"Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution -- these can lift at a colossal humbug -- push it a little -- weaken it a little over the course of a century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." -Mark Twain
"The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet."
- Mark Twain
Title: "The Sin of the Golden Calf"
Date: 10-2-2008
Notes/Comment From Sam:
A simple story might help explain this most anfractuous crisis. Unfortunately, that story didn't end well...
Paulson, it seems, continues to worship Wall Street, offering a plan that is uniformed by past failings and that may well benefit Wall Street, but in the opinion of some very smart people, won't benefit anyone else. Maybe this is a chance to put a stop to the idolatry...