On Nov 8, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Jon Louis Mann wrote: >> I am beginning to see a pattern of how you make gross >> simplications to >> try to make the situation fit into your pigeonhole of how >> the >> government can save us by making simple and effective >> regulations to >> control the simple financial systems. >> Unfortunately, the reality is that there have been >> thousands of cases >> of government interference in the markets for decades now, >> and each >> one can and does have many unforseen consequences. It is >> incredibly >> naive to assume that eliminating or adding to a >> ridiculously complex >> system of regulations will immediately result in disaster >> or salvation. Not everything fits into your simple physics >> models, and >> you (and government regulators, and I) do not know anywhere >> near as >> much as we need to if we are to play god with millions or >> billions of >> people interacting in a market. >> ROTFLMAO! You really should consider a career in comedy. > > john, you are the one who has the pattern of using simplication and > specious argument to fit your biased rationalizations into > pigeonholes... i have been warned by other members on this list > not to respond to your provocations, or engage with you because it > only lowers me to your level, but i genuinely would like to know why > you are so rude? does it give you pleasure to bait people and > arouse their anger? people with your degree of arrogance, > condescension, and paucity of social skills are often compensating > for an inferiority complex. have you ever been diagnosed with a > personality disorder? you still haven't answered my questions who > you really are, what is your income bracket, and what you do for a > living that affords you so much time to be so antagonistic??? i am > also curious why you are on this list and what other aliases you > have used? > > there are some instances when government regulations can control > financial systems in beneficial ways, and sometimes there are times > when government should stay out. > > if it is true that some government regulators have bailed out their > own former companies, don't you agree that having the foxes guard > the henhouse is a conflict of interest? what if we had regulators > that had no stake in maintaining the status quo that got us into > this mess? > > it is quite obvious that appropriate regulation could have prevented > the current economic collapse. there is plenty of blame, and > perhaps it is even true that some of those mistakes were due to an > effort to help people in my income bracket become home owners. why > do you think that is so terrible, and why is it not so terrible to > bailout the crooks who caused this mess? > > anyway, there are a lot of factors to consider, and i have noticed > how you conveniently ignore arguments you can't refute. > jon
I have to ask .. is anyone really learning anything or gaining anything from continuing this conversation at this point, other than focusing attention on someone who clearly is thriving on it? The true paradox of democracy is that it is vulnerable to defeat from within -- Me _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
