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To: average joe who wrote (760329)	12/30/2013 10:21:33 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1574752

"But it is not amusing any longer when a news item in The New York Times (January 2, 1973) announces that Pope Paul VI “issued a call today for a ‘new justice.’ True justice recognizes that all men are in substance equal, the Pontiff said. . . . ‘The littler, the poorer, the more suffering, the more defenseless, even the lower a man has fallen, the more he deserves to be assisted, raised up, cared for, and honored. We learn this from the Gospel.’ ” " History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes. Pope Francis 'Evangelii Gaudium' Calls For Renewal Of Roman Catholic Church, Attacks 'Idolatry Of Money' huffingtonpost.com “‘When a man thinks he’s good—that’s when he’s rotten." If she means mankind, then she is as rotten as they come. If she means males only, she is twice as rotten as they come.

To: average joe who wrote (760329)	1/1/2014 6:27:01 AM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Recommended By bentway Respond to of 1574752

Just a self-congratulatory paean to a misanthrope in full projection mode. Did you notice she never apologized to any of us? The closest we've come to one is a statement by her assistant head looney in charge of the finances... "Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder's equity (myself especially) are in a state of shocked disbelief." Not really an apology, but at least he took responsibility for it. REP. HENRY WAXMAN: The question I have for you is, you had an ideology, you had a belief that free, competitive -- and this is your statement -- "I do have an ideology. My judgment is that free, competitive markets are by far the unrivaled way to organize economies. We've tried regulation. None meaningfully worked." That was your quote. You had the authority to prevent irresponsible lending practices that led to the subprime mortgage crisis. You were advised to do so by many others. And now our whole economy is paying its price. Do you feel that your ideology pushed you to make decisions that you wish you had not made? ALAN GREENSPAN: Well, remember that what an ideology is, is a conceptual framework with the way people deal with reality. Everyone has one. You have to -- to exist, you need an ideology. The question is whether it is accurate or not. And what I'm saying to you is, yes, I found a flaw. I don't know how significant or permanent it is, but I've been very distressed by that fact. REP. HENRY WAXMAN: You found a flaw in the reality... ALAN GREENSPAN: Flaw in the model that I perceived is the critical functioning structure that defines how the world works, so to speak. REP. HENRY WAXMAN: In other words, you found that your view of the world, your ideology, was not right, it was not working? ALAN GREENSPAN: That is -- precisely. No, that's precisely the reason I was shocked, because I had been going for 40 years or more with very considerable evidence that it was working exceptionally well. pbs.org