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  • Posted By: Damn Cynical @ 11/02/2009 5:08:12 PM

    Rush Limbaugh, Alan Greenspan, and Milton Friedman.

  • Posted By: earthorbitsthesun @ 09/05/2009 6:45:54 AM

    Not to poke fun at what I consider a serious post, but you need to watch less news!

  • Posted By: vivaelmundo @ 08/27/2009 2:25:53 AM

    Everyone is getting into Greed or all for me and the hell with everyone else.
    Everyone even the ones on the bottom. They copy the top! Some quotes to illustrate: the porno queen who kidnapped young girls and then killed said in her defense "isn???t it all about me...."? or the Columbine family of the perpetuators who are not willing to compensate their sons victims..."no apology" Or Enron guy who dumped his wife, married the stripper and settled in Colorado with confiscated 250 millions. Or Gingrich, who said to his former wife and his children ...don???t bother me go to the nearest Church and get help...Or Reagan who said "shoot for the Stars" (and basically forget everyone else and the consequences.) Or family saying to each other....your on your own, even on the streets and don???t call and tell me your problems. Or the 60 yr old in Pa. who kidnapped young girls for sex, because his wife was too sick...."I deserve sex so I did it" but few know that history has lead us to this....as Chief Pontiac said...I tell the British about my people starving and they laugh at me???....or Sitting Bull in D.C. looking at the opulent buildings and saying so much wealth and yet there are beggars on the streets...and Chief Joseph saying "your selfishness will do you in" and lets not forget Rev. King who advised us all to have a conscience.....but the most recent was jumping over homeless people in Wall St, and one millionaire broker saying, "I saw you helping the homeless...as if that was a crime against humanity...to help someone in need....Ann Rand...the ugly insisted that we all should be selfish....we have been and look at us now....lost homes, jobs and no one feels guilty...Oh no guilt feeling was also taken from our system too. The protype modern man is the following who says:??? I deserve it all, because I am brilliant, and I am not hampered by guilt, and have no responsibility except to the almighty self???

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