"Right now, having a $500 dinner for two feels like the post-crash version of owning a Hummer. Except not if your family is being supported by the guy serving the entrees."
-Gail Collins (vs. David Brooks in Let Them Eat a Little Bit of Cake)
I get annoyed when people do things like Bash banks for spending lots of money sponsoring events and otherwise vacationing clients and employees.
Does nobody understand that these events are planned upwards of a year in advance, were majorily paid for long before things started crashing down, and supply jobs for the people at the locations. This is what we need people with money to do. As I see the problem, too many people who didn't have money spent it, and banks let them do it... but that doesn't mean that people who do have money, shouldn't spend it, that just makes things worse.
Law makers seem to be doing a lot of un-thoughtful bitching and pandering... I'm not worried about the state of the banks, or the falling stock market, or the underlining housing crisis, or unemployment numbers (cause I'm one of them), I'm worried about all the stupid people in this country acting particularly stupid in the next couple years.
Sorry.
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