Financial Expert? Doesn’t Sound Like It

On May 14, The New York Times ran a piece by one Mr. Edmund Andrews, an economics reporter for The Times and the author of “Busted: Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown”.  Mr. Andrews details the horrors of how an expert such as himself could possibly have fallen afoul of the banking industries predatory practices.

This particular piece was, in fact, an excerpt from his book.  In it, he takes aim at those who ask for personal responsibility.

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Wake Up America!

Brrrring…Brrrring…. The alarm clock has been going off and we, as Americans, have been hitting the snooze button. Wasn’t the historic inauguration of our president exciting? Oh, and shortly after that the American Idol season began. I know that was a distraction because every time the president wanted to be heard by the American people he interrupted the show. Brrrring….Brrrring… the alarm sounded as the government passed the single largest stimulus/spending package in US history putting a yoke around the necks of your children and mine and followed that up with the omnibus spending package loaded with even more pork and goodies. Brrrring….Brrrring it sounded again as the administration stepped in to take over, oops I mean rescue, GM and Chrysler. Now the president, who has never run a business, is firing CEO’s and setting advertising budgets for the car companies. I feel certain that isn’t one of the powers in the Constitution. Then there was the AIG problem, the government stepping in to run the banking industry, the administration allowing ACORN to help with the census, and the list goes on and on. Brrrring…Brrrring… It is time to stop pressing the snooze button America and time to face this nightmare!
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