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Some of the Xers in this forum -- vincecate, CrosstimbersOkie, Tom
Acre, perhaps yourself sometimes -- think of Boomers as nothing more
than buffoons and clowns and idiots that you can screw around with,
jerk around, manipulate, humiliate and control to your heart's
content...

I'm saddened to ...

... More importantly parents are SHOWING children morality and
> values through their behavior.

I assume that the behavior you're referring to is creating tens of
trillions of dollars of fraudulent securities, and then selling them
to investors, and painting themselves as helpless victims.

Or ...

This is completely irrelevant, and nowhere addresses the point of
whether these parents are teaching these children the importance
of ethics and morals. The Bourne passage indicates that they
don't, and that they consider ethics and morals to be a useless
duty imposed on them by a worthless older ...

Well, that's the generational joke. Nomads teach their children not
to have morals or ethics, as the excerpt from Bourne implies, but the
children turn into Heroes and develop ethics and morals anyway during
the crisis. They're then despised by the next Nomad generation.
Ha, ha.

With a minute to ...

> You're equivocating between the question of person responsibility
> and the broader question of how this constellation of institutions
> became so corrupt.

There's what's wrong with Xers. You claim that you want everyone to
go to jail, but when it comes to describing what's really going on ...

Who cares what generation they belong to? They deserve to be serving 20-year prison sentences.

I agree.

In my experience, that's what a Boomer would say, but
not what a Gen-Xer would say.

John

That is completely untrue. Everyone I know would love to see ALL of these fraudsters behind bars for ...

In this Generation-X culture of fraud and extortion, no one who commits an actual crime is considered a criminal. The only people considered criminals are the accusers.


Easy there Baby Boomer! Holder is a Boomer, born 1951. Corzine is a Boomer, born 1947.

What does that have to do with the ...

John wrote:Here are some nice places to live in the middle of the ocean:

The rest of the earth may be destroyed by nuclear war, but your family
will be snug in your Flip Ship.

John

Looks like it should be called a 'Flip Off Ship' instead.

It works in the United States because of massive transfers of
money from "rich" states to "poor" states.

Its really far, far, far more haphazard in the United States. GDP and/or per capita income per state appears to have a somewhat dubious relationship to total federal grants to states per ...

Higgenbotham wrote:Sound familiar? It should. This happened right before the Dow fell, oh, about 4000 points over the ensuing 2 months.

http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevent ... 80918a.htm

Press Release
Release Date: September 18, 2008 ...

Smoking Gun!
That's a modern classic.