Reply #5: I think they should have lied to us - It worked for Iraq...

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if they would have told us everything was hunky dory (a lie) - this will pass in a couple of months (could be a lie or could be a self fulfilling prophesy) - just a bunch a rich people fighting over who gets to control rich people shit (absolutely true)

if they would have just dumped some dough on um, passed a few laws stopping them from using us as pawns (Dear really really valuable customer, unfortunately, in this unprecedented economy we have to trash your FICO score by cutting your credit limit to nearly nothing and jacking your rate - oh and fuck you sideways while we're at it - and we appreciate your business!)

The negative daily media news would have stopped by Christmas - the subprimes would have either been re-negotiated or foreclosed on by then and it would have stopped there. The predators who got us here would have already been made whole in the first wave of gooberment handouts to the rich. And a moderate correction in the credit market overall could have been achieved a little over time via a variety of methods.


It's my honest belief BushInc completely, and deliberately, fucked up the first wave of the crisis. They deliberately did everything in their power to make it last as long as they could and make it as bad as they possibly could.


so I think BushCo should have used it's propaganda machine the same way it did for Iraq - lie their fucking asses off, make shit up, parse words just right - catapult the propaganda - America fell for it with Iraq and except a few brave intelligent souls they would have bought it again. -- Mentally speaking, we would have all shook our heads at how stupid the predator class is and went on with our daily lives - did some bitching about gooberment handouts (if we even knew about them) and enjoyed our lives. -- and we all know gazzillions of $$ goes to the predator class every single day that is never reported by the media. If you mention to someone that ADM gets gazillions for NOT growing food they say "prove it".