2008 November, Cocktail Party, the Death of Capitalism !
We gathered to witness the death of capitalism as we know it ...
and it's rebirth, as political powermongers tweak the system to retain control of the Greed Invisibility Cloaking Device
Quotes from G.W. BUSH 13th Nov 2008
"In the wake of the financial crisis, voices from the left and right are equating the free enterprise system with greed, exploitation and failure," Bush said.
"It is true that this crisis included failures, by leaders and borrowers, by financial firms, by governments and independent regulators," Bush said. "But the crisis was not a failure of the free market system. And the answer is not to try to reinvent that system."
Apparently the answer is to use the people's money to fund these gamblers aiming to increase their own funds ... well, at least we can sleep at night now we know that things are in safe hands ...
When all is running smoothly, a monkey in a suit can run an organisation ...
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Flappers had a scandalous image as the "giddy flapper, rouged and clipped, careening in a drunken stupor to the lewd strains of a jazz quartet."
Dances such as the Charleston, Black Bottom, and the Shimmy were considered "wild" by older generations. As described in the May 1920 edition of the Atlantic Monthly, flappers "trot like foxes, limp like lame ducks, one-step like cripples, and all to the barbaric yawp of strange instruments which transform the whole scene into a moving-picture of a fancy ball in bedlam."
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