Political Bloviation

E. J. Dionne Jr. - The Street on Welfare - washingtonpost.com
Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries and how government should keep its hands off the private economy.

The Wall Street titans have turned into a bunch of welfare clients. They are desperate to be bailed out by government from their own incompetence, and from the deregulatory regime for which they lobbied so hard. They have lost “confidence” in each other, you see, because none of these oh-so-wise captains of the universe have any idea what kinds of devalued securities sit in one another’s portfolios.

These clowns on Wall St. and their stooges in Washington who turned conservatism on its head are the ones responsible for the mess.

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