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Archive for March, 2009

Will we learn from this?

Posted by Skip Stone on March 16th, 2009

Recently, while talking to people about the pickle we find ourselves in, the phrase “I hope we learn something from all this.” comes up. Saturday this “phrase” cropped up again. I found myself getting angry. Yeah, angry. I realized that we should of learned the lessons of this situation THE LAST TIME THIS CRAP HAPPENED! Yeah, you remember. The S & L scandal, Junk Bond scandal, both in the ’80s gave us Micheal Milken, Ivan Boesky, Charles Keating, and Neil Bush. That’s right, a BUSH! I’ll tell you what I have learned. Humans when presented with a moral decision will go for the money every damn time. Self interest always wins out over doing the “right” thing. I am sad. Very sad.

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