Social Construct's Comments (819)

“The percentage FWIW is more like 40%”

“In other words, until he actually melts, instead of teasing us.”

“And their parliamentary democracy allows for true democracy-- people elected to office having the power to get things done. In this country it too often seems we elected Liebermann or Olympia Snowe President.”

“Hey, at least we'd have health care. :|”

“Sorry, but I don't retaliate against old people. I just secretly place banana peals in front of them as they walk.”

“We need to be more frugal, yes.

It helps if products are made solid, reliable, and of good quality too.

We're all in this together.

Why not start a new, proper order? With proper regulations and proper standards. Even the top 1% would have to adapt just like the other 99%. Is there no reasonable middle ground?”

“Yup. Reminds me of the "company store" concept. Force you to borrow the money to buy all you need... and then you can't leave because you owe the store more than you can pay.”

“Ordinary Americans were pushed and manipulated into relying on credit. Consumption fueled by higher wages would have left them something, But the kleptocapitalists wanted concumption fueled only by credit cards, in order to leave them with nothing but perpetual debt to be repaid to the kleptocapitalists.
They wanted to effectively reduce ordinary Americans to the level of feudal serfs. So much more manageable that way. Serfs don't dare talk out of turn, do they?”

“The rules are definitely all messed up. It is not in the bank's best interest to allow people to restructure their debt because they make so much money off of late fees. Credit cards, retail mortgages and commercial real estate could all be under this umbrella. The tragedy of too big to fail is that BoA and their ilk that they get to keep operating like it is business as usual. BoA is actually worse now based on front running the CCPA (Consumer Credit Protection Act) and trying to get away with things that will soon be illegal.

We should have never bailed out any private company. We should have let them fail, since ultimately they will fail anyway. You can secure confidence with FDIC coverage expansion to money market funds and let the bankruptcy laws and the FDIC pick up the pieces. The true criminal here is the gov for allowing BoA to be the dinosaur that it is, but my problem with Ms. Ramos is that if everyone played Robin Hood we'd create another credit crisis and apparently haven't learned any lessons from very recent history.”

“You're so right. Why are they so unique? Is a bloated sense of self-importance a talent? I believe there are business men and woman all over the country that can do what they do. Using the word "talent" is bullshit. What? They can juggle too?”

“She doesn't need a medal. She probably needs cash. Maybe HP should create a fund that we could contribute to that would reward people like this. I'd contribute. Let's put our money where our mouth is. If it doesn't exist already - we can do this- C'mon Arianna ..let's put this fund together!”

“Their bonuses are based on short-term numbers… Executives make a fortune without any reason to consider long term planning; they collect their millions and move on to the next company.”