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Sep 20, 2008

Pat Buchanan on the financial crisis

As he blames the credit habits of the baby boomer generation for the current economic crisis, Pat Buchanan names names on Capitol Hill, in the White House, and complains of the speculators of Wall Street and the Fed.

You know, the credit card was invented in the 1950s, when most of us boomers were tykes if we were yet born. While the fluffy credit economy was hyped and sold as we gahh-gahhed in front of our television sets (also invented by a previous generation), we grew up to comply with credit card living as our way of life after much media-based mind control had been used against our better natures.

In fact, those who shied away from using credit cards and ratings were given little leeway for establishing themselves, as I remember. Years ago my young family was denied gas service because we didn't have a credit rating - we owed no one, and that was considered a no-no!

We didn't condone it, we simply suffered from it and learned to play the game Mr. Buchanan now blames us for.

That the piper has to be paid eventually has been a well-worn mantra on the web for years, and it's good to see that the pre-baby-boomer Mr. Buchanan has caught on.

Not all us have ascribed to George Bush's "go shopping" mindlessness. Nor have we condoned much else that Washington DC has palmed off on the American people during the last decades of graft and greed.

I never voted for Mr. Buchanan, didn't vote for Reagan or for George H.W. Bush. To me, his son, (Bush43, for whom I also did not vote) is little more than a Rovian dirty trick sneaked into the backdoor of the White House, and my opinion of him has only lowered since 1999. That it could sink lower is an impossibility.

Gelding of America?

Still, I do find the above-linked article to be of some value or I wouldn't bother with its link here.

And perhaps it's too bad that Pat Buchanan didn't make his economic brilliance more well-known before the stallion$ left the horse trader's barn.

That Buchanan could single-handedly stop the worldwide economic meltdown, the precursor to a one-world-government, is another impossibility; that he is unaware of what's been going on behind closed doors for decades is completely impossible to believe.

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