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To: Stan J. Czernel who wrote (30595)	7/22/2002 11:09:48 AM
From: Sultan	Respond to of 118717

<OT> 'We' is not me or a lot more of us Molly Ivins AUSTIN - There's some stiff competition in the Stupidest Thing Said Yet Department about the swoon in the financial markets. But among the heavy contenders we must surely count those who are now saying that they know who's responsible, and it is us. According to this theory, you, me and Joe Bob Doaks made Ken Lay do it. Came as a surprise to me, too. Naturally, as a liberal, I just love guilt, so I was ready to sign right up for this one, but try as I may, I can't get it to make a lick of sense. Nevertheless, several of our heavy ponderers and The Wall Street Journal's editorial page insist that we did it. It seems that "we" - a word they use rather promiscuously, in my opinion - were seized by greed and folly in the '90s. "We" were so stupid that we thought stock markets only went up, and "we" are whining like children only because "we" don't understand that in the big, tough, he-man world of capitalism, we must take risks. Message 17772617