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Boy, I had you going there, didn't I? Actually, I probably didn't. You probably knew the headline was a joke (or a "joke") the moment you read it. This is America. We would never arrest a Wall Street executive or a political leader for the kind of corruption that really matters. You know, like scam mortgages or bogus foreclosures or student loans for kids who'll never be able to repay them. If they have sex with a hooker, maybe we'll arrest them. OK, actually probably not for that, either.
It's not like I'm holding up Great Britain as nirvana on earth. To the contrary, the Watergate-ish collapse of the House of Murdoch has exposed that journalists, the cops, and some leading pols across the pond have been rotten to the core for some time. What's different is that when the Brits realized how thoroughly the stench of corruption rose to the highest levels, powerful people ACTUALLY GOT ARRESTED.
Will it ever happen again?
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Classic post. Are you a Soros plant or just an ex-communist with an ax to grind?
Love to read posts by a newspaper editor who is a leftist. No the mainstream media is not biased at all.— Timo3004- Comment removed.
- I read his stuff so that I can get an idea of what is currently stewing in a leftists mind. I predict in 6 months there will be a lot of posts by our esteemed editor saying that Mr. Obama is "alright" and is "working hard for America".— Timo3004
- FYI I went to Barnes and Noble to get a copy of "Backlash" and I had to order it. I asked the girl how many copies B & N have sold and the girl said 4 since the start of the year. Keep up the good work! Sorry for the multiple posts.— Timo3004
You know Timo and Atkins, Will is so far from being truly left-wing, I can't imagine why you bother to read him. It is true that, like most progressive liberal left-wingers (whatever), he is unhappy with a lot of what Obama has left undone or kept the same (Bush first-amendment violations), which might suggest that he is on the left. And he did just write a terrific piece in the Daily News about the serious problem of the income gap in Philadelphia and, by implication, in the country. But you haven't seen him promoting card-check and I think he would accept some modifications to Medicare and maybe even Social Security to keep them solvent. So he is not the kind of liberal who automatically defends every entitlement or pro-union policy. What I notice is that his views are reality based, which conservative right wingers like you two guys often confuse with being socialist.- Jamie Gorelick should be the first in jail. Actually, all of the upper management at Feddie and Fannie.— georgel
- Always good to see two people having a conversation when neither of them have any grasp on reality, so they pat each other on the back for attacking the author. Good luck finding any policy success from any of your right-wing pols. Or even an article supporting good policy from one of your fear-mongering "journalists."— HandNik
- They pay you for this? Really?— JL68
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- Wall Street pushes for instant gratification (e.g. profits this quarter and next) rather that build a company for the long term and build a community and country along with it. It is Wall Street that pushes companies to move American jobs overseas and urges Americans to be happy that there are service economy jobs.— NJSmith
- Yeah, we'd never arrest bigwigs for scamming us with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.— rudytbone
- Will's having a leftist police state moment.— jmc
Wall Street's punishment is the Tea Party, as the markets will prove this week. I couldn't be a happier letist.
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