I don't think that he is an idiot.  He is a hack & an ideologue, who 
will try to rehabilitate himself.



On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:44:04AM -0600, raghu wrote:
> 
> There are two possible explanations for a twit like Greenspan.
> 
> 1) He is clever like a fox. He may say incomprehensibly stupid things,
> but his ideas are really quite rational if you consider their class
> interests.
> 
> 2) He really is just an idiot. This is what I think. Greenspan (and
> Bernanke and Geithner et al) are supporting ideas that would make
> sense if they truly part of the ruling elite e.g. if they were
> billionaires. But these guys are not. Like that gangster in
> Godfather-2 said, these guys are small potatoes.
> -raghu.
> 

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