However, after reading about the Martinsa-Fadesa bankruptcy in detail, yesterday, and seeing the tanned and suited Martin in the papers, I came up with a more realistic and depressing name:
"Good Ole Boys Syndrome"
The Martin guy has been reading the fool times and the jurinal, every paper and business lobby has announced the melt-down for over a year and he and his boys´ club have had time to act, but didn´t! At least not in the public interest.
His hair is intact, his suit and his tan, also, and I´d bet he has been securing his money somewhere else all this time. Now he and his tanned golf buddies from the banks, can cry a river for taxpayers´ relief!
Dammed GOB clubs! All of them, from Greenspan on down to the last wannabe. They were incompetent and unqualified for their posts to begin with, they were placed there by cartel pressure, but instead of learning something, they end up being, at best, deer-in-the-headlights at the first sign of trouble.
The GOB club sometimes... includes women, (like Thatcher, or Madrid´s Aguirre, or Rice), but not often and all of them defile descriptions of gender, or humanity by their actions. So, being honestly serious, at least among us, let´s call them by their name. Our knowledge has surpassed our wisdom. -Charu Saxena.
I vote for Greedy Anti-Social Bastards Disease, and can live with Anglo. Objecting to Anglo because it derived 100s of years ago from a germanic tribe is like saying that the Irish shouldn't use Celtish since that tribe had its roots in the central EU mainland. On the other hand, us middle-class white folk know exactly what anglo means vis à vis not hispanic, not afro-a, not any minority, can include include brits, but not minority brits, etc. Us with the presumed inherent privileges, I suppose, or the right to gripe about it when others take them away...especially as we are becoming a minority ourselves. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
Frank Delaney ~ Ireland
