds
like blackmail to me as CEO's of these organizations walk away will
multimillion dollar bonus packages as their company's ship is sinking. Bonuses
for doing what? It is an amazing thing to watch greed in action. Sad, but true.
I heard a report the other day where people being interviewed were blaming
the companies that allowed them credit saying that "credit was made so easily
available and then, because of that, they had just gotten in over their heads."
I'm wondering whatever happened to responsibility and personal restraint -
forgoing the purchase because you can't "afford" it? I realize many Americans
are using credit cards just to live on and survive. Some have no choice as
they have lost their jobs or hours cut back. However, most of those credit
users are just buying whatever they want. Then, if they get in over their
heads, they just claim bankruptcy. That is what I believe has been made to easy
in this country - walking away from your responsibilities. Just since January,
Americans have defaulted on 27 billion dollars worth of credit card debt. They
anticipate 96 billion next year. Unbelivable.
Anyway, so that I am not entirely absent of the "movie" connection in my
MoPo post, I see Bruce has some great stuff in his auction, Kirby had thousands
of posters available for your perusal, and the new Heritage catalog is
beautiful. "Thank you" Bruce for getting the Le Mans movie poster to me in two
days. My customer's wife was thrilled and it was a beauty. Have a great weekend
everyone and take care of yourselves.
Sue
www.hollywoodposterframes.com
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 09:07:30 -0500From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [MOPO] I am
REALLY angry at George Bush and this Democratic Congress!To:
[email protected]
I KNOW full well that my current 9th Halloween auction is far and away my best
ever (and you guys have ONLY seen Parts I and II, and you are going to be even
MORE amazed when you see Parts III and IV next week, which includes much of the
best material!).
I also know full well that these items would have certainly sold incredibly
well any previous year. I feel certain they deserve to, and if they don't, I
feel the blame can surely be placed on George Bush and this Democratic
Congress. Their massively wrong-headed policies in so many ways have hurt the
world drastically, and it may take decades to undo what they did in 8 years
(but maybe once the elections are over, we can quickly get on the right track,
and it hopefully won't take nearly that long).
If there ARE many bargains to be found in these auctions, I hope that long-time
collectors will take advantage of them!
Does anyone here doubt that George Bush will go down as the worst President in
American history? And I am not being partisan in saying this, for I feel the
Democratic Congress is at least equally to blame for all the terrible decisions
that were made the past 8 years (some they came up with on their own, and some
they simply went along with Bush, passing his wacky ideas, when any sane person
would have recognized them as recipes for disaster). And they let the robber
barons on Wall Street loot the country for 7 years, and then, when those fools
managed to bankrupt themselves, they go along with the insane plan of bailing
them out with OUR money!
What do YOU think?
Bruce
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