Neanderpundit

I’ve gotten a couple mails today about this.

Variously, people understand, or don’t get it at all. A lot of commentary about this is of the ‘See? Wallstreet is EVAL!!!” variety.

C’mon.

if you think for a minute the business world isn’t a cutthroat competitive clusterfuck where everyne is out for #1, you’re the definition of naive. It has ever been this way, and it will ever be this way. That cutthroat competitiveness is not what Wallstreet is about, it is the very engine of humanity.

Smith complains that Sachs isn’t what it used to be, and he’s probably right. At each turn, Government intervention has made it more and more difficult for people to do business of any kind. When business is tough, when times are tough, when the climate of the financial community is more interested in how to make money despite overweening and ridiculous intervention from the nanny state trying to make it “Fair” for everyone, guess what happens? People become territorial. people become less interested in the customer and more in the bottom line. People who used to plan their living on how much they helped other people are being portrayed as monsters,a nd are acting as the monsters they are portrayed. Those who would legislate fairness have driven the fairness out of the world, piece by bloody piece.

“Integrity means nothing anymore”.

Integrity never meant anything. Deal with it. Open your eyes and stare at the stark reality of truth. When your back is against the wall, you will say “Do it to Julia” without fail. And you will sell your birthright for your chance to stay alive.

This is were we’ve come. This is where the nanny state has brought us. This is what happens when the government gets to pick winners and losers.

it’s not hard to follow the trail from Carter’s housing executive orders to Clinton/Reno prosecuting Citibank for redlining to Barney Frank to Goldman Sachs being an unpleseant place to work. All of the people involved in this- and it certainly isn’t as if the Right is blameless, the named above are just the major players- did what they “believed” was best, and the banks and businesses did the only things they could to stay alive.

“I wouldn’t ever do anything like that. That’s wrong”.

Yes, you would. Everyone always does. The only way to stop this is to get the governments hands out from where they don’t belong, and that will never happen, the ticks always latch onto the biggest dogs.

Couple of weeks ago, the radiator went south in the Exploder.

When you take it out you also have to remove the AC condensor, losing the R134.

I have not yet refilled, it, so the truck has no A/C.

hence, the heat wave. My bad. I’ll fill it asap, so we can get back to your regularly scheduled winter.